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Discussion for Today

This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_April_12

April 12

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:People from Newark, Maryland

Propose merging Category:People from Newark, Maryland to Category:People from Worcester County, Maryland

Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 09:06, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:18th-century Irish monarchs

Propose deleting Category:18th-century Irish monarchs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: delete, these weren't Irish people. Supposedly the category tree has deliberately been named Irish monarchs instead of monarchs of Ireland. If this goes ahead the 17th and 16th century categories should be purged, as well as the Irish queens regnant category. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:14, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose May I remind you that none of the monarchs or politicians categories cover ethnicity? They all cover nationality, and the country in question was the Kingdom of Ireland. Dimadick (talk) 08:41, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:English pretenders to the French throne

Propose deleting Category:English pretenders to the French throne (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: delete, too much overlap with Category:14th-century English monarchs to Category:17th-century English monarchs and not a defining characteristic for monarchs after Henry VI of England. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:56, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose Subjective description of a hereditary claim that lasted all the way to the French Revolutionary Wars.Dimadick (talk) 08:42, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tamil Nadu temple stub categories

Propose deleting Category:Kanchipuram district temple stubs (2 P)
Propose deleting Category:Mayiladuthurai district temple stubs (1 P)
Propose deleting Category:Tiruchirappalli district temple stubs (1 P)
Propose deleting Category:Tiruvarur district temple stubs (1 P)

Nominator's rationale: delete, stub categories are supposed to contain at least 60 stub articles. Move the articles back to Category:Tamil Nadu Hindu temple stubs. As far as I can see there aren't even stub templates for these four categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:47, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Musicals set in Dahomey

Propose merging Category:Musicals set in Dahomey to Category:Musicals set in Benin and Category:Kingdom of Dahomey

Nominator's rationale: merge for now, currently only one article is the category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:26, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:16, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Academics from Reggio Calabria

Propose deleting Category:Academics from Reggio Calabria (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 22:00, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment. This can surely be populated. ^SMason_Garrison 22:30, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've already found two from the parent category. ^SMason_Garrison 22:32, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:16, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cuba in fiction by medium

Propose deleting Category:Cuba in fiction by medium (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: delete, duplicate of Category:Works set in Cuba. We do not have any other "country in fiction by medium" categories as far as I am aware of. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:16, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ice hockey people from Glasgow

Propose renaming Category:Ice hockey people from Glasgow to Category:Ice hockey players from Glasgow

Nominator's rationale: rename per actual content. The category already has a players parent category as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:16, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I agree players would be a better term but most ice hockey categories are people[1] not players. Lost in Quebec (talk) 08:55, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional Native American women

Merge Category:Fictional Native American women to Category:Fictional Native American people

My reasoning: Do we really need this? We have no other categories which sort female fictional characters by their ethnicity or race. See this similar discussion. AHI-3000 (talk) 02:30, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Manually merge, articles may already be in other subcategories of Category:Fictional Native American people. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:50, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Theorems in analysis

Propose renaming Category:Theorems in analysis to Category:Theorems in mathematical analysis

Nominator's rationale: Consistent with Category:Mathematical analysis (and some of its subcategories). 1234qwer 1234qwer 4 01:58, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rename, looks like a straightforward case of WP:C2C. SubCategory:Lemmas in analysis should be renamed accordingly. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:54, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]