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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_January_9


January 9

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Palestine

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Subcategory list
Nominator's rationale: And all sub-categories. Opposed speedy. The country article is now at Palestine as a result of this Requested Moved, the categories for the country should follow. Unfortunately during the years when the Palestine namespace was occupied by a disambiguation page some category disambiguations were put in and this has led to what should be a straightforward move being procedurally objected to. The category names should match the main article for a country. Timrollpickering (talk) 10:34, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Copy of speedy discussion
This should probably go to full discussion. Per WP:C2D: it generally does not apply to proposals to remove a disambiguator from the category name, even when the main article is the primary topic of its name, i.e. it does not contain a disambiguator. –Aidan721 (talk) 02:51, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Data visualization and Category:Information visualization

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Nominator's rationale: Main articles were merged in 2022 into Data and information visualization. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:49, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Visualization (research)

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Nominator's rationale: Misuse of disambiguator. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:38, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
On the other hand, Category:Visualization (research) is incoherent and should be deleted instead. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:53, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:2110s in film

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Nominator's rationale: delete, isolated poorly populated category far in the future. Move article 100 Years (film) to Category:2110s works. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:56, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:50, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:2114 works

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Nominator's rationale: merge, too far away in the future for this level of detail, there isn't even a Category:2114 nor is that needed. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:35, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per outcome of Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_January_1#2100s_and_2110s. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:50, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Deaths from medical malpractice

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Nominator's rationale: Non-defining/inaccurate in most cases. Most of these deaths are from poor medical care, e.g. James Garfield. But these aren't "malpractice" SMasonGarrison 06:14, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Role-playing games by genre or theme

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Nominator's rationale: See discussion/analysis at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Games#"Theme"_category_problem_started_by_Category:Games_by_genre_or_theme and related discussions just below this nomination. No prejduce for creation of Category:Role-playing games by genre. Relevant wikidata entry: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8672917 (only en wiki has "or"). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:11, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Board games by genre or theme

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Nominator's rationale: See discussion/analysis at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Games#"Theme"_category_problem_started_by_Category:Games_by_genre_or_theme and related discussions just below this nomination. No prejduce for creation of Category:Board games by genre. Relevant wikidata entry: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8303517 (only en wiki has "or"). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:10, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Games by genre or theme

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Nominator's rationale: Longer analysis can be found at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Games#"Theme"_category_problem_started_by_Category:Games_by_genre_or_theme. Short version is:

Category:Video games by theme

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Nominator's rationale: Longer analysis can be found at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Games#"Theme"_category_problem_started_by_Category:Games_by_genre_or_theme. See also related Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_January_4#Category:Novels_by_theme (conveniently relisted just below). This should be a reasonably uncontroversial tweak from inexisting Category:Themes tree to existing Category:Topics tree. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:04, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@HouseBlaster Could you append to this one two child subcategories for renaming:
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:12, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
 Done HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 05:15, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]


Category:Novels by theme

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Nominator's rationale: See longer explanation at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Games#"Theme"_category_problem_started_by_Category:Games_by_genre_or_theme. This is the least controversial (if anything is). It is subcat to Category:Fiction books by topic, there is no Category:Themes or 'by themes' anywhere except in few instances I pointed out in the linked analysis; all themes should be rename to topics since we have a cat tree for topics, not themes. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:23, 27 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Clear consensus for a change; though a reminder that subcategories are currently outside the scope of this discussion. (If you want to discuss them, please tag 'em.) Should the change be in the form of deleting or merging?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 04:51, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@HouseBlaster I think we want to merge them. As for subcategories, I am not sure how to tag them properly - could you do it? Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:48, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Piotrus: Which categories do you want me to tag? HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 05:00, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@HouseBlaster I think the four by theme that I just named above, in response to Marco. But note I am not sure how to rename these four. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:03, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting to tag the subcategories
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 05:04, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Piotrus:  Done HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 05:06, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Winners of Eurovision Young Musicians

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Nominator's rationale: Consistency with related categories (e.g. Category:Eurovision Song Contest winners, Category:Junior Eurovision Song Contest winners, Category:Melodifestivalen winners) Sims2aholic8 (talk) 14:31, 31 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I realized that if I relisted the associated contestants category, then this one should also be relisted.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:44, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Diplomatic missions in Santiago, Chile

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Nominator's rationale: only 1 entry. Also propose merging with Category:Buildings and structures in Santiago, Chile LibStar (talk) 01:37, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dual merge per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:41, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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