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October 27

Category:Bulgarian musicians by populated place

Nominator's rationale: duel upmerge, redundant category layer SMasonGarrison 23:38, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Albanian soldiers

Nominator's rationale: What's the difference between soldiers and military personnel? Clarityfiend (talk) 23:19, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Entomology journals and magazines

Nominator's rationale: Parent is Zoology journals and main category is List of entomology journals SMasonGarrison 22:40, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Misconduct by Buddhist clergy

Nominator's rationale: Vaguely defined category. SMasonGarrison 22:37, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
How is it vaguely defined? We also have Category:Misconduct by Christian clergy (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Invokingvajras (talk) 23:34, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Armenian aviators

:* Propose merging Category:Armenian aviators to Category:Asian aviators and Category:Aviation in Armenia :* Propose merging Category:Albanian aviators to Category:European aviators and Category:Aviation in Albania

:* Propose merging Category:Kyrgyzstani aviators to Category:Asian aviators and Category:Aviation in Kyrgyzstan

Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 22:05, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've added an Albanian. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:10, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Indonesian politicians of Middle Eastern descent

Nominator's rationale: All people in this category are actually of Arab descent, so it would be better to name the category more accurately. Hassan697 (talk) 21:38, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fathers of Medicare

Nominator's rationale: Category for a non-defining characteristic. These people did not work together collectively to develop Canada's health insurance system, but rather each acted on their own in some capacity in different political bodies at different times, so they don't constitute a defined or organized group that get covered or analyzed in aggregate -- "father of medicare" is just a term that some of them have been labelled with, not an encyclopedically notable concept. Even the "head" article is based entirely on sources that individually ascribe the people with that term rather than sources which cover them all together as a group, so it doesn't demonstrate that there's a categorizable concept here either. Bearcat (talk) 20:10, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Eponyms in mathematics round 2

Nominator's rationale: Nomination on behalf of David Eppstein per discussion following Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 October 24 § Category:Eponyms in mathematics. I will let him provide a substantive rationale. Best, BlasterOfHouses (HouseBlaster's alt • talk • he/they) 19:14, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all except Lists of things named after mathematicians. Both the intent of this group nomination and the "substantive rationale" are exactly the same as in the first nomination. To save others the time of following links I'll copy it again here:
Not defining. A huge number of topics in mathematics are named after mathematicians; it is not a distinguishing characteristic of these topics. This and the subhierarchy under it were created in 2023 by an editor who was subsequently blocked for creating spurious categories, DinosaursLoveExistence (talk · contribs), and has been recently populated by 185.100.88.213 (talk · contribs), whose contributions appear to be primarily or only adding to categories created by the blocked editor. The parent category, Category:Eponyms, has text warning against this exact type of category: "Since many medical conditions, sports moves, bridge and chess techniques, buildings, prizes, and other things have been named after people, these are not included in this category, as categorization on the basis of having been named for a person is considered to be overcategorization based on trivial aspects of the article."
As for "Lists of things named after mathematicians": both the first nomination discussion and its post-close discussion clearly state that this category is ok and should not be deleted. I do not know why the nominator chose to ignore this part of the request and do not think this category should be deleted. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:04, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Asesino albums

Nominator's rationale: Both albums are non-notable redirects to the band's page. Genres are not sourced, so albums can be added to albums by American artists. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 05:18, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:57, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination. -Samoht27 (talk) 19:17, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fiction set in extraterrestrial oceans

Nominator's rationale: It's not clear if this passes WP:CROSSCAT and it is also a WP:NARROWCAT. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 06:34, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge The two categories intersect. LDW5432 (talk) 19:20, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:06, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:American city council members by city

Nominator's rationale: parent is American politicians by populated place SMasonGarrison 14:20, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Rename per nom. LDW5432 (talk) 19:34, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Kaffet i halsen's alt?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:03, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Kaffet i halsen (talk) 12:28, 28 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional political parties

Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT, most are redirects. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 06:26, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Merge to Category:Fiction about politics as well?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:58, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Years of the 19th century in the German Confederation

Nominator's rationale: rename, specification of century is unnecessary because the German Confederation entirely existed within one century. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:10, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:56, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Rename per nom. LDW5432 (talk) 19:40, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Expatriate architects in Spain

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. underpopulated category SMasonGarrison 12:19, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Gender by topic

Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary layer with only one sub-cat. – Fayenatic London 11:27, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge, Much wider category. -Samoht27 (talk) 19:19, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Films about the mass media

Nominator's rationale: The phrase "about the mass media" should either be "about mass media" or "about the media". The hierarchy of Category:Mass media uses "mass" except for War and the media, Works about the media and its subcats. Perhaps we should rename and redirect those to use "mass media" – comments are welcome here on proposals for that parent hierarchy. – Fayenatic London 10:59, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Rename per nom. The new name is more clear. LDW5432 (talk) 19:41, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Swazi Orthodox rabbis

Nominator's rationale: merge, only one article in this category, this is not helpful for navigation between related articles. There is no need for a merge into the Orthodox rabbis tree because the article is already in Category:Haredi rabbis in Israel. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:10, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Individual organisms by country

Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT with only 2 categories. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 04:34, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Taxa named by Wu Hsien-Wen

Nominator's rationale: Per main article (Hsien-wen Wu). ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 02:45, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Being Chinese, shouldn't her family name come first?
Phil Fish (talk) 02:54, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Phil Fish: That depends, see also eastern name order. ときさき くるみ not because they are easy, but because they are hard 22:30, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: "Related to" reads to me like a family, rather than associated with. SMasonGarrison 02:36, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Buddhists involved in controversies

Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer. upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 01:38, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Austrian carcinologists

Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 01:29, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Maltese zoologists

Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 01:13, 27 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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