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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_October_18
October 18
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:Speedrunning communities
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Speedrunning communities to Category:Speedrunning
- Nominator's rationale: This isn't because the category's small, but because it isn't being 100% clear with the definition of community and besides, just looks a like small yet unorganized mess. QuantumFoam66 (talk) 00:56, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:People from Hartshead
[edit]- Propose merging Category:People from Hartshead to Category:People from Kirklees (district)
- Nominator's rationale: Unhelpful for navigation as contains only a single article. Merge to larger parent. AusLondonder (talk) 00:35, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:People from Hamstall Ridware
[edit]- Propose merging Category:People from Hamstall Ridware to Category:People from Lichfield District
- Nominator's rationale: Unhelpful for navigation as contains only a single article. Merge to larger parent. AusLondonder (talk) 00:34, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:People from Doveridge
[edit]- Propose merging Category:People from Doveridge to Category:People from Derbyshire Dales (district)
- Nominator's rationale: Unhelpful for navigation as contains only a single article. Merge to larger parent. AusLondonder (talk) 00:30, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:2028 United States Senate elections
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Created too soon, a category full of 34 redirects to the same page. Unhelpful for readers. AusLondonder (talk) 00:28, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
- This again? I don't see how deletion is any better for our readers, but whatever. Elli (talk | contribs) 00:30, 18 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Mosques of Leicestershire
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- Propose renaming Category:Mosques of Leicestershire to Category:Mosques in Leicestershire
- Also propose renaming Category:Mosques of Lincolnshire to Category:Mosques in Lincolnshire
- Nominator's rationale: Compatibility with Category:Mosques in England and Category:Churches in Leicestershire, etc. PamD 10:58, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- Rename per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:02, 10 October 2024 (UTC)
- I would support upmerging Category:Mosques of Leicestershire to Category:Mosques in England as it contains a single article which is also already categorised in the mosques of England category. AusLondonder (talk) 00:10, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
- I support merging/deleting this category too. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:43, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
- It now has two entries, and given the diverse population of Leicester I expect there may be many more to be created - and we have an editor who is creating a lot of mosque articles. PamD 07:43, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
- I support merging/deleting this category too. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:43, 11 October 2024 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Merge Category:Mosques of Leicestershire? I am not seeing objections to renaming if kept.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:27, 18 October 2024 (UTC)