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Discussion for Today

This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_March_13

March 13

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Minors who completed medical affirmation

Propose deleting Category:Minors who completed medical affirmation (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: I don't really think this is a suitable topic for a category, we don't categorise others by whether or not they've had gender-affirming surgery, should we be classifying people who did when they were minors in this way? --wooden superman 14:09, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's comment: I note that this was created by a now blocked editor who was topic-banned for trans related editing. --wooden superman 14:15, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as nondefining and also vague. LeSnail (talk) 16:15, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Victoria's Secret Angels

Propose deleting Category:Victoria's Secret Angels (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Isn't modeliing by specific company just a WP:PERFCAT? --wooden superman 13:43, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I’m going to have to disagree because for decades the Victoria's Secret Angels were notable on their own (they even collectively have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame) and being an Angel was a defining characteristic of one’s modeling career by countless reliable sources. If you have 44 people in this category who were notable this way from the 90s-2020s I don’t see the need to delete. Trillfendi (talk) 15:27, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That is an argument for notability of the article, not for categorisation. Note that this has actually been deleted multiple times before and therefore should actually be speedily deleted. You should have spotted this when you recreated it against consensus. This definitely falls foul of WP:PERFCAT, see this discussion. --wooden superman 15:44, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Biopharmaceutical companies

Propose merging Category:Biopharmaceutical companies to Category:Pharmaceutical companies

Nominator's rationale: Biopharmaceuticals and pharmaceuticals are now rather synonymous. I recommend merging the two categories and distributing the companies into the appropriate country related categories. Chrisvanlang (talk) 13:43, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Pokamona

Propose deleting Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Pokamona (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Supected sock was banned or blocked last 6 years after created by Sir Sputnik 112.207.123.170 (talk) 13:06, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep – no reason given for deletion. jlwoodwa (talk) 15:24, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Coke Studio (Pakistani TV program)

Propose merging Category:Coke Studio (Pakistani TV program) to Category:Coke Studio Pakistan

Nominator's rationale: Seems to be the same category, but with different names --wooden superman 11:18, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Scherpenzeel, Gelderland

Propose merging Category:People from Scherpenzeel, Gelderland to Category:People from Gelderland

Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:26, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Portuguese people by location and occupation

Propose merging Category:Portuguese people by location and occupation to Category:Portuguese people by occupation

Nominator's rationale: upmerge for now redundant category layer ^SMason_Garrison 03:31, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge, the category may be populated with Category:People from Lisbon by occupation and Category:People from Porto by occupation but the existing subcategory is entirely at odds with those two. Having all three directly under Category:Portuguese people by occupation is a much better solution. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:34, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Gaborone by occupation

Propose merging Category:People from Gaborone by occupation to Category:People from Gaborone

Nominator's rationale: upmerge for now. Redundant category layer ^SMason_Garrison 03:02, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:35, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ambassadors of Kyrgyzstan to Jordan

Propose splitting Category:Ambassadors of Kyrgyzstan to Jordan to Category:Ambassadors of Kyrgyzstan and Category:Ambassadors to Jordan

Nominator's rationale: upmerge this underpopulated category. I've already warned the category creator for making underpopulated categories like this. ^SMason_Garrison 02:15, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

*Support as per nom. LibStar (talk) 02:48, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Support single merge as below. LibStar (talk) 05:40, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Single merge to Category:Ambassadors to Jordan only, the article is already in Category:Ambassadors of Kyrgyzstan to Ukraine and others. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:37, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Highest-scoring sports matches

Propose renaming Category:Highest-scoring sports matches (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:List of highest-scoring sports matches
Propose renaming Category:Highest-scoring association football matches (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:List of highest-scoring association football matches

Nominator's rationale: A rename will make the purpose of these categories more explicit and better matches the current content. –Aidan721 (talk) 01:01, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Long words

Propose deleting Category:Long words (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: WP:ARBITRARYCAT. How long does a word need to be to be considered long? (rhetorical) –Aidan721 (talk) 00:40, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:41, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- Merge with what? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:01, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Serves a useful purpose in its own right, and as a parent for Category:Longest words by language and Longest words. If necessary, we can stipulate a limit, or even rename as, something like "Category:Words with NN or more characters". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:01, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
An arbitrary limit would violate WP:OCMISC. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:30, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:ARBITRARYCAT per nom. --wooden superman 12:48, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Italian traumatologists

Propose merging Category:Italian traumatologists to Category:Traumatologists

Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Also merge with Category:Italian surgeons. LibStar (talk) 00:02, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Dual merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:42, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nominator.Lost in Quebec (talk) 12:16, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]