Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 15

February 15

Category:Years in New York (state) politics

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The result of the discussion was: manual merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:39, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Nominating the main category as well as its subcats. Years in New York (state) politics is the only category with subcats of its type dedicated to any U.S. state on Wikipedia. In my opinion, this is a form of overcat. I believe the categories of "Year in New York State" is enough to be used on articles in place of this main politics cat and its subcats. Articles for elections in New York state have already a category for it. I can't imagine any good use for this category or even other duplicate categories for the other 49 states and the five major U.S. territories.

Same could be said for articles for the politics of other countries' provinces, districts, regions, etc. for subdivision political matters. Also for all current 3,144 counties in each of the 50 states that have a county legislature and if articles were or do exist for laws in a certain county or other political matters for said counties.

If somebody could please tag the 34 subcats as well and just ping me if they have. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 18:06, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I'll tag the subcategories.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:13, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
No opinion on the merits. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:22, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Slovenian online encyclopedias

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:03, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now without prejudice. It has only 1 member, DEDI, and it is not expected this category will be populated by at least 5 items any time soon, if ever. NLeeuw (talk) 22:02, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Uzbekistani encyclopedias

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:04, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now without prejudice. It has only 1 member, National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan, and it is not expected this category will be populated by at least 5 items any time soon, if ever. NLeeuw (talk) 21:43, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Montenegrin online encyclopedias

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:04, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now without prejudice. It has only 1 member, Crnogorska Enciklopedija, and it is not expected this category will be populated by at least 5 items any time soon, if ever. (This will also automatically lead to the deletion of redundant layer Category:Montenegrin encyclopedias). NLeeuw (talk) 21:34, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:National encyclopedias

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Encyclopedias about countries. Also, add parent (done), move some items (listed in discussion) to Category:General encyclopedias, and upmerge Category:National Soviet encyclopedias into Category:Soviet encyclopedias. -- Beland (talk) 07:12, 26 March 2025 (UTC) Beland (talk) 07:12, 26 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Okay this might be difficult to explain, but here I go. I think 'national encyclopedia' is supposed to mean: an encyclopedia with contents primarily about one particular country. As such, it belongs in the Category:Works about countries tree (printed versions arguably in the Category:Books about countries subtree), and I propose to add that as a parent. I'm not sure what else it is supposed to mean, other than an WP:ARBITRARYCAT. For one thing, just calling an encyclopedia 'national' does not mean it is the *only* encyclopedia about that country, and has some sort of privileged and exclusive status. Even though one article might sayThe Canadian Encyclopedia is the national encyclopedia of Canada. (emphasis by me), another might sayThe Latvian National Encyclopedia is a universal encyclopedia in Latvian. (emphasis by me). In the end, though, both are just attempts to summarise encyclopedic knowledge of one country into one book, i.e. they are encyclopedias about countries. The latter describes this clearly:It is thematically focused on Latvian topics. The current contents of the category make clear that the encyclopedia in question does not have to have the word 'national' in the title, nor have to be published inside the country it is about, nor have to be published in the predominant or official language of that country (e.g. Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia was published in English in Toronto, Canada, not in Ukrainian in Ukraine). So I think it makes sense, especially as long as there is no main article explaining that 'national encyclopedias' are anything other than 'encyclopedias about countries', the latter is a more precise and unambiguous catname, and fitting in the Category:Works about countries tree (as well as the Category:Specialized encyclopedias tree which it is already in).
It logically follows that its child Category:National Soviet encyclopedias should be renamed to Category:Encyclopedias about republics of the Soviet Union per its other parent Category:Categories by republic of the Soviet Union (this is a simple WP:C2C). It was always questionable whether such encyclopedias could even be considered 'national' or rather 'subnational'; the word 'republic' resolves that issue quite well in the rest of that category tree. NLeeuw (talk) 20:53, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
PS: It seems that the word Great is supposed to signify that something is a general encyclopedia rather than a specialised one. It's not just a fancy word, or referring to the length of the text. The word following Great usually refers to the language in which this general encyclopedia was written (and not to the country it was published, although they typically coincide).
  • General encyclopedias (Purge, or Move to Category:General encyclopedias):
    • Croatian Encyclopedia: It is named "Croatian" encyclopedia (colloquially Croatica) in the tradition of general-knowledge encyclopedias as Britannica.
    • Encyclopaedia Cambrensis: While the number of articles relating to the Bible and theology is significantly higher than expected in such a reference work today, it also includes a large number of biographical articles, articles on Welsh history and literature, science, geography and other Celtic nations. It evidently did not limit itself to Welsh topics, so I'll consider it general.
    • Estonian Encyclopedia: according to etwiki: an Estonian-language general encyclopedia (...) designed as an updated and expanded new edition of the "Estonian Soviet Encyclopedia"., which was also a general encyclopedia.
    • Great Norwegian Encyclopedia: not sure, but it appears to be general, because the 'Norwegian' part refers to language, not to the country Norway. There is no indication of any kind of specialisation; all topics seem to be included.
    • Great Soviet Encyclopedia: The GSE claimed to be "the first Marxist–Leninist general-purpose encyclopedia".
    • Great Ukrainian Encyclopedia: ukwiki goes into some detail that the GUE is meant to be a universal encyclopedia: a systematized collection of modern reliable scientific information from all branches of human knowledge in a user-friendly format. Although it has a lot of Ukraine/Ukrainian-related contents, the other encyclopedias of Ukraine (see below) already cover that extensively, and they sought to avoid duplication.
    • Mu'jam al-Buldan: Yaqut al-Hamawi#Works: "Dictionary of Countries"; Classified a "literary geography", composed between 1224 and 1228, and completed a year before the author's death. An alphabetical index of place names from the literary corpus of the Arabs, vocalizations, their Arabic or foreign derivation and location. Yaqut supplements geographic descriptions with historical, ethnographic, and associated narrative material with historical sketches and accounts of Muslim conquests, names of governors, monuments, local celebrities etc., and preserves much valuable early literary, historical, biographic and geographic material of prose and poetry. Although it is called the "Dictionary of Countries", is about much more than that, including the natural sciences if you read the fawiki article. I think of it as a general encyclopedia, but I'm open to arguments.
    • National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan: a general-knowledge encyclopedia written in Uzbek. The majority of the articles in the National Encyclopedia were directly taken from the Uzbek Soviet Encyclopedia.
    • Nationalencyklopedin: a comprehensive contemporary Swedish-language encyclopedia. It's not about Sweden; it's about everything, expressed in Swedish.
    • Norsk konversasjonsleksikon Kringla Heimsins: not sure but I think it's general, and that 'Norsk' just represents the language it is written in. Bokmålwiki states: The name comes from the work Heimskringla which in ancient times was called "Kringla heimsins" which means "the round earth", i.e. the circumference of the world. I take that to mean it seeks to encompass all world knowledge, but that's just my interpretation.
    • Proleksis Encyclopedia: the first Croatian general and national online encyclopedia.
    • Encyclopedic Dictionary of Vietnam: seems general-purpose, especially judging by the viwiki article.
  • Encyclopedias about countries (Keep):
    • Banglapedia: Banglapedia was not designed as a general encyclopedia but as a specialized encyclopedia on Bangladesh-related topics.
    • Burmese Encyclopedia (according to the mywiki article): The Burmese Translation Society decided to compile the Myanmar Encyclopedia in February 1949. This encyclopedia aims to include topics related to Burma with special importance and in full.
    • The Canadian Encyclopedia: The physical copy and website includes "articles on Canadian biographies and places, history, the Arts, as well as First Nations, science and Canadian innovation."
    • Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: a basic English-language encyclopaedia for Ethiopian and Eritrean studies.
    • Encyclopedia Bulgaria: The encyclopedia contains articles on historical, geographical and cultural themes, biographical articles about important Bulgarian statesmen and revolutionaries, political, social, scientific, cultural, economic and sports figures as well as articles on current and historical settlements and administrative divisions of Bulgaria.
    • Encyclopedia of History of Ukraine: an illustrated encyclopedia on history of Ukraine.
    • Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine: The EMU provides an integral image of modern Ukraine describing events, institutions, organizations, activities, notions and people from the early 20th century to the present. It embraces all spheres of life in Ukraine, and reflects current views on historical events and personalities.
    • Encyclopedia of Ukraine: a fundamental work of Ukrainian Studies.
    • Ukraine: A Concise Encyclopaedia: translation of the above; about Ukrainian subjects, translated into English.
    • Historical Dictionary of Switzerland: an encyclopedia on the history of Switzerland.
    • Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein: an encyclopedia on the history of Liechtenstein.
    • Indonesian Heritage Series: according to nhbs.com, Focuses on Indonesia's natural and cultural heritage and covers the entire Indonesian Archipelago from Sumatra to Irian Jaya.
    • Macedonian Encyclopedia: according to mkwiki, it is the first scientific encyclopedia about Macedonia.
    • Encyclopedia of Malaysia: a multi-volume encyclopedia about Malaysia.
    • Medical Encyclopedia of Islam and Iran: Its content will include a history of medicine in Iran and other Islamic countries. It's also in Category:Encyclopedias of medicine and Category:Encyclopedias of Islam, so "Encyclopedias about countries" seems a good addition.
    • Enciclopedia de México: The encyclopedia has a vast array of articles including geology and landforms, fauna and flora, human migration, pre-Conquest ethnicity, anthropology and archeology, and biographical coverage, and it is the most comprehensive encyclopedia on Mexico to date. The first half of that sentence may seem like it is a general encyclopedia, but taken together, they most probably mean geology in Mexico, landforms in Mexico, fauna and flora in Mexico, etc., otherwise the phrase pre-Conquest ethnicity makes no sense. That refers to the Spanish conquest of Mexico, no doubt.
    • An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand: an official encyclopaedia about New Zealand
    • Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand: the section Structure makes clear it is about New Zealand.
    • The Cyclopedia of New Zealand: on the people, places and organisations of provinces of New Zealand (...) with each volume concerned with a specific region of New Zealand.
    • Norsk Allkunnebok: although the title means "Norwegian General Knowledge Book", Allkunneboka focused on conditions in Norway. (...) Themes outside Norway are hardly dealt with.
    • Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland: although mention is made in the History section of a need for a general purpose Scottish encyclopaedia, the book is neither written in the Scots language (but in English), nor is it about general knowledge, but about the society of Scotland specifically, judging by the Articles and Second Edition sections.
    • Singapore: The Encyclopedia: is a 640-page encyclopedia about Singapore, covering its history, geography, arts and politics.
    • Encyclopedia of Slovenia: a Slovene-language encyclopedia that contains topics related to Slovenia.
    • Encyclopaedia of Wales: a single-volume-publication encyclopaedia about Wales.
    • Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia: comprehensive reference work about Yugoslavia and related topics.
  • Both?
    • Latvian National Encyclopedia: a universal encyclopedia in Latvian (...). The [2018] paper edition of the encyclopedia (...) is thematically focused on Latvian topics. (...) The online version does not have a thematical focus and covers a wide variety of subjects on world culture, science, economics etc.
    • Lithuanian encyclopedias: are encyclopedias published in the Lithuanian language or encyclopedias about Lithuania and Lithuania-related topics. This is certainly mixing up two different concepts into a single article based on the ambiguity of the adjective "Lithuanian". My preference would be to split this article in two, but for now, I recommend putting it in both categories.
    • Treccani is a publisher of encyclopedias in Italian; some are general-purpose, others are specialised about Italy, so I recommend both.
That's about it. I recommend this division. NLeeuw (talk) 17:50, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Marcocapelle What do you think? Shall we split the category this way, and make Category:General encyclopedias a stand-alone category into which we shall place the first group? NLeeuw (talk) 20:02, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Nederlandse Leeuw: "general" sounds a bit too much WP:OCMISC to me. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:50, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    @Marcocapelle It would be if we made it up ourselves, but "general encyclopedias" is the established term in English-language literature. (Alternatives are "generalist encyclopedias" or "universal encyclopedias", but those are much rarer). Funnily enough, the first search result I get is from WUR:
    There are two types of encyclopedias -- general and subject. General encyclopedias provide concise overviews on a wide variety of topics. Subject encyclopedias contain in-depth entries focusing on one field of study.
And then it spends the rest of the web page on the pros and cons of Wikipedia. Incidentally, "subject encyclopedias" is another term for what we call Category:Specialized encyclopedias. NLeeuw (talk) 06:56, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I support Marcocapelle's alt proposal, and I support using Category:General encyclopedias. I don't think this is OCMISC – it is about encyclopedias which lack any topic, rather than encyclopedias of varied but specific topics. And, as NL points out, it is a distinction made by RSes. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:47, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for your support. This has been a bit complicated to work out, but I think we're all getting to the same page. NLeeuw (talk) 20:24, 28 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:April 2022 sports events in Lithuania

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:04, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Isolated categories. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:01, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Uyghur genocide denial

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The result of the discussion was: delete. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:30, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Considering Talk:Persecution of Uyghurs in China/FAQ and Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard/Archive_96#"Genocide_denial"_and_Uyghurs, it seems that this category purely exists to workaround the established consensus. In addition it is blatantly violating multiple of the criteria noted in WP:BLPCAT.

Just to take one example, the article Jodie Evans only mentions "In 2021, Evans described Uyghurs as "terrorists".

I think this doesn't need much explanation. One of the rare examples of a BLP being included in such a category is when they are mainly noted for their denial of crimes against humanity, e.g. "He is noted for his characterization of Auschwitz as a "labour camp", attracting allegations of Holocaust denial." Although for organizations the criteria are less strict, non of those listed exists with the main purpose for, or being most notable for, denying a genocide. Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 14:33, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

See also Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_September_6#Category:Deniers_of_Japanese_war_crimes, Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_August_18#Category:Deniers_of_the_Uyghur_genocide Pieceofmetalwork (talk) 14:35, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:May 2022 sports events in Estonia

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:28, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Isolated categories. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:08, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:May 2022 sports events in Albania

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:05, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Isolated categories. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:01, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:June 2022 sports events in Liechtenstein

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:05, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Isolated category. Not useful for navigation –Aidan721 (talk) 13:41, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nominator. Lost in Quebec (talk) 13:56, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:United States Under Secretary of Commerce

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:05, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: "United States Under Secretaries of Commerce" is a better category as it contains more articles and categories Isoceles-sai (talk) 13:11, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Military personnel from Warren County, New Jersey

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:06, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Lost in Quebec (talk) 13:04, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Also nominating for merging-

All categories with one entry.Lost in Quebec (talk) 13:11, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Businesspeople from Atlantic County, New Jersey

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The result of the discussion was: manual merge. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:29, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 12:48, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Businesspeople from Somerset County, New Jersey

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Businesspeople from New Jersey and Category:People from Somerset County, New Jersey. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:11, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 09:34, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Newcastle University Medical School alumni

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:14, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category. Gjs238 (talk) 08:53, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Pansexual Jews

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:14, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category. Gjs238 (talk) 08:50, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:European earthquake stubs

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:15, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated stub categories with no evidence of approval by WikiProject Stub Sorting. As always, stub categories require 60 articles before they can be created, but none of these have even 30. Bearcat (talk) 07:32, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Ancient architecture

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:18, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer in these ancient centuries. The "buildings and structures" subcategories are sufficient. There is little need to merge, the content is mostly already in the Works or Arts category of that same century. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:25, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:China television station stubs

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:21, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Just found out that stub categories require 60 articles in them before they can be created. Faux pas on my part. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 03:45, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Iraq television station stubs

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:24, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Just found out that stub categories require 60 articles in them before they can be created. Faux pas on my part. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 03:42, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Puerto Rico television station stubs

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:26, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:Puerto Rico television station stubs to Category:United States television station stubs and Category:Puerto Rico culture stubs
  • Propose merging Category:United States insular area television station stubs to Category:United States television station stubs
Nominator's rationale: Just found out that stub categories require 60 articles in them before they can be created. Faux pas on my part. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 03:38, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Australia television station stubs

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:36, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated new stub categories. As always, stub categories require 60 articles in them before they can be created, but these only have 35 and 36 respectively. Which is precisely why I created the continent-level parent Category:Oceanian television station stubs a few days ago: Australia and New Zealand together pass the 60 bar, but neither country passes it on their own for the purposes of needing separate country-level categories. Bearcat (talk) 03:33, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Riley Green (singer) songs

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:36, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The singer is the only Riley Green with a Wikipedia page, so there's no reason for the category to point out he's a singer. MC-123 (talk)
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Category:Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria on film

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:36, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Depictions on film are inherently cultural; consistency with similarly-named categories. Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 02:54, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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