Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 September 8

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September 8

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Abbott and Costello (film series)

Propose renaming Category:Abbott and Costello (film series) to Category:Abbott and Costello

Nominator's rationale: Does not exclusively include films. Article Abbott and Costello (film series) does not exist. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 17:36, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Stella Vine

Propose deleting Category:Stella Vine - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary small category containing only two articles CallyMc (talk) 15:29, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:8th-century disestablishments in Israel

Propose deleting Category:8th-century disestablishments in Israel - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: delete as an outlier in Category:Disestablishments in Israel by century which starts in the 20th century (to be precise, in 1948). Marcocapelle (talk) 07:41, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Category:8th-century disestablishments in the Abbasid Caliphate, which I think it the correct country category. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:46, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lübeck law

Propose renaming Category:Lübeck law to Category:Cities with Lübeck law

Nominator's rationale: rename since the large amount of this category consists of cities with Lübeck law rather than articles about Lübeck law itself. When this category is renamed, the first three articles may be moved to the two parent categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:37, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support -- The eponymous article can remain the main article. Peterkingiron (talk) 15:50, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Data with undue precision

Propose deleting Category:Data with undue precision - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: Empty cleanup category with an unclear and possibly misleading scope. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 04:15, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment – This category is populated by {{Undue precision}}. It is for articles with figures that are more precise than necessary. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 17:31, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Or for conversions (e.g. Imperial to metric) that are more precise than the data warrants. That's really what the issue is. If the data is only precise to within 10%, and we (or someone else) convert it into a figure with 1% precision, then we're misrepresenting the source. E.g., if a distance is given as 1km, and we convert that to 0.62mi, then we're claiming a precision of 50ft instead of 500m. Or, sometimes the source itself will have spurious precision, because the journalist reporting on the topic has little understanding of stats. There have been edit wars over keeping undue precision inherited from a supposedly reliable source, and that has required consensus among editors who do know what they're doing to change it. — kwami (talk) 18:20, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Winter Olympic venues by year

Propose renaming Winter Olympic venues by year i.e. Category:2018 Winter Olympics venues to Category:2018 Winter Olympic venues, and back to 1924 i.e. Category:1924 Winter Olympics venues to Category:1924 Winter Olympic venues. Also all intermediate years (1928, 1932, 1936, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010; & 2014: all tagged).

Nominator's rationale: While only the 2022 category (Category:2022 Winter Olympic venues) uses "Olympic" rather than "Olympics"; all the Summer Olympics use "Olympic". Hence it seems preferable to change (e.g. to Category:2018 Winter Olympic venues etc.) so as to have the same format as for the Summer Olympics (see e.g. Category:2016 Summer Olympic venues). Hugo999 (talk) 10:57, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. Lugnuts ^{Fire Walk with Me} 11:14, 8 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]