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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_December_3
December 3
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:Video games in East Asia
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: First of all, shouldn't the category name be "Video gaming in East Asia" in consistency with similarly-named categories? Also, this is the only category for video gaming in a region or continent. It contains two distinct articles at the moment though that are defining. If not delete, then rename. QuantumFoam66 (talk) 16:29, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Category:Lists of political parties in the Netherlands
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Right now, 3 out of the 6 articles are not part of the Netherlands, but are part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. So it should be renamed. Another option is to delete the category altogether, because they are not really related and can be found through Category:Politics of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (of which this category should be a direct child if kept). Dajasj (talk) 09:16, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support option 2 (delete), 5 of the 6 articles are already interlinked via Category:Lists of political parties in the Caribbean and the parties in the Caribbean are completely unrelated to the parties in the Netherlands proper. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:10, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Category:Set designers
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Set designers to Category:Scenic designers
- Propose merging Category:American set designers to Category:American scenic designers
- Propose renaming Category:Broadway set designers to Category:Broadway scenic designers
- Nominator's rationale: As the main article (scenic design) states, these are the same thing. The categories should be merged to match the main article. The two child categories should also be merged/renamed as proposed above. Axem Titanium (talk) 06:59, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Category:Yacht clubs in the United States
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Yacht clubs in the United States to Category:Sailing clubs in the United States
- Nominator's rationale: rename, for consistency with most of its subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:35, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison, Armbrust, and Yachty4000: pinging contributors to an opposed speedy proposal the other way around. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:38, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Support. I'm fine with either direction, my goal is consistency. SMasonGarrison 13:54, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
Category:Times that 1000 Wikipedians supported something
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: This is to clarify that this category is for any pages with >1000 signatures supporting something. See also Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 November 20#Category:Times that 1100 Wikipedians supported something where there was some support for the rename. We can also rename to "Times that 1000 or more Wikipedians supported something" after Wikipedia:Times that 1000 or more Wikipedians supported something if people find the "+" confusing. All, except one, of the pages here are >1,100 signatures anyway. – robertsky (talk) 05:30, 3 December 2024 (UTC)
- Rename per nom. One might expect that people would naturally understand the concept of "more than" but that appeared not to be the case recently when categories were created for 1100 and 1200 supporters. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:59, 3 December 2024 (UTC)