Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 December 13
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December 13
NEW NOMINATIONS
Explanation on the difference to its supercategory Category:Maya writing needed. 1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 20:07, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
- Comment, Category:Maya script seems to be an okay category, per main article Maya script. It is the parent Category:Maya writing which is unclear in scope. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:03, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Category:Werewolves in animation
- Propose renaming Category:Werewolves in animation to Category:Animation about werewolves
- Nominator's rationale: Per WP:DEFINING, make it clear this category should be applied when werewolves are a primary element, not merely an incidental one. DonIago (talk) 16:25, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
- Support per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:05, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Category:Werewolves in television
- Propose renaming Category:Werewolves in television to Category:Television about werewolves
- Nominator's rationale: Per WP:DEFINING, make it clear this category should be applied when werewolves are a primary element, not merely an incidental one. DonIago (talk) 16:23, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
- Support per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:05, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Category:Werewolves in animated television
- Nominator's rationale: Per WP:DEFINING, make it clear this category should be applied when werewolves are a primary element, not merely an incidental one. DonIago (talk) 16:22, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Category:Werewolves in anime and manga
- Propose renaming Category:Werewolves in anime and manga to Category:Anime and manga about werewolves
- Nominator's rationale: Per WP:DEFINING, make it clear this category should be applied when werewolves are a primary element, not merely an incidental one. DonIago (talk) 16:21, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
- Support per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:06, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Category:Bigfoot in television
- Propose renaming Category:Bigfoot in television to Category:Television about Bigfoot
- Nominator's rationale: Per WP:DEFINING, make it clear this category should be applied when Bigfoot is a primary element, not merely an incidental one. DonIago (talk) 16:20, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Category:Transformers lines and sublines
- Propose merging Category:Transformers lines and sublines to Category:Transformers (toy line)
- Nominator's rationale: Seems like a pointless subcategorization. The parent category could fit everything. TTN (talk) 14:36, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Category:American lake cryptids
- Nominator's rationale: Empty/duplicate sub of Category:North American lake cryptids. –dlthewave ☎ 13:13, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
- Comment: this could be populated. – Fayenatic London 18:11, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Category:Irish LGBT rights case law
- Propose renaming Category:Irish LGBT rights case law to Category:Republic of Ireland LGBT rights case law
- Propose renaming Category:Irish abortion case law to Category:Republic of Ireland abortion case law
- Nominator's rationale: rename to clarify that this is not about Northern Irish case law, per WP:IRE-CATS. In addition, the parent of the first-nominated category should be changed to Category:Republic of Ireland case law. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:29, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
- Support - per nom. Oculi (talk) 12:16, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Category:Afro-Eurasia user categories
- Propose deleting Category:Afro-Eurasia user categories (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Wikipedians interested in Afro-Eurasia
- Propose deleting Category:Afro-Eurasia user categories (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: There's a long-standing consensus against Afro-Eurasian categories per e.g. Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_March_5#Afro-Eurasia_project_categories. This is follow-up on this earlier nomination initiated by User:Le Deluge. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:25, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
- Delete with prejudice - the fact that Cape Town, Madrid and Vladivostok share the same landmass is irrelevant to editing an encyclopedia.Le Deluge (talk) 14:47, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Category:Gastropods of Japan
- Nominator's rationale: Per the advice at Wikipedia:WikiProject Gastropods/Categories and non-defining in many cases e.g. Tectus pyramis.
- Note: I've already removed some articles (that had no mention of Japan) from this category e.g. Turbo argyrostomus and Tonna luteostoma. For info: There is List of non-marine molluscs of Japan. DexDor (talk) 07:14, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Category:Otto Dix
- Nominator's rationale: per WP:OCEPON: Eponymous category links to only three pages in a single subcategory. Ewulp (talk) 04:29, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
- Support by nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:22, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Category:Anselm Feuerbach
- Nominator's rationale: per WP:OCEPON: Eponymous category contains only one additional article. Ewulp (talk) 04:20, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
- Support per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:23, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Category:Project Scarlett software
- Propose renaming Category:Project Scarlett software to Category:Xbox Series X software
- Nominator's rationale: Most Horizontal Primate (talk) 02:21, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
- Upmerge to Category:Xbox software, category only contains 1 subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:27, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Category:Project Scarlett game covers
- Propose renaming Category:Project Scarlett game covers to Category:Xbox Series X game covers
- Nominator's rationale: Most Horizontal Primate (talk) 02:20, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
- Merge to Category:Video game covers, the category only contains 1 file. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:29, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
Category:Project Scarlett games
- Propose renaming Category:Project Scarlett games to Category:Xbox Series X games
- Nominator's rationale: Most Horizontal Primate (talk) 02:19, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
- Rename: Pretty boiler plate. DÅRTHBØTTØ (T•C) 02:54, 13 December 2019 (UTC)