Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 July 8
July 8
editCategory:Kart racing game characters
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- The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Qwerfjkltalk 13:22, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: Most certainly not defining, not sure if there is any character currently with an article this is defining for. (Oinkers42) (talk) 20:51, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete Just at a glance, I can assure that the answer is no. No character in this category is unique to a karting game. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:33, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete While there will be an article about a kart-racing character, one does not constitute a need for a category. - Cukie Gherkin (talk) 21:22, 13 July 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Cultural festivals in Yugoslavia
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Category:Balearic society
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- The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Qwerfjkltalk 13:23, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- Propose upmerging Category:Balearic society to Category:Culture of the Balearic Islands
- Nominator's rationale: 1 P, 0 C. Upmerge for now. NLeeuw (talk) 20:10, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete (or else merge per nom), the article is already in Category:History of the Balearic Islands where it properly belongs. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:08, 9 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per Marco above. -- Just N. (talk) 13:20, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Galician society
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- The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Qwerfjkltalk 13:23, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: Just delete. It's a redundant layer between Category:Galician awards (already in sibling Category:Culture of Galicia) and containercat Category:Society of Spain by autonomous community. Upmerging to either parent makes no sense, so just delete. NLeeuw (talk) 20:05, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:09, 9 July 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 13:21, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Serb culture
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- The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Qwerfjkltalk 13:24, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- Propose upmerging Category:Serb culture to Category:Culture of Serbia
- Nominator's rationale: WP:OVERLAPCAT. Same scope. 3/4 articles in this category are already directly in parent Category:Culture of Serbia, and Krstaš-barjak easily fits in it as well. Child Category:Serbian studies is also already directly in parent Category:Culture of Serbia. Child Category:Serb music is currently nominated to be merged with Category:Music of Serbia as well. Child Category:Serbian folklore's main article has Folklore of Serbia redirecting to it, so there is no distinction between "Serbian" and "of Serbia" here either. Finally, Serb traditions's main article Serb traditions (to which Traditions of Serbia redirects) is already directly in parent Category:Culture of Serbia as well, and part of a series on the Template:Culture of Serbia. In other words, there seems to be no functional difference between the country of Serbia, the Serbian language, or the "Serb ethnicity/culture/tradition" etc. as far as these categories are concerned, and this category may be considered entirely duplicative of its parent Category:Culture of Serbia. NLeeuw (talk) 19:42, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Merge, while I can imagine that creator of the category meant Serb culture as limited to culture of Serbian-speaking people there is too much overlap to keep these categories apart. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:11, 9 July 2025 (UTC)
- Indeed. The articles and related categories and templates are all organised around the culture of Serbia. It's theoretically possible to write about Serb "ethnic" culture outside Serbia, but WP:WTAF. Just duplicating existing structures won't make new articles appear. NLeeuw (talk) 21:22, 9 July 2025 (UTC)
- PS: In Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 September 11#Fooian culture to Culture of Fooland part 3, we already agreed to Rename Category:Serbian culture to Category:Culture of Serbia. NLeeuw (talk) 10:39, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
- Indeed. The articles and related categories and templates are all organised around the culture of Serbia. It's theoretically possible to write about Serb "ethnic" culture outside Serbia, but WP:WTAF. Just duplicating existing structures won't make new articles appear. NLeeuw (talk) 21:22, 9 July 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 13:23, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
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Category:East Slavic cuisine
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- The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Qwerfjkltalk 13:32, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- Propose upmerging Category:East Slavic cuisine to Category:Slavic cuisine
- Nominator's rationale: Although I have my doubts whether "Slavic cuisine" is really a thing, "East Slavic cuisine" certainly isn't. The only article, Sorrel soup,
is known in Ashkenazi Jewish,[4] Belarusian,[7] Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian,[9] Lithuanian, Romanian, Armenian, Georgian, Polish,[5] Russian[1][3] and Ukrainian[6][8] cuisines.
This has nothing to do with language family connections, but everything with geography and historical happenstance. The cat desc The three East Slavic cultures have many common features due to centuries of coexistence and intermixing. doesn't say anything useful for cuisine-related matters either. Let's just upmerge this for now until it can be established to be a real thing instead of original research. NLeeuw (talk) 19:11, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Support , however it has nothing to do with "language family" but with peoples known as East Slavs and Slavs. I agree there is no identifiable generic "Slavic cuisine", however there are easily identifiable national cuisines and dishes, in the corresponding subcategories. --Altenmann >talk 19:59, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- ...but the only reason they can be grouped as "East Slavs" and "Slavs" is... language family. Which isn't relevant for cuisine. We don't speak of Category:Finno-Ugric cuisine either just because the cuisines of Estonia and Hungary have sorrel soup in common.
- For easily identifiable national cuisines and dishes, we've already got Category:European cuisine by country. NLeeuw (talk) 20:29, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- PS: I've gone through Category:Slavic cuisine, and I've tentatively concluded it's an WP:ARBITRARYCAT as well. No article in it describes an exclusively "pan-Slavic" (no pan intended) dish, culinary product or custom that isn't also widely shared by cuisines in neighbouring countries in Central, Eastern or Southeastern Europe (Balkan cuisine), e.g. Easter bread. Whenever it's less widespread, it's usually something "Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, or Russian," that isn't known amongst the "Southern Slavs" in the Balkans, or vice versa. Something like Gibanica is known
all over the Balkans
, not exclusively the "South Slavs", but apparently the "West Slavs" and "East Slavs" didn't get the memo that this was supposed to be part of their "Slavic" culinary heritage. The fact that this or that word for dish derives (evidently or allegedly) from a Slavic root (again no pun intended) doesn't make the whole thing pan-Slavic, nor exclusively Slavic. Language family is simply WP:NONDEFINING for cuisines. It seems to be the only cuisine category that assumes language family is relevant. NLeeuw (talk) 05:58, 10 July 2025 (UTC)
- PS: I've gone through Category:Slavic cuisine, and I've tentatively concluded it's an WP:ARBITRARYCAT as well. No article in it describes an exclusively "pan-Slavic" (no pan intended) dish, culinary product or custom that isn't also widely shared by cuisines in neighbouring countries in Central, Eastern or Southeastern Europe (Balkan cuisine), e.g. Easter bread. Whenever it's less widespread, it's usually something "Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, or Russian," that isn't known amongst the "Southern Slavs" in the Balkans, or vice versa. Something like Gibanica is known
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:12, 9 July 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 13:26, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Odia culture
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- The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Qwerfjkltalk 13:32, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- Propose upmerging Category:Odia culture to Category:Culture of Odisha
- Nominator's rationale: Same scope. Odia culture redirects to Culture of Odisha. NLeeuw (talk) 14:33, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Merge, while I can imagine that creator of the category meant Odia culture as limited to culture of Odia-speaking people there is too much overlap to keep these categories apart. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:04, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 13:27, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Australian MPs 2025–2028
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Category:Tarsha Gale Cup
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- The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Qwerfjkltalk 13:36, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Tarsha Gale Cup to Category:Women's rugby league competitions in Australia
- Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Also merge with Category:Rugby league competitions in New South Wales. LibStar (talk) 04:55, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Dual merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:35, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 13:31, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Sydney Shield
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- The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Qwerfjkltalk 13:37, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Sydney Shield to Category:Rugby league competitions in New South Wales
- Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Also merge with Category:Rugby league in Sydney. LibStar (talk) 04:52, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Dual merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:36, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
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Category:American provincial military personnel
editRelisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 July 16#Category:American provincial military personnel
Category:Populist Leaders
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Category:Iran–Israel War
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- The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). Qwerfjkltalk 13:42, 16 July 2025 (UTC)
- Propose renaming Category:Iran–Israel War to Category:Iran–Israel war
- Nominator's rationale: WP:TOPICCAT. Dart210 (talk) 00:00, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Rename, no need for a capital W. Marcocapelle (talk) 01:37, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Speedy rename per WP:C2D: Iran–Israel war. NLeeuw (talk) 19:20, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Speedy, technical. --Altenmann >talk 20:02, 8 July 2025 (UTC)
- Speedy per above · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 07:50, 11 July 2025 (UTC)
- Rename per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 13:34, 15 July 2025 (UTC)
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