Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 August 17

August 17

Category:Songs about the Gaels

• Propose deleting Category:Songs about the Gaels - Template:Lc1
  

Nominator's rationale: A questionable category defined by an ill-defined ethnic group, whose article has been subject to continual dispute over who actually belongs to the group. Furthermore don't have similar categories for members of any other ethnic or national group. There is no Category:Songs about Americans or Category:Songs about Poles; instead, we have Category:Songs about the United States and Category:Songs about Poland. But this category is hopeless in that regard because there are Gaels in Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and elsewhere in diaspora. So it should just be deleted. Catrìona (talk) 23:42, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

• Delete The subject (Gaels) is far too vague to be of any use. The choice of songs is rather Irish, what make me think of subtle POV-pushing. The Banner talk 00:50, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

1915 in German South West Africa

• Propose renaming Category:1915 in German South West Africa to Category:1915 in South West Africa
• Propose renaming Category:1915 disestablishments in German South West Africa to Category:1915 disestablishments in South West Africa
• Propose renaming Category:1910s disestablishments in German South West Africa to Category:1910s disestablishments in South West Africa
• Propose merging Category:20th-century disestablishments in German South West Africa to Category:20th-century disestablishments in South West Africa
• Propose renaming Category:Disestablishments in German South West Africa by year to Category:Disestablishments in South West Africa by year
• Propose merging Category:Disestablishments in German South West Africa by decade to Category:Disestablishments in South West Africa by decade
• Propose merging Category:Disestablishments in German South West Africa by century to Category:Disestablishments in South West Africa by century

Nominator's rationale: German South West Africa was invaded in 1914. Category:1915 in German South West Africa contains the final battles; although the last German commander only capitulated in July 1915, it will be helpful and sufficiently accurate to use "South West Africa" from 1915 onwards. The disestablishments category contains only the former territory and its currency. – Fayenatic London 14:52, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Category:People from Amorium

• Propose deleting Category:People from Amorium - Template:Lc1
  

Nominator's rationale: Typical WP:SMALLCAT. Only a handful of people are known to have come from the city. Constantine ✍ 11:27, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

• Keep Historically important area, with a large population. I reckon many more accounts can be included in this category.--Ortizesp (talk) 02:46, 18 August 2018 (UTC)

Category:Free Linux distributions

• Propose deleting Category:Free Linux distributions - Template:Lc1
  

Nominator's rationale: "Free" is ambiguous as most Linux distributions are free of charge, there is only one subcategory: Free software only Linux distributions and that being more specific, this category obviously isn't needed. - CHAMPION ^{(talk) (contributions) (logs)} 08:56, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Category:Housing struggles in South Africa

• Propose merging Category:Housing struggles in South Africa to Category:Housing in South Africa

Nominator's rationale: upmerge, Category:Housing by country is an established tree, while Category:Housing struggles by country is not. It is also not super clear what "struggles" means. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:50, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

• Upmerge per nom. Unnecessary, vaguely defined subcat. Catrìona (talk) 23:55, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

Category:Esperanto by country

• Propose deleting Category:Esperanto by country
• Propose deleting Category:Esperanto in Slovakia
• Propose deleting Category:Esperanto in the Czech Republic

Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:SMALLCAT, the Czech and Slovak categories together contain only two articles plus each a subcategory. No need to merge, the two articles are already in Category:Esperanto meetings. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:17, 17 August 2018 (UTC)

• Keep and populate. I have used Petscan to add Germany, France, UK and US categories and to find more articles for the 2 listed. 'By country' subcats are not controversial (and interesting in this case). Oculi (talk) 07:52, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
• Keep Secoding above. Categories for other countries can be added and SK and CZ can be populated. Per country divisions are usual. Thank you for the note, Marcocapelle.--Jetam2 (talk) 10:30, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
• Keep There is a potential for grow, see eo:Kategorio:Esperanto-movado laŭ landoj so SMALLCAT is not appropriate. --KuboF Hromoslav (talk) 21:20, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
• Keep: the subcat Category:Czech Esperantists is decently populated already, and there is room for expansion. Although probably many of the articles in the Esperanto categories don't meet enwiki notability guidelines, even so there would be enough material to fill the Czech and Slovak categories. Catrìona (talk) 23:50, 17 August 2018 (UTC)