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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_January_12


January 12

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Series of books

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Nominator's rationale: Main article for this category is book series, where series of books redirects. Parent category is Category:Literary series. Child categories include various 'something' series, like Category:Anthology series or Category:Manga series. Seems pretty straightforward. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:50, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Petrosina

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Nominator's rationale: According to WoRMS, the suborder Petrosina has been abandoned as polyphyletic. jlwoodwa (talk) 05:23, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:18th century in Tahiti

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Nominator's rationale: Not useful for navigation. WP:NARROW. Contains only one article which is already categorized under Category:1769 in Oceania. –Aidan721 (talk) 05:13, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Franklin military family

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Nominator's rationale: This is the only family category with "military family" at the end. We've been renaming categories of Category:Families by occupation to always put the occupation in parentheses at the end. This seems like it doesn't need to be an exception. Mike Selinker (talk) 05:06, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:1706 murders in Africa

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Nominator's rationale: Not useful for navigation. Merge/delete per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 04:29, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hart wrestling family books

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Nominator's rationale: This category is mostly redirects, which I suggest removing from this category, and then upmerging the five remaining articles to Category:Professional wrestling books and either Category:Hart wrestling family or the rename to Category:Hart family (professional wrestling) nominated below. Mike Selinker (talk) 04:36, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Professional wrestling families

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Nominator's rationale: Per this discussion, which renamed Category:Alvarado wrestling family to Category:Alvarado family (professional wrestling), as well as Category:Gutiérrez family (professional wrestling) and Category:Knight family (professional wrestling). This rename makes it match all other families which require disambiguation by sport and also specifies the type of wrestling. As for Category:Hart wrestling family members, as important as this family is to wrestling, I don't think a separate category is required for its members, as no other wrestling family has such a thing. Mike Selinker (talk) 04:18, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

WP Puerto Rico redundant categories

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Nominator's rationale: More redundant categories; all (e.g.) Templates are of NA-importance to WP:WPPR. Delete all of them. BlasterOfHouses (HouseBlaster's alt • talk • he/they) 04:06, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens women's tennis venues

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT and WP:OVERLAPCAT. Categories contain just 2 articles and 3 redirects. User:Namiba 02:28, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Kardashian family and Category:Jenner family

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Nominator's rationale: The presence of the category loop and the overlapping contents suggest that the topics are the same. One subcategory in common is Category:Television shows related to the Kardashian–Jenner family. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:16, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ōtori taisha

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Nominator's rationale: Category loop that contains only the main article Ōtori taisha (Ōtori-zukuri is a redirect); and Nan'yō Shrine, which does not mention either. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:06, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Traitors in history

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Nominator's rationale: WP:BLPCRIME, people should be in Category:People convicted of treason if they were convicted. Forms a category loop with Category:Defectors. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:03, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Muay Thai practitioners

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Nominator's rationale: Why is there only a single article in this category tree? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:57, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:American Indian Wars

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Nominator's rationale: Duplicate category that forms a category loop. The main article is titled American Indian Wars, but the latter matches other subcategories of Category:Wars by peoples involved. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:41, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Circum-Caribbean tribes

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Nominator's rationale: There is no main article about the "Circum-Carribean". Is this a duplicate? They do form a category loop. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:38, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Orders of South Africa

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Nominator's rationale: Intermediate levels with only one article (and in one case, a file). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:25, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Vital statistics (government records)

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant categories that form a category loop. I am also proposing to merge their eponymous articles for the same reason. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:16, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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