Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 October 3

October 3

Category:Animals described in the 1750s

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 00:03, 11 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1750s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1760s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1770s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1780s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1790s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1800s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1810s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1820s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1830s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1840s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1850s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1860s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1870s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1880s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1890s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1900s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1910s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1920s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1930s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1940s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1950s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1960s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1970s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1980s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 1990s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 2000s (0)
Propose deleting Category:Animals described in the 2010s (0)

Nominator's rationale: Follow-up removal of empty animal decadal categories, per WP:TREE RFC @ Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of Life#Request for comment: categorizing by year of formal description. See previous, related CfDs here and here. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 15:00, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

WT:TREE & WT:Animals notified. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 15:06, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom and previous discussions. Pagliaccious (talk) 15:11, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Fell the whole tree! Peterkingiron (talk) 16:55, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Well, we don't want to get carried away...but a little bit helps. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 20:11, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom and previous discussions. Loopy30 (talk) 18:00, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom and previous discussions; all such decadal categories should go. Peter coxhead (talk) 21:36, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nominator and discussions - clearly overkill. – numbermaniac 08:40, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:BioWare companions

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The result of the discussion was:

Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 October 12#Category:BioWare companions. ℯ xplicit 07:10, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Propose merging Category:BioWare companions to Category:Video game sidekicks

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT, the subject does not merit such an overly specific category. As far as I can tell, pretty much all Bioware characters who have articles here are party members for the main character's party. _{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 14:14, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Since I originally created the category, I figure I might as well give the context for why I made it. I noticed a lot of overall coverage of BioWare companions taken in aggregate -- who was the best, the worst, what were recurring archetypes BioWare used and how game romance was handled, etc. So I felt it made a degree of sense to just give that a category outside of the usual franchise-specific character ones. But yes, the vast majority of articles we have on BW characters are on companions -- the obvious exceptions being Revan, Commander Shepard and some of the listy character articles, but these are rare enough that, even for a hypothetical person just searching for info on BioWare companions, they probably wouldn't have much of a problem. On the record I do think the idea of RPG party members is probably distinct from the more general idea of a 'sidekick', though I'm not now actually advocating that be split into a separate category. – The Millionth One (talk) (contribs) 00:28, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Star Wars droid characters

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Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 October 12#Category:Star Wars droid characters. ℯ xplicit 07:10, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Propose merging Category:Star Wars droid characters to Category:Star Wars characters

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT - there are only 5 actual members of the category, and no need for such a specific category when there is not one for "Star Wars Imperial characters" or "Star Wars rebel characters". There is no reason the characters can't simply be in the "Star Wars characters" and "Fictional robots" categories at the same time. _{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 14:06, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom.— TAnthony^Talk 14:54, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I count 9 articles, not 5. This is not a small category. Dimadick (talk) 16:47, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- Some of them are redirects which are not allowed in categories. Others are articles that were wrongly placed there ("Battle droid" and "Droid" are articles about a fictional concept, not a fictional character)_{ZXCVBNM (TALK)} 16:59, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - ZXCVBNM: Redirects most certainly are allowed in categories, e.g. redirects to sub-topics which do not have their own separate articles; please see Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects. – Fayenatic London 16:05, 4 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Birds of the British Isles

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The result of the discussion was: Merge. Timrollpickering 10:47, 10 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Propose merging Category:Birds of the British Isles to Category:Birds of Europe

Nominator's rationale: Non-defining (e.g. for Common murre or Roseate tern). Note: There is List of birds of Great Britain and List of birds of Ireland (both of which list hundreds of species). Example of similar previous CFD: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_May_17#Category:Spiders_of_Great_Britain (and birds generally have a wider distribution than spiders). Note: The category creator has been blocked (mainly for category-related silliness). DexDor^(talk) 05:43, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support merging to Category:Birds of Europe as part of category clean-up. Loopy30 (talk) 18:05, 3 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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