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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_August_8


August 8

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:American women slave owners

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge; only nationality category in Category:Women slave owners. Already in Category:American slave owners. Omnis Scientia (talk) 00:32, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Artillery battery fortifications by country

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Nominator's rationale: WP:PRECISE
There is 1 main article, Artillery battery, that has 2 meanings I created categories for:
All of the nominated subcats are for the latter and, while the proposed name is longer, I think the proposed name would be clearer for reader navigation. (Alternatively, we could just add "Artillery" to the shorter category names per WP:C2D.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:06, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:21st-century Indonesian novelists

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) Mason (talk) 00:11, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge. There are only 4 people across these two centuries which isn't helpful for navigation at all. Mason (talk) 00:04, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Nevermind. I didn't look to see if there were other novelists. There are more than enough. Mason (talk) 00:11, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Historical novelists by genre

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Nominator's rationale: I think that we should upmerge this to the parent category. There's only one "genre" in here. And I'm not really confident that nautical is really a genre. Mason (talk) 00:02, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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