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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_August_28
August 28
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:Education scandals and controversies
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: In the spirit of WP:XY, I do not see how this is a helpful redirect (which currently targets two categories). Delete it; I do not see how this would be a helpful {{category disambiguation}} page, per the aforementioned WP:XY. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 18:25, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
Category:1811 establishments in Oklahoma
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Anachronistic category for a state that didn't exist yet in 1811, newly created just to overcategorize one thing. As always, we structure "establishments in X" categories by the name the place had at the time, not the name it has now, and Oklahoma did not exist under that name in 1811. Bearcat (talk) 16:12, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
Category:WikiProject Shaktism
[edit]- Propose merging Category:WikiProject Shaktism to Category:WikiProject Hinduism articles
- Nominator's rationale: Defunct task force; category only contains an articles subcat. – Fayenatic London 08:14, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:09, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
Category:Domesticated foxes
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: I'm not very familiar with categorization, but from the policies I managed to find domestication is only a defining characteristic of 2 (maybe 3 if you consider the "semi-domestication" of the Island fox to be a defining characteristic and the same as normal domestication) of the foxes, and not a defining characteristic of most foxes. The Fennec only has 1 small, 3 sentence, section on domestication so its most definitely not a defining characteristic for it. Overall I'd say domestication is WP:NONDEF for most foxes. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 00:16, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- Keep (as category creator). Domestication is absolutely a defining characteristic of the Domesticated silver fox and the Fuegian dog at the very least. Just because it isn't defining for "most foxes" doesn't mean it isn't defining for pages that actually belong in the category. Di (they-them) (talk) 00:20, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- I agree its a defining characteristic for those 2 foxes, but that would only be 2 articles in the category and I'm not aware of any other fox articles that have domestication as a defining characteristic. ― Blaze WolfTalkblaze__wolf 00:22, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- Weak keep I think, looking at Cat:Domesticated canids, it makes sense to split off the foxes, even if there were only two. And the category is also nicely placed in Cat:Foxes in human culture. Certainly domestication is non defining for most fox species, but it is makes sense that it should be for those species that are domesticated. Then again, little harm would come from upmerging them to both supercats. — HTGS (talk) 01:28, 28 August 2024 (UTC)
- If only two articles are going to stay here, upmerging to the parent categories is the best course of action. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:06, 28 August 2024 (UTC)