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Discussion for Today

This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_November_22

November 22

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Doctor Who locations

Propose deleting Category:Doctor Who locations (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: No subjects except for an audio series that takes place in the titular location. Every other location with an article has been redirected, making this category relatively moot. Has one ever considered Magneton? Pokelego999 (talk) 15:32, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Professional wrestling shows in British Columbia

Propose renaming Category:Professional wrestling shows in British Columbia to Category:Professional wrestling shows in Vancouver

Nominator's rationale: A request to speedily rename this category to match the contents of the category was opposed. There are no articles on this topic except for those which took place in Vancouver so this is an unnecessary layer of categorization. User:Namiba 15:17, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Milwaukee Brewers (AA) players

Propose renaming Category:Milwaukee Brewers (AA) players to Category:Milwaukee Brewers (1891) players

Nominator's rationale: The description says this category is only for people who played on the 1886–92 version of the Milwaukee Brewers in the original version of the American Association (AA) in 1891, when that league was considered a major league. However, a later team called the Milwaukee Brewers played in a second incarnation of the "American Association" (AA) for fifty years. Thus, on its face, "Category:Milwaukee Brewers (AA) players" could refer to players from either team. As a result, more than three times as many members of the "Category:Milwaukee Brewers (AA) players" are miscategorized members of the 1902–52 minor league team than correctly categorized members of the 1891 major league team. In short, "(AA)" does not disambiguate this category from Category:Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) players. "(1891)" would Dennis C. Abrams (talk) 15:06, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:19th-century BC establishments by country

Propose merging Category:19th-century BC establishments by country to Category:19th-century BC establishments
Propose merging Category:16th-century BC establishments by country to Category:16th-century BC establishments
Propose merging Category:15th-century BC establishments by country to Category:15th-century BC establishments
Propose merging Category:13th-century BC establishments by country to Category:13th-century BC establishments
Propose merging Category:12th-century BC establishments by country to Category:12th-century BC establishments
Propose merging Category:11th-century BC establishments by country to Category:11th-century BC establishments

Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer for this very early period, every of these categories contains very few subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:57, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:13th-century BC establishments in India

Propose merging Category:13th-century BC establishments in India to Category:2nd-millennium BC establishments in India and Category:13th-century BC establishments

Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated category with only two articles, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:52, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:15th-century BC establishments in the Maya civilization

Propose merging Category:16th-century BC establishments in the Maya civilization to Category:2nd-millennium BC establishments in the Maya civilization and Category:16th-century BC establishments
Propose merging Category:15th-century BC establishments in the Maya civilization to Category:2nd-millennium BC establishments in the Maya civilization and Category:15th-century BC establishments
Propose merging Category:13th-century BC establishments in the Maya civilization to Category:2nd-millennium BC establishments in the Maya civilization and Category:13th-century BC establishments
Propose merging Category:11th-century BC establishments in the Maya civilization to Category:2nd-millennium BC establishments in the Maya civilization and Category:11th-century BC establishments

Nominator's rationale: merge, semi-isolated single- or dual-article categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:44, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:15th-century BC establishments in Vietnam

Propose merging Category:15th-century BC establishments in Vietnam to Category:2nd-millennium BC establishments in Vietnam and Category:15th-century BC establishments

Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated single-article category. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:40, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:719 BC

Propose merging Category:719 BC to Category:710s BC

Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated single-article category. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:08, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional Belgian people

Propose renaming Category:Fictional Belgian people to Category:Fictional people created by Belgians

Nominator's rationale: The current name gives the impression that these are characters with an in-universe nationality or citizenship. Most of them have no defined nationality though and are (often deliberately) created as somewhat "universal" or vaguely Western European. A rename of the category may make this clearer (better suggestions for the new name are welcome!) Fram (talk) 13:22, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Procedural oppose, this should be discussed together with the sibling categories. Just renaming Belgium does not make sense. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:42, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Without comment on what the categories should be for, the current category tree does contain some articles (e.g. Doctor Evil, Hercule Poirot) where the character is specifically Belgian but the creator is not, some where both character and creator are Belgian (e.g. Tintin (character)), and some where the creator is Belgian but the character is not specifically, or if they are no mention is made of it in the relevant article (e.g. Gil Jourdan lives in Paris; if he is canonically Belgian our article does not mention it). There are also several articles included which are about the work of fiction rather than the character (La Patrouille des Castors, L'Élève Ducobu). Whatever happens to the category it could do with cleaning up. Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 12:45, 15 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Tintin is never officially or canonically stated to be Belgian, although much points to it. But perhaps the category needs splitting instead of deleting then, any suggestions what the best name might be for the ones created by a Belgian? Fram (talk) 11:32, 16 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 06:07, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Big 12 Championship Game venues

Propose deleting Category:Big 12 Championship Game venues (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT User:Namiba 19:16, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 06:02, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:36, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Channel 4 presenters

Propose merging Category:Channel 4 presenters to Category:British television presenters

Nominator's rationale: It's just people who present or have once presented random Channel 4 programmes. We shouldn't be dividing by network, which amounts to nothing more than WP:PERFCAT. The national level is sufficient. --wooden superman 08:51, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Most would not need merging. See https://petscan.wmcloud.org/?psid=29825441 for the few that are not in English/Scottish etc. Some e.g. Fred Sirieix are not British anyway. Shouldn't Category:BBC television presenters be added to this nomination? See also the 2007 precedents for deletion listed in the related nomination #Category:ABS-CBN personalities. – Fayenatic London 16:42, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There are probably a lot of "by network" presenters, personalities, newsreaders, etc,. that should be considered for deletion per WP:PERFCAT. --wooden superman 16:47, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 05:54, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Manually merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:38, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:FM-Class articles

Propose renaming Category:FM-Class articles to ~~Category:FM-Class files~~ Category:FM-Class pages and all subcategories

Nominator's rationale: Quite simply, these are not articles, but are pages in the File namespaces. I suspect the category was named because it was easier to populate via template, but now we are using lua it will be easy to change this — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:56, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The same applies to all subcategories. Shouldn't they be renamed too, in one go with the parent? Marcocapelle (talk) 06:30, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Yes I said "and all subcategories" in my nomination. I am not going to list them all here! — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:50, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- @MSGJ: well, you should, otherwise it is not going to happen. You also need to tag the pages. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:30, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - I have listed the subcats on the talk page with their target names. IMHO, if approved by consensus here, this can go ahead as housekeeping under WP:G6 without needing to tag them all. – Fayenatic London 11:31, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
On reflection I have changed my proposed target for the rename to Category:FM-Class pages as this may fit in better with other categories if they are also renamed. For example Category:File-Class pages works better than Category:File-Class files — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 11:52, 13 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, The Bushranger _{One ping only} 05:54, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Private hospitals in Greece

Propose merging Category:Private hospitals in Greece to Category:Hospitals in Greece

Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 02:39, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It should also be merged to Category:Private hospitals. But better expand this nomination with the Saudi Arabia and Vietnam siblings. Currently there aren't any individual private hospitals directly in Category:Private hospitals and it would not make much sense to have the Greek private hospital as the only biography there. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:43, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Actually found another Greek hospital and have added it. LibStar (talk) 06:12, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Haitian company founders

Propose merging Category:Haitian company founders to Category:Haitian businesspeople

Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 02:32, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dual merge, also to Category:Company founders. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:48, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mehreen Jabbar's directions

Propose splitting Category:Mehreen Jabbar's directions to Category:Films directed by Mehreen Jabbar and Category:Television shows directed by Mehreen Jabbar

Nominator's rationale: category does not follow established naming conventions, and currently contains both films and TV shows by this director. 1857a (talk) 01:55, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Split per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:49, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Vanuatuan people by occupation and century

Propose merging Category:Vanuatuan people by occupation and century to Category:Vanuatuan people by century

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. This is a redundant category layer ^SMason_Garrison 00:39, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:51, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Beat 'em up characters

Propose deleting Category:Beat 'em up characters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: contains only one subcategory, at the moment. Perhaps you could populate it somehow, or maybe not. QuantumFoam66 (talk) 00:33, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete for now, per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:52, 22 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]