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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:43, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Moomin locations (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: There is only one article in this category, with low chances that it will ever be a meaningful size. Jontesta (talk) 23:25, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - other articles could be added to this category: Moomin World, Moomin Museum, Metsä (theme park). Goustien (talk) 04:19, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nomination and Marcocapelle. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 10:17, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, Moomin World, Moomin Museum, Metsä (theme park) aren't in-fiction locations so they do not fit the category tree. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:40, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Delete per nom and marco. Mason (talk) 04:47, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge to Category:Moomins as overly small and unnecessary. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 07:55, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:45, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Cao Wei Buddhists‎ (1 P) to Category:Three Kingdoms Buddhists‎
• Propose merging Category:Eastern Wu Buddhists‎‎ (1 C, 2 P) to Category:Three Kingdoms Buddhists‎ and Category:People of Eastern Wu
• Propose merging Category:Eastern Wu Buddhist monks‎ (1 P) to Category:Chinese Buddhist monks‎ and Category:Three Kingdoms Buddhists‎ and Category:People of Eastern Wu

Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:NARROWCAT, a relatively short period in Chinese history from 220 to 280 AD does not require splitting in every of the three parallel kingdoms. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:22, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Support per nominator's rational. Inter&anthro (talk) 12:26, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:47, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

*Propose deleting Category:Philosophy majors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Non-notable, pointless, one-off categorization. Unnecessary in light of Category:Philosophers. Tkaras1 (talk) 15:36, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Omnis Scientia (talk) 23:32, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, we do not categorize by education level. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:07, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete It is outside the scope of Wikipedia's categorization methods. desmay (talk) 18:25, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Delete. No one is really defined by their undergraduate major. Mason (talk) 04:48, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:48, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Australian-themed retailers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: The only category of its kind that I can find with the name of a nation and themed retailers on Wikipedia. This category does not make any sense as these are companies with operations in Australia, but are not Australian-themed. Themed would imply something implicit about Australian culture or history. This can be considered to be OR as the majority of articles don't make mention that they are based on the concept of Australian culture.

They would include Bloomin' Brands, Deliveroo, Gillyhicks, Kangaroo (video on demand), KangaRoos, and Kangol. Australia Dairy Company has little to do with it other than materials imported from the country. Australian Homemade is just the name of a sweets company. Bloomin' Brands is just a holding company that owns several restaurant chains.

Outback Steakhouse and Walkabout (pub chain) are the only two businesses with a theme based on Australia, but even then two articles would be too small for a category like this.

The categories that this is under Retailers by type of merchandise sold, Works about Australia, and Retailing in Australia have no relevance as these are not works in terms of literature, films, music, etc. usually considered in the line of popular culture. No evidence they sell Australian-type merchandise if that is even a thing.

And while Retailing in Australia would be considered since a couple of them do business in Australia, they should be in the Retailing category than this one if it applies. Australian Homemade is under Category:Restaurant chains in Australia, under a subcat of Australian brands, which is a subcat of the main Retailing in Australia category. WikiCleanerMan (talk) 13:46, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, in the spirit of WP:SHAREDNAME. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:08, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: dual merge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:50, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Albanian basketball players by populated place to Category:Basketball players by populated place

Nominator's rationale: Container category containing only two categories. User:Namiba 11:43, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Dual merge per Grutness. Omnis Scientia (talk) 18:19, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• COMMENT: "By populated place" categories are generally kept as long as they have more than one subcat. If consensus is to merge, it should be upmerged to both Category:Basketball players by populated place and Category:Albanian basketball players, with no prejudice against re-creation if more "by populated place" categories arise. Grutness...wha? 16:08, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Dual merge, redundant category layer. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:10, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:50, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Children of two peers and peeresses created life peers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Delete per WP:NONDEF. Omnis Scientia (talk) 09:44, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Support as already indicated in the speedy discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:11, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support per nom.

  98.228.137.44 (talk) 00:23, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:50, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Kryvyi Rih National University, General Faculty alumni to Category:Kryvyi Rih National University alumni
• Propose merging Category:Kryvyi Rih National University, General Faculty to Category:Kryvyi Rih National University

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. Kryvyi Rih National University, General Faculty is a redundant category layer, and the alumni category only has 1 person in it. Mason (talk) 01:58, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:16, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge No main article. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 13:32, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:51, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Athletes by religion
• Propose deleting Category:Muslim athletes
• Propose deleting Category:Muslim basketball players
• Propose deleting Category:Muslim boxers
• Propose deleting Category:Muslim American football players

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCTRIVIAL, there is a long-standing consensus against intertwining sports and religion on Wikipedia (see here for example), and I struggle to see how these categories are any different. Because the article entries appear to be only from the United States, perhaps there could be a move discussion to something like Category:American Muslim athletes or Category:American athletes by religion as that may have been the creator's intention, but that still would seem to fail the site's category guidelines. Inter&anthro (talk) 20:21, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Please note that this differs from Jewish athletes since Judaism is both an ethnicity and a religion (an ethnoreligion) and most Jewish athletes identity as Jewish by virtue of being born Jewish and very few (VERY few) actually convert. Omnis Scientia (talk) 23:36, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per WP:OCEGRS. @Omnis Scientia: please note that WP:OCEGRS applies to both ethnicity and religion. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:49, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Indeed but there are exceptions to that rule as well. Omnis Scientia (talk) 19:31, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • I can't see why. There are lots of Jewish categories for sure but that is just because WP:OCEGRS is not well reinforced. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:23, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    That is fair. If you want, I can go through them. Omnis Scientia (talk) 11:53, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:28, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Usain Bolt (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: No need for an eponymous category for one related article. WP:OCEPON. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 20:05, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep, I added some pages to the category so there's not just one anymore. There are plenty more that could be added as well – for example, similar to List of career achievements by Michael Johnson or for his book, his foundation, etc. --Habst (talk) 20:15, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep; it seems perfectly reasonable and, I imagine, will be more populated with time. Omnis Scientia (talk) 18:18, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:28, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Refugees ennobled in the United Kingdom (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Delete. A cross-section between refugees and nobles. While defining seperately, they aren't defining together. Also, one of them was not ennobled but rather married into the British royal family. Omnis Scientia (talk) 19:49, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:18, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom.98.228.137.44 (talk) 00:25, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:28, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Barons of Sweden to Category:Swedish barons
• Propose renaming Category:Barons of Spain to Category:Spanish barons
• Propose renaming Category:Barons of Portugal to Category:Portuguese barons
• Propose renaming Category:Barons of Poland to Category:Polish barons
• Propose renaming Category:Barons of the Netherlands to Category:Dutch barons
• Propose renaming Category:Barons of Luxembourg to Category:Luxembourgian barons
• Propose renaming Category:Barons in Italy to Category:Italian barons
• Propose renaming Category:Barons of Hungary to Category:Hungarian barons
• Propose renaming Category:Barons of Germany to Category:German barons
• Propose renaming Category:Barons of France to Category:French barons
• Propose renaming Category:Barons of Denmark to Category:Danish barons
• Propose renaming Category:Barons of Croatia to Category:Croatian barons
• Propose renaming Category:Barons of Belgium to Category:Belgian barons
• Propose renaming Category:Barons of Austria to Category:Austrian barons

Nominator's rationale: I would have speedied this but will go through Cfd first then the rest can be speedied. Rename; the name can be misleading and I think the correct form should be "Fooian barons", like it is "Fooian baronesses" and so. Omnis Scientia (talk) 19:36, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No explanation or reason. Why can it be misleading? --Silverije 22:48, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Rename, these are categories by nationality, not by title. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:20, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:28, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Barons from the Austrian Empire to Category:Nobility from the Austrian Empire

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge; only one article. Omnis Scientia (talk) 19:03, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:21, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:28, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Japanese films by subject to Category:Japanese films by topic

Nominator's rationale: This category seems to overlap the standard "by topic and country" one. Unless I missed something. (There's no Category:Films by subject and country)-My, oh my! (Mushy Yank) 16:01, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:24, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:29, 26 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Languages with ISO 639-3 code (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Largely redundant, as all major languages and most languages with millions of speakers have one. If we do decide this is a useful category, rename to Category:Languages with ISO 639-3 codes. Remsense诉 10:38, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:56, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge/keep/delete respectively.

• Merge Category:21st century in Nouakchott
• Keep Category:History of Nouakchott
• Delete Category:Centuries in Nouakchott (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:54, 27 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:21st century in Nouakchott to Category:Nouakchott
• Propose deleting Category:History of Nouakchott
• Propose deleting Category:Centuries in Nouakchott

Nominator's rationale: merge, there is only one article in the entire tree of Category:History of Nouakchott. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:51, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support Adding two categories that will become empty if this is merged. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:18, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete the 21st-C and Centuries categories - keep Category:History of Nouakchott. There was some undersorting - the category now has several articles. Grutness...wha? 04:23, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Thank you. Then keeping the history category is reasonable. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:44, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Dead or Alive (film series). (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 19:42, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Dead or Alive (franchise) films to Category:Dead of Alive (film series)

Nominator's rationale: To avoid confusion with the Dead or Alive video game franchise. Could also be deleted, as the films have a fairly loose connection between them. (Oinkers42) (talk) 20:32, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

May want to check on the suggested category name; you may have meant or rather than of. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 23:09, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Support Yeah right now the name is quite confusing.★Trekker (talk) 23:43, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • @StarTrekker and (Oinkers42): do you mean Category:Dead or Alive (film series)? See Nat Gertler's comment. HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 00:54, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    • @HouseBlaster: Yes.★Trekker (talk) 09:18, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete. HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 01:50, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Companies in the MSCI KLD 400 Social Index (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Not a defining category -- one of many indices that these companies would be on. Index's own article doesn't demonstrate notability. Nat Gertler (talk) 19:54, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - MSCI literally publishes the inclusion criteria/methodology. A company wouldn't "just be on" a list like this (ie Apple isn't). It's exclusive enough (only about 10% of companies in the US). Only reason article doesn't list them all is because there's 400 of them. And that's what a category is for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.78.190.234 (talk) 20:24, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That might make it a defined category; that does not make it a defining category of the group's members, one that is likely to be mentioned by appropriate sources covering an individual member... which is the requirement for categorization. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 20:31, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, not a defining characteristic of a company. If anything, a list might be created, instead of a category. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:38, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. For this to be a useful category, when independent reliable sources (probably in the business press) are writing articles about companies that are in the index, those sources would have to mention that, for example, "Company X, a member of the MSCI KLD 400 Social Index, etc." or write articles noting that a company was added to or removed from the Index. Those sorts of mentions would have to be made in reliable sources of a company's inclusion in the Index in order to add a sentence to the article asserting as an important fact about the company that it is in the Index. Then enough such sentences in enough such articles would have to exist before it would make sense to have a category like this. This category in recent days has been added to dozens of articles and although I haven't looked at all of them, the articles I have looked at don't even mention in the body of the article that the company belongs to the Index. This means that the many editors who have worked on these many articles have hitherto not felt that being in the Index was a notable or important fact about the companies they were writing about which might be because reliable news sources don't mention it either, with respect to the companies that belong to the Index. Novellasyes (talk) 09:26, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  In the interest of clarity, I should note that the IP user who responded "Keep" above actually did add text mentioning the Index listing to dozens of articles about companies on the Index (in the wake of the category being deleted from a company's page because it was not mentioned in the text.) However, the source they were using was a promotional page for an Index-based fund on Blackrock, which is not only selling a fund based on the index but is one of the companies in the Index. As such, it is not truly an independent source... and even if it were, it's not a source for the listing of a company on the source being significant to that company. I reverted those additions, as so many links to a sales page add up to the strong scent of spam. -- Nat Gertler (talk) 17:03, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Okay got that thanks! Sorry I missed it. Big old mess, right? Novellasyes (talk) 17:49, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 00:52, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Divers from London, Ontario (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Delete; only one article. Omnis Scientia (talk) 14:58, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. Possibly merge to Category:Sportspeople from London, Ontario but the article does not mention London at all. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:48, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 00:51, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Rugby league players by city or town in Namibia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose deleting Category:Rugby league players from Tsumeb (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Delete whole tree. Only one category which only has one article. Omnis Scientia (talk) 13:49, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:50, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete. HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 00:51, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:White Southerners (United States) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Non-defining category. Half of Americans could conceivably belong to this group. First two applications of this cat (Confederados, Jefferson Davis) demonstrate the user's intention. This new category is associated with category creator's reverted new versions of White Southerners article. BusterD (talk) 13:45, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Omnis Scientia (talk) 13:51, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete in the spirit of WP:OVERLAPCAT, with the current content the scope of the category seems similar to the whole tree of Category:Confederate States of America. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:55, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: keep. HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 00:50, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Lists of Emmerdale characters to Category:List of Emmerdale characters

Nominator's rationale: I feel as though that renaming it to 'Category:List of Emmerdale characters'. Reason (rationale) is because I feel as though 'list' makes more sense than 'lists', but idk if the grammar/title is in a correct format so I am brining it to discussion. JuniperChill (talk) 12:35, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose - This is not a list of characters, it is a category containing the "lists" of characters and hence should not be renamed. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 13:17, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Oppose, the category contains multiple lists. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:57, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Plague doctors. HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 00:49, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Plague doctor to Category:History of medieval medicine

Nominator's rationale: Selective merge/major purge. Only two of the pages actually fit in this category; the rest are medical professionals who treated the plague. Mason (talk) 01:48, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Rename to Category:Plague doctors, it is largely a set category. Purge Harsh Vardhan Batra who is a modern scientist rather than a 16th/17th century plague doctor. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:09, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Rename per Marco Omnis Scientia (talk) 13:56, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Rename per Marcocapelle. Zakaria ښه راغلاست (talk) 23:49, 19 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn there are more categories now. (non-admin closure) Omnis Scientia (talk) 09:53, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose splitting Category:Mexican baseball players by populated place to Category:Baseball players by populated place and Category:Mexican sportspeople by populated place

Nominator's rationale: Triple merge to parent categories. Only one category layer Category:Mexican baseball players Omnis Scientia (talk) 23:20, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Weak keep. There's only one subcat because one or two American baseball fans decided that baseball shouldn't be split by city (unlike every other sport). A fewcouple of Mexican city categories (such as Monterrey) were deleted at that time. I've added one that didn't exist before, so there are now two in the proposed category, but if that's seen as unnecessary, you have my permission (as sole author) to delete it too. Grutness...wha? 03:11, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Single merge to Category:Baseball players by populated place, the content is already kept in the tree of the two other targets. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:14, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: Procedural close. As it is uncontroversial, it will be immediately nominated for speedy renaming. (non-admin closure) ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 03:38, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Cheerleader video games to Category:Cheerleading video games

Nominator's rationale: All other activity-related video game categories follow the format of referring to the name of the activity rather than an individual participant in it. For instance, "Cooking Video Games" rather than "Chef Video Games" and "Association Football Video Games" rather than "Footballer Video Games". The category should therefore follow this naming convention. SummerPocket (talk) 20:49, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment I am going to procedurally close this and nominate it for speedy renaming instead, as it is an uncontroversial rename based on the parent category. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 03:37, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete/merge (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:53, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:565 works
• Propose deleting Category:565 works
• Propose deleting Category:574 works
• Propose deleting Category:586 works
• Propose deleting Category:587 works
• Propose deleting Category:588 works
• Propose deleting Category:589 works
• Propose deleting Category:593 works
• Propose deleting Category:597 works

Nominator's rationale: delete (or merge if incidentally there is an article in the category). In the period 500-1000 this category tree nearly coincides with Category:Buildings and structures by year of completion and Category:Buildings and structures by decade of completion, it is a redundant category layer that adds unnecessary complexity. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:30, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The date of creation of most works from this era is not percisely known. Most of the lower-level categories are also overly small. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:18, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: Moot. Nom is moot because cats deleted under G5: Creation by a blocked or banned user in violation of block or ban (non-admin closure) Mason (talk) 00:23, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Terrorist shootings in the 2020s (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose deleting Category:Shootings in 2024 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose deleting Category:Terrorist shootings in 2024 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose deleting Category:Terrorist shootings by year (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose deleting Category:Terrorist shootings in the 2010s (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: We don't need to distinguish that the shooting was terrorist related. And this is really giving off the same vibes Mason (talk) 18:47, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: Moot. Nom is moot because cats deleted under G5: Creation by a blocked or banned user in violation of block or ban (non-admin closure) Mason (talk) 00:22, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Bombings (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose deleting Category:Bombings by year (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose deleting Category:2024 bombings (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose deleting Category:2020s bombings (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Empty pile of categories by a new editor who's category creation behavior is reminiscent of @Brudelman:. I'm nomiating the cats to just get them all out of the way in one go. Mason (talk) 18:38, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:57, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Com Truise (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: With only subcategories for albums (and their covers, which are only image files) along with a discography page, this is overcategorization per WP:OCEPON. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars^{Talk to me} 16:55, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:16, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:57, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Basshunter instrumentals (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: This is the only category in Category:Instrumentals dedicated to one artist, and all of the items in the category are redirects. Trivialist (talk) 16:29, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:18, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:French knights. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:58, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Knights of Boufflers to Category:French knights and Category:People from Hauts-de-France
• Propose merging Category:Knights of Chaumont to Category:French knights and Category:People from Chaumont, Haute-Marne

Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge. The only person is each of these category doesn't mention this knighthood. Mason (talk) 14:27, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom, but to Category:French knights only. There is no evidence that these people were from somewhere. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:31, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:05, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Expulsions of Jews from Palestine to Category:Expulsions of Jews
• Propose merging Category:Expulsions of Jews from the Middle East to Category:Expulsions of Jews
• Propose merging Category:Expulsions of Jews in Nazi and Axis countries to Category:Expulsions of Jews

@Smasongarrison missing rationale in this and the three other proposals above? You could bundle them with the proposal below, or copypaste your rationale from it? NLeeuw (talk) 13:23, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You caught me mid bundle, as I had just discovered the CFD, and got distracted. Mason (talk) 13:25, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Expulsions of Jews in 19th-century Europe to Category:Expulsions of Jews
• Propose merging Category:Expulsions of Jews in antiquity to Category:Expulsions of Jews
• Propose merging Category:Expulsions of Jews in Medieval Europe to Category:Expulsions of Jews
• Propose merging Category:Expulsions of Jews in Communist Europe to Category:Expulsions of Jews
• Propose merging Category:Expulsions of Jews in The Americas to Category:Expulsions of Jews

Nominator's rationale: Narrow categories made by the same user that are not helpful for navigation. If not merged, they need to be renamed to match category conventions. Notably the category creator participated in the CFD Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_February_7#Category:Expulsions_of_Jews_in_Nazi-controlled_Europe, which ended in delete/merge. They immediately recreated one of the categories and added the page back less than 24 hours after the CFD was processed.[1] Mason (talk) 13:15, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Pining folks from previous cfd @Marcocapelle @Buidhe @Keizers @Pppery @Liz. Mason (talk) 13:38, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Purge and merge, many articles aren't about an expulsion at all. Too few really are about an expulsion so we do not need this diffusion. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:39, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge – Per nom. Yue🌙 06:26, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:07, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Philippine Military Academy Class of 1986 to Category:Philippine Military Academy alumni
• Propose merging Category:Philippine Military Academy Class of 1981 to Category:Philippine Military Academy alumni
• Propose merging Category:Philippine Military Academy Class of 1967 to Category:Philippine Military Academy alumni
• Propose merging Category:Philippine Military Academy Class of 1940 to Category:Philippine Military Academy alumni
• Propose merging Category:Philippine Military Academy Class of 1971 to Category:Philippine Military Academy alumni

Nominator's rationale: We don't categorize alumn by the year they graduated (with rare exception) Mason (talk) 12:56, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:40, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:07, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Primary sources on Philippine history in the 16th century to Category:History of the Philippines (1565–1898)
• Propose merging Category:Primary sources for early Philippine history to Category:History of the Philippines (900–1565)

Nominator's rationale: merge. Is a non-defining 3x intersection category, and several of the documents in 16th century aren't actually from the 16th century Mason (talk) 12:54, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom. Quite interesting, actually, but Mason is right. NLeeuw (talk) 13:21, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge per above --Lenticel ^(talk) 01:00, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Historians of the Philippines and Category:16th-century Spanish historians and Category:Spanish people in the colonial Philippines. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:09, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Authors of Spanish ethnographic accounts of the Philippines in the 16th century to Category:Spanish ethnographers and Category:16th-century Spanish historians and Category:Spanish people in the colonial Philippines

Nominator's rationale: Multiple merge this Narrow category. If not merged, it should be renamed to Spanish ethnographers of the colonial Philippines or something to that effect Mason (talk) 12:47, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Support in principle, though I doubt if these articles should be in an ethnographers category. On the other hand, they may also be added to Category:Historians of the Philippines. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:50, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  O.o great find! Category:Historians of the Philippines is an excellent merge alternative. Mason (talk) 14:56, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:07, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:21st-century Somali-Canadian women engineers to Category:Canadian people of Somali descent

Nominator's rationale: Extremely narrow intersection, made by a user who hasn't really learned how categories work Mason (talk) 04:14, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Just delete, the article is already in Category:Somalian emigrants to Canada. Category:21st-century Somali women engineers should be deleted too. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:52, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Delete's fine with me. 21st-century Somali women engineers with be empty afterwards. Mason (talk) 12:49, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:08, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:African women mathematicians to Category:African mathematicians

Nominator's rationale: Is underpopulated at the moment. It could be used as a container category. Mason (talk) 03:45, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Just delete, articles are already in a mathematicians by nationality category. It is odd to have biographies directly in a continent category. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:06, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Delete's fine with me Mason (talk) 12:48, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:08, 24 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:African women in engineering (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: There's no African engineers category parent category. Delete per EGRS. I'm working on adding each person to the proper parent categories. Mason (talk) 03:44, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, it is odd to have biographies directly in a continent category. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:14, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 10:23, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Lists of American people by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Lists of American people by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American actors by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American actors by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American models by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American models by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American military personnel by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American military personnel by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American film directors by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American film directors by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:Organized crime by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Organized crime by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American musicians by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American musicians by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American architects by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American architects by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American scientists by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American scientists by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American journalists by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American journalists by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American rappers by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American rappers by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American writers by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American writers by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American artists by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American artists by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American gangsters by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American gangsters by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American novelists by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American novelists by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American social scientists by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American social scientists by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American short story writers by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American short story writers by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American poets by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American poets by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American trade unionists by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American trade unionists by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American aviators by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American aviators by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:Lists of Canadian people by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Lists of Canadian people by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American activists by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American activists by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American sculptors by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American sculptors by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American classical musicians by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American classical musicians by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American singers by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American singers by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American dramatists and playwrights by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American dramatists and playwrights by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American academics by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American academics by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:Lists of Brazilian people by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Lists of Brazilian people by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:Hawaii people by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Hawaii people by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American male actors by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American male actors by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American actresses by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American actresses by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American professional wrestlers by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American professional wrestlers by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American lawyers by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American lawyers by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:Lists of Pakistani people by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Lists of Pakistani people by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:People from the Austrian Empire by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:People from the Austrian Empire by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American comedians by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American comedians by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:Lists of Israeli people by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Lists of Israeli people by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American photographers by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American photographers by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American educators by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American educators by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:Lists of Iranian people by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Lists of Iranian people by ethnicity
• Propose renaming Category:American physicians by ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:American physicians by ethnicity

Nominator's rationale: Per brevity, actual contents, and consistency with almost all of the non-US categories. Follow-up to Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_June_7#Category:American_people_by_ethnic_or_national_origin. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:36, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Rename, ethnicity is not about people's ancestors, it is about what people are themselves. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:17, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Rename per nom. NLeeuw (talk) 13:02, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Rename per nom. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 03:43, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 10:23, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:20th century rump states to Category:Rump states

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge this isolated category. If not merged, it should be renamed to 20th-century rump states Mason (talk) 21:59, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge The target category is not large enough to support any diffusion beyond the remaining categories by historical empire. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:44, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:18, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 10:24, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:21st century in Malé to Category:History of Malé
• Propose deleting Category:Centuries in Malé

Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer, this is the only content in the tree of the target. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:14, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Category:Centuries in Malé can also be deleted, as it will become empty. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:49, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: manual merge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 10:30, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Counterparts to the protagonist to Category:Fictional characters by role in the narrative structure

Nominator's rationale: upmerge, "counterpart" is a subjective characterizstion. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:20, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Manual merge Mixture of several distinct concepts, some of which are covered by other subcategories of the target. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:43, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Manual merge per LP. It is definitely an WP:ARBITRARYCAT. NLeeuw (talk) 13:26, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• For earlier related discussions after which this was kept, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 September 23#Category:Characters by role in the narrative structure and Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 August 17#Category:Counterparts to the protagonist. – Fayenatic London 15:08, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  I still get the impression that these roles should have their own categories if applicable, e.g. a category for Category:Fictional love interests. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:47, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• I see that I previously defended this category, but some former members may have been merged, leaving less content to make these two categories worthwhile. I now support the proposed merge. – Fayenatic London 15:12, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:04, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Antagonists by role to Category:Antagonists

Nominator's rationale: Unclear why "by role" is in the name. Walsh90210 (talk) 17:31, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Rename per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:20, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Rename per nom. NLeeuw (talk) 13:27, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:05, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:United Hospitals to Category:Medical schools in London

Nominator's rationale: These categories appear to be equivalent and "Medical schools in London" describes the contents of the categories more clearly. I have not nominated the Category:United Hospitals sports clubs subcategory as that may be the common name. TSventon (talk) 15:19, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom, but leave a redirect. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:22, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that a redirect makes sense. TSventon (talk) 11:47, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:04, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Hotel Transylvania television series (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Contains only one article. Definitely a case of WP:OVERCAT. (Oinkers42) (talk) 14:57, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete in the spirit of WP:C2F. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:24, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:04, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:People with substance use disorder (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: This category will never meet WP:BLPCAT or WP:CATDEFINE/WP:COPDEF. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 13:03, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, never say never, but it is very unlikely. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:26, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Delete per nom. Mason (talk) 21:59, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per the nomination. TarnishedPath^talk 05:18, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Cuisine-related lists and reparent. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 10:35, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Lists of foods by nationality to Category:Cuisine-related lists Category:Lists of foods by country

Nominator's rationale: Food does not have a nationality; only human beings do. Aldij (talk) 11:43, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Rename per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:26, 6 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Meanwhile better targets have been proposed below, so this is outdated. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:54, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Agree with nom. --Funandtrvl (talk) 01:04, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Shouldn't this be something like List of foods/dishes by cuisine? All child categories are named Fooian cuisine-related lists‎, while almost all articles are named List of Barian dishes/foods/drinks/desserts/ingredients. It seems like Barian is explicitly meant to include diaspora communities of Barian emigrants around the world, who have taken their Barian cuisine dishes and stuff with them. If we rename to "by country", we could be excluding diaspora communities, while "nationality" (though problematic) at least includes first-generation emigrants from Bar. I'm not sure what a better alternative would be, though. Thoughts? NLeeuw (talk) 14:55, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

but the category's parent is Category:Cuisine by country, and it looks like Category:Cuisine by ethnicity doesn't have any countries in it. --Funandtrvl (talk) 22:55, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm yeah. I'm still missing the "cuisine" part though. Lists of foods/dishes by cuisine by country? Idk. NLeeuw (talk) 15:43, 11 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cuisine-related lists by country? --DB1729^talk 13:31, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• We do not need food or dishes at all, so Cuisine-related lists by country is the better option. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:59, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, Cuisine-related lists by country sounds like a good choice, since it represents what's in the category. --Funandtrvl (talk) 00:09, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Won't we need Category:Cuisine-related lists, also? --Funandtrvl (talk) 00:16, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Interesting question. I'd say, as Category:Cuisine-related lists does not exist yet, we might as well rename Category:Lists of foods by nationality to Category:Cuisine-related lists. We do not really need "by country" or "by nationality" at this point. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:43, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Yes, it is indeed better! I updated proposal. --Aldij (talk) 11:35, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• CU note - the OP is the sock of a prolific LTA. Girth Summit _(blether) 11:41, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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• Comment Given that the nominator turns to have been a sockpuppet and has now been blocked, but we seem close to an agreement, I suggest we rename to Category:Cuisine-related lists per Marcocapelle. @Funandtrvl and DB1729: would you agree? And @Marcocapelle: you might want to clarify your !vote of 16:26, 6 June 2024 (the closer might get confused whether it should be counted for original proposal Category:Lists of foods by country, or amended proposal Category:Cuisine-related lists). NLeeuw (talk) 13:11, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Agree. Rename to Category:Cuisine-related lists. DB1729^talk 13:16, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• agree, rename to Category:Cuisine-related lists. --Funandtrvl (talk) 02:50, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'd put the renamed category as a child category of Category:Cuisine, instead of under Category:Cuisine by country. --Funandtrvl (talk) 03:32, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 10:38, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Malayan law by year to Category:Malayan law

Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer, Category:Malayan law is otherwise empty. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:58, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:03, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:03, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:History of Malaysia by Federal Territory (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Merging is not needed, the subcategory is already in Category:Histories of cities in Malaysia. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:26, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete/upmerge, little point carving out Federal territory categories from state categories. (Whether that means renaming categories like Category:Categories by state of Malaysia is another matter.) CMD (talk) 08:22, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  To clarify, Category:History of Kuala Lumpur‎ should be placed in all of the categories this cat is currently in. CMD (talk) 15:06, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • It is already in the relevant subcategories of the parents. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:00, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Culture of East Germany. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:58, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Cultural policy of East Germany (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: delete, overall poorly fitting content. One article is about a festival, the other article is about general duties of citizens. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:01, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Upmerge for now to Category:Culture of East Germany. Child Category:Cultural organisations based in East Germany (1 P) should also be upmerged to Category:Culture of East Germany. I don't think just delete is a good option here. NLeeuw (talk) 06:42, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Ok, then it'll be merge. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:28, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:57, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:18th-century German Jewish theologians to Category:18th-century German theologians and Category:German Jewish theologians and Category:18th-century Jewish theologians and Category:18th-century German Jews

Nominator's rationale: Isolated category Mason (talk) 04:03, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:18, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 10:45, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Ambassadors of Australia to Kosovo (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: This category is for people articles, not list articles. LibStar (talk) 02:12, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, it is not necessarily wrong to have the list in the category, but with only the list in it the category is redundant. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:20, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The ambassador of Australia to Austria is accredited to six different countries, including Kosovo. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:59, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 10:57, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Afghan film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Albanian film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:American film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Argentine film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Australian film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Austrian film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Bangladeshi film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Belgian film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Brazilian film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:British film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Burmese film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Canadian film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Chinese film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Danish film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Dutch film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:French film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:German film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Greek film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Icelandic film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Indian film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Indonesian film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Iranian film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Italian film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Japanese film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Macedonian film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Malaysian film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Maldivian film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Mexican film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:New Zealand film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Nigerian film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Pakistani film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Peruvian film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Philippine film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Polish film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Portuguese film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Singaporean film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:South African film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:South Korean film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Soviet film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Spanish film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Sri Lankan film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Swedish film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Turkish film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose renaming Category:Uruguayan film posters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: The current category names are ambiguous as to whether they're, for example, posters of Swedish films or film posters from Sweden. I'd recommend renaming to "Film posters of Sweden" like the Commons categories. hinnk (talk) 21:56, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Question I hate to be pedantic, but do you mean:

• Film posters made in Sweden?
• Film posters hung in Sweden?
• Posters of films made in Sweden?
• Posters of films made by Swedish crew members or crew members from Sweden?
• Film posters that show "Sweden" (e.g. its landscapes or symbols associated with Sweden)?
• Film posters made or owned by the government of Sweden?
• Poster of films made by the government of Sweden?
• Etc.

All of these are more or less reasonable interpretations of Film posters of Sweden. I'm glad you're trying to clarify the catnames, but I don't see it getting much clearer. NLeeuw (talk) 22:11, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Both en:Category:Film posters by language and commons:Category:Film posters by country already better manage this ambiguity, so it does seem like it can be clearer than it is. Even a decision not to rename but develop a consensus on what the subcategories mean and add that to Category:Film posters by language would make it clearer. I don't think being pedantic is helpful here. hinnk (talk) 22:37, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmmm ok. Weak support. It's better than the current situation. NLeeuw (talk) 18:11, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment, regardless of renaming I do not think this is very ambiguous. Posters of Swedish films (i.e. in other countries than Sweden) would be a rather odd reading. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:06, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Leaning oppose; I don't think its very ambiguous. Omnis Scientia (talk) 18:55, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Support matching commonscat.
  William Allen Simpson (talk) 06:26, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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• Oppose. Commons category naming tends to have less good scrutiny than enwiki, so it lacks weight as a precedent. These poster categories should follow the parents Category:Japanese films etc. – Fayenatic London 13:16, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 11:14, 23 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Populated places in Kirundo Province to Category:Populated places in Burundi and Category:Kirundo Province

Nominator's rationale: Only 2 pages at present, so not useful for navigation. – Fayenatic London 13:10, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:59, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Considering the current number of articles in the category I am withdrawing my support. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:25, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Thanks. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 06:29, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. 9 pages now that I have put the communes into the category. 14 when articles are started for the capitals of the communes. And a region with over 600,000 people surely has many more settlements that deserve an article. Aymatth2 (talk) 21:44, 7 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Communes are administrative units if I understand correctly, not populated places. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:35, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Exactly. I have reverted those additions, because the Communes of Burundi are not "populated places" which means cities/towns/villages. – Fayenatic London 10:23, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    According to the wikipedia articles, each of the seven communes in Kirundo Province has a capital with the same name. The capital of the Commune of Bugabira is Bugabira. The capital of the Commune of Busoni is Busoni, and so on. Kirundo Province had a population of 628,256 as of the 2008 census. The 2018 population was estimated as 927,761, or about 130,000 per commune. Our coverage of this region is atrocious. Let's not make it even harder for editors to improve it.

    This source describes Bugabira as a small town with colonial-era architecture. Bugabira commune is divided into the collines of Kiri, Kiyonza, Gaturanda, Rubuga, Kigina, Nyakarama, Nyamabuye, Nyabikenke, Rugasa, Gitwe and Kigoma.[2] Google maps shows Gaturanda as a region south of an arm of Lake Cyohoha South with labelled villages named Gaturanda, Rugondo and Rubuga. Gaturanda village looks substantial.[3] In 2012 the Global Water Partnership Eastern Africa gathered data related to drought in Rubuga, Kigina, and Gaturanda in Bugabira commune.[4] In August 2014 six houses were burned in Bugabira commune, including five in Gaturanda and one in Kigoma.[5] In April 2016 Gaston Sindimwo, President of Burundi, visited Gaturanda, which lies on the border with Rwanda, to ask the people not to stir up problems over refugees.[6] In 2023 Bugabira municipality issued a call for tenders for extension of the Gaturanda health center.[7].

    Clearly these is enough information online to piece together sketches of the many populated places in Kirundo Province. The category structure should be ready for them. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:43, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

    • The category structure should be made ready after there are enough articles, not before. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:07, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• @Marcocapelle: How many populated places are enough to justify the category for the province? Would it matter if they were all in the same commune? Aymatth2 (talk) 22:43, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• @Fayenatic london: You may want to chime in on this. An accepted number could save a lot of time on debates over lightly-populated categories. Aymatth2 (talk) 01:13, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Aymatth2: "Five" is often mentioned at CFD as some editors' opinion of a sensible minimum. Personally, I would create a category for four. In a case like this, where additional stubs could easily be created, I would not bother nominating a category that had three members – but I would still not encourage you to create it for less than four. – Fayenatic London 08:00, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    • That is helpful. I have pumped up Kirundo Province a bit and may start some articles on features of the province. @Marcocapelle: Any thoughts? Aymatth2 (talk) 14:05, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have often included Commune and town in the same article for African countries. Makes sense for places in the developing world where there may not be an abundance of sources. Though I don't think we should really have the commune and town in the same article for places which cover an area of 235 square kilometres like Bugabira. Either way, it would be silly to delete a category simply because the region is underdeveloped. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:07, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• As Aymatth2 admits, even the other 5 capitals of communes in Kirundo Province do not have articles yet. For some reason a famous cat-stroking Wikipedian created 50 stubs for Populated places in Bubanza Province 16 years ago, mostly villages, then apparently petered out part-way into Buriri Province. As and when articles are created for more settlements in this province, the category may then be re-created when it becomes justifiable, but Template:Kirundo Province is sufficient and appropriate for navigational needs at the moment; I have added Vumbi into it. – Fayenatic London 12:44, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep Per Aymatth2. And populate..♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:07, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Kirundo Province has more people than Alaska, which has at least 148 populated places. If Category:Populated places in Kirundo Province is deleted, and then a new editor decides to create articles for some of the places in the province, they will likely try to recreate the category. They will see a big red warning saying the Wikipedia community has decided there should not be such a category. I would just go ahead and recreate it anyway, but a newbie may be discouraged. That is the last thing we want to happen for an area which is so poorly covered. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:49, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Seven articles as of relisting.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk · he/they) 00:48, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 04:27, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Women's Premier League (cricket) franchise owners to Category:Women's Premier League (cricket) team owners

Nominator's rationale: Parent categories use the word team, not franchise: Category:Women's Premier League (cricket) teams, Category:Women's cricket teams in India, Category:Cricket teams in India, Category:Women's cricket teams Gjs238 (talk) 12:48, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Oppose: It should be franchise owners, as the member pagers are franchise owners rather than team owners. Vestrian24Bio (TALK) 14:13, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Withdraw proposal as per Vestrian24Bio. Gjs238 (talk) 19:33, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:11, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose upmerging Category:Military operations of the War of 1812 to Category:War of 1812

Nominator's rationale: 2 C, 0 P. WP:NARROWCAT. Both children are already in parent trees, or not all items in them involved Canada or the UK. NLeeuw (talk) 09:52, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:11, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:12, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:War of 1812 on the National Register of Historic Places (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: 1 P. Just delete, it is already in the trees of its parents. NLeeuw (talk) 09:48, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:11, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete per nom. – Epicgenius (talk) 17:48, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:12, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose upmerging Category:Washington, D.C., in the War of 1812 to Category:Military history of Washington, D.C.

Nominator's rationale: 1 P, which is already in the trees of the other parents. NLeeuw (talk) 09:47, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:13, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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• Propose upmerging Category:Holidays related to the War of 1812 to Category:Aftermath of the War of 1812 in the United States

Nominator's rationale: 1 P, which is already in other parent. NLeeuw (talk) 09:43, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:15, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:12, 22 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose upmerging Category:Presidents General of the General Society of the War of 1812 to Category:General Society of the War of 1812

Nominator's rationale: 1 P. Target might not be viable either? NLeeuw (talk) 09:41, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom. Right, the target may be upmerged too. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:18, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  Aight, we'll make it a follow-up. NLeeuw (talk) 06:40, 15 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: manual merge. (non-admin closure) Queen of Hearts ^talk 05:07, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Military regiments raised in Nova Scotia to Category:Military units and formations of Nova Scotia

Nominator's rationale: Overlapping category, no parent category:Military regiments exists. Mason (talk) 23:08, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Support in principle, but this will require purging too. For example, North Nova Scotia Highlanders is a military unit of Canada, not of Nova Scotia. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:09, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:34, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Mexican engineer stubs to Category:Engineer stubs and Category:Mexican scientist stubs

Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated stub category with no evidence of approval by Category:WikiProject Stub sorting. As always, stub categories are not free for just anybody to create on a whim, and require a minimum of 60 articles for entry -- but even after deep-scanning the Category:Mexican people stubs parent for any missed engineers, this still only has 17 articles in it.
The stub template is fine, since it can always just sort articles into the target categories, but there would have to be at least 43 more articles before a dedicated category was warranted. Bearcat (talk) 19:54, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:11, 14 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Queen of Hearts ^talk 05:10, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting

• Category:Muwahhid Muslims
• Category:British Muwahhid Muslims
• Category:Egyptian Muwahhid Muslims

Nominator's rationale: I propose the deletion of these categories because they make no sense. Muwahiddism isn't a separate branch (like Sunni, Shia, Ibadi, Ahmadi, Quranism), it's not a fiqh school (like Hanafi/Shafii/Maliki/Hanbali divide among Sunnis), it's not an aqeeda school (like Athari/Maturidi/Ashari divide among Sunnis or Usuli/Akhbari divide among Twelver Shia) or anything.

Anyone who considers himself a Muslim (no matter what school he follows) considers himself a muwahhid (موحِّد) which means "a monotheist" in Arabic, literally a follower of tawhid (توحيد), monotheism, the central concept of Islam. It's just a term which is more often used as a self-description by Sunni Salafis to highlight their purism in contrast to anyone else (for example, Sufis have a practice of visiting graves of their sheikhs, Salafis see this act as a departure from the concept of tawhid in Islam. Although Sufis don't consider it as a violation of tawhid, they still see themselves as muwahhideen (monotheists). But anyone who claims to follow Islam, he by definition considers himself a muwahhid regardless). That's it. It's not a separate branch of Islam. It's just a "label" or a "trademark", so to speak. These categories are excessive and absolutely uncalled for. Sorry for bad formatting, by the way (I'm editing off my phone). Fixmaster (talk) 19:24, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete, both articles in the tree are about Salafis and already categorized as such. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:49, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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• Propose deleting Category:Socialist film directors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: delete, intersection of unrelated characteristics. A few of these articles may be moved to a Category:Victims of McCarthyism, but that would be a very different discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:42, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom Mason (talk) 23:09, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) Queen of Hearts ^talk 05:11, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Australian bigamists to Category:Bigamists

Nominator's rationale: There's no need to diffuse this category by nationality. Mason (talk) 02:54, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge by nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:59, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure) Queen of Hearts ^talk 05:11, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Australian event managers to Category:Australian event planners

Nominator's rationale: I'm on the fence about speedying this category, however, I'm not 100% sure that I've correctly mapped this category to the right parent of event planning. Mason (talk) 02:50, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure) Queen of Hearts ^talk 05:11, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Australian metal workers to Category:Australian metalworkers

Nominator's rationale: There are three ways this category can be handled. Either rename this to match the parent category of Metalworkers, merge to Australian metalsmiths‎ or rename to reflect that the intent of this category Metal manufacturing companies of Australia‎. Mason (talk) 02:48, 13 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Queen of Hearts ^talk 05:11, 21 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]