Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 September 14



Category:Scientific institutions
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 September 23%23Category:Scientific institutions

Category:Survivors of COVID-19

 * The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.


 * The result of the discussion was: speedy deleted per WP:CSD. Ə XPLICIT  10:06, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting survivors of covid-19


 * Nominator's rationale: This is a WP:NONDEFINING characteristic that will encompass many of the biographies on Wikipedia. – Muboshgu (talk) 23:50, 14 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Speedy delete and salt per G4; see the previous discussion. Also previously deleted under the title Category:COVID-19 survivors. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 02:26, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete and salt per LaundryPizza03. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:25, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete, salt, and wash your hands per all the above.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 06:51, 15 September 2020 (UTC)


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Category:Students from Robert Randall Elementary School

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 * Propose deleting students from robert randall elementary school


 * The result of the discussion was: speedy delete, meanwhile the only article no longer exists. (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 16:15, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Nominator's rationale: I believe that categorizing people by the elementary school they attended is considered overcategorization. Not only that, the one article currently in this category is up for speedy deletion as I write this. Metropolitan90 (talk) 20:32, 14 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete I put the article up for speedy and I was trying to figure out how to nominate the cat. The creator is playing around. We really don't need an article about someone named "Tony" who licked her hands in first grade, or a category for people who attended the same non-notable elementary school that she licked her hands in. Meters (talk) 20:42, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Once the one article in here gets speedied, just speedy the hell out of this one. Hog Farm Bacon 20:51, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete we don't categorize people by elementary school. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:21, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
 * DElete -- It would be a very exceptional junior school that needed an alumni category. Peterkingiron (talk) 14:28, 15 September 2020 (UTC)


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Category:Former Radio-Canada affiliates

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete.  bibliomaniac  1  5  21:19, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting former radio-canada affiliates


 * Propose deleting former cbc radio affiliates


 * Nominator's rationale: Per longstanding consensus, we do not categorize radio or television stations by former network affiliations that they no longer still hold. A broadcast station can drop an old network affiliation and/or pick up a new one almost literally at will, meaning it can be associated with several different networks over the course of its history, and thus causing extreme category bloat as stations get categorized for former network after former network. We also don't categorize radio or television stations for former owners or dropped formats, but categorize them only for their current characteristics -- so by the same token, we shouldn't be categorizing them for former network affiliations either. Lists of the former affiliates are already present in both of the network articles, so no information will be lost -- but this type of information is more appropriately presented as a list than as a category, because broadcast stations are not permanently defined by what they aired 50 years ago. Bearcat (talk) 19:04, 14 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Support per nom. Asmodea Oaktree (talk) 22:02, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Comment I see that the infobox template for television stations has a line for "former affiliations". Could someone please add that line to the infobox template for radio stations? Sowny (talk) 16:05, 15 September 2020 (UTC)


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Category:Years of the 20th century in video gaming

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge.  bibliomaniac  1  5  21:16, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Propose merging:
 * Category:Years of the 20th century in video gaming to Category:Video gaming by year
 * Category:Years of the 21st century in video gaming to Category:Video gaming by year
 * Nominator's rationale: We have only 67 by-year categories on video gaming. Splitting that set  by century does not help navigation, because it just creates two sets of similar size.  The existing by-decade categories (see Category:Video gaming by decade)  are a more useful and more conventional division.   Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 06:30, 14 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Note to closer: these categories are populated by Template:YYYY in video gaming category header. If the consensus is to merge,  the template needs to be modified by replacing one line:
 * Hope this helps. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 06:38, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Hope this helps. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 06:38, 14 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Support - IMO a 'by year' subcat scheme should look like Category:Births by year. If kept these should be renamed to Category:20th century in video gaming and Category:21st century in video gaming resp (and the merge done as well; cf Category:Births by century). Oculi (talk) 11:07, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Merge -- Video gaming is not old enough to need splitting by century. Peterkingiron (talk) 14:30, 15 September 2020 (UTC)


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