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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_April_18
April 18
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:Film censorship by country
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Film censorship in Portugal (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Film censorship in Kyrgyzstan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Film censorship in Kazakhstan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Film censorship in Israel (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Film censorship in Denmark (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Film censorship in Bangladesh (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: Do we need these 1-article categories? Merge to Category:Film censorship by country Gjs238 (talk) 12:57, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
Category:Bridges over the Otava
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Only one article. FromCzech (talk) 12:35, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
Category:West Coast Gold Rush in fiction
[edit]- Propose merging Category:West Coast Gold Rush in fiction to Category:West Coast Gold Rush and Category:Fiction about mining
- Nominator's rationale: merge for now, only two articles in the category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:09, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
Countries in fiction
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Gabon in fiction (1 C) to Category:Culture of Gabon
- Propose merging Category:Grenada in fiction (1 C) to Category:Culture of Grenada
- Propose merging Category:Guinea in fiction (1 C) to Category:Culture of Guinea
- Propose merging Category:Guinea-Bissau in fiction (1 C) to Category:Culture of Guinea-Bissau
- Propose merging Category:Guyana in fiction (1 C) to Category:Works about Guyana
- Propose merging Category:Honduras in fiction (1 C) to Category:Culture of Honduras
- Propose merging Category:Ivory Coast in fiction (1 C) to Category:Culture of Ivory Coast
- Propose merging Category:Kuwait in fiction (1 C) to Category:Culture of Kuwait
- Propose merging Category:Lesotho in fiction (1 C) to Category:Culture of Lesotho
- Propose merging Category:Libya in fiction (1 C) to Category:Works about Libya
- Propose merging Category:Liechtenstein in fiction (1 C) to to Category:Works about Liechtenstein
- Propose merging Category:Malawi in fiction (1 C) to Category:Works about Malawi
- Propose merging Category:Maldives in fiction (1 C) to Category:Culture of the Maldives
- Propose merging Category:Mali in fiction (1 C) to Category:Culture of Mali
- Propose merging Category:Mauritania in fiction (1 C) to Category:Culture of Mauritania
- Propose merging Category:Monaco in fiction (1 C) to Category:Culture of Monaco
- Propose merging Category:Mozambique in fiction (1 C) to Category:Culture of Mozambique
- Propose merging Category:Namibia in fiction (1 C) to Category:Works about Namibia
- Propose merging Category:Nicaragua in fiction (1 C) to Category:Works about Nicaragua
- Propose merging Category:Niger in fiction (1 C) to Category:Culture of Niger
- Propose merging Category:Oman in fiction (1 C) to Category:Works about Oman
- Propose merging Category:Panama in fiction (1 C) to Category:Works about Panama
- Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory each. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:42, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
Manuscripts by collection
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Manuscripts of the Abbey library of Saint Gall to Category:Manuscripts in the Abbey library of Saint Gall
- Propose renaming Category:Manuscripts of the Ambrosiana collections to Category:Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana
- Propose renaming Category:Manuscripts of the Austrian National Library to Category:Manuscripts in the Austrian National Library
- Propose renaming Category:Manuscripts of the Fitzwilliam Museum to Category:Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum
- Propose renaming Category:Manuscripts of the Folger Shakespeare Library to Category:Manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library
- Propose renaming Category:Manuscripts of Leiden University Library to Category:Manuscripts in Leiden University Library
- Propose renaming Category:Manuscripts of the Louvre to Category:Manuscripts in the Louvre
- Propose renaming Category:Manuscripts of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to Category:Manuscripts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Propose renaming Category:Manuscripts of the National Library of Greece to Category:Manuscripts in the National Library of Greece
- Propose renaming Category:Manuscripts of the National Library of Israel to Category:Manuscripts in the National Library of Israel
- Propose renaming Category:Manuscripts in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution to Category:Manuscripts in the Smithsonian Institution
- Propose renaming Category:Manuscripts of the Vatican Library to Category:Manuscripts in the Vatican Library
- Propose renaming Category:Biblical manuscripts of the Austrian National Library to Category:Biblical manuscripts in the Austrian National Library
- Propose renaming Category:Illuminated manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum to Category:Illuminated manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum
- Propose renaming Category:Illuminated manuscripts of the Louvre to Category:Illuminated manuscripts in the Louvre
- Propose renaming Category:Illuminated manuscripts of the Musée Condé to Category:Illuminated manuscripts in the Musée Condé
- Propose renaming Category:Illuminated manuscripts of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore to Category:Illuminated manuscripts in the Walters Art Museum
- Nominator's rationale: For consistency with all comparable subcategories of Category:Collection of the Louvre, Category:Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Category:Collection of the Smithsonian Institution, etc. – they all begin with "Paintings in", "Sculptures in" or similar. Ham II (talk) 08:13, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
Category:U.S. prior to 1923 public domain art
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:U.S. prior to 1923 public domain art to Category:U.S. expired public domain art
- Nominator's rationale: This category is automatically populated by {{PD-art-US}}. The 1923 cutoff doesn't apply anymore, so for example File:Unu nestival.jpg is in this category despite being published in 1929. hinnk (talk) 07:59, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
Category:Generals of the Army of Duchy of Warsaw
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated category, upmerge for now. Only Jan Henryk Dąbrowski is in it SMasonGarrison 03:51, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
- No objection to merging per se. Alternatively the category may be expanded to Category:Military personnel of the Duchy of Warsaw. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:54, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
Category:Chicago Teachers Federation
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Chicago Teachers Federation to Category:Chicago Teachers' Federation
- Nominator's rationale: Same reasons cited on talk page of main article for renaming from Chicago Teachers Federation to Chicago Teachers' Federation SecretName101 (talk) 01:38, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
Category:Entertainers by populated place in New Hampshire
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. Redundant category layer SMasonGarrison 00:43, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:57, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nominator.Lost in Quebec (talk) 09:45, 18 April 2025 (UTC)
Category:Ivy Plus universities
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: I don't think that this category is a defining feature, especially for those in the Ivey league. Ivy Plus redirects to a sub section of the Ivy League. SMasonGarrison 00:28, 18 April 2025 (UTC)