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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_March_21


March 21

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:People from Mölnlycke

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 19:43, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Woody Woodpecker film stubs

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Nominator's rationale: There are only two other articles in the "Woody Woodpecker film stubs" category... OpalYosutebito (talk) 19:19, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Canadian socialists of Ukrainian descent

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Nominator's rationale: Triple intersection of nationality, descent, and political identity. User:Namiba 17:31, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Coke Studio (Pakistani TV program)

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Nominator's rationale: Seems to be the same category, but with different names --woodensuperman 11:18, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Merge or delete?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:49, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cryptocurrency stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated stub category. As always, stub categories require at least 60 articles in or under them, but this only had 23 articles in it when I first found it -- and after checking them and finding that several weren't even really stubs anymore, it now only has 17.
Further, cryptocurrency is one of those subject areas where Wikipedia is constantly battling self-promotional spam from every crypto evangelist and every new startup crypto exchange under the sun, so crypto-related articles see a higher than normal rate of spam deletion -- which means that even if 43 other cryptocurrency-related stubs could be found to populate this properly, it's still not at all clear that this would stay over 60 articles in any sustained or ongoing way, except perhaps if we could get it well beyond even 60 articles for cushioning room.
So the template is fine, as it can just upfile its entries into the parent category in the meantime, but there would need to be a lot more articles than this before a dedicated category was needed for them. Bearcat (talk) 21:55, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:39, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:University and college theatres in London

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Nominator's rationale: University and college theatres in London is a single-page category and thus appears to be WP:OCNARROW. I propose up-merging into just University and college theatres in England as the other parent category, Theatres in London by type, is a WP:CONTAINERCAT for types of theatre in London. University and college theatres in England currently has five pages and two categories (including the one proposed here for up-merger) so is not large enough to justify diffusion. Robminchin (talk) 23:09, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:38, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Creature actors

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Nominator's rationale: Random and subjective category. Bloody boogers (talk) 11:21, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Sayfo

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Copy of speedy discussion
@Place Clichy: The names "Assyrian genocide" and "Sayfo" were discussed here and here. buidhe might be of some help. Mugsalot (talk) 10:45, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mugsalot: I'm just saying this is too sensitive and unclear for speedy, and I suggest a full discussion at CfD. On a wider note, these discussions (which are far from unanimous consensus) seemed to be mostly concerned by some belligerent editing we have seen in the past about the Assyrian name, to which some seemed to prefer other terms like Aramean (a debate strangely apparently internal to the Swedish diaspora). However, this often contentious back-and-forth editing seems to have calmed down a lot on Wikipedia lately, as seen e.g. here or here. Place Clichy (talk) 17:47, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Place Clichy: fair enough let's do that - how do we do that? Mugsalot (talk) 12:24, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mugsalot: I should have pointed you to WP:CFD#HOWTO which explains that, sorry. Place Clichy (talk) 18:53, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Place Clichy: no worries, I've done that now. Mugsalot (talk) 11:21, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: WP:C2D. Main article is Sayfo. Mugsalot (talk) 11:18, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Place Clichy, User623921, Surayeproject3, and Buidhe: pinging contributors to speedy discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:38, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:1570s in Ottoman Syria

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Nominator's rationale: This was previously kept at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_November_16#Ottoman_Syria, but its contemporary siblings were merged/deleted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_March_8#16th–18th_century_Ottoman_Syria_categories, and it seems that this cat was omitted from that nomination as an oversight. Both member pages are already within both 157x establishments in the Ottoman Empire and 16th-century establishments in Ottoman Syria, so no merger is needed. – Fayenatic London 11:01, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Argentinosaurus

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Nominator's rationale: Pointless category for a monotypic taxon, and pointlessly populated with a different genus and the parent family. -- Elmidae (talk · contribs) 09:57, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Events in Wikipedia history

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Nominator's rationale: merge, the three subcategories have little in common except they are obviously part of Wikipedia culture. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:11, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Endings by decade until 1500

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more categories nominated
Nominator's rationale:merge, at least up to the year 1500 this is a redundant category layer with only one or two subcategories (deaths and/or disestablishments). This is follow-up on this earlier discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:27, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Aidan721, LaundryPizza03, and Fayenatic london: pinging contributors to previous discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:28, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Masked actors

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Nominator's rationale: "Iconic role" seems completely subjective. Non-defining as actors take on new roles all the time. Bloody boogers (talk) 01:56, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Algerian pulmonologists

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Also merge with Category:Algerian physicians

Also proposing to merge:

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