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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_January_2


January 2

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:1799 establishments in New Zealand

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Nominator's rationale: Large tree structure for one establishment. Merge the lone populated category and delete the rest. –Aidan721 (talk) 16:13, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pashtun diplomats

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Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:OCEGRS, trivial intersection with ethnicity. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:23, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:German Women's Hockey League teams

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Nominator's rationale: There are only 2 team articles for the league (1 of which is defunct). Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:55, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:1970s disestablishments in Portuguese Timor

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Nominator's rationale: Not needed, only contains Portuguese Timor, which is already in relevant categories so no merging is needed. Note: I already moved Sociedade Agrícola Pátria e Trabalho up to East Timor, since it was disestablished after the Indonesian invasion in 1975. – Fayenatic London 12:49, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Millennia in Timor-Leste

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Nominator's rationale: Delete unnecessary layer. We have previously found consensus to delete millennia categories where a country has no chronology categories before 20th century. – Fayenatic London 10:36, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ottoman sultans born to Greek mothers

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Nominator's rationale: delete, trivial intersection. Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:32, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fadrique family

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Nominator's rationale: delete, largely overlapping with Category:Counts of Salona. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:45, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Rasputin family

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Nominator's rationale: There is no need whatsoever for this category, which only has articles for 2 people. There are no other notable family members. I have already added the article for Maria Rasputin to Category:Grigori Rasputin, which is entirely adequate. Anomalous+0 (talk) 07:44, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Newman family

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Nominator's rationale: This soap opera family is highly ambiguous given two matching categories of real families with the same name. Mike Selinker (talk) 03:49, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Neergaard (noble family)

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Nominator's rationale: Given the uncommon name, this doesn't need an additional disambiguator that no other noble family has. Mike Selinker (talk) 02:10, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Nicholson arts family

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Nominator's rationale: Nearly all subcategories of category:Families by occupation put the occupation at the end, so this seems no different. Not clear whether (art) or (arts) would be better. Mike Selinker (talk) 02:08, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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