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Current requests
[edit]Please add new requests at the top of the list, preferably with a link to the parent category (in case of C2C) or relevant article (in case of C2D).
- Category:Israel–Hamas war protests in France to Category:Gaza war protests in France – C2D. Tagged by Ymblanter on April 11, not listed. * Pppery * it has begun... 19:08, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:17th-century in Lagos to Category: 17th century in Lagos; C2C, per Category:19th century in Lagos, Category:20th century in Lagos, and Category:21st century in Lagos. ForsythiaJo (talk) 15:26, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:18th-century in Lagos to Category:18th century in Lagos, per above
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Afghanistan to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Afghanistan to the United Nations Office in Vienna – C2C, per parent categories Category:Permanent representatives to the United Nations in Vienna and Category:Permanent representatives to the United Nations. Woko Sapien (talk) 14:55, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Albania to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Albania to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Angola to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Angola to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Armenia to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Armenia to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Australia to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Australia to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Austria to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Austria to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Azerbaijan to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Azerbaijan to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Bahrain to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Bahrain to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Barbados to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Barbados to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Belgium to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Belgium to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Colombia to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Colombia to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Cyprus to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Cyprus to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of El Salvador to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of El Salvador to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Guatemala to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Guatemala to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of India to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of India to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Indonesia to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Indonesia to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Ireland to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Ireland to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Italy to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Italy to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Jamaica to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Jamaica to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Kazakhstan to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Kazakhstan to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Malta to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Malta to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Mexico to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Mexico to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Mongolia to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Mongolia to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of New Zealand to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of New Zealand to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Nigeria to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Nigeria to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of the Philippines to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of the Philippines to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Poland to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Poland to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Romania to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Romania to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Senegal to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Senegal to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Permanent Representatives of Ukraine to the United Nations Office in Vienna to Category:Permanent representatives of Ukraine to the United Nations Office in Vienna
- Category:Belarus in World War II to Category:Byelorussia in World War II – C2D. Mellk (talk) 14:16, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Houthi movement attacks in Saudi Arabia to Category:Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia – C2D. Thepharoah17 (talk) 22:14, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Drone strikes conducted by the Houthi movement to Category:Drone strikes conducted by the Houthis – C2D. Thepharoah17 (talk) 22:13, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Houthi movement attacks to Category:Houthi attacks – C2D. Thepharoah17 (talk) 22:10, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Mexican electronic lit to Category:Mexican electronic literature C2C, parent categories Category:Mexican literature and Category:Electronic literature. Legend of 14 (talk) 20:43, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Defunct technological companies of the United Kingdom to Category:Defunct technology companies of the United Kingdom – C2B. Inpops (talk) 20:03, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:English female screenwriters to Category:English women screenwriters – C2C (see Category:English women writers and Category:British women screenwriters). Inpops (talk) 19:57, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:People associated with the tarot to Category:People associated with tarot – C2A: Based on the use of articles( grammar) from reading the tarot article, I think that this should read "with tarot" SMasonGarrison 13:05, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Chinese encyclopedias to Category:Encyclopedias in Chinese – C2D: List of encyclopedias in Chinese. NLeeuw (talk) 09:00, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Ukrainian-language encyclopedias to Category:Encyclopedias in Ukrainian – C2D: List of encyclopedias in Ukrainian. NLeeuw (talk) 08:33, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Arabic-language encyclopedias to Category:Encyclopedias in Arabic – C2D: List of encyclopedias in Arabic. NLeeuw (talk) 08:32, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:French-language encyclopedias to Category:Encyclopedias in French – C2D: List of encyclopedias in French. NLeeuw (talk) 08:30, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Hungarian encyclopedias to Category:Encyclopedias in Hungarian – C2D: List of encyclopedias in Hungarian. NLeeuw (talk) 08:29, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Polish encyclopedias to Category:Encyclopedias in Polish – C2D: List of encyclopedias in Polish. NLeeuw (talk) 08:25, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:German-language encyclopedias to Category:Encyclopedias in German – C2D: List of encyclopedias in German. NLeeuw (talk) 08:23, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Sub-districts in Al A'rsh District to Category:Sub-districts in al Arsh district – C2D: To match Al A'rsh district. Similarly for other districts of Yemen Dicklyon (talk) 04:20, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Sub-districts in Radda District to Category:Sub-districts in Radda district – C2D: to match Radda district. Similarly for other districts of Yemen. Dicklyon (talk) 04:18, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Gaddar Award winners to Category:Gaddar Telangana Film Awards winners - The requested name is same as it's main article Gaddar Telangana Film Awards Jayanthkumar123 (talk) 16:47, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Works by Bong Joon-ho to Category:Works by Bong Joon Ho - Consistency with the spelling used for his main articles, which was changed unilaterally (see Talk:Bong Joon Ho#Requested move 6 March 2025). Mr slav999 (talk) 14:01, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Films directed by Bong Joon-ho to Category:Films directed by Bong Joon Ho - as above. Mr slav999 (talk) 14:01, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Films with screenplays by Bong Joon-ho to Category:Films with screenplays by Bong Joon Ho - as above. Mr slav999 (talk) 14:01, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Films produced by Bong Joon-ho to Category:Films produced by Bong Joon Ho - as above. Mr slav999 (talk) 14:01, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Category:UCLA School of Public Health alumni to Category:UCLA Fielding School of Public Health alumni – C2D: Consistent with article name. Epluribusunumyall (talk) 13:46, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Opposed requests
[edit]- Category:Lithuanian collaborators with the Soviet Union (1940–41) to Category:Lithuanian collaborators with the Soviet Union – C2C: Norm isn't to limit to a range of years. Parent is "Collaborators with the Soviet Union by nationality" SMasonGarrison 23:34, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- I do not necessarily oppose, but if we include 1945-1990, then the whole population of Lithuania are collaborators.--Ymblanter (talk) 05:31, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- That is a fair point. Better take this to full discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:53, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- I do not necessarily oppose, but if we include 1945-1990, then the whole population of Lithuania are collaborators.--Ymblanter (talk) 05:31, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
On hold pending other discussion
[edit]- Category:Dramatiska Institutet alumni to Category:Swedish Institute of Dramatic Art alumni – C2D: Swedish Institute of Dramatic Art Kaffet i halsen (talk) 07:53, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Kaffet i halsen:, I think Dramatiska Institutet is probably the common name, see Talk:Swedish Institute of Dramatic Art#Article name. TSventon (talk) 10:21, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
- Let's hold this the article name is decided. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 06:33, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- @TSventon and Kaffet i halsen: you probably need to start a formal RM. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:17, 21 May 2025 (UTC)
- Let's hold this the article name is decided. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 06:33, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Kaffet i halsen:, I think Dramatiska Institutet is probably the common name, see Talk:Swedish Institute of Dramatic Art#Article name. TSventon (talk) 10:21, 3 May 2025 (UTC)
Moved to full discussion
[edit]- Category:1500th anniversary of Kyiv to Category:1500th anniversary of Kiev – C2D. Mellk (talk) 07:31, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- I see all kinds of issues if this gets speedy moved, better to take it to a full discussion. Ymblanter (talk) 07:40, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- I see there was a move discussion at 1500th anniversary of Kiev where we arrived at the current title. Mellk (talk) 14:19, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Moved to full discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:46, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- I see there was a move discussion at 1500th anniversary of Kiev where we arrived at the current title. Mellk (talk) 14:19, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- I see all kinds of issues if this gets speedy moved, better to take it to a full discussion. Ymblanter (talk) 07:40, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Public Research Organisations in New Zealand to Category:Public Research Organisations – C2D: 1) Match article name Public Research Organisation 2) Remove unnecessary disambiguator. Public Research Organisation is a type of New Zealand research organisation. Gjs238 (talk) 14:50, 22 May 2025 (UTC)
- I am not convinced that a disambiguator is unnecessary. However a different form of disambiguation, namely Category:Public Research Organisations (New Zealand), would bring it more in line with the main article. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:10, 22 May 2025 (UTC)
- Perhaps it would be better to delete the category and merge to Category:Research institutes in New Zealand. If the category is kept, it will at most contain 4 articles plus 1 eponymous one, only 2 of which currently exist. Gjs238 (talk) 23:51, 23 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merging would be fine with me, but that is not for speedy either. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:42, 24 May 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Places in mythology to Category:Locations in mythology – C2C: the subcategories are all called "locations". Marcocapelle (talk) 06:03, 28 April 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose the parents though are called "Places" and in fact so is one of the subcategories and some of the grandchild categories under Hindu mythology. Jahaza (talk) 18:40, 29 April 2025 (UTC)
- Category:Telenovelas about spiritism to Category:Telenovelas about Spiritism – C2C within Category:Spiritism – Fayenatic London 09:16, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose. Category:Spiritism is only capitalized because it's the beginning of the category name. The name "spiritism" itself is not proper. See the name of the article Kardecist spiritism for example. Jahaza (talk) 16:13, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Fayenatic london and Jahaza: shouldn't it become Category:Kardecist spiritism as a matter of C2D? Marcocapelle (talk) 20:51, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Since this is opposed, a full discussion is needed along with Category:Spiritism and Category:Films about Spiritism. – Fayenatic London 21:43, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Now at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_May_17#Category:Spiritism. – Fayenatic London 13:44, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Fayenatic london and Jahaza: shouldn't it become Category:Kardecist spiritism as a matter of C2D? Marcocapelle (talk) 20:51, 4 May 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose. Category:Spiritism is only capitalized because it's the beginning of the category name. The name "spiritism" itself is not proper. See the name of the article Kardecist spiritism for example. Jahaza (talk) 16:13, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
Current discussions
[edit]June 2
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
[edit]Category:Abandonware websites
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Abandonware websites to Category:Video game websites
- Nominator's rationale: Only contains two articles. Home of the Underdogs is indisputably notable, but Abandonia probably isn't. Either way, the category is overly narrow and unnecessary. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 19:07, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:1493 establishments in Sweden
[edit]- Propose merging Category:1493 establishments in Sweden to Category:15th-century establishments in Sweden and Category:1493 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1521 establishments in Sweden to Category:1520s establishments in Sweden and Category:1521 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1526 establishments in Sweden to Category:1520s establishments in Sweden and Category:1526 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1535 establishments in Sweden to Category:1530s establishments in Sweden and Category:1535 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1538 establishments in Sweden to Category:1530s establishments in Sweden and Category:1538 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1539 establishments in Sweden to Category:1530s establishments in Sweden and Category:1539 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1554 establishments in Sweden to Category:1550s establishments in Sweden and Category:1554 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1558 establishments in Sweden to Category:1550s establishments in Sweden and Category:1558 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1561 establishments in Sweden to Category:1560s establishments in Sweden and Category:1561 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1565 establishments in Sweden to Category:1560s establishments in Sweden and Category:1565 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1570 establishments in Sweden to Category:1570s establishments in Sweden and Category:1570 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1571 establishments in Sweden to Category:1570s establishments in Sweden and Category:1571 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1580 establishments in Sweden to Category:1580s establishments in Sweden and Category:1580 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1581 establishments in Sweden to Category:1580s establishments in Sweden and Category:1581 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1583 establishments in Sweden to Category:1580s establishments in Sweden and Category:1583 establishments in Europe
- Nominator's rationale: In these categories, there is one thing established in the 15th century and a total of 16 things established in the 16th century (in 14 year categories). Kaffet i halsen (talk) 16:00, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:30, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:1850s disasters in Sweden
[edit]- Propose deleting Category:1850s disasters in Sweden
- Propose merging Category:1853 disasters in Sweden to Category:19th-century disasters in Sweden, Category:1853 in Sweden, and Category:1853 disasters
- Propose deleting Category:1900s disasters in Sweden
- Propose merging Category:1902 disasters in Sweden to Category:20th-century disasters in Sweden, Category:1902 in Sweden, and Category:1902 disasters in Europe
- Propose deleting Category:1910s disasters in Sweden
- Propose merging Category:1918 disasters in Sweden to Category:20th-century disasters in Sweden, Category:1918 in Sweden, and Category:1918 disasters in Europe
- Propose deleting Category:1930s disasters in Sweden
- Propose merging Category:1939 disasters in Sweden to Category:20th-century disasters in Sweden, Category:1939 in Sweden, and Category:1939 disasters in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1980s disasters in Sweden to Category:20th-century disasters in Sweden, Category:1980s in Sweden, and Category:1980s disasters in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1987 disasters in Sweden to Category:20th-century disasters in Sweden, Category:1987 in Sweden, and Category:1987 disasters in Europe
- Propose deleting Category:1990s disasters in Sweden
- Propose merging Category:1995 disasters in Sweden to Category:20th-century disasters in Sweden, Category:1995 in Sweden, and Category:1995 disasters in Europe
- Propose deleting Category:2000s disasters in Sweden
- Propose merging Category:2004 disasters in Sweden to Category:21st-century disasters in Sweden, Category:2004 in Sweden, and Category:2004 disasters in Europe
- Propose merging Category:2008 disasters in Sweden to Category:21st-century disasters in Sweden, Category:2008 in Sweden, and Category:2008 disasters in Europe
- Propose deleting Category:2010s disasters in Sweden
- Propose merging Category:2010 disasters in Sweden to Category:21st-century disasters in Sweden, Category:2010 in Sweden, and Category:2010 disasters in Europe
- Propose merging Category:2013 disasters in Sweden to Category:21st-century disasters in Sweden, Category:2013 in Sweden, and Category:2013 disasters in Europe
- Propose merging Category:2016 disasters in Sweden to Category:21st-century disasters in Sweden, Category:2016 in Sweden, and Category:2016 disasters in Europe
- Propose merging Category:2019 disasters in Sweden to Category:21st-century disasters in Sweden, Category:2019 in Sweden, and Category:2019 disasters in Europe
- Propose deleting Category:2020s disasters in Sweden
- Propose merging Category:2021 disasters in Sweden to Category:21st-century disasters in Sweden, Category:2021 in Sweden, and Category:2021 disasters in Europe
- Nominator's rationale: 14 articles spread out over 13 year categories. In total 19 articles over three centuries. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 16:00, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Merge/delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:31, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Football clubs in Borås
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Football clubs in Borås to Category:Sports clubs and teams in Borås and Category:Football clubs in Västra Götaland County
- Propose merging Category:Football clubs in Landskrona to Category:Sport in Landskrona and Category:Football clubs in Skåne County
- Propose merging Category:Football clubs in Trelleborg to Category:Sport in Trelleborg and Category:Football clubs in Skåne County
- Propose merging Category:Ice hockey teams in Malmö to Category:Sports clubs and teams in Malmö, Category:Ice hockey teams in Skåne County, and Category:Ice hockey in Malmö
- Propose merging Category:Rugby union clubs in Gothenburg to Category:Sports clubs and teams in Gothenburg and Category:Rugby union teams in Sweden
- Nominator's rationale: Very detailed intersections with two or three articles in each. If the last one is kept, rename to Category:Rugby union teams in Gothenburg per the proposed merge targets. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 16:00, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:32, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Sportspeople in Åsarna by club or team
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Sportspeople in Åsarna by club or team to Category:Sportspeople in Jämtland County by club or team
- Propose merging Category:Sportspeople in Edsbyn by club or team to Category:Sportspeople in Gävleborg County by club or team
- Propose merging Category:Sportspeople in Fagersta by club or team to Category:Sportspeople in Västmanland County by club or team
- Propose merging Category:Sportspeople in Järna, Vansbro Municipality by club or team to Category:Sportspeople in Dalarna County by club or team
- Propose merging Category:Sportspeople in Kalix by club or team to Category:Sportspeople in Norrbotten County by club or team
- Propose merging Category:Sportspeople in Katrineholm by club or team to Category:Sportspeople in Södermanland County by club or team
- Propose merging Category:Sportspeople in Kristinehamn by club or team to Category:Sportspeople in Värmland County by club or team
- Propose merging Category:Sportspeople in Lycksele by club or team to Category:Sportspeople in Västerbotten County by club or team
- Propose merging Category:Sportspeople in Nässjö by club or team to Category:Sportspeople in Jönköping County by club or team
- Propose merging Category:Sportspeople in Staffanstorp by club or team to Category:Sportspeople in Skåne County by club or team
- Propose merging Category:Sportspeople in Tärnaby by club or team to Category:Sportspeople in Västerbotten County by club or team
- Nominator's rationale: One category in each; does not help navigation. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 16:00, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:33, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Reactions to the Israel–Hamas war in the United States
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Israel–Hamas war was moved to Gaza war 🐔 Chicdat Bawk to me! 11:08, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- This should be closed the same way as Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_May_29#Category:Israel–Hamas_war which is a still open discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:36, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Activists from Aomori Prefecture
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Category with just three entries. No need for a merge. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:07, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:AfC submissions declined as being previously deleted
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: This category does not comply with Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Reviewing_instructions#If_you_cannot_publish_the_draft; being salted is not a reason to decline a draft. GZWDer (talk) 08:45, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Drawing artists from the Holy Roman Empire
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: All other nationalities, and the parent cat, are at "Draughtsmen", not at "Drawing artists" Fram (talk) 07:54, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Rename for Now I'm open to a more inclusive term, but that discussion should be for the whole tree. - RevelationDirect (talk) 11:56, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Proslavery activists
[edit]- Option A
- Propose renaming Category:Proslavery activists to Category:Defenders of slavery
- Propose renaming Category:American proslavery activists to Category:American defenders of slavery
- Propose renaming Category:British proslavery activists to Category: British defenders of slavery
- Propose renaming Category:English proslavery activists to Category:English defenders of slavery
- Propose renaming Category:Scottish proslavery activists to Category:Scottish defenders of slavery
- Propose renaming Category:French proslavery activists to Category:French defenders of slavery
- Propose renaming Category:Irish proslavery activists to Category:Irish defenders of slavery
- Nominator's rationale: rename aligning with the category description on the category pages. Most people in these categories were not an activist.
- Option B: delete all per WP:OPINIONCAT. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:18, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Anticonvulsant stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Anticonvulsant stubs to Category:Nervous system drug stubs
- Nominator's rationale: This stub category has less than 60 mainspace articles in it - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 02:27, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Araneomorphae sub-stub upmerging
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Archaeidae stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Dysderidae stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Liocranidae stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Pisauridae stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Zoropsidae stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: I believe these stub categories should be upmerged since there are less than 60 articles in each one. - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 02:00, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose except for the last one. The first four categories contain 50+ articles. Note that 60 is a requirement to start a stub category, it is not a requirement for a stub category to exist. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:57, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose. A combined category would have over 250 articles. With time one would expect (hope?) the number of stub articles to come down. Smaller categories might encourage editors to expand a batch of articles when a large one makes the task seem more daunting. — Jts1882 | talk 06:11, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Amerilini stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Amerilini stubs to Category:Arctiinae stubs
- Nominator's rationale: This category has less than 60 mainspace articles - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:45, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose, the category still contains 50+ articles. Note that 60 is a requirement to start a stub category, it is not a requirement for a stub category to exist. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:58, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Acanthocinini stub merging
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Goephanes stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Nealcidion stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Anisopodus stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Ancylistes stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: These stub categories should all be upmerged into Acanthocinini stubs, as they each contain less than 60 mainspace articles. - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:40, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose the second which still contains 59 articles. Note that 60 is a requirement to start a stub category, it is not a requirement for a stub category to exist. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:00, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Medal of Honor Awardees from Minnesota
[edit]- Propose Manually Merging Category:Medal of Honor Awardees from Minnesota to Category:Recipients of the Medal of Honor
- Nominator's rationale: WP:OCLOCATION and, potentially, WP:OVERLAPCAT
- The Medal of Honor is defining and the category is large, so there's no WP:OCAWARD or WP:NARROWCAT issue. The problem is that American service members tend to move around a lot during their careers so that they're associated with multiple states, none of which are defining to the award. Here are the first three articles alphabetically:
- George E. Albee: from New Hampshire, served out of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Connecticut, retired in Maryland
- James Allen (Medal of Honor): from Ireland, served out of New York, retired in Minnesota
- Jesse T. Barrick: from Ohio, grew up and served out of Minnesota, retired in Washington state
- Some of these biographies are in other MOH subcategories and others aren't so, if this passes, I volunteer to selectively merge the contents. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:27, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Manually merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:01, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Note there is also Category:Puerto Rican recipients of the Medal of Honor Gjs238 (talk) 14:26, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Jordanoleiopus stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Jordanoleiopus stubs to Category:Acanthocinini stubs
- Nominator's rationale: This stub category has less than 60 mainspace articles in it - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:25, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Clio Award winners
[edit]- Propose Deleting Category:Clio Awards
- Propose Deleting Category:Clio Award winners
- Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC, WP:OCAWARD and, for the parent category, WP:NARROWCAT
- The Clio Awards are an advertising industry award and might be defining for articles actually about specific TV commercials or other advertising campaigns. The problem is that this category is a jumble of different types of articles with varying associations to the topic including major companies that sponsor commercials (Volkswagen & Quaker Oats Company), a product that the commercials advertise (Alka-Seltzer), various people in a variety of professions involved with creating commercials (director Meiert Avis, voice over artist Alan Bleviss, actress Rosemary Rice, graphic designer Georg Olden, agency executive Stan Freberg), advertising agencies (FCB, McCann), and just three actual commercials (Little Mikey, Aaron Burr advertisment, Cat Herders). No objection to recreating a more narrow category for that last group after a clear list is created in the main article.
- Without the subcategory, the parent will only have 2 articles with little growth potential. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:25, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose. It's a notable award, and readers are likely to want to find winners through category navigation. I see no problem with the current structure.4meter4 (talk) 02:59, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- The issue isn't the award but who counts as a winner beyond the commercial itself. The main article unfortunately doesn't list winners, but it looks like a the whole team goes to accept a single award on behalf of the winning commercial. Those professionals then likely add receiving a Clio to their resume (which is true in a literal sense); the Wikipedia sourcing then relies largely on uncritical obituaries. The Clios don't even seem to mind this fluid definition of who is a winner since they will sell you duplicate trophies for team building, but that sure doesn't seem encyclopedic. RevelationDirect (talk) 11:13, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Ostedes stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Ostedes stubs to Category:Acanthocinini stubs
- Nominator's rationale: This stub category has less than 60 mainspace articles in it - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:25, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose, the category still contains 57 articles. Note that 60 is a requirement to start a stub category, it is not a requirement for a stub category to exist. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:03, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Rugby union players from Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire
[edit]- Propose deletion Category:Rugby union players from Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- As per WP:SMALLCAT. Fairly small town and not much rugby played there. We can't create a sub-category for every intersection between a town and a sport. PatGallacher (talk)
- Dual Merge Conceptually support but we should upmerge that 1 article to Category:Rugby union players from West Dunbartonshire and Category:Sportspeople from Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire. - RevelationDirect (talk) 02:33, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Dual merge per above. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:04, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- I concur with upmerging. While we are at it, I suggest we also include Category:Rugby union players from Dumbarton (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs), neighbouring town, not very large and not a traditionally rugby-playing area. PatGallacher (talk) 11:29, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Cui Jian
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: WP:OCEPON. Minimal content to have an eponymous category; subcats sufficiently link to and from one another. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 00:15, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Delete, the albums and songs subcategories already link to each other directly. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:05, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
June 1
[edit]Category:2012 phenomenon believers
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Believers is an odd choice of word here. I'm open to ideas, but my first (albeit lame) idea is to capture something like People associated with events in the 21st century SMasonGarrison 22:22, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Delete, apart from Jenkins it is not a defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:11, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Keep (no comment on rename) it seems to be defining for a few other people in that category, e.g. Argüelles, Calleman, McKenna and Pinchbeck aswell. PARAKANYAA (talk) 08:40, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Austrian royal houses
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Redundant layer, upmerge to parents for now. NLeeuw (talk) 20:20, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:05, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Permanent representatives of South Yemen to the United Nations
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: merge, only one article in this category, this is not helpful for navigation. The article is already in Category:Permanent representatives of Yemen to the United Nations.Marcocapelle (talk) 19:59, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. NLeeuw (talk) 22:30, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Merge it to Category:Permanent representatives of Yemen to the United Nations instead. That person lived till 2004, and he definitely became a Yemeni citizen 𐩣𐩫𐩧𐩨 Abo Yemen (𓃵) 07:21, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:People from Tantanoola, South Australia
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: People-from category for a small town (pop. 255 total) with only one person in it. As always, every town that exists does not automatically get one of these the moment one person from that town has an article to file in it -- it would be fine if there were numerous people from that town with Wikipedia articles, but is not necessary for just one person. Upmerging not necessary, as the article is already in another appropriate subcategory of the only possible merge target. Bearcat (talk) 15:37, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- There probably is more, i just don't know them Matt jobe watson (talk) 04:13, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:23, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Delete for Now The category does not aid navigation. No objection to recreating later though if those 255 people produce more articles than we expected. - RevelationDirect (talk) 21:51, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Actors of Latin American descent
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Actors of Latin American descent to Category:Actors by descent
- Nominator's rationale: This only contains categories for specific countries and continents. I don't think that this is very helpful for navigation SMasonGarrison 13:13, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Support in principle but just delete because all subcategories are already in the tree of Category:Actors by descent. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:26, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Just delete per Marcocapelle. NLeeuw (talk) 22:31, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Hamas most wanted playing cards
[edit]- Convert Category:Hamas most wanted playing cards to article Hamas most wanted playing cards
- Convert Category:Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards to article Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards
- Nominator's rationale: I don't think that being featured on "Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards" or "Hamas most wanted playing cards" is a defining feature for individuals being featured. It seems more like a product, akin to baseball cards. I think that these are better served as lists. I happy to be convinced otherwise, but this seems like a classic categories aren't lists. SMasonGarrison 13:07, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. There is already a main article for each of the two categories that includes a list. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:30, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Just delete per Marcocapelle. Both have already been listified, and I think it may be WP:NONDEFINING. NLeeuw (talk) 22:35, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- PS: By the way @Marcocapelle @Smasongarrison, I've recently created a new essay on listification: User:Nederlandse Leeuw/Listification. Any comments? I could use your suggestions, corrections and additions if you like.
. NLeeuw (talk) 22:38, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- I love that you have a section on precedents! SMasonGarrison 23:01, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison Thanks! To be honest, that section is a bit self-serving at present. Those 4 examples mentioned below WP:LISTIFY were just the first ones that came to mind, because I was involved with all of them.
Regardless, I hope they make the point well, and I will add other precedents later. (Feel free to suggest some!)
- In my other recently created essay, I've got a far longer section on precedents that is more representative, although it is strictly focused on WP:TFD: User:Nederlandse Leeuw/Campaignboxes#Precedents. NLeeuw (talk) 04:45, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison Thanks! To be honest, that section is a bit self-serving at present. Those 4 examples mentioned below WP:LISTIFY were just the first ones that came to mind, because I was involved with all of them.
- I love that you have a section on precedents! SMasonGarrison 23:01, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- PS: By the way @Marcocapelle @Smasongarrison, I've recently created a new essay on listification: User:Nederlandse Leeuw/Listification. Any comments? I could use your suggestions, corrections and additions if you like.
Years and decades in pre-existing Romania
[edit]- Propose merging Category:1653 in Romania (1 P) to Category:17th century in Romania and Category:1653 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1738 in Romania (1 P) to Category:18th century in Romania and Category:1738 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1292 establishments in Romania (1 P) to Category:13th-century establishments in Romania and Category:1292 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1310 establishments in Romania (1 P) to Category:14th-century establishments in Romania and Category:1310 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1402 establishments in Romania (1 P) to Category:15th-century establishments in Romania and Category:1402 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1488 establishments in Romania (1 P) to Category:15th-century establishments in Romania and Category:1488 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1496 establishments in Romania (1 P) to Category:15th-century establishments in Romania and Category:1496 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1504 establishments in Romania (1 P) to Category:16th-century establishments in Romania and Category:1504 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1520 establishments in Romania (1 P) to Category:16th-century establishments in Romania and Category:1520 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1524 establishments in Romania (1 P) to Category:16th-century establishments in Romania and Category:1524 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1574 establishments in Romania (1 P) to Category:16th-century establishments in Romania and Category:1574 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1628 establishments in Romania (1 P) to Category:17th-century establishments in Romania and Category:1628 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1638 establishments in Romania (1 P) to Category:17th-century establishments in Romania and Category:1638 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1643 establishments in Romania (1 P) to Category:17th-century establishments in Romania and Category:1643 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1659 establishments in Romania (1 P) to Category:17th-century establishments in Romania and Category:1659 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1733 establishments in Romania (1 P) to Category:18th-century establishments in Romania and Category:1733 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1590s in Romania (4 P) to Category:16th century in Romania
- Propose merging Category:1730s in Romania (3 C, 1 P) to Category:18th century in Romania
- Propose merging Category:1490s establishments in Romania (1 C, 1 P) to Category:15th-century establishments in Romania
- Propose merging Category:1520s establishments in Romania (2 C, 1 P) to Category:16th-century establishments in Romania
- Propose merging Category:1650s establishments in Romania (1 C, 1 P) to Category:17th-century establishments in Romania
- Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated and mostly single-article categories, this is not helpful for navigation. This nomination does not contain any 19th-century categories. In a later nomination I will propose to merge those to decades rather than to centuries. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:53, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Merge all per nom. NLeeuw (talk) 06:34, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Question Wouldn't it be more helpful to organise these categories around the existing trees for Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia (that you've been upmerging to be by century)? As you say, it's "pre-existing Romania". NLeeuw (talk) 06:34, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Ambassadors of Aragon
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Aragon to Category:Ambassadors of former countries
- Nominator's rationale: merge, only one article in this category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:21, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Support per nom SMasonGarrison 13:15, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:1500th anniversary of Kyiv
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:1500th anniversary of Kyiv to Category:1500th anniversary of Kiev
- Nominator's rationale: rename per WP:C2D per 1500th anniversary of Kiev. This was listed at speedy but possibly controversial. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:42, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- @Mellk and Ymblanter: pinging contributors to speedy discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:47, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Rename per main article 1500th anniversary of Kiev plus WP:KIEV/WP:KYIV. I've worked on this article. It was a 1982 Soviet-era event / publicity/propaganda stunt through and through, with dodgy science to back up the idea that the 60th anniversary of the Soviet Union just so happened to coincide with the so-called "1500th anniversary" of Kiev/Kyiv. Although the event unintentionally also resulted in discussions about Ukrainian and Russian history and identity (and some mayors of Kyiv and Ukrainian nationalists have now come to regard the pseudohistorical date "482" as a sacred year for the "foundation of Kyiv"), these things were glossed over at the time by official statements of the Soviet event organisers. It's the 1982 event that matters in its historical-cultural Soviet context. The event was conceived as promoting Russo-Ukrainian unity (on Moscow's terms) and the spelling Kiev also reflects that, while the spelling Kyiv is strongly associated with the Ukrainian independence era and does not fit the context of 1982. NLeeuw (talk) 06:52, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Wrayanna
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Bot-created category for monotypic genus Ethmostigmus 🌿 (talk | contribs) 10:30, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Activists from Akita Prefecture
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. No need for merging. Lost in Quebec (talk) 09:04, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:50, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Aragon
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:12th-century people from the Kingdom of Aragon to Category:12th-century people from the Crown of Aragon
- Propose renaming Category:13th-century people from the Kingdom of Aragon to Category:13th-century people from the Crown of Aragon
- Propose renaming Category:14th-century people from the Kingdom of Aragon to Category:14th-century people from the Crown of Aragon
- Propose renaming Category:15th-century people from the Kingdom of Aragon to Category:15th-century people from the Crown of Aragon
- Nominator's rationale: rename for consistency with parent Category:People from the Crown of Aragon. The Kingdom of Aragon was just one of the crown lands of the Crown of Aragon and for categorization it is not meaningful (or maintainable) to make a distinction between the Crown and the Kingdom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:57, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Comment. If renamed, can we leave redirects to help with template maintenance? It'll make it easier to transition the category. SMasonGarrison 13:14, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- That makes sense. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:31, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Comment. If renamed, can we leave redirects to help with template maintenance? It'll make it easier to transition the category. SMasonGarrison 13:14, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Holy See–Burkina Faso relations
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: We have the correctly named Category:Burkina Faso–Holy See relations DB1729talk 03:52, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:02, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Kazakhstan–Bulgaria relations
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: No need for this category. We have Category:Bulgaria–Kazakhstan relations. DB1729talk 03:39, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:03, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Motile cells
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Motile cells to Category:Cell movement
- Nominator's rationale: Motile is a synonym of "having movement". 174.138.213.2 (talk) 00:56, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
May 31
[edit]Category:Alkene stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Alkene stubs to Category:Organic compound stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Alkenes; there are less than 60 articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:05, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- If merged then single merge to Category:Organic compound stubs. The articles are already in the tree of Alkenes. I wouldn't object to keeping the category for the time being, there are still 45 articles in it. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:33, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Tilapiini stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Tilapiini stubs to Category:Pseudocrenilabrinae stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Tilapiini; there are less than 60 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:51, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- If merged then single merge to Category:Pseudocrenilabrinae stubs. The articles are already in the tree of Tilapiini. I wouldn't object to keeping the category for the time being, there are still 51 articles in it. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:27, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Acanthuridae stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Acanthuridae stubs to Category:Acanthuriformes stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Acanthuridae; there are less than 60 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:42, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Single merge to Category:Acanthuriformes stubs. The articles are already in the tree of Acanthuridae. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:29, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Argentiniformes stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Argentiniformes stubs to Category:Ray-finned fish stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Argentiniformes; there are less than 60 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:41, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Keep, still 56 articles in here. (If merged then single merge to Category:Ray-finned fish stubs. The articles are already in the tree of Argentiniformes.) Marcocapelle (talk) 12:31, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Batrachoidiformes stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Batrachoidiformes stubs to Category:Ray-finned fish stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Batrachoididae, as there are less than 60 articles in this category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:40, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- If merged then single merge to Category:Ray-finned fish stubs. The articles are already in the tree of Batrachoididae. I wouldn't object to keeping the category for the time being, there are still 40 articles in it. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:36, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Chaetodontidae stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Chaetodontidae stubs to Category:Acanthuriformes stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Chaetodontidae; there are less than 60 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:40, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- If merged then single merge to Category:Acanthuriformes stubs. The articles are already in the tree of Chaetodontidae. I wouldn't object to keeping the category for the time being, there are still 42 articles in it. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:38, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Synbranchiformes stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Synbranchiformes stubs to Category:Ray-finned fish stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Synbranchiformes; there are less than 60 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:39, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose Four categories are being proposed for merger into the parent category. Any one of them would be fine, but any combination of two would trip the parent over 200 articles in the category. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:50, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Single merge to Category:Ray-finned fish stubs. The articles are already in the tree of Synbranchiformes. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:40, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Gymnotiformes stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Gymnotiformes stubs to Category:Ray-finned fish stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Gymnotiformes; there are only 49 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:31, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose Four categories are being proposed for merger into the parent category. Any one of them would be fine, but any combination of two would trip the parent over 200 articles in the category. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:49, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Keep, still 50 articles in here. (If merged then single merge to Category:Ray-finned fish stubs. The articles are already in the tree of Gymnotiformes.) Marcocapelle (talk) 12:42, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Osmeriformes stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Osmeriformes stubs to Category:Ray-finned fish stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Osmeriformes, as there are only 26 articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:30, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose Four categories are being proposed for merger into the parent category. Any one of them would be fine, but any combination of two would trip the parent over 200 articles in the category. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:49, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Single merge to Category:Ray-finned fish stubs. The articles are already in the tree of Osmeriformes. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:43, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Notothenioidei stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Notothenioidei stubs to Category:Perciformes stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Notothenioidei; there are only 7 articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:30, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Single merge to Category:Perciformes stubs. The articles are already in the tree of Notothenioidei. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:44, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Galaxiidae stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Galaxiidae stubs to Category:Ray-finned fish stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Galaxiidae; there are only 38 articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:29, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose Four categories are being proposed for merger into the parent category. Any one of them would be fine, but any combination of two would trip the parent over 200 articles in the category. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:49, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- If merged then single merge to Category:Ray-finned fish stubs. The articles are already in the tree of Galaxiidae. I wouldn't object to keeping the category for the time being, there are still 39 articles in it. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:47, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Lampriformes stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Lampriformes stubs to Category:Ray-finned fish stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Lampriformes; there are only 30 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:20, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose Four categories are being proposed for merger into the parent category. Any one of them would be fine, but any combination of two would trip the parent over 200 articles in the category. - UtherSRG (talk) 11:49, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Single merge to Category:Ray-finned fish stubs. The articles are already in the tree of Lampriformes. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:48, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Seasons in Mexican sports
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Seasons in Mexican sports to Category:Seasons in Mexican sport
- Nominator's rationale: to better fit the naming scheme in Sports seasons by country - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 19:09, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Navigators
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Navigators to Category:Maritime navigators
- Nominator's rationale: rename and disambiguate, the header says that it is for maritime navigators (not for flight navigators) but editors who categorize do not have to visit this page and may easily add flight navigators. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:13, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Opposers of the July Revolution (Bangladesh)
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Original research and possible BLP violation Vinegarymass911 (talk) 16:12, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per WP:OPINIONCAT. Perhaps a much stricter category is viable, but if so better start that from scratch. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:53, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Ambassadors of the Netherlands to the Kingdom of England
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: merge, only one article in the category, this is not helpful for navigation. Besides merge to Dutch Republic instead of the Netherlands. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:05, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Article Two Vesting Clause case law
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: There is no Article Two Vesting Clause case law (nominated by creator) Wrensewn (talk) 15:36, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Withdrawn Found at least one, will be redirecting instead. Wrensewn (talk) 15:41, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- There are now 3 articles in the category so presumably the category can be kept as is. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:55, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Alcaldes of the Province of Cáceres
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Unclear why this is using the Spanish word for mayor "Alcalde"; all other categories use the English word "mayor" Grnrchst (talk) 14:36, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge to Category:Mayors of places in Extremadura, there is only one article in the category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:56, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Alcaldes of the Second Spanish Republic
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Unclear why this is using the Spanish word for mayor "Alcalde"; all other categories use the English word "mayor". Grnrchst (talk) 14:36, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Rename per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:01, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Military zhuangyuan
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Military zhuangyuan to Category:Zhuangyuan
- Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category. upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 13:13, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:45, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Airfield Complex
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Unclear scope; from the looks of it seems like a WP:SHAREDNAME issue. Paul_012 (talk) 11:39, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom, or possibly repurpose to Category:Abandoned World War II airfields and purge. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:47, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose The articles that have been categorized are not just merely named “complex” as a coincidence, but a typology of military infrastructure. They have been excluded from other conventional categories in order to distinguish them as an airfield complex from sole airfields. RAF Gambut can be an example.
- In that case it at least needs to be renamed to Category:Airfield complexes (lower-case and plural). I'm having trouble finding sources that describe such a category of infrastructure, though. --Paul_012 (talk) 15:15, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- I can definitely agree with the category being renamed. For the sources, it is a niche topic and would be hard to come across. Bollardant (talk) 02:16, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- If there aren't sources we should also not keep the category. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:03, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- I can definitely agree with the category being renamed. For the sources, it is a niche topic and would be hard to come across. Bollardant (talk) 02:16, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- In that case it at least needs to be renamed to Category:Airfield complexes (lower-case and plural). I'm having trouble finding sources that describe such a category of infrastructure, though. --Paul_012 (talk) 15:15, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:People from Nakagawa, Fukuoka
[edit]- Propose merging Category:People from Nakagawa, Fukuoka to Category:People from Fukuoka Prefecture
- Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:52, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:48, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Early colonists in America
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Early colonists in America to Category:17th-century American people
- Nominator's rationale: merge, "early" is quite vague and in practice this category has been populated with 17th-century people, which makes the two categories coincide in purpose. One may wonder if the name of the target is well chosen, but let's leave that for a different discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:30, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Works about fictional serial killers
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Category is duplicative and the name is not intuitive. silviaASH (inquire within) 10:26, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Update: After seeing !votes expressing the opinion that categorizing fiction about fictional serial killers differently from real ones is actually important, I would say that the best solution to this problem is to create a new category, Category:Fiction about real serial killers, and have it be a subcategory of Category:Fiction about serial killers.
- The current approach is a bit fancrufty and feels redundant to me, since fiction is fictional by default and it's expected that a serial killer in a work of fiction is fictional- we don't have a category called Category:Fiction about fictional characters (WP:DUH). Further, as I said below, fiction that features invented serial killers generally does not have the fictionality of its serial killers as a WP:DEFINING trait, as the fictional status of the character is expected. However, fiction that features a fictionalized version of a real serial killer is naturally going to have its featuring of that real individual as a defining trait. Diffusing the category in the inverse direction would be more helpful and encyclopedic.
- In short, I still think the categories should still be merged, and then any fictional works about real serial killers should be moved to the new category. silviaASH (inquire within) 04:37, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose Not duplicative, fiction can be about real life serial killers, this category is for works that are about fictional ones.★Trekker (talk) 13:45, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- I'm not sure I see the benefit in drawing that distinction. To my knowledge no other media categories on Wikipedia do this. For example, Category:Cultural depictions of the Mafia might well include works that have both made up mafias (or loose fictional analogues to real ones) and fictionalized versions of real historical mafia members, but we don't have Category:Cultural depictions of the fictional mafia or Category:Works about fictional gangsters, do we? We do have Category:Fictional gangsters for fictional gangster characters who happen to be notable enough for articles, and that makes sense, and the serial killers equivalent already exists. Going further than that feels like WP:CRUFT. silviaASH (inquire within) 16:55, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Not to mention, the name "Works about fictional serial killers" is so semantically vague that it could include works of literary analysis that discusses fictional serial killers, or behind-the-scenes documentaries where creators discuss their motivations and inspirations for writing about certain serial killers, and I don't think either of those is the intention of the category's scope. It feels much simpler to just clarify it's for fictional works about serial killers (who may or may not be real), which is the norm.
- To name yet more examples, we've got Category:Fiction about death, Category:Fiction about crime, Category:Fiction about incest, Category:Fiction about murder, Category:Fiction about snipers, Category:Cultural depictions of presidents of the United States, and so forth, but we do NOT have subcategories in those called Category:Works about fictional deaths, Category:Works about fictional crimes, Category:Works about fictional incest, Category:Works about fictional murderers, Category:Works about fictional snipers, or Category:Works about fictional presidents of the United States. We do have a Category:Fictional presidents of the United States, and Category:Fictional murderers, and so on, and these also make sense for notable characters meeting that description, but having the "Works about fictional" categories is just unnecessary and confusing, and highly likely to significantly overlap with the "Fiction about" categories and thus pointlessly increase the burden of maintenance. silviaASH (inquire within) 17:14, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- I'm not sure I see the benefit in drawing that distinction. To my knowledge no other media categories on Wikipedia do this. For example, Category:Cultural depictions of the Mafia might well include works that have both made up mafias (or loose fictional analogues to real ones) and fictionalized versions of real historical mafia members, but we don't have Category:Cultural depictions of the fictional mafia or Category:Works about fictional gangsters, do we? We do have Category:Fictional gangsters for fictional gangster characters who happen to be notable enough for articles, and that makes sense, and the serial killers equivalent already exists. Going further than that feels like WP:CRUFT. silviaASH (inquire within) 16:55, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- This is quite confusing. I would rather propose to merge Category:Fiction about serial killers to Category:Works about serial killers. There is already a non-fiction subcat in there. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:03, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Couldn't we just go with the merge and keep both the fiction and non-fiction subcategories? I feel like that be the simplest solution and make the most amount of sense, and also harmonize the category with the various "fiction about X" categories. silviaASH (inquire within) 16:59, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Why would we want to merge into Category:Works about serial killers, which already neatly contains fiction and non-fiction subcategories? Merging would only jumble up the parent. --Paul_012 (talk) 09:59, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Merge Category:Fiction about serial killers to Category:Works about serial killers, per Marcocapelle, and per WP:OVERLAPCAT. - jc37 07:27, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- I'm not certain I understand the logic here. I don't think it would be bad to eliminate the fiction subcategory, if that's really determined to be the best way to go, but if that's the case, then Category:Works about fictional serial killers category should also be merged with Category:Works about serial killers, as it overlaps in scope with Category:Fiction about serial killers for the reasons I've already laid out. silviaASH (inquire within) 07:57, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- To clarify to your point, there's a difference between an invented fictional character and a real-life serial killer. So there's no need to merge Category:Works about fictional serial killers. That said, a work of fiction about a real-life serial killer, would be a fictionalised version of that person as a character. So I'll agree it's tenuous at best. - jc37 08:57, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- I mean yeah I do see the distinction, I just don't really see the usefulness in drawing the distinction, is what I mean.
- To give some background as to why I started this, I was assigning categories to Saeko: Giantess Dating Sim, an article I created about a video game which happens to feature a serial killer (a fictional one in a fantasy context with no connection to any real serial killing case). I put it in Category:Fiction about serial killers because this was intuitive to me and made sense with the other categories- it's a work of fiction, it has a serial killer, there you go. Then I noticed that the "fiction about" category only had two other articles directly in it, wondered why, and noticed the "Works about fictional serial killers" category.
- I briefly wondered if I should recategorize the article there, but I felt like that didn't make a lot of sense, since it's not like the work is defined by the serial killer being fictional- it's a fictional work about the serial killer, whose fictivity is necessarily implied by the work being a fiction, no? And then after some consideration I brought it here.
- I dunno what the most satisfying solution for everyone would be (although I still feel my proposal would be the best and simplest solution), but definitely something should be done here to avoid the confusion I encountered over these two categories. Maybe a merge of one to the other, maybe a merge of both to the larger parent category, maybe a renaming, but something. silviaASH (inquire within) 09:41, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- To clarify to your point, there's a difference between an invented fictional character and a real-life serial killer. So there's no need to merge Category:Works about fictional serial killers. That said, a work of fiction about a real-life serial killer, would be a fictionalised version of that person as a character. So I'll agree it's tenuous at best. - jc37 08:57, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- I'm not certain I understand the logic here. I don't think it would be bad to eliminate the fiction subcategory, if that's really determined to be the best way to go, but if that's the case, then Category:Works about fictional serial killers category should also be merged with Category:Works about serial killers, as it overlaps in scope with Category:Fiction about serial killers for the reasons I've already laid out. silviaASH (inquire within) 07:57, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- At least rename to Category:Fiction about fictional serial killers, to clarify the category scope. As it stands, it seems as if the category is supposed to contain works like Dissecting Hannibal Lecter: Essays on the Novels of Thomas Harris—non-fiction works providing real-world analysis of such characters—which is not the case. Neutral on merging per nom. Oppose merging Category:Fiction about serial killers to Category:Works about serial killers, as it unnecessarily destroys a useful subcategorisation layer, especially as that category is not the subject of this discussion and has not been tagged. --Paul_012 (talk) 09:59, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- I think if it's really that important to diffuse fiction featuring real serial killers from fiction featuring purely fictional ones, then we should have a category called Category:Fiction about real serial killers as a subcategory of Category:Fiction about serial killers, which would be much more useful. silviaASH (inquire within) 10:07, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose merge at least, works about fictional serial killers and works about real ones are very different beasts... this is probably not the best way to have this named, though. PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:44, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- I've amended my nomination statement with my proposal for Category:Fiction about real serial killers in light of the consensus seeming to swing in the direction of agreeing that this diffusion is important. silviaASH (inquire within) 04:42, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- This is starting to creep towards Category:Fictional characters based on real people, part of the Category:Historical fiction tree. The more I look at these categories, the more I am leaning towards listification/deletion of all of the fiction-related serial killer categories. For one thing, we have the shaky definition of what a serial killer is, which really needs explaining for every entry. There's a suggested definition at Category:Fictional serial killers, but that's american-centric, and doesn't necessarily apply to the entries. And then we get into the muddy waters of legal systems. What's the presumed legal system in a work of fiction? If not stated by the author, any determination we make would be WP:OR. What about societies where such rule of law does not exist? What about fantasy worlds? We really should not be getting into defining legal terms and applying them to characters. That's simply WP:OR. At best, these should be lists, so that the term usage can be explained in the context of the work of fiction. - jc37 12:51, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Maybe I'm wrong, but I was kind of under the impression that the common English definition of "serial killer" was someone who commits a series of separate killings at different times, distinct from someone who kills a lot of people simultaneously. I was sort of going by that general colloquial definition when categorizing the article. Most reputable dictionaries I was able to find, including Britannica, seem to support this general definition. I think it's reasonable to just go by that; We can't reasonably expect every writer and reader of fiction to be familiar with any and every legal system, so it's best to adhere to a general, commonly understood layman's definition and hash out edge cases on the talk pages of specific articles. silviaASH (inquire within) 13:19, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- If these were real people, there is no way we would categorise them unless they were convicted of the crime. We have Wikipedia policy to follow. And even if we set aside WP:BLP, which is strict on such things, we still have WP:OR. But let's even set that aside for a moment. Your "general colloquial definition" would apply to most soldiers. And even if we don't include war-related actions, how about a character like Punisher or Wolverine? How about Conan? Are these serial killers? Is Hercules? Is Thor? Think about all of the stormtroopers killed by Han Solo, or Luke Skywalker. And these are just humani-form characters. How about Lotso from Toy Story 3? Or the various Computer AIs in The Terminator series or The Matrix series? Is Scar from The Lion King? And speaking of animals, how about all the butchers out there? Is killing cattle a serial crime? How much sentience is required for it to be a crime? Who decides? Consider also Soylent green - was serial killing involved there? How about Logan's Run? How about Silent Running? Or how about the Hal9000 in 2001? And really, these examples are just the tip of the iceberg. There's also the problem of perspective. The targets (and supporters thereof) of a ninja-assassin might consider the character a serial killer. But would those supporting (or giving orders to) the ninja-assassin consider them a serial killer? Would mob bosses consider one of their enforcers a serial killer? Whose perspective should we take into account when making these determinations? Which brings us back to WP:OR. We're picking winners here. And we shouldn't be doing that. Every example needs clear explanation and context. And that means a list, per WP:CLN. - jc37 14:06, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
If these were real people, there is no way we would categorise them unless they were convicted of the crime
...Well, they're by definition not real people, so we don't have to worry about WP:BLP, like, at all. I guess someone could draft Wikipedia:Biographies of fictional persons, but I don't see that happening anytime soon.- Anyway, a defining trait of "serial killer" is that the killings are murder, which isn't just killing someone but has the specific qualifier of "without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention", and that they're committed by non-state actors without external material forces (money, power, competition, etc) motivating their killings, and the article on the topic has a pretty healthy amount of material answering all these questions with reliable sources. To answer in a little more detail, though, I'm not familiar with all your examples, but a lot of these, I'd classify as mass murder (or self-defense, in the case of Luke Skywalker. Maybe not in Han Solo's case, but y'know, mostly self-defense).
- A lot of this is determined by the framing of the story, and categories on Wikipedia should categorize articles about fictional stories based on how reliable sources describe the story and its framing of the characters (when it's not a WP:SKYBLUE situation). Since we're WP:NOTTVTROPES, we don't need to waffle over literalist questions like these; the actual answer here is that reliable sources describe Patrick Bateman as a serial killer, and do not describe Batman as one, so the former gets categorized as that accordingly, and the latter does not. You might as well say "who's really a villain in a story? that's subjective, you know and we don't want to mislabel someone as a villain." Well, yeah, obviously, there's no obvious and unambiguous villains in real life. It's a fictional construct, not a coherent ethical standard. silviaASH (inquire within) 19:00, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- If these were real people, there is no way we would categorise them unless they were convicted of the crime. We have Wikipedia policy to follow. And even if we set aside WP:BLP, which is strict on such things, we still have WP:OR. But let's even set that aside for a moment. Your "general colloquial definition" would apply to most soldiers. And even if we don't include war-related actions, how about a character like Punisher or Wolverine? How about Conan? Are these serial killers? Is Hercules? Is Thor? Think about all of the stormtroopers killed by Han Solo, or Luke Skywalker. And these are just humani-form characters. How about Lotso from Toy Story 3? Or the various Computer AIs in The Terminator series or The Matrix series? Is Scar from The Lion King? And speaking of animals, how about all the butchers out there? Is killing cattle a serial crime? How much sentience is required for it to be a crime? Who decides? Consider also Soylent green - was serial killing involved there? How about Logan's Run? How about Silent Running? Or how about the Hal9000 in 2001? And really, these examples are just the tip of the iceberg. There's also the problem of perspective. The targets (and supporters thereof) of a ninja-assassin might consider the character a serial killer. But would those supporting (or giving orders to) the ninja-assassin consider them a serial killer? Would mob bosses consider one of their enforcers a serial killer? Whose perspective should we take into account when making these determinations? Which brings us back to WP:OR. We're picking winners here. And we shouldn't be doing that. Every example needs clear explanation and context. And that means a list, per WP:CLN. - jc37 14:06, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Maybe I'm wrong, but I was kind of under the impression that the common English definition of "serial killer" was someone who commits a series of separate killings at different times, distinct from someone who kills a lot of people simultaneously. I was sort of going by that general colloquial definition when categorizing the article. Most reputable dictionaries I was able to find, including Britannica, seem to support this general definition. I think it's reasonable to just go by that; We can't reasonably expect every writer and reader of fiction to be familiar with any and every legal system, so it's best to adhere to a general, commonly understood layman's definition and hash out edge cases on the talk pages of specific articles. silviaASH (inquire within) 13:19, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- This is starting to creep towards Category:Fictional characters based on real people, part of the Category:Historical fiction tree. The more I look at these categories, the more I am leaning towards listification/deletion of all of the fiction-related serial killer categories. For one thing, we have the shaky definition of what a serial killer is, which really needs explaining for every entry. There's a suggested definition at Category:Fictional serial killers, but that's american-centric, and doesn't necessarily apply to the entries. And then we get into the muddy waters of legal systems. What's the presumed legal system in a work of fiction? If not stated by the author, any determination we make would be WP:OR. What about societies where such rule of law does not exist? What about fantasy worlds? We really should not be getting into defining legal terms and applying them to characters. That's simply WP:OR. At best, these should be lists, so that the term usage can be explained in the context of the work of fiction. - jc37 12:51, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- I've amended my nomination statement with my proposal for Category:Fiction about real serial killers in light of the consensus seeming to swing in the direction of agreeing that this diffusion is important. silviaASH (inquire within) 04:42, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Victims of Red Terror in Soviet Russia
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: There's a grammatical mistake in saying "Victims of Red Terror" rather than "Victims of the Red Terror". Grnrchst (talk) 09:28, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Rename, this could have been listed at speedy. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:04, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Executioners by nationality
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Canadian executioners (2 P) to Category:Executioners and Category:Capital punishment in Canada
- Propose merging Category:Czech executioners (1 P) to Category:Executioners
- Propose merging Category:Danish executioners (1 P) to Category:Executioners
- Propose merging Category:Irish executioners (1 P) to Category:Executioners
- Propose merging Category:Norwegian executioners (1 P) to Category:Executioners
- Propose merging Category:Polish executioners (2 P) to Category:Executioners and Category:Capital punishment in Poland
- Propose merging Category:Ancient Roman executioners (1 P) to Category:Executioners and Category:Capital punishment in ancient Rome
- Propose merging Category:Russian executioners (1 P) to Category:Executioners and Category:Capital punishment in Russia
- Propose merging Category:Saudi Arabian executioners (1 P) to Category:Executioners and Category:Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia
- Propose merging Category:Singaporean executioners (1 P) to Category:Executioners and Category:Capital punishment in Singapore
- Propose merging Category:Spanish executioners (1 P) to Category:Executioners and Category:Capital punishment in Spain
- Propose merging Category:Swedish executioners (2 P) to Category:Executioners
- Nominator's rationale: merge, only one of two articles in each of these categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:22, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Upmerge per WP:MFN. NLeeuw (talk) 01:02, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose. A valid subcategorisation by occupation and nationality; merging as proposed will remove the categories from the people by nationality tree. If merging is desired, alternative occupation categories should be identified as the target. --Paul_012 (talk) 10:01, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- There is no rule that says that every biography must be in the tree of Category:People by occupation and nationality. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:19, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- Wikipedia has no firm rules anyway, but it's still widely established common practice. At least also upmerge to Category:Canadian people, etc. (and hope that someone will come along to move them into appropriate subcategories), so the articles aren't lost from the nationality trees. --Paul_012 (talk) 14:22, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- The articles aren't lost from the nationality trees because they are categorized by e.g. populated place or by nationality and century. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:15, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Wikipedia has no firm rules anyway, but it's still widely established common practice. At least also upmerge to Category:Canadian people, etc. (and hope that someone will come along to move them into appropriate subcategories), so the articles aren't lost from the nationality trees. --Paul_012 (talk) 14:22, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- There is no rule that says that every biography must be in the tree of Category:People by occupation and nationality. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:19, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Anarchists victims of the Great Purge
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: I made a grammatical mistake while creating this category and I can't move it myself. Grnrchst (talk) 09:19, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Rename, this could have been listed at speedy. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:05, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Discover Financial
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Discover Financial to Category:Capital One
- Nominator's rationale: On May 18, 2025, Discover Financial has acquired by Capital One. 180.251.226.66 (talk) 08:10, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Comment. Why not just have Discover Financial as a subcategory of c:Capital One? Geschichte (talk) 07:54, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Royal consorts of Transylvania
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Royal consorts of Transylvania to Category:Princesses consort of Transylvania
- Nominator's rationale: rename, per article title List of princesses consort of Transylvania. Perhaps it could have been listed at speedy. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:41, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Years in Wallachia
[edit]- Propose merging Category:1826 in Wallachia (1 C, 1 P) to Category:1820s in Wallachia and Category:1826 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1826 establishments in Wallachia (1 P) to Category:1820s establishments in Wallachia and Category:1826 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1845 establishments in Wallachia (1 P) to Category:1840s establishments in Wallachia and Category:1845 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1846 establishments in Wallachia (2 P) to Category:1840s establishments in Wallachia and Category:1846 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1847 establishments in Wallachia (1 P) to Category:1840s establishments in Wallachia and Category:1847 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1852 establishments in Wallachia (4 P) to Category:1850s establishments in Wallachia and Category:1852 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1858 establishments in Wallachia (1 P) to Category:1858 establishments in Europe and Category:1850s establishments in Wallachia
- Nominator's rationale: merge, mostly single-article categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:53, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Upmerge per WP:MFN. NLeeuw (talk) 01:04, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:English male characters in soap operas
[edit]- Propose merging Category:English male characters in soap operas to Category:British male characters in soap operas
- Propose merging Category:Scottish male characters in soap operas to Category:British male characters in soap operas
- Propose merging Category:Welsh male characters in soap operas to Category:British male characters in soap operas
- Propose merging Category:Northern Irish male characters in soap operas to Category:British male characters in soap operas
- Nominator's rationale: This is an overly specific category - most of the articles are located in the English subcategory with very few in the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish subcategories. This category has led to a lot of fictional characters being allocated the wrong category and has made the process harder, so I am proposing a merge (if someone could please add Category:Scottish male characters in soap operas, Category:Northern Irish male characters in soap operas and Category:Welsh male characters in soap operas to this discussion I would be extremely grateful). DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 05:37, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Comment, I added the three siblings. This is follow-up on this earlier still open discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:59, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Ghana–Belarus relations
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: No need for this category. We have Category:Belarus–Ghana relations. DB1729talk 03:04, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:10, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nominator. Just a duplicate. BoomBoxBuddy (talk) 05:21, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete as it is not needed due to the duplication. DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 05:38, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete, as creator: I obviously created this one by mistake, not checking whether the other one already existed and forgetting that this kind of category lists the countries in A-Z order! Apologies. PamD 07:51, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
May 30
[edit]Category:Hacrobia genera
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Hacrobia is not a clade. All articles that were, as of today, classified here are placed in Category:Cryptista genera, rendering the category unnecessary. Alfa-ketosav (talk) 18:48, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Comment This category has been emptied. It doesn't need a week-long discussion. Liz Read! Talk! 19:11, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete, category is empty. ApexParagon (talk) 17:30, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Legislative districts of Metro Manila
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: These are not legislative districts of Metro Manila but rather legislative districts in Metro Manila. HueMan1 (talk) 07:12, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:49, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Support renaming as per nominator. Metro Manila does not have a legislature of its own. Howard the Duck (talk) 22:40, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Helsingborgs SS swimmers
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Helsingborgs SS swimmers to Category:Helsingborgs S swimmers
- Nominator's rationale: C2D Helsingborgs S. Category speedily moved 24 April but soon reverted. I haven't seen any intention to start a move discussion for the article after that. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 09:34, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:49, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- The page history looks odd. It was moved back within an hour by the same bot. @Ymblanter: could this have been a mistake or a technical error? Marcocapelle (talk) 05:17, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- There was an objection at my talk page and I reverted the deletion. I will try to mind the link now. Ymblanter (talk) 07:35, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Lynn Chircop songs
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Only one known entry, which is itself a redirect, making this category essentially redundant. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 13:42, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:38, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Louisa Baïleche songs
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Only one known entry, which is itself a redirect, making this category essentially redundant. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 13:41, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:38, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Rita Guerra songs
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Only one known entry, which is itself a redirect, making this category essentially redundant. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 13:40, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:39, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:People from Nakagawa, Fukuoka
[edit]- Propose merging Category:People from Nakagawa, Fukuoka to Category:People from Fukuoka Prefecture
- Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:09, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:40, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Ghana–Azerbaijan relations
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: No need for this category. We have Category:Azerbaijan–Ghana relations. DB1729talk 06:21, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete: I created this by mistake, back in 2021, not then seeing the existing A-G rels cat which had been created in 2018. PamD 07:01, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
History of Transylvania by period
[edit]- Propose splitting Category:History of Transylvania (1683–1848) to Category:Habsburg Transylvania and Category:19th century in Transylvania
- Propose merging Category:History of Transylvania (1848–1867) to Category:19th century in Transylvania
- Propose merging Category:History of Transylvania (1867–1918) to Category:19th century in Transylvania; purge the WWI subcategory
- Propose splitting Category:Romanian people in the Principality of Transylvania (1711–1867) to Category:18th-century Romanian people in Transylvania and Category:19th-century Romanian people in Transylvania.
- Nominator's rationale: split, aligning periodization with other countries and regions, without arbitrary intermediate cutoffs. Transylvania belonged to the Habsburg realm all the time so Category:Habsburg Transylvania suffices as a parent category for the entire period. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:13, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Support per nom and related Wallachia CFRs/CFSs. NLeeuw (talk) 01:06, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Athletes by country subdivision
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Unneeded one-item category * Pppery * it has begun... 01:25, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Comment, I found two other subcategories. But diffusion of athletics by populated place is far more common than by country subdivision, so I am not voting to keep. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:25, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Meanwhile there are four in total. Maybe keep it after all. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:19, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Jewish-American gangs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Jewish-American gangs to Category:Jewish-American organized crime
- Nominator's rationale: Functionally the same as Category:Jewish-American organized crime, which is associated with the topic's main article Jewish-American organized crime and includes coverage of gangs (including subcat Category: Jewish American gangsters]] Longhornsg (talk) 00:55, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Do not change Looking at the gang parent categories and the organized crime parent categories finds they are different in general, and the Jewish categories are no different than the rest of ethnic categories here. Looking at the child categories and articles here just confirms this. No special treatment is warranted here. Hmains (talk) 01:49, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- What is "special treatment"? How are the two categories different? Longhornsg (talk) 02:09, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- the special treatment is that it would then fit into the current gang parent category: Category:European-American gangs and its parents. This is about gangs and it belongs into the gangs category tree. Thanks Hmains (talk) 00:03, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- What is "special treatment"? How are the two categories different? Longhornsg (talk) 02:09, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Do not change Looking at the gang parent categories and the organized crime parent categories finds they are different in general, and the Jewish categories are no different than the rest of ethnic categories here. Looking at the child categories and articles here just confirms this. No special treatment is warranted here. Hmains (talk) 01:49, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Shouldn't it be merged to Category:Jewish-American organized crime groups instead? Marcocapelle (talk) 05:27, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- It is already a subcat of Category:Jewish-American organized crime groups, which is where it belongs. Merging will just result in a larger category of disparate subject matter. Not a navigation help. Hmains (talk) 23:58, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- How disparate is it? Marcocapelle (talk) 05:21, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- It is already a subcat of Category:Jewish-American organized crime groups, which is where it belongs. Merging will just result in a larger category of disparate subject matter. Not a navigation help. Hmains (talk) 23:58, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:North Carolina State University articles missing geocoordinate data
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Empty maintenance category from a project with <200 articles (most of which are biographies that don't need coordinates). Even if the project becomes active again, these maintenance categories are unlikely to be needed - there's unlikely to be any significant number of additional articles needing coordinates. Category:North Carolina articles missing geocoordinate data can handle any that do pop up. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:04, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Washington University in St. Louis articles missing geocoordinate data
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Empty maintenance category from a project with <300 articles (most of which are biographies that don't need coordinates). Even if the project becomes active again, these maintenance categories are unlikely to be needed - there's unlikely to be any significant number of additional articles needing coordinates. Category:Missouri articles missing geocoordinate data can handle any that do pop up. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:02, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
May 29
[edit]Category:Popes of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: rename, "of Alexandria" is redundant, per article titles Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church and List of popes of the Coptic Orthodox Church. This was originally User:Nederlandse Leeuw's suggestion. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:29, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Speedy rename per WP:C2D. Recommend speedying the child categories as a follow-up. NLeeuw (talk) 21:57, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Domesticus (Roman Empire)
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Domesticus (Roman Empire) to Category:Domestici
- Nominator's rationale: Usually Latin-language categories tend to use the plural form, see gens categories like Category:Julii and Category:Aurelii. ★Trekker (talk) 20:57, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete, not a defining articles of the people in this category. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:23, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Rename per nom But this is their title and military rank, rather than their gens. Dimadick (talk) 02:44, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Rename as proposed. The disambiguator "Roman Empire" seems redundant. I see no reason to delete the category. P Aculeius (talk) 12:53, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam weapons
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT. Created by an editor indiscriminately creating categories to make a point. Obi2canibe (talk) 13:39, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Keep: The LTTE is known for building a large number of indigenous weapons and munitions. There are already several articles and the protentional for more. ÆthelflædofMercia (talk) 14:19, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- If not kept, merge to parent categories instead of delete. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:57, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- No objection to WP:UPMERGE.--Obi2canibe (talk) 13:43, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose. ÆthelflædofMercia (talk) 14:31, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- No objection to WP:UPMERGE.--Obi2canibe (talk) 13:43, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- If not kept, merge to parent categories per Marcocapelle. NLeeuw (talk) 17:57, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam suicide weapons
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT. Created by an editor indiscriminately creating categories to make a point. Obi2canibe (talk) 13:21, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Keep: The LTTE is known for using an extensive number suicide weapons ranging from bomb vests, bra bombs, car booms, different types of naval suicide craft and aircraft. Therefore, SMALLCAT doesn't apply here. ÆthelflædofMercia (talk) 14:23, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge to parent categories (rather than delete), this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:00, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- No objection to WP:UPMERGE.--Obi2canibe (talk) 13:43, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose. ÆthelflædofMercia (talk)` ÆthelflædofMercia (talk) 14:30, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- No objection to WP:UPMERGE.--Obi2canibe (talk) 13:43, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge to parent categories per Marcocapelle. NLeeuw (talk) 17:57, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Second ladies and gentlemen of the Philippines
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: No such role exist to refer to the spouse of the Philippine vice president. The vice presidential spouse did not serve as host of the vice president office either under the role "second lady". Associated article created and deleted as per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Second ladies and gentlemen of the Philippines Hariboneagle927 (talk) 10:48, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per precedent in article space. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:02, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Hotels in Jönköping
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Only one article; does not help navigation. Already in Category:Hotels in Sweden and Category:Buildings and structures in Jönköping. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 10:42, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:02, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Buildings and structures in Sweden by municipality
[edit]- Propose deleting Category:Buildings and structures in Sweden by municipality
- Propose merging Category:Buildings and structures in Degerfors Municipality to Category:Buildings and structures in Örebro County and Category:Degerfors Municipality
- Propose deleting Category:Buildings and structures in Habo Municipality
- Propose splitting Category:Buildings and structures in Hedemora Municipality to Category:Buildings and structures in Hedemora and Category:Buildings and structures in Dalarna County+Category:Hedemora Municipality
- Propose merging Category:Buildings and structures in Jönköping Municipality to Category:Buildings and structures in Jönköping County and Category:Jönköping Municipality
- Propose splitting Category:Buildings and structures in Karlskoga Municipality to Category:Buildings and structures in Karlskoga and Category:Buildings and structures in Örebro County+Category:Karlskoga Municipality
- Propose merging Category:Buildings and structures in Kristinehamn Municipality to Category:Buildings and structures in Värmland County and Category:Kristinehamn Municipality
- Propose merging Category:Buildings and structures in Kungälv Municipality to Category:Buildings and structures in Västra Götaland County and Category:Kungälv Municipality
- Propose merging Category:Buildings and structures in Mullsjö Municipality to Category:Buildings and structures in Jönköping County and Category:Mullsjö Municipality
- Propose merging Category:Buildings and structures in Örebro Municipality to Category:Buildings and structures in Örebro County and Category:Örebro Municipality
- Propose merging Category:Buildings and structures in Storfors Municipality to Category:Buildings and structures in Värmland County and Category:Storfors Municipality
- Propose merging Category:Buildings and structures in Sundsvall Municipality to Category:Buildings and structures in Västernorrland County and Category:Sundsvall Municipality
- Propose merging Category:Buildings and structures in Umeå Municipality to Category:Buildings and structures in Västerbotten County and Category:Umeå Municipality
- Propose deleting Category:Churches in Sweden by municipality
- Propose merging Category:Churches in Habo Municipality to Category:Churches in Jönköping County and Category:Habo Municipality
- Propose merging Category:Churches in Jönköping Municipality to Category:Churches in Jönköping County and Category:Jönköping Municipality
- Propose merging Category:Churches in Mullsjö Municipality to Category:Churches in Jönköping County and Category:Mullsjö Municipality
- Propose merging Category:Listed buildings in Hedemora Municipality to Category:Listed buildings in Dalarna County and Category:Buildings and structures in Hedemora
- Propose merging Category:Bridges in Vaxholm Municipality to Category:Bridges in Stockholm County and Category:Vaxholm Municipality
- Nominator's rationale: To reduce the number of levels of Category:Buildings and structures in Sweden to Category:Buildings and structures in Sweden by county and Category:Buildings and structures in Sweden by city. The nominated categories are often sparsely populated as most buildings and structures are in a populated place. Category:Buildings and structures in Sweden by city is more developed than this category tree. For the cases of Hedemora and Karlskoga, there would be sufficient amount of articles to create a Category:Buildings and structures in Hedemora and a Category:Buildings and structures in Karlskoga. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 10:42, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
History of Wallachia by period
[edit]- Propose splitting Category:History of Wallachia (1512–1714) to Category:16th century in Wallachia, Category:17th century in Wallachia and Category:18th century in Wallachia
- Propose splitting Category:History of Wallachia (1714–1821) to Category:18th century in Wallachia and Category:19th century in Wallachia
- Propose merging Category:History of Wallachia (1821–1859) to Category:19th century in Wallachia
- Nominator's rationale: split, aligning periodization with other countries, avoiding arbitrary cutoffs. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:01, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Support per nom. There are no main articles supporting such specific periondisations, so to default to century-based categories conforms to convention. NLeeuw (talk) 22:00, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Support The names of these categories seem arbitrary to me. Dimadick (talk) 02:45, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Israel–Hamas war
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Israel–Hamas war to Category:Gaza war
- Nominator's rationale: To match main article's title per WP:C2D and WP:CONSUB. Skemous (talk) 02:42, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Alt rename to Category:Gaza War (2024–present) since there was also a Gaza War (2008–2009). Marcocapelle (talk) 04:56, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- WP:C2D prevails here. Speedy rename per nom. NLeeuw (talk) 22:02, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- It does not prevail. Speedy criteria can be overruled in full discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:32, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Fair enough. NLeeuw (talk) 17:52, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- It does not prevail. Speedy criteria can be overruled in full discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:32, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- why couldn't the current category include 2008-2009 page as well? amplifying its scope. Skemous (talk) 17:18, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Because it are two different wars. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:25, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
- WP:C2D prevails here. Speedy rename per nom. NLeeuw (talk) 22:02, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Support per nomination. Achmad Rachmani (talk) 22:01, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
Eventual champion elimination seasons
[edit]- Category:NBA eventual champion elimination seasons
- Category:NHL eventual champion elimination seasons
- Category:MLB eventual champion elimination seasons
These categories run contrary to the guideline sections WP:NONDEF:
a defining characteristic is one that reliable, secondary sources commonly and consistently define, in prose, the subject as having.
if the characteristic would not be appropriate to mention in the lead section of an article (regardless of whether it is currently mentioned in the lead), it is probably not defining.
and WP:TRIVIALCAT:
Avoid categorizing topics by characteristics that are unrelated or wholly peripheral to the topic's notability.
Nominating for deletion. Left guide (talk) 00:11, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- This is to categorize teams that were eliminated by eventual champions.
- In addition, this is part of franchise histories, and the only sources are, of course, the leagues' histories. These categories would get multiple teams. Mario662629 (talk) 00:26, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Are there independent sources that provide serious treatment of this concept? Editorial decisions on Wikipedia are generally based more on the weight of what independent sources say, and less on what organizations (such as sports leagues) say about themselves and their connected activities. Left guide (talk) 00:41, 29 May 2025 (UTC)the only sources are, of course, the leagues' histories.
- Delete all: None of these are defining characteristics of a team's season. Flibirigit (talk) 01:22, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete all. Lots of teams get eliminated by the eventual champion in each league... it's not some group by itself that is notable. Spanneraol (talk) 01:35, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- That would result in us having to remove every page from this category after the deletion (to prevent red links at the bottom of each page). Mario662629 (talk) 01:49, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- You were the one who appears to have added all of those, and that's a simple cleanup task that typically gets carried out en masse by the closing admin via bot assistance. Left guide (talk) 02:09, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Removal would be automated by a robot. Flibirigit (talk) 02:22, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- In addition, I am worried that this may lead to a user warning (level 1 or 2) as I continued to add pages after the category was nominated. Mario662629 (talk) 02:27, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Well.. maybe you should stop doing that? Spanneraol (talk) 02:40, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- That would result in us having to remove every page from this category after the deletion (to prevent red links at the bottom of each page). Mario662629 (talk) 01:49, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete: in addition to being poorly named to the point that I needed an explanation to understand what these categories were for, these categories are for a non-defining characteristic. Y2Kcrazyjoker4 (talk • contributions) 02:38, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete all. What the hell are these categories, seriously. These are the epitome of WP:NOTDEFINING and WP:TRIVIAL. SportsGuy789 (talk) 03:56, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete: From what I see, these are unsourced evaluations of a sports team's history. Don't we have a rule against original research? Dimadick (talk) 02:49, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete all per nom Rikster2 (talk) 11:52, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
May 28
[edit]Category:Turkey musical group stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Turkey musical group stubs to Category:European musical group stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be upmerged into Turkish musical groups, as this stub category has less than 60 articles in it. Either upmerge it, or rename it to "Turkish musical group stubs" per fooian naming scheme - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:46, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Dual merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:00, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Dual merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 17:38, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Nepalese dance stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Nepalese dance stubs to Category:Dance stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be upmerged to Nepalese culture stubs and Dance in Nepal, since there are less than 60 articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:43, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Dual merge, not to Category:Dance in Nepal because articles are already in Category:Nepalese folk dances etc. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:08, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Dual merge per Marco. -- Just N. (talk) 17:38, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Nepalese cuisine stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Nepalese cuisine stubs to Category:Nepalese culture stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be upmerged to Asian cuisine stubs and Nepalese cuisine; this stub category has less than 60 transclusions - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:42, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Not very necessary to merge, the category is now at 44 and may easily grow back to 60. If merged, dual merge, not to Category:Nepalese cuisine because articles are already in Category:Nepalese desserts etc. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:12, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose per Marco's hint. -- Just N. (talk) 17:41, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Tuscany geography stub merging
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Province of Lucca geography stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Province of Massa-Carrara geography stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Province of Arezzo geography stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Province of Prato geography stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose merging Category:Province of Pistoia geography stubs (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: All of these stub categories will likely be upmerged to Tuscany geography stubs since they have less than 60 transclusions - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:33, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:14, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 17:42, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Rome stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Rome stubs to Category:Italy geography stubs
- Nominator's rationale: This stub category has less than 60 transclusions - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:28, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Not very necessary to merge, the category is now at 44 and may easily grow back to 60. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:15, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Ajmer district geography stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Ajmer district geography stubs to Category:Ajmer division geography stubs
- Nominator's rationale: This stub category has less than 60 mainspace articles - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:19, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:16, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 17:42, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Karnali Province politician stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Karnali Province politician stubs to Category:Nepalese politician stubs
- Nominator's rationale: This stub category has less than 60 mainspace articles - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:17, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Not very necessary to merge, the category is now at 41 and may easily grow back to 60. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:17, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Municipality seats in Mexico
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Municipality seats in Mexico to Category:Municipal seats in Mexico
- Nominator's rationale: Natural terminology. The relevant article is at municipal seat. Moscow Mule (talk) 22:09, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Support sounds good to me - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:42, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- There are also 31 daughter categories which, if this one proceeds, should be brought into line. Moscow Mule (talk) 22:12, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Support renaming although noting that there are around 30 Category:Municipal seats of Foo and three Category:Municipal seats in Foo. Therefore, I instead suggest Category:Municipal seats of Mexico as the target. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 10:04, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Created by a promotional user, also seems if this was a valid cat, it would of be already created, - FlightTime (open channel) 21:23, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Category was previously deleted in 2009, based on Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_September_23#Category:Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame. Schazjmd (talk) 21:33, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Unfortunately, User:FlightTime emptied this category which renders this discussion rather pointless. Liz Read! Talk! 02:17, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:19, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete due to it being empty and redundant. ApexParagon (talk) 15:03, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Redundant infobox title param
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: This category is used to track unnecessary uses of
title
andname
parameters in infoboxes, yet it is only utilized by a small number of comics-related infoboxes:
- As the category's description says, "If the page is moved or merged the title needs to be re-added to the infobox." Because of this, there should be no reason to mark these usages as "redundant", as the duplicated information is perfectly acceptable, as it is with all other infoboxes. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 20:34, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Nobility from Florence
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Nobility from Florence to Category:Tuscan nobility
- Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:OCLOCATION, apart from the subcategory this is about nobility of the (Grand) Duchy of Tuscany. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:13, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 17:43, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:16th-century Canadian people
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Category for a single person, on a characteristic that wasn't even applicable to her. The person here was an Inuit woman from Baffin Island, which is certainly in Canada now but was not part of Canada as it existed within her lifetime -- and since France didn't actually start sending any real number of settlers to Canada until 1608, there really isn't anybody else who could be refiled here in lieu. So we don't need this for just one person from a place that didn't even become part of Canada until almost 300 years after her death.
Upmerging not needed, as she's already in other appropriate subcategories of Category:16th-century North American people. Bearcat (talk) 18:02, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:14, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete. Not a useful category. Meters (talk) 21:36, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 17:44, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
History of Moldavia by period
[edit]- Propose splitting Category:History of Moldavia (1504–1711) to Category:16th century in Moldavia, Category:17th century in Moldavia and Category:18th century in Moldavia
- Propose splitting Category:History of Moldavia (1711–1822) to Category:18th century in Moldavia and Category:19th century in Moldavia
- Propose merging Category:History of Moldavia (1822–1859) to Category:19th century in Moldavia
- Nominator's rationale: split, to avoid unnecessary duplication with century categories, and to avoid arbitrary cutoffs. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:33, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Split / Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 17:45, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Band frontmen
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Category not usefully defining of its contents, as it's effectively indiscriminate and virtually unmaintainable. "Frontman" is not a defined role in its own right, but is just sometimes used by music writers as an alternative to repeating the word "singer" over and over again, and thus there isn't a functional distinction between being the "frontman" and being the "singer". So essentially, this should contain every single person who is or was the lead singer of any band at all -- but just 14 (now 20) people have actually been filed here, and it's painfully easy to think of hundreds upon thousands of other obvious notables who've been overlooked.
Update: Roger Daltrey, Eddie Vedder, Chris Cornell, David Gilmour and Tom Petty, the exact five people I specifically named as oversights in the original version of this nomination statement, just conveniently happen to have been added to this category after I mentioned them here, without any real further effort to add any of the other several thousand band frontmen that I didn't specifically call attention to — besides those five, the only other new entry that's been added at all is Kurt Cobain. But since two of the five I did call attention to were Vedder and Cornell, that doesn't prove that the creator's actually making an effort to properly populate this with all of its potential entries, and just proves that they went "oh yeah Seattle grunge bands whoops bye".
And we've also seen (and gotten bogged down in) more than one iteration of the argument that even a "solo" artist is technically also the "frontman" of an eponymously-named "band" of session musicians (e.g. the time somebody tried to create an article about "Natalie Imbruglia (band)" as a separate topic from Natalie Imbruglia the person), not to mention the fact that even singers in bands often also release solo recordings separately from their day jobs and/or go solo after the band breaks up too — so it doesn't even cleanly distinguish between singers in bands versus solo artists either.
We have a longstanding consensus that we don't categorize singers for the distinction between "lead singer" and "backing singer" -- since any singer can be a lead vocalist on some recordings and a backing vocalist on others, it's an utterly useless distinction -- but this is effectively just "Lead singers" by another name, and thus doesn't escape that consensus. Bearcat (talk) 15:58, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- I Abstain from voting
as no one but me has added to it, but am now reconsidering as I see that people have added entries to it. I have also added more entries as well. It seemed like a good category to create. Davidgoodheart (talk) 19:00, 31 May 2025 (UTC) - Delete, articles should already be in the Singers tree, this is an unnecessary fork. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:30, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Dartmouth College Greek organizations
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Match main article for Category. Naraht (talk) 13:35, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Rename per nom. It could probably have been listed at speedy. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:59, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Rename per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 18:05, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Activists from Fukushima Prefecture
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:20, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:01, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 18:03, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam bomber aircraft
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT. The LTTE only ever used two specific models of aircraft. No potential for growth as the LTTE has been destroyed. Obi2canibe (talk) 09:59, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom and WP:SMALLCAT.Pharaoh of the Wizards (talk) 11:28, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Keep historical context. ÆthelflædofMercia (talk) 16:15, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:04, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Furthermore, it is not even a defining characteristic of the only article in the category. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:55, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Upmerge to grandparent Category:Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam weapons. NLeeuw (talk) 17:57, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- If not deleted (per WP:NONDEF) then agree with merge. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:32, 1 June 2025 (UTC)
British Overseas Territory and Crown Dependencies cleanup
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Women in politics by British Overseas Territory to Category:Women in politics by dependent territory of the United Kingdom
- Propose merging Category:Women in politics by Crown Dependency to Category:Women in politics by dependent territory of the United Kingdom
- Propose merging Category:Politicians by Crown Dependency to Category:Politicians of dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- Propose merging Category:Politicians by British Overseas Territory to Category:Politicians of dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- Propose renaming Category:Politicians by British Overseas Territory or Crown Dependency to Category:Politicians of dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- Propose merging Category:Political office-holders by Crown Dependency to Category:Political office-holders of dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- Propose merging Category:Political office-holders by British Overseas Territory to Category:Political office-holders of dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- Propose renaming Category:Political office-holders by British Overseas Territory or Crown Dependency to Category:Political office-holders of dependent territories of the United Kingdom
- Propose renaming Category:British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies in fiction to Category:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom in fiction
- Propose renaming Category:British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies at multi-sport events to Category:Dependent territories of the United Kingdom at multi-sport events
- Nominator's rationale: Missed by Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 March 29#British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies upmerge. -- Beland (talk) 08:08, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge/rename per precedent. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:07, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Music commissioned by the Hollywood Studio Symphony
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: I can find no evidence that any of this music was actually "commissioned by" and not just performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony. It also doesn't seem to be mentioned in any of the articles/redirects, so hardly a defining characteristic. Fram (talk) 08:27, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Aerial tramways in Armenia
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Aerial tramways in Armenia to Category:Aerial tramways
- Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Also merge with Category:Transport in Armenia.
Also nominating for merge:
- Category:Aerial tramways in Bolivia with Category:Aerial tramways and Category:Transport in Bolivia
- Category:Aerial tramways in Chile with Category:Aerial tramways and Category:Transport in Chile
- Category:Aerial tramways in the Republic of the Congo with Category:Aerial tramways and Category:Transport in the Republic of the Congo
- Category:Aerial tramways in South Korea with Category:Aerial tramways and Category:Transport in South Korea
- Category:Aerial tramways in Venezuela with Category:Aerial tramways and Category:Transport in Venezuela LibStar (talk) 07:18, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Dual merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:26, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Comment Of course thus small population will force us to merge. But I'm considering that aerial tramways/cable cars are very economic transport ways. So in South America or Asia, especially in mountainous landscapes, there should be lots of examples. Which maybe either have no article, or no category b/c not found. Did anyone ever look out for that in Commons? -- Just N. (talk) 18:01, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
- Dual merge per nom. --Just N. (talk) 18:01, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Category:Argentina–Angola relations
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: No need for this category. We have Category:Angola–Argentina relations. DB1729talk 07:09, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge to Category:Angola–Argentina relations per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:28, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge to Category:Angola–Argentina relations since the countries in bilateral relation category names are alphabetized like with the respective articles. ミラP@Miraclepine 14:13, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge to Category:Angola–Argentina relations per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 18:02, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
May 27
[edit]Category:Events in the Arab world
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: delete, a category for pan-Arab events might be useful but better start that from scratch. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:25, 15 May 2025 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, bibliomaniac15 21:46, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
Children's books set in early modern history
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1500s (2 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 16th century and Category:Fiction set in the 1500s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1520s (2 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 16th century and Category:Fiction set in the 1520s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1530s (2 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 16th century and Category:Fiction set in the 1530s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1540s (3 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 16th century and Category:Fiction set in the 1540s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1550s (1 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 16th century and Category:Fiction set in the 1550s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1560s (1 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 16th century and Category:Fiction set in the 1560s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1570s (1 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 16th century and Category:Fiction set in the 1570s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1580s (1 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 16th century and Category:Fiction set in the 1580s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1590s (3 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 16th century and Category:Fiction set in the 1590s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1600s (2 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 17th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1600s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1610s (2 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 17th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1610s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1620s (1 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 17th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1620s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1640s (2 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 17th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1640s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1650s (3 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 17th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1650s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1660s (3 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 17th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1660s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1670s (1 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 17th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1670s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1680s (1 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 17th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1680s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1690s (3 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 17th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1690s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1700s (1 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 18th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1700s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1720s (2 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 18th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1720s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1750s (5 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 18th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1750s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1760s (1 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 18th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1760s
- Propose manually merging Category:Children's books set in the 1770s (8 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 18th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1770s
- Propose manually merging Category:Children's books set in the 1780s (6 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 18th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1780s
- Propose merging Category:Children's books set in the 1790s (6 P) to Category:Children's books set in the 18th century and manually merge to Category:Fiction set in the 1790s
- Nominator's rationale: merge, mostly one- or two-article categories, which is not helpful for navigation. After 1600 some articles are possibly already in a fiction by year category which necessitates a manual merge. The 1770s and 1780s should also be manually merged to the other target because most articles are already in Category:Children's books set during the American Revolutionary War. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:16, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 08:34, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, bibliomaniac15 21:41, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 19:30, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Olympic sportspeople convicted of crimes
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Trivial intersection of type of sports competition and outside-sporting career. The parent was deleted in 2012 and 2013, but since then recreated. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 19:06, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom, without objection to delete the parent again as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 23:35, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, bibliomaniac15 21:41, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 19:30, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Nobility from Nancy, France
[edit]- Propose manually merging Category:Nobility from Nancy, France to Category:Lorraine nobility
- Nominator's rationale: manually merge, Nancy was simply the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine and many articles are already in Category:Dukes of Lorraine. The other articles can be added to the merge target. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:40, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 19:30, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Anarchist anthropologists
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: I don't see how this intersection with occupation is defining. SMasonGarrison 21:28, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete, trivial intersection. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:42, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Keep Anarchism in this sense is an academic lens. Most of those in this category write about the intersection of anarchism and anthropology.--User:Namiba 14:57, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
Vehicular rampage
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage by continent (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in Africa (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in Asia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in Europe (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in North America (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in Oceania (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in South America (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage by country (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in China (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in Egypt (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in India (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in Israel (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in Palestine (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in Jerusalem (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in France (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in Germany (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in the United Kingdom (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in Canada (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage in the United States (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:Vehicular rampage by decade (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:1990s vehicular rampage (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:2000s vehicular rampage (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:2010s vehicular rampage (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose renaming Category:2020s vehicular rampage (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: "Vehicular rampage" is rather ambiguous and is also highly sensational. it seems like this category is referring to vehicle-ramming attacks, so I propose renaming it and its subcategories to something like "Vehicular attacks" or something similar harrz talk 20:50, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- comment: I see that the main article is Vehicle-ramming attack so maybe that is the best base name here. Hmains (talk) 00:38, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Agree I would second "Vehicle-ramming attacks" as @Hmains suggested.
- Macxcxz (talk) 15:24, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Agree on "vehicle-ramming" attacks. Rampage is always weirdly opinionated. PARAKANYAA (talk) 04:18, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Support The current title would include drug-fueled and alcohol-fueled accidents. Dimadick (talk) 02:53, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- comment: I see that the main article is Vehicle-ramming attack so maybe that is the best base name here. Hmains (talk) 00:38, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
Ambassadors of Spain
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Afghanistan to Category:Ambassadors to Afghanistan
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Albania to Category:Ambassadors to Albania
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Angola to Category:Ambassadors to Angola
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Bulgaria to Category:Ambassadors to Bulgaria
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Burundi to Category:Ambassadors to Burundi
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Cambodia to Category:Ambassadors of Spain and Category:Ambassadors to Cambodia
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Canada to Category:Ambassadors of Spain and Category:Ambassadors to Canada
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Colombia to Category:Ambassadors to Colombia
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to the Comoros to Category:Ambassadors to the Comoros
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Costa Rica to Category:Ambassadors to Costa Rica
- Propose merging Category:Permanent representatives of Spain to the Council of Europe to Category:Permanent representatives to the Council of Europe
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Cuba to Category:Ambassadors of Spain and Category:Ambassadors to Cuba
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to the Czech Republic to Category:Ambassadors to the Czech Republic
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Category:Ambassadors to the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Djibouti to Category:Ambassadors to Djibouti
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to El Salvador to Category:Ambassadors to El Salvador
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Estonia to Category:Ambassadors of Spain and Category:Ambassadors to Estonia
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Ethiopia to Category:Ambassadors to Ethiopia
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Finland to Category:Ambassadors to Finland
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Honduras to Category:Ambassadors to Honduras
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Hungary to Category:Ambassadors to Hungary
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Kenya to Category:Ambassadors to Kenya
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Kuwait to Category:Ambassadors to Kuwait
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Laos to Category:Ambassadors to Laos
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Latvia to Category:Ambassadors to Latvia
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Luxembourg to Category:Ambassadors to Luxembourg
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Madagascar to Category:Ambassadors to Madagascar
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Mali to Category:Ambassadors to Mali
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Mauritania to Category:Ambassadors to Mauritania
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Mauritius to Category:Ambassadors to Mauritius
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Moldova to Category:Ambassadors to Moldova
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Monaco to Category:Ambassadors to Monaco
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Mongolia to Category:Ambassadors to Mongolia
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Myanmar to Category:Ambassadors to Myanmar
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to North Macedonia to Category:Ambassadors to North Macedonia
- Propose merging Category:Permanent representatives of Spain to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to Category:Permanent representatives to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Pakistan to Category:Ambassadors to Pakistan
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Paraguay to Category:Ambassadors to Paraguay
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Rwanda to Category:Ambassadors to Rwanda
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to San Marino to Category:Ambassadors to San Marino
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Scotland to Category:Ambassadors to Scotland
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Senegal to Category:Ambassadors to Senegal
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Serbia to Category:Ambassadors to Serbia
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Seychelles to Category:Ambassadors to Seychelles
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to South Africa to Category:Ambassadors to South Africa
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to South Sudan to Category:Ambassadors to South Sudan
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Tanzania to Category:Ambassadors to Tanzania
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Thailand to Category:Ambassadors to Thailand
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to West Germany to Category:Ambassadors to West Germany
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Spain to Yugoslavia to Category:Ambassadors to Yugoslavia
- Nominator's rationale: merge, only one article in each of these categories. This is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:57, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Agree, but add Ambassadors of Spain to each person if not already included -this is their main occupation category if they are not already included. ¬¬¬¬
- Yes, I have added this as a merge target in the rare cases that an article wasn't already in that tree elsewhere. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:27, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 19:32, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Highways in Lesotho
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Highways in Lesotho to Category:Roads in Lesotho
- Nominator's rationale: I feel they are meant to have the same articles. GeographicAccountant (talk) 19:42, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge, too few articles that are really about highways. In fact it is only A3 highway (Lesotho). When merging, this article should also be added (manually) to Category:Highways. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:54, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Companies of Sweden by year of disestablishment
[edit]- Propose deleting Category:Companies of Sweden by year of disestablishment
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 1930 to Category:Companies disestablished in 1930, Category:1930 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 1930s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 1975 to Category:Companies disestablished in 1975, Category:1975 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 1970s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 1987 to Category:Companies disestablished in 1987, Category:1987 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 1980s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 1989 to Category:Companies disestablished in 1989, Category:1989 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 1980s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 1992 to Category:Companies disestablished in 1992, Category:1992 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 1990s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 1993 to Category:Companies disestablished in 1993, Category:1993 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 1990s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 1995 to Category:Companies disestablished in 1995, Category:1995 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 1990s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 1996 to Category:Companies disestablished in 1996, Category:1996 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 1990s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 1997 to Category:Companies disestablished in 1997, Category:1997 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 1990s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 1998 to Category:Companies disestablished in 1998, Category:1998 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 1990s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 2001 to Category:Companies disestablished in 2001, Category:2001 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 2000s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 2002 to Category:Companies disestablished in 2002, Category:2002 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 2000s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 2003 to Category:Companies disestablished in 2003, Category:2003 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 2000s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 2006 to Category:Companies disestablished in 2006, Category:2006 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 2000s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 2007 to Category:Companies disestablished in 2007, Category:2007 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 2000s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 2009 to Category:Companies disestablished in 2009, Category:2009 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 2000s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 2010 to Category:Companies disestablished in 2010, Category:2010 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 2010s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 2011 to Category:Companies disestablished in 2011, Category:2011 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 2010s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 2012 to Category:Companies disestablished in 2012, Category:2012 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 2010s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 2017 to Category:Companies disestablished in 2017, Category:2017 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 2010s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 2018 to Category:Companies disestablished in 2018, Category:2018 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 2010s
- Propose merging Category:Swedish companies disestablished in 2019 to Category:Companies disestablished in 2019, Category:2019 disestablishments in Sweden and Swedish companies disestablished in the 2010s
- Nominator's rationale: Most categories have maximum two entries, only three have 3 or 4 entries, making it more useful to categorise by decade. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 15:20, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:11, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Swedish sport by year and month
[edit]- Propose deleting Category:Swedish sport by year and month
- Propose deleting Category:1998 in Swedish sport by month
- Propose deleting Category:1999 in Swedish sport by month
- Propose deleting Category:2001 in Swedish sport by month
- Propose deleting Category:2022 in Swedish sport by month
- Propose deleting Category:2023 in Swedish sport by month
- Propose deleting Category:2024 in Swedish sport by month
- Propose deleting Category:2025 in Swedish sport by month
- Propose merging Category:April 2023 sports events in Sweden to Category:2023 in Swedish sport, Category:April 2023 in Sweden, and Category:April 2023 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:April 2024 sports events in Sweden to Category:2024 in Swedish sport, Category:April 2024 in Sweden, and Category:April 2024 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:August 1998 sports events in Sweden to Category:1998 in Swedish sport, Category:August 1998 in Sweden, and Category:August 1998 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:August 2022 sports events in Sweden to Category:2022 in Swedish sport, Category:August 2022 in Sweden, and Category:August 2022 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:February 2022 sports events in Sweden to Category:2022 in Swedish sport, Category:February 2022 in Sweden, and Category:February 2022 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:February 2023 sports events in Sweden to Category:2023 in Swedish sport, Category:February 2023 in Sweden, and Category:February 2023 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:February 2024 sports events in Sweden to Category:2024 in Swedish sport, Category:February 2024 in Sweden, and Category:February 2024 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:February 2025 sports events in Sweden to Category:2025 in Swedish sport, Category:February 2025 in Sweden, and Category:February 2025 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:January 2023 sports events in Sweden to Category:2023 in Swedish sport, Category:January 2023 in Sweden, and Category:January 2023 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:July 2022 sports events in Sweden to Category:2022 in Swedish sport, Category:July 2022 in Sweden, and Category:July 2022 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:July 2024 sports events in Sweden to Category:2024 in Swedish sport, Category:July 2024 in Sweden, and Category:July 2024 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:June 2024 sports events in Sweden to Category:2024 in Swedish sport, Category:June 2024 in Sweden, and Category:June 2024 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:March 1999 sports events in Sweden to Category:1999 in Swedish sport, Category:March 1999 in Sweden, and Category:March 1999 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:March 2022 sports events in Sweden to Category:2023 in Swedish sport, Category:March 2022 in Sweden, and Category:March 2022 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:March 2023 sports events in Sweden to Category:2023 in Swedish sport, Category:March 2023 in Sweden, and Category:March 2023 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:March 2025 sports events in Sweden to Category:2025 in Swedish sport, Category:March 2025 in Sweden, and Category:March 2025 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:May 2022 sports events in Sweden to Category:2022 in Swedish sport, Category:May 2022 in Sweden, and Category:May 2022 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:May 2024 sports events in Sweden to Category:2024 in Swedish sport, Category:May 2024 in Sweden, and Category:May 2024 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:November 2022 sports events in Sweden to Category:2022 in Swedish sport, Category:November 2022 in Sweden, and Category:November 2022 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:November 2024 sports events in Sweden to Category:2024 in Swedish sport, Category:November 2024 in Sweden, and Category:November 2024 sports events in Europe
- Propose merging Category:October 2001 sports events in Sweden to Category:2001 in Swedish sport, Category:October 2001 in Sweden, and Category:October 2001 sports events in Europe
- Nominator's rationale: With a peak of about 10 articles per year in recent years, it is to narrow to be useful categorising sports events in Sweden by year and month. See also Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 11#Sports events in Russia by month. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 14:48, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete/merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:53, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 19:33, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Pakistani airport stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Pakistani airport stubs to Category:Asian airport stubs
- Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Pakistan geography stubs and Pakistan transport stubs; this stub category has less than 60 mainspace articles in it - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 13:11, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Dual merge (not triple), I don't think this needs to be merged to a geography stub category. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:55, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Maybe also upmerge to Pakistan building and structure stubs? Her Pegship (?) 22:54, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Fair enough. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:24, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Maybe also upmerge to Pakistan building and structure stubs? Her Pegship (?) 22:54, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:18th-century Jacobite pretenders
[edit]- Propose merging Category:18th-century Jacobite pretenders to Category:Jacobite pretenders
- Nominator's rationale: Do we really need to diffuse this category by century? SMasonGarrison 12:03, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose No rationale offered for the merging. Dimadick (talk) 14:20, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge, most articles in the parent category should be purged per WP:NONDEF, leaving it too small to be diffused. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:02, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: Most of these articles mention the Jacobite status in the lead or have a dedicated section on it. Maybe that is disproportionate, but that is a discussion that needs to be had on the talk pages of the individual articles. Until then, the category should not be purged. I'm neutral on whether this category gets merged or not. Furius (talk) 09:35, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 19:33, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Struthio
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Struthio to Category:Ostriches
- Nominator's rationale: I have no idea what is the difference between struthio and ostriches and which way to merge, but now the categorization is absolutely random. --Altenmann >talk 09:36, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge or reverse merge per nom. Normally I would say the main article name is leading for the merge direction, but in taxonomy of animals that may be different. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:05, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Judaic studies
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Judaic studies to Category:Jewish studies
- Nominator's rationale: Match the main article Jewish studies. Jewish studies, not Judaic studies, is the preferred academic name for this field, see for example UCL Institute of Jewish Studies, British Association for Jewish Studies, AAJR uses "Jewish studies", Association for Jewish Studies, World Congress of Jewish Studies. Longhornsg (talk) 08:38, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Comment if decided, then its subcategories must be renamed as well. --Altenmann >talk 16:20, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Agree. Longhornsg (talk) 16:51, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- @Longhornsg: that means you need to list and tag those subcategories as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:28, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- Agree. Longhornsg (talk) 16:51, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:English female characters in soap operas
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Extremely specific - whilst the British and English female character templates have 100s of pages, the Welsh, Northern Irish and Scottish ones only have a few, and the British and English ones seem to be used interchangeably, so I believe the NI, Welsh, English and Scottish ones should be merged (not all of the categories obviously, just "female characters in soap operas". If someone could please add Category:Northern Irish female characters in soap operas, Category:Scottish female characters in soap operas and Category:Welsh female characters in soap operas to this nomination that would help as I don't know how to do it on twinkle DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 15:19, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Northern Irish female characters in soap operas to Category:British female characters in soap operas and Category:Northern Irish female characters in television
- Propose merging Category:Scottish female characters in soap operas to Category:British female characters in soap operas and Category:Scottish female characters in television
- Propose merging Category:Welsh female characters in soap operas to Category:British female characters in soap operas and Category:Welsh female characters in television
- Done (without having an opinion about the merits). Marcocapelle (talk) 23:39, 14 May 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:02, 16 May 2025 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 08:32, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge - I support a merge of each one to the broader "British female characters in soap operas" category.Rain the 1 08:52, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 19:34, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Ukraine military unit and formation stubs
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: To fit with the "fooian" naming scheme; see subcats of Military unit and formation stubs - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:52, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Works for me. Her Pegship (?) 03:29, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:American football defensive back, 1920s birth stubs
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: There are less than 60 transclusions in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:41, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
Oppose, there are still 54 so presumably this may quickly get over 60 again.The number of 60 is a requirement to create a new stub category. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:46, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- I notice now that a good reason for merging is that the target Category:American football defensive back, pre-1930 birth stubs contains even fewer stubs. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:07, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 19:35, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Linux distribution logos
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Category containing a single file. --Min☠︎rax«¦talk¦» 01:20, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete, no need to merge as the file is already in Category:Software logos. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:48, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 19:36, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
May 26
[edit]Category:Public Research Organisations in New Zealand
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: As there are 4 "Public Research Organisations" in New Zealand, the category will at most contain 4 articles plus 1 eponymous one, only 2 of which currently exist. Gjs238 (talk) 22:52, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know about the discussion @Gjs238. I'm not wedded to having the category but I made it because we have one for Crown Research Institutes, which are being replaced by PROs. The research institutes category contains a number of different types of organisation - individual labs, institutes at universities, CRIs and PROs, which I think is quite messy and difficult to navigate if you don't already know what these things are (there's also a lot of existing and historical orgs with Wp pages missing from the category, which I've put on my to do list to address). So having a subcat for the things we can cleanly delineate (like CRIs and PROs) made sense to me.
- Also noting that three PROs currently exist - the third is being rebranded from a reorganised Institute of Environmental Science and Research. I hadn't added the category to that page yet as I was hoping for more info to come out that would help me decide if it should be dealt with as a section on the existing page, or if the reorganisation is drastic enough to merit a new organisational page (I've added the cat now, though, for what it's worth). We know at the moment that this current government plans four PROs but there is no reason to suspect that the number wouldn't change in the future.
- I don't hang out in category discussions much so will leave the decision up to you, but thought these considerations might be useful. For future reference, what's the minimum number of pages for a viable category? DrThneed (talk) 23:30, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge, also because there is only one realistic merge target. If there would be multiple merge targets I would be somewhat more hesitant as merging then adds a little to the category clutter in an article. But that is not the case here. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:53, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Alternative idea. A better idea might be to merge Category:Public Research Organisations in New Zealand and Category:Crown Research Institutes of New Zealand together in a new category. I haven't thought of a suitable name for the new category though. Any thoughts DrThneed? Nurg (talk) 08:08, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- I like that idea @Nurg, it would keep like things together and would have the added advantage that we can get DSIR (the precursor to both CRIs and PROs) into the same category. How about "State-owned research organisations in New Zealand"? There might be some other historical orgs that would belong in there too, I'll have a look when I get a chance. DrThneed (talk) 20:16, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, Category:State-owned research organisations in New Zealand would be fine. Nurg (talk) 10:00, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- They would both just be upmerged to their parent category Category:Research institutes in New Zealand
- Gjs238 (talk) 23:02, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- By "both" do you mean Category:Public Research Organisations in New Zealand and Category:Crown Research Institutes of New Zealand? What do you mean by "would" – would under what circumstances? Nurg (talk) 00:52, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Rather than create another new category Category:State-owned research organisations in New Zealand upmerge to the existing parent category Category:Research institutes in New Zealand
- Gjs238 (talk) 13:16, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Are you just reiterating your original proposal? Nurg (talk) 22:24, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- It seems more like an extension of the original proposal if @Gjs238 is also proposing we should not have a category for Crown Research Institutes. I wouldn't be in favour of that and haven't seen any rationale for it. DrThneed (talk) 07:08, 31 May 2025 (UTC)
- Are you just reiterating your original proposal? Nurg (talk) 22:24, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- By "both" do you mean Category:Public Research Organisations in New Zealand and Category:Crown Research Institutes of New Zealand? What do you mean by "would" – would under what circumstances? Nurg (talk) 00:52, 30 May 2025 (UTC)
- Yes, Category:State-owned research organisations in New Zealand would be fine. Nurg (talk) 10:00, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
- I like that idea @Nurg, it would keep like things together and would have the added advantage that we can get DSIR (the precursor to both CRIs and PROs) into the same category. How about "State-owned research organisations in New Zealand"? There might be some other historical orgs that would belong in there too, I'll have a look when I get a chance. DrThneed (talk) 20:16, 28 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 19:26, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:People from Gothenburg by occupation
[edit]- Propose merging Category:People from Gothenburg by occupation to Category:People from Gothenburg
- Nominator's rationale: Layer not needed. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 19:34, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge for now, this is still the only subcategory of its parent. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:55, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:FL Studio
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Eponymous category that only contains two articles, and I don't see anything else that would need it. Both entries are already in the sole parent category, and that category is not very full so it doesn't need diffusing. Otherwise, it provides a link to Commons, but I don't see why that would be a reason to keep it. Seems like an eponymous cat for its own sake rather than for any necessary purpose. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 13:15, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:49, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 19:26, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Oregon organization stubs
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Oregon organization stubs to Category:United States organization stubs
- Nominator's rationale: There are less than 60 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 12:56, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- Shouldn't it also be merged to Category:Oregon stubs? Marcocapelle (talk) 17:51, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- You're right about that - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 12:58, 27 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 19:29, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:Activists from Ehime Prefecture
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. No need to merge. Both entries are already in the proper subcategory. Lost in Quebec (talk) 12:39, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:52, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 19:27, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Category:American political activists
[edit]- Propose merging Category:American political activists to Category:American activists
- Nominator's rationale: Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't activism always political? I don't understand the distinction here. This also applies to everything in Category:Political activists by nationality -- I can list them all out if needed. Prezbo (talk) 11:21, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose: Political activist and three other redirects with "political" in the name all lead to activism, which could imply what the nominator is suggesting. However, the activism article does distinguish political activism as a specific method of activism, which leads me to believe that no, activism isn't always political. On top of that, both American political activists and American activists have hundreds of entries, and the other subcats of Political activists by nationality have dozens more, so there's valuable diffusion done here. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 13:24, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge entire tree, it is not a specific enough form of activism, the text of the quoted article section is not convincing either. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:59, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 19:27, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
Ambassadors of Mali
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to Bangladesh to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to Bangladesh
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to Belgium to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to Belgium
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to Bhutan to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to Bhutan
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to Brunei to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to Brunei
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to the European Union to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to the European Union
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to India to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to India
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to Indonesia to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to Indonesia
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to Luxembourg to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to Luxembourg
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to Malaysia to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to Malaysia
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to Morocco to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to Morocco
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to Nepal to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to Nepal
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to the Netherlands to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to the Netherlands
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to Rwanda to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to Rwanda
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to Singapore to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to Singapore
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to Sri Lanka to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to Sri Lanka
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to Thailand to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to Thailand
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to Tunisia to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to Tunisia
- Propose merging Category:Ambassadors of Mali to the United Kingdom to Category:Ambassadors of Mali and Category:Ambassadors to the United Kingdom
- Nominator's rationale: merge, only one article in every category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:44, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge There are only five distinct articles in all the nominated categories, and Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani and Yeah Samake make up most of them. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:35, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per above. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 13:24, 26 May 2025 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 19:28, 29 May 2025 (UTC)
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