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Discussion for Today[edit]

This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_May_31


May 31[edit]

NEW NOMINATIONS[edit]

Category:Tambralinga[edit]

Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only the eponymous article and a subcategory. Move the eponymous article to Category:History of Nakhon Si Thammarat. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:34, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Rulers of Chiang Mai[edit]

Nominator's rationale: per article Kingdom of Chiang Mai. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:22, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Works by year[edit]

Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated year categories. The two first categories do not need another merge target, the articles are already in a subcategory of Category:4th-century works. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:23, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Songs from The Three Caballeros[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Barring the two redirects, none of the articles in this category originate in the film. Fails WP:DEFINING. (Oinkers42) (talk) 04:58, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Illeists[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Trivial association, non-defining. ―Justin (koavf)TCM 02:46, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:UCLA Extension alumni[edit]

Nominator's rationale: This distinction for people who attended the extension school seems like an arbitrary distinction and is likely not defining for any of the two members in the category Mason (talk) 01:24, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. The UCLA Extension is one of the constituent colleges in the UCLA Systems, and one of the oldest at UCLA (it is a separate accredited college and not a designation for off campus students). Several other universities have extension colleges as can be seen here. These colleges, designed for working people, are becoming more popular, particularly post COVID. There are many links to the main article for people, which likely means the cat can be populated well beyond the 10 already in it (I added a few since the start of this CFD). Also, this cat provides an opportunity for subcategorization of an overpopulated upper level cat. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 02:39, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Paintings by Karl Friedrich Lessing[edit]

Nominator's rationale: This is the correct form in German, like you can see by the German Wikipedia [1] and other Wikipedias, and also by Wikipedia Commons [2].Mistico Dois (talk) 02:13, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment, sources mentioned in the article use both C and K. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:33, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Answer The more correct form is German is Carl Friedrich Lessing, as you can see by the German Wikipedia. The predominant way is Carl. But unfortunately you are right, both forms appear in a quick search in the Google, for example. But if the German Wikipedia uses the form Carl shouldn't that be the preferable?Mistico Dois (talk) 11:52, 31 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]