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Discussion for Today

This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_September_19

September 19

Category:Stations of Tokyo Toden

• Propose merging Category:Stations of Tokyo Toden to Category:Stations of Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation and Category:Tram stops

Nominator's rationale: merge, only one article in the category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:40, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Category:Tram stops in Switzerland by municipality

• Propose merging Category:Tram stops in Switzerland by municipality to Category:Tram stops

Nominator's rationale: merge, only one subcategory in the category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:35, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Category:People associated with the Livonian Order

• Propose renaming Category:People associated with the Livonian Order to Category:People of the Livonian Order

Nominator's rationale: rename, "associated with" is unnecessarily vague. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:30, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Category:Game jam video games

• Propose deleting Category:Game jam video games (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Having been initially created as part of a game jam is not defining for these games. While it can be an interesting factoid that shows how game jams help inspire developers, my guess is that most players of Celeste, Inscryption, etc. don't know or care that it originated in a game jam, and it certainly isn't mentioned prominently in the gaming media. That makes this category fail WP:NONDEF. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 03:23, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

• Keep Just because some players may not know the game originated from a game jam doesn't invalidate that there is recognization of what game jams produce in the industry as a whole, so this is a defining category. Also, "not mentioned prominently in gaming media" can be disproven with sources, [1], [2], [3] etc. --Masem (t) 03:29, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

• I can't read the first two sources but the third is surely irrelevant for this discussion. It proves notability of the topic, but it does not prove that it is defining for e.g. Amnesia Fortnight 2012. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:21, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

Category:Surnames of Lechitic origin

• Propose deleting Category:Surnames of Lechitic origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose deleting Category:Lechitic-language surnames (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Completely redundant very thin linguistic layers. --Altenmann >talk 00:37, 19 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support per nom, but merge Category:Lechitic-language surnames to Category:West Slavic-language surnames. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:27, 19 September 2024 (UTC)