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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_March_16


March 16

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Basketball players from Delhi

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 14:54, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Also propose merging- Category:Kabaddi players from Delhi to Category:Sportspeople from Delhi Category:Cue sports players from Delhi to Category:Sportspeople from Delhi Category:Swimmers from Delhi to Category:Sportspeople from Delhi Category:Sport shooters players from Delhi to Category:Sportspeople from Delhi

All categories with four or less entries.Lost in Quebec (talk) 14:57, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Palestinian territories

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Nominator's rationale: follow-up to Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_March_5#Palestinian_territories. --Hassan697 (talk) 11:56, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Chinese intensivists

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Also merge with Category:Chinese physicians.

Also propose merging:

Category:Defunct International Cricket Council events

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Nominator's rationale: Just one event, could be up-merged to the main cat. Vestrian24Bio 07:14, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Batman objects

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Nominator's rationale: Per parent and sister cats (Category:Star Trek technology, etc.). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 13:13, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: no official opposition expressed so far.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, it's lio! | talk | work 06:49, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mayoral elections in Irvine, California

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Nominator's rationale: All of the articles in this category redirect to the same page. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 03:08, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Aidan721: This is also the case for the following 15 siblings:
Do you want to nominate those as well (I believe those are all the subcats of Category:Mayoral elections in the United States by city that have this exact issue)? (As was the case with the already nominated category, for some of those siblings, the eponymous article would need to be added to some cats before nominating the cat for deletion.) Felida97 (talk) 20:24, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Manual merge? Expand the nomination?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 22:38, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Expanding and refactoring nomination...
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:10, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • As original nominator, support the additional categories nominated, but oppose merging to any red link Category:Government of Fooville categories. –Aidan721 (talk) 16:04, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Two categories will be renamed into those gaps. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:17, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Move redirects to a separate category per my comment here: This category's redirects are categorized as per WP:SUBTOPICCAT, but they all point to the one article inside. So I'd say go with deleting this category and separating the redirects into a redirect category, similar to the endless categories for character/episode redirects and Category:Unopposed ministerial by-elections to the Parliament of the United Kingdom (redirects). Also, manual merging will just flood the categories with redundant redirects when dedicated redirect categories can take care of it. Please note that the comment below the linked one was a PERX that did not go in depth in rebutting my argument there and came in late meaning there was little time to rebut it before it was closed. ミラP@Miraclepine 03:30, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, and the new categories should be called "Category:[insert city here] mayoral election redirects". ミラP@Miraclepine 15:29, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The notion of the merge is to merge only the non-redirect article from each category so there's no flooding happening. Strong oppose creating redirect categories. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:02, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Aidan721: Yes, the (non-redirect) articles will still have the category upmerged and part of the tree. Can you please specify any issue with redirect categories being part of the tree? After all, the point of my idea is to make the redirect categorization more uniform with, for example, Category:Marvel Cinematic Universe redirects to lists being part of the Category:Marvel Cinematic Universe, since these IMO should be allowed per WP:SUBTOPICCAT and WP:INCOMPATIBLE. ミラP@Miraclepine 15:48, 9 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Aidan721: any response? it's lio! | talk | work 12:01, 2 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, it's lio! | talk | work 05:57, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Women singers on Golha

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Nominator's rationale: Merge and rename to Golha (radio programmes) singers or Iranian radio singers. There's no need to break down Radio singers by gender. SMasonGarrison 03:52, 16 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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