Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 February 10



Category:Defunct Brazilian futsal clubs

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) . Marcocapelle (talk) 07:13, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Propose (up)merging Category:Defunct Brazilian futsal clubs to Category:Defunct futsal clubs and Category:Futsal clubs in Brazil, or rename to Category:Defunct futsal clubs in Brazil (C2.C)
 * Nominator's rationale: There is not enough content in either Category:Defunct futsal clubs or Category:Futsal clubs in Brazil to warrant an intersecting category. (Pinging the category's creator, User:Carioca) -- Black Falcon (talk) 23:33, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


 * No objection from me. Thanks for letting me know. --Carioca (talk) 00:11, 11 February 2019 (UTC)


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Category:American political women
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 March 10%23Category:American political women

Category:McClatchy family (newspapers)

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge Category:McClatchy family (newspapers) to Category:McClatchy people. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 06:53, 10 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Propose renaming Category:McClatchy family (newspapers) to Category:McClatchy family
 * Nominator's rationale: the "(newspapers)" qualifier is unnecessary and misleading. UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:14, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


 * How about Category:McClatchy (newspaper family). We need a disambiguator to prevent the category collecting a host of people with the same surname, but no close relationship.  Such people should be listed in McClatchy (surname).  Peterkingiron (talk) 19:19, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Prefer Upmerge/No Objection to Rename Without a main article on the family, not only do we lack a clear name but a clear scope to ground the membership. The poorly named parent category, Category:The McClatchy Company (people) Category:McClatchy people, only has 3 direct articles so I would favor upmerging this category. No objection to any of the proposed renames if category is kept. RevelationDirect (talk) 21:42, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Prefer Upmerge/No Objection to Rename per RelevelationDirect. For info, Category:The McClatchy Company (people) has been speedily renamed to Category:McClatchy people, which is the target for the upmerge. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:42, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
 * The target category was renamed. RevelationDirect (talk) 18:48, 24 February 2019 (UTC)


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Category:Received barnstars templates

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) . Marcocapelle (talk) 19:50, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Received barnstars templates to Category:Wikipedia awards user templates, or rename to Category:Wikipedia barnstar user templates
 * Nominator's rationale: There is not enough content in Category:Wikipedia awards user templates to warrant splitting out a category specifically for barnstar-related userboxes. If the category is kept, then we should at least rename it to follow the established naming convention for the category tree. (Pining the category's creator, User:DannyS712) -- Black Falcon (talk) 18:54, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


 * No objection from me. Thanks for the ping. --DannyS712 (talk) 18:57, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


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Category:Barnstar award templates

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename, Option B. There is a consensus to rename, but no consensus on whether to prefer Option A or Option B. So I have closed it as Option B, to retain the status quo of not using the word "WikiProject" ... without prejudice to any further proposal to rename per Option A. Pinging both participants: @Black Falcon and @The Nth User. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:36, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Propose renaming Category:Barnstar award templates to Category:Wikipedia barnstar templates
 * Category:Barnstars with alternative versions‎ to Category:Wikipedia barnstar templates with alternative versions
 * Additionally, and assuming support for the above, the subcategories would need to be renamed as well:
 * Option A:
 * Category:Food and drink barnstar award templates‎ to Category:WikiProject Food and drink barnstar templates (per Category:WikiProject Food and drink templates)
 * Category:Games barnstar award templates to Category:WikiProject Games barnstar templates (per Category:WikiProject Games templates)
 * Category:Video game barnstar award templates‎ to Category:WikiProject Video games barnstar templates (per Category:WikiProject Video games templates)
 * Option B:
 * Category:Food and drink barnstar award templates‎ to Category:Food and drink barnstar templates
 * Category:Games barnstar award templates to Category:Game barnstar templates (singular "game", cf. Category:Game templates)
 * Category:Video game barnstar award templates‎ to Category:Video game barnstar templates
 * Nominator's rationale: To be consistent with Category:Wikipedia barnstars (by definition, barnstars are awards, so "barnstar award" is redundant) as well as the parallel structure of Category:Wikipedia awards → Category:Wikipedia award templates. For the subcategories, I have a slight preference for Option A. (Pinging all recently active category creators: User:Woohookitty, User:The Nth User, User:Datumizer) -- Black Falcon (talk) 18:47, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
 * I agree, now that you've pointed it out, that the award part is unnecessary. As for the two options. I think that Option A is better. For Option B, the organization rationale might be unclear (i.e. it might not make immediate sense to someone why Category:Video game barnstar templates isn't a subcategory of Category:Game barnstar templates), but with the WikiProject at the beginning, it should be obvious that the categories aren't parent and child because they're for two separate WikiProjects. Also, Option A is more consistent with the parent categories. Also, I think that for whichever option is chosen, it might be a good idea to have category redirects from the other option.
 * However, here is something else that I noticed: There are a fair number of barnstars for different religions in Category:Barnstar award templates that could be moved to a subcategory for organizational purposes, but Template:Calvinism barnstar, Template:Christianity barnstar, Template:The Jewish Barnstar, Template:The New Jewish Barnstar, Template:Jewishbarnstar, and likely the other barnstars for individual religions are each part of the WikiProject for that particular religion instead of WikiProject Religion, so would it still be appropriate to put them in the same category? If they are put in the same category, we would have to use Option B for the naming of that category. That would raise the question: Should the categories that are based on a single WikiProject use Option B for consistency, Option A to differentiate them from categories that are not based on a single WikiProject, or should it not make a difference? Care to differ or discuss with me? The Nth User 01:03, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
 * That's a good question. I think we ought to select just one approach for all subcategories (i.e., Category:Foo barnstar templates or Category:WikiProject Foo barnstar templates, but not both), but I, too, am struggling to decide which would be best. -- Black Falcon (talk) 05:53, 11 February 2019 (UTC)


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Category:Kentucky women basketball players

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) . Marcocapelle (talk) 19:57, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Kentucky women basketball players to Category:Basketball players from Kentucky and Category:American women's basketball players and category:Sportswomen from Kentucky
 * Nominator's rationale: The only of its kind, it is an unnecessary split of multiple subcategories. seems superfluous as well but that can be addressed in a separate nomination. TM 18:43, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


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Category:Indo-Pacific fauna

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 * The result of the discussion was: relisted at WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 March 17. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:06, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Propose deleting indo-pacific fauna


 * Propose deleting Category:Indo-Pacific crustaceans
 * Nominator's rationale: In enwp we normally categorize things in the  seas/oceans using non-overlapping categories for the Indian Ocean, Pacific etc (see Category:Biota by sea or ocean, Category:Volcanism by ocean and many others).  These categories nominated for deletion are for animals found in a region that overlaps part of the Indian Ocean and part of the Pacific (which is an unnecessary complication to the category structure). How is a person creating a new article about, for example, a fish species found off Madagascar, supposed to know that it should go in this category (as well as the Indian Ocean category)? Note: Until recently these categories were putting a Hawaii category under an Indian Ocean category.
 * If not deleted then these categories should be renamed because in enwp fauna-by-location categories are normally named "Fauna of Foo" (e.g. "Fauna of Africa" not "African Fauna"). DexDor(talk) 17:33, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Delete - unnecessary layer. Odd that Category:Fauna of the Indian Ocean and Category:Crustaceans of the Indian Ocean are not subcats. Oculi (talk) 21:34, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Indo-pacific does not (afaics) cover the whole of the Indian Ocean. DexDor(talk) 07:16, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
 * You seem to be right. This seems to make the category even less useful. Oculi (talk) 10:43, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep
 * - Every species listed in the category has a range of presence +/- equivalent to the Indo-Pacific natural region... therefore what is the advantage in splitting it into two separate categories. (i.e. "Indian" & "Pacific")?
 * - The "Fauna of the Indian Ocean" cat. not being eligible as a sub-category of the "Indo-Pacific fauna" cat. has nothing to do with whether or not the latter should be maintained, either. --Couiros22 (talk) 17:20, 18 February 2019 (UTC)


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Category:Ethnic groups in USA

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 * The result of the discussion was: manually delete. @Marcocapelle, please can you implement thsi? -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 07:07, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting ethnic groups in usa


 * Propose deleting lithuanians in usa


 * Propose merging Category:Lithuanian Roman Catholic churches in USA to Category:Lithuanian-American culture
 * Nominator's rationale: merge/delete, these categories were created without checking whether appropriate categories already exist. There is actually a whole tree under Category:Lithuanian American. Besides the abbreviation "USA" in the category name is not appropriate. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:00, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


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Medieval Iraqi people

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge per nominator (@Marcocapelle). -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 05:10, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Propose merge Category:9th century in Iraq to Category:9th century in the Abbasid Caliphate and Category:Iraq under the Abbasid Caliphate
 * Propose merge Category:9th-century Iraqi people to Category:9th-century Abbasid people
 * Propose merge Category:10th-century Iraqi people to Category:10th-century Abbasid people
 * Propose merge Category:11th-century Iraqi people to Category:11th-century Abbasid people
 * Propose merge Category:12th-century Iraqi people to Category:12th-century Abbasid people
 * Propose merge Category:13th-century Iraqi people to Category:13th-century Abbasid people
 * Nominator's rationale: merge, although Iraq or Arab Iraq is an old name for the region, there was no independent polity called so in the Middle Ages. It was part of the Abbasid Caliphate from 750 to 1258, and as the Abbasid Caliphate was in a process of disintegration, it roughly coincided with the current area of Iraq after the 10th century. There is certainly no reason to keep two category trees next to each other. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:40, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment Certainly merge, but are the targets correctly formed? Abbasid refers to a dynasty not a nationality. Category:9th-century people of the Abbasid Caliphate would be better.  We had a similar issue with the Ottoman Empire, where Ottoman refers to the ruling family, not to what outsiders called Turkey.  Peterkingiron (talk) 19:24, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
 * That is a very good comment. But let's complete the discussion about the merge first and then I will nominate the Abbasid people categories in a few weeks from now. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:07, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Comment, follow-up nomination see here. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:06, 12 February 2019 (UTC)


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Category:Coptic Christians (diaspora)

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge all per nominator. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 04:42, 15 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Propose merge Category:Coptic Christians by nationality to Category:Coptic Christians
 * Propose merge Category:Coptic Christians from Australia to Category:Australian people of Coptic descent, Category:Coptic Christians and Category:Australian Oriental Orthodox Christians
 * Propose merge Category:Coptic Christians from the United Kingdom to Category:British people of Coptic descent, Category:Coptic Christians and Category:British Oriental Orthodox Christians
 * Propose merge Category:Coptic Christians from the United States to Category:American people of Coptic descent, Category:Coptic Christians and Category:American Oriental Orthodox Christians
 * Nominator's rationale: merge, only few diaspora Copts are specifically known for being Christian. The Coptic descent categories by nationality should suffice. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:27, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


 * No objection -- Being Coptic is synonymous with being Christian. If you are a Muslim you are not Coptic.  Peterkingiron (talk) 19:27, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Support no objection from me. Kraose (talk) 12:05, 14 February 2019 (UTC)


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Category:Coiners

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 * The result of the discussion was: Rename (WP:NAC). DexDor(talk) 18:13, 22 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Propose renaming Category:Coiners to Category:Coin designers
 * Nominator's rationale: First and foremost for clarity: it's a fairly obscure term. Second, it's no accident that two of the parent cats are and . And lastly, there's no article for "coiner" - not even a redirect. Anomalous+0 (talk) 03:36, 10 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Support -- coiner may refer to a person who makes coins (mainly hammered coins) or a counterfeiter. However the category seems to be about designers.  Peterkingiron (talk) 19:29, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Support but a new category is also needed for the makers of coins - we should have an overall article but we have Münzmeister, Master of the Mint and Warden of the Mint, and probably many others (yes Moneyer is hiding away). These were very important positions in ancient Rome (where coiners like Gnaeus Lucretius got their portraits on coins before politicians did) and medieval Europe (when their names were often carried), followed by a phase when some artists also made the coins (but others didn't), then by the modern way when the roles are normally completely distinct. These categories seem rather plagued by parallel trees for "coinage" and "currency", which only meet at intervals..... So we have Category:Currency designers & many subs, much of which should perhaps be moved over. I've rarely seen a messier set of categories, when you lift a few stones.  I have set up Category:Moneyers of ancient Rome as a start. Johnbod (talk) 19:15, 11 February 2019 (UTC)


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