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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_October_6
October 6
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:Bantu
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Bantu to Category:?
- Nominator's rationale: Bantu does not have a primary topic so a better title for this category should be used. Maybe Bantu (culture)? Open to suggestions. Gonnym (talk) 13:57, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Back to the Future (franchise) soundtracks
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: This category only contains redirects to the Music of the Back to the Future franchise page. Theknine2 (talk) 13:45, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Free compilers and interpreters
[edit]- Propose deleting Category:Compilers and interpreters
- Propose splitting Category:Free compilers and interpreters to Category:Free and open source compilers and Category:Free and open source interpreters
- Nominator's rationale: Category:Compilers and interpreters is basically a hybrid of Category:Compilers and Category:Interpreters (computing). The overwhelming majority of articles only fit in one category, and the few that don't can be in both categories. Category:Free compilers and interpreters should be split into two new categories for the same reason. I also propose adding "open source" to the names of the new categories, since that's what the current category is being used for, and just "free" is vague. Zerbu 💬 13:09, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:1859 establishments in the Kingdom of Lagos
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: merge, this is a single-article article, which is not very helpful for navigation, and we do not even have a category tree Category:Kingdom of Lagos. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:03, 6 October 2024 (UTC)
Category:Jainism by city
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:10, 6 October 2024 (UTC)