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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_September_1


September 1

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Films about psychosis

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. Only one page in here. Mason (talk) 17:49, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:History of cell biology

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Nominator's rationale: This is unhelpful for navigation to only have one page in here, that may be be part of cell biology's history. Mason (talk) 17:47, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Survey selection methods

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Nominator's rationale: This category is not helpful for navigation, nor are these really defining. They're all related to participant selection, but... that's not something really unique to "surveys". This are just general sampling methods (or issues related to sampling). Mason (talk) 17:39, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wooden floors

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. There's no need to intersect the the type of floor. This is uphelpful for navigation. Mason (talk) 17:35, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Insurance law in France

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Nominator's rationale: Unhelpful for navigation to make categories like this. Mason (talk) 17:30, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Films about neuropathology

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Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated category Mason (talk) 17:29, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Thermal instruments

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Nominator's rationale: This category only as a single redirect. It is not helpful for navigation. I urge the category creator to stop mass creating categories without populating them. There's no need for this category, or many of the recently created ones Mason (talk) 17:19, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cantonese nationalism

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Nominator's rationale: Wrong category and it is clear that the creator does not understand how category works. ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 16:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. I removed the only category in it, which was Category:Cultural nationalism. Mason (talk) 17:24, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cultural nationalism

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Nominator's rationale: Wrong category and it is clear that the creator does not understand how category works. ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 16:52, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support. This category isn't helpful for navigation. In the future, can the nominator bundle this kinds of category nomination? Mason (talk) 17:22, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Smasongarrison: Of course, it's just because that Twinkle doesn't come with bundles and you can help me bundle them. ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 18:44, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Historians of Abraham Lincoln

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Nominator's rationale: Dual merge per WP:NONDEF. While I'm sure these people have written books on Lincoln, they aren't solely Lincoln historians or likely known just for that. Omnis Scientia (talk) 16:24, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Diplomatic missions in Nicaragua

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Nominator's rationale: Unhelpful for navigation. Contains only a single article, the main article List of diplomatic missions in Nicaragua. AusLondonder (talk) 13:22, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ice hockey people from Louisiana

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge and delete respectively, same as Delaware (see below). Omnis Scientia (talk) 12:38, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ice hockey people from Delaware

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge to Sportspeople from Delaware with no objection to recreation. Only one notable person grew up in Delaware. Omnis Scientia (talk) 12:36, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

14th- and 16th-century towers

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Nominator's rationale: merge, these are single-article isolated categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Most categories require only one merge target, namely in case the article is already part of the lighthouses century category. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:49, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:American convicts who became writers

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Nominator's rationale: Non-defining/narrow intersection between occupation, criminal status, and nationality. Mason (talk) 02:50, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:BBC Micro and Acorn Electron game covers

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Nominator's rationale: Another WP:XY category redirect which should be deleted. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:25, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning in South Korea

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Nominator's rationale: Another WP:XY category redirect with two targets which should be deleted. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:24, 1 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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