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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_April_24


April 24

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Events by city

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Nominator's rationale: rename and re-parent, with very few exceptions this is all about organized events. After renaming the category can be moved under Category:Organized events by location. SubCategory:Disasters by city should be purged after the rename as these are not organized events. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:08, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Maldivian people by occupation and century

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. only one occupation in here SMasonGarrison 04:41, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

American cities in fiction

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory each. The merge targets are open for discussion too: "culture of" happens to be the parent categories, but maybe not the best. Alternatively we may merge e.g. to Category:Birmingham, Alabama instead of to Category:Culture of Birmingham, Alabama. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:15, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Chastre

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry.

Also proposing to merge to same target Category:People from Walloon Brabant:

Category:KLM Cityhopper accidents and incidents

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Nominator's rationale: Single category member, no additional pages to categorize. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 03:09, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Danish gastroenterologists

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Also merge with Category:Danish physicians.

Also nominating for merge:

Category:Japan protected area stubs

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Nominator's rationale: To match the "Fooian" naming scheme (see Category:Indian protected area stubs as an example) - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 02:14, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Jewish American state legislators

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Nominator's rationale: The naming is just a bit confusing on the parent category, because it can be read as American describing the individual or the state. The real problem is in the subcategories, "Jewish American state legislators in Maine", as if some state legislators in Maine might not be American, which seems at least rather unlikely. Those should just be "Jewish state legislators in Maine". Nat Gertler (talk) 00:48, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:African return diaspora

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Nominator's rationale: There's no need to isolate these secondary diasporas SMasonGarrison 04:14, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep these categories are useful. GreekApple123 (talk) 15:26, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    How are they useful? @GreekApple123 I see them as adding extra layers which isolates these diasporas. SMasonGarrison 00:51, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Upon reflection, I think Category:African return diaspora (having only 1 subcategory) might not have enough content to be needed at the moment. Maybe that can be recreated in the future when there is more content to fill it. But the other two categories feel reasonable; secondary diasporas are distinct from "primary" diasporas in terms of being a lot more distant from their ancestral country, and I think it's helpful for readers to be able to quickly find that phenomenon while still being linked to it from the main diaspora's category. GreekApple123 (talk) 21:15, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    But the secondary diaspora just makes it harder to find. Like is there a specific distance here? Because it doesn't seem to me that distance from the homeland of the diaspora is a defining feature, like why is African American secondary, but Black Britain is not?SMasonGarrison 00:36, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Regarding your example of comparing African American and Black British, you have not noticed the exact characteristics of those diasporas. African-Americans are the diaspora formed by Africans directly ending up in America, so that is a "primary" diaspora (only one migratory stage). Note that the term "African-American diaspora" is used in Wikipedia to refer to the diaspora of African-Americans i.e. the African-Americans who have migrated out of America; this forms a secondary diaspora in relation to Africa, and so Category:African-American diaspora is under Category:African secondary diaspora, while Category:African-American society (which is for African-Americans) is not. The "Black Britain" page you mentioned is actually named "British African-Caribbean people", and they trace their immediate migratory heritage to the Caribbean, and only before that to Africa. That is what makes them a secondary diaspora (two stages of migration). Note that there is a separate page for the general African diaspora in Britain (I believe it covers both primary and secondary) at Black British people. Also, if you are looking for more understanding on how the secondary diaspora concept is already covered in other parts of Wikipedia, see Template:African diaspora.
    A compromise I thought of would be to maintain the secondary diaspora categories as they are, but simultaneously categorize all of their articles under the primary diaspora category. I think that would be helpful for those who want to navigate Category:Secondary diasporas while making the content maximally visible for those navigating under the primary diasporas.
    I believe in the value of having categorization for secondary diasporas, as there will be more of them in the future as migration continues, and they will have characteristics that do not exactly match up with those of "primary" diasporas; their characteristics will be determined by both their initial homeland and the second place they settled in, and therefore there is more analysis required to cover them (and therefore more categorization). Also, when articles are written about "tertiary" diasporas (three stages of migration), I would like to add the requisite categorization for that phenomenon, presumably by nesting that underneath secondary diasporas. But I can't do that if you delete all categorization relating to secondary diasporas. GreekApple123 (talk) 00:51, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge for now, because of insufficient content. I would not object to recreation of the secondarg diaspora category when more articles about secondary diaspora are written (an overview article about the topic to begin with, and possibly more country articles). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:27, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Consensus currently favors merging Category:African return diaspora, but more participation is needed to form consensus regarding the other two nominated categories.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:26, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:NBA championship–winning players

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Nominator's rationale: Multiple discussions have found that this is a non-defining intersection. See Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_January_18#Category:Super_Bowl_champions for one discussion circa 2021. User:Namiba 19:08, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 00:21, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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