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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_April_3
April 3
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:Belgian people executed for witchcraft
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: These all predate Belgium by a few centuries. No obvious replacement category, these people are from different regions (Flanders, Wallonia/Liège, perhaps Northern Netherlands), so an upmerge seems best. Fram (talk) 08:26, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
Category:Pages related to the WikiProject meta banner
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Not likely to have anything else in the future; {{WPBannerMeta}} is a historical template after it was Lua-fy-ed. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 03:58, 26 March 2025 (UTC)
- Merge somewhere per nom. I have no opinion about the merge target. (I am just noting that the proposed merge target is not the parent category.) Marcocapelle (talk) 06:10, 26 March 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: Category:Subtemplates of WPBannerMeta is probably the one to be deleted, because that is the template which is no longer used. Those subtemplates of /templatepage will be moved somewhere else shortly. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:53, 26 March 2025 (UTC)
- I have now emptied Category:Subtemplates of WPBannerMeta — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 18:11, 26 March 2025 (UTC)
- Support merge per comment of Marcocapelle. Devopam (talk) 08:28, 28 March 2025 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: No consensus to direction of merge, or if both categories should be deleted.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:26, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
- The nomination is moot after the changes by MSGJ. Unless anyone disagrees with the changes, Category:Subtemplates of WPBannerMeta can be deleted as empty. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:41, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
Category:United Kingdom prime minister controversies
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Upmerge to parent category. The scope is quite vague IMO since pretty much anything can be considered a prime ministrial controversy. Already in a subcategory of Category:Prime ministers of the United Kingdom so dual merge not needed. Omnis Scientia (talk) 00:52, 3 April 2025 (UTC)
- Merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:45, 3 April 2025 (UTC)