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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_August_10


August 10

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Suicide attempt

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Nominator's rationale: Newly created and badly-named category of unclear necessity. Apart from the head article about the concept, there's only one article about an individual suicide attempt here, and even that is actually about an academic's theory that a notable person made an unpublicized suicide attempt rather than about a fully verified event.
We do not have any other standalone articles about unsuccessful suicide attempts to file here, however -- and while we do have a limited number articles about successful suicides that have achieved notability as events, even Category:Suicides mainly comprises the suiciders' main biographical articles themselves rather than spinoff articles about their suicides as independent topics: by and large, "Suicide of X" articles only exist if and when the event is notable but the person themselves was not previously notable in life in order to qualify for a conventional biographical article, and virtually never exist as separate spinoffs from the biographical article of a person who had already passed notability standards before offing themselves.
So this isn't needed just to hold two articles, but the lack of any other standalone articles about unsuccessful suicide attempts means the only way to expand this would be to start adding biographical articles to it, which would be both (a) unmaintainable, and (b) an extreme WP:BLP minefield.
And even if there were a reason to keep this, it would have to be renamed to the plural Category:Suicide attempts anyway. Bearcat (talk) 15:59, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ancient Hindu kingdoms

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Nominator's rationale: merge, largely overlapping scope, most ancient Indian kingdoms were Hindu kingdoms and most ancient Hindu kingdoms were Indian kingdoms. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:50, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedia utility templates

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Nominator's rationale: I propose to upmerge to Category:Wikipedia templates by task, because the word "utility" doesn't mean anything specific. The description doesn't help either:

Templates in this category are used in articles, portals, templates, and other pages to help create and format those pages.

If you do not immediately find what you are looking for in here, try the subcategories.

Dumping everything into Category:Wikipedia templates by task will help subcategorizing the templates and the subcategories, once more of them are visible in the same category. —⁠andrybak (talk) 13:48, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Canals by year 1500-1700

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Nominator's rationale: merge, mostly single-article categories, this does not help navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:09, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cultural infrastructure

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Nominator's rationale: merge, per precedent in this earlier discussion. The above categories weren't caught in the previous discussion as they have never even been added to the Cultural infrastructure tree. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:50, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Former Hindu temples

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:33, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:18th-century African-American people by occupation

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's only one occupation in here, which isn't helpful for navigation Mason (talk) 00:57, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nom. Omnis Scientia (talk) 08:05, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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