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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_March_29


March 29

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies upmerge

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Nominator's rationale: This is a followup to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 28#British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, implementing the "full merge" option discussed there. I am leaving out year-related categories to a followup nomination as they might need more complicated handling. -- Beland (talk) 07:37, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Suffragette 1911 census boycotters

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Convert Category:Suffragette 1911 census boycotters to article 1911 census boycotters
Nominator's rationale: I'm not sure if this can be listified, but I struggle to see how this is a defining category SMasonGarrison 04:39, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I might give it a try if no one else does. NLeeuw (talk) 07:50, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1900–1999 disease outbreaks

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Nominator's rationale: Not enough disease outbreaks in the 20th century to diffuse by year. WP:OCYEAR. Many of these outbreaks span multiple years, making decades an even better choice. –Aidan721 (talk) 02:42, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

6th-century famines

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Nominator's rationale: Not useful for navigation through at least the 15th century. WP:NARROW –Aidan721 (talk) 02:23, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

14th-century epidemics

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Nominator's rationale: Not useful for navigation. Redundant category layers. WP:NARROW –Aidan721 (talk) 02:16, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sports trophies and medals

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Nominator's rationale: Clearly the same scope and Category:Sports trophies and awards is already well-developed. Pichpich (talk) 01:38, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category::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]

Category:Thai people by populated place and occupation

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Nominator's rationale: Redunant category layer SMasonGarrison 00:15, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Omani sportspeople by populated place

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Nominator's rationale: Duel upmerge for now. Redundant category layer SMasonGarrison 00:12, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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