WP:CFD/T

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Special notes

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Discussion for Today

This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_April_11

April 11

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Deceased fictional characters

Propose merging Category:Deceased fictional characters to Category:????

Nominator's rationale: I'm not sure if this is defining. At the very least I think that category should be containerized. ^SMason_Garrison 04:48, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose/keep. Of course this is a defining trait, if a fictional character is killed off and stays dead, that's very narratively important. You can't even think of what target page to merge with, this is just another frivolous nomination for the sake of it as usual. AHI-3000 (talk) 04:54, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Containerize, it is not a defining characteristic of individual articles. Possibly rename to Category:Fictional characters associated with death and further populate it with a few subcategories to be moved Category:Fiction about death. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:59, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The rename you suggested sounds terribly clunky and awkward. "Deceased fictional characters" gets the point across well enough. AHI-3000 (talk) 05:01, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mayiladuthurai

Propose deleting Category:Mayiladuthurai (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Redundant with Category:Mayiladuthurai district Gjs238 (talk) 01:21, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:03, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Paintings by Zeki Faik İzer

Propose deleting Category:Paintings by Zeki Faik İzer (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category with no article about the artist. Gjs238 (talk) 01:17, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:10, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:LGBTQ designers

Propose deleting Category:LGBTQ designers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Delete as per Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_December_3#Category:Women_designers Gjs238 (talk) 00:47, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Schools for the blind in South Africa

Propose splitting Category:Schools for the blind in South Africa to Category:Special schools in South Africa and Category:Schools for the blind

Nominator's rationale: upmerge for now. this category is underpopulated ^SMason_Garrison 00:10, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]