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Discussion for Today

This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_April_29

April 29

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:American radicals

Propose deleting Category:American radicals (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: The term "radical" has a specific relation to classical radicalism. In the United States, that ideology was represented by the Radical Republicans, which already has Category:Radical Republicans contained within this one. Instead, the three political figures whose articles are tagged with this category are only united as Progressive Era reformers despite huge differences in their views. For example, Eugene V. Debs is tagged with Category:American anti-capitalists, while Henry George has Category:American anti-communists. With poor defining characteristics, this category can be vaguely labeled onto anyone involved in far-left or far-right politics and should be deleted accordingly for using "radical" as a subjective descriptor. ViridianPenguin🐧 (💬) 01:54, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lean oppose. Deleting the category would isolate the child category Category:Radical Republicans. Your concern seems to be equally applicable to the parent category Category:Radicals and sibling categories, like British radicals, German radicals etc. ^SMason_Garrison 02:02, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your input as the category creator! To clarify, if deleted, I would want Category:Radical Republicans to be a direct child of Category:Radicals rather than orphaned. The header text of Category:Radicals clarifying that "radicalism does not refer here to the American English sense of the term as a left or right-wing 'radical', but to the contrary to the political tradition of Radicalism" highlights why a category for American radicals is uniquely confusing, especially when the country's distinctly radical politicians already have their own category. ViridianPenguin🐧 (💬) 02:40, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Looking at several threads on Talk:Classical radicalism, it seems there is currently no consensus as to what the name of the page should be. So until that is squared away, it's difficult to decide what the name of the related categories should be. It would appear that Category:Radicals is an ambiguous name as-is, and probably needs some sort of modifying word or parenthetical. And until that is resolved, I'm not sure we can address this subcat as to whether it is appropriate categorisation or not. - jc37 06:51, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Lean support (with re-parenting of the subcategory), it looks as if it is not a defining characteristic of the three articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:53, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on jc37's comment? Thoughts on Marcocapelle's comment to reparent the subcategory and prune the three articles?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 02:49, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Superisliga players

Propose deleting Category:Superisliga players (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Duplicate of Category:Metal Ligaen players which is the article name of the league and older category. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 14:14, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

One of the two cats should certainly be deleted/merged/redirected. You certainly have the current article name on your side, but I would be leaning towards renaming the article instead (and keeping the nominated cat and merging/redirecting Category:Metal Ligaen players to it) if that was an option. I can't find any guideline where it is said explictly, but I thought we generally avoided sponsored names as article titles (for neutrality reasons and because sponsors change). But obv, this isn't the forum to discuss the article's name, so deleting per nom is probably fine for now, and we just rename the kept cat if/when the article is moved. Felida⁹⁷ (talk) 20:38, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

NB: I just went through the leagues in Category:Top-tier ice hockey leagues in Europe, and afaics, the Danish one (Metal Ligaen) is the only one where the sponsor is in the article title (while the following leagues all have no sponsor in the article title, despite currently having one in their official name: Belarusian Extraleague, Czech Extraliga, Deutsche Eishockey Liga, Latvian Hockey Higher League, Ligue Magnus, Meistriliiga (ice hockey), Slovak Extraliga). Felida⁹⁷ (talk) 20:38, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Felida97's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 02:01, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Nature reserves in Håbo Municipality

Propose merging Category:Nature reserves in Håbo Municipality to Category:Nature reserves in Uppsala County and Category:Håbo Municipality
Propose merging Category:Nature reserves in Höganäs Municipality to Category:Nature reserves in Skåne County and Category:Höganäs Municipality
Propose merging Category:Nature reserves in Kristianstad Municipality to Category:Nature reserves in Skåne County and Category:Kristianstad Municipality
Propose merging Category:Nature reserves in Lund Municipality to Category:Nature reserves in Skåne County and Category:Lund Municipality
Propose merging Category:Nature reserves in Lysekil Municipality to Category:Nature reserves in Västra Götaland County and Category:Lysekil Municipality
Propose merging Category:Nature reserves in Vellinge Municipality to Category:Nature reserves in Skåne County and Category:Vellinge Municipality

Nominator's rationale: One article in each category; does not help navigation. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 13:03, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:42, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, there are typically a fairly large number of reserves in each municipality (probably an average of at least 20 or so), they just do not have articles yet. Gunnar Larsson (talk) 13:58, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Gunnar Larsson's comment?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 01:17, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe most of these reserves do not pass WP:N. Whether or not there is room for expansion is also not very relevant, because we can always recreate the categories when more articles are there. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:47, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Anthropomorphic horses

Propose deleting Category:Anthropomorphic horses (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: I looked through random 30% of the pages in category. None of them says that the ghorse there is anthrophomorphis, and what is more none of them look like anthropomorphic. Here there are anthropomorphic horses. On the other hand all of them see to be Category:Talking animals. Meaning that this categorization is pure speculation of a wikipedian and it must be dismantled into category:Fiction about talking animals. p.s. there even no horse-headed egyptian god to justify the category. --Altenmann >talk 22:09, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I agree that there is a difference between being a "talking beast" and being an anthropomorphic one. (Horace Horsecollar would be an example in this case.) A key disinction is that the latter requires representation in visual media (or some very clear description in the text). So I would support first pruning the whole tree of Category:Anthropomorphic animals, and see what is left. I also would suggest pruning articles that are about stories, rather than about the animals themselves. - jc37 22:26, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - The category is for horses (specifically fictional, legendary, or mythological horses) that have some degree of Anthropomorphism. I would say the category is defining for entries such as BoJack Horseman (character), Horace Horsecollar, and Quick Draw McGraw. This also falls in line with similar categories on the Category:Anthropomorphic animals category tree. (Oinkers42) (talk) 05:45, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- OK. I didnt check all pages. If kept, it must be severely trimmed of simply talking horses, because "some degree" cannot be decided by a wikipedian and must be told in the article, with ref, unless it is self-evident, as in your examples. --Altenmann >talk 18:21, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If not kept, it should be merged to its parent categories. Not sure if we ultimately need to keep anthropomorphic animals though, maybe "fictional" is enough. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:40, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Is keeping and pruning an acceptable alternative?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 01:15, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Skanör

Propose renaming Category:Skanör to Category:Skanör med Falsterbo

Nominator's rationale: Proposed at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_March_30#Category:People_from_Skanör, due to the small size of this category. However, I doubt that there will be enough contents to expand the "People from" subcategory as well because the place has a population of only 7,000, and hence I closed that one as merge. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 15:03, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Manually merge to Category:Vellinge Municipality. This target category isn't populated well, and Skanör med Falsterbo isn't even the largest place in the municipality, that is Höllviken. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:03, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Rename to follow Statistics Sweden localities. I've also added more articles that would fit in a broader or merged category. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 20:21, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I'm not seeing objection to a rename if kept, but should it be (manually) merged?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 00:13, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I would now say both Category:Skanör (med Falsterbo; 1 C, 11 P) and Category:Vellinge Municipality (3 C, 9 P) are sufficiently populated. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 10:04, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 01:11, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FBG Duck categories

Propose deleting Category:FBG Duck songs
Propose deleting Category:Songs written by FBG Duck

Nominator's rationale: Categories related to artist article recreated after it was deleted by nomination. DBrown SPS (talk) 09:32, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete If Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slide (FBG Duck song) closes as delete, then both categories will be empty. Also related to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FBG Duck (3rd nomination). –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 15:05, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: The linked AFD was closed as keep. Should this category still be deleted?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 00:06, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:FBG Duck songs should be kept considering the header in Category:Songs by artist. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:13, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 01:10, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:American women civilians in World War II

Propose merging Category:American women civilians in World War II to Category:American women in World War II

Nominator's rationale: Overlapping categories and narrow intersection, we don't have an American civilians of WW2 category. ^SMason_Garrison 01:01, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, category distinguishes between those who served in the military and those who contributed as civilians. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 04:08, 29 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]