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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_December_11


December 11

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:1954 disestablishments in the Maldives

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Nominator's rationale: There were recent precedents to merge sparse disestablishment category structures rather than maintain them in parallel with establishment categories. – Fayenatic London 23:03, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Films with songs by Pasek and Paul

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Nominator's rationale: Propose deletion along the same lines and rationale as Category:Films with songs by the Sherman Brothers. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 22:42, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People pardoned by John Adams

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Nominator's rationale: Each of the categories nominated has only one or two entries. pbp 16:49, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I like it the way it is bc (1) it makes the parent cat of presidential pardons tidier and navigable, and (2) it makes the presidents' cats more informative bc pardons is one of their constitutionally defined duties/privileges (along w naming judges etc). But whatever the community wants is cool, no big deal either way. jengod (talk) 17:17, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Trees of the Netherlands

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Nominator's rationale: No articles in category. Clean up of a cateogy that should not have been recreated after merger to Category:Trees of Europe in 2015. 🌿MtBotany (talk) 17:57, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on merge?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:25, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cthulhu Mythos organizations

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Nominator's rationale: This category has only one article about a book, which shouldn't be in this category. Otherwise there is nearly nothing that makes sense to put in this category without twisting our interpretation of those articles or spamming it with redirects. Jontesta (talk) 14:17, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Doctor Who concepts

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Nominator's rationale: Indiscriminate and WP:SUBJECTIVECAT with only two articles. Any article about Doctor Who could be an article about a "concept". Jontesta (talk) 14:14, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Dune (franchise) species and races

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Nominator's rationale: Virtually nothing to add to this category with very few articles that fit this definition. Jontesta (talk) 14:13, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Masters of the Universe Evil Horde

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Nominator's rationale: Overcategorization. This has only a few articles, and the root category has barely more. There isn't any need to randomly split the characters this way. Jontesta (talk) 14:09, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Skiers from West Bengal

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 13:40, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Kabaddi players from Uttarakhand

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 11:40, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Articles missing geocoordinate data by sea or ocean

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Nominator's rationale: not all of these categories relate to a sea or ocean (there is a Great Lakes category, Category:Great Lakes articles missing geocoordinate data). 1857a (talk) 05:52, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support renaming. Seems fine to me. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. — The Anome (talk) 07:57, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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