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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_October_3
October 3
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:Electorate of Württemberg
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: delete, the Electorate of Württemberg lasted only three years and none of the articles are specifically about the electorate except the eponymous article. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:36, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Music in Landskrona
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Music in Landskrona to Category:Culture in Landskrona and Category:Music in the Øresund Region
- Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:26, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Vietnamese jazz
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: The subcategory in here is for jazz musicians who are Vietnamese, not musicians who play Vietnamese jazz (is there even such a thing?). StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 06:26, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
Summer camps in fiction
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Fiction about summer camps to Category:Summer camps in fiction
- Propose merging Category:Summer camps in film to Category:Summer camps in fiction
- Propose merging Category:Video games set in summer camps to Category:Works set in summer camps
- Nominator's rationale: Category #1: Single-entry category that conflicts with its parent category. Category #2: Redundant category layer that only has a single subcategory. Category #3: Category containing only a single article. QuantumFoam66 (talk) 01:31, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support: Still retains the general idea of what we are trying to categorize. KConWiki (talk) 04:32, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:56, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Films directed by Caroline Labrèche
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Two related categories for co-directors of the same film. Per longstanding consensus, a filmmaker has to have a biographical article about the person before they get a "Films directed by" category to batch their films together -- but neither of these two people have a biographical article at all, so these aren't both necessary for the same single film. Bearcat (talk) 00:21, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Delete, it might have been different if there were e.g. five articles in this category, but then at the same time it would have been more likely there was an article about Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard too. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:58, 3 October 2024 (UTC)