Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 February 6

February 6

Category:Buildings and structures in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Propose merging Category:Buildings and structures in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to Category:Buildings and structures in Adams County, Pennsylvania

Nominator's rationale: Per Wikipedia:Overcategorization#Small with no potential for growth. Don't think we need a category for two articles, and I doubt there are too many significant buildings in the borogh of Gettysburg. Wild Wolf (talk) 21:55, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

• Merge as described. Part of the Gettysburg Overcategorization Project that was missed in earlier passes over TfT contributions. Mangoe (talk) 22:15, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Category:Cities of El Bierzo

Propose merging Category:Cities of El Bierzo to Category:Municipalities in El Bierzo

Nominator's rationale: Merge The two categories seem to have the same scope. Pichpich (talk) 21:46, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Category:Astronomical societies of Canada

Category:Astronomical societies of Canada - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: Delete Empty but it used to contain Astronomy North. Even with that article, it would be a small category with little or no potential for growth. Pichpich (talk) 21:41, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

• Delete as WP:SMALLCAT.--Lenticel ^(talk) 01:09, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Category:German Americans by state

Propose renaming Category:German Americans by state to Category:American people of German descent by state

Nominator's rationale: Per parent cat. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:46, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

• There needs to be a discussion about the scope of this category tree and whether its contents should be subdivided by topic or sets. Most of the subcategories contain a mix of articles about people, locations and other articles such as Meyer v Nebraska and History of Fredericksburg, Texas. -- Black Falcon ^(talk) 03:04, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Category:Metal ballads

Category:Metal ballads - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: /Merge Category:Heavy metal ballads. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:39, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

• Merge to Category:Heavy metal ballads, as an obvious duplicate. The head article is at heavy metal music. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:31, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Category:Albums only released in Italy

Category:Albums only released in Italy - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: Delete I don't think this is a meaningful way of categorizing albums. It's not a defining characteristic and it's not something that readers are likely to use for finding information. (I would also argue that it's increasingly meaningless since the album is accessible to anyone with an Internet connection) Pichpich (talk) 02:48, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

• Delete per nominator. --ELEKHH^T 04:03, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
• Delete As being non-defining. I'm sure we've deleted a similar category for albums released in the US only before. Lugnuts (talk) 08:09, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
• Keep as the album Jentina was only released in Italy so it should stay. Kenzie (talk) 08:33, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
• Delete – or upmerge to Category:Non-notable albums. Oculi (talk) 12:35, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. So far as I am aware, we have no other categories which try to group albums by the countries in which they were released. And if we tried, the result would be a nightmare to maintain. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:48, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

Category:Animation Domination

Category:Animation Domination - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: Delete There's only one article in the category. The only option to grow is to include every show that's part of Animation Domination but I don't think that would be a reasonable way of categorizing tv shows. Programming blocks vary considerably over time and from country to country. Very popular shows like The Simpsons would inevitably end up in dozens of categories if we went down this road. Pichpich (talk) 01:11, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

• Comment: I just added this to the Category:Television programming blocks tree, which isn't much of a favor. The similar Category:TGIF (ABC) was popoulated by adding every show in the block but I'm not so sure that's a good model. RevelationDirect (talk) 01:42, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

• I guess I'd favour deleting the TGIF category on the same grounds. Pichpich (talk) 02:37, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Category:National parks in Oaxaca

Category:National parks in Oaxaca - Template:Lc1

Nominator's rationale: Not useful overcategorization of national parks by state. There are 67 NPs and 32 federal entities (states+district) in Mexico, about 2 NPs per state in average. States are of limited relevance as national parks are administered on federal level, and many NPs extend across multiple states. For geographic location the List of national parks of Mexico provides a good overview. ELEKHH^T 00:16, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

• Delete The parent category is not that large (and wouldn't be if it were fully populated, which it isn't; only about half the parks have articles thus far). Looking at the list there isn't more than a handful of parks in any one state. Mangoe (talk) 21:17, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
• Delete as WP:SMALLCAT--Lenticel ^(talk) 01:10, 7 February 2012 (UTC)