Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 5: Difference between revisions

November 5

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Cyborg characters in video games

Nominator’s rationale: ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:26, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Video game characters by type

Nominator’s rationale: Fails WP:CROSSCAT and base category was made by an indeffed user. Nothing appears to be independently notable about these video game-centric cross-categorizations with the exception of Category:Animal characters in video games, which has its own main article. If someone can demonstrate evidence that any of the other ones don’t actually fail CROSSCAT, feel free to do so. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:22, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Video games with low poly graphics

Nominator’s rationale: As per the multiple attempts to merge or delete this category in the past, it suffers from a WP:SUBJECTIVECAT problem as well as an issue where it’s not clear that it refers to games intentionally designed to look like a retro 3D game unless one reads the category’s description. Theoretically, any PS1 game etc. could fit within this category’s current title.

It’s also clear, however, that there is consensus this is a useful category. Therefore, I suggest renaming it in a way that it’s consistent with Category:Retro-style video games and also makes clear that it’s about games with a purposeful 3D retro style. As a bonus, there wouldn’t have to be a debate as to what constitutes “low-poly”. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:23, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: An alternate possible name would be Category:Retro-style video games with 3D graphics. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:27, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment This is an interesting proposal and is consistent with its parent category. I still like the current name, but I’d like to know what other editors think. —NoonIcarus (talk) 18:35, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. Retro-style 3D is a much vaguer term and will most often be original research. For some, Duke Nukem 3D represents the cutting edge of this group, while for others it’s late PS1 games, and for some even PS2 titles. Others would say that boomer shooters or Doom-like (corridor shooters) are retro-style 3D games due to game design. Also it doesn’t look that media/sources tend to use the term “retro-style 3D” regularly, and moreover, there is no separate article describing this concept. While “low poly” graphics/games is a commonly used and applied specifically to modern stylisation. It is unlikely that anyone would retrospectively refer to individual games from the 1990s as low-poly games, but it can be said that the entire 3D era was low-poly. And I don’t think that means we should put the entire PS1 catalogue here. If really necessary, we could add words like “modern” or “stylisation” to the current name, but I still think this is unnecessary. Solidest (talk) 20:10, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  “Low poly” would be at least as vague if not moreso. If you oppose this I am not sure why you would support keeping it as is. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 04:50, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional racing drivers

Nominator’s rationale: This category primarily consists of characters who are playable in kart racers, which I feel is distinct to characters who are racing drivers. Rosaece ♡ talk ♡ contribs 14:15, 6 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Deaths on Mount Everest

Category:Christ figures in fiction

Nominator’s rationale: The “in fiction” portion is unnecessary, as the article Christ figure makes clear that this is a purely fictional classification. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 08:42, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Savage Garden members

Nominator’s rationale: There were only ever 2 members of this musical group and this is already outlined in Savage Garden. The group no longer exists so this category won’t get more entries in future. LibStar (talk) 22:43, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Indonesian politicians of Middle Eastern descent

Nominator’s rationale: All people in this category are actually of Arab descent, so it would be better to name the category more accurately. Hassan697 (talk) 21:38, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Alt rename to Category:Indonesian politicians of West Asian descent, consistent with Category:Indonesian people of West Asian descent. Oppose “Arab” per WP:OCEGRS. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:18, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Then I would rather prefer a double upmerge to Category:Indonesian people of Arab descent and Category:Indonesian politicians of Asian descent. Category:Indonesian people of West Asian descent I plan to propose to merge to Category:Indonesian people of Asian descent similar to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 August 17#Category:American people of West Asian descent Hassan697 (talk) 22:35, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  A parallel merge to Category:Indonesian people of Arab descent seems ok, also considering there is an article about Arab Indonesians. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:40, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge to Category:Indonesian people of Arab descent per discussion above. If the Arab identity is defining for these individuals, then this is how it should be reflected in categories. The intersection with politics if trivial per WP:OCEGRS, and all these articles must already be in more precise politician categories. In the spirit of consensus, I would prefer a double merge, with Category:Indonesian politicians of Asian descent as a second target, to a status quo, but I don’t feel that even this intersection is really defining for these articles. Place Clichy (talk) 15:21, 29 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Bulgarian musicians by populated place

Nominator’s rationale: duel upmerge, redundant category layer ^SMason_Garrison 23:38, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Rajput monarchs

Nominator’s rationale: delete per WP:NONDEF, it is not even mentioned in most of the articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:06, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Maharajas of Rajasthan

Nominator’s rationale: rename, aligning with Category:People from Rajputana. The name Rajasthan only became in use after 1949 when most of these maharajas were no longer alive. Alternatively, Category:Maharajas in Rajputana is also possible. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:55, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Residential colleges of the University of Wollongong

:* Propose merging Category:Institutes of the University of Wollongong to Category:University of Wollongong

Nominator’s rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 05:00, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:IP user welcome templates

Nominator’s rationale: You probably know why: temporary accounts were added to Wikipedia. Therefore, this category must be renamed to reflect that. Thanks, 1isall (he/him) (talk | contribs) 02:08, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Geese (band) songs

Nominator’s rationale: Category of redirects for songs that point to one of the band’s few albums, making this redundant to the group’s albums category. No objection to the redirects themselves, but they don’t need to be categorized by the artist when the targets have little to no info about the songs beyond being on the track listings. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 01:44, 5 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]