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Nominator's rationale: this isn't a defining category, it would be akin to having one like
Category:Guest stars on NCIS or another long running show. Most of the subjects listed here (prior to me fixing the erroneous cat addition) didn't even have it mentioned in their article as it was trivial and a minor appearance. Even those that are left, with the exception of perhaps Aisha Tyler make this a super undue category (or whatever you want to call it) and would set a precedent for allowing much more trivial category additions than is necessary.
PRAXIDICAE🌈 18:49, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:PERFCAT. We don't even categorize the main hosts
Gene Siskel and
Roger Ebert by their roles in any program. There are unfortunately lots of excessive, trivial biographical categories on Wikipedia. This is one of them. Get rid of it.
--Animalparty! (
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Delete, guest host is not a defining characteristic.
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Category:Set families
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Nominator's rationale: To match the main article,
Family of sets. The majority of contents are of a set category. –
LaundryPizza03 (
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Rename but to
Category:Family of sets. This is clearly a topic category: most of the contents are theorems, problems, lemmas, conjectures, theories etc and not families of sets.
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Alt rename per Oculi, the category does not just contain articles about families of sets.Marcocapelle (
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Rename to
Category:Families of sets, not to
Category:Family of sets. That just sounds illiterate and stupid. The supposed "rule" that topic categories cannot be plural is incorrect, is frequently and appropriately violated, and should be thrown out. The actual rules are that (1) if the same noun has both count-noun and mass-noun forms (as "opera" does), the topic category goes with the mass noun (for which the singular/plural distinction does not apply), and (2) if a topic category is about a singular noun, we should use the name of that noun as the topic category. But we should not make topic categories that use singular count nouns for the study of plural subjects. If we had a category about the general topic of villages in Poland, rather than collecting individual villages, we would not call it
Category:Village in Poland, because it would be about a topic that involves multiple villages, not just one. If we had a category about the general topic of housecats, rather than about individual pet cats, we would (and do!) call it
Category:Cats, not
Category:Cat, because there is more than one housecat that the topic is about. Analogously, this category is about a topic that involves multiple families of sets, not just one. This specific case is a little confusing because the non-technical English word "family" does have a mass-noun meaning, but not one that is recognizable as mathematics or that can be used within the technical phrase "family of sets", which is unambiguously a count noun. If you are really really anal about needing to have a singular category name, then you have to look much farther from the main article name: the singular phrase for the general topic to which this subtopic belongs is
Category:Set theory (not available: already used for the more general topic) and its subfields are "X set theory" for some X. Much of the study of families of sets belongs to
extremal set theory, for instance, but not all of it. I'm not sure whether there is an appropriate X that would adequately describe this topic. A very small number of sources use "theory of families of sets", but not enough to satisfy the (much more useful) rule to "use words and phrases which exist in reliable sources". —
David Eppstein (
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David Eppstein has a fair point. I struck my contribution.
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Category:Football teams in Austria-Hungary
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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layers, with one subcategory each.
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History of Porto-Novo
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Nominator's rationale: merge, only two articles in three categories, of which one article does not really belong in a city category.
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Category:Hotels in Financial District, Boston
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Merge because unless there is a whole set of subcategories for districts within Boston there's no point. However please note per
WP:SMALLCAT, having only one entry is not a reason for deletion. >>Lil-unique1(talk) — 20:32, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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Category:Toho Monsters
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Nominator's rationale: I don't think "monsters" needs to be capitalized.
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Rename, monsters is not a part of any proper name here.
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Category:Standardized tests for Physics
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The result of the discussion was:upmerge. bibliomaniac15 05:29, 27 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Category with a single article serving no real purpose.
OpenScience709 (
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I have added two sibling categories to the nomination. I also added a SAT article to each category, but they still each have only two members so far.–
FayenaticLondon 19:46, 27 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep What about the
AP Physics series and
AP Chemistry and
AP Biology? That would bring the latter twocategories up to at least 3. regardless, the categories need to be renamed to use correct capitaliztion. –
LaundryPizza03 (
dc̄) 22:19, 30 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Upmerge to
Category:Standardized tests and (e.g.)
Category:Biology education, too little content to keep it scattered among three subcategories. I do not agree on adding the AP articles here, they are about the courses not (so much) about the exams, they belong in the Education parent instead.
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Upmerge per Marcocapelle.
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Swiss people by language
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Nominator's rationale: The first three category pages state that they are mis-named or ambiguously named. That text was added by
Dbachmann in 2016.
[1] This is a procedural nomination to open a discussion either for renaming or for that explanatory text to be replaced. –
FayenaticLondon 09:37, 27 July 2022 (UTC)reply
An alternative is to delete the first three. If fully populated, way too many Swiss people would be in a German- or French-speaking category to make the categories useful. And with some exceptions the language borders coincide with the canton borders (
WP:OVERLAPCAT). The 4th nomination is just to create a new subcategory, but it should become a subcategory of
Category:Ethnic groups in Switzerland, because it has nothing to do with ancestry.
Marcocapelle (
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I support deleting the first three for the reasons described by Marcoapelle.--
User:Namiba 13:26, 27 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep -- rather than rename. Some cantons are Francophone; others are German-speaking; a few are Italian-speaking. It would be better to split Swiss people by canton. Swiss people can be split by canton, and these categories can be groups according to language.
Peterkingiron (
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We already have
Category:People by canton in Switzerland but I think we'd better leave it to implied language instead of creating explicit container categories for language on top of the canton categories. Two cantons are bilingual by exception (Valais and Graubünden) and there can also be individual exceptions.
Marcocapelle (
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Question: if there is emerging consensus to delete the first three, should I add the subcats to the nomination e.g.
Category:People of Swiss-German descent and all its subcats? Or are those OK to stay, without these as parents? –
FayenaticLondon 19:20, 27 July 2022 (UTC)reply
They can not clearly be related to a canton so we might have a separate discussion about them.
Marcocapelle (
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Those would definitely require a separate discussion, since writers and singers are much more often categorized by language than people of other professions.
Marcocapelle (
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I have put those sets (singers, writers) into the nominated categories – thank you. I also found
Category:Suisse romande as a parent category for French-speaking Switzerland, but no equivalents for the others. –
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Keep : No offense meant, but I think the proposal lacks a proper understanding of how the Swiss view and define themselves - cantonal roots are stronger than the language spoken at home and I believe here we are looking at ethnic groups, meaning that the cantonal identiy is the marker. A few Swiss-French (Romands) natively speak German (Fribourg, Wallis); there is also a very large Italian community in the country yet these native Italian speakers would never be seen as Swiss-Italians but rather Swiss-Germans if they live in Zurich, or Swiss-French in Geneva. On a side note, very few Swiss-Germans speak "proper" German natively, so labeling them German-speaking as a primary ethnic marker may be erroneous. Not sure I make a lot of sense here but the bottom line is "It's complicated"
Superboilles (
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I re-read OP's proposal and agree that the categories state that they are misnamed or ambiguous, but AFAIK there's no alternative available. It's a non-issue in Switzerland.
Superboilles (
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@
Marcocapelle: - We do need the distinction between Romand, Alemannic, and Swiss-Italian people: the current structure is the least worst solution I can actually think of. Replacing Swiss-French with Romands would be ok, but Alemannic as a language is also spoken outside of Switzerland: I don't think it's being used to designate people elsewhere, but still that would be replacing a confusing designation with another.
Superboilles (
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Keep -- I understand these primarily to be linguistic categories but that is how Switzerland operates.
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needs clarification - are these categories for people who live in Switzerland or are of Swiss Origin but of a specific heritage e.g. Romandy (Swiss-French)? Heritage and language are different things. Or is this support to be for dual nationals/dual heritage? Or is it something different more akin to Wallonia and Flanders in Belgium where its not just language but there's more nuance around cultural and political identity? I don't think the current or proposed naming captures this. >>Lil-unique1(talk) — 22:02, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
It surely is not about heritage or nationality, but as of now it is unclear whether it is about language that people individually speak or about "language area" where they live. By the way, Switzerland does not have any form of government for the "language areas", in contrast to Belgium.
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Category:Debut live albums
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Nominator's rationale: There is really nothing significant or defining about an album being a music act's first live album. These could be released early in one's career or late or even after they pass. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 00:31, 27 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep - This is to not include such debut mixtape and live albums under the debut albums categories which are for studio albums. So many bands and artists release mixtape albums or live albums as their first ever album, before their debut
studio album. I've seen many live albums inappropriately categorized as a debut studio album and this category is to distinguish the two. As you can see in
Category:Debut albums,
Category:Debut mixtape albums also exists. It was right for Category:Debut remix albums to go, as this type of album would never be released as an artist's first ever album. ~
Hiddenstranger (
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I don't see a single live album in this category that qualifies as an artist's debut release, so this interpretation seems a little fogged. If this is indeed true, and this category gets kept, these articles should be purged.
Nohomersryan (
talk) 03:07, 27 July 2022 (UTC)reply
It is true, they just haven't been added yet. Category still being populated. ~
Hiddenstranger (
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At least purge articles that are not about debut albums. The category should contain what it advertises to contain.
Marcocapelle (
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Agree with Fayenatic. 'Debut live album' would be the band's first live album.
Oculi (
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This rename will surely improve clarifying the purpose of the category.
Marcocapelle (
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Yes you're right,
Category:Live debut albums fits it perfectly. And @Oculi yes
Category:Debut live albums would mean an artist's first ever live album, regardless of when it was released during their career. Could we keep both categories each containing a description for their intended purpose to avoid confusion? For Category:Live debut albums, it can say "This category is for articles about an artist's first ever album release which is a live recording, not a studio album. Debut studio albums should be added under their appropriate categories under
Category:Debut albums by year" or something around those lines? And for Category:Debut live albums, "This category is for articles about an artist's first ever live album released anytime throughout their career. An artist's first ever live album which is also their first ever album release should be added under
Category:Live debut albums." Then I can get busy in placing all live albums in their correct categories.
Hiddenstranger (
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A category for articles about an artist's first ever live album released anytime throughout their career is unneeded, per nominator.
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If an act's debut album happens to be a live album, then
Category:Live debut albums may be appropriate, but how many artists debuts are live? But the nominated category is not a defining aspect for an established group's first (which is not the same thing as debut) live album, whether it be released two, twelve, or twenty years after their actual debut release. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 21:47, 16 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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Delete, not all artists will release a live album. Your debut a live album is not significant nor is it vastly different to your 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. live album. If such categories exist for Debut Remix Album, Debut EP, Debut Studio Album and all the other album types these should be deleted too. The only "debut" cat that should exist is Debut album and Debut Single. >>Lil-unique1(talk) — 20:35, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep Debut works seems to be a significant aspect of any artist's career.
Dimadick (
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The point of the discussion is that the category does not just contain debut works because the wording of the category name is ambiguous.
Marcocapelle (
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Delete. Fails
WP:CATDEF. Also, does it mean first recorded or first released? Does it mean live, or re-recorded in the studio to make a 'live' album? --
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Delete per above, and ambiguous. —
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Category:Bishopric of Trent
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Nominator's rationale: The scope is not concerned with the see (diocese) of Trent but with the princely state of the Holy Roman Empire. Name is consistent with other Price-Bishoprics of the Empire.
Laurel Lodged (
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Not against the rename, but the category is small enough to be upmerged.
Marcocapelle (
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Let's keep for the moment. The above comment might be true for every bishopric Category so a wider discussion may be needed.
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@
Laurel Lodged: would you want to check once more whether a batch nomination for merging is really needed?
Marcocapelle (
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Rename per nom and per its article
Prince-Bishopric of Trent. The category has 15 articles in all; hardly small.
Oculi (
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REname -- This seems a good solution.
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Category:Novels about war and conflict
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Nominator's rationale: Per
WP:OVERLAPCAT. There is very little discernible difference between one category and the other.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
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Oppose War novels are just a genre, while novels about wars exist in many genres.
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Oppose, its unclear what the proposal is trying to fix or achieve. War novels/literature are a genre whereas a novel can contain war as a plot device or storyline without being in the genre of war. A plot device is different to the main theme/storyline. >>Lil-unique1(talk) — 20:37, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale:merge, trivial intersection between ethnicity and occupation, see also
WP:EGRS.
Marcocapelle (
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Alternatively rename them scientists/businesspeople from Brittany. Geography seems more significant than ethnicity with these biographies.
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@
Rathfelder: I think neither is very significant. At national level they are diffused by type of businesspeople and type of scientists and that is much more to the point.
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The articles are already in that tree, in some populated place in Brittany subcategory.
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Comment -- If there were five articles, I would say Rename to "Business people from Brittany", but there are only four in each. Populate?
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Nominator's rationale: Reflects the main article (
Dark Souls) recent renaming and scope change. ~
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Support, following the outcome of the RM for the article title.
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Support, suitable candidate for speedy rename due to standard naming conventions >>Lil-unique1(talk) — 20:37, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale: New category that was created two days ago, without any apparent explanation of what would make a "Kampouchean" documentary film distinct from a "Cambodian" documentary film (which the creator just filed as a subcategory of the new one instead of moving all the films). If the creator doesn't like the word Cambodian, then they're free to try their luck with a renaming proposal that would likely fail -- but they haven't shown a compelling reason why we would need two separate categories for the same country's documentary films.
Bearcat (
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Keep. Asian history had not better to be write by the US or Western's eyes who do not know about our culture. Not to mention, Asians was always stigmatized (or "cancel" in GenZ's idea) what makes the problems become more serious. (
Betabum (
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Firstly, this has nothing to do with anybody "cancelling" anything, or with being culturally insensitive. If you're really so convinced that our categories for Cambodia-related topics should be named "Kampouchean" rather than "Cambodian", then you're perfectly free to nominate them for renaming through the category renaming process — but Wikipedia has rules about how things work around here, and one of those rules is that you are not entitled to just arbitrarily create parallel categories for the same thing at different spellings of its name without following our standard process for getting the existing category renamed. And, for added bonus, there is absolutely no case whatsoever for renaming only this category while not simultaneously renaming every single category in the entireCategory:Cambodia tree.
And another one of our rules, incidentally, is that once this discussion has been initiated, you are not at liberty to remove the CFD template from the category — the only people who are entitled to touch the template at all are me, if I choose to withdraw the nomination, and/or the administrator who closes this discussion when it's done — you are not entitled to touch the template at all, and in fact you can be temporarily or permanently editblocked for being
disruptive if you try that stunt again.
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Support, this is English-language Wikipedia and in English "Cambodia" is dominant.
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Category:Songs in memory of deceased persons
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The result of the discussion was:manual merge. bibliomaniac15 05:25, 29 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:WP:EUPHEMISM. This was the best rename I can think of, but I feel at the least it should have a rename that conveys the same information without euphemizing death. Ten Pound Hammer • (
What did I screw up now?) 16:39, 23 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Comments only. The subcats of this category should have also been nominated to harmonise the proposal. Many of the members of the subcats of
Category:Songs in memory of deceased persons are also in the parent AND, if existing, the songs about the individual category. There is also a category
Category:Songs inspired by deaths which should also be considered at this juncture. I am not unsympathetic to Marcocapelle's suggestion.--
Richhoncho (
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Delete as being way too wide to be a useful category. Categories need to link related items together, not be based on what are at best only superficial similarities.
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Delete as having too wide a scope. ― Qwerfjkltalk 18:35, 28 June 2022 (UTC)reply
I have created
Category:Songs based on real people which means that the nominated category can be deleted indeed. Admittedly it contains many articles that are only vaguely in commemmoration of someone.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 06:08, 11 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Further comments. In light of this new category it would be good to rename all the sub-cats to 'songs about,' merge where there is an existing 'songs about' I see no logical reason why songs written before and after should segregated. Perhaps @
TenPoundHammer: might support such an outcome.
Richhoncho (
talk) 12:22, 12 July 2022 (UTC)reply
The nominated category has 10 sub-cats, all which are now all well catered for. However, it also directly contains 275 articles, including
Afterimage (song) which at least belongs within the parent
Category:Songs inspired by deaths, and
Amelia Earhart's Last Flight which as a "farewell" song belongs in that one and, I suggest, in the new
Category:Songs based on real people – which so far only contains sub-categories, no articles directly. I have removed 3 other songs where the category did not seem appropriate, and I note that some songs are in specific sub-cats by name, but if not kept, a manual merge would be required rather than a straight deletion. –
FayenaticLondon 08:27, 16 July 2022 (UTC)reply
A manual check is of course alright.
Marcocapelle (
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Sure, if someone would like to. - jc37 08:47, 30 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Certainly I would like to. Please would the closer list this at
WP:CFDWM rather than process it immediately? It is easier to work from a category's contents than to trace them later from diffs, as I had to for Category:Pranksters.
[2] –
FayenaticLondon 22:14, 23 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Purge, and UpMerge subcats only to
Category:Songs based on real people - the subcats should be renamed to match the format "...based on..." as well. - jc37 08:47, 30 July 2022 (UTC)reply
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Effect of tropical cyclones
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Nominator's rationale: rename/merge/split, better alignment between the category layers. All content is about
tropical cyclones aka
hurricanes but it does make sense to have a separate US subcat.
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@
Marcocapelle, why would the US cat be hurricanes, but the other be tropical cyclones, if the terms have the same meaning? ― Qwerfjkltalk 20:09, 16 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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Good question. Based on the article titles for the US I am assuming that "hurricane" is American-English (
WP:ENGVAR) while the general topic article title is at
Tropical cyclone (
WP:C2D).
Marcocapelle (
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Support Bibliomaniac15's proposal. --
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Nominator's rationale: this isn't a defining category, it would be akin to having one like
Category:Guest stars on NCIS or another long running show. Most of the subjects listed here (prior to me fixing the erroneous cat addition) didn't even have it mentioned in their article as it was trivial and a minor appearance. Even those that are left, with the exception of perhaps Aisha Tyler make this a super undue category (or whatever you want to call it) and would set a precedent for allowing much more trivial category additions than is necessary.
PRAXIDICAE🌈 18:49, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete per
WP:PERFCAT. We don't even categorize the main hosts
Gene Siskel and
Roger Ebert by their roles in any program. There are unfortunately lots of excessive, trivial biographical categories on Wikipedia. This is one of them. Get rid of it.
--Animalparty! (
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Delete, guest host is not a defining characteristic.
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Category:Set families
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Nominator's rationale: To match the main article,
Family of sets. The majority of contents are of a set category. –
LaundryPizza03 (
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Rename but to
Category:Family of sets. This is clearly a topic category: most of the contents are theorems, problems, lemmas, conjectures, theories etc and not families of sets.
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Alt rename per Oculi, the category does not just contain articles about families of sets.Marcocapelle (
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Rename to
Category:Families of sets, not to
Category:Family of sets. That just sounds illiterate and stupid. The supposed "rule" that topic categories cannot be plural is incorrect, is frequently and appropriately violated, and should be thrown out. The actual rules are that (1) if the same noun has both count-noun and mass-noun forms (as "opera" does), the topic category goes with the mass noun (for which the singular/plural distinction does not apply), and (2) if a topic category is about a singular noun, we should use the name of that noun as the topic category. But we should not make topic categories that use singular count nouns for the study of plural subjects. If we had a category about the general topic of villages in Poland, rather than collecting individual villages, we would not call it
Category:Village in Poland, because it would be about a topic that involves multiple villages, not just one. If we had a category about the general topic of housecats, rather than about individual pet cats, we would (and do!) call it
Category:Cats, not
Category:Cat, because there is more than one housecat that the topic is about. Analogously, this category is about a topic that involves multiple families of sets, not just one. This specific case is a little confusing because the non-technical English word "family" does have a mass-noun meaning, but not one that is recognizable as mathematics or that can be used within the technical phrase "family of sets", which is unambiguously a count noun. If you are really really anal about needing to have a singular category name, then you have to look much farther from the main article name: the singular phrase for the general topic to which this subtopic belongs is
Category:Set theory (not available: already used for the more general topic) and its subfields are "X set theory" for some X. Much of the study of families of sets belongs to
extremal set theory, for instance, but not all of it. I'm not sure whether there is an appropriate X that would adequately describe this topic. A very small number of sources use "theory of families of sets", but not enough to satisfy the (much more useful) rule to "use words and phrases which exist in reliable sources". —
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David Eppstein has a fair point. I struck my contribution.
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Category:Football teams in Austria-Hungary
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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layers, with one subcategory each.
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History of Porto-Novo
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Nominator's rationale: merge, only two articles in three categories, of which one article does not really belong in a city category.
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Category:Hotels in Financial District, Boston
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Merge because unless there is a whole set of subcategories for districts within Boston there's no point. However please note per
WP:SMALLCAT, having only one entry is not a reason for deletion. >>Lil-unique1(talk) — 20:32, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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Category:Toho Monsters
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Nominator's rationale: I don't think "monsters" needs to be capitalized.
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Rename, monsters is not a part of any proper name here.
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Category:Standardized tests for Physics
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The result of the discussion was:upmerge. bibliomaniac15 05:29, 27 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Category with a single article serving no real purpose.
OpenScience709 (
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I have added two sibling categories to the nomination. I also added a SAT article to each category, but they still each have only two members so far.–
FayenaticLondon 19:46, 27 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep What about the
AP Physics series and
AP Chemistry and
AP Biology? That would bring the latter twocategories up to at least 3. regardless, the categories need to be renamed to use correct capitaliztion. –
LaundryPizza03 (
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Upmerge to
Category:Standardized tests and (e.g.)
Category:Biology education, too little content to keep it scattered among three subcategories. I do not agree on adding the AP articles here, they are about the courses not (so much) about the exams, they belong in the Education parent instead.
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Upmerge per Marcocapelle.
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Swiss people by language
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Nominator's rationale: The first three category pages state that they are mis-named or ambiguously named. That text was added by
Dbachmann in 2016.
[1] This is a procedural nomination to open a discussion either for renaming or for that explanatory text to be replaced. –
FayenaticLondon 09:37, 27 July 2022 (UTC)reply
An alternative is to delete the first three. If fully populated, way too many Swiss people would be in a German- or French-speaking category to make the categories useful. And with some exceptions the language borders coincide with the canton borders (
WP:OVERLAPCAT). The 4th nomination is just to create a new subcategory, but it should become a subcategory of
Category:Ethnic groups in Switzerland, because it has nothing to do with ancestry.
Marcocapelle (
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I support deleting the first three for the reasons described by Marcoapelle.--
User:Namiba 13:26, 27 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep -- rather than rename. Some cantons are Francophone; others are German-speaking; a few are Italian-speaking. It would be better to split Swiss people by canton. Swiss people can be split by canton, and these categories can be groups according to language.
Peterkingiron (
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We already have
Category:People by canton in Switzerland but I think we'd better leave it to implied language instead of creating explicit container categories for language on top of the canton categories. Two cantons are bilingual by exception (Valais and Graubünden) and there can also be individual exceptions.
Marcocapelle (
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Question: if there is emerging consensus to delete the first three, should I add the subcats to the nomination e.g.
Category:People of Swiss-German descent and all its subcats? Or are those OK to stay, without these as parents? –
FayenaticLondon 19:20, 27 July 2022 (UTC)reply
They can not clearly be related to a canton so we might have a separate discussion about them.
Marcocapelle (
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Those would definitely require a separate discussion, since writers and singers are much more often categorized by language than people of other professions.
Marcocapelle (
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I have put those sets (singers, writers) into the nominated categories – thank you. I also found
Category:Suisse romande as a parent category for French-speaking Switzerland, but no equivalents for the others. –
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Keep : No offense meant, but I think the proposal lacks a proper understanding of how the Swiss view and define themselves - cantonal roots are stronger than the language spoken at home and I believe here we are looking at ethnic groups, meaning that the cantonal identiy is the marker. A few Swiss-French (Romands) natively speak German (Fribourg, Wallis); there is also a very large Italian community in the country yet these native Italian speakers would never be seen as Swiss-Italians but rather Swiss-Germans if they live in Zurich, or Swiss-French in Geneva. On a side note, very few Swiss-Germans speak "proper" German natively, so labeling them German-speaking as a primary ethnic marker may be erroneous. Not sure I make a lot of sense here but the bottom line is "It's complicated"
Superboilles (
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I re-read OP's proposal and agree that the categories state that they are misnamed or ambiguous, but AFAIK there's no alternative available. It's a non-issue in Switzerland.
Superboilles (
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@
Marcocapelle: - We do need the distinction between Romand, Alemannic, and Swiss-Italian people: the current structure is the least worst solution I can actually think of. Replacing Swiss-French with Romands would be ok, but Alemannic as a language is also spoken outside of Switzerland: I don't think it's being used to designate people elsewhere, but still that would be replacing a confusing designation with another.
Superboilles (
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Keep -- I understand these primarily to be linguistic categories but that is how Switzerland operates.
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needs clarification - are these categories for people who live in Switzerland or are of Swiss Origin but of a specific heritage e.g. Romandy (Swiss-French)? Heritage and language are different things. Or is this support to be for dual nationals/dual heritage? Or is it something different more akin to Wallonia and Flanders in Belgium where its not just language but there's more nuance around cultural and political identity? I don't think the current or proposed naming captures this. >>Lil-unique1(talk) — 22:02, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
It surely is not about heritage or nationality, but as of now it is unclear whether it is about language that people individually speak or about "language area" where they live. By the way, Switzerland does not have any form of government for the "language areas", in contrast to Belgium.
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Category:Debut live albums
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Nominator's rationale: There is really nothing significant or defining about an album being a music act's first live album. These could be released early in one's career or late or even after they pass. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 00:31, 27 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep - This is to not include such debut mixtape and live albums under the debut albums categories which are for studio albums. So many bands and artists release mixtape albums or live albums as their first ever album, before their debut
studio album. I've seen many live albums inappropriately categorized as a debut studio album and this category is to distinguish the two. As you can see in
Category:Debut albums,
Category:Debut mixtape albums also exists. It was right for Category:Debut remix albums to go, as this type of album would never be released as an artist's first ever album. ~
Hiddenstranger (
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I don't see a single live album in this category that qualifies as an artist's debut release, so this interpretation seems a little fogged. If this is indeed true, and this category gets kept, these articles should be purged.
Nohomersryan (
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It is true, they just haven't been added yet. Category still being populated. ~
Hiddenstranger (
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At least purge articles that are not about debut albums. The category should contain what it advertises to contain.
Marcocapelle (
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Agree with Fayenatic. 'Debut live album' would be the band's first live album.
Oculi (
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This rename will surely improve clarifying the purpose of the category.
Marcocapelle (
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Yes you're right,
Category:Live debut albums fits it perfectly. And @Oculi yes
Category:Debut live albums would mean an artist's first ever live album, regardless of when it was released during their career. Could we keep both categories each containing a description for their intended purpose to avoid confusion? For Category:Live debut albums, it can say "This category is for articles about an artist's first ever album release which is a live recording, not a studio album. Debut studio albums should be added under their appropriate categories under
Category:Debut albums by year" or something around those lines? And for Category:Debut live albums, "This category is for articles about an artist's first ever live album released anytime throughout their career. An artist's first ever live album which is also their first ever album release should be added under
Category:Live debut albums." Then I can get busy in placing all live albums in their correct categories.
Hiddenstranger (
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A category for articles about an artist's first ever live album released anytime throughout their career is unneeded, per nominator.
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If an act's debut album happens to be a live album, then
Category:Live debut albums may be appropriate, but how many artists debuts are live? But the nominated category is not a defining aspect for an established group's first (which is not the same thing as debut) live album, whether it be released two, twelve, or twenty years after their actual debut release. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 21:47, 16 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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Delete, not all artists will release a live album. Your debut a live album is not significant nor is it vastly different to your 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. live album. If such categories exist for Debut Remix Album, Debut EP, Debut Studio Album and all the other album types these should be deleted too. The only "debut" cat that should exist is Debut album and Debut Single. >>Lil-unique1(talk) — 20:35, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Keep Debut works seems to be a significant aspect of any artist's career.
Dimadick (
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The point of the discussion is that the category does not just contain debut works because the wording of the category name is ambiguous.
Marcocapelle (
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Delete. Fails
WP:CATDEF. Also, does it mean first recorded or first released? Does it mean live, or re-recorded in the studio to make a 'live' album? --
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Delete per above, and ambiguous. —
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Category:Bishopric of Trent
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Nominator's rationale: The scope is not concerned with the see (diocese) of Trent but with the princely state of the Holy Roman Empire. Name is consistent with other Price-Bishoprics of the Empire.
Laurel Lodged (
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Not against the rename, but the category is small enough to be upmerged.
Marcocapelle (
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Let's keep for the moment. The above comment might be true for every bishopric Category so a wider discussion may be needed.
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@
Laurel Lodged: would you want to check once more whether a batch nomination for merging is really needed?
Marcocapelle (
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Rename per nom and per its article
Prince-Bishopric of Trent. The category has 15 articles in all; hardly small.
Oculi (
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REname -- This seems a good solution.
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Category:Novels about war and conflict
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Nominator's rationale: Per
WP:OVERLAPCAT. There is very little discernible difference between one category and the other.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
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Oppose War novels are just a genre, while novels about wars exist in many genres.
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Oppose, its unclear what the proposal is trying to fix or achieve. War novels/literature are a genre whereas a novel can contain war as a plot device or storyline without being in the genre of war. A plot device is different to the main theme/storyline. >>Lil-unique1(talk) — 20:37, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale:merge, trivial intersection between ethnicity and occupation, see also
WP:EGRS.
Marcocapelle (
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Alternatively rename them scientists/businesspeople from Brittany. Geography seems more significant than ethnicity with these biographies.
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@
Rathfelder: I think neither is very significant. At national level they are diffused by type of businesspeople and type of scientists and that is much more to the point.
Marcocapelle (
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The articles are already in that tree, in some populated place in Brittany subcategory.
Marcocapelle (
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Comment -- If there were five articles, I would say Rename to "Business people from Brittany", but there are only four in each. Populate?
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Category:Souls (series)
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Nominator's rationale: Reflects the main article (
Dark Souls) recent renaming and scope change. ~
Dissident93(
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Support, following the outcome of the RM for the article title.
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Category:Clinton Administration initiatives
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Support, suitable candidate for speedy rename due to standard naming conventions >>Lil-unique1(talk) — 20:37, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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Category:Obama Administration initiatives
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Category:Prince of Persia characters
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Nominator's rationale: New category that was created two days ago, without any apparent explanation of what would make a "Kampouchean" documentary film distinct from a "Cambodian" documentary film (which the creator just filed as a subcategory of the new one instead of moving all the films). If the creator doesn't like the word Cambodian, then they're free to try their luck with a renaming proposal that would likely fail -- but they haven't shown a compelling reason why we would need two separate categories for the same country's documentary films.
Bearcat (
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Keep. Asian history had not better to be write by the US or Western's eyes who do not know about our culture. Not to mention, Asians was always stigmatized (or "cancel" in GenZ's idea) what makes the problems become more serious. (
Betabum (
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Firstly, this has nothing to do with anybody "cancelling" anything, or with being culturally insensitive. If you're really so convinced that our categories for Cambodia-related topics should be named "Kampouchean" rather than "Cambodian", then you're perfectly free to nominate them for renaming through the category renaming process — but Wikipedia has rules about how things work around here, and one of those rules is that you are not entitled to just arbitrarily create parallel categories for the same thing at different spellings of its name without following our standard process for getting the existing category renamed. And, for added bonus, there is absolutely no case whatsoever for renaming only this category while not simultaneously renaming every single category in the entireCategory:Cambodia tree.
And another one of our rules, incidentally, is that once this discussion has been initiated, you are not at liberty to remove the CFD template from the category — the only people who are entitled to touch the template at all are me, if I choose to withdraw the nomination, and/or the administrator who closes this discussion when it's done — you are not entitled to touch the template at all, and in fact you can be temporarily or permanently editblocked for being
disruptive if you try that stunt again.
Bearcat (
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Support, this is English-language Wikipedia and in English "Cambodia" is dominant.
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Category:Songs in memory of deceased persons
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The result of the discussion was:manual merge. bibliomaniac15 05:25, 29 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale:WP:EUPHEMISM. This was the best rename I can think of, but I feel at the least it should have a rename that conveys the same information without euphemizing death. Ten Pound Hammer • (
What did I screw up now?) 16:39, 23 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Comments only. The subcats of this category should have also been nominated to harmonise the proposal. Many of the members of the subcats of
Category:Songs in memory of deceased persons are also in the parent AND, if existing, the songs about the individual category. There is also a category
Category:Songs inspired by deaths which should also be considered at this juncture. I am not unsympathetic to Marcocapelle's suggestion.--
Richhoncho (
talk) 08:44, 24 April 2022 (UTC)reply
Delete as being way too wide to be a useful category. Categories need to link related items together, not be based on what are at best only superficial similarities.
RandomCanadian (
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Delete as having too wide a scope. ― Qwerfjkltalk 18:35, 28 June 2022 (UTC)reply
I have created
Category:Songs based on real people which means that the nominated category can be deleted indeed. Admittedly it contains many articles that are only vaguely in commemmoration of someone.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 06:08, 11 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Further comments. In light of this new category it would be good to rename all the sub-cats to 'songs about,' merge where there is an existing 'songs about' I see no logical reason why songs written before and after should segregated. Perhaps @
TenPoundHammer: might support such an outcome.
Richhoncho (
talk) 12:22, 12 July 2022 (UTC)reply
The nominated category has 10 sub-cats, all which are now all well catered for. However, it also directly contains 275 articles, including
Afterimage (song) which at least belongs within the parent
Category:Songs inspired by deaths, and
Amelia Earhart's Last Flight which as a "farewell" song belongs in that one and, I suggest, in the new
Category:Songs based on real people – which so far only contains sub-categories, no articles directly. I have removed 3 other songs where the category did not seem appropriate, and I note that some songs are in specific sub-cats by name, but if not kept, a manual merge would be required rather than a straight deletion. –
FayenaticLondon 08:27, 16 July 2022 (UTC)reply
A manual check is of course alright.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 09:33, 16 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Sure, if someone would like to. - jc37 08:47, 30 July 2022 (UTC)reply
Certainly I would like to. Please would the closer list this at
WP:CFDWM rather than process it immediately? It is easier to work from a category's contents than to trace them later from diffs, as I had to for Category:Pranksters.
[2] –
FayenaticLondon 22:14, 23 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Purge, and UpMerge subcats only to
Category:Songs based on real people - the subcats should be renamed to match the format "...based on..." as well. - jc37 08:47, 30 July 2022 (UTC)reply
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Effect of tropical cyclones
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Nominator's rationale: rename/merge/split, better alignment between the category layers. All content is about
tropical cyclones aka
hurricanes but it does make sense to have a separate US subcat.
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@
Marcocapelle, why would the US cat be hurricanes, but the other be tropical cyclones, if the terms have the same meaning? ― Qwerfjkltalk 20:09, 16 August 2022 (UTC)reply
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✗plicit 00:48, 17 August 2022 (UTC)reply
Good question. Based on the article titles for the US I am assuming that "hurricane" is American-English (
WP:ENGVAR) while the general topic article title is at
Tropical cyclone (
WP:C2D).
Marcocapelle (
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Support Bibliomaniac15's proposal. --
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