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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. Having only one (or two) books in each category is unhelpful for navigation. (I've already added each book to a child category of German-language novels)
Mason (
talk) 01:48, 4 March 2024 (UTC)reply
But
Category:1905 novels is otherwise split by country of publication, not by language. Like
English-language songs etc, the language does not need to be specified as a category where it is the same as the majority language of the country. –
FayenaticLondon 10:14, 5 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Agree that categorization by both nationality and language would cause a big overlap. I was just thinking that making a distinction between German and Austrian novels would not make much sense since both are written for all German-language readers. But this thought is probably too far off from how novels are currently categorized.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 20:25, 5 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I don't disagree with you that language makes sense, but I think in the short term getting the novel categories cleaned up to be consistent is a good place to start.
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Let this just be processed as nominated.
Marcocapelle (
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Oppose A large category which mixes novels from different languages is hintering navigation, not helping it. How would the reader locate the correct novels?
Dimadick (
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I can't help but feel this is reiterated every time we have one of these upmerge proposals. Some community consensus would be nice. —
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Category:Deaths by stabbing in Rome
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge per
WP:OCLOCATION. Also, the intersection between death+ method of death + city isn't a helpful intersection
Mason (
talk) 04:10, 4 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Oppose. While you’d be right for most cities, Rome has had so many of them (due to its long history as a major political center and the prevalence of stabbing as a means of assassination historically) that it seems a reasonable exception. (Almost all the people included in the category were assassinated.) I should note that if the upmerge were to take place, the members of the category would be a third of the articles. There have just been a whole lot of notable stabbings in Rome over the past 2500 years. Significantly, many if not most of the stabbings predate the unification of Italy and many relate to Ancient Rome specifically.
Lockesdonkey (
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Was Julius Caesar stabbed in Rome? Yes. Was he stabbed in Italy...?
Grutness...wha? 05:42, 4 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Are we referring to the modern Italian polity? Then no. But the geographic expression that predates Rome? Then yes. That's the problem. 20:20, 7 March 2024 (UTC) — Preceding
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I support this alternative Merge.
Mason (
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Split per Marcocapelle.
NLeeuw (
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This runs into the same problem: Like Caesar, Rossi was unquestionably both killed in the city of Rome but not within the modern state called Italy.
Lockesdonkey (
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I wonder if this would work: Keep the cat, but put a note on the cat page that says to include only people stabbed in Rome in or before 1870 (=the year of the
Capture of Rome), and to put everyone stabbed there in 1871 or later in the regular Italy cat. I do not think that the cat should be renamed to "Deaths by stabbing in Rome before 1871", but that would be the sensible contents for the category.
WhatamIdoing (
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That does not solve the problem that Pellegrino Rossi is entirely unrelated to Caesar.
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Comment: Does "ancient" include mediaeval, if the cutting-off point would be the Capture of Rome in 1870?
185.104.63.112 (
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Ancient Rome refers to the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. I agree that "Italy" is problematic in medieval context but there is already a whole tree under
Category:Medieval Italy so let's have that discussion some other time.
Marcocapelle (
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Rename "ancient, medieval and early modern".
121.202.28.169 (
talk) 11:39, 24 March 2024 (UTC)reply
This does not make sense, it's "anything but modern" which is not a defining characteristic and we do not have any similar categories.
Marcocapelle (
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What about "pre-unification Rome" or "pre-unification Italy"? Does the category currently include people of ancient Rome outside the current city of Rome?
61.244.93.97 (
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We currently do not have any of these sorts of categories, so this really requires a separate discussion.
Marcocapelle (
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Which categories are you referring to in case of Germans and Spaniards?
Marcocapelle (
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Oppose The city is more defining for location than an entire
peninsula.
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Category:Politicians killed in World War II
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Nominator's rationale: Unhelpful category for navigation. We don't need to add make a politician specific death category for every death
Mason (
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Oppose, this is not unhelpful
AHI-3000 (
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We have categories e.g. for civilians who died in internment camps during the war and for military personnel who were killed in battle, these deaths are immediate consequences of the war. Just a general "killed" is trivial, especially considering who are in this category.
Marcocapelle (
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I would argue that politicians being killed in one of the biggest military conflicts in the modern era is a noteworthy and defining trait for them, especially because they're involved in the leadership of belligerents one way or another.
AHI-3000 (
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Neither of the two is primarily known for being killed in the war. Hitler wasn't even killed, he died by suicide.
Marcocapelle (
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I'm sure there's more than a few articles that can be added to this category.
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Oppose This is a death category, more defining than a laundy list of politicians who were active during the war. I would suggest simly deleting
Category:World War II politicians as non-defining.
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Category:Arab-Jewish culture in the United States
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The result of the discussion was:no consensus in the truest sense of the term: no consensus to merge, no consensus to rename, no consensus to keep as-is.
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Nominator's rationale:merge, overlapping scope,
Mizrahi Jews are Jews from countries in the Middle East and North Africa; and Arab-Jewish is very imprecise as the term mixes up two different ethnicities.
Marcocapelle (
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Oppose Not all Mizrahi Jews are Arab Jews. Turkish Jews, Iranian Jews, Kurdish Jews, and many Berber Jews are not Arabs. Afghan and Central Asian Jews including the Bukharan Jews, as well as the Mountain Jews of the Caucasus, may also be considered Mizrahim but are likewise not Arabs. There should be categories for Jews from Arab countries specifically, as they have specific histories and cultures, including the Judeo-Arabic dialects and literature and media in those dialects. I would be fine with renaming the category to "Arab-Jewish diaspora", per Fayenatic London's suggestion.
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Category:16th-century Swiss Roman Catholic priests
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Nominator's rationale: I think we should broaden this category to 16th-century Swiss clergy, so it can be populated with more than just one person
Mason (
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Keep, I have added two articles and I doubt if adding
Category:Swiss Protestant Reformers as a subcategory would make a lot of sense, while that is the only potential extra content.
Marcocapelle (
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Not everyone in the category is a member of the clergy, but some seem to be.
Felix Manz for example, he was a minister.
William Farel founded a church. etc
Mason (
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There wasn't formalized clergy that early. As the article about
Felix Manz says: "The movement spread rapidly, and Manz was very active in it." That is how far it went.
William Farel may be added though.
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Category:Critics
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Nominator's rationale:split and convert the current category page to a disambiguation page. Dependent on context, the word "critic" has two very different meanings. One meaning, e.g. in art critics or food critics, is people who review their subject, positively or negatively. Another meaning for critic, e.g. in critics of Afrocentrism, critics of alternative medicine, critics of animal rights, is for people who are opposed to something and write about the reasons why. Those are quite unrelated meanings. The parent categories should also be quite different.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 05:54, 5 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Rename to
Category:Critics by type and purge anything that doesn't fit, as well as upmerging the other "critics by..." categories. Seems a bit too broad.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 06:07, 5 March 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Zxcvbnm: do I understand correctly that you propose to purge what I would call "Critics (social and political)"? Just checking.
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Category:People interned during World War I
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Not sure this is the right way. With this proposal the articles would be removed from the tree of
Category:Internments.
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Category:18th-century Danish women farmers
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The result of the discussion was:merge as follows:
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's only one or two people per category, which isn't helpful for navigation
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I'm ok with that.
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Category:18th-century Danish letter writers
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. This category is underpopulated and isolated; it is unhelpful for navigation. ( I encourage the page creator to populate the categories they create and to remember to add them to the non Danish parent categories. )
Mason (
talk) 00:23, 5 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Dual merge, isolated category and its parents are poorly populated anyway.
Marcocapelle (
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Keep I have embarked on populating the category and making it less isolated. I think it is quite obvious that there are already enough biographies that belong in the letter-writer categories to justify categories by country and century for a wide range of countries. The fact that they have not yet been created should not be a valid reason for not starting somewhere (that is how Wikipedia works).
Ramblersen2 (
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I assumed the category was for people with a substantial number of published letters Do you have a definition of "defining characteristic#? If someone has found a given person's letters interesting enoughto publish them (often with comments), I think it is very helpful to be able to find them via a category.
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Keep Currently the category contains 10 articles which should be enough to justify keeping it. If someone is of the opinion that any of the articles don't belong in the category, shouldn't that discussion take place on the talk page of the article? Either way, it is only the relevance of placing two of the current articles in the category that has been questioned, which would still leave it with eight artivles.
Ramblersen2 (
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Please don't double vote. It makes it harder on the closer.
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Ramblersen2 (
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(updated vote) purge the category and remove articles about people who were not known as letter writers, then dual merge.
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Keep Enough articles for a valid category.
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Category:Macalester Scots football seasons
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HouseBlaster, this should be closed as keep as the merge votes apply to an outdated status of this category.
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Category:IIHF Women's World Ice Hockey Championships
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Alternative, upmerge
Category:World War I politicians to its parents because it wouldn't be useful to collect politicians with a long political career of which these 4 years just happened to be part of.
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Comment: Are all political leaders politicians per se?
61.244.93.97 (
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That is a fair question. Quite a few were monarchs, so not politicians per se. So that is a new argument against the nomination.
Marcocapelle (
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The name I had in mind was Charles de Gaulle. Yes he was a WWII political leader; but he wasn't yet quite a politician by then (tho yes he served as undersecretary for a week or two before the fall of Paris).
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WikiProject Twenty-Tens decade
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Nominator's rationale: WikiProject Twenty-Tens decade was renamed to
WikiProject 2010s, so the categories should match. --
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Category:Monster High characters
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People from East Bengal
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The category "People from East Bengal" specifically denotes that the person's roots are in East Bengal, i.e., present-day Bangladesh. The term "Bengal Presidency" does not make it clear whether the person is from West Bengal or East Bengal. The Bengal Presidency no longer exists. The East Bengal of the Bengal Presidency is now a separate independent country. The category "People from East Bengal" is used to distinguish those people who were born and raised in East Bengal but later moved from East Bengal to India. The category "People from East Bengal" is useful for distinguishing people who have roots in East Bengal from those who have roots in West Bengal. This is important because the two regions are now separated.
ফারদিন (
talk) 17:05, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
As for
Category:Born in East Bengal, all the members seem to be born well before 1947, but
East Bengal was not a defined region before 1947, so that name is inaccurate. Do you intend the category "People from East Bengal" only for people who migrated from East Bengal after the
partition of India? The name "People from East Bengal" does not capture that meaning either; maybe "Emigrants from East Pakistan to India" as a subcat of
Category:Pakistani emigrants to India? –
FayenaticLondon 22:46, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Fayenatic londonThe region of present-day Bangladesh was indeed referred to as "East Bengal" even before 1947. We can find instances of this in the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, and many others, where they use the term "East Bengal" to describe the region.
Furthermore, the East Bengal Club was established in 1920, well before 1947. This serves as another piece of evidence that the distinction between East Bengal and West Bengal existed long before the Partition of India.
Prior to 1947, East Bengal and West Bengal were identified separately as East Bengal was Muslim majority and West Bengal Hindu majority.
Even today, present-day Bangladesh is often referred to as East Bengal.
ফারদিন (
talk) 00:39, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Those who migrated from East Bengal before 1947 also belong to "People from East Bengal" category.
ফারদিন (
talk) 00:42, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Presumably those references to East Bengal were to the Muslim-majority part of Bengal. But
East Bengal #History indicates that the region was not clearly defined before partition in 1947, e.g. Mayu, Sylhet, Chittagong Hill Tracts. So it is hard to make it a criterion for categorisation.
As for those who migrated before 1947, can you demonstrate that moving from one part to another within
British India would be
WP:DEFINING? If not, we cannot build a category on it. –
FayenaticLondon 12:38, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
East Bengal had its own identity even before 1947. East Bengal still existed when Bengal was divided in 1905.
If East Bengal were still a part of India, there would have been no need for these separate categories. But now that East Bengal is not a part of India, there is a need for these categories.
I see no problem with having a "People from East Bengal" category since there is a "People from West Bengal" category. Usman Serajuddin was born in 1258 AD. At that time, West Bengal did not even exist. Yet, he is included in the "People from West Bengal" category. There are many such examples where people from before the existence of West Bengal are included in the "People from West Bengal" category.
If there can be categories named after West Bengal, such as "People from West Bengal" and "Indian Independence activists from West Bengal," then I see no problem with having categories named after East Bengal.
ফারদিন (
talk) 15:17, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
As for East Bengal we use the current name
Category:Bangladeshi people. People are categorised by birthplace within the current borders of Bangladesh. We also have its subcat
Category:People of East Pakistan for the period from the partition of India to the independence of Bangladesh.
You have made the point that within British India some people referred to East Bengal, but this appears to be as a cultural region rather than an administrative division. We do not generally categorise by such regions.
For earlier periods you could use
Wikipedia:Category intersection tools to find persons from the Bengal Presidency born in locations within what is now Bangladesh. –
FayenaticLondon 15:46, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Then we can simply convert the category 'People from East Bengal' to the category 'People from Bangladesh
ফারদিন (
talk) 13:26, 23 March 2024 (UTC)reply
No, because there is nothing to distinguish that name from the existing and correctly-named
Bangladeshi people.
Can you please specify the purpose that you require the new category to fulfil? It it intended specifically for migrants from East to West? and if so, for what period? –
FayenaticLondon 14:47, 23 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Albert Einstein was born and raised in Germany, but he later became a citizen of the United States and died there. However, he is still referred to as a German scientist. The same is true for Karl Marx.
However, Prafulla Chandra Ray and many other famous Bengalis, even though they were born in East Bengal, are only referred to as Indians. They are not even called British Indians. Although present-day Bangladesh was part of British India, it was never part of India. In other words, by referring Prafulla Chandra Indian, the fact that his roots are in East Bengal is hidden.
Even though he is included in the 19th-century_Indian_chemists category (when India did not even exist), he is not included in any category that specifically identifies him as a Bangladeshi chemist.
It is not just Prafulla Chandra Ray, but many other people who are only referred to as Indian.There is no mention of their connection to Bangladesh. ( This kind of activity is done more in the introduction and Wikidata items.)
Prafulla Chandra Ray and others like him are also the pride of Bangladesh. Therefore, there is a need for a category that shows their connection with Bangladesh.
ফারদিন (
talk) 08:43, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply
You still have not stated specifically what should be the scope of these categories. If nobody comes up with an answer to that, then they cannot be kept. –
FayenaticLondon 09:04, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Profulla Chandra Ray has been included in the scientists from Kolkata category. But according to you, he does not need to be included in the following categories:
19th-century Indian chemists
20th-century Indian chemists
Scientists from British India
People from the Bengal Presidency
This is because at that time, Kolkata was part of the Bengal Presidency, India, and British India. Therefore, there is no need to mention these categories separately.The same is true for Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
ফারদিন (
talk) 11:15, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply
There are some categories like African-American people, American families of German ancestry...
This kinds of category applies to which period?
ফারদিন (
talk) 11:16, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Good question. I expected that categories of "American people" would apply to the period during which USA has been a country, i.e. since American independence. However, looking at the intersection of
African-American people and
People of the Thirteen Colonies, I found a few categorised as African-Americans who died before 1776, namely
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo,
Anthony Johnson (colonist) and
Emanuel Driggus. As Africans who were taken to Britain's
American colonies, I suppose it is right to count them as African Americans, in which case the starting date for those ethnic American categories can legitimately predate the independence of the United States. However, they only go back to the European colonies which became the US, not earlier Mesoamericans.
I'm not sure that the above has any bearing on this CFD. But it does show the power of category intersection tools, which can likewise find people from what is now Bangladesh among people of British India:
https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=27365133 –
FayenaticLondon 22:28, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Both of those are anachronistic, as East Bengal existed from 1947 to 1955, and was then renamed East Pakistan until it became independent as Bangladesh. –
FayenaticLondon 22:46, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
@
MarcocapelleBengal is no longer undivided. When you say Bengal, it is not clear whether you mean East Bengal or West Bengal.
ফারদিন (
talk) 09:18, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
"No longer" is spot on: it is an anachronistic distinction, not relevant for people of the past.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 14:13, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
If East Bengal were still a part of India, there would have been no need for these separate categories. But now that East Bengal is not a part of India, there is a need for these categories.
I see no problem with having a "People from East Bengal" category since there is a "People from West Bengal" category. Rash Behari Bose has been included in the category of Indian independence activists from West Bengal.Even Usman Serajuddin, who was born in 1258 AD. At that time, West Bengal did not even exist. Yet, he is included in the "People from West Bengal" category. There are many such examples where people from before the existence of West Bengal are included in the "People from West Bengal" category.
If there can be categories named after West Bengal, such as "People from West Bengal" and "Indian Independence activists from West Bengal," then I see no problem with having categories named after East Bengal.
ফারদিন (
talk) 15:38, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Obviously West Bengal categories before 1947 should be merged to Bengal as well.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 20:05, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Merge/delete per nom and Marco discussion.
Mason (
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Question: (I know this isn't going to be a good name to many people here.) What about People from pre-independence Bangladesh or People from pre-1971 Bangladesh?
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Category:American white supremacist assassins
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. I don't think we need to diffuse
Category:White supremacist assassins by nationality. I also think that this category could use some purging.
Mason (
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Merge per nom With the exception of
anarchists, the ideology of most assassins does not have much of an impact.
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Category:Universities and colleges in Saint-Denis, Réunion
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Nominator's rationale: To feed into the categories for 20th- and 19th-century architecture of this country.
2403:4A00:4000:0:0:0:1:2A (
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There's no need to open a CFD for this. However, there is only one page in this category, so I do not think creating subcategories makes sense.
Mason (
talk) 13:56, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
It is not appropriate to categorise items of dependent territories under categories for the metropolitan.
185.104.63.112 (
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Would you put a Bermuda or Akrotiri and Dhekelia or Alderney article straight into a corresponding category for the UK? Or a Greenland article straight into that for Denmark? Or Aruba and the Netherlands?
185.104.63.112 (
talk) 08:04, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Alderney into the UK for sure, as there isn't any geographical separation between Alderney and UK. Likewise for Hong Kong and China.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 14:28, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Alderney into the UK for sure, as there isn't any geographical separation between Alderney and UK. That's something so new. There isn't much geographical separation between e.g. the Faroe Islands and Denmark or Åland and Finland too.
185.104.63.112 (
talk) 21:38, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment: There are five articles - four already moved to one of the proposed subcategories. Subcat per nom.
218.102.133.99 (
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How do you mean this? I now see two articles in this category and the proposed subcategories have not yet been created.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 23:22, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Marcocapelle so the IP has been adding red links to the pages
[1], and removing the pages from the current categories eg.
[2]Mason (
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Thank you for sorting this out.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 06:26, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Thanks, unfortunately, it looks like this IP has very strong opinions on categories. @
Marcocapelle does something like this go to ANI?
Mason (
talk) 21:23, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment. Do not remove the pages from the original category. It makes it impossible to judge whether a category is needed.
Mason (
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You and everyone else in the discussion.
Mason (
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Did I? (It's you who's adding parent categories around.)
185.104.63.112 (
talk) 21:42, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Oppose, with only six articles it is far too early to diffuse.
Marcocapelle (
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So double-catting (i.e. to Anglican church buildings in Hong Kong and 19th-/20th-century buildings in Hong Kong) is more preferable at this stage?
185.104.63.112 (
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Oppose per Marcocapelle. Also the IPs are all the same person who was blocked for using a proxy/evading their block.
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Nominator's rationale: This category is
non-defining. The female protagonist category only exists because sources have stated there are too few female protagonists (
Gender representation in video games#As player characters), therefore such protagonists are notable to mention. So, either this category should be deleted as completely irrelevant to the issue of female representation in video games, or there is no reason to sort by gender at all, and both should not exist.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 03:00, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete pretty clearly non-defining. Cat creator appears to be trying to make a
WP:POINT.
Axem Titanium (
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Keep the category exists so that people can better find and filter games based on the protagonist's gender and this is a relevant sub-category for
Category:Video games by theme which is related to
Player character. I also recommend to add more categories such as for nonbinary protagonists. Such categories are relevant to have as well. The female protagonist category also exists to better filter games based on the protagonist. So additional gender subcategories are valuable in that respect. By only having 1 sub-category for gender it is too one-sided and limited. For example if someone wants to research games with protagonists or the Player character of a specific gender or ethnic group then the user can use extra subcategories to find organized results. The category links to the article
Player character so this is a sub-theme or sub-category of Player character and it improves the search precision via the parent category
Category:Video games by theme. Additional categories that should be added are "Video games featuring asian protagonists" and "Video games featuring native american protagonists". -
Artanisen (
talk) 10:16, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Have you, or anyone, actually tried using it like this. The category is so massively populated, that it's terrible for navigation in practice. I don't believe people are actually using the category like that.
Sergecross73msg me 11:24, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Yes, for research purposes it is very useful to be able to refine searches with more sub-categories to filter results. You argue the category is massively populated, but by comparison the
female protagonists category has 2,171 total pages (compared to 447 total in male protagonists). The
Category:Video games with gender-selectable protagonists has 702 pages. The sub-category is also useful for the parent
Category:Gender and video games, because to study the issues requires including all genders or the result is limited and one-sided. -
Artanisen (
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It is very useful to have more sub-categories to filter pages and get better search results on Wikipedia. For example if a user wants to know which game titles in a series such as Aliens have male protagonists it will show the result with links to the pages. This category is very new and not given a chance to exist. This category was created on 18 March 2024 and the stats show 116 for that day. It was nominated for deletion on 21 March 2024.
When comparing 2 categories the stats are quite similar despite this category having significantly fewer pages. There has also been no promotion yet of this category except attempts to delete it. A few other users added pages to this category so it is being used. Nominating a category for deletion discourages other users.
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Category:American military personnel killed in the Gulf War
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. only one page in here, which isnt helpful for navigation
Mason (
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Merge for now, without objection to recreate the category when some more articles are available.
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Category:Executed Lincoln assassination conspirators
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. There's no need to create this level of death for cause of death for each specific group of conspirators
Mason (
talk) 00:47, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Deletion would remove the category members from their parent categories, which would be more unhelpful. Also please don't create separate discussions about the same category. I've moved your nom.
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. Having only one (or two) books in each category is unhelpful for navigation. (I've already added each book to a child category of German-language novels)
Mason (
talk) 01:48, 4 March 2024 (UTC)reply
But
Category:1905 novels is otherwise split by country of publication, not by language. Like
English-language songs etc, the language does not need to be specified as a category where it is the same as the majority language of the country. –
FayenaticLondon 10:14, 5 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Agree that categorization by both nationality and language would cause a big overlap. I was just thinking that making a distinction between German and Austrian novels would not make much sense since both are written for all German-language readers. But this thought is probably too far off from how novels are currently categorized.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 20:25, 5 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I don't disagree with you that language makes sense, but I think in the short term getting the novel categories cleaned up to be consistent is a good place to start.
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Let this just be processed as nominated.
Marcocapelle (
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Oppose A large category which mixes novels from different languages is hintering navigation, not helping it. How would the reader locate the correct novels?
Dimadick (
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I can't help but feel this is reiterated every time we have one of these upmerge proposals. Some community consensus would be nice. —
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Category:Deaths by stabbing in Rome
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge per
WP:OCLOCATION. Also, the intersection between death+ method of death + city isn't a helpful intersection
Mason (
talk) 04:10, 4 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Oppose. While you’d be right for most cities, Rome has had so many of them (due to its long history as a major political center and the prevalence of stabbing as a means of assassination historically) that it seems a reasonable exception. (Almost all the people included in the category were assassinated.) I should note that if the upmerge were to take place, the members of the category would be a third of the articles. There have just been a whole lot of notable stabbings in Rome over the past 2500 years. Significantly, many if not most of the stabbings predate the unification of Italy and many relate to Ancient Rome specifically.
Lockesdonkey (
talk) 05:13, 4 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Was Julius Caesar stabbed in Rome? Yes. Was he stabbed in Italy...?
Grutness...wha? 05:42, 4 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Are we referring to the modern Italian polity? Then no. But the geographic expression that predates Rome? Then yes. That's the problem. 20:20, 7 March 2024 (UTC) — Preceding
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I support this alternative Merge.
Mason (
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Split per Marcocapelle.
NLeeuw (
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This runs into the same problem: Like Caesar, Rossi was unquestionably both killed in the city of Rome but not within the modern state called Italy.
Lockesdonkey (
talk) 20:20, 7 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I wonder if this would work: Keep the cat, but put a note on the cat page that says to include only people stabbed in Rome in or before 1870 (=the year of the
Capture of Rome), and to put everyone stabbed there in 1871 or later in the regular Italy cat. I do not think that the cat should be renamed to "Deaths by stabbing in Rome before 1871", but that would be the sensible contents for the category.
WhatamIdoing (
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That does not solve the problem that Pellegrino Rossi is entirely unrelated to Caesar.
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Comment: Does "ancient" include mediaeval, if the cutting-off point would be the Capture of Rome in 1870?
185.104.63.112 (
talk) 20:52, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Ancient Rome refers to the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. I agree that "Italy" is problematic in medieval context but there is already a whole tree under
Category:Medieval Italy so let's have that discussion some other time.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 08:00, 24 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Rename "ancient, medieval and early modern".
121.202.28.169 (
talk) 11:39, 24 March 2024 (UTC)reply
This does not make sense, it's "anything but modern" which is not a defining characteristic and we do not have any similar categories.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 06:53, 26 March 2024 (UTC)reply
What about "pre-unification Rome" or "pre-unification Italy"? Does the category currently include people of ancient Rome outside the current city of Rome?
61.244.93.97 (
talk) 05:46, 26 March 2024 (UTC)reply
We currently do not have any of these sorts of categories, so this really requires a separate discussion.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 06:51, 26 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Which categories are you referring to in case of Germans and Spaniards?
Marcocapelle (
talk) 23:07, 28 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Oppose The city is more defining for location than an entire
peninsula.
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Category:Politicians killed in World War II
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Nominator's rationale: Unhelpful category for navigation. We don't need to add make a politician specific death category for every death
Mason (
talk) 04:22, 4 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Oppose, this is not unhelpful
AHI-3000 (
talk) 08:03, 4 March 2024 (UTC)reply
We have categories e.g. for civilians who died in internment camps during the war and for military personnel who were killed in battle, these deaths are immediate consequences of the war. Just a general "killed" is trivial, especially considering who are in this category.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 17:44, 4 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I would argue that politicians being killed in one of the biggest military conflicts in the modern era is a noteworthy and defining trait for them, especially because they're involved in the leadership of belligerents one way or another.
AHI-3000 (
talk) 07:36, 5 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Neither of the two is primarily known for being killed in the war. Hitler wasn't even killed, he died by suicide.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 06:47, 6 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I'm sure there's more than a few articles that can be added to this category.
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Oppose This is a death category, more defining than a laundy list of politicians who were active during the war. I would suggest simly deleting
Category:World War II politicians as non-defining.
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Category:Arab-Jewish culture in the United States
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Nominator's rationale:merge, overlapping scope,
Mizrahi Jews are Jews from countries in the Middle East and North Africa; and Arab-Jewish is very imprecise as the term mixes up two different ethnicities.
Marcocapelle (
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Oppose Not all Mizrahi Jews are Arab Jews. Turkish Jews, Iranian Jews, Kurdish Jews, and many Berber Jews are not Arabs. Afghan and Central Asian Jews including the Bukharan Jews, as well as the Mountain Jews of the Caucasus, may also be considered Mizrahim but are likewise not Arabs. There should be categories for Jews from Arab countries specifically, as they have specific histories and cultures, including the Judeo-Arabic dialects and literature and media in those dialects. I would be fine with renaming the category to "Arab-Jewish diaspora", per Fayenatic London's suggestion.
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Category:16th-century Swiss Roman Catholic priests
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Nominator's rationale: I think we should broaden this category to 16th-century Swiss clergy, so it can be populated with more than just one person
Mason (
talk) 14:01, 5 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep, I have added two articles and I doubt if adding
Category:Swiss Protestant Reformers as a subcategory would make a lot of sense, while that is the only potential extra content.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 21:18, 5 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Not everyone in the category is a member of the clergy, but some seem to be.
Felix Manz for example, he was a minister.
William Farel founded a church. etc
Mason (
talk) 06:24, 7 March 2024 (UTC)reply
There wasn't formalized clergy that early. As the article about
Felix Manz says: "The movement spread rapidly, and Manz was very active in it." That is how far it went.
William Farel may be added though.
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Category:Critics
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Nominator's rationale:split and convert the current category page to a disambiguation page. Dependent on context, the word "critic" has two very different meanings. One meaning, e.g. in art critics or food critics, is people who review their subject, positively or negatively. Another meaning for critic, e.g. in critics of Afrocentrism, critics of alternative medicine, critics of animal rights, is for people who are opposed to something and write about the reasons why. Those are quite unrelated meanings. The parent categories should also be quite different.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 05:54, 5 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Rename to
Category:Critics by type and purge anything that doesn't fit, as well as upmerging the other "critics by..." categories. Seems a bit too broad.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 06:07, 5 March 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Zxcvbnm: do I understand correctly that you propose to purge what I would call "Critics (social and political)"? Just checking.
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Category:People interned during World War I
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Not sure this is the right way. With this proposal the articles would be removed from the tree of
Category:Internments.
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Category:18th-century Danish women farmers
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The result of the discussion was:merge as follows:
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's only one or two people per category, which isn't helpful for navigation
Mason (
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Qwerfjkltalk 18:21, 13 March 2024 (UTC)reply
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Qwerfjkltalk 21:07, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I'm ok with that.
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Category:18th-century Danish letter writers
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. This category is underpopulated and isolated; it is unhelpful for navigation. ( I encourage the page creator to populate the categories they create and to remember to add them to the non Danish parent categories. )
Mason (
talk) 00:23, 5 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Dual merge, isolated category and its parents are poorly populated anyway.
Marcocapelle (
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Keep I have embarked on populating the category and making it less isolated. I think it is quite obvious that there are already enough biographies that belong in the letter-writer categories to justify categories by country and century for a wide range of countries. The fact that they have not yet been created should not be a valid reason for not starting somewhere (that is how Wikipedia works).
Ramblersen2 (
talk) 15:52, 5 March 2024 (UTC)reply
I assumed the category was for people with a substantial number of published letters Do you have a definition of "defining characteristic#? If someone has found a given person's letters interesting enoughto publish them (often with comments), I think it is very helpful to be able to find them via a category.
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Qwerfjkltalk 18:21, 13 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep Currently the category contains 10 articles which should be enough to justify keeping it. If someone is of the opinion that any of the articles don't belong in the category, shouldn't that discussion take place on the talk page of the article? Either way, it is only the relevance of placing two of the current articles in the category that has been questioned, which would still leave it with eight artivles.
Ramblersen2 (
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Please don't double vote. It makes it harder on the closer.
Mason (
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Sorry about that. I misunderstood the point with relisting the discussion and the new for new comments below the line.
Ramblersen2 (
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(updated vote) purge the category and remove articles about people who were not known as letter writers, then dual merge.
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Qwerfjkltalk 21:07, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep Enough articles for a valid category.
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Category:Macalester Scots football seasons
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HouseBlaster, this should be closed as keep as the merge votes apply to an outdated status of this category.
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Category:IIHF Women's World Ice Hockey Championships
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Alternative, upmerge
Category:World War I politicians to its parents because it wouldn't be useful to collect politicians with a long political career of which these 4 years just happened to be part of.
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Comment: Are all political leaders politicians per se?
61.244.93.97 (
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That is a fair question. Quite a few were monarchs, so not politicians per se. So that is a new argument against the nomination.
Marcocapelle (
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The name I had in mind was Charles de Gaulle. Yes he was a WWII political leader; but he wasn't yet quite a politician by then (tho yes he served as undersecretary for a week or two before the fall of Paris).
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WikiProject Twenty-Tens decade
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Nominator's rationale: WikiProject Twenty-Tens decade was renamed to
WikiProject 2010s, so the categories should match. --
ZooBlazer 15:15, 13 March 2024 (UTC)reply
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Category:Monster High characters
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People from East Bengal
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The category "People from East Bengal" specifically denotes that the person's roots are in East Bengal, i.e., present-day Bangladesh. The term "Bengal Presidency" does not make it clear whether the person is from West Bengal or East Bengal. The Bengal Presidency no longer exists. The East Bengal of the Bengal Presidency is now a separate independent country. The category "People from East Bengal" is used to distinguish those people who were born and raised in East Bengal but later moved from East Bengal to India. The category "People from East Bengal" is useful for distinguishing people who have roots in East Bengal from those who have roots in West Bengal. This is important because the two regions are now separated.
ফারদিন (
talk) 17:05, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
As for
Category:Born in East Bengal, all the members seem to be born well before 1947, but
East Bengal was not a defined region before 1947, so that name is inaccurate. Do you intend the category "People from East Bengal" only for people who migrated from East Bengal after the
partition of India? The name "People from East Bengal" does not capture that meaning either; maybe "Emigrants from East Pakistan to India" as a subcat of
Category:Pakistani emigrants to India? –
FayenaticLondon 22:46, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Fayenatic londonThe region of present-day Bangladesh was indeed referred to as "East Bengal" even before 1947. We can find instances of this in the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, and many others, where they use the term "East Bengal" to describe the region.
Furthermore, the East Bengal Club was established in 1920, well before 1947. This serves as another piece of evidence that the distinction between East Bengal and West Bengal existed long before the Partition of India.
Prior to 1947, East Bengal and West Bengal were identified separately as East Bengal was Muslim majority and West Bengal Hindu majority.
Even today, present-day Bangladesh is often referred to as East Bengal.
ফারদিন (
talk) 00:39, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Those who migrated from East Bengal before 1947 also belong to "People from East Bengal" category.
ফারদিন (
talk) 00:42, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Presumably those references to East Bengal were to the Muslim-majority part of Bengal. But
East Bengal #History indicates that the region was not clearly defined before partition in 1947, e.g. Mayu, Sylhet, Chittagong Hill Tracts. So it is hard to make it a criterion for categorisation.
As for those who migrated before 1947, can you demonstrate that moving from one part to another within
British India would be
WP:DEFINING? If not, we cannot build a category on it. –
FayenaticLondon 12:38, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
East Bengal had its own identity even before 1947. East Bengal still existed when Bengal was divided in 1905.
If East Bengal were still a part of India, there would have been no need for these separate categories. But now that East Bengal is not a part of India, there is a need for these categories.
I see no problem with having a "People from East Bengal" category since there is a "People from West Bengal" category. Usman Serajuddin was born in 1258 AD. At that time, West Bengal did not even exist. Yet, he is included in the "People from West Bengal" category. There are many such examples where people from before the existence of West Bengal are included in the "People from West Bengal" category.
If there can be categories named after West Bengal, such as "People from West Bengal" and "Indian Independence activists from West Bengal," then I see no problem with having categories named after East Bengal.
ফারদিন (
talk) 15:17, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
As for East Bengal we use the current name
Category:Bangladeshi people. People are categorised by birthplace within the current borders of Bangladesh. We also have its subcat
Category:People of East Pakistan for the period from the partition of India to the independence of Bangladesh.
You have made the point that within British India some people referred to East Bengal, but this appears to be as a cultural region rather than an administrative division. We do not generally categorise by such regions.
For earlier periods you could use
Wikipedia:Category intersection tools to find persons from the Bengal Presidency born in locations within what is now Bangladesh. –
FayenaticLondon 15:46, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Then we can simply convert the category 'People from East Bengal' to the category 'People from Bangladesh
ফারদিন (
talk) 13:26, 23 March 2024 (UTC)reply
No, because there is nothing to distinguish that name from the existing and correctly-named
Bangladeshi people.
Can you please specify the purpose that you require the new category to fulfil? It it intended specifically for migrants from East to West? and if so, for what period? –
FayenaticLondon 14:47, 23 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Albert Einstein was born and raised in Germany, but he later became a citizen of the United States and died there. However, he is still referred to as a German scientist. The same is true for Karl Marx.
However, Prafulla Chandra Ray and many other famous Bengalis, even though they were born in East Bengal, are only referred to as Indians. They are not even called British Indians. Although present-day Bangladesh was part of British India, it was never part of India. In other words, by referring Prafulla Chandra Indian, the fact that his roots are in East Bengal is hidden.
Even though he is included in the 19th-century_Indian_chemists category (when India did not even exist), he is not included in any category that specifically identifies him as a Bangladeshi chemist.
It is not just Prafulla Chandra Ray, but many other people who are only referred to as Indian.There is no mention of their connection to Bangladesh. ( This kind of activity is done more in the introduction and Wikidata items.)
Prafulla Chandra Ray and others like him are also the pride of Bangladesh. Therefore, there is a need for a category that shows their connection with Bangladesh.
ফারদিন (
talk) 08:43, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply
You still have not stated specifically what should be the scope of these categories. If nobody comes up with an answer to that, then they cannot be kept. –
FayenaticLondon 09:04, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Profulla Chandra Ray has been included in the scientists from Kolkata category. But according to you, he does not need to be included in the following categories:
19th-century Indian chemists
20th-century Indian chemists
Scientists from British India
People from the Bengal Presidency
This is because at that time, Kolkata was part of the Bengal Presidency, India, and British India. Therefore, there is no need to mention these categories separately.The same is true for Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
ফারদিন (
talk) 11:15, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply
There are some categories like African-American people, American families of German ancestry...
This kinds of category applies to which period?
ফারদিন (
talk) 11:16, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Good question. I expected that categories of "American people" would apply to the period during which USA has been a country, i.e. since American independence. However, looking at the intersection of
African-American people and
People of the Thirteen Colonies, I found a few categorised as African-Americans who died before 1776, namely
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo,
Anthony Johnson (colonist) and
Emanuel Driggus. As Africans who were taken to Britain's
American colonies, I suppose it is right to count them as African Americans, in which case the starting date for those ethnic American categories can legitimately predate the independence of the United States. However, they only go back to the European colonies which became the US, not earlier Mesoamericans.
I'm not sure that the above has any bearing on this CFD. But it does show the power of category intersection tools, which can likewise find people from what is now Bangladesh among people of British India:
https://petscan.wmflabs.org/?psid=27365133 –
FayenaticLondon 22:28, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Both of those are anachronistic, as East Bengal existed from 1947 to 1955, and was then renamed East Pakistan until it became independent as Bangladesh. –
FayenaticLondon 22:46, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
@
MarcocapelleBengal is no longer undivided. When you say Bengal, it is not clear whether you mean East Bengal or West Bengal.
ফারদিন (
talk) 09:18, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
"No longer" is spot on: it is an anachronistic distinction, not relevant for people of the past.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 14:13, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
If East Bengal were still a part of India, there would have been no need for these separate categories. But now that East Bengal is not a part of India, there is a need for these categories.
I see no problem with having a "People from East Bengal" category since there is a "People from West Bengal" category. Rash Behari Bose has been included in the category of Indian independence activists from West Bengal.Even Usman Serajuddin, who was born in 1258 AD. At that time, West Bengal did not even exist. Yet, he is included in the "People from West Bengal" category. There are many such examples where people from before the existence of West Bengal are included in the "People from West Bengal" category.
If there can be categories named after West Bengal, such as "People from West Bengal" and "Indian Independence activists from West Bengal," then I see no problem with having categories named after East Bengal.
ফারদিন (
talk) 15:38, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Obviously West Bengal categories before 1947 should be merged to Bengal as well.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 20:05, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Merge/delete per nom and Marco discussion.
Mason (
talk) 23:37, 27 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Question: (I know this isn't going to be a good name to many people here.) What about People from pre-independence Bangladesh or People from pre-1971 Bangladesh?
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Category:American white supremacist assassins
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. I don't think we need to diffuse
Category:White supremacist assassins by nationality. I also think that this category could use some purging.
Mason (
talk) 13:50, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Merge per nom With the exception of
anarchists, the ideology of most assassins does not have much of an impact.
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Category:Universities and colleges in Saint-Denis, Réunion
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Nominator's rationale: To feed into the categories for 20th- and 19th-century architecture of this country.
2403:4A00:4000:0:0:0:1:2A (
talk) 07:27, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
There's no need to open a CFD for this. However, there is only one page in this category, so I do not think creating subcategories makes sense.
Mason (
talk) 13:56, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
It is not appropriate to categorise items of dependent territories under categories for the metropolitan.
185.104.63.112 (
talk) 20:59, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Would you put a Bermuda or Akrotiri and Dhekelia or Alderney article straight into a corresponding category for the UK? Or a Greenland article straight into that for Denmark? Or Aruba and the Netherlands?
185.104.63.112 (
talk) 08:04, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Alderney into the UK for sure, as there isn't any geographical separation between Alderney and UK. Likewise for Hong Kong and China.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 14:28, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Alderney into the UK for sure, as there isn't any geographical separation between Alderney and UK. That's something so new. There isn't much geographical separation between e.g. the Faroe Islands and Denmark or Åland and Finland too.
185.104.63.112 (
talk) 21:38, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment: There are five articles - four already moved to one of the proposed subcategories. Subcat per nom.
218.102.133.99 (
talk) 19:59, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
How do you mean this? I now see two articles in this category and the proposed subcategories have not yet been created.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 23:22, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
@
Marcocapelle so the IP has been adding red links to the pages
[1], and removing the pages from the current categories eg.
[2]Mason (
talk) 23:42, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Thank you for sorting this out.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 06:26, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Thanks, unfortunately, it looks like this IP has very strong opinions on categories. @
Marcocapelle does something like this go to ANI?
Mason (
talk) 21:23, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Comment. Do not remove the pages from the original category. It makes it impossible to judge whether a category is needed.
Mason (
talk) 23:44, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
You and everyone else in the discussion.
Mason (
talk) 20:38, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Did I? (It's you who's adding parent categories around.)
185.104.63.112 (
talk) 21:42, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Oppose, with only six articles it is far too early to diffuse.
Marcocapelle (
talk) 06:26, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
So double-catting (i.e. to Anglican church buildings in Hong Kong and 19th-/20th-century buildings in Hong Kong) is more preferable at this stage?
185.104.63.112 (
talk) 08:04, 22 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Oppose per Marcocapelle. Also the IPs are all the same person who was blocked for using a proxy/evading their block.
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Nominator's rationale: This category is
non-defining. The female protagonist category only exists because sources have stated there are too few female protagonists (
Gender representation in video games#As player characters), therefore such protagonists are notable to mention. So, either this category should be deleted as completely irrelevant to the issue of female representation in video games, or there is no reason to sort by gender at all, and both should not exist.
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (
ᴛ) 03:00, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Delete pretty clearly non-defining. Cat creator appears to be trying to make a
WP:POINT.
Axem Titanium (
talk) 07:29, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Keep the category exists so that people can better find and filter games based on the protagonist's gender and this is a relevant sub-category for
Category:Video games by theme which is related to
Player character. I also recommend to add more categories such as for nonbinary protagonists. Such categories are relevant to have as well. The female protagonist category also exists to better filter games based on the protagonist. So additional gender subcategories are valuable in that respect. By only having 1 sub-category for gender it is too one-sided and limited. For example if someone wants to research games with protagonists or the Player character of a specific gender or ethnic group then the user can use extra subcategories to find organized results. The category links to the article
Player character so this is a sub-theme or sub-category of Player character and it improves the search precision via the parent category
Category:Video games by theme. Additional categories that should be added are "Video games featuring asian protagonists" and "Video games featuring native american protagonists". -
Artanisen (
talk) 10:16, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Have you, or anyone, actually tried using it like this. The category is so massively populated, that it's terrible for navigation in practice. I don't believe people are actually using the category like that.
Sergecross73msg me 11:24, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Yes, for research purposes it is very useful to be able to refine searches with more sub-categories to filter results. You argue the category is massively populated, but by comparison the
female protagonists category has 2,171 total pages (compared to 447 total in male protagonists). The
Category:Video games with gender-selectable protagonists has 702 pages. The sub-category is also useful for the parent
Category:Gender and video games, because to study the issues requires including all genders or the result is limited and one-sided. -
Artanisen (
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It is very useful to have more sub-categories to filter pages and get better search results on Wikipedia. For example if a user wants to know which game titles in a series such as Aliens have male protagonists it will show the result with links to the pages. This category is very new and not given a chance to exist. This category was created on 18 March 2024 and the stats show 116 for that day. It was nominated for deletion on 21 March 2024.
When comparing 2 categories the stats are quite similar despite this category having significantly fewer pages. There has also been no promotion yet of this category except attempts to delete it. A few other users added pages to this category so it is being used. Nominating a category for deletion discourages other users.
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Category:American military personnel killed in the Gulf War
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. only one page in here, which isnt helpful for navigation
Mason (
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Merge for now, without objection to recreate the category when some more articles are available.
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Category:Executed Lincoln assassination conspirators
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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. There's no need to create this level of death for cause of death for each specific group of conspirators
Mason (
talk) 00:47, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Deletion would remove the category members from their parent categories, which would be more unhelpful. Also please don't create separate discussions about the same category. I've moved your nom.
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