Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 December 24

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:The result of the discussion was: merge, also to :Category:Fictional spacecraft. MER-C 03:23, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:Battlestar Galactica vehicles to :Category:Battlestar Galactica

:Nominator's rationale: Only two articles remaining, no need for a catefory. TTN (talk) 15:58, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

• Dual merge per WP:SMALLCAT, also to :Category:Fictional spacecraft. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:08, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: merge, also to :Category:Fictional spacecraft. MER-C 03:24, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

:* Propose merging :Category:Doctor Who spacecraft to :Category:Doctor Who devices

:Nominator's rationale: Only two articles, one at AfD. TTN (talk) 15:55, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

• Dual merge per WP:SMALLCAT, also to :Category:Fictional spacecraft. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:08, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: delete. MER-C 03:22, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Journal of Contemporary History people}}

:Nominator's rationale: Textbook case of WP:NONDEFINING. We don't even do this for the top positions of top journals (e.g. EiCs of Nature/Science/etc...). Low-level positions of standard journals don't need a category. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 14:30, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

::{{u|Headbomb}} Actually, we very much do do that for EICs of top academic journals (indeed for all notable journals: :category:Academic journal editors). IntoThinAir (talk) 13:10, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

:::We classify them as EiCs, not EiCs of Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 13:13, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:09, 25 December 2019 (UTC)
• Support per nom. --Randykitty (talk) 10:32, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

:*Perhaps :Category:American Journal of Archaeology people should be added here? --Randykitty (talk) 11:00, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

::*And there's a whole category tree of this kind of non-defining stuff here: :Category:Magazine people... Apparently, Stephen King is defined by having published in an SF magazine: :Category:The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction people... --Randykitty (talk) 11:39, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: speedy close, making way for a speedy rename request of the entire tree at [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ACategories_for_discussion%2FSpeedy&type=revision&diff=932434644&oldid=932423305 CFDS]. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:39, 25 December 2019 (UTC)

:* Propose renaming :Category:Transportation network companies of the United Kingdom to :Category:Transport network companies of the United Kingdom

:Nominator's rationale: procedural nomination: opposed at speedy, but the proposal also gained quite some support. As the nominator, I do not have a specific opinion. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:14, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

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• :Category:Transportation network companies of the United Kingdom to :Category:Transport network companies of the United Kingdom – C2C: per :Category:Transport companies of the United Kingdom (UK Eng). Oculi (talk) 00:18, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
• : Oppose: C2C with :Category:Transportation network companies, it has a meaning in transportation separate from a transport company ArmosNights (talk) 05:40, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
• :: Transportation network company actually redirects to Ridesharing company which suggests a wider rename. Oculi (talk) 20:58, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
• :::Transportation network companies is not a very good name for the category. I'd go with Oculi's proposal. It also avoids local usage issues with the term Transportation. Rathfelder (talk) 19:19, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
• ::::Support Oculi's proposal. Danstarr69 (talk) 23:56, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

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• Comment - the proposal which gained support was a rename of the tree :Category:Transportation network companies to something like :Category:Ridesharing companies. Oculi (talk) 10:39, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
• Because Transportation network company redirects to Ridesharing company and thus :Category:Transportation network companies to :Category:Ridesharing companies would be a WP:C2D speedy. Oculi (talk) 16:20, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

:* {{ping|Rathfelder|Danstarr69}} if in the speedy discussion you meant to support renaming the entire tree :Category:Transportation network companies to something like :Category:Ridesharing companies, I'll close this nomination swiftly. Also {{ping|ArmosNights}} pinging for completeness. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:04, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

• I dont think anyone in England (Maybe UK?) would call them Transportation network companies, but I'm not sure that there is a better option. Each of the articles describes its subject differently. Rathfelder (talk) 11:27, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
• Renaming the whole tree seems like a good way forward. Rathfelder (talk) 12:08, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
• Agreed, I would support doing Ridesharing companies ArmosNights (talk) 16:44, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

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:The result of the discussion was: keep for now. MER-C 03:24, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

:* Propose deleting {{lc|Kings of Arnor}}

:Nominator's rationale: None of these figures are independently notable or warrant an article, except for the possibility of Aragorn. The category therefore is no longer required, and can be converted into a list on the appropriate LOTR main page. Michepman (talk) 02:30, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

• Comment, this venue is not for discussing the notability of articles, see WP:AFD for that. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:03, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
• Keep - as Marcocapelle says, the nom is premature. In any case, being a king of somewhere is defining (regardless of how many other kings there were). Oculi (talk) 10:03, 24 December 2019 (UTC)
• Keep The nomination is based on Michepman's ideas on notability, and not on Wikipedia policy. Dimadick (talk) 12:22, 24 December 2019 (UTC)

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