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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_February_15


February 15

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:National encyclopedias

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Nominator's rationale: Okay this might be difficult to explain, but here I go. I think 'national encyclopedia' is supposed to mean: an encyclopedia with contents primarily about one particular country. As such, it belongs in the Category:Works about countries tree (printed versions arguably in the Category:Books about countries subtree), and I propose to add that as a parent. I'm not sure what else it is supposed to mean, other than an WP:ARBITRARYCAT. For one thing, just calling an encyclopedia 'national' does not mean it is the *only* encyclopedia about that country, and has some sort of privileged and exclusive status. Even though one article might say The Canadian Encyclopedia is the national encyclopedia of Canada. (emphasis by me), another might say The Latvian National Encyclopedia is a universal encyclopedia in Latvian. (emphasis by me). In the end, though, both are just attempts to summarise encyclopedic knowledge of one country into one book, i.e. they are encyclopedias about countries. The latter describes this clearly: It is thematically focused on Latvian topics. The current contents of the category make clear that the encyclopedia in question does not have to have the word 'national' in the title, nor have to be published inside the country it is about, nor have to be published in the predominant or official language of that country (e.g. Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia was published in English in Toronto, Canada, not in Ukrainian in Ukraine). So I think it makes sense, especially as long as there is no main article explaining that 'national encyclopedias' are anything other than 'encyclopedias about countries', the latter is a more precise and unambiguous catname, and fitting in the Category:Works about countries tree (as well as the Category:Specialized encyclopedias tree which it is already in).
It logically follows that its child Category:National Soviet encyclopedias should be renamed to Category:Encyclopedias about republics of the Soviet Union per its other parent Category:Categories by republic of the Soviet Union (this is a simple WP:C2C). It was always questionable whether such encyclopedias could even be considered 'national' or rather 'subnational'; the word 'republic' resolves that issue quite well in the rest of that category tree. NLeeuw (talk) 20:53, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:April 2022 sports events in Lithuania

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Nominator's rationale: Isolated categories. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:01, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Uyghur genocide denial

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Nominator's rationale: Considering Talk:Persecution of Uyghurs in China/FAQ and Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard/Archive_96#"Genocide_denial"_and_Uyghurs, it seems that this category purely exists to workaround the established consensus. In addition it is blatantly violating multiple of the criteria noted in WP:BLPCAT.

Category names do not carry disclaimers or modifiers, so the case for each content category must be made clear by the article text and its verifiable reliable sources.

Just to take one example, the article Jodie Evans only mentions "In 2021, Evans described Uyghurs as "terrorists".

Caution should be used with content categories that suggest a person has a poor reputation (see false light). For example, Category:Criminals and its subcategories should be added only for an incident that is relevant to the person's notability; the incident was published by reliable third-party sources; the subject was convicted; and the conviction was not overturned on appeal. Do not categorize biographies of living people under such contentious topics as racism, sexism, extremism, and the like, since these have the effect of labeling a person as a racist, sexist, or extremist.

I think this doesn't need much explanation. One of the rare examples of a BLP being included in such a category is when they are mainly noted for their denial of crimes against humanity, e.g. "He is noted for his characterization of Auschwitz as a "labour camp", attracting allegations of Holocaust denial." Although for organizations the criteria are less strict, non of those listed exists with the main purpose for, or being most notable for, denying a genocide. Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 14:33, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See also Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_September_6#Category:Deniers_of_Japanese_war_crimes, Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_August_18#Category:Deniers_of_the_Uyghur_genocide Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 14:35, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:May 2022 sports events in Estonia

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Nominator's rationale: Isolated categories. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:08, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:May 2022 sports events in Albania

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Nominator's rationale: Isolated categories. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:01, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:June 2022 sports events in Liechtenstein

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Nominator's rationale: Isolated category. Not useful for navigation –Aidan721 (talk) 13:41, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nominator. Lost in Quebec (talk) 13:56, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:United States Under Secretary of Commerce

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Nominator's rationale: "United States Under Secretaries of Commerce" is a better category as it contains more articles and categories Isoceles-sai (talk) 13:11, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Military personnel from Warren County, New Jersey

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Nominator's rationale: Lost in Quebec (talk) 13:04, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Also nominating for merging-

All categories with one entry.Lost in Quebec (talk) 13:11, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Businesspeople from Atlantic County, New Jersey

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 12:48, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Businesspeople from Somerset County, New Jersey

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 09:34, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Newcastle University Medical School alumni

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Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category. Gjs238 (talk) 08:53, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pansexual Jews

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Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category. Gjs238 (talk) 08:50, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:European earthquake stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated stub categories with no evidence of approval by WikiProject Stub Sorting. As always, stub categories require 60 articles before they can be created, but none of these have even 30. Bearcat (talk) 07:32, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ancient architecture

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Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer in these ancient centuries. The "buildings and structures" subcategories are sufficient. There is little need to merge, the content is mostly already in the Works or Arts category of that same century. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:25, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:China television station stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Just found out that stub categories require 60 articles in them before they can be created. Faux pas on my part. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 03:45, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Iraq television station stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Just found out that stub categories require 60 articles in them before they can be created. Faux pas on my part. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 03:42, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Puerto Rico television station stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Just found out that stub categories require 60 articles in them before they can be created. Faux pas on my part. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 03:38, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Australia television station stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated new stub categories. As always, stub categories require 60 articles in them before they can be created, but these only have 35 and 36 respectively. Which is precisely why I created the continent-level parent Category:Oceanian television station stubs a few days ago: Australia and New Zealand together pass the 60 bar, but neither country passes it on their own for the purposes of needing separate country-level categories. Bearcat (talk) 03:33, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Riley Green (singer) songs

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Nominator's rationale: The singer is the only Riley Green with a Wikipedia page, so there's no reason for the category to point out he's a singer. MC-123 (talk)

Category:Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria on film

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Nominator's rationale: Depictions on film are inherently cultural; consistency with similarly-named categories. Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 02:54, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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