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Discussion for Today

This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_January_20

January 20

Category:Supersonic missiles

• Propose merging Category:Supersonic missiles to Category:Missiles

Nominator's rationale: The *vast* majority of missiles are supersonic, making this non-defining/overcategorization. The Bushranger _{One ping only} 05:05, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Category:Nomad (company)

• Propose renaming Category:Nomad (company) to Category:Nomad (animation studio)

Nominator's rationale: Following renaming of main article Nomad (animation studio). The animation studio is not the only company called Nomad, and this title brings it in to line with other animation studios. cagliost (talk) 01:56, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

• Rename per nom. For other companies, see also Nomad (disambiguation). Marcocapelle (talk) 06:55, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

18th and 19th-century disasters in Asia

• Propose manually merging Category:1703 disasters in Asia (1) to Category:1703 disasters and Category:18th-century disasters in Asia
• Propose manually merging Category:1707 disasters in Asia (1) to Category:1707 disasters and Category:18th-century disasters in Asia
• Propose manually merging Category:1709 disasters in Asia (1) to Category:1709 disasters and Category:18th-century disasters in Asia
• Propose manually merging Category:1718 disasters in Asia (1) to Category:1718 disasters and Category:18th-century disasters in Asia
• Propose manually merging Category:1727 disasters in Asia (1) to Category:1727 disasters and Category:18th-century disasters in Asia
• Propose manually merging Category:1732 disasters in Asia (1) to Category:1732 disasters and Category:18th-century disasters in Asia
• Propose manually merging Category:1733 disasters in Asia (1) to Category:1733 disasters and Category:18th-century disasters in Asia

Nominator's rationale: Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW/WP:OCYEAR. Manually merge to the century/decade disasters in Asia category to check if the article is already in a country category. Manually merge to the Year disasters category as well to check Year natural disasters, etc. The articles should all already be in YYYY in country as well. –Aidan721 (talk) 01:05, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

• Manually merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:01, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Category:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by region

• Propose renaming Category:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by region to Category:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by location

Nominator's rationale: The contens of this category aren't actually regions. They're a mix of continents and locations. ^SMason_Garrison 00:59, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

• Alt rename to Category:The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by continent, the subcategories are about continents. The only exception is a subcategory of a subcategory, which is Category:Temples (LDS Church) by country. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:06, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Category:Australian expatriates in British Honduras

• Propose renaming Category:Australian expatriates in British Honduras to Category:Expatriates in British Honduras

Nominator's rationale: Broaden this category because right now there's not an expatriates in British Honduras category, and this one is underpopulated ^SMason_Garrison 00:50, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

• Rename per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:13, 20 January 2025 (UTC)