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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_March_29


March 29

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:16th-century BC women regents

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Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated century category, not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:13, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Clockmakers from Norwich

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Also propose merging-

Also categories with just one entry.Lost in Quebec (talk) 09:20, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Artists from Dalarna

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Nominator's rationale: In this category there are only musicians (and musical groups), no artists [actually there is one, discussed below]. Suggestion is also to change from Dalarna to Dalarna County as county is the subdivision in use (and Category:Swedish people by occupation and county is more used than Category:Swedish people by occupation and province). Kaffet i halsen (talk) 08:44, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Establishments by continent

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Nominator's rationale: This is a followup to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 March 22#Category:Establishments by decade and country nominating subcategories and organizing only by country and not by continent, as suggested by Marcocapelle. -- Beland (talk) 07:59, 29 March 2025 (UTC) Beland (talk) 07:59, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Depending on the outcome here, I can do a followup on century and millennium categories in Category:Establishments by continent and time. -- Beland (talk) 08:34, 29 March 2025 (UTC) Beland (talk) 08:34, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose What is the purpose of this absurd proposal, to make the category trees more confusing and difficult to find? Dimadick (talk) 08:35, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm actually trying to simplify the category trees and make things easier to find and maintain. We don't need to have things sorted by both country alphabetically for the whole world and country alphabetically scoped one continent at a time. I'm agnostic as to which scheme to keep, but having two schemes seems like more work and more confusing. -- Beland (talk) 08:42, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • The subcategories are already in the target, so if this goes ahead conceptually it means for execution that any articles should be manually moved one level higher, to the global establishments in year category. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:30, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • As for the content of the nomination, I am not sure if it is confusing to have two category trees next to each other. But at least until the Middle Ages the split in Europe, Asia and Africa is anachronistic and there wasn't any alternative commonly recognized scheme by regions in place. The idea of continents starts to make sense in the Age of Discovery, when there is a continent of colonial powers, and east, west and south of that there are the continents to be explored and colonialized. So I support nominations up to the year 1500. That is, I am not against nominations of later years, but then the reason is weaker, namely for consistency. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:03, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies upmerge

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Many more categories
Nominator's rationale: This is a followup to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 28#British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, implementing the "full merge" option discussed there. I am leaving out year-related categories to a followup nomination as they might need more complicated handling. -- Beland (talk) 07:37, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Check your post for typos, because you are suggesting the creation of a "Catgegory" category tree. Dimadick (talk) 08:10, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Whoops, I thought I'd fixed that! Thanks for catching it; nomination corrected. -- Beland (talk) 08:18, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also, after "Years" the target names use "the" before "dependent". The names need to be harmonised one way or the other; I suggest removing "the", because e.g. Category:Treaties of dependent territories of the United Kingdom is consistent with siblings for other countries. – Fayenatic London 10:03, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Suffragette 1911 census boycotters

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Convert Category:Suffragette 1911 census boycotters to article 1911 census boycotters
Nominator's rationale: I'm not sure if this can be listified, but I struggle to see how this is a defining category SMasonGarrison 04:39, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I might give it a try if no one else does. Perhaps a better title would be 1911 United Kingdom census boycott for WP:TITLECON with 1911 United Kingdom census? NLeeuw (talk) 07:50, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
PS: I've turned it into a separate section which I have expanded with bits and pieces from other articles: 1911 United Kingdom census#Suffragette boycott. I think it could very well be viable as a stand-alone article if more material were to be added. At present, much of the material relies on Liddington, Jill; Crawford, Elizabeth (2014). Vanishing for the vote: suffrage, citizenship and the battle for the census., without providing page numbers (which it should for verification, although I have no reason to doubt the information can be found in this book). But there are enough independent sources, which all seem to attest to this having been a somewhat significant event. The empirical impact is hard to measure, exactly because of the absence of uniform, quantitative evidence. But even if fewer than 1% of all UK women participated in the boycott, many suffragist men also participated in it, and it seems to have had a political and cultural impact that stretched beyond just the members of the movement itself. The protest took many forms, and seems to have strengthened the movement further on the way to partial success with the Representation of the People Act 1918. It's worth exploring that further, especially by combining bits and pieces of information about the 1911 UK census boycott from all articles currrently in this category. NLeeuw (talk) 09:29, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1900–1999 disease outbreaks

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Nominator's rationale: Not enough disease outbreaks in the 20th century to diffuse by year. WP:OCYEAR. Many of these outbreaks span multiple years, making decades an even better choice. –Aidan721 (talk) 02:42, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

6th-century famines

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Nominator's rationale: Not useful for navigation through at least the 15th century. WP:NARROW –Aidan721 (talk) 02:23, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

14th-century epidemics

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Nominator's rationale: Not useful for navigation. Redundant category layers. WP:NARROW –Aidan721 (talk) 02:16, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sports trophies and medals

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Nominator's rationale: Clearly the same scope and Category:Sports trophies and awards is already well-developed. Pichpich (talk) 01:38, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Visual Studio Code - Open Source distributions

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Nominator's rationale: Please suggest a better destination than my tentative place-holder. The original contains the always-invalid ⟨ - ⟩. Correcting the hyphen-minus to an en dash still leaves the problem that the name is impossible to use in running text without confusion because the dash appears to function within the surrounding sentence rather than separate elements within the name, and my tentative suggestion of an unspaced en dash, while compatible with the MoS, appears to connect Code and Open rather than separate the phrases that contain them. Stephan Leeds (talk) 01:38, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Thai people by populated place and occupation

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Nominator's rationale: Redunant category layer SMasonGarrison 00:15, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Omani sportspeople by populated place

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Nominator's rationale: Duel upmerge for now. Redundant category layer SMasonGarrison 00:12, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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