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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_September_16


September 16

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:History of Bechuanaland Protectorate

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Nominator's rationale: merge, two redundant category layers with two subcategories in total. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:45, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:History of the Ashanti Empire

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Nominator's rationale: delete, duplicate of Category:Military of the Ashanti Empire. I would not object to renaming the latter to Category:Military history of the Ashanti Empire. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:34, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:History of the Republic of Artsakh

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Nominator's rationale: rename per main article History of Nagorno-Karabakh and because many articles in the category are about the period before the Republic of Artsakh was established. After this rename Category:Republic of Artsakh should become a subcategory instead of a parent category. By all means keep a redirect. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:15, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:André Previn

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Nominator's rationale: With all related subcats in the "works by" category scheme, this eponymous parent is unnecessary. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 15:43, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Years

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Nominator's rationale: I think it would worth moving the relevant sub-categories, for individual years, into Category:Years BC and Category:Years AD. What do others think? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:01, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Shooting people

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Nominator's rationale: Newly created category that duplicates an existing category, and is extremely liable to being misunderstood and misused. These were created as parents for a new Category:Shooting coaches hierarchy, but the problem is that the name is highly ambiguous -- it isn't clearly communicating the distinction between the intended "people involved in sport shooting" and unintended uses like "people who shot other people" or "people who were shot" or "people who committed mass shootings" that wouldn't belong in the same place as sport shooters.
So since we already have Category:Sport shooters for people involved in sport shooting, and the coaches category has already been added to it, we don't need this to coexist alongside it. Bearcat (talk) 14:03, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Misplaced comment

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I am also of the opinion to rename or remove this category. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Attorney001 (talk • contribs) 09:15, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Attorney001: please move your comment to the right section. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:31, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Note: I cannot determine what section this comment was intended for, and even perusing OP's edit history didn't shed any light — however, as it was simply sitting at the top of the page as a standalone comment, it was becoming a "comment" on every new nomination that got added above it, forcing every new nomination to have to be edited to move it again. Accordingly, I've given it a headline to stop that from happening, but it should still be moved if anybody can figure out where it belongs. Bearcat (talk) 14:12, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Guararé

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 13:03, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Skiers from Shenyang

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Nominator's rationale: Contains no entries. LibStar (talk) 07:10, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Kangping County

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry in this category. LibStar (talk) 06:52, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Faku County

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry in this category. LibStar (talk) 06:51, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:American expatriate soccer players in Turkey

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Nominator's rationale: Per multiple discussions, triple-intersection soccer categories are not to be used. See: [1] . BlameRuiner (talk) 06:24, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose; this is part of a very large category tree of expatriate sportspeople. Omnis Scientia (talk) 14:55, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Dumbest Wikipedians

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Nominator's rationale: Fails WP:USERCAT for lacking any discernible collaborative function. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:37, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Omnis Scientia (talk) 14:56, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Animated television series about hippopotamuses

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Nominator's rationale: Better title, as there is only one extant Wikipedia article about a live action television series about hippopotamuses, Potamus Park. FilmandTVFan50 (talk) 01:12, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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