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Discussion for Today

This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_May_1

May 1

Category:Russo-Turkish War (1672-1681)

• Propose renaming Category:Russo-Turkish War (1672-1681) to Category:Russo-Turkish War (1676-1681)

Nominator's rationale: Recently created new category with an error in its name. The two articles filed here both say that the Russo-Turkish war that they were part of began in 1676, not 1672 -- and indeed, we have an article titled Russo-Turkish War (1676–1681), but none titled Russo-Turkish War (1672–1681). Meanwhile, there's a completely separate article about a Polish–Ottoman War (1672–1676), but the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was not part of Russia in that era, so they aren't the same thing and wouldn't belong in one merged category.
I'm not sure whether the creator just made a typo or actually merged two separate wars together, but this category should be renamed and have Russo-Turkish War (1676–1681) added to it as its head article. Bearcat (talk) 14:37, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Category:5th-century Irish literature

• Propose deleting Category:5th-century Irish literature (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Isolated category, not currently useful for navigation as it only holds 5th-century Irish writers, which is already in all the parent categories via other hierarchies. – Fayenatic London 09:36, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

• Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:44, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Category:Redirects from gender

• Propose renaming Category:Redirects from gender to Category:Redirects from gendered terms

Nominator's rationale: The current title, Category:Redirects from gender, was a little confusing to me - at first, the name suggested to me that this category (and the related template) might be for categorizing redirects from the name of a gender identity. I propose moving it to the more specific title Category:Redirects from gendered terms, in order to clarify the purpose of this redirect category and remove the potential ambiguity.

Starting this CfD as a parallel discussion to the RM at Template talk:R from gender § Requested move 1 May 2024. All the best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 09:23, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

•  Note: Notified WikiProject Redirect of this discussion. All the best, ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 09:26, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
• Support, this makes it a lot clearer. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:56, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
• Support, this wording makes more sense. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 12:02, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Category:Spinozist philosophers

• Propose deleting Category:Spinozist philosophers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Redundant with either Category:Spinozists (adherents to Spinoza's philosophy) or Category:Spinoza scholars (philosophers who produce scholarship on Spinoza, independent of their own inclination).

All current members of this category are also in one of those two categories. Psychastes (talk) 03:40, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

• Support per nom. In addition, the description on the category page is such that it is hardly a defining characteristic, more a case of WP:OCASSOC. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:59, 1 May 2024 (UTC)