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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_October_31


October 31

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Boxborough, Massachusetts

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Nominator's rationale: Category containing only the main article and a redirect, not useful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 17:26, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Families of two

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Nominator's rationale: Each of these family categories contains only two biography articles. The categories are therefore unnecessary for navigation, and should be deleted per precedent e.g. Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_October_21#Category:Amirov_brothers. They are all subcats of Category:Mixed martial arts families or Boxing families, and happen to have been created by the same editor, who has not replied to a request to tag them for speedy deletion under WP:G7. – Fayenatic London 16:11, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional characters with accelerated ageing

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Nominator's rationale: Falls under WP:SUBJECTIVECAT. Let's use clone troopers from Star Wars as an example. While they are engineered to age twice as fast as typical humans, is this really "accelerated", or just normal? After all, it's standard for a clone trooper, who needs to grow and be sent into combat quickly, so it might be subjective to call it "too fast". While some characters really do have their aging artificially sped up, this category is bound to collect plenty of characters who only age fast *relative to a human* or whatever the "normal baseline" is, making it untenable to keep. Created by a disruptive, blocked user also. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 15:32, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Kirk Douglas Award recipients

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD. A lifetime achievement award from a film festival is non-defining. User:Namiba 15:17, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Works by Maya Angelou

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Nominator's rationale: The categories proposed all consist of one or two articles that can appropriately be categorized in the parent category. None of them can be categorized in any of the other categories (e.g. Down in the Delta can only be categorized as Category:Films directed by Maya Angelou as she only played one role in creating the work. If moved up to Works by Maya Angelou, it would not get diffused into a different sub-category, that inaccurately represents her relationship to the film). Vegantics (talk) 14:31, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:2026 Asian Para Games

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Nominator's rationale: Eponymous category with no content but the eponym itself. Since the event is still two full years away as of right now, there's no prospect of this growing anytime soon -- absolutely none of the spinoff events-at, athletics-at, medalists-at, nations-at or venues-of content that sibling categories have is possible to create yet, since there's absolutely nothing of substance to say about any of that two full years in advance, so the eponym will be the only article here for the foreseeable future. Obviously no prejudice against recreation in 2026 when enough of the spinoff content exists to justify it, but it isn't already needed now just to contain only one page. Bearcat (talk) 14:16, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cities in the United States by geographical region by state

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Nominator's rationale: SMasonGarrison 13:17, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cities in Louisiana by geographical region

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant and vague category layer that unhelpful for navigation SMasonGarrison 13:17, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Core-based statistical areas of Colorado

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Nominator's rationale: Vaguely defined and Redundant category layer SMasonGarrison 13:06, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Warner Robins, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area

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Nominator's rationale: Highly overlapping categories, that aren't helpful for navigation SMasonGarrison 12:56, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Californian Olympic medalists

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Nominator's rationale: WP:OCLOCATION. State of residence has no defining relationship with being an Olympic medalist per se, and there is no established scheme of subdividing Category:Olympic medalists for the United States by state at all: no comparable category exists for any other state, but there's no particular reason why California would have a special need for a thing no other state has. And even if there were legitimate grounds for keeping it, it would have to be renamed "Olympic medalists from California" anyway, as we do not use demonyms for state-level categories (and per the logical parent Category:Olympic medalists for the United States, this tree doesn't even use demonyms at the country level either.) Bearcat (talk) 12:33, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. per OCLOCATION SMasonGarrison 13:08, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Note: there are categories like Category:Scottish Olympic competitors.--User:Namiba 15:18, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cape Verde–United Kingdom relations

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Nominator's rationale: Category containing no main article and no articles at all. Subcategories already exist in sufficient category trees. Empty category is unhelpful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 09:41, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pittsboro, Indiana

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Nominator's rationale: Category containing only the main article and Early life and career of Jeff Gordon which seems an unusual categorisation choice. AusLondonder (talk) 07:08, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Westfield, Marquette County, Wisconsin

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Nominator's rationale: Category containing two eponymous articles, unhelpful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 07:06, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Confederation of the Rhine

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Nominator's rationale: rename and purge, from 1806 to 1813 Germany was called Confederation of the Rhine but it did not include Austria and Prussia. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:36, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Montpellier 1 University alumni

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Nominator's rationale: Per the main page. "In January 2015, Montpellier 2 University and Montpellier 1 University merged again to reform University of Montpellier." SMasonGarrison 02:39, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People by district in Goyang

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Nominator's rationale: Pages should be upmerged to Category:People from Goyang. Think this is too specific; no other districts for south korea have such categories. seefooddiet (talk) 00:26, 31 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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