Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 June 10



Category:Catholicism in Nigeria
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Language activists‎

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 * The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  20:39, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Basque language activists‎ to Category:Activists for the Basque language
 * Propose renaming Category:Belarusian language activists‎ to Category:Activists for the Belarusian language
 * Propose renaming Category:Bengali language activists to Category:Activists for the Bengali language
 * Propose renaming Category:Breton language activists to Category:Activists for the Breton language
 * Propose renaming Category:Catalan language activists to Category:Activists for the Catalan language
 * Propose renaming Category:Cornish language activists to Category:Activists for the Cornish language
 * Propose renaming Category:Czech language activists to Category:Activists for the Czech language
 * Propose renaming Category:Dutch language activists to Category:Activists for the Dutch language
 * Propose renaming Category:Filipino language activists‎ to Category:Activists for the Filipino language
 * Propose renaming Category:German language activists to Category:Activists for the German language
 * Propose renaming Category:Irish language activists to Category:Activists for the Irish language
 * Propose renaming Category:Lithuanian language activists to Category:Activists for the Lithuanian language
 * Propose renaming Category:Manx language activists to Category:Activists for the Manx language
 * Propose renaming Category:Polish-language activists‎ to Category:Activists for the Polish language
 * Propose renaming Category:Quechua language activists‎ to Category:Activists for the Quechuan languages
 * Propose renaming Category:Scots language activists to Category:Activists for the Scots language
 * Propose renaming Category:Scottish Gaelic language activists‎ to Category:Activists for the Scottish Gaelic language
 * Propose renaming Category:Tamil language activists to Category:Activists for the Tamil language
 * Propose renaming Category:Tibetan language activists to Category:Activists for the Tibetan language
 * Propose renaming Category:Ukrainian-language activists‎ to Category:Activists for the Ukrainian language
 * Propose renaming Category:Welsh language activists to Category:Activists for the Welsh language
 * Nominator's rationale: The proposed style is less ambiguous than [Foo] language activists, because Basque, Belarusian and so on could refer to nationalities as well as to languages. The style [Foo]-language categories with a hyphen, used by the Polish and Ukrainian categories and by many more of these before this CfD of 29 March, is also ambiguous because the scope is activists on behalf of those languages rather than ones for any cause who conduct their activism in those languages. (That is, they're subcategories of Category:Language activists and not of a hypothetical "activists by language" category.) Ham II (talk) 07:15, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  18:40, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Certainly change the Polish and Ukrainian categories which still contain a hyphen. Otherwise I am neutral between the current and proposed format. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:57, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment It's less than three months since opened the CfD which moved them to their current names, and less than two weeks since it was closed and the categories moved. What's changed since then? DuncanHill (talk) 11:18, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
 * In the course of the discussion in that CfD I realised the first ambiguity I mentioned in this nomination. After the CfD had gone dormant for more than a month I asked for it to be closed so that I could start afresh with a proposal to move these categories to Activists for the [Foo] language. Ham II (talk) 18:37, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
 * The Polish and Ukrainian categories were not included in that nomination but they might have been speedied. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:10, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Reducing ambiguity is a good idea. Rathfelder (talk) 16:41, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Immediate close as keep -- Having reached a consensus we should stick to it. Furthermore, the best category names are short ones.  Where more detail is required, the right place for it is in the headnote.  Peterkingiron (talk) 15:14, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Support as it reduces ambiguity. Renata•3 21:39, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Oppose when we put language and activist in the same title it is obvious that this is for people whose activism connects to the language. I do not think there is an ambiguity that needs to be fixed at all.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:10, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose as I believe it's unnecessary purely as a matter of pragmatics. I see no cause for concern over confusion assuming that even the minutest bit of context is available from whatever avenue leads a reader to one of these categories. Also, if we're going to be that precise, note that, given "Activists for the German language", one could ask "Which German language? Bavarian? Schwytzertütsch?" Largoplazo (talk) 21:45, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
 * An additional observation: If I describe someone as a German teacher, I'm confident that it will be understood to mean that the person teaches the German language, not that the teacher is a German person. The latter may also be true, but that's not what I will be understood to have written. Largoplazo (talk) 01:36, 28 July 2022 (UTC)


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Category:Jewish astronauts

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  20:40, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting jewish astronauts
 * Nominator's rationale: Fails WP:OCEGRS (and the relevant list article fails WP:NOT, showing how this is indeed not an appropriate intersection by ethnicity/religion) RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 13:35, 21 May 2022 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  18:40, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:56, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose, fits within existing Category:Jews by occupation. A wider discussion is needed, why delete astronauts and not Category:Jewish engineers? I furthermore feel the topic of Jewish professionals is covered by sources.-- Mvqr (talk) 10:31, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
 * We may also have a discussion about Category:Jewish engineers for the same reason but that is for later. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:49, 29 May 2022 (UTC)
 * To be fair, I wouldn't at all be opposed to deleting nearly the whole of Category:Jews by occupation (and similar categories if they exist for other religions/ethnicity). Few, if any, of these intersections are useful navigational groupings or culturally significant phenomena. So WP:OSE is again easily refuted with "the other stuff should be nominated too, when/if somebody has the time for it". RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 21:33, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Support per nom. Bondegezou (talk) 09:01, 11 June 2022 (UTC)


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Category:Welsh-speaking countries and territories

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 17:43, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting welsh-speaking countries and territories
 * Nominator's rationale: There's only one Welsh-speaking country: Wales. DrKay (talk) 06:52, 10 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete I agree. Although in good faith, the editor seems to be pushing an unreferenced cause. Roger 8 Roger (talk) 08:35, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - I don't think the category implies that countries and territories within must *only* speak Welsh, and therefore there will be other articles that can fairly be added to this category. SamWilson989  (talk) 09:56, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete There is a traditional Welsh diaspora in Patagonia, known for its sheep. But it is not a country or territory. Mathsci (talk) 10:15, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete as Wales is the only "country or territory" that qualifies. I'm not a fan of inclusion criteria that go beyond what a list or category title encompasses, because it's just dishonest and comes across as an attempt to make things into something they're not, so for the creator to apply the category to England, for example, because Welsh is "recognized" there, is like putting Sweden in a category of Yiddish-speaking countries because Yiddish is one Sweden's supported languages. The user also tagged Chubut province, in which only one percent of the population is Welsh-speaking, and Y Wladfa, which isn't a territory. Really, at most only Wales qualifies. Largoplazo (talk) 10:34, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Per WP:SMALLCAT, as the category "will never have more than a few members", especially as per WP:CATDEFINING, it is not a defining characterisic of eg England. NebY (talk) 11:29, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Somebody had better tell Netflix… – Fayenatic  L ondon 09:29, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 11:58, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Keep - Wales: official language, Chubut: official minority language and yes it is a territory. No doubt for these two.
 * On a separate note, there may be an argument for the UK could be included, because Wales is within the UK sovereign state. Yes Wales is not an official language across the whole of the UK and the Welsh parliament acts on Welsh language are part of the UK CONSTITUTION which would suggest legitimacy for its inclusion.Titus Gold (talk) 17:09, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Making a language official doesn't mean anyone speaks it. Don't name a category "Welsh-speaking" and then make up inclusion criteria contradictory to that. Having 1% of the population speaking Welsh doesn't make the place "Welsh-speaking". Largoplazo (talk) 20:04, 10 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Delete per NebY's comment. WP:SMALLCAT very much applies here, and although Welsh is spoken in a few places outside of Wales, it is not a DEFCAT for any place besides, really, Wales (in the same way the even far more widely spoken languages are not DEFCAT for most countries they are spoken in: "German-speaking countries" might reasonably include Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Belgium (and a few more minor places like Luxembourg or Liechtenstein), but including, say, Canada [where it is spoken by 1% of the population] would really be a stretch). RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 21:40, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete per SMALLCAT. Bondegezou (talk) 09:02, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment -- Someone has emptied the category. Wales and Y Wladfa, the Welsh colony in Patagonia would belong, but I suspect the  descendants of the Y Wladfa colonists are now largely assimilated within Argentina.  Even so SMALLCAT applies.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:06, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Y Wladva isn't a territory per se. Largoplazo (talk) 17:55, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Question wouldn't dark age and medieval sates that were in Briton with a Welsh-speaking populations also be included? --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 17:23, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete this is a SMALLCAT, at least as long as Wales doesn't go imperial on us.-- Mvqr (talk) 13:23, 14 June 2022 (UTC)


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