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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_September_10
September 10
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:Korean companies established in 1999
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Scope overlap, only one page in it, imprecise title (only page in it is South Korean company) seefooddiet (talk) 09:09, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:31, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Professional certifications in computer engineering
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: narrow intersection that's not particularly defining for either page Mason (talk) 04:25, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:35, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Arabian slaves and freedmen
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Arabian slaves and freedmen to Category:Arab slaves and freedman
- Nominator's rationale: rename, as far as I know "Arabian" is used in conjunction with Arabian Peninsula and Arabian language, but in most other cases it is Arab. It should actually be slaves of Arabs rather than Arab slaves (e.g. a number of articles in subCategory:Moroccan slaves are about Europeans) but that is a problem that probably applies to all Category:Slaves by nationality subcategories too. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:22, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Organisation headquarters in the United Kingdom
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Mason (talk) 03:14, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- Merge, of what else than an organisation should they be headquarters of. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:37, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Organization headquarters
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Organization headquarters to Category:Headquarters
- Nominator's rationale: Redundant category. Are there non organizational headquarters? Mason (talk) 03:14, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- Merge, of what else than an organisation should they be headquarters of. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:38, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Amniotic sac
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Amniotic sac to Category:Body fluids
- Nominator's rationale: Do we really need a category for the amniotic sac? Mason (talk) 03:13, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Fetal membranes
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Fetal membranes to Category:Embryology
- Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer Mason (talk) 03:12, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom, there is only one subcategory in it. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:39, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:East German swimming people
[edit]- Propose merging Category:East German swimming people to Category:Swimming in East Germany
- Propose merging Category:Swimming people in the United Kingdom to Category:Swimming in the United Kingdom
- Propose merging Category:German swimming people to Category:Swimming in Germany
- Nominator's rationale: Do we really need "Swimming people categories" like this? Mason (talk) 03:00, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- At least merge East German, which has only two subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:42, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:1384 establishments in Italy
[edit]- Propose splitting Category:1384 establishments in Italy to Category:14th century in Italy and Category:Medieval history of Italy
- Nominator's rationale: Isolated category where the only page doesn't really need this level of specificity for establisment (Witch trials in Italy aren't really established like this) Mason (talk) 02:55, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- Just delete, most witch trials took place in the early modern era rather than in the middle ages (which may be surprising). Marcocapelle (talk) 09:44, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Aragonese ambassadors to the Byzantine Empire
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge for now. There's only one page in here, and there are unlikely to be more anytime soon. Mason (talk) 02:16, 10 September 2024 (UTC)
- Dual merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:45, 10 September 2024 (UTC)