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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_July_19
July 19
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:Racially motivated violence against white people in Africa
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Most of these articles are about anti-colonial or anti-settler violence. They cannot and should not be conflated with racially motivated violence in other contexts. User:Namiba 16:32, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
- Comment, while this might be a reason to rename the category I can't see why we would delete the category on this ground. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:59, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Professional wrestling in Cleveland
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: An unnecessary category as all articles are in Category:Professional wrestling shows in Cleveland User:Namiba 16:23, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete, per nom, redundant category layer. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:05, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Flags of Manchukuo
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Flags of Manchukuo to Category:Obsolete national flags
- Nominator's rationale: Category contains only one page and is unlikely to have a scope broader than that one page. Reconrabbit 13:28, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
- Dual merge, also to Category:Manchukuo. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:15, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Mathrubhumi Film Award winners
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: This alleged award is mentioned in only two of the articles in this category. Neither mention cites a reliable source. I find no English-language evidence that this award exists. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:22, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
- Delete per WP:OCAWARD. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:16, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Deaths from diabetes
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Deaths from diabetes to Category:Diabetes-related deaths
- Nominator's rationale: Option A: rename as deaths are usually not directly caused by diabetes itself but rather by complications related to diabetes. Option B: delete as a too indiscriminate characteristic. Once there is sufficient initial support for option A or B I will add the subcategories to the nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:23, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Ape Escape games
[edit]- Propose merge
- Merge Category:Ape Escape games into Category:Ape Escape
- Nominator's rationale Parent category is too small in scope to warrant a subcategory, I believe it should be merged but it might be fiercely contested. MimirIsSmart (talk) 08:34, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose, this merge would remove the content from the other current parent categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:27, 19 July 2024 (UTC)
Category:Racially motivated violence against Europeans
[edit]- Propose renaming:
- Nominator's rationale: The first of these categories formerly included violence against white colonialists in Asia or the Americas, which isn't really comparable to anti-white attacks in Europe. I felt that (following the example of Category:Racially motivated violence against white people in Africa that it was more appropriate to subcategorize by location of the attacks, rather than by the origin of the victims.
- In addition, these categories already seems to be subcategories of Category:Racially motivated violence in Europe, strengthening the case that they ought to be subcategories by location. GCarty (talk) 07:35, 19 July 2024 (UTC)