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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_November_12
November 12
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:Former South Florida Bulls sports venues
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: No need to distinguish between former and current. User:Namiba 18:00, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- Selectively Merge Certainly this category should go but I think only Red McEwen Field should be merged since it was purpose built by the university. The rest seem like multi-purpose arenas that aren't defined by USF, per WP:OCVENUE. - RevelationDirect (talk) 19:55, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Video games by protagonist
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Video games by protagonist to Category:Video games by type of protagonist
- Nominator's rationale: Even though it only contains other categories containing "Protagonist", the current name is ambiguous, you could add "Bugs Bunny video games" or "Batman video games" to the subcategories. We already have a separate category entitled Category:Video games by featured character but not all of them center on games featuring the same single character as the protagonist. It would be off to just simply rename to this to better avoid confusion. QuantumFoam66 (talk) 17:46, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Wahhabists
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Wahhabists to Category:Wahhabis and all subcategories
- Nominator's rationale: Quite simple, "Wahhabi" is the more common demonym than "Wahhabist" or "Wahhabite". Consistent with Wahhabi-related articles Wahhabi War (), Wahhabi sack of Karbala, Wahhabi Sack of Najaf (1806), etc. and also consistent with other Islamic denominational categories such as (not Barelvists), (not Deobandists), etc. Also, Ngrams results give a signifiant lead to "Wahhabi" over "Wahhabist" and "Wahhabite". Viwivi (talk) 13:16, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Haskell implementations
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: The only page/cat in this cat is Category:Free Haskell implementations, both of which are sub cats of Category:Haskell software. No point in having this. (Please ping on any comment or reply, I cannot watch all changes of this high traffic page. Thanks!) ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:14, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:FM-Class articles
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:FM-Class articles to Category:FM-Class files 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)
Category:Foreign residents of Mexican California
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: merge, unnecessary distinction, for the larger part we do not know if people were naturalized or not. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:29, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:19th century in Alta California
[edit]- Propose merging Category:19th century in Alta California to Category:Alta California
- Nominator's rationale: merge, the province Alta California existed wholly within the 19th century. If merged, some parents may be manually moved from Category:19th century in Alta California to Category:Alta California as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:20, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Haitian billionaires
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: I would have said merge to Category:Haitian people but that category shouldn't have entries. Unlikely to be more Haitian billionaires out there. LibStar (talk) 04:59, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- It should be merged to Category:Billionaires at the very least. But better expand this nomination with a significant number of sibling categories, e.g. all with one or two articles. Currently there aren't any biography articles directly in Category:Billionaires and it would not make much sense to have the Haitian billionnaire as the only biography there. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:06, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Presidential residences in Puntland
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated category with only one page in it. SMasonGarrison 02:55, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- Triple merge, also to Category:Government of Puntland. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:20, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Arkansas politicians convicted of corruption
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Narrow category that shouldn't be diffusing and doesn't help navigation with a single person in it SMasonGarrison 02:41, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- Dual merge per nom. Not every state has its own subcategory (though some do). Marcocapelle (talk) 04:22, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Presidential elections in the United States
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Per title of main article - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 00:55, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- Procedural oppose Per the bazillion categories in Category:Presidential elections by country. Changing the name would lead to inconsistency, so all of them would have to be nominated unless there's some special reason this is singled out. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 01:06, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- In fact there is good reason to nominate them all, because the articles use a different format than the categories, at least for the countries that I checked. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:25, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- If that format is kept, the base article ideally should also be titled Presidential elections in the United States. Articles pertaining to individual elections can remain. - CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 05:41, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- Ok, but normally the categories follow the conventions in the articles, not vice versa. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:33, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Gravity Rush (franchise)
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: There are only 3 real pages that belong here, GR1, GR2 and Kat. I don't think this passes the bar for a franchise category, much as I wish it did. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 00:23, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- (category creator) For what it's worth, it also contains a navigation template and four files. I think PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale also fits in the category pretty solidly considering all its other franchise categories, and the two real-world people are relevant enough to categorize too, in my opinion. I'll say keep, but I'm fine if it's deleted (admittedly, all I know about Gravity Rush is from Scott the Woz). — gabldotink [ talk | contribs | global account ] 01:20, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- Well, All-Stars Battle Royale shouldn't be in any franchise categories. Per WP:CATDEF, it has to be defining for the game (i.e. being a literal part of that franchise, not having a cameo character from it). ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 05:18, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- (category creator) For what it's worth, it also contains a navigation template and four files. I think PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale also fits in the category pretty solidly considering all its other franchise categories, and the two real-world people are relevant enough to categorize too, in my opinion. I'll say keep, but I'm fine if it's deleted (admittedly, all I know about Gravity Rush is from Scott the Woz). — gabldotink [ talk | contribs | global account ] 01:20, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
Category:Times that 0 Wikipedians supported something
[edit]- The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
- The result of the discussion was: category has already been deleted
- Nominator's rationale: accidentally made I'm so sorry Avienby (ᴛ) 05:30, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.