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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_September_1


September 1

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:American folk musical groups

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Nominator's rationale: Several categories out of phase with their tree. The base category is Category:Folk music groups, and most of their country-level siblings in Category:Folk music groups by nationality are named the same way, but this set is at "musical" instead of music. But the tree should be consistent so that the ___location of any category is readily predictable, so these should be named the same way as the others. Bearcat (talk) 16:32, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:China orchestras

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Nominator's rationale: Category out of phase with its siblings in Category:Orchestras by nationality, but with a significant problem because the expected name is already in use for a variant purpose (which is why I can't just speedy it).
All other country-level siblings are at "[Demonym] orchestras" (American, British, Canadian, French, etc.) rather than "[Country name] orchestras", with not a single other exception that I've located (except New Zealand, where the country name is the demonym and thus isn't really an exception) -- but in this case, the demonym is instead being used for orchestras anywhere in the world that perform Chinese music in the genre sense of the term, thus pushing the category for orchestras based in China to an outlier form instead of the standard one.
However, it's an important principle of the category system that the category names need to be as consistent and predictable as possible, to minimize confusion and misfiling -- so the category for Chinese-music-as-a-genre ensembles needs to be at a different name, so that the category for orchestras based in China can be named the same way as its sibling categories for other countries are. Bearcat (talk) 15:51, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Alumni by university or college

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Nominator's rationale: Or Category:University or college alumni. While the current name of this category (with "by") appears to be correct at first glance, examining its contents reveals that the current name is misleading. Instead of expected sorting of alumni by university or college, it contains, primarily, sorting of university and college alumni by continent, plus three semi-random sorting categories. As it is not a sorting "by university or college", but just a conceptually higher level category - the top category for all alumnis of universities as colleges (as opposed to alumnis of other types of institutions, such as high schools or fellowships), a name change is in order, with no prejudice to such category being recreated when it contains, as the name would suggest, sorting of alumnis by, well, university or college. Note that the name change I propose would also alignt it with the current wikidata. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:12, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Players of Australian rules football

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Nominator's rationale: More natural and other subcategories of Category:Players of Australian rules football already use the proposed format. The current format makes sense for the subcategories of Category:Players of Australian rules football by nationality, because it avoids awkward constructs like "Australian Australian rules footballers", but for categories without nationalities, no such issues exist and Australian at the start isn't likely to cause confusion. Category:Gaelic footballers is comparible. Mclay1 (talk) 06:12, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Timelines of Australia by state

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Nominator's rationale: merge, only 1 or 2 articles in each category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:49, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Neoplasms

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Nominator's rationale: rename, most subcategories in Category:Types of neoplasia use "neoplasia" instead of "neoplasms". I have not listed this at speedy because I am also keeping into account that the renaming might need to be the other way around. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:45, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ugandan women bloggers

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Nominator's rationale: upmerge for now. underpopulated category SMasonGarrison 02:44, 1 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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