Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 May 13

• Propose deleting Category:White nationalism in Ohio (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: None of the articles in this category mention white nationalism. White nationalism as a term is not synonymous with other forms of racism, white supremacy, neo-Nazism, etc. it is not the catch all category. PARAKANYAA (talk) 19:52, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Duns Scotus (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Recently created unnecessary duplication of Category:Scotism Gjs238 (talk) 19:13, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Platformization (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Recently created category containing two articles about South Africa. Don't see the need for such a category or what category tree to place it in. Gjs238 (talk) 15:30, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello @Gjs238 and thanks for your nomination. When a goldfish swims around a goldfish bowl, do you think that they notice the water? Or do you think that they assume that this unbiqitous 24/7 water all around them is normal? Thomas Poell (Q112521148) et al, suggests that our “infrastructures, economic processes and government frameworks” not to mention our cultural and social practices are being reorganized around these platforms. From holidays (Air BnB), entertainment, (Netflix), transport (Uber) etc right to reading, banking, higher education. Our society is being platformatized. Now in some parts of the world, that platformatization has become normalized. In other parts, it is still unfamilar. Derek J Moore (talk) 15:43, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. I previously came across this a couple of days ago and considered listing it for WP:CFD myself, but I couldn't figure out how to articulate a coherent summary of my concerns. It's not altogether clear what the word even means in this context — although we do have the article platform economy, it's not shedding a whole lot of light on how the general concept of "platformization" would be all that strongly defining of the individual contents here: in the broadest sense, every website or database that exists at all could be described as a "platform", and I'm not seeing how we would distinguish between projects that would belong here and projects that wouldn't, thus making it essentially an WP:INDISCRIMINATE category for every single technology project that exists. Bearcat (talk) 18:40, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:State elections to Category:Elections in country subdivisions

Nominator's rationale: rename, aligning with parent Category:Politics of country subdivisions, a more general name because not in every country a subdivision is called "state". Marcocapelle (talk) 14:21, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - an interesting proposal. To me the word subdivision does not only mean state, it can mean anything on a local level. I think state elections refer to Category:State politics. Moondragon21 (talk) 16:42, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, I think subdivisions include a lot more than just "States", so the separation is valid. -Samoht27 (talk) 16:59, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I am in favor of creating a separate category -Samoht27 (talk) 17:03, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Czech Renaissance humanists to Category:Renaissance humanists from Bohemia

Nominator's rationale: rename, consistent with Category:16th-century Czech people and Category:17th-century Czech people redirecting to Category:16th-century people from Bohemia and Category:17th-century people from Bohemia. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:17, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Czech Baroque composers to Category:Baroque composers from Bohemia
• Propose renaming Category:Czech Classical-period composers to Category:Classical-period composers from Bohemia

Nominator's rationale: rename, consistent with Category:17th-century Czech people and Category:18th-century Czech people redirecting to Category:17th-century people from Bohemia and Category:18th-century people from Bohemia. Also consistent with parent Category:Classical composers from Bohemia. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:08, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Plays set in the 9th century BC to Category:Works set in the 9th century BC and Category:Plays set in antiquity
• Propose merging Category:Plays set in the 8th century BC to Category:Works set in the 8th century BC and Category:Plays set in antiquity
• Propose merging Category:Plays set in the 7th century BC to Category:Works set in the 7th century BC and Category:Plays set in antiquity

Nominator's rationale: merge, these are single-article categories, which is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:32, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Water taxis to Category:Water taxis and water buses

Nominator's rationale: According to the main article, "The term water taxi is usually confined to a boat operating on demand, and water bus to a boat operating on a schedule. In North American usage, the terms are roughly synonymous." Since the reader should be able to identify a category's scope from its title, this category should be renamed to make clear that it is inclusive of both types of services. Paul_012 (talk) 10:54, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Why not split it to Category:Water taxis and Category:Water buses? They are clearly equally distinct as taxis and buses are. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:38, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • That's fine with me too, but I decided against proposing as such since there's only a single article that says the terms are interchangeable in some contexts. Also, some of the subjects with "water taxi" in their names seem to operate as water buses under the stricter definition, which might make splitting potentially confusing. --Paul_012 (talk) 13:16, 13 May 2025 (UTC), 13:23, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Wikipedia categories named after counties of Sweden (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: County categories are properly listed in Category:Counties of Sweden. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 10:53, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, two separate categories for the same thing, simultaneously ignores and accepts the existence of sub-categories. -Samoht27 (talk) 16:57, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:39, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Anne Murray (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Does note meet the threshold of WP:OCEPON, covered by works tree. --woodensuperman 08:51, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - There are articles relating to Anne Murray that exists to meet that threshold. I have populated Anne Murray: Full Circle and List of awards and nominations received by Anne Murray, though there may be a few more I've missed. MISTERPITHER (talk) 19:09, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom, the songs subcategory suffices. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:47, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Songs and albums subcats sufficiently interlink and a subcat for image files does not necessitate this parent. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 16:51, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Deborah Cox (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Does note meet the threshold of WP:OCEPON, covered by works tree. --woodensuperman 08:50, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom, the albums subcategory suffices. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:48, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. Sufficient navigation exists between the two subcategories. The parent is unnecessary.

Quick note. I nominated this category 15 years ago with a surprising (to me) result of no consensus. See WP:CfD/2010 Aug 13. The category creator hasn't edited since 2013. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 16:44, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Jonah Hill (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Does not meet the threshold for WP:OCEPON. Covered by "Works" tree. --woodensuperman 08:36, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom, the screenplays subcategory suffices. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:48, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Would this one be a candidate to rename to Category:Works by Jonah Hill? I see there are categories such as Category:Works by John Francis Daley and Category:Works by David Giler with similar content, but perhaps the "works by filmmaker" tree is in need of pruning as well. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 17:08, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Television stations in the Grand Rapids–Kalamazoo–Battle Creek market to Category:Television stations in West Michigan

Nominator's rationale: Consistency with main article's name; don't want to use Nielsen market name Mvcg66b3r (talk) 03:27, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Television stations in Columbia, Missouri to Category:Television stations in Mid-Missouri

Nominator's rationale: Consistency with main article's name; it's more than one city Mvcg66b3r (talk) 03:22, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:The Crusaders albums and Category:The Jazz Crusaders albums to Category:The Crusaders (jazz fusion group) albums

Nominator's rationale: Propose merging the two categories into one (renaming as well to follow the current name of the group's article) as the group dropped "Jazz" from the name in the early 1970s. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 00:23, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]