Category:American monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests
Category:Animated characters in film
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 15#Category:Animated characters in film
Category:Taoist pilgrimages
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 15#Category:Taoist pilgrimages
Category:Dune (franchise) materials
Category:Depictions of people
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- The result of the discussion was: merge. The target's name can be discussed in a separate discussion.
(non-admin closure)
Qwerfjkl
talk
20:07, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
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- Nominator's rationale: downmerge, it is unclear why we need to find paintings and sculptures based on people at a different location than e.g. songs or videogames based on people.
Marcocapelle (
talk)
06:20, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
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- Comment: The huge tree of
Category:Cultural depictions of people is currently nominated for merging to the nominated category, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 June 12#Category:Cultural depictions of people, with the apparent goal of renaming everything to "Works about". –
Fayenatic
London
09:36, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
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- Indeed, since what are non-cultural depictions (of people or anything?).
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus|
reply here
08:31, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
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- See also previous discussion
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 May 23#Category:Depictions of people where merger to another target was rejected, but without prejudice to something like this nomination. Pinging @
Piotrus,
Johnbod,
Peterkingiron, and
Randy Kryn: as a courtesy to participants there. –
Fayenatic
London
20:59, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
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- Thanks for the ping! I think I prefer "about" to "based on". Perhaps the two discussions should be merged. I agree some big countainer category is needed.
Johnbod (
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21:37, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
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- Support, obviously, although like Johnbod I do prefer 'about' than 'based on'. Note this is (for me) a result of this discussion the participants are welcome to read and engage with:
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Culture#Naming_of_articles_in_Category:Topics_in_culture:_time_for_consistency?
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus|
reply here
07:53, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
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- Comment -- We seem to be coming round to the idea of merging both to
Category:Works about real people. This covers paintings, film, books, etc. We need to draw a distinction between history and fiction. Inevitably, a painting of a historical event will be composed by the artist (not a photo) and a historical novel may involve real historical people, as well as people invented by the author for the purposes of his story.
Peterkingiron (
talk)
16:41, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
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- Merge
Category:Depictions of people to
Category:Works based on people. No need to use "real". If they were not "real", they would be characters, or "fictional", etc. Oppose using "about". We use "based on", for
WP:PRECISION reasons. To give an example,
We Didn't Start the Fire could be grouped in a "works about people" category, but not in a "works based upon people" category. And consider
Garden Party (Rick Nelson song), it's known to be based upon an event, but could also be said to be "about" people - clearly it should not be categorised this way. We focus on the specific over the all-too-broad. -
jc37
10:30, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,
Qwerfjkl
talk
13:34, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
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- (as nom) Several suggestions have been done to rename the target, which is not what this nomination is about. My conclusion is that the proposed merge is so obvious that it does not even have to be discussed.
Marcocapelle (
talk)
14:16, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
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- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's
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Category:Attempted coups in the Soviet Union and Russia
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 15#Category:Attempted coups in the Soviet Union and Russia
Category:Thameslink railway stations
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 16#Category:Thameslink railway stations
Category:Faculty by university or college in the Philippines
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 15#Category:Faculty by university or college in the Philippines
Category:Transracial people
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 15#Category:Transracial people
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 15#Category:Library and information science
Category:Topics in literature
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 15#Category:Topics in literature
Category:Regency in fiction
Category:Mosby's Operations in Northern Virginia
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 15#Category:Mosby's Operations in Northern Virginia
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 15#Timelines by year
Category:Local political office-holders by country
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 15#Category:Local political office-holders by country
Category:Canadian lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 15#Category:Canadian lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law
Category:Judges educated at Eton College
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 15#Category:Judges educated at Eton College
Category:Teens in fiction
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 15#Category:Teens in fiction
Category:Locations in fiction
Relisted, see
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 August 15#Category:Locations in fiction
Category:Songs about Lagos
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plicit
01:17, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
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- Nominator's rationale: Single member category so not a useful navigation aid. Merging to parent category seems an obvious solution.
Richhoncho (
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09:04, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
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