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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_January_18


January 18

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Landslides in 1618

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Nominator's rationale: Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW/WP:OCYEAR. Many of these articles are in fact about earthquakes that caused landslides and not about landslides themselves. –Aidan721 (talk) 18:18, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Works about accountants

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:15, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:American Masters Athlete that competed in Olympics

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Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection. Only 3 articles were not in the Category:Olympic track and field athletes for the United States tree and I verified via PetScan that they either a) never competed in the Olympics (due to 1980 boycott or WWII) or b) competed under another nationality (dual nationality). Opposed rename at speedy. –Aidan721 (talk) 17:38, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Copy of speedy discussion

Category:Documentary films about the ruling class

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Nominator's rationale: merge, "ruling class" is a vague concept and there isn't even a Category:Ruling class. The target is nominated for speedy renaming. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:17, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:1730s disasters in South America

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Nominator's rationale: Not useful for navigation. Isolated patch of decade categories. Merge to century-level. The articles are already in the YYYY disasters and YYYY in South America trees. Follow up of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 6#Disasters in South America. –Aidan721 (talk) 17:09, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Films about e-commerce

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Nominator's rationale: delete, the single article is more about crime than about e-commerce. The subcategory is already in Category:Films about finance. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:33, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Economics films

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Nominator's rationale: This category is largely "films about" so-and-so topics. List of economics films recently got deleted as a rejection of the topic as a genre. To categorize such films as "about economics" is better framing since "economics films" are not a real category in the real world. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 15:05, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Big Frame

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Nominator's rationale: With only an eponymous redirect and another article on the founder of the company, this category does nothing to aid navigation. The subcat may not even be necessary either so I have added it to this nomination as well. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 05:12, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to add the category to the redirect for the company than adding it to an article about the founder? A person isn't a multi-channel network. Thanks. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 19:14, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Belarusian saints

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Nominator's rationale: Downmerge redundant layer after recent renaming and merger. Follow-up to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 December 9#Category:Eastern Orthodox saints from Belarus. See also Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual#Other. Pinging @HouseBlaster: here we go. NLeeuw (talk) 00:36, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, NL! Support per nom. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:37, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • There wasn't a Belarusian nationality until the 20th century and all articles are about people from before the 19th century. Catholic saints could exist too, but there isn't any article here, so this is a hypothetical objection. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:26, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 01:18, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Political families

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Nominator's rationale: We have been renaming any subcategory of Category:Political families that merits occupational disambiguation to put that disambiguator in parentheses at the back. These are the only ones that haven't been nominated so far. Mike Selinker (talk) 00:04, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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