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Some categories may be listed in Category:Categories for deletion but accidently not listed here.

Discussion for Today[edit]

This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_July_12


July 12[edit]

NEW NOMINATIONS[edit]

Category:Jewish British slave owners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: This non-defining intersection between occupation+nationality+religion/ethnicity is problematic, under WP:EGRS Mason (talk) 23:08, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]


AFD topic-sorting subcategories[edit]

Nominator's rationale: I originally brought this up here and nobody seemed to have any objection to moving forward or any reason why these are still useful, so here we are.
These categories are redundant to deletion sorting, which provides much more fine-grained sorting and is built in to scripts such as Twinkle. Their utility was clear in the past before deletion sorting became both commonplace and simple to do, but now they are just an unneeded extra step in the process. It is my guess that the only reason they are still in use is that these same tools require it as part of the nomination process. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 22:54, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Dominican Republic people of European American descent[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Weird and confusing name. Looking at the content of this category, it seems that this is not intended for Dominicans with ancestry in the U.S., as the parent categories would indicate, (for which we have Dominican Republic people of American descent) but in fact Dominicans from the local population of largely colonial European background, which is called the White Dominicans. José Ignacio Paliza is an example of that. Deletion is also an option. Place Clichy (talk) 16:04, 11 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting per Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2024 June 6
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, * Pppery * it has begun... 21:29, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Interstate highway formatting and function templates[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Single-page category. Merge to both parents. – Fayenatic London 21:21, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Germans from Russia[edit]

Nominator's rationale: rename to align with other German diaspora sibling categories. This is not a case for speedy because there is no main article with this name. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:03, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Norway formatting and function templates[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Manual merge as small category (2 templates + 1 subcat + 2 subcats). If not merged, rename to Norway utility templates, following Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 28#Category:Wikipedia formatting and function templates; but no other countries have a country subcat for utility templates in Category:Wikipedia utility templates. – Fayenatic London 17:40, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Australia category header templates[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Contains only 1 template. No need for double merge, as template is already in another subcat of the other parent. – Fayenatic London 17:33, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

X films -> Films about X[edit]

Nominator's rationale: As with other recent category renames, change to make it clear that these categories are intended for scenarios where X plays a significant role in the film, not merely an incidental one. DonIago (talk) 13:23, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Baseball players from Ames, Iowa[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Dual merge; only two articles. No object to recreation if there are more articles to be added. Omnis Scientia (talk) 10:03, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:36, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
There are now 3 articles. There are over 200 articles in Category:Baseball players from Iowa and Ames is one of the larger cities in Iowa. I'd prefer to keep or at least rename Category:Baseball players from Story County, Iowa which would be slightly larger.--User:Namiba 21:54, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Namiba's comment? (Keeping it to diffuse Category:Baseball players from Iowa and possibly renaming to broaden its scope.)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 00:29, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: See above relisting comment.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 02:19, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedia category maintenance[edit]

Nominator's rationale: No distinction in contents. This is a downmerge, and will require manual handling of categories in the target. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:17, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Beşiktaş J.K. players[edit]

Nominator's rationale: This should be an intermediate layer in Category:Beşiktaş J.K., not a disambig category. This football club has several branches for other sports. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:33, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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