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Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_January_19


January 19

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Works about economics

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Nominator's rationale: rename, economics is not accurate here because economics is the study of economic topics. Apart from subCategory:Economics books, this category is mainly about economic topics rather than about economics. If there appears to be support for this proposal I will add the subcategories too (but not Category:Economics books). Marcocapelle (talk) 07:30, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

1980s/1990s wildfires in North America

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer with just one sub-category. –Aidan721 (talk) 05:50, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wildfires in Canada by year

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Nominator's rationale: This content is better surfaced on the decade-level for Canada. Merge per WP:NARROW/WP:OCYEAR. Several of these articles are about wildfires that spread throughout Canada and the United States. –Aidan721 (talk) 05:20, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Expatriates from Austria-Hungary in the Kingdom of Serbia

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Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge for now. There is only one person in this category of two former countries. SMasonGarrison 01:57, 19 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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