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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_February_7


February 7

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Sects

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Nominator's rationale: rename and purge, two definitions of "sect" are provided, I suppose the category was intended for the second definition, but meanwhile it gets mixed up. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:31, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@PARAKANYAA and Jc37: pinging contributors to an earlier related discussion about cults. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:34, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support but also just deleting it would be fine, though if we want to keep it I take no issue. I've never been sure what to put in this category. Taken literally the first definition would basically be every "heretical" Christian subdivision, or more broadly any smaller split of any religion which would be a nightmare. It's not significantly pejorative anymore but this doesn't seem like a concept conducive to categorization. Seems more consistently used in an Indian context. PARAKANYAA (talk) 10:44, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete Clearly too vague/broad in definition for categorising without some sort of clarifying adjective or disambiguator. No prejudice against the creation of (or manual merging to) Category:Sects (India), as appropriate. - jc37 11:19, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Endings 1-1499

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more categories nominated
example of a manual move of an article
more categories nominated
Nominator's rationale: merge, and manually move articles, at least up to the year 1500 this is a redundant category layer with only one or two subcategories (deaths and/or disestablishments). This is follow-up on this earlier discussion.
Note to closer: the previous discussion also contains instructions on how to implement the merge properly.
@Aidan721, LaundryPizza03, Fayenatic london, and Liz: pinging contributors to previous discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:41, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Films scored by Surojit Cahtterjee

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Nominator's rationale: Match article title Surojit Chatterjee, likely misspelling. Gotitbro (talk) 07:20, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Distance Education Accreditation Commission

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Nominator's rationale: I believe we should rename the category Distance Education Accreditation Commission to Distance Education Accrediting Commission. This is the name of the accrediting body itself, and think the original category name, which seems to make sense, was done incorrectly. I raised this on the category talk page, and think raising it here may be better for community input and decisions. Sorry for the problem with the first wikilink, but I could not get it working correctly so linked this as an external link.. FULBERT (talk) 06:39, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Seiurus

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Nominator's rationale: Seiurus is now a monotypic genus. jlwoodwa (talk) 06:23, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Melanopareiidae

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Nominator's rationale: Melanopareiidae is a monogeneric family. jlwoodwa (talk) 06:16, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People murdered in Vatican City

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Nominator's rationale: There have been two people ever murdered in Vatican City (to my knowledge). It was as part of the same incident: the one guy in this category, and his wife. It's the Vatican City. There's what, 700 people there? The victim is himself notable for his position and history it seems a bit foolish to have just the one category when this is all that's ever going to be in here. Though, I'm not actually sure about how these categories work, so maybe it's OK to have this kind of category with only one member? I am unsure. If I am wrong apologies. PARAKANYAA (talk) 05:24, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Trinidad State Trojans football coaches

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Nominator's rationale: The Trinidad football program was discontinued in 1971 when the school's sports teams were still most commonly called "Trinidad" not "Trinidad State"; see https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-sentinel/164887068/. Jweiss11 (talk) 05:19, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Economists by country and populated place

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer. upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 05:04, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Members of the Saltbush Club

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Nominator's rationale: Appears to violate WP:PEOPLECAT as a rather trivial, obscure WP:NONDEFINING aspect (see also WP:BLPCAT). The club has no Wikipedia article, and mention in the articles of the people included appears to be brief and unremarkable, regardless of the club's reputation. Per WP:DEFINING: A defining characteristic is one that reliable sources commonly and consistently refer to in describing the topic. This does not appear to hold true to any of the 'members'. We don't make categories merely to satisfy an urge to categorize things. --Animalparty! (talk) 04:18, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Integrated Resorts

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Nominator's rationale: WP:OVERLAPCAT. Casino hotel is the main topic. Overlapping topics. Rename to "Casino hotels...". –Aidan721 (talk) 03:08, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Copy of speedy nomination

Category:Afghan footballers by populated place

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer. Only 1 subcategory. –Aidan721 (talk) 02:24, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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