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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_October_1
October 1
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:Louisville Black Caps
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Only one category layer. Both are basically the same team but changed their names. Omnis Scientia (talk) 14:57, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: I created these categories. The rationale for deletion may be sound but it would be useful to know what the post-deletion cleanup would look like. Is this an argument to have a single category name to cover both team names? Would this leave the players categories dangling? I just would like to know where this is going. Stefen 𝕋owers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 19:06, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Indian women translators
[edit]- Propose splitting Category:Indian women translators to Category:Indian translators and Category:Indian women linguists
- Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection between nationality, gender, and genre of writing, per WP:EGRS Mason (talk) 13:32, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Urdu-language women writers
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Urdu-language women writers to Category:Urdu-language writers
- Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection between language, gender, and occupation, per WP:EGRS Mason (talk) 13:24, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Military of Württemberg
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. There is no need to merge, the subcategory is already part of Category:History of Württemberg too. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:00, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:History of the Timurid Empire
[edit]- Propose merging Category:History of the Timurid Empire to Category:Timurid Empire
- Nominator's rationale: merge, there is little content in this category and former countries do not need a history category per se. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:55, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Universities and colleges in Washington County, Rhode Island
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. this category only has one university in it Mason (talk) 02:44, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Animals of Barbuda
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Animals of Barbuda to Category:Fauna of Barbuda
- Nominator's rationale: Norm is Fauna. This could probably be speedied. BUt I also wanted to consider whether we need the category at all. Mason (talk) 01:33, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Merge more specifically to Category:Endemic fauna of Barbuda which apparently applies to both articles. It is Category:Fauna of Barbuda that we probably do not need. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:39, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Excellent find! Mason (talk) 13:24, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
Categories named after Canadian Premier League seasons
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:2019 Canadian Premier League to Category:2019 Canadian Premier League season
- Propose renaming Category:2020 Canadian Premier League to Category:2020 Canadian Premier League season
- Propose renaming Category:2021 Canadian Premier League to Category:2021 Canadian Premier League season
- Propose renaming Category:2022 Canadian Premier League to Category:2022 Canadian Premier League season
- Propose renaming Category:2023 Canadian Premier League to Category:2023 Canadian Premier League season
- Propose renaming Category:2024 Canadian Premier League to Category:2024 Canadian Premier League season
- Nominator's rationale: The names of these eponymous categories should match the title of their main articles. RedBlueGreen93 20:35, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page discussions. GiantSnowman 19:32, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose - the category names are correct, it is the articles names which need changing, see 2024–25 Premier League and Category:2024–25 Premier League, as well as many others in Category:2024–25 domestic association football leagues, none of which use 'season'. GiantSnowman 19:36, 23 September 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on GiantSnowman's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:11, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Defunct airlines of Turkmenistan
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Category containing only one article, List of defunct airlines of Turkmenistan, unhelpful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 00:44, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Merge to Airlines of Turkmenistan , Defunct airlines of Asia, and Defunct companies of Turkmenistan @AusLondonder please consider plausible merge targets. The vast majority of your deletions have resulted in merges Mason (talk) 01:36, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- I don't support a merge to the defunct companies category as it's just moving the problem from one category with a single article to another with a single article. I'll have a look at my XfD log but I'd be surprised if the vast majority of nominations have been merged. AusLondonder (talk) 01:40, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Merge to Airlines of Turkmenistan , Defunct airlines of Asia, and Defunct companies of Turkmenistan @AusLondonder please consider plausible merge targets. The vast majority of your deletions have resulted in merges Mason (talk) 01:36, 1 October 2024 (UTC)
- Merge to Category:Airlines of Turkmenistan and Category:Defunct airlines of Asia, per above discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:44, 1 October 2024 (UTC)