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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_October_5


October 5

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Critics of veganism

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OPINIONCAT. Web-julio (talk) 05:05, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Olympic Games swimming controversies

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Nominator's rationale: I think we should purge and selectively merge this category because olympic swimming controversies are vague, and we don't really have enough content in Swimming controversies that are non-olympic to justify diffusing Mason (talk) 12:25, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Game jam video games

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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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
  • 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)[reply]
    What I meant is that it is not typically mentioned when the gaming press talks about a particular game. Of course, game jams are notable. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 09:12, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    If it's needed to show how games created through game jams are recognized post release as such games, it becomes a matter of picking examples, and this will depend on the impact of the game and relationship to coverage.
    A well known game is Inscryption and those sources are plenty eg [4], [5], [6]. Or Goat Simulator, [7], [8], [9].
    The idea is comparable to how a projects originates such as in Category:Crowdfunded video games and even to a degree of Category:Indie games (though here this has no question of being defining). The implication that players may not care about these is short sighted since these are a significant vector of new games into the industry and the industry recognizes the importance of game jams. — Masem (t) 19:17, 19 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Grand Theft Auto mods

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Nominator's rationale: Out all 4 of pages in this category, only 2 of these are individual mods: Multi Theft Auto and FiveM (FiveM is a redirect by the way). "Hot Coffee" is just a name for a minigame, it isn't its own mod and Grand Theft Auto modding is just for the modding in general. QuantumFoam66 (talk) 01:45, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Lean keep. Smallcat is no longer a policy. Four seems like enough to keep a category. And Hot Coffee requires a mod to access. Mason (talk) 02:20, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hot Coffee 'requiring a mod to access' does not make Hot Coffee itself qualify as a mod. Grand Theft Auto modding is about the modding in general, rather than one specific mod. QuantumFoam66 (talk) 00:36, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]


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Centuries in Landskrona‎

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Nominator's rationale: manually merge, most articles don't belong in a history category but rather in e.g. a buildings and structures category. The articles that do belong in a history category are so few that they can easily put together in a single category. For reference: only 5 of the biggest world cities have their own 15th century category next to Landskrona. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:51, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Category:21st century by city has a lot of city categories. Leaning Oppose. Gonnym (talk) 12:30, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Women local politicans

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Nominator's rationale: Change to Fooian/Xian per parents. --MikutoH talk! 04:17, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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