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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_March_30


March 30

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Monsters

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Propose merging both Category:Legendary monsters and Category:Mythological monsters together into Category:Monsters
My reasoning: Honestly, there's just way too much overlap between these three categories. All of them are mostly about folkloric/legendary/mythical monsters that didn't originate from modern works of fiction. We only really need one category to cover them all, the other two subcategories are just too redundant. AHI-3000 (talk) 21:15, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Odisha State Film Awards

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Nominator's rationale: Eponymous category with no content at all besides the eponym. This appears to be left over from an earlier time when we had a significant number of separate articles about individual categories presented by these awards, but they've all long since been redirected to the head article for lack of sourcing, so that the head article is all that's left. Obviously no prejudice against recreation in the future if categories start actually getting spun back out to standalone articles again, but it isn't necessary to retain this for just one article. Bearcat (talk) 19:57, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:1267 in Shanghai

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Nominator's rationale: Isolated category. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 17:58, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Holy See heads of mission who did not attend the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy

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Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEF. Not attending this Catholic institution is not a defining characteristic of these people. –Aidan721 (talk) 17:39, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Holidays

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Nominator's rationale: split, a holiday may mean an observance day, but holidays may also mean vacation. This category contains a mix of both. Split according to the two meanings and convert Holidays to a disambiguation page. This nomination is inspired by an earlier comment by User:Jc37. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:55, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seasonal events

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subcategories of Category:Seasonal events by country
Subcategories of Category:Autumn events by country
Subcategories of Category:Spring (season) events by country
Subcategories of Category:Summer events by country
Subcategories of Category:Winter events by country
Nominator's rationale: "Events" just means anything that occurred. Not a necessary distinction. Merge/rename seasonal events to the respective season categories. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:43, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Rename/merge per nom. In most cases the observances are, or should be, also in a month category such as Category:February observances. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:53, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Categories by event

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Nominator's rationale: merge, a "Category:Categories by" is only useful when there are a lot of subcategories, but that is not the case here. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:11, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Skanör

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 11:22, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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