Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 October 4: Difference between revisions

October 4

Category:American artists of Filipino descent in California

Nominator’s rationale: No need to diffuse the parent category by state ^SMason_Garrison 21:50, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Autism spectrum disorders

Nominator’s rationale: I wonder whether this category is still warranted as previously distinct types of autism have been merged into ‘autism spectrum disorder’ in the ICD-11 diagnosis. Alternatively, it should be renamed to singular rather deleted. TadejM ^{my talk} 20:37, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@TadejM Could you ask folks from the relevant communities for their feedback? This seems like a pretty important element that Wikipedia:WikiProject Autism should have a say in.

I oppose deletion. Because that would isolate these related categories and pages. ^SMason_Garrison 21:56, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Magic realism

Nominator’s rationale: To match main article’s name per WP:C2D and as main article says magical realism is the most commonly used term. Would also apply to 6 subcats and 22 cats within Category:Magic realism novels WinstonDewey (talk) 20:09, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Anthropomorphic worms

Nominator’s rationale: Per recent discussion of merging fictional and anthropomorphic animal categories (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_September_28#Category:Fictional_animals_by_taxon). WinstonDewey (talk) 20:09, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ginger Snaps characters

Nominator’s rationale: Only a single entry, franchise is defunct, entry is already in Category:Female horror film villains so no need to upmerge. WinstonDewey (talk) 19:44, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Upmerge to Category:Ginger Snaps (franchise). QuietHere (talk | contributions) 22:08, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Films set in France by genre

Nominator’s rationale: Only a single category (Category:Documentary films about France) that is already well-categorized under Category:Documentaries by country (no need to upmerge), no other category in Category:Films by genre that I can find breaks down films by setting and genre. WinstonDewey (talk) 19:44, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nomination. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 22:09, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Shenmo films

Nominator’s rationale: Only a single category (Category:Films based on Journey to the West) which is already under Category:Shenmo fiction via the Category:Journey to the West category. WinstonDewey (talk) 19:44, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Too Phat

Nominator’s rationale: With only one subcategory of albums, this is an unnecessary eponymous parent per WP:OCEPON. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 19:35, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nomination. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 22:10, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sport in Brovary Raion

Nominator’s rationale: In precedent Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 20#Sport by raion, it was decided to not categorise sport by raion and now they are the only two categories. These are not particularly well-populated either. Proposition includes adding FC Avanhard Bziv and Category:FC Avanhard Bziv to Category:Brovary Raion. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 12:29, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I don’t see any difference between the rationale text and what @Marcocapelle wrote. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 15:22, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Guimarães templates

Nominator’s rationale: The category was created in 2023 and has only one template in it. —⁠andrybak (talk) 19:19, 25 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Burials in New Brunswick

Nominator’s rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:31, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Rivers of Barguna District

Nominator’s rationale: merge, rivers should not be categorized by too small geographical units. The districts of Bangladesh are typically only 2000 to 3000 square kilometers. None of the other districts have a river subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:53, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Strongly oppose: Most rivers in Bangladesh are not very long, which is why they do not extend across multiple districts. If we want, we can create categories for all 64 districts. ~ Tuhin (talk) 21:08, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sport in Pukhavichy district

Nominator’s rationale: Similarly to the case of #Sport in Brovary Raion, these three are the only ones of this level of subdivision in their country (except two autonomous provinces in Italy), making it harder to navigate. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 12:29, 24 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Sorbian-culture-stub

Nominator’s rationale: Stub template of unclear utility. It was added to just four articles, but tried to file its entries in a dedicated Category:Sorbian culture stubs category that doesn’t exist but can’t be created without at least 56 more uses than that — and further, two of the four articles were not even really stubs at all, and were about populated places that would get geo-stub templates rather than culture-stub templates if they needed stub templates, so the template even had to come off two of its four usages.
Category:German culture stubs, further, does not have more specific “Culture of Specific Historical German Region” subcategories or subtemplates, so there’s no obvious precedent for this being needed. Bearcat (talk) 14:27, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

well i added more links Versions111 (talk) 16:04, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:English house music groups discographies

Nominator’s rationale: WP:NARROWCAT. This narrow scheme has not been established. For example, discography categories have not been diffused by genre and nationality. The contents are already in appropriate parent cats so merging in unnecessary. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 18:21, 26 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nomination. Expanding one narrow category doesn’t justify an entire, unnecessary, narrow branch scheme. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 22:12, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Silesia-geo-stub

Nominator’s rationale: New stub template of unclear value. This was added by its creator to just seven articles, and tried to file them in a redlinked Category:Silesia geography stubs that doesn’t exist to be used but cannot be created without at least 53 more uses than this has — but since we already have more specific stub templates such as {{LowerSilesian-geo-stub}} and {{Silesian-geo-stub}} for individual voivodeships within the Silesia region (and even more specific stub templates for individual counties within them), it’s not clear that this would be necessary. Even the seven pages selected to host this already had one of those already-existing stub templates on them anyway, and thus wouldn’t even need to be double-tagged in the first place. Bearcat (talk) 12:55, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:American people of Thai descent by occupation

Nominator’s rationale: redundant category. upmerge for now ^SMason_Garrison 06:09, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Estonian LGBTQ businesspeople

Nominator’s rationale: upmerge for now. underpopulated category ^SMason_Garrison 05:54, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Asian activists

Nominator’s rationale: do we really need to categorize activists/business by their continent? All three of these were made by the same new user. ^SMason_Garrison 05:45, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, there aren’t any articles directly in them, so then the Category:Activists by nationality tree suffices. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:51, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose. When it comes to the activists tree, we do have subcategories under that for Category:Anarchists by continent, Category:Anti-racism activists by continent and Category:Environmentalists by continent, all of which have existed for much longer than the ones listed here — so I’m not at all clear on why it would be more valuable to retain continent-level trees for certain specific subtypes of activists but not a continent-level tree for activists in general. I’m not entirely convinced that those are needed either, but I don’t see that there’s more of a case for those than there would be for these — we should either keep these and finish populating out the tree, or put the continent-level anarchists, anti-racism activists and environmentalists categories up for CFD too.
  And as for businesspeople, we have had Category:Asian businesspeople and Category:European businesspeople since 2014, and Category:African businesspeople since 2017, so I’m also not at all clear on why the continent level would be appropriate for those continents and inappropriate only for North America. So again, we need to either keep North America, or put the sibling categories for Africa, Asia and Europe up for deletion too.
  Creator’s certainly not doing things effectively — in addition to the Asian and North American activists categories listed here, they also left incompletely populated redlinks behind for Africa, Europe, Oceania and South America, and completely missed even filing most North American countries in the North American categories here (spoiler alert: the Caribbean and Central America are part of North America too) — but these do all seem to be logical new parts of not fully-developed category trees that we’ve already had for years, so they need to be either kept or considered for deletion in tandem with their existing siblings rather than being singled out for special treatment different from their existing siblings. Bearcat (talk) 13:46, 4 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]