WP:CFD/T

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Discussion for Today

This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_April_10

April 10

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Angola in fiction

Propose merging Category:Angola in fiction to Category:Culture of Angola

Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:35, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Male suicides

Propose deleting Category:Male suicides (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Violates WP:TRIVIALCAT; being male is too trivial and broad a characteristic for a suicide category Songwaters (talk) 04:00, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep this category, as long as the subcategory Category:Male murder–suicide perpetrators still exists. AHI-3000 (talk) 04:08, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom and WP:OCEGRS. The subcategory should be manually upmerged to Category:Murder–suicide perpetrators, that proposal can be included here or it can be nominated separately. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:38, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Female suicides

Propose deleting Category:Female suicides (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Violates WP:TRIVIALCAT; being female is too trivial and broad a characteristic for a suicide category Songwaters (talk) 04:00, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep this category, as long as the subcategory Category:Female murder–suicide perpetrators still exists. AHI-3000 (talk) 04:08, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom and WP:OCEGRS. The subcategory should be manually upmerged to Category:Murder–suicide perpetrators, that proposal can be included here or it can be nominated separately. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:40, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Non-designated terrorist organization categories

Propose deleting Category:Far-right terrorist organizations
Propose deleting Category:Fascist terrorist organizations

Nominator's rationale: Take 2, bundled this time. The last discussion was closed as no consensus for these two categories (though the other succeeded) without prejudice to renomination, so I am going to explain it better this time.

Violations of the structure of all of the other terrorism categories. We do not have categories for terrorists or non-designated terror groups, because the word varies by jurisdiction and definition, so sorting them by ideology is a no-go. Many of the groups in these categories are not designated as such and some are only by some jurisdictions. We do not have a similar category tree for extremist Muslim terrorism, nor should we, because of MOS:TERRORIST. We can qualify it and explain it in the text of articles, but cannot in categories.

In the past CfD, it was suggested that this be renamed to Category:Right-wing militant groups and Category:Fascist militant groups respectively a la Category:Left-wing militant groups, and while I am ambivalent towards the idea, most of the contents of these categories do not qualify as that (some are non militant groups, secret societies, political parties...). So if that is done this would necessitate a purge (and I don't think there is enough here to demonstrate the need for a fascist subdivision), but that is also an OK solution. So, keep, purge and rename as Category:Right-wing militant groups, or delete? PARAKANYAA (talk) 03:51, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to Category:Right-wing militant groups and Category:Fascist militant groups so that we may have them as counterparts to Category:Left-wing militant groups and Category:Socialist militant groups respectively. AHI-3000 (talk) 04:11, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fine by me, though as mentioned many groups in these categories do not fit the militant label. PARAKANYAA (talk) 04:13, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Rename and purge per above. It would be helpful to ping the participants in the previous discussion in order to get a broader consensus. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:44, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: A really trivial category. Fyunck(click) (talk) 22:32, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Theres literally another category that is exactly like this one but for Djokovic coaches, “Category:Novak Djokovic coaches”. I really do not see why this specific category should be seen as something different from that other one. Haddad Maia fan (talk) 23:01, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A lot has to do with WikiProject Tennis guidelines for coaches. Bottom line is coaches are rare articles to be notable, and the most common case is when a player chooses coaching after retirement. Otherwise when a singles player wins one of the majors or is number 1 in the world, their coach gets way way more publicity. The bar is usually quite high for tennis coaches to have an article, let alone a whole tennis category. Fyunck(click) (talk) 01:04, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, voorts (talk/contributions) 00:46, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

How to use this page

Special notes

Discussion for Today

April 10

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Angola in fiction

Category:Male suicides

Category:Female suicides

Non-designated terrorist organization categories

Category:Entertainers from Sarasota, Florida

Category:Entertainers from Lakeland, Florida

Category:Entertainers from Coral Springs, Florida

Category:Beatriz Haddad Maia Tennis coaches