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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_May_3


May 3

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Lists of festivals in North America by region

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Nominator's rationale: rename, more accurate and aligned with Category:Lists of people by first-level administrative country subdivision. By the way for both of them I would also be okay with dropping "first-level" and/or "administrative". If other editors feel it can be shorter I will tag the people category too. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:05, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of places by country

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Nominator's rationale: split, it is generally far more common to use "populated places" instead of "places" and using both in parallel is merely confusing. Places that are not populated can simply go in geography. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:41, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ascalon in fiction

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Nominator's rationale: rename and re-parent to the Works tree. Normally "in fiction" categories contain "works set in", "fictional people" and "fictional locations". But in the above case there are only works. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:54, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hungarian people of Caribbean descent

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's only one category in here, which isn't helpful for navigation SMasonGarrison 05:17, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:21st-century anarchists

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Nominator's rationale: selective merge. There's really not a need to diffuse by century for a modern political orientation SMasonGarrison 04:45, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ethnic Hungarian people

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Nominator's rationale: redundant category layer that overlaps with Hungarian diaspora SMasonGarrison 02:59, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Marcocapelle's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:56, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:55, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Metaphors referring to wolves

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Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:SHAREDNAME. The articles are already in more appropriate wolves-related categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:31, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This is part of a large animal metaphor tree. Jahaza (talk) 23:50, 25 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose unless you want to delete the supercat Category:Metaphors referring to animals (which I would also oppose), why pick on wolves. True, there are a one or two articles that you could argue to remove from the cat, such as Lone wolf terrorism, if you really want to, tho I wouldn't. Herostratus (talk) 02:23, 26 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Unsure about deletion, but certainly needs a purge as a number of the entries are not metaphors/idioms and make no sense being in this category. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 00:14, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on pruning the category?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:50, 3 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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