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Discussion for Today
[edit]- This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024_September_21
September 21
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:People from Southend-on-Sea (district)
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: As per AFD at County Borough of Southend-on-Sea, the boundaries between City and district are the same. Also there are individual category pages for suburbs of Southend.Davidstewartharvey (talk) 06:24, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Department stores in Southend-On-Sea (town)
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Southend is now a city. As per afd on County Borough of Southend-on-Sea, there is no differentation between the city and district boundaries.Davidstewartharvey (talk) 06:20, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Subdivisions of Kievan Rus'
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Subdivisions of Kievan Rus' to Category:Principalities of Kievan Rus'
- Nominator's rationale: rename, Kievan Rus' was not a centralized country with administrative divisions, but at best a sort of a confederation to which principalities belonged. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:19, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
- This is follow-up on this earlier discussion which was closed as no consensus because it was mainly about a different category. @Mellk, Nederlandse Leeuw, and Marcelus: pinging contributors to that discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:23, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
- Support per nom and preceding discussion. While we're at it, we might consider also renaming Template:East Slavic principalities. Yesterday I did some corrections and updates, some of which had to do with our preceding discussion, and others were requested on the talk page. From 2010 to 2015, the template was already titled Template:Principalities of Kievan Rus (without ' in Rus'). To visualise:
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- It seems a good idea to harmonise mainspace articles, categories and the template along these lines. NLeeuw (talk) 07:27, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
- PS: Perhaps Uglich and Pereslavl-Zalessky could be included in the template above? We haven't got stand-alone articles of them being principalities, so we shouldn't add them to the nominated category, but From 1218 until 1328, Uglich was the seat of a small princedom, and Between 1175 and 1302, Pereslavl was the seat of a principality. There might be other pre-1240 Rus' principalities that we have missed so far that could be included in the category and/or template. NLeeuw (talk) 07:41, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
- Fair enough. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:57, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
- PS: Perhaps Uglich and Pereslavl-Zalessky could be included in the template above? We haven't got stand-alone articles of them being principalities, so we shouldn't add them to the nominated category, but From 1218 until 1328, Uglich was the seat of a small princedom, and Between 1175 and 1302, Pereslavl was the seat of a principality. There might be other pre-1240 Rus' principalities that we have missed so far that could be included in the category and/or template. NLeeuw (talk) 07:41, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Southend-on-Sea (district)
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: As per discussion at AFD for County Borough of Southend-on-Sea, the boundary for the city and the district are the same. Proposed merger into Southend-on-Sea (town) and rename this category. Davidstewartharvey (talk) 06:17, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Southend-on-Sea (district)
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Southend-on-Sea (district) to Category:Southend-on-Sea (town)
- Nominator's rationale: As per discussion at AFD for County Borough of Southend-on-Sea, the boundaries for the city and district are the same. Eastbourne is good example of this which has one category for the whole town and district.Davidstewartharvey (talk) 06:15, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Southend-on-Sea (town)
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Southend-on-Sea (town) to Category:Southend-on-Sea
- Nominator's rationale: Southend is now a city. Page was split previously as user believed district and town had different borders. This was discussed at AFD for County Borough of Southend-on-Sea which acknowledged they are same so should not be split. Eastbourne is a perfect example. Davidstewartharvey (talk) 06:13, 21 September 2024 (UTC)
Category:Churches in Southend-on-Sea (town)
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Churches in Southend-on-Sea (town) to Category:Churches in Southend-on-Sea
- Nominator's rationale: Southend is now a city. Also AFD discussion at County Borough of Southend-on-Sea agreed that boundaries of the city and the district are the same Davidstewartharvey (talk) 06:10, 21 September 2024 (UTC)