Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 September 25



Category:People from Pskov Oblast

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  15:23, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:People from Sebezhsky District to Category:People from Pskov Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Porkhovsky District to Category:People from Pskov Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Palkinsky District to Category:People from Pskov Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Ostrovsky District, Pskov Oblast to Category:People from Pskov Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Novorzhevsky District to Category:People from Pskov Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Kunyinsky District to Category:People from Pskov Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Dnovsky District to Category:People from Pskov Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Dedovichsky District to Category:People from Pskov Oblast
 * Nominator's rationale: Only 1 or 2 articles in each Rathfelder (talk) 22:00, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Support all per nom. See more elaborate discussion further down this page. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:07, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Support all per nom. Oculi (talk) 18:29, 26 September 2022 (UTC)


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Category:People from Kurgan Oblast

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  15:22, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:People from Zverinogolovsky District to Category:People from Kurgan Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Yurgamyshsky District to Category:People from Kurgan Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Shumikhinsky District to Category:People from Kurgan Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Shadrinsky District to Category:People from Kurgan Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Petukhovo to Category:People from Kurgan Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Mokrousovsky District to Category:People from Kurgan Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Mishkinsky District, Kurgan Oblast to Category:People from Kurgan Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Kataysky District to Category:People from Kurgan Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Kargapolsky District to Category:People from Kurgan Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Dalmatovsky District to Category:People from Kurgan Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Dalmatovo to Category:People from Kurgan Oblast
 * Nominator's rationale: Only 1 or 2 articles in each''' Rathfelder (talk) 20:18, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Based on the population of the Russian categories: Oppose for all: Category:People from Zverinogolovsky District (29), Category:People from Shadrinsky District (39), Category:People from Yurgamyshsky District (30), Category:People from Petukhovo (18), Category:People from Mokrousovsky District (23), Category:People from Mishkinsky District, Kurgan Oblast (20), Category:People from Kataysky District (31), Category:People from Kargapolsky District (42), Category:People from Dalmatovsky District (25, excluding people from Dalmatovo), Category:People from Dalmatovo (8).Furius (talk) 21:19, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Support - the number of articles in the Russian wiki is irrelevant assuming such people do not as yet have en wiki articles (and in any case the numbers cited appear to include people who were born in or died in the respective areas, not generally included in en wiki categories). Oculi (talk) 22:41, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * To be clear, I have excluded "People who died in" and "people buried in" from these figures. I'm baffled by the claim that en.wiki doesn't include people who were born in a given area, since Category:People by county in the United States is full of such people. As stated below, the numbers on ru.wiki are relevant, because they indicate potential for growth. Having the equivalent category tree there is also useful for interwiki translation work. Furius (talk) 22:58, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Support all. Categories are useful as a navigation tool between articles about the same topic. When lots of categories only have 1 or a few articles the whole purpose of categories goes astray. The fact that there is useful translation work to be done can also be derived from the limited number of articles at a higher level, that is certainly not a reason to keep all these smallcats. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:19, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
 * That's not what WP:SMALLCAT says. You're one of the most regular contributors here, so what you and Oculi saying clearly is what practice actually is, but perhaps you could update the guidelines to reflect that practice? (e.g. "Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members..." --> "Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members or that currently have very few members..." or whatever the rule is). Furius (talk) 14:30, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I think we have to look at the number of articles actually in English Wikipedia unless there is some reason to expect more in the near future. Categories are supposed to be defining, and place of birth is not necessarily so. Rathfelder (talk) 15:03, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Category:People from Mokrousovsky District was created in 2019 and has 1 article. What is the time-scale for translation of the ru articles? I note for instance in the opposite direction that ru:Категория:Персоналии:Брадфорд has far fewer articles and subcats than . Oculi (talk) 16:48, 26 September 2022 (UTC)


 * NB there are hundreds more like this, but I'm not going to nominate them until this discussion is resolved. Rathfelder (talk) 22:07, 28 September 2022 (UTC)


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Category:People from Samara Oblast

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  15:24, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:People from Zhigulyovsk to Category:People from Samara Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Volzhsky District, Samara Oblast to Category:People from Samara Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Shigonsky District to Category:People from Samara Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Krasnoarmeysky District, Samara Oblast to Category:People from Samara Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Koshkinsky District to Category:People from Samara Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Kinel-Cherkassky District to Category:People from Samara Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Kinel to Category:People from Samara Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Khvorostyansky District to Category:People from Samara Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Chapayevsk to Category:People from Samara Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Borsky District, Samara Oblast to Category:People from Samara Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Bezenchuksky District to Category:People from Samara Oblast
 * Nominator's rationale: Only 1 or 2 articles in each. Rathfelder (talk) 20:07, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Based on population of the ru.wiki categories, Support for: Category:People from Shigonsky District (4), Category:People from Kinel (5), Category:People from Borsky District, Samara Oblast (14). Oppose for: Category:People from Zhigulyovsk (16), Category:People from Volzhsky District, Samara Oblast (12), Category:People from Krasnoarmeysky District, Samara Oblast (19), Category:People from Koshkinsky District (11), Category:People from Kinel-Cherkassky District (21), Category:People from Khvorostyansky District (7), Category:People from Chapayevsk (24). On the fence about: Category:People from Bezenchuksky District (6). Furius (talk) 21:23, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Support - this is the wrong way round - create the articles first, then create the categories when there are enough articles (5 or 6). Oculi (talk) 22:48, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Support all. See more elaborate discussion further up this page. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:31, 26 September 2022 (UTC)


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Category:People from Tula Oblast

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  15:24, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:People from Zaoksky District to Category:People from Tula Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Uzlovsky District to Category:People from Tula Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Shchyokinsky District to Category:People from Tula Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Shchyokino (town), Tula Oblast to Category:People from Tula Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Plavsky District to Category:People from Tula Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Leninsky District, Tula Oblast to Category:People from Tula Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Kurkinsky District to Category:People from Tula Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Dubensky District, Tula Oblast to Category:People from Tula Oblast
 * Propose merging Category:People from Bogoroditsky District to Category:People from Tula Oblast)
 * Propose merging Category:People from Belyov to Category:People from Tula Oblast
 * Nominator's rationale: Only 1 or 2 articles in each Rathfelder (talk) 17:21, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Oppose for Category:People from Uzlovsky District (41 individuals on ru.wiki), Category:People from Shchyokinsky District (53 on ru.wiki), Category:People from Shchyokino (town), Tula Oblast (22 on ru.wiki), Category:People from Plavsky District (15 on ru.wiki), Category:People from Leninsky District, Tula Oblast (12 on ru), Category:People from Dubensky District, Tula Oblast (12 on ru), Category:People from Bogoroditsky District (46 on ru). Support for Category:People from Zaoksky District, Category:People from Kurkinsky District, Category:People from Belyov (23, but almost all from Belov town) Furius (talk) 18:03, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm perfectly happy to keep any which have realistic potential for growth. Rathfelder (talk) 20:15, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think these do. When I'm doing translation work, I often use categories like this to identify targets for translation to en.wiki (though Russian isn't one of my languages, yet). Furius (talk) 21:10, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Support - this is the wrong way round - create the articles first, then create the categories when there are enough articles (5 or 6). Oculi (talk) 22:49, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Support all. See more elaborate discussion further up this page. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:34, 26 September 2022 (UTC)


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Category:Fantasy-comedy films by country
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 October 3%23Category:Fantasy-comedy films by country

Category:Polish pilots

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  15:25, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting polish pilots
 * Nominator's rationale: I've transferred everything over to Category:Polish aviators. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:09, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  14:42, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Comment This category has been emptied. Liz Read! Talk! 01:11, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Support for consistency. Category:Pilots is not an active category, I have just changed it from a redirect to a disambiguation page. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:58, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Support, this category has no use anymore as it has been superseded. — Mugtheboss (talk) 12:07, 3 October 2022 (UTC)


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Category:Test pilots

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 * The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  15:25, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Test pilots to Category:Test pilot
 * Nominator's rationale: There used to be individuals listed here, but some of them were subcategorized by nationality, so I completed the process. Clarityfiend (talk) 07:20, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Relisting comment: Clarityfiend.seems to be suggesting containerisation Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  14:42, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose -- Categories relate to multiple individuals and so are typically plural. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:43, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Further Comment -- The nom has no doubt done good work in tidying up the category, but the name is already the appropriate one, even if the main article is in the singular. I do not think further containerisation is needed.  We have a few general articles related to the subject apart from the main article, but that is OK and should not prevent a container tag being applied.  Peterkingiron (talk) 17:32, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Peter, categories are designed to contain multiple articles, and titles are supposed to reflect that. — Mugtheboss (talk) 12:01, 3 October 2022 (UTC)


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Academic personnel in Europe
Relisted, see Categories for discussion/Log/2022 October 3%23Academic personnel in Europe

Category:Exophonic writers
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Category:Songs in memory of Matthew Shepard

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Works about Matthew Shepard. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  15:29, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Songs in memory of Matthew Shepard to Category:Songs about Matthew Shepard
 * Nominator's rationale: For good housekeeping following previous discussions which resulted in moving members manually and deleting the parent cat Songs in memory of deceased persons and where both categories existed, Songs in Memory of XXX were merged with the Category, Songs about XXX. As stated in previous nomination mentioned above, whether a song was written before or after the death of the subject seems such an artificial distinction. Richhoncho (talk) 10:51, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Nom's further comment. Other editors may like to consider that there is only one article, the other 3 are redirects, at least one to Cultural depictions of Matthew Shepard. --Richhoncho (talk) 10:56, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Note that there was no consensus to delete this category when that was proposed at Categories for discussion/Log/2022 April 23. – Fayenatic  L ondon 14:21, 26 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Rename per nom, or alternatively to Category:Works about Matthew Shepard. In the latter case the category can be populated a bit more. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:08, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Rename to Category:Works about Matthew Shepard, much better suggestion than my nomination. --Richhoncho (talk) 08:03, 26 September 2022 (UTC)


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Category:People from Tatarstan

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  15:29, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:People from Zelenodolsky District to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Propose merging Category:People from Yutazinsky District to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Propose merging Category:People from Yelabuzhsky District to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Propose merging Category:People from Sabinsky District to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Propose merging Category:People from Nurlatsky District, Republic of Tatarstan to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Propose merging Category:People from Novosheshminsky District to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Propose merging Category:People from Menzelinsky District to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Propose merging Category:People from Mamadyshsky District to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Propose merging Category:People from Chistopolsky District to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Propose merging Category:People from Cheremshansky District to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Propose merging Category:People from Buinsky District to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Propose merging Category:People from Buinsk, Republic of Tatarstan to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Propose merging Category:People from Bugulminsky District to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Propose merging Category:People from Atninsky District to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Propose merging Category:People from Alexeyevsky District, Republic of Tatarstan to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Propose merging Category:People from Agryzsky District to Category:People from Tatarstan
 * Nominator's rationale: Only 1 or 2 articles in each Rathfelder (talk) 08:53, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Support all per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:11, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose for Category:People from Zelenodolsky District (53 on ru), Category:People from Yutazinsky District (7 on ru), Category:People from Sabinsky District (16 on ru.wiki), Category:People from Nurlatsky District, Republic of Tatarstan (18 on ru), Category:People from Menzelinsky District (30 on ru.wiki), Category:People from Mamadyshsky District (26 on ru), Category:People from Chistopolsky District (44 on ru), Category:People from Buinsky District (31 on ru), Category:People from Atninsky District (10 on ru), Category:People from Alexeyevsky District, Republic of Tatarstan (16 on ru), Category:People from Agryzsky District (19 on ru). Support for Category:People from Yelabuzhsky District (many on ru, but almost all from Yelabuga, which is not actually part of the district), Category:People from Novosheshminsky District, Category:People from Bugulminsky District (many on ru, but almost all from Bugulma, which again is not part of the district). Furius (talk) 18:31, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Support - this is the wrong way round - create the articles first, then create the categories when there are enough articles (5 or 6). Oculi (talk) 22:49, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * See more elaborate discussion further up this page. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:36, 26 September 2022 (UTC)


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Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  15:31, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:People from Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Yermakovsky District to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Sukhobuzimsky District to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Shushensky District to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Sharypovo to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Rybinsky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Partizansky District, Krasnoyarsk Krai to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Novosyolovsky District to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Motyginsky District to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Krasnoturansky District to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Kansky District to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Irbeysky District to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Ilansky District to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Dudinka to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Divnogorsk to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Borodino to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Bolsheuluysky District to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Propose merging Category:People from Abansky District to Category:People from Krasnoyarsk Krai
 * Nominator's rationale: Only 1 or 2 articles in each. Rathfelder (talk) 08:31, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Support all per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:11, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Support - this is the wrong way round - create the articles first, then create the categories when there are enough articles (5 or 6). Oculi (talk) 22:49, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * See more elaborate discussion further up this page. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:39, 26 September 2022 (UTC)


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People by occupation and city

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  15:32, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Scientists by city in the United Kingdom to Category:British scientists by city
 * Propose renaming Category:Scientists by city in India to Category:Indian scientists by city
 * Propose renaming Category:Artists by city or town in India to Category:Indian artists by city or town
 * Nominator's rationale: These three are consistent with many siblings, but were opposed as Speedy nominations on the ground that they are by location not nationality. However, WP:SUBCAT allows for sub-catting where the majority of the contents fit into the parent. – Fayenatic  L ondon 08:00, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Category:Scientists by city in the United Kingdom to Category:British scientists by city – C2C. Rathfelder (talk) 12:33, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose Not all scientists working in Foo country are Fooian nationals.. This is a "by country" category, not a "by nationality" category. Laurel Lodged (talk) 10:34, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Laurel Lodged.--Bduke (talk) 11:18, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
 * The subcats are all of the form 'scientists from London' so they are all British (and subcatted already under ). Oculi (talk) 12:31, 23 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Category:Scientists by city in India to Category:Indian scientists by city – C2C. Rathfelder (talk) 12:32, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose Not all scientists working in Foo country are Fooian nationals.. This is a "by country" category, not a "by nationality" category. Laurel Lodged (talk) 10:34, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Laurel Lodged.--Bduke (talk) 11:18, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
 * You think these two are different from the rest of Category:Scientists by country and city?Rathfelder (talk) 14:26, 23 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Category:Artists by city or town in India to Category:Indian artists by city or town – C2C: To match the rest of Category:Artists by city or town Rathfelder (talk) 12:02, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose Not all scientists working in Foo country are Fooian nationals.. This is a "by country" category, not a "by nationality" category. Laurel Lodged (talk) 10:34, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
 * All the others in Category:Artists by city or town are of the form Fooish artists from .... Why is this different? I dont think many editors see a distinction between "by country" categories, and  "by nationality" categories. Rathfelder (talk) 14:26, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose per Laurel Lodged.--Bduke (talk) 11:18, 23 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Support for consistency. Country and nationality are largely overlapping. We can not check the subjects' passports. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:40, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Reply We don't need to check passports, we only need to check an atlas. London is either in the UK or it is not. Laurel Lodged (talk) 08:35, 28 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Support for consistency. The scientists involved are all from cities in Foo via subcats such Category:Scientists from Bangalore (as opposed to say faculty of the University of Bar in Foo) and may be reasonably assumed to be Fooish. In any case it is a subcat scheme for Category:British scientists and so should not include non-British. Oculi (talk) 13:05, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Reply Colleges in Oxford attract quite a lot of international students. So an Indian national might be in a college in Oxford; that does not make him a British scientist. Laurel Lodged (talk) 08:38, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Being a student at Oxford does not make you 'from Oxford'. does not include alumni categories for colleges. Oculi (talk) 08:50, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
 * What about Lady Anne Monson? Was she a British scientist? Or was she a Category:Scientists from Kolkata? Arguably most of her work as a scientist took place in Calcutta. Laurel Lodged (talk) 08:59, 28 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Support good suggestion. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:05, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Reply What makes it good? Laurel Lodged (talk) 08:38, 28 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Oppose Not all scientists working in Foo country are Fooian nationals. This is a "by country" category, not a "by nationality" category. The scope of the category is "cities in a state"; an atlas will verify the state if necessary. The proposal would change the scope to "nationals who happen to live in a city"; to verify this claim, you would need to see their passport. The category is not broken so don't fix it. Laurel Lodged (talk) 08:50, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
 * The distinction between "by country" categories and "by nationality" categories clearly escapes many editors.  Categories are supposed to be defining, and these relate to the location of what made the person notable, not their nationality.  That is why academics of universities are included in People from Foo categories but students arent. Rathfelder (talk) 22:12, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
 * (edit conflict) For sportspeople, an occupation noted for a high proportion of expatriate players, we have both Category:Sportspeople by country and Category:Sportspeople by nationality. Religious leaders are the only other occupation with a similar hierarchy in Category:People by occupation and country. For all other occupations, we have only "by nationality", and follow the flexibility permitted by WP:SUBCAT (where it says "with possibly a few exceptions") and have sub-cats by city within categories by nationality; see e.g. the hierarchies for politicians and writers within Category:People by occupation and nationality and city, and all the hierarchies within Category:People by nationality and occupation and city. "Not all in Foo are Fooian" is therefore not a conclusive rationale against this nomination. – Fayenatic  L ondon 16:27, 3 October 2022 (UTC)


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Medieval Arab people by occupation

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (after manual merge) or rename as per nom. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  15:41, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Propose selectively merging Category:Medieval Arab musicians to Category:Musicians of the medieval Islamic world
 * Propose renaming Category:Medieval Arab singers to Category:Singers of the medieval Islamic world
 * Propose selectively merging Category:Medieval Arab astrologers to Category:Astrologers of the medieval Islamic world
 * Propose selectively merging Category:Medieval Arab astronomers to Category:Astronomers of the medieval Islamic world
 * Propose renaming Category:Medieval Arab engineers to Category:Engineers of the medieval Islamic world
 * Propose renaming Category:Medieval Arab clockmakers to Category:Clockmakers of the medieval Islamic world
 * Propose selectively merging Category:Medieval Arab geographers to Category:Geographers of the medieval Islamic world
 * Propose selectively merging Category:Medieval Arab mathematicians to Category:Mathematicians of the medieval Islamic world
 * Propose selectively merging Category:Medieval Arab philosophers to Category:Philosophers of the medieval Islamic world
 * Propose selectively merging Category:Medieval Arab physicians to Category:Physicians of the medieval Islamic world
 * Propose selectively merging Category:Medieval Arab scientists to Category:Scientists of the medieval Islamic world
 * Propose deleting Category:Medieval Arabs by occupation
 * Nominator's rationale: delete (after manual merge) or rename, trivial intersection between ethnicity and occupation (WP:OCEGRS). Articles may be moved to an occupation in the medieval Islamic world category or a more specific category in that tree (e.g. Al-Andalus or Abbasid Caliphate) if they aren't already there. And the latter is quite likely. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:52, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Comment: I have added the parent category to the nomination. Note that the proposal would remove the members from Category:Arabs by occupation; I have added a "see also" link on that page to Category:People of the medieval Islamic world by occupation, and this should be followed on each occupational sub-cat. The proposal would also remove the members from Category:Medieval Arabs, so I suggest also checking that the member pages are within that hierarchy by century. – Fayenatic  L ondon 08:17, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Fair point. The articles should already be in an Arabs by century category, but it will not harm to check that as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:11, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Support generally - I checked Astronomers, which covered everywhere from Iraq to Morocco, with a few people not identified by nationality. "Select merge" must be difficult for the closing admin.  Please add target categories to articles so that the closing admin can just delete redundant categories.  Peterkingiron (talk) 18:12, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
 * I would not expect the closer to implement the proposal right away, presumably they will list this at WP:CFDWM. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:49, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Oppose: one set is based on Arab ethnicity, and the other is based on geographic location and time period. Although, one change that could be made is to define new Category:x-century Arab physicians, Category:x-century Arab astronomers, Category:x-century Arab mathemticians..etc for the 8th-15th centuries and convert the the mentioned "Medieval Arab ..." categories into container categories. See Category:Medieval Iranian astronomers for example. Al-Andalusi (talk) 00:47, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
 * The nomination does not deny that these categories are based on Arab ethnicity, but it is based on the notion that intersection between ethnicity and occupation is generally regarded as overcategorization as laid down in the WP:OC guideline. Articles do not have to be in Category:Astronomers of Al-Andalus and Category:Medieval Arab astronomers, the former is sufficient. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:17, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
 * Many categories are based on both ethnicity and occupation, for example Category:Medieval Jews by occupation and Category:Medieval Iranian by occupation. An astronomer in Al-Andalus can be of Arab, Berber, Jewish or Persian descent. It's not an exact substitute. Al-Andalusi (talk) 18:05, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes there is still a lot of clean-up to be done. But that shouldn't be a reason not to clean this up. For being an astronomer it is entirely irrelevant where their ancestors came from. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:40, 2 October 2022 (UTC)


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