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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_August_9


August 9

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:United States Army civilians of World War II

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. This category is majorly underpopulated, unhelpful for navigation at present, and doesn't seem to be defining. This is a 3x intersection of civilians of a specific country and specific military branch and specific war Mason (talk) 02:56, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:United States government people by war

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Nominator's rationale: Delete for now. There's only one category in here, which isn't helpful for navigation. I've added the lone child category to all the relevant parents Mason (talk) 02:04, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Scholars by subfield

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Nominator's rationale: The decision several years back to rename this Category using the term "subfield" is rather perplexing. Given the contents of the Category (which are fields, not sub-fields), as well as its original name ("Scholars by specialty or field of research" - it was actually a very poor choice of words, when the obvious choice was simply "field". Not to mention that its high-level parent is Category:Categories by field, not the non-existent Category:Categories by subfield. Anomalous+0 (talk) 10:55, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Marcocapelle's alternative?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 01:43, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Nominator's rationale: This category is meant for pages that need Template:Dictionary of National Biography and might only be used by an inactive project. It seems all entries are manually placed which isn't helpful, but I also don't think this category itself is helpful. If the template is needed, just add it to the page. If the DNB link is on Wikidata is can get it automatically. There is no need for this additional tagging. Gonnym (talk) 07:38, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. This was a maintenance category for articles, and all the pages that remain in it are Talk: pages. It has therefore served its purpose, I would say. Charles Matthews (talk) 07:53, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 01:43, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:National Highways in China

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Nominator's rationale: The scope of the category covers national highways of (belonging to) China, rather than those physically located in China, as evidenced by the member article China National Highway 228 (Taiwan), which is outside the area of China's de facto jurisdiction. Neutral on whether to also decapitalise, i.e. Category:National highways of China. Paul_012 (talk) 04:35, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Decapitalize?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 01:39, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Decades in the Colony of Virginia

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Nominator's rationale: Continuing from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 July 24#Category:Decades in the Colony of Virginia where the result was to populate the tree. To allow {{YYY0s in one of the Thirteen Colonies}} and related templates to work correctly and to match the parent Category:Decades in the Colony of Virginia and related categories (such as Category:Decades in the Massachusetts Bay Colony), the decade list should be renamed. I'll be doing the Colony of Virginia in batches. Gonnym (talk) 05:45, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: To avoid closing a 17 category nomination as unopposed.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 01:39, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fine with me. But it's probably helpful to include redirects to keep templates from misbehaving. Mason (talk) 02:06, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Emory and Henry College

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Nominator's rationale: Became a university on 8/1/2024 https://wcyb.com/news/local/emory-henry-on-track-to-transition-from-college-to-university-in-august https://www.emoryhenry.edu/live/news/3145-emory-henry-trustees-vote-to-approve wizzito | say hello! 10:37, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: The alumni and faculty categories were not tagged; I will do so.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 01:35, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support. This could have been speedied. Mason (talk) 02:07, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Discotek Media

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Nominator's rationale: Non-WP:DEFINING. US company distributing Japanese content for American market, no hand in the production for these entries. --woodensuperman 10:48, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
We will have to apply this to other categories such as Geneon USA and Sentai Filmworks if we go though with this. NeoGeoPocketRobo (talk) 15:59, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 01:35, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Secretaries of State for Health and Social Services

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Nominator's rationale: Although the title of the former government department was the Department of Health and Social Security, the responsible secretary of state was the 'Secretary of State for Social Services'.[1][2] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dgp4004 (talk • contribs) 15:53, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ Richard Crossman, Secretary of State for Social Services (24 October 1968). "SECRETARY OF STATE for SOCIAL SERVICES". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Parliament of the United Kingdom: House of Commons. col. 1609. The House will notice that my title is wider than that of the proposed new Department. This is in recognition of the fact, as the Prime Minister mentioned in the House last week, that I have been asked to continue my coordination of the whole range of social services, in addition to my responsibility for the new Department.
  2. ^ "Records created or inherited by the Department of Health and Social Security and related bodies". The National Archives. Retrieved 1 August 2024. Following the report of the Committee on the Home Civil Service (Fulton Committee), the Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) was created in November 1968. It was formed by the merger of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Social Security under a Secretary of State for Social Services. The Secretary of State was assisted by two ministers of state responsible for health and social security respectively; in 1976 a Minister of Social Security of Cabinet rank was appointed within the department.

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I will tag the category.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 01:34, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Political parties of minorities in Canada

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Nominator's rationale: In Canada indigenous people are not classified as minorities source Moxy🍁 19:00, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • In that case, shouldn't the category be renamed rather than deleted? Marcocapelle (talk) 20:00, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    I guess we could use Category:Indigenous political parties in Canada as a sub group of Category:Indigenous politics in Canada. Moxy🍁 20:16, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Procedural oppose. I'm not necessarily wedded to the need for this, but the stated rationale is completely off base as not everything in the category is an "indigenous" party at all — there are also Quebec sovereigntist parties, an Acadian party and a Ukrainian Canadian party in here, all of which have nothing whatsoever to do with indigenous peoples. So as constituted, the nomination is completely misconceived: it's an argument for either purging this category of the indigenous parties or splitting a new separate category off for the indigenous parties, but neither deleting this category nor renaming it would solve the problem since not everything in the category is an indigenous party at all. Bearcat (talk) 12:01, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Responses to Bearcat's points/alternative proposals would be appreciated!
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 01:28, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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