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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_April_6


April 6

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:16th-century BC women regents

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Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated century category, not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:13, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Regents and political figures have no place in a "women" category. Dimadick (talk) 11:17, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:01, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Disestablishments in Tonga

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Nominator's rationale: There are only 4 articles in the entire Category:Disestablishments in Tonga tree. Not useful to diffuse by any time period. WP:OCYEAR/WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 22:19, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on FL's alternative proposal?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:39, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Visual Studio Code - Open Source distributions

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Nominator's rationale: Please suggest a better destination than my tentative place-holder. The original contains the always-invalid ⟨ - ⟩. Correcting the hyphen-minus to an en dash still leaves the problem that the name is impossible to use in running text without confusion because the dash appears to function within the surrounding sentence rather than separate elements within the name, and my tentative suggestion of an unspaced en dash, while compatible with the MoS, appears to connect Code and Open rather than separate the phrases that contain them. Stephan Leeds (talk) 01:38, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Merge? Not seeing objections to the rename if kept.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:29, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pre-1606 contact with Australia

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Nominator's rationale: As named, the category violates WP:OCMISC for an arbitrary cut-off. The vast majority of the articles are related to the Theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia so rename to Category:Theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia making Theory of the Portuguese discovery of Australia the main article and purge the few articles that are not relevant to the new topic. –Aidan721 (talk) 23:41, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: No clear agreement on rename target.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:07, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Qin dynasty in fiction

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory and one article. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:05, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Beland (talk) 07:22, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 00:30, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Relations of Japan and its former colonies

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Nominator's rationale: delete, Korea was annexed by Japan rather than a colony (or initially it was a protectorate). Marcocapelle (talk) 21:38, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This and the two nominations below are follow-up on this earlier discussion. @An anonymous username, not my real name, Seefooddiet, Sm8900, HouseBlaster, and Voorts: pinging contributors to that discussion. Creator of the categories has already been notified. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:52, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am not sure on whether all individual instances of Japan's conquests can be termed colonialism, but shouldn't the fact that the overall phenomenon is called the Japanese colonial empire mean something? Even if the category has to be renamed, it seems thematically and chronologically in line with the similar categories pertaining to European colonizers. GreekApple123 (talk) 22:07, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 00:29, 6 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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