January 28
Category:Michigan Women's Hall of Fame inductees
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- The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:29, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: Per
WP:OCAWARD
User:Namiba 23:15, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Omnis Scientia ( talk) 21:44, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:27, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Motorsport photographers
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- The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:29, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Motorsport photographers to Category:Sports photographers
- Nominator's rationale: Only one category layer. Omnis Scientia ( talk) 22:20, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:28, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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Categroy:Art museums and galleries in Armenia by city
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- The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:29, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Art museums and galleries in Armenia by city ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Art museums and galleries in Armenia, and Category:Art museums and galleries by city
- Propose merging Category:Art museums and galleries in Azerbaijan by city ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Art museums and galleries in Azerbaijan, and Category:Art museums and galleries by city
- Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT. Only 1 sub-cat each. Merge for now. – Aidan721 ( talk) 20:27, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge for now, only one subcategory each. No objection to recreate the categories when multiple city categories can decently be populated. Marcocapelle ( talk) 22:04, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Sportspeople from London by locality
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 5#Category:Sportspeople from London by locality
Category:People of the Scientific Revolution
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 5#Category:People of the Scientific Revolution
Category:Actors from London by locality
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 5#Category:Actors from London by locality
Secularists
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- The result of the discussion was: manual merge/rename/delete. Keep
Category:Israeli secularists.
(non-admin closure)
Qwerfjkl
talk 15:06, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Post-closure note: Category:Turkish secularists was also reinstated on the same grounds as requested by Aybeg at User_talk:Marcocapelle#Secularists. – Fayenatic London 11:51, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose manually merging Category:Secularists to Category:Critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Arab secularists to Category:Arab critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Afghan secularists to Category:Afghan critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Algerian secularists to Category:Algerian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:American secularists to Category:American critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Bangladeshi secularists to Category:Bangladeshi critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina secularists to Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:British secularists to Category:British critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Canadian secularists to Category:Canadian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Dutch secularists to Category:Dutch critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Egyptian secularists to Category:Egyptian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Filipino secularists to Category:Filipino critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:French secularists to Category:French critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Indian secularists to Category:Indian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Iranian secularists to Category:Iranian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Iraqi secularists to Category:Iraqi critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Irish secularists to Category:Irish critics of religions
Propose renaming Category:Israeli secularists to Category:Israeli critics of religions- Propose renaming Category:Italian secularists to Category:Italian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Kuwaiti secularists to Category:Kuwaiti critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Lebanese secularists to Category:Lebanese critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Luxembourgian secularists to Category:Luxembourgian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Malaysian secularists to Category:Malaysian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Mexican secularists to Category:Mexican critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Moroccan secularists to Category:Moroccan critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Pakistani secularists to Category:Pakistani critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Palestinian secularists to Category:Palestinian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Polish secularists to Category:Polish critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Romanian secularists to Category:Romanian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Spanish secularists to Category:Spanish critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Syrian secularists to Category:Syrian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Tajikistani secularists to Category:Tajikistani critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Trinidad and Tobago secularists to Category:Trinidad and Tobago critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Tunisian secularists to Category:Tunisian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Turkish secularists to Category:Turkish critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Ukrainian secularists to Category:Ukrainian critics of religions
- Nominator's rationale: merge the two trees, the difference between "secularists" and "critics of religions" is not clear enough to keep them as separate trees. Conceptually there is a difference, but when reading individual biographies it becomes very blurry. On the other hand, purge subcategories of politicians by political party, Category:Secular Jews and Category:Cultural Muslims. Marcocapelle ( talk) 23:12, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
- In principle I would like to keep the distinction between activists for a secularist society and critics against a specific religion, as one is far from implying the other. However, I see that in practice the categories seem to be used interchangeably, so I agree to merge for now, without prejudice against a later better-organized secularism hierrachy. @
Marcocapelle: I suggest the following:
- Delete Category:Arab secularists, which is just a container for country-level categories, the nationals of which are not all Arabs (e.g. Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq)
- Purge child categories relative to members of secular political parties, as nominated. In some cases, this will empty the category, hence it is equivalent to:
- If successful, the national child categories of
Critics of Christianity and
Critics of Islam will need to be added to the new targets, which will in turn probably generate redundancy to purge.
Place Clichy (
talk) 16:31, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
- The latter is a matter of listing this discussion at
WP:CFDWM.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 18:55, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
- @
Marcocapelle: OK if it can be managed automatically, then. Any opinion re: the Arab category?
Place Clichy (
talk) 15:31, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- I overlooked that, yes completely agree with deletion of Category:Arab secularists, as so often it does not contain Arabs per se, but people in countries with an Arab majority. Marcocapelle ( talk) 16:21, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- @
Marcocapelle: OK if it can be managed automatically, then. Any opinion re: the Arab category?
Place Clichy (
talk) 15:31, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- The latter is a matter of listing this discussion at
WP:CFDWM.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 18:55, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Comments on Place Clichy's nomination?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl talk 20:10, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- @ Qwerfjkl: My comments were in fact not as drastic as they seem. I believe we have reached consensus on sth like: Delete Category:Arab secularists, merge/rename the others as nominated, which already includes purging political parties. So I'm not sure the relisting is absolutely necessary. @ Marcocapelle and Smasongarrison: may confirm or disconfirm. Place Clichy ( talk) 10:38, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose, at least for the Israeli category. In Israel "secularist" is largely used to refer to politicians who stand for the separation of synagogue and state (and most of the people in the category are politicians whose party has secularism as a policy). This is quite different to being a "critic of religion". Renaming the Israeli category would be particularly absurd given some of the people in the category tree are active practicers of religion, including a few rabbis. Number 5 7 14:02, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
- Ok, you have a point here, so I am withdrawing Category:Israeli secularists. Arguably that should become Category:Jewish secularists, per Jewish secularism, but let's leave that to a separate discussion. Marcocapelle ( talk) 17:41, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Art museums and galleries in Douala
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- The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Art museums and galleries in Douala (2) to Category:Art museums and galleries in Cameroon, Category:Buildings and structures in Douala, and Category:Culture in Douala
- Propose merging Category:Schools in Douala (1) to Category:Buildings and structures in Douala, and Category:Education in Douala
- Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT. Merge for now until it can be sufficiently populated. – Aidan721 ( talk) 20:07, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge for now without objection to recreate the categories when they can be populated better. Marcocapelle ( talk) 22:08, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Fictional parasites and parasitoids
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- The result of the discussion was: rename to
Category:Fictional parasite characters. Because species members would no longer belong in the category, they will be added to a species category instead.
(non-admin closure)
Qwerfjkl
talk 15:17, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose renaming Category:Fictional parasites and parasitoids to Category:Fictional parasite characters
- Nominator's rationale: This category was being confused for being a species category rather than one about individual characters who are parasites. There could be a complementary
Category:Fictional parasitic species and races category, but I'm not sure there are enough of them to justify it. Either way, the species should be purged and recategorized to
Category:Fictional species and races.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 14:41, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- Alternate rename to Category:Fictional parasites. There's no reason why this should be restricted only to individual characters, especially because parasites/parasitoids are biological terms applied to various species of animals, creatures and organisms. AHI-3000 ( talk) 19:01, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- Split to characters and species, per nom and in the spirit of WP:COPSEP. Marcocapelle ( talk) 20:18, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- Rename per nom I don't see any real distinction here. Parasitoids are parasites who eventually kill their host. Their strategy is different to other parasites, but they are still parasites. Dimadick ( talk) 08:59, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl talk 23:46, 20 January 2024 (UTC)- Rename per nom, but also split out the species to
Category:Fictional parasites, parallelling
Category:Fictional plants. –
LaundryPizza03 (
d
c̄) 11:27, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
- The entire point is that "Fictional parasites" makes it unclear whether it's a species or an individual, leading to a redux of what happened with this category.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 07:14, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
- @ Zxcvbnm: Why does it need to be separated between species or individuals? Despite what you think, character categories can be inclusive of both groups and individuals. Besides, the term "parasite" is more often used to describe entire species of parasitic creatures, rather than individual organisms who happen to be parasites. And if this category is to be renamed, Category:Fictional parasites is the better alternative to both Category:Fictional parasitic characters and Category:Fictional parasites and parasitoids. AHI-3000 ( talk) 21:47, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
- The entire point is that "Fictional parasites" makes it unclear whether it's a species or an individual, leading to a redux of what happened with this category.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 07:14, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
- Rename per nom, but also split out the species to
Category:Fictional parasites, parallelling
Category:Fictional plants. –
LaundryPizza03 (
d
c̄) 11:27, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
- Keep. I don't think there is a practical need to split out species from characters into different categories. One category containing both seems fine as a navigational tool. 4meter4 ( talk) 17:24, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl talk 20:06, 28 January 2024 (UTC)- Rename per nom. Omnis Scientia ( talk) 22:22, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Assassinated politicians by political orientation
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 5#Category:Assassinated politicians by political orientation
Category:Romanian coroners
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- The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Romanian coroners (0) to Category:Coroners
- Propose merging Category:French coroners (0) to Category:Coroners
- Propose merging Category:Nigerian coroners (0) to Category:Coroners
- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. Not enough people to warrant diffusion. The few people in each category is already in another nationality category (such as Category:20th-century Nigerian lawyers,e tc). Mason ( talk) 17:23, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge for now without objection to recreate the categories when they can be populated better. Marcocapelle ( talk) 22:12, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Coroners of New York County, New York
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 5#Category:Coroners of New York County, New York
Category:Slavery in Chile
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- The result of the discussion was: merge to
Category:Slavery in South America.
(non-admin closure)
House
Blaster (
talk · he/him) 02:30, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Slavery in Chile to Category:Social history of Chile and Category:Slavery in South America
- Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge for now. There's only one category in here, which is unhelpful for navigation Mason ( talk) 17:18, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom, but only to the second target, because the article is already in Category:History of labour relations in Chile. Marcocapelle ( talk) 22:15, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Turner Sports
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- The result of the discussion was: rename ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose renaming Category:Turner Sports to Category:TNT Sports (United States)
- Nominator's rationale: Also could be a broad rename to simply TNT Sports. Turner Sports has been rebranded twice, most recently to TNT Sports.
Esolo5002 (
talk) 16:37, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Rename; this could have been speedied per WP:C2D. Omnis Scientia ( talk) 17:13, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Cinephiles
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- The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: Non-defining and overly broad. QuietHere ( talk | contributions) 14:21, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete, most articles are about people working in the film industry. Marcocapelle ( talk) 22:18, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete. Too subjective a label to be a workable category. Occupations like director (as are most current members of the category) or film critic are more precise. Place Clichy ( talk) 11:00, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:9th-century zoologists
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- The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:17th-century Italian zoologists (0) to Category:17th-century Italian scientists and Category:17th-century zoologists
- Propose merging Category:16th-century zoologists (0) to Category:16th-century biologists and Category:Zoologists
- Propose merging Category:9th-century zoologists (0) to Category:9th-century biologists and Category:Zoologists
- Propose merging Category:10th-century zoologists (0) to Category:Zoologists and Category:10th-century scientists
- Propose merging Category:8th-century zoologists (0) to Category:8th-century scientists and Category:Zoologists
- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. One a handful of pages in here, which is not enough to diffuse by century. Mason ( talk) 06:15, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom, but note (for the first category) that Marcello Malpighi is already in Category:17th-century Italian botanists so he does not need to be in Category:17th-century Italian scientists as well. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:46, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom and Marcocapelle note. – Aidan721 ( talk) 15:23, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Fictional counterterrorism organizations
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- The result of the discussion was: disperse. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 15:21, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: Only has two articles that aren't redirects, too small to be realistically needed as a subcategory.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 13:10, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- Not all counterterrorism organizations are military (e.g., CTU is not). Apokrif ( talk) 13:37, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose, if only because counter-terrorist organizations are not necessarily all military, some can be civilian law enforcement agencies instead. AHI-3000 ( talk) 19:08, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- Disperse among the three fictional parent categories, per nom. That resolves the issue that not all counterterrorism organizations are military. Marcocapelle ( talk) 20:37, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 22:07, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Queen of Hearts 04:27, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Disperse per Marcocapelle. As terrorist is a rather subjective notion, so is counter-terrorist, even in the world of fiction. Place Clichy ( talk) 11:02, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Fictional alien hunters
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- The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Fictional monster hunters. Being interesting is not the purpose of categories. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 15:24, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: None of the characters in here would be typically defined as an "alien hunter" first and foremost. (i.e. Samus is simply a bounty hunter, for humans or aliens alike. Agent J and K are government agents). Nor is there an actual article on the topic.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 21:32, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose
AHI-3000 (
talk) 22:24, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nom. There's no reason to distinguish by type of monster hunted given the size of the category. If the population grows, then it can be recreated
Mason (
talk) 22:56, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- If size would be an issue it would require upmerging to Category:Fictional monster hunters rather than deletion. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:58, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nom. There's no reason to distinguish by type of monster hunted given the size of the category. If the population grows, then it can be recreated
Mason (
talk) 22:56, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose
AHI-3000 (
talk) 22:24, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Would those advocating deletion be amenable to merging to Category:Fictional monster hunters, as Marco suggested?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 21:17, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
- Keep, a good science-fiction category, seems it would be of interest to anyone who actually clicks on it. I'll probably look at it and click on a few (thanks to the category's creator, whomever that may be will give them a 'thanks'-button click). Randy Kryn ( talk) 11:35, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Queen of Hearts 04:22, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge to Category:Fictional monster hunters per Marcocapelle. Also support deletion per nom as second-best outcome, in the spirit of consensus. It is actually unlikely, even for fictional characters, that they would confront only aliens. Mulder and Scully are typical examples of that: that's something they did, not what they are. IIRC, even Ellen Ripley fights more often human or droid foes than the Xenomorph. Probably only the MIB would be so specialized, although Agent J is notable for his career in law enforcement hunting petty criminals. Also, hunter is kinda restrictive: there are no aliens (and therefore no alien hunters) in fictional settings where everyone or almost is an alien, such as Star Wars and Star Trek, and humans fighting an alien military invasion (Independence Day, Mars Attacks, The Tomorrow War, Starship Troopers, V etc.) aren't really hunters. Place Clichy ( talk) 11:41, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Fictional zombie hunters
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- The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Fictional monster hunters. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 15:35, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: The nature of this category is somewhat flummoxing, as I don't know if any of the characters here could be called "zombie hunters". Usually, zombies are hunting THEM and they're trying to do some unrelated task that might stop the zombies somehow. The idea that someone might be a "zombie hunter" is not backed up by sources.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 21:40, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose
AHI-3000 (
talk) 22:24, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nom. There's no reason to distinguish by type of monster hunted given the size of the category. If the population grows, then it can be recreated
Mason (
talk) 22:56, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- If size would be an issue it would require upmerging to Category:Fictional monster hunters rather than deletion. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:57, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nom. There's no reason to distinguish by type of monster hunted given the size of the category. If the population grows, then it can be recreated
Mason (
talk) 22:56, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose
AHI-3000 (
talk) 22:24, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- There are quite a few video games characters among them who may actually hunt zombies. Maybe purge first?
Marcocapelle (
talk) 07:52, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
- As I said, it's one thing to kill zombies as part of a job, it's another thing to hunt them. I'm not sure which of these specifically hunts individual zombies, but it's certainly not enough for a category. If necessary they can be moved to Category:Fictional monster hunters. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ ( ᴛ) 19:26, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
- Strongest possible keep. Lots of entries to form a delightful and enriching category... and merging to "monster hunters"? Don't think zombies qualify as monsters, they're simply undead humans, typically exposed to a horrible virus ... as for the assertion that the "zombies" are hunting them", you clearly haven't met sensai
Michonne or stryker crossbow virtuoso
Daryl Dixon -- they be doing the hunting, Fo'Sho').
Cbl62 (
talk) 20:55, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
- History.com, at least, refers to zombies as monsters. Category:Zombies and revenants in popular culture is also categorized under Category:Fiction about monsters. Category:Zombies is also categorized under monsters. Even if there are a few legitimate zombie hunters there, it can easily be classified under the category of monster hunters. Still, given the fact that zombies tend to chase after any human around, "zombie slayer" strikes me as more accurate a description, as they hardly need to be hunted down. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ ( ᴛ) 07:05, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
- This comment is like fandom. Also, plenty of monsters are humans or humanoids, such as the ogre figure in classical tales, or werewolves. In fact, most probably are. Monsters is a fine merge target. Place Clichy ( talk) 11:59, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
Keep per Cbl62 AHI-3000 ( talk) 23:39, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Duplicate vote. Queen of Hearts 04:21, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: "Fictional zombie hunters" implies that there are counterpart zombie hunters in real life. Is that the case? --
Paul_012 (
talk) 07:45, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
- There are real-life UFO hunters, Nessie hunters and maybe vampire hunters, so among other popular lore creatures I wouldn't be surprised if there were werewolf hunters or zombie hunters. Would it only be for the sake of skepticism and rationality. Place Clichy ( talk) 11:59, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 21:16, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Queen of Hearts 04:22, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge to Category:Fictional monster hunters, or Delete in the spirit of consensus. As for Fictional alien hunters above, it is most likely even in a fictional setting that these hunters will confront a number of foes, zombies among them. Therefore, fighting zombies will be something they do ( WP:PERFCAT), not what they are ( WP:NONDEF). Place Clichy ( talk) 11:59, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:1st-century economic history
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- The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:30, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: delete, isolated subcategory, the next one is for the 6th century. No need to merge, the only article is already in
Category:33 and
Category:Economy of ancient Rome.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 14:22, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Omnis Scientia ( talk) 15:03, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom -- Lenticel ( talk) 07:47, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
- Keep. Valuable for navigation across time periods. Has potential for growth. Better to preserve the category structure. This is exactly the type of nomination that made WP:SMALLCAT deprecated because it is a bad outcome to delete this type of category. 4meter4 ( talk) 05:11, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Queen of Hearts 04:12, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- The potential for growth remains to be seen, that is a matter of crystal balling. Meanwhile we have everything we need in Category:Economy of ancient Rome so nothing is lost with the merge. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:52, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. – Aidan721 ( talk) 15:25, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:People from the Federal Capital Territory (Nigeria) by occupation
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- The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:29, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. This category only has one page in it, which is unhelpful for navigation Mason ( talk) 01:53, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:53, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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January 28
Category:Michigan Women's Hall of Fame inductees
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- The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:29, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: Per
WP:OCAWARD
User:Namiba 23:15, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Omnis Scientia ( talk) 21:44, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:27, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Motorsport photographers
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- The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:29, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Motorsport photographers to Category:Sports photographers
- Nominator's rationale: Only one category layer. Omnis Scientia ( talk) 22:20, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:28, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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Categroy:Art museums and galleries in Armenia by city
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- The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:29, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Art museums and galleries in Armenia by city ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Art museums and galleries in Armenia, and Category:Art museums and galleries by city
- Propose merging Category:Art museums and galleries in Azerbaijan by city ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Art museums and galleries in Azerbaijan, and Category:Art museums and galleries by city
- Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT. Only 1 sub-cat each. Merge for now. – Aidan721 ( talk) 20:27, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge for now, only one subcategory each. No objection to recreate the categories when multiple city categories can decently be populated. Marcocapelle ( talk) 22:04, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Sportspeople from London by locality
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 5#Category:Sportspeople from London by locality
Category:People of the Scientific Revolution
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 5#Category:People of the Scientific Revolution
Category:Actors from London by locality
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 5#Category:Actors from London by locality
Secularists
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- The result of the discussion was: manual merge/rename/delete. Keep
Category:Israeli secularists.
(non-admin closure)
Qwerfjkl
talk 15:06, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Post-closure note: Category:Turkish secularists was also reinstated on the same grounds as requested by Aybeg at User_talk:Marcocapelle#Secularists. – Fayenatic London 11:51, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose manually merging Category:Secularists to Category:Critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Arab secularists to Category:Arab critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Afghan secularists to Category:Afghan critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Algerian secularists to Category:Algerian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:American secularists to Category:American critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Bangladeshi secularists to Category:Bangladeshi critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina secularists to Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:British secularists to Category:British critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Canadian secularists to Category:Canadian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Dutch secularists to Category:Dutch critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Egyptian secularists to Category:Egyptian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Filipino secularists to Category:Filipino critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:French secularists to Category:French critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Indian secularists to Category:Indian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Iranian secularists to Category:Iranian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Iraqi secularists to Category:Iraqi critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Irish secularists to Category:Irish critics of religions
Propose renaming Category:Israeli secularists to Category:Israeli critics of religions- Propose renaming Category:Italian secularists to Category:Italian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Kuwaiti secularists to Category:Kuwaiti critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Lebanese secularists to Category:Lebanese critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Luxembourgian secularists to Category:Luxembourgian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Malaysian secularists to Category:Malaysian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Mexican secularists to Category:Mexican critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Moroccan secularists to Category:Moroccan critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Pakistani secularists to Category:Pakistani critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Palestinian secularists to Category:Palestinian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Polish secularists to Category:Polish critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Romanian secularists to Category:Romanian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Spanish secularists to Category:Spanish critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Syrian secularists to Category:Syrian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Tajikistani secularists to Category:Tajikistani critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Trinidad and Tobago secularists to Category:Trinidad and Tobago critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Tunisian secularists to Category:Tunisian critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Turkish secularists to Category:Turkish critics of religions
- Propose renaming Category:Ukrainian secularists to Category:Ukrainian critics of religions
- Nominator's rationale: merge the two trees, the difference between "secularists" and "critics of religions" is not clear enough to keep them as separate trees. Conceptually there is a difference, but when reading individual biographies it becomes very blurry. On the other hand, purge subcategories of politicians by political party, Category:Secular Jews and Category:Cultural Muslims. Marcocapelle ( talk) 23:12, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
- In principle I would like to keep the distinction between activists for a secularist society and critics against a specific religion, as one is far from implying the other. However, I see that in practice the categories seem to be used interchangeably, so I agree to merge for now, without prejudice against a later better-organized secularism hierrachy. @
Marcocapelle: I suggest the following:
- Delete Category:Arab secularists, which is just a container for country-level categories, the nationals of which are not all Arabs (e.g. Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq)
- Purge child categories relative to members of secular political parties, as nominated. In some cases, this will empty the category, hence it is equivalent to:
- If successful, the national child categories of
Critics of Christianity and
Critics of Islam will need to be added to the new targets, which will in turn probably generate redundancy to purge.
Place Clichy (
talk) 16:31, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
- The latter is a matter of listing this discussion at
WP:CFDWM.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 18:55, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
- @
Marcocapelle: OK if it can be managed automatically, then. Any opinion re: the Arab category?
Place Clichy (
talk) 15:31, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- I overlooked that, yes completely agree with deletion of Category:Arab secularists, as so often it does not contain Arabs per se, but people in countries with an Arab majority. Marcocapelle ( talk) 16:21, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- @
Marcocapelle: OK if it can be managed automatically, then. Any opinion re: the Arab category?
Place Clichy (
talk) 15:31, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
- The latter is a matter of listing this discussion at
WP:CFDWM.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 18:55, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Comments on Place Clichy's nomination?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl talk 20:10, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- @ Qwerfjkl: My comments were in fact not as drastic as they seem. I believe we have reached consensus on sth like: Delete Category:Arab secularists, merge/rename the others as nominated, which already includes purging political parties. So I'm not sure the relisting is absolutely necessary. @ Marcocapelle and Smasongarrison: may confirm or disconfirm. Place Clichy ( talk) 10:38, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose, at least for the Israeli category. In Israel "secularist" is largely used to refer to politicians who stand for the separation of synagogue and state (and most of the people in the category are politicians whose party has secularism as a policy). This is quite different to being a "critic of religion". Renaming the Israeli category would be particularly absurd given some of the people in the category tree are active practicers of religion, including a few rabbis. Number 5 7 14:02, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
- Ok, you have a point here, so I am withdrawing Category:Israeli secularists. Arguably that should become Category:Jewish secularists, per Jewish secularism, but let's leave that to a separate discussion. Marcocapelle ( talk) 17:41, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Art museums and galleries in Douala
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- The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Art museums and galleries in Douala (2) to Category:Art museums and galleries in Cameroon, Category:Buildings and structures in Douala, and Category:Culture in Douala
- Propose merging Category:Schools in Douala (1) to Category:Buildings and structures in Douala, and Category:Education in Douala
- Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT. Merge for now until it can be sufficiently populated. – Aidan721 ( talk) 20:07, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge for now without objection to recreate the categories when they can be populated better. Marcocapelle ( talk) 22:08, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Fictional parasites and parasitoids
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- The result of the discussion was: rename to
Category:Fictional parasite characters. Because species members would no longer belong in the category, they will be added to a species category instead.
(non-admin closure)
Qwerfjkl
talk 15:17, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose renaming Category:Fictional parasites and parasitoids to Category:Fictional parasite characters
- Nominator's rationale: This category was being confused for being a species category rather than one about individual characters who are parasites. There could be a complementary
Category:Fictional parasitic species and races category, but I'm not sure there are enough of them to justify it. Either way, the species should be purged and recategorized to
Category:Fictional species and races.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 14:41, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- Alternate rename to Category:Fictional parasites. There's no reason why this should be restricted only to individual characters, especially because parasites/parasitoids are biological terms applied to various species of animals, creatures and organisms. AHI-3000 ( talk) 19:01, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- Split to characters and species, per nom and in the spirit of WP:COPSEP. Marcocapelle ( talk) 20:18, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- Rename per nom I don't see any real distinction here. Parasitoids are parasites who eventually kill their host. Their strategy is different to other parasites, but they are still parasites. Dimadick ( talk) 08:59, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl talk 23:46, 20 January 2024 (UTC)- Rename per nom, but also split out the species to
Category:Fictional parasites, parallelling
Category:Fictional plants. –
LaundryPizza03 (
d
c̄) 11:27, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
- The entire point is that "Fictional parasites" makes it unclear whether it's a species or an individual, leading to a redux of what happened with this category.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 07:14, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
- @ Zxcvbnm: Why does it need to be separated between species or individuals? Despite what you think, character categories can be inclusive of both groups and individuals. Besides, the term "parasite" is more often used to describe entire species of parasitic creatures, rather than individual organisms who happen to be parasites. And if this category is to be renamed, Category:Fictional parasites is the better alternative to both Category:Fictional parasitic characters and Category:Fictional parasites and parasitoids. AHI-3000 ( talk) 21:47, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
- The entire point is that "Fictional parasites" makes it unclear whether it's a species or an individual, leading to a redux of what happened with this category.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 07:14, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
- Rename per nom, but also split out the species to
Category:Fictional parasites, parallelling
Category:Fictional plants. –
LaundryPizza03 (
d
c̄) 11:27, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
- Keep. I don't think there is a practical need to split out species from characters into different categories. One category containing both seems fine as a navigational tool. 4meter4 ( talk) 17:24, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl talk 20:06, 28 January 2024 (UTC)- Rename per nom. Omnis Scientia ( talk) 22:22, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Assassinated politicians by political orientation
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 5#Category:Assassinated politicians by political orientation
Category:Romanian coroners
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- The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Romanian coroners (0) to Category:Coroners
- Propose merging Category:French coroners (0) to Category:Coroners
- Propose merging Category:Nigerian coroners (0) to Category:Coroners
- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. Not enough people to warrant diffusion. The few people in each category is already in another nationality category (such as Category:20th-century Nigerian lawyers,e tc). Mason ( talk) 17:23, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge for now without objection to recreate the categories when they can be populated better. Marcocapelle ( talk) 22:12, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Coroners of New York County, New York
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 5#Category:Coroners of New York County, New York
Category:Slavery in Chile
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- The result of the discussion was: merge to
Category:Slavery in South America.
(non-admin closure)
House
Blaster (
talk · he/him) 02:30, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Slavery in Chile to Category:Social history of Chile and Category:Slavery in South America
- Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge for now. There's only one category in here, which is unhelpful for navigation Mason ( talk) 17:18, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom, but only to the second target, because the article is already in Category:History of labour relations in Chile. Marcocapelle ( talk) 22:15, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Turner Sports
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- The result of the discussion was: rename ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose renaming Category:Turner Sports to Category:TNT Sports (United States)
- Nominator's rationale: Also could be a broad rename to simply TNT Sports. Turner Sports has been rebranded twice, most recently to TNT Sports.
Esolo5002 (
talk) 16:37, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Rename; this could have been speedied per WP:C2D. Omnis Scientia ( talk) 17:13, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Cinephiles
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- The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: Non-defining and overly broad. QuietHere ( talk | contributions) 14:21, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete, most articles are about people working in the film industry. Marcocapelle ( talk) 22:18, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete. Too subjective a label to be a workable category. Occupations like director (as are most current members of the category) or film critic are more precise. Place Clichy ( talk) 11:00, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:9th-century zoologists
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- The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:17th-century Italian zoologists (0) to Category:17th-century Italian scientists and Category:17th-century zoologists
- Propose merging Category:16th-century zoologists (0) to Category:16th-century biologists and Category:Zoologists
- Propose merging Category:9th-century zoologists (0) to Category:9th-century biologists and Category:Zoologists
- Propose merging Category:10th-century zoologists (0) to Category:Zoologists and Category:10th-century scientists
- Propose merging Category:8th-century zoologists (0) to Category:8th-century scientists and Category:Zoologists
- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. One a handful of pages in here, which is not enough to diffuse by century. Mason ( talk) 06:15, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom, but note (for the first category) that Marcello Malpighi is already in Category:17th-century Italian botanists so he does not need to be in Category:17th-century Italian scientists as well. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:46, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom and Marcocapelle note. – Aidan721 ( talk) 15:23, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Fictional counterterrorism organizations
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- The result of the discussion was: disperse. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 15:21, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: Only has two articles that aren't redirects, too small to be realistically needed as a subcategory.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 13:10, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- Not all counterterrorism organizations are military (e.g., CTU is not). Apokrif ( talk) 13:37, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose, if only because counter-terrorist organizations are not necessarily all military, some can be civilian law enforcement agencies instead. AHI-3000 ( talk) 19:08, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
- Disperse among the three fictional parent categories, per nom. That resolves the issue that not all counterterrorism organizations are military. Marcocapelle ( talk) 20:37, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 22:07, 20 January 2024 (UTC)Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Queen of Hearts 04:27, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Disperse per Marcocapelle. As terrorist is a rather subjective notion, so is counter-terrorist, even in the world of fiction. Place Clichy ( talk) 11:02, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Fictional alien hunters
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- The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Fictional monster hunters. Being interesting is not the purpose of categories. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 15:24, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: None of the characters in here would be typically defined as an "alien hunter" first and foremost. (i.e. Samus is simply a bounty hunter, for humans or aliens alike. Agent J and K are government agents). Nor is there an actual article on the topic.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 21:32, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose
AHI-3000 (
talk) 22:24, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nom. There's no reason to distinguish by type of monster hunted given the size of the category. If the population grows, then it can be recreated
Mason (
talk) 22:56, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- If size would be an issue it would require upmerging to Category:Fictional monster hunters rather than deletion. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:58, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nom. There's no reason to distinguish by type of monster hunted given the size of the category. If the population grows, then it can be recreated
Mason (
talk) 22:56, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose
AHI-3000 (
talk) 22:24, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Would those advocating deletion be amenable to merging to Category:Fictional monster hunters, as Marco suggested?
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- Keep, a good science-fiction category, seems it would be of interest to anyone who actually clicks on it. I'll probably look at it and click on a few (thanks to the category's creator, whomever that may be will give them a 'thanks'-button click). Randy Kryn ( talk) 11:35, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
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- Merge to Category:Fictional monster hunters per Marcocapelle. Also support deletion per nom as second-best outcome, in the spirit of consensus. It is actually unlikely, even for fictional characters, that they would confront only aliens. Mulder and Scully are typical examples of that: that's something they did, not what they are. IIRC, even Ellen Ripley fights more often human or droid foes than the Xenomorph. Probably only the MIB would be so specialized, although Agent J is notable for his career in law enforcement hunting petty criminals. Also, hunter is kinda restrictive: there are no aliens (and therefore no alien hunters) in fictional settings where everyone or almost is an alien, such as Star Wars and Star Trek, and humans fighting an alien military invasion (Independence Day, Mars Attacks, The Tomorrow War, Starship Troopers, V etc.) aren't really hunters. Place Clichy ( talk) 11:41, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Fictional zombie hunters
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- The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Fictional monster hunters. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 15:35, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: The nature of this category is somewhat flummoxing, as I don't know if any of the characters here could be called "zombie hunters". Usually, zombies are hunting THEM and they're trying to do some unrelated task that might stop the zombies somehow. The idea that someone might be a "zombie hunter" is not backed up by sources.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 21:40, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose
AHI-3000 (
talk) 22:24, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nom. There's no reason to distinguish by type of monster hunted given the size of the category. If the population grows, then it can be recreated
Mason (
talk) 22:56, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- If size would be an issue it would require upmerging to Category:Fictional monster hunters rather than deletion. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:57, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nom. There's no reason to distinguish by type of monster hunted given the size of the category. If the population grows, then it can be recreated
Mason (
talk) 22:56, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose
AHI-3000 (
talk) 22:24, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
- There are quite a few video games characters among them who may actually hunt zombies. Maybe purge first?
Marcocapelle (
talk) 07:52, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
- As I said, it's one thing to kill zombies as part of a job, it's another thing to hunt them. I'm not sure which of these specifically hunts individual zombies, but it's certainly not enough for a category. If necessary they can be moved to Category:Fictional monster hunters. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ ( ᴛ) 19:26, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
- Strongest possible keep. Lots of entries to form a delightful and enriching category... and merging to "monster hunters"? Don't think zombies qualify as monsters, they're simply undead humans, typically exposed to a horrible virus ... as for the assertion that the "zombies" are hunting them", you clearly haven't met sensai
Michonne or stryker crossbow virtuoso
Daryl Dixon -- they be doing the hunting, Fo'Sho').
Cbl62 (
talk) 20:55, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
- History.com, at least, refers to zombies as monsters. Category:Zombies and revenants in popular culture is also categorized under Category:Fiction about monsters. Category:Zombies is also categorized under monsters. Even if there are a few legitimate zombie hunters there, it can easily be classified under the category of monster hunters. Still, given the fact that zombies tend to chase after any human around, "zombie slayer" strikes me as more accurate a description, as they hardly need to be hunted down. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ ( ᴛ) 07:05, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
- This comment is like fandom. Also, plenty of monsters are humans or humanoids, such as the ogre figure in classical tales, or werewolves. In fact, most probably are. Monsters is a fine merge target. Place Clichy ( talk) 11:59, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
Keep per Cbl62 AHI-3000 ( talk) 23:39, 22 January 2024 (UTC)Duplicate vote. Queen of Hearts 04:21, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: "Fictional zombie hunters" implies that there are counterpart zombie hunters in real life. Is that the case? --
Paul_012 (
talk) 07:45, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
- There are real-life UFO hunters, Nessie hunters and maybe vampire hunters, so among other popular lore creatures I wouldn't be surprised if there were werewolf hunters or zombie hunters. Would it only be for the sake of skepticism and rationality. Place Clichy ( talk) 11:59, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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- Merge to Category:Fictional monster hunters, or Delete in the spirit of consensus. As for Fictional alien hunters above, it is most likely even in a fictional setting that these hunters will confront a number of foes, zombies among them. Therefore, fighting zombies will be something they do ( WP:PERFCAT), not what they are ( WP:NONDEF). Place Clichy ( talk) 11:59, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:1st-century economic history
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- The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:30, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: delete, isolated subcategory, the next one is for the 6th century. No need to merge, the only article is already in
Category:33 and
Category:Economy of ancient Rome.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 14:22, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Omnis Scientia ( talk) 15:03, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom -- Lenticel ( talk) 07:47, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
- Keep. Valuable for navigation across time periods. Has potential for growth. Better to preserve the category structure. This is exactly the type of nomination that made WP:SMALLCAT deprecated because it is a bad outcome to delete this type of category. 4meter4 ( talk) 05:11, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
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- The potential for growth remains to be seen, that is a matter of crystal balling. Meanwhile we have everything we need in Category:Economy of ancient Rome so nothing is lost with the merge. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:52, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. – Aidan721 ( talk) 15:25, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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Category:People from the Federal Capital Territory (Nigeria) by occupation
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- The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 02:29, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. This category only has one page in it, which is unhelpful for navigation Mason ( talk) 01:53, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:53, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
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