Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 21
January 21
Muay Thai practitioners
- Propose deleting Category:Male Muay Thai practitioners ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Latvian male Muay Thai practitioners ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Latvian Muay Thai practitioners
- Nominator's rationale: Why is there only a single article in this category tree? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:57, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep, and rename Category:Male Muay Thai practitioners to Category:Male Muay Thai practitioners by nationality, mark as a container category, and eventually populate. Sportspeople categories should be subdivided by gender, but this has not been properly done for the muay thai tree. So far there only seems to be Latvia and Category:Thai male Muay Thai practitioners,the latter of which was lost from the parent in May 2023 edits by User:Lekkha Moun, which I've reverted. --Paul_012 (talk) 02:31, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Delete/merge for now, it is not useful to have one article in a different sort of tree. By all means recreate when it is going to become part of a bigger project. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:54, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- There are 368 more articles under Category:Thai male Muay Thai practitioners, which is under this branch. --Paul_012 (talk) 16:17, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Let me rephrase: if someone volunteers to diffuse this category by the more frequently occurring nationalities (American, Brazilian etc.), then keep. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:16, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- The American, Brazilian and Turkish categories are actually already diffused into Category:American female Muay Thai practitioners etc., so all that needs to be done is rename the categories to Category:American male Muay Thai practitioners etc. and re-create Category:American Muay Thai practitioners etc. as a container layer. --Paul_012 (talk) 03:52, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- Let me rephrase: if someone volunteers to diffuse this category by the more frequently occurring nationalities (American, Brazilian etc.), then keep. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:16, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- There are 368 more articles under Category:Thai male Muay Thai practitioners, which is under this branch. --Paul_012 (talk) 16:17, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Ukrainian sportspeople killed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Convert Category:Ukrainian sportspeople killed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine to article Sportspeople killed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Nominator's rationale: Shoft be listified. Non-defining Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_May_18#Category:Sportspeople_who_died_in_wars SMasonGarrison 15:46, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Possibly listify. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:08, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep as it is defining according to the following "a defining characteristic is one that reliable, secondary sources commonly and consistently define, in prose, the subject as having....if the characteristic would not be appropriate to mention in the lead section of an article" Nayyn (talk)
- That's not sufficient. The intersection needs to be defining, and the other case has covered the broader category. SMasonGarrison 00:46, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- What does "Shoft be listified" mean?
- This follows a category on Ukrainian Wikipedia.
- What is not defining about this?
- It feels personal @Smasongarrison as you've nominated at least 5 of my categories in the last weeks to be deleted.. Nayyn (talk) 19:11, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- "Should". It's not "personal", but I did look through your categories given the concerns I noticed seemed systematic. SMasonGarrison 00:45, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
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Relisting comment: No evidence has been provided to demonstrate that it is a defining intersection; does such evidence exist? If not kept, should it be listified or deleted?
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Category:Hart wrestling family books
- Propose purging and upmerging Category:Hart wrestling family books to Category:Hart wrestling family and Category:Professional wrestling books
- Nominator's rationale: This category is mostly redirects, which I suggest removing from this category, and then upmerging the five remaining articles to Category:Professional wrestling books and either Category:Hart wrestling family or the rename to Category:Hart family (professional wrestling) nominated below. Mike Selinker (talk) 04:36, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Purge and merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:00, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep There are five articles, which is enough for a separate category.★Trekker (talk) 08:47, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- As the category creator, can you point me to any other categories that were like this one? I'd like to understand the rationale.Mike Selinker (talk) 21:17, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Itesot people
- Propose merging Category:Itesot people to Category:Teso people
- Nominator's rationale: Seem to cover same group of people ForsythiaJo (talk) 22:27, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:Jordanian male racewalkers
- Propose merging Category:Jordanian male racewalkers to Category:Jordanian racewalkers
- Nominator's rationale: also merge with Category:Jordanian male athletes. LibStar (talk) 22:21, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:Pro-Russian military personnel killed in the war in Donbas
- Nominator's rationale: the articles about rebelling Ukrainians rather than Russian military. This is follow-up on this earlier discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:55, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- @TSventon and Smasongarrison: pinging contributors to earlier discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:03, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- I'm find with unconflating it as you've proposed. SMasonGarrison 01:36, 22 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:Emirati rabbis
- Propose renaming Category:Emirati rabbis to Category:Rabbis in the United Arab Emirates
- Nominator's rationale: People who are Emirati (citizens of the United Arab Emirates) can not legally be recognized as Jews, as the law requires all citizens to be Muslim; all the people under this category are not Emiratis, they are Jews of other nationalities simply residing in the country. You can not gain citizenship through living there long enough or being born there (like the US for example). Sources: 1 2 3 4. I am voting to rename this category to reflect this. jolielover♥talk 17:20, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose, the "by nationality" tree isn't necessarily based on citizenship, if only because citizenship is a modern invention. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:55, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Rape of Persephone
- Propose purging Category:Rape of Persephone ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: Most contents are overly broad for a specific Greek myth. In particular, this creates a category loop between this one and Category:Hades. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:35, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Delete, not a defining characteristic of the articles in this category. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:45, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep, a common topic in art and art history. This artwork and visual arts page has had and has ongoing encyclopedic value. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:37, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep. The category is for articles relating to Persephone's rape as a subject in Western art; ie., the category is not for articles about the myth itself. Articles in the current category for which it is defining include Rape of Persephone, The Rape of Proserpina, and Proserpine (Lully), as well as Proserpina sarcophagus (don't see any reason to exclude ancient depictions). – Michael Aurel (talk) 11:13, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- In that case rename to Category:Cultural depictions of the rape of Persephone, re-parent, and purge what does not belong. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:24, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Yes to
purge what does not belong
. We could rename it, though the article is at Rape of Persephone, and the category isn't necessarily for any and all cultural depictions – the category (at least as it's currently defined) would not house, for instance, video games or TV shows, which would fall under the scope of a "cultural depictions" category, and I also don't think ancient art is really included in "cultural depictions". – Michael Aurel (talk) 14:40, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Yes to
- In that case rename to Category:Cultural depictions of the rape of Persephone, re-parent, and purge what does not belong. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:24, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep Very common topic in adaptations og Greek mythology, with film adaptations dating at least to the 1930s. Dimadick (talk) 18:00, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- The nomination isn't about getting rid of the category, it is about removing overly-broad items from it. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:49, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, this category needs serious purging. I think the only articles which should actually be in this category are: Rape of Persephone, The Goddess of Spring, Lore Olympus, Proserpina sarcophagus, Proserpine (Lully), and The Rape of Proserpina. Other articles have nothing to do with the rape of Persephone. Possibly the worst offender is Athena: our article doesn't even mention Persephone, let alone her abduction, but not only is it included in this category, so is the entirety of Category:Athena Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 09:58, 16 January 2025 (UTC)
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Relisting comment: Is renaming to Category:Cultural depictions of the rape of Persephone an acceptable alternative?
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Government in/of X
- Propose merging Category:Government in Canada ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Government of Canada
- Propose merging Category:Government in Nigeria ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Government of Nigeria
- Propose merging Category:Government in Quebec ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Government of Quebec
- Propose merging Category:Government in Slovenia ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Government of Slovenia
- Propose merging Category:Government in South Africa ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Government of South Africa
- Nominator's rationale: Redundant categories; in particular, this creates a category loop for Nigeria and between Category:Government in Quebec and Category:Politics of Quebec. For Canada, Nigeria, and South Africa, it is also possible to segregate the federal and state/provincial governments, like we do in the United States. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:00, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Presumably the current Category:Government of Canada is meant to be the federal government. So we might rename Category:Government of Canada to Category:Federal government of Canada to Category:Government of Canada and thereafter rename Category:Government in Canada to Category:Government of Canada. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:36, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose for Slovenia. Category:Government of Slovenia refers to a specific institution (Vlada Republike Slovenije) holding executive power in Slovenia, whereas Category:Government in Slovenia refers to all state institutions governing Slovenia (including the judiciary and parliament). The two categories do need to be overhauled, but this has been noted in the category description. --TadejM my talk 11:36, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Modernity
- Propose merging Category:Modernity to Category:Modern history
- Nominator's rationale: Categories are too similar, and this is reflected by the fact that they form a category loop. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:45, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:50, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose. If anything, the merge should go the opposite direction, in my opinion. History is one aspect of an era (modernity), but there are other aspects, as well. The category Category:Modern history actually has fewer entries than Category:Modernity. DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 14:30, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Weak-to-moderate oppose. Many of the articles in the category are about the concept of modernity and certainly wouldn't be a good fit in Category:Modern history. Neither would the current subcats. Grutness...wha? 03:48, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- Comment This user added Category:Postmodernism and Deconstruction to the nominated category, and broke the category loop. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:40, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- I felt that the category and article belonged in there, and the category loop was, well, a category loop - i.e., a no-no. Grutness...wha? 12:24, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- Comment This user added Category:Postmodernism and Deconstruction to the nominated category, and broke the category loop. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:40, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Human-Environment interaction
- Propose merging Category:Human-Environment interaction to Category:Environmental sociology
- Nominator's rationale: Overlap with Category:Environmental sociology (reflecting the target of Human-Environment interaction) and Category:Human impact on the environment. The ostensible main article is Integrated geography. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:56, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose- Human-Environment interaction is one of the Four traditions of geography, originally refered to as the "Man-Land tradition." It is also one of the Five themes of geography. It is a geography topic and is distinct from sociology. GeogSage (⚔Chat?⚔) 02:22, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Rename to Integrated geography per WP:C2D. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:48, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose Rename, Integrated Geography is the closest page we have to the topic, but the literature distinctly uses Human-Environment interaction. I'd support renaming hte integrated geography page before the category. If you look at Google Trends comparing "Integrated geography," "human-environment interaction," and for fun "human environment interaction" without the hyphen you can see it isn't even close. Integrated geography is the page name we have, and I didn't think it was necessary to change it, but it is not the more common term. GeogSage (⚔Chat?⚔) 19:45, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- The capitalization is still wrong, however. The environment is not a proper noun. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:24, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose Rename, Integrated Geography is the closest page we have to the topic, but the literature distinctly uses Human-Environment interaction. I'd support renaming hte integrated geography page before the category. If you look at Google Trends comparing "Integrated geography," "human-environment interaction," and for fun "human environment interaction" without the hyphen you can see it isn't even close. Integrated geography is the page name we have, and I didn't think it was necessary to change it, but it is not the more common term. GeogSage (⚔Chat?⚔) 19:45, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
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Category:City
- Propose merging Category:City to Category:Cities
- Nominator's rationale: Yet another questionable topic/set split. Part of the category loop Category:City → Category:Cities → Category:Metropolitan areas → Category:Urban areas, which will need to be broken — possibly by breaking the kink between "Metropolitan areas" and "Urban areas". –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:31, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- If kept, I'd rather break the link between Cities and Metropolitan areas, the latter are usually multiple cities. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:49, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Urban guerrilla warfare
- Propose deleting Category:Urban guerrilla warfare ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Urban guerrilla warfare tactics ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Urban guerrilla warfare theorists ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: Also Category:Urban guerrilla warfare tactics, Category:Urban guerrilla warfare theorists. The Wiki article Urban guerrilla warfare was redirected to Guerrilla warfare in August 2024, which was probably a good call imo. (Ping User:czar who redirected it). However that leaves these orphaned categories without an article that Wikipedia needs to decide what to do with. Deletion seems like the course of action to me, but I don't know that much about categories. Prezbo (talk) 13:10, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep. The categories exist independent of the articles. Whether we have enough material for a dedicated article on guerilla warfare in urban context is separate from whether other articles can be categorized that way. These categories seem fine based on their members. Perhaps they can be merged upwards but I see no reason for outright deletion. czar 14:07, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Merge to Category:Urban warfare. The content doesn't seem to be about guerrilla per se. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:11, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Comment Additional categories have been added to the nomination. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:46, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Likewise Category:Urban guerrilla warfare tactics should be merged to Category:Urban warfare rather than deleted. Category:Urban guerrilla warfare theorists may be kept as the books of these authors had "urban guerilla" in their name, or else a suitable merge target should be found. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:20, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
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Arab supporters of Israel
- Propose selectively merging Category:Algerian Zionists to Category:Arab supporters of Israel
- Propose selectively merging Category:Egyptian Zionists to Category:Arab supporters of Israel
- Propose selectively merging Category:Lebanese Zionists to Category:Arab supporters of Israel
- Propose selectively merging Category:Moroccan Zionists to Category:Arab supporters of Israel
- Propose selectively merging Category:Palestinian Zionists to Category:Arab supporters of Israel
- Propose selectively merging Category:Tunisian Zionists to Category:Arab supporters of Israel
- Nominator's rationale: selectively merge, these are subcategories of Category:Arab supporters of Israel but Arab ethnicity does not coincide with nationality. E.g. Category:Moroccan Zionists contains two Jews and zero Arabs. Only include articles in the merge process if the article is clearly about someone of Arab ethnicity. This is follow-up on these earlier discussions 1 and 2.
- @Smasongarrison, Dimadick, Grutness, AHI-3000, and LaundryPizza03: pinging contributors to previous discussions. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:34, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Support per nom. Thanks for following up.SMasonGarrison 14:39, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Support. Good work. Grutness...wha? 02:17, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
Merge all except Egypt and Palestine, which have 9 apiece. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:43, 12 January 2025 (UTC)- This is not a nomination about size. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:16, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- I do not understand the concern. Just remove the categories from the Arab parent. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:20, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- This is not a nomination about size. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:16, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Don't merge 'Moroccan Zionists'. Israel didn't even exist in the lifetime of Moses Lugassy, and Samuel-Daniel Levy certainly wouldn't have identified as Arab. I am working on the topic and will be adding pages to the category. إيان (talk) 09:27, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Moses Lugassy, and Samuel-Daniel Levy certainly wouldn't have identified as Arab: that is exactly the point of the nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:29, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- How does the point that the Moroccan Zionists wouldn't have identified as Arab serve the nomination "Propose selectively merging Category:Moroccan Zionists to Category:Arab supporters of Israel"? إيان (talk) 13:07, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
- They are currently part of the tree of Category:Arab supporters of Israel and will no longer be after the selective merge. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:35, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
- How does the point that the Moroccan Zionists wouldn't have identified as Arab serve the nomination "Propose selectively merging Category:Moroccan Zionists to Category:Arab supporters of Israel"? إيان (talk) 13:07, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
- Moses Lugassy, and Samuel-Daniel Levy certainly wouldn't have identified as Arab: that is exactly the point of the nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:29, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Support The selective merge makes sense here for those who are ethnically Arab. - RevelationDirect (talk) 14:42, 12 January 2025 (UTC)
- Strongly Oppose Many of the Zionists from these countries were Jewish and/or Berber and may or may not have identified as Arab. So lumping every Zionist from North Africa and the Middle East into an "Arab supporter of Israel" is reductive and wrong. Zionist is also a broader label than "supporter of Israel". There are historical and contemporary strands of Zionism that may be quite critical of the State of Israel. But once again, Wikipedia is displaying its ignorance of Arab and Jewish history, so I fully expect this proposal to win. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 04:28, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Bohemian Baltimore: of course Jews and Berbers do not belong in an Arab category, that is the whole point of the nomination. The proposal is selective merge, only include articles in the merge process if the article is clearly about someone of Arab ethnicity. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:24, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep This nomination is backwards — the nationalities should not be subcategories of the Arab category, and should not be merged there because we could lose categorization for non-Arabs from these countries. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:24, 19 January 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Ante-Nicene Christian martyrs
- Propose renaming Category:Ante-Nicene Christian martyrs to Category:Ancient Christian martyrs
- Nominator's rationale: per parent Category:Ancient Christian saints and Category:Ancient Christians. Also, the category tree contains articles well beyond the First Council of Nicaea. For example Abda and Abdisho died in 376. After the rename, Category:5th-century Christian martyrs can be added as a subcategory too. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:58, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: isn't there a distinct purpose in a category for Christians martyred prior to the widespread adoption of Christianity in the Roman Empire? I realize that the date for this is a bit fuzzy, but the Council of Nicaea seems as reasonable a date as any. Those martyred afterward would seem to have been martyred for different reasons—perhaps a case could be made for including those martyred by Romans who had yet to convert, though Abda and Abdisho apparently were martyred for a different reason and beyond Roman borders, so they and some others could probably be removed from this category.
- Perhaps the solution could be a category titled "Ancient Christian martyrs" with a subcategory for Ante-Nicene martyrs, and which would separately include late Roman (or other) martyrs such as Abda and Abdisho. That would simply be a revision to the "martyr tree", so to speak. I note that I come at this from a non-Christian perspective; I am not particularly fond of the concept of martyrdom, but it is a valid topic in religious history, and it seems to make sense to distinguish between those who were martyred due to anti-Christian persecution by Romans and those martyred post-persecution elsewhere (*wonders if there are Post-Nicene pagan martyrs*). If this category is not preserved, then that distinction would be lost, and probably not to the benefit of the reader. P Aculeius (talk) 11:52, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- There are enough articles just mentioning a death in the 4th century without specifying whether it was before or after 325, so the distinction isn't clear anyway. Besides Christianity became an accepted religion quite a few years before Nicaea. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:52, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- Before the reign of Constantine (312–337) Christianity was widely persecuted, so there would have been many Christians martyred within the Roman empire. Though various dates from 311 (edict of Serdica) to 337 (death, and alleged deathbed conversion of Constantine, who may or may not have adopted Christianity informally as early as 312) could be used, the council of Nicaea, which he convened in 325, is a significant date in establishing a degree of uniformity for Christian worship, and probably did more to promote its acceptance than dubious stories about the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. After this it would be rare for Christians to be martyred within the Roman Empire, though of course they could be anywhere else that Christianity wasn't yet tolerated or adopted, and would continue to be for centuries. So it makes good sense to distinguish martyrs before 325 and after—or at least martyrs due to Roman persecution, which probably did not end all at once as soon as some decree was issued at Rome, though it probably had by the end of Constantine's reign—from later martyrs elsewhere. P Aculeius (talk) 17:01, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- So what do you suggest we do with Category:4th-century Christian martyrs with its many articles not specifying a year or specifying a year after 325? Should this subcategory be purged? Marcocapelle (talk) 19:46, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- Since some of the contents of "4th-century Christian martyrs" are ante-Nicene, it can remain as a subcategory, the same as "Ford" could remain under "20th-century automobile manufacturers" even though it continues in business in the 21st century. Subcategories will often be partial matches for multiple parent categories. P Aculeius (talk) 21:29, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- But then the difference with "Ancient" as proposed is only the 5th century. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:18, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Assuming that the 5th century topic includes the entire century, then "Ancient Christian martyrs" would cover a span of about 450 years—about 275 before Nicaea, 175 after. That doesn't seem unreasonable as a division of the span, since each group would tend to share certain characteristics—most ante-Nicene martyrs would have been martyred in the Roman Empire either as part of or inspired by official persecutions; post-Nicaea most Christian martyrs would have been martyred elsewhere or for other reasons. P Aculeius (talk) 17:52, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- But then the difference with "Ancient" as proposed is only the 5th century. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:18, 11 January 2025 (UTC)
- Since some of the contents of "4th-century Christian martyrs" are ante-Nicene, it can remain as a subcategory, the same as "Ford" could remain under "20th-century automobile manufacturers" even though it continues in business in the 21st century. Subcategories will often be partial matches for multiple parent categories. P Aculeius (talk) 21:29, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- So what do you suggest we do with Category:4th-century Christian martyrs with its many articles not specifying a year or specifying a year after 325? Should this subcategory be purged? Marcocapelle (talk) 19:46, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- Before the reign of Constantine (312–337) Christianity was widely persecuted, so there would have been many Christians martyred within the Roman empire. Though various dates from 311 (edict of Serdica) to 337 (death, and alleged deathbed conversion of Constantine, who may or may not have adopted Christianity informally as early as 312) could be used, the council of Nicaea, which he convened in 325, is a significant date in establishing a degree of uniformity for Christian worship, and probably did more to promote its acceptance than dubious stories about the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. After this it would be rare for Christians to be martyred within the Roman Empire, though of course they could be anywhere else that Christianity wasn't yet tolerated or adopted, and would continue to be for centuries. So it makes good sense to distinguish martyrs before 325 and after—or at least martyrs due to Roman persecution, which probably did not end all at once as soon as some decree was issued at Rome, though it probably had by the end of Constantine's reign—from later martyrs elsewhere. P Aculeius (talk) 17:01, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- There are enough articles just mentioning a death in the 4th century without specifying whether it was before or after 325, so the distinction isn't clear anyway. Besides Christianity became an accepted religion quite a few years before Nicaea. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:52, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Maritime disasters in Kent
- Propose merging Category:Maritime disasters in Kent to Category:Maritime incidents in England
- Nominator's rationale: Merge with parent category because I'm not sure if this has anything to do directly with Kent. The waters off Kent or near it but not with it. Omnis Scientia (talk) 12:32, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose - category has a sufficient number of entries (including its subcat) that splitting off from the parent cat is justified. Mjroots (talk) 12:37, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
Maybe rename to Category:Maritime disasters in the Strait of Dover.The water seems more relevant than the land. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:43, 10 January 2025 (UTC)- @Marcocapelle, it should, at least be renamed to "maritime incidents" because "maritime disaster" categories are limited to seas and oceans. But I also don't see any state or county specific categories for "maritime incidents" either.
- It can be renamed to Category:Shipwrecks in the Strait of Dover since that would match categories in Category:Shipwrecks of England. But "maritime disasters in Kent" is pretty much the only type of its category and I don't think all of these have anything specifically to do with Kent itself. Omnis Scientia (talk) 16:13, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- Yeah right that would match Category:Shipwrecks in the North Sea, Category:Shipwrecks of the River Thames etc. But now I notice that most articles in the Kent category are also in the beforementioned shipwrecks categories. So I agree that Category:Maritime disasters in Kent is redundant. Manually merge Category:Maritime disasters in Kent to Category:Maritime incidents in England, insofar articles aren't already deeper in the tree of Category:Maritime incidents in England. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:05, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Black feminists
- Propose renaming Category:Black feminists to Category:Feminists of African descent
- Nominator's rationale: I'm on the fence between deletion and renaming. SMasonGarrison 01:23, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- Rename per various CfD's for the deletion of Category:Black people. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:52, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- Delete, trivial intersection. Black feminism is specifically Afro-American while the category encompasses feminists from outside the US. If not deleted, rename. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:42, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- Black feminism is an univocal concept that can be translated to other languages and be adapted to other regions. LIrala (talk) 02:46, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- For instance, Djamila Ribeiro is a black feminist, everywhere in the article says so. LIrala (talk) 06:26, 20 January 2025 (UTC)
- Black feminism is an univocal concept that can be translated to other languages and be adapted to other regions. LIrala (talk) 02:46, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
- Rename Category:Proponents of Black feminism. This is akin to Category:Proponents of Christian feminism which was renamed in 2019.--User:Namiba 15:39, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
- @Namiba: the current content of the category is entirely different, so this would boil down to the creation of an entirely new category. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:11, 7 January 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Intersectional feminists
- Propose merging Category:Intersectional feminists ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Feminists
- Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection between being a feminist and a type of feminism. At the very least, the child categories need to be purged/restored to the parent category. For example, being a Jewish feminist doesn't mean that they're an intersectional feminist. SMasonGarrison 01:21, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- Delete, not a defining characteristic (with very few exceptions). Marcocapelle (talk) 07:59, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Fadrique family
- Propose deleting Category:Fadrique family ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: delete, largely overlapping with Category:Counts of Salona. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:45, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose this over-simplifiction. The one is a family that was a cadet branch of the Crown of Aragon, the other a collection of office holders. There were Fadriques who were not Counts of Salona, such as John Fadrique. Constantine ✍ 09:18, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Visualization (research)
- Propose renaming Category:Visualization (research) ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Visualization research
- Propose renaming Category:Visualization (web) ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Visualization of the Internet
- Nominator's rationale: Misuse of disambiguator. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:38, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
- On the other hand, Category:Visualization (research) is incoherent and should be deleted instead. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:53, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
- Upmerge both to Category:Visualization (graphics). One category is incoherent, the other is nowadays moot (almost all data are on internet), but they are both still about visualization. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:09, 9 January 2025 (UTC)
- Support upmerging per marco SMasonGarrison 00:05, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- I don't understand — Category:Visualization (web) seems to be for visualization of data about the Internet. That's what the description implies, and what all three are about after I removed The Scale of the Universe as not belonging. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:14, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- E.g. tag clouds can be made based on any sort of text. They only became popular when applied to data on the web. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:30, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Anti-modernist films
- Propose deleting Category:Anti-modernist films ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: delete, the scope of the category is too vague. I don't think the parenting is correct either. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:00, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:Scientists from Arlington, Texas
- Propose merging Category:Scientists from Arlington, Texas to Category:People from Arlington, Texas
- Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. Also merge to Scientists from Texas. Lost in Quebec (talk) 17:37, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- Support dual merge in principle, just wondering if a linguist is also considered to be a scientist. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:56, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- Keep. Added more entries. Linguists and economists are social scientists. Flurrious (talk) 21:20, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
Disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands
- Propose merging Category:1629 disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands to Category:1629 disestablishments in the Holy Roman Empire and Category:17th-century disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands
- Propose merging Category:1660 disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands to Category:1660 disestablishments in the Holy Roman Empire and Category:17th-century disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands
- Propose merging Category:1667 disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands to Category:1667 disestablishments in the Holy Roman Empire and Category:17th-century disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands
- Propose merging Category:1620s disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands to Category:17th-century disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands
- Propose merging Category:1660s disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands to Category:17th-century disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands
- Propose deleting Category:Disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands by year
- Propose deleting Category:Disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands by decade
- Propose deleting Category:1660 in the Habsburg Netherlands
- Propose deleting Category:1667 in the Habsburg Netherlands
- Propose merging Category:Disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands by century to Category:Disestablishments in the Habsburg Netherlands
- Propose merging Category:Establishments in the Habsburg Netherlands by century to Category:Establishments in the Habsburg Netherlands
- Nominator's rationale: Merge disestablishments, as sparsely-populated categories, following the precedent for establishments in the same territory at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 October 16#Establishments in the Habsburg Netherlands by year. – Fayenatic London 15:35, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- Merge/delete per nom. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 16:34, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- Merge/delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:22, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:People from Güzelyurt
- Propose merging Category:People from Güzelyurt to Category:People from Erzurum Province
- Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 11:18, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:22, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:Greek world record setters in athletics (track and field)
- Propose deleting Category:Greek world record setters in athletics (track and field) ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: Complete outlier that has flown under radar for 8 years, no other split by nationality in World Record categories Crowsus (talk) 09:34, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nominator. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 17:33, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- Delete, no need to merge, the article is already in the parent categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:24, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:Shadow fleets
- Propose deleting Category:Shadow fleets ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: Is this category necessary? The only non-eponymous article is linked from the eponymous article. Gjs238 (talk) 01:33, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
- Support in principle but merge to Category:International trade and Category:Maritime transport. The two articles are already directly interlinked. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:48, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:Possibly fictional people from Europe
- Nominator's rationale: parent is People whose existence is disputed. The current name is inconsistent. See conversation on the talk page for context from the creator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Possibly_fictional_people_from_Europe SMasonGarrison 04:20, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- Updated: Add other country/continents as renames. I've added the relevant existing legendary child categories if they exist. SMasonGarrison 18:18, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- Category:Possibly fictional people from Africa to Category:African people whose existence is disputed
- Category:Possibly fictional people from Asia to Category:Asian people whose existence is disputed
- Category:Possibly fictional American people to Category:American people whose existence is disputed
- Category:Possibly fictional people from South America to Category:South American people whose existence is disputed
- Category:Possibly fictional people from North America to Category:North American people whose existence is disputed
- Category:Possibly fictional Spanish people to Category:Spanish people whose existence is disputed
- Category:Possibly fictional Scottish people to Category:Scottish people whose existence is disputed
- Category:Possibly fictional people from the Roman Empire to Category:People from the Roman Empire whose existence is disputed
- Category:Possibly fictional Anglo-Saxon people to Category:Anglo-Saxon people whose existence is disputed
- Category:Possibly fictional Irish people to Category:Irish people whose existence is disputed
- Category:Possibly fictional English people to Category:English people whose existence is disputed
- Split between Category:Legendary European people and Category:European people whose existence is disputed. For most of these people there is no dispute, they are commonly recognized as legendary. There is already a whole tree of Category:Legendary people too. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:15, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'd be in favor of that. SMasonGarrison 05:14, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Marcocapelle Should I nominate the rest of this tree? I think that renamed "European people whose existence is disputed" would be the parent of Category:Legendary European people, is that how you're envisioning the tree, as well? SMasonGarrison 05:18, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison: yes probably. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:59, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- Will do. I wanted to double check before I started tagging them.SMasonGarrison 18:05, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Marcocapelle I've now tagged them all as proposed them as renames. Most of them already have a child legendary category, but I'll make the missing ones now.SMasonGarrison 18:19, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- Also JPL has convinced himself that people whose existence is disputed should be removed from most other categories. I've spent a lot of time restoring his removals, but that interpretation is pretty unhelpful for navigation. SMasonGarrison 19:21, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Marcocapelle I've now tagged them all as proposed them as renames. Most of them already have a child legendary category, but I'll make the missing ones now.SMasonGarrison 18:19, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- Will do. I wanted to double check before I started tagging them.SMasonGarrison 18:05, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison: yes probably. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:59, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Marcocapelle Should I nominate the rest of this tree? I think that renamed "European people whose existence is disputed" would be the parent of Category:Legendary European people, is that how you're envisioning the tree, as well? SMasonGarrison 05:18, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- I'd be in favor of that. SMasonGarrison 05:14, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- Comment. I think "whose existence is disputed" is generally better than "possibly fictional". I do not think we should conflate "legendary" with "never existing". It is the nature of legends to latch onto real events and people, so if "legendary" means "not real", then Lady Godiva needs to be removed from the category. Part of the problem, though, with "dispute" is that it leaves open how disputed. In some cases, the dispute may be more or less settled in favour of nonexistence. In others, it may be just be a noisy minority disputing a consensus. "Whose existence is disputed" would seem to apply to both. Srnec (talk) 21:05, 21 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support in general, but in agreement with Marco and Srnec that not all legendary people are necessarily people whose existence is disputed. Sometimes the question of their existence is not even the point of the tales about them. Sometimes we've got separate pages for a historical person and then the legendary character that was later modelled on them (e.g. Igor Svyatoslavich and Prince Igor); the latter's "existence" is not disputed as such, it is historical fiction. NLeeuw (talk) 02:21, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
- 100% agree with all the comments here. I interpret the category "whose existence is disputed" as meaning as the subject of it might exist or they might not. I think it's a helpful category for organizing child categories, like legendary etc. SMasonGarrison 11:49, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- Rename per nom, "fictional" normally refers to modern fiction, which is distinct from myths and legends. No opposition to splitting as explained by Marcocapelle. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:43, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- Merge to Category:Legendary X people, and prune. "Possibly fictional"? "Disputed"? According to who? How much about them is in dispute? These should be lists, if anything. Not sure how this is much different than "alleged criminals" categories. Imagine if these were BLPs - these would be deleted outright. - jc37 22:21, 28 December 2024 (UTC)
- Rename per nom. These are not fictional characters, but historical figures whose status is in doubt. Dimadick (talk) 17:27, 29 December 2024 (UTC)
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- I suppose User:Jc37 means diffusing among the subcategories of Category:Legendary people by continent Category:Legendary people by nationality
and that is alright with me. We can still manually add articles to Category:People whose existence is disputed if there is a serious dispute.Marcocapelle (talk) 06:57, 31 December 2024 (UTC)- Striking support per discussion below. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:01, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- The problem is that Category:People whose existence is disputed is really hard to navigate without some level of diffusion. SMasonGarrison 18:11, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
- Once Legendary people (including individuals from folk tales, like John Henry, or from religious texts like the Bible or the Book of Mormon) are removed, is there really that much left? - jc37 18:56, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
- User:Smasongarrison has a point for sure. There are some 200 articles directly in Category:Possibly fictional people from Europe and Category:Possibly fictional people from Asia, even apart from articles deeper in the tree, and most of them do not fit "legendary" very well. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:01, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- That depends on how one defines "legendary". Are we limiting it to myth and folktales? Because figures from religious texts and from "kings lists" and oral history would also meet that definition. (See Legend.) Most of what I am seeing in those categories are "legendary" people. The few that aren't should be listified to explain what is disputed about them. Another way to put it, is to say that this category scheme is a broadly defined WP:OR magnet, with membership subjectively added, based upon shakily-defined inclusion criteria at best. How is this different than saying "people who are alleged to exist"? (Or even: "People who are alleged to not exist.) We don't keep "alleged criminal", or other such "alleged" categories. We shouldn't be keeping these. As I noted above, if this included BLP articles, it'd be deleted outright. . - jc37 01:00, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- That is an important point. I would understand "legendary people" to be people on which there is general agreement that they are legendary while "disputed people" are people on which such agreement is lacking. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:57, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- An individual can be "legendary" and still have existed. George Washington cutting down the cherry tree or "I cannot tell a lie". So categorizing them as Legendary isn't the issue. It's defining "disputed". According to who? I don't want to wade into the contention of fringe theories, but how "reliable" are we treating "reliable sources" for these? Are we only allowing "mainstream" historians? And how "mainstream"? Are we assessing the sources too? And therein lies one of several reasons that anything to do with "alleged" or "disputed" should be lists. Using categories, we can't quantify the "value" of the dispute or the value of the argument of the disputer(s). How firm is the foundation of the argument that such individuals are disputed? And before we dismiss all legends as fiction, please remember that Troy used to be in that category. And it's apparently been found. And does that lend credence to some or all of the characters from the Illiad or the Odyssey being real? Or should they still be considered legendary? Anyway, that's the trouble here. In the end, it's all just WP:OR. See also: Wikipedia:POV and OR from editors, sources, and fields#Source_POV, which explains how/why these things need to be explained in an article if included. Which of course we cannot do in categories. - jc37 05:31, 3 January 2025 (UTC)
- Once Legendary people (including individuals from folk tales, like John Henry, or from religious texts like the Bible or the Book of Mormon) are removed, is there really that much left? - jc37 18:56, 31 December 2024 (UTC)
- Comment: Aren't "People from Europe/Africa/Asia" a slightly different thing from "European/African/Asian people"? I'm European ethnically, but I'm not from Europe, for example. Furius (talk) 16:31, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Most of these people lived (if they did) before concepts like nationality and ethnicity were invented so we should not bother too much about that. The place where they were assumed to have lived should be decisive. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:06, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- I just don't see the need for creating the potential for that ambiguity by changing "from Europe" to "European". Most of the people in the North American category were European, for example, and plenty of them are late enough to have been considered that by contemporaries. Furius (talk) 18:44, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- I don't see why the nominated categories are any different in this respect than e.g. Category:European people or Category:North American people. North American people may be of European descent but not Europeans themselves. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:22, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- I agree with Marco that "European" doesn't mean "of European descent". I also worry that this category might close as no-consensus. I don't really care whether we do "from FOO" or "FOOian". SMasonGarrison 14:40, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- I don't see why the nominated categories are any different in this respect than e.g. Category:European people or Category:North American people. North American people may be of European descent but not Europeans themselves. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:22, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
- I just don't see the need for creating the potential for that ambiguity by changing "from Europe" to "European". Most of the people in the North American category were European, for example, and plenty of them are late enough to have been considered that by contemporaries. Furius (talk) 18:44, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Most of these people lived (if they did) before concepts like nationality and ethnicity were invented so we should not bother too much about that. The place where they were assumed to have lived should be decisive. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:06, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Support "X people whose existence is disputed". I don't think "Legendary X people" is suitable for many of the entries currently in this category tree: e.g. Diotima of Mantinea was either a real person or a fictional character; Metrodora is either a real person, a pseudonym, or the result of a misinterpreted text. Neither has the folkloric component which I associate with a legend. Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 22:12, 15 January 2025 (UTC)
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- Comment - So, based on comments above, this cat includes those who would be considered legendary, and those who would not be considered legendary? Then, those that are the former are an easy merge (as I noted above). The latter then should be listified due to (among other things) the many various ambiguities noted above. - jc37 11:23, 21 January 2025 (UTC)
Category:Maghrebian people stubs
- Propose deleting Category:Maghrebian people stubs ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting {{Maghrebis-bio-stub}}
- Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated stub category, not approved by WikiProject stub sorting. As always, stub categories are not free for just any user to create on a whim for just any topic of their choosing -- a stub category requires at least 60 articles in it before it can be created, so its creation has to be authorized by the WikiProject in order to ensure that there are actually enough articles to justify it.
But this didn't go through the proper process, and has only one article in it with little prospect of finding 59 others -- the Maghreb is a multi-country region in northwest Africa, meaning that almost any potential entries for this would already be tagged for a specific country ({{Algeria-bio-stub}}, {{Tunisia-bio-stub}}, {{Morocco-bio-stub}}, etc.) anyway. (There were two other people here when I first found it, but one was reclassifiable as Algeria and one wasn't a stub at all, and three still isn't 60 anyway.)
And even the template is of questionable necessity if it can't support its own dedicated category -- the one article here just describes the subject as Maghrebi without containing any more specific information about where in the Maghreb he came from (and thus can't be reclassified to a specific Maghreb country), so the template would be defensible if somebody's got a good idea for where else it can upfile him to. But I'm still bundling it here for the sake of discussion, and it can't have its own dedicated category without at least 59 more people than this. Bearcat (talk) 16:09, 10 January 2025 (UTC)- Hey @Bearcat
- The category can accommodate more than 60 articles easy. Its primary purpose is to address and prevent the non-editing conflicts between Algerian and Moroccan contributors regarding the term "مغربي" (Maghrebi), which is often mistranslated as "Moroccan."
- It is not historically accurate to use labels such as Algerian, Moroccan, or Tunisian for people who lived before the establishment of these states. Historically, the people of the Maghreb region traveled and settled and served in various cities across the region, making clarification in such cases impossible.
- The correct and most appropriate category for these individuals is Maghrebian people. Both Western and Arabic sources consistently use the terms "Maghrebi" or "North African" to describe individuals from this region, rather than the modern labels of Algerian, Moroccan, or Tunisian, which are relatively recent and impossible to adopt here.
- So I created this category is to ensure historical precision and avoid misclassification. There is no valid way to attribute people from the Maghreb to modern-day countries, especially for periods before the 17th century. This category provides an accurate and neutral way to represent those people. Riad Salih (talk) 16:23, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- It's not enough to simply assert that it "can accommodate" 60 articles it if it doesn't actually have 60 articles in it now — any category "can accommodate" any number of articles by definition, but that isn't in and of itself proof that we actually have enough articles for it. So it's not a question of what might be theoretically possible, it's a question of how much content is actually in the category now. And you're not free to just create new stub categories yourself without following the proper process, either.
So if you want the category to exist, then your job is to (a) follow the proper process of getting it approved by the WikiProject first, and (b) ensure that it already has at least 60 articles in it the moment I see it in the first place.Bearcat (talk) 16:27, 10 January 2025 (UTC)- They are often randomly labeled as Algerian, Moroccan, Tunisian, etc., depending on the conflicts between countries, each of which claims belonging to modern nations. A reclassification would certainly have more than 60 possible entries. The North African wikiprojects are rarely active to not say dead so Wikipedia:Be bold. Riad Salih (talk) 16:36, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- It's the stub sorting WikiProject that has to approve stub categories, not the North African wikiprojects, so the deadness of the North African wikiprojects isn't a legitimate reason to bypass proposing a stub category to the stub sorting wikiproject first. Bearcat (talk) 16:40, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- To be honest I dont think that the stub sorting WikiProject can effectively deal with this without involments from editors very knowledgeable about North Africa region or those directly concerned with the region. However, I would have greatly appreciated if you had initiated a discussion instead of directly proposing deletion or modifying the stubs in the articles. Given the long-standing edit wars surrounding these topics, I saw it both logical and necessary to focus on a clear categorization. Riad Salih (talk) 16:47, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- It's the stub sorting WikiProject that has to approve stub categories, not the North African wikiprojects, so the deadness of the North African wikiprojects isn't a legitimate reason to bypass proposing a stub category to the stub sorting wikiproject first. Bearcat (talk) 16:40, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- They are often randomly labeled as Algerian, Moroccan, Tunisian, etc., depending on the conflicts between countries, each of which claims belonging to modern nations. A reclassification would certainly have more than 60 possible entries. The North African wikiprojects are rarely active to not say dead so Wikipedia:Be bold. Riad Salih (talk) 16:36, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
- It's not enough to simply assert that it "can accommodate" 60 articles it if it doesn't actually have 60 articles in it now — any category "can accommodate" any number of articles by definition, but that isn't in and of itself proof that we actually have enough articles for it. So it's not a question of what might be theoretically possible, it's a question of how much content is actually in the category now. And you're not free to just create new stub categories yourself without following the proper process, either.
- We might give User:Riad Salih a week to add more than 60 stubs to the category. They have a fair point about Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia not existing in the middle ages. But I would at least propose to rename the category to Category:Medieval Maghrebi people stubs in order to clarify the scope to editors who haven't seen this discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:27, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Mint food
- Propose renaming Category:Mint food to Category:Mint dishes
- Nominator's rationale: Borderline c2c, but I'm not sure this category should exist. But if it should it should be renamed based on siblings in Prepared foods by main ingredient look like Fruit dishes SMasonGarrison 13:22, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- Perhaps a split into mint dishes and mint drinks? Horse Eye's Back (talk) 17:59, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- The articles aren't about drinks. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:09, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- Yes you're right, I was getting confectionaries/candies and drinks confused. Horse Eye's Back (talk) 19:30, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- Perhaps a split into mint dishes and mint drinks? Horse Eye's Back (talk) 17:59, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose, most articles aren't about dishes. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:09, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thoughts on deletion? Do you have a better solution? "Food" singular doesn't fit with the norms of these categories. SMasonGarrison 00:51, 14 January 2025 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:18, 21 January 2025 (UTC)