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October 21

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:LGBT legislators in the United Kingdom

Nominator's rationale: Procedural nomination. This category was first created in September because there were multiple categories for both Category:LGBT members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and Category:LGBT members of the Scottish Parliament separately filed as subcategories of Category:LGBT legislators (as well as three members of the Welsh Senedd individually filed there without being subcatted). However, the category has been arbitrarily emptied out of process by anonymous IPs several times in the past three days, initially with no explanation whatsoever and then later with a claim that politicians in the UK are not called legislators. (But then explain Category:Legislators in the United Kingdom, which has existed for over 15 years.)
As always, however, editors arbitrarily emptying categories themselves is not acceptable Wikipedia practice — people may nominate categories they don't like for a deletion or renaming discussion, but may not simply empty them out themselves without following the established process. Accordingly, I'm listing this here for discussion about a potential new name for it, but removing it from articles or categories without consensus is not acceptable — especially since this category was simply removed from the contents rather than being replaced with a different category, meaning that the removal pulled everybody out of the parent trees entirely (which is also not acceptable). Bearcat (talk) 17:05, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedian Graphic designer

Nominator's rationale: Recently-created duplicate category. * Pppery * it has begun... 14:42, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Trains that appeared in Chuggington

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: Speedy deleted as G4 by Izno * Pppery * it has begun... 14:32, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category is clearly an example of WP:PERFCAT, and a nearly identical category was previously deleted [1] in July of this year. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 13:46, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:People from the Collectivity of Saint Martin

Nominator's rationale: Saint Martin (island) is divided between the French Collectivity of Saint Martin and the Dutch Sint Maarten. The name of the main people category for the French part is cumbersome and its subcategories use the ambiguous form of Saint Martin foos. These problems can be resolved by using the demonym Saint Martinois. This proposal follows discussion at WP:CFDS and Talk:Saint Martin (island)#Saint Martin category names. TSventon (talk) 12:42, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:University of Notre Dame faculty

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: Withdrawn by nom. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 13:53, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I'd like to merge this into Category:University of Notre Dame as a subcategory thereof. It seems like a natural place to put it. — Mikehawk10 (talk) 06:06, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Categories:Acts of the Oireachtas

Nominator's rationale: None of these categories have any more than 4 pages, and some have just a single page. It's more useful to have them all in the same category, and then sort them by year within that. Iveagh Gardens (talk) 11:05, 13 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Then perhaps a wider proposal is needed. What is in modern Irish Law (by year) that is not also in Acts of the Oireachtas (by year)? They cannot be many Common Law decisions of note in modern times. Could these be merged as first step? Laurel Lodged (talk) 11:12, 14 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose as nom. It might be appropriate to merge into decennial categories, where there are not 5 articles per year. If a merger proceeds, Category:1976 in Irish law etc should be additional targets, as is necessary for a proper upmerge. However, I suspect that the Irish Parliament will have passed more than 5 Acts each year, though not necessarily that many requiring a WP article. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:08, 17 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    There are of course usually many more than 5 acts passed each year (on average about 40), but very few get Wikipedia articles; of the 64 passed since the beginning of 2020, only two have got articles, being the first two passed in response to Covid in early 2020. If there ever is a serious project to create articles for many more Irish statutes, it could be broken into decade, or even into year, but given where we are at the moment, a single category makes most sense. — Iveagh Gardens (talk) 08:15, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Wouldn't it be appropiate to merge them into 4 or 5 years per legislative periods? --Just N. (talk) 14:56, 20 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Marcocapelle (talk) 05:56, 21 October 2021 (UTC) [reply]

Category:Go competitions by region

Nominator's rationale: consistency of naming with other Go competitions categories by region and by country Coastside (talk) 04:47, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Also, I should have noted that this request meets criterion C2E: Author request. Coastside (talk) 16:00, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedian members of the Society for Neuroscience Wikipedia Initiative

Nominator's rationale: This seems to be a defunct project category, as the link on the category page describes one event that happened in 2009. * Pppery * it has begun... 04:35, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. No Great Shaker (talk) 14:41, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. This nomination is an example of WP:MALVOLIO. I could understand it if the category were empty, but it isn't. Clearly there are editors, including active ones, who continue to choose to put themselves in the category. I could understand it if the initiative had nothing to do with improving Wikipedia, but it does. There was an event that occurred at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in 2009; I was one of the editors who spoke at it. But because it was a single event does not mean that the effort is defunct. I continue to see new editors registering new accounts and putting themselves into the category. It's a good thing for Wikipedia content to have new editors with subject expertise. --Tryptofish (talk) 18:25, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Boonie Bears fans Wikipedians

Nominator's rationale: Contains only a userbox, questionable collaborative value. * Pppery * it has begun... 04:25, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians who like Ghost in the Shell

Nominator's rationale: Contains only a user who has been inactive since 2016, questionable collaborative value. * Pppery * it has begun... 04:21, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians who like Valvrave the Liberator

Nominator's rationale: Contains only a userbox. This was nominated separately from the below nomination since it wasn't previously discussed back in 2020. The same logic applies, though. * Pppery * it has begun... 04:21, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians who like Cocotama

Nominator's rationale These categories were previously kept at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 October 8#Category:Wikipedians who like Cocotama because SpinnerLaserzthe2nd joined themn. They have now left the categories, putting them in an identical situation to the ones that were deleted at that CfD. * Pppery * it has begun... 04:16, 21 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]