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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_October_1


October 1

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Ariel (settlement)

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Nominator's rationale: To match it's main article, which is Ariel (Israeli settlement) nableezy - 21:52, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Vancouver sports championships

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Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEF User:Namiba 20:22, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Category:States with limited recognition

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Nominator's rationale: The current membership of this category seems somewhat WP:ARBITRARYCAT when compared to the contents of main article List of states with limited recognition. That list is great at explaining all the fine legal nuances, in a way that a category like this will always struggle to do. There appears to be a consensus that this category should exist, see also precedent Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 February 23#Category:States with limited recognition. But participants in that discussion appear not to have agreed which articles should be in or out. Notably, Cyprus is in the list, but not the category; otherwise they seem to coincide (unless I'm missing something).
I'm bringing this up because I just created Category:Lists of wars by state with limited recognition involved as a subcategory of both Category:States with limited recognition and Category:Lists of wars by country involved, because I didn't think Abkhazia, Kosovo, Republika Srpska, SADR, Somaliland, South Ossetia and Taiwan should be considered "countries" under international law. But then I had my doubts about North Korea and South Korea (only not recognised by each other), Israel and State of Palestine (both recognised by the vast majority of UN member states, but missing several dozens of recognitions), and the PRC.
Perhaps adding Cyprus to the category will already solve this issue? But I'd like to confirm with you first here. Especially calling the Koreas' recognition "limited" just because they don't recognise each other, and calling Cyprus' recognition "limited" just because Turkey doesn't recognise Cyprus (only Northern Cyprus, as the only UN state), seems a bit of a stretch of the word "limited". I mean, you really could do worse than 192 out of 193. But if we agree on that definition, then I'll apply that to the subcategory on wars they were involved in. We might also discuss whether we consider Republika Srpska as either a "country" or "state with limited recognition", as it appears not to have claimed independence since the Dayton Agreement of 1995 (making it a non-sovereign entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina); it's not in the List of states with limited recognition either. Finally, I did include List of wars involving the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, but with the understanding that the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria no longer exists (it's in Category:Wikipedia categories named after former unrecognized states). Thoughts? NLeeuw (talk) 20:19, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Louisville Black Caps

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Nominator's rationale: Only one category layer. Both are basically the same team but changed their names. Omnis Scientia (talk) 14:57, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: I created these categories. The rationale for deletion may be sound but it would be useful to know what the post-deletion cleanup would look like. Is this an argument to have a single category name to cover both team names? Would this leave the players categories dangling? I just would like to know where this is going. Stefen 𝕋owers among the rest! Gab • Gruntwerk 19:06, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Indian women translators

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Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection between nationality, gender, and genre of writing, per WP:EGRS Mason (talk) 13:32, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Urdu-language women writers

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Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection between language, gender, and occupation, per WP:EGRS Mason (talk) 13:24, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Military of Württemberg

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Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. There is no need to merge, the subcategory is already part of Category:History of Württemberg too. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:00, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:History of the Timurid Empire

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Nominator's rationale: merge, there is little content in this category and former countries do not need a history category per se. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:55, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Universities and colleges in Washington County, Rhode Island

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. this category only has one university in it Mason (talk) 02:44, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Animals of Barbuda

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Nominator's rationale: Norm is Fauna. This could probably be speedied. BUt I also wanted to consider whether we need the category at all. Mason (talk) 01:33, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Categories named after Canadian Premier League seasons

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Nominator's rationale: The names of these eponymous categories should match the title of their main articles. RedBlueGreen93 20:35, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on GiantSnowman's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 01:11, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Defunct airlines of Turkmenistan

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Nominator's rationale: Category containing only one article, List of defunct airlines of Turkmenistan, unhelpful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 00:44, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Airlines of Turkmenistan , Defunct airlines of Asia, and Defunct companies of Turkmenistan @AusLondonder please consider plausible merge targets. The vast majority of your deletions have resulted in merges Mason (talk) 01:36, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't support a merge to the defunct companies category as it's just moving the problem from one category with a single article to another with a single article. I'll have a look at my XfD log but I'd be surprised if the vast majority of nominations have been merged. AusLondonder (talk) 01:40, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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