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If the category and desired change do not match one of the criteria mentioned in C2, do not list it here. Instead, list it in the main CFD section.

If you are in any doubt as to whether it qualifies, do not list it here.

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* [[:Category:old name]] to [[:Category:new name]] – Reason ~~~~

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* REDIRECT [[:Category:old name]] to [[:Category:new name]] – Reason ~~~~

To note that human action is required, e.g. updating a template that populates the category, use: 

* NO BOTS [[:Category:old name]] to [[:Category:new name]] – Reason ~~~~

Remember to tag the category page with: {{subst:cfr-speedy|New name}}

A request may be completed if it is more than 48 hours old; that is, if the time stamp shown is earlier than 01:56, 1 April 2025 (UTC). Currently, there are 185 open requests (refresh).

Current requests

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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).

Opposed requests

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My understanding is that the subcategories still need to be nominated.I could have done this myself, but I am on holidays for two weeks with very little time and unstable internet access.--Ymblanter (talk) 16:31, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On hold pending other discussion

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  • None currently

Moved to full discussion

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@Place Clichy: The names "Assyrian genocide" and "Sayfo" were discussed here and here. buidhe might be of some help. Mugsalot (talk) 10:45, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mugsalot: I'm just saying this is too sensitive and unclear for speedy, and I suggest a full discussion at CfD. On a wider note, these discussions (which are far from unanimous consensus) seemed to be mostly concerned by some belligerent editing we have seen in the past about the Assyrian name, to which some seemed to prefer other terms like Aramean (a debate strangely apparently internal to the Swedish diaspora). However, this often contentious back-and-forth editing seems to have calmed down a lot on Wikipedia lately, as seen e.g. here or here. Place Clichy (talk) 17:47, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Place Clichy: fair enough let's do that - how do we do that? Mugsalot (talk) 12:24, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Mugsalot: I should have pointed you to WP:CFD#HOWTO which explains that, sorry. Place Clichy (talk) 18:53, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Place Clichy: no worries, I've done that now. Mugsalot (talk) 11:21, 21 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
They have meanwhile been listed too, further above. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:22, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Current discussions

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April 3

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:United Kingdom prime minister controversies

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge to political controversies. The scope is quite vague IMO since pretty much anything can be considered a controversy. Already in a subcategory of Category:Prime ministers of the United Kingdom. Omnis Scientia (talk) 00:52, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]



April 2

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Category:Artists from Beersheba

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Nominator's rationale: Multi upmerge for now. There's only one person in this category, and she's already in Educators from Beersheba SMasonGarrison 22:54, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. After populating, the category now has 11 members. gidonb (talk) 00:36, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Beatriz Haddad Maia Tennis coaches

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Nominator's rationale: A really trivial category. Fyunck(click) (talk) 22:32, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Theres literally another category that is exactly like this one but for Djokovic coaches, “Category:Novak Djokovic coaches”. I really do not see why this specific category should be seen as something different from that other one. Haddad Maia fan (talk) 23:01, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A lot has to do with WikiProject Tennis guidelines for coaches. Bottom line is coaches are rare articles to be notable, and the most common case is when a player chooses coaching after retirement. Otherwise when a singles player wins one of the majors or is number 1 in the world, their coach gets way way more publicity. The bar is usually quite high for tennis coaches to have an article, let alone a whole tennis category. Fyunck(click) (talk) 01:04, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Nintendo Switch Online games

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Nominator's rationale: Nintendo has officially rebranded this service as "Nintendo Classics", per primary source. Considering the service never really had an official name beyond "library of classic games for Nintendo Switch Online" and secondary sources are not at all consistent in how they refer to it, it makes sense to use the new official branding in the absence of any overwhelming common name. It's also arguably less ambiguous, as "Nintendo Switch Online games" could be misinterpreted as any game that uses the NSO service for online functionality. (The main article, List of Nintendo Switch Online games, will be renamed to List of Nintendo Classics games or just Nintendo Classics as well for consistency.) -- Cyberlink420 (talk) 18:04, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sports competitions in Nyköping

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Nominator's rationale: One article; does not help navigation. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 17:51, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Heerlen by occupation

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Nominator's rationale: Also propose merging-

All subcategories with just 1 or 2 entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 13:14, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Journalism controversies by media organ

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Nominator's rationale: The proper term in this realm is "news outlet", which is a widely used umbrella term that covers the entire range of news sources - print, broadcast, online, etc. Whereas "media organ" is little used, and doesn't even specify "news". Anomalous+0 (talk) 10:40, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose. Not all journalism is news (e.g. The New Yorker). Not all media organs are primarily or exclusively news-focused (e.g. the BBC). jnestorius(talk) 11:40, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • The parent category is "News media". Can we call this accordingly Category:Journalism controversies by news medium? Marcocapelle (talk) 16:17, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    1. The parent category is "News media" Well, "a" parent, not "the" parent. I think a mismatch between the names of parent and child category is in this case a feature not a bug: it signals that the containment is inexact, as with so much of the category hierarchy. The primary aim of the category tree is to aid human readers' navigation, not train AI ontologies. The category contains NPR controversies and Category:BBC controversies, each of which includes news, non- news journalism, and non-journalism controversies. If there is ever a Controversies article split out of The New Yorker article, it should be in this category with the current name.
    2. Can we call this ... by news medium? I don't think so. Assuming for the moment we confine the category to news, I prefer "news organ" or "news outlet" to "news medium", because "medium" here suggests e.g. "newspaper" or "television" rather than "New York Times" or "CNN".
    jnestorius(talk) 18:02, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Revised Proposal - Say, how about we simplify the whole thing by just dropping the word "news", and go with Category:Journalism controversies by outlet, which allows readers to infer whatever type of outlet they like, whether it be "news outlet", "media outlet" or "journalism outlet". :) Anomalous+0 (talk) 21:48, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Jnestorius and Marcocapelle:Anomalous+0 (talk) 22:15, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Entertainers from Enid, Oklahoma

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Nominator's rationale: Nominator's rationale: Also propose merging-

All subcategories with 3 or less entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:31, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge as nominated.14GTR (talk) 12:54, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Degerfors stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated stub categories with no possibility to reach the 60 article target for stub categories. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 08:02, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Wattle Grove, New South Wales

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 06:32, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nominator. Lost in Quebec (talk) 08:09, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Roman legendary creatures

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Nominator's rationale: rename aligning with article Roman mythology and parent Category:Characters in Roman mythology. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:05, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure that "legendary" is the best formulation, but I think this category is intended to include only fantastic creatures, not animals of any kind. Mythology is full of ordinary creatures (horses, cattle, snakes, ants, eagles, etc.), but I don't think that's what this category is meant to consist of. The proposed name would include them all, so unless that's the intention of this change, it should not be made. P Aculeius (talk) 13:00, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If it would exist (but it doesn't), Category:Animals in Roman mythology could be a subcategory of this, while the articles directly in the nominated category are about fantastic creatures. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:40, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose because it's part of the category tree of Category:Legendary creatures. There is also Category:Greek legendary creatures, etc. I think it requires a discussion on that whole category tree. (Noting the recent creation of Category:Creatures in Greek mythology.) Mclay1 (talk) 23:32, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Legendary creatures in classical mythology

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Nominator's rationale: rename for brevity. "Legendary" is redundant in combination with "in mythology". Marcocapelle (talk) 06:02, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
As with "Roman legendary creatures", the proposed rename would change the scope of the category to include all kinds of animals, birds, fish, insects that occur in classical mythology, which presumably is not the intended scope. The nomination also seems to assume a popular but incorrect meaning for "mythology", giving it the meaning of "fictional, imaginary", rather than the technical definition. A myth is a traditional story told to explain some important point about the world, and the fact that it's called a "myth" says nothing about whether it is literally or only figuratively true. "Legendary" doesn't necessarily mean "fictional, imaginary" either. Many real things are legendary—the Great Pyramid, the Mona Lisa, Babe Ruth. So "legendary" isn't really redundant to "in mythology". Which is not to say it's the best formulation for the category title, but removing it would potentially expand the scope of the category in unintended ways. We need a better way of describing fantastic creatures, but having no qualifier at all opens up the category to real creatures appearing in myth, and I don't think that was the intended scope. P Aculeius (talk) 14:36, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If it would exist (but it doesn't), Category:Animals in classical mythology could be a subcategory of this, while the articles directly in the nominated category are about fantastic creatures. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:43, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose because it's part of the category tree of Category:Legendary creatures. Per above discussion on Category:Roman legendary creatures. Mclay1 (talk) 23:34, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]


April 1

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Category:Films set in 5th-century Byzantine Empire

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Nominator's rationale: merge, these are single-article isolated categories, not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:04, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:History of Degerfors

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Nominator's rationale: One article; does not help navigation Kaffet i halsen (talk) 20:32, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Relations of Georgia (country) and its former colonizers

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Nominator's rationale: delete, Georgia has never been a colony of the Ottoman or Russian Empire, it was simply part of those empires. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:35, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Churches in Bohuslän

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Nominator's rationale: One article; does not help navigation. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 19:13, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Beanpot Tournament Winners

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Nominator's rationale: Winning this tournament is a non-defining characteristic of a hockey player. As per WP:OCAWARD it is overcategorization. Here is the relevant informal discussion suggesting its deletion. Flibirigit (talk) 18:23, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
If this is the consensus, than I won't fight it. I guess I let my boston bias get the best of me. BuckeyeBruin (talk) 20:45, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. --MikeVitale 02:43, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:United States Attorneys

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Nominator's rationale: "United States Attorney" is a position that should be rendered in lowercase when it's plural, per MOS:JOBTITLES. Woko Sapien (talk) 18:19, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Note: this would align these categories with the similar Category:Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. As well as pages such as:
  1. List of United States attorneys appointed by Donald Trump
  2. List of United States attorneys appointed by Joe Biden
  3. List of United States attorneys for Wisconsin
  4. List of United States attorneys for the Eastern District of Arkansas
  5. List of United States attorneys for the Southern District of Florida. Woko Sapien (talk) 20:35, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose it would be ambiguous with "American attorneys", since "United States" and "American" are frequently used interchangeably, and these are most definitly not categories for American attorneys in general. The capitalized "A" for Attorney would remove such ambiguity. -- 65.92.246.77 (talk) 19:40, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians who own aquariums containing all of the fish they have been slapped with

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Nominator's rationale: Annual serious nomination of inappropriate joke categories on April Fools Day. * Pppery * it has begun... 17:32, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Housing rights activists from New Orleans

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 11:42, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Football clubs in Tatuí

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Nominator's rationale: A category without any meaning, Tatuí had only one professional team and should be allocated with the other defunct teams in the state of São Paulo. Svartner (talk) 06:15, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Forteana

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Nominator's rationale: delete, not a defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:58, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Upcoming Indian films

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Nominator's rationale: I don't see Upcoming films for any other country apart from Philippines (which has only one entry). Upcoming films by language seems just enough. Kailash29792 (talk) 03:32, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Male chefs from Tokyo

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Nominator's rationale: Duel upmerge. There's not need to intersect populated place by occupation and sex. If not dual merged, it should be made a non-diffusing category SMasonGarrison 03:04, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:American Culinary Federation Certified Master Chefs

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Nominator's rationale: Non-defining certification SMasonGarrison 00:39, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hmong American chefs

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Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated category that might not meet the EGRS bar SMasonGarrison 00:35, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, this category was created pursuing the uptick in literature about Hmong cuisine and those who notably make it (e.g. Hmong cuisine#Notable figures, whose careers and biographies are defined by their ethnicity and ethnic cuisine WP:EGRS/I: "For example, when intersecting with occupation, people should only be so categorized if this has significant bearing on their career.") - and specifically in preparation for edit-a-thons focused on Hmong biographies (see upcoming Wikipedia:Meetup/Minnesota/April 2025 Minnesota User Group Meeting#Events). It's expected to have more entries within this year. Pingnova (talk) 00:47, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I recommend starting with Category:Hmong chefs rather than with something at the interseciton of ethnicity+ nationality+ occupation. SMasonGarrison 03:07, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That's agreeable to me. Pingnova (talk) 06:51, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hmong American people from Minneapolis–Saint Paul

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Nominator's rationale: WP:EGRS non-defining intersection of ethnicity, nationality, occupation, and populated place. SMasonGarrison 00:26, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Per WP:EGRS/I: "the bottom line remains can a valid, encyclopedic main article be written for this grouping?" Hmong people in Minneapolis-St. Paul is a significantly documented topic in reliable literature since the 1980s. There exists a Wikipedia page on it: History of the Hmong in Minneapolis–Saint Paul. (Additionally to navigate this topic I created a navbox: Template:Hmong topics in Minnesota.) The Minneapolis-St. Paul metro is one of the two core groupings of Hmong diaspora outside Asia. Additionally their identity as Hmong Americans, the combination of ethnicity and nationality, is significant and explored in a lot of literature, some of the more significant available as references on the wiki page. The politicians especially in the metro are notable as a group because that is where Hmong people first gained political prominence worldwide and continue to see a lot of success. If there's any specific concern about the adherence of these categories to EGRS, please let me know so I can track down sources. These topic intersections are well documented but have little coverage on Wikipedia, which I have been trying to remedy such as with the upcoming edit-a-thon mentioned in my last comment. Pingnova (talk) 01:08, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Housing rights activists from Indianapolis

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Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge for now. This category only has one person in it, and I suspect that there's not enough people to populate it. (I tried) SMasonGarrison 00:15, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]


March 31

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Category:Togolese male hurdlers

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. also merge with Category:Togolese male athletes.

Propose deleting Category:Togolese hurdlers as this only contains Togolese male hurdlers. LibStar (talk) 23:51, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Egyptian legendary creatures

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Nominator's rationale: rename aligning with article Egyptian mythology and Category:Egyptian mythology. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:18, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ainu legendary creatures

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Nominator's rationale: rename aligning with article Ainu mythology and Category:Ainu mythology. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:13, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Aztec legendary creatures

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Nominator's rationale: rename aligning with article Aztec mythology and parent Category:Aztec mythology and religion. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:26, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mass media in Borlänge

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Nominator's rationale: One article in each and does not help navigation. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 20:13, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Mölnlycke

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 16:06, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Alumni by school in Massachusetts

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Nominator's rationale: A redundant category. We will need to purge anyone from Category:Shady Hill School alumni who attended before high school. User:Namiba 15:18, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fuji&gumi Games games

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Nominator's rationale: Category name is a little less confusing this way Gommeh (talk/contribs) 14:44, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Entertainers from Ashland, Oregon

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Nominator's rationale: Also propose merging-

All subcategories with just one or two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:13, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Norberg

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 09:03, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Argentine people of Syrian-Assyrian descent

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Nominator's rationale: Category could very well act as a fork since only one person is included, and no other figures noted are Argentinian of Assyrian descent Surayeproject3 (talk) 03:40, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Self-determination Movement

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Nominator's rationale: Non-defining category. upmerge SMasonGarrison 02:42, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Victor Beltri

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Nominator's rationale: Only two pages in here that are already interlinked. This isn't helpful for navigation SMasonGarrison 02:11, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. This architect single-handedly defined the modern looks of downtown Cartagena (Spain). As such, he had designed dozen(s?) of quite notable buildings, cf. es:Categoría:Obras_de_Víctor_Beltrí. That said, currently the category is very small, so recreating it in the future will be no big deal. Still, we might opt to save today these two minutes of tomorrow. Викидим (talk) 03:43, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Business families of Uzbekistan

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Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated category SMasonGarrison 01:57, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:First families of Uzbekistan

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Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge. This category is underpopulated SMasonGarrison 01:56, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hey, I actually plan to make a separate article on the family of Islam Karimov so this is for future articleS Nurken (talk) 02:03, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
On this wikipedia, we only keep categories for pages that already exist. I don't oppose recreating the category after several pages exist. SMasonGarrison 02:06, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Chancellery of the President of Kazakhstan

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Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category SMasonGarrison 01:53, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:World War II films by event

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Nominator's rationale: The subcategories of this category are not exactly events. Some are topics others are settings. –Aidan721 (talk) 01:14, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Eelam Cinema

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Nominator's rationale: We have no article on a subject called "Eelam Cinema" and only one of the four articles in this category (Sinamkol) even contains the word "Eelam". Reading over the article Eelam, it's not clear how this word would relate to the subject of filmmaking. It seems like it might be a contested term. Liz Read! Talk! 00:08, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]


March 30

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Category:Monsters

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Propose merging both Category:Legendary monsters and Category:Mythological monsters together into Category:Monsters
My reasoning: Honestly, there's just way too much overlap between these three categories. All of them are mostly about folkloric/legendary/mythical monsters that didn't originate from modern works of fiction. We only really need one category to cover them all, the other two subcategories are just too redundant. AHI-3000 (talk) 21:15, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Odisha State Film Awards

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Nominator's rationale: Eponymous category with no content at all besides the eponym. This appears to be left over from an earlier time when we had a significant number of separate articles about individual categories presented by these awards, but they've all long since been redirected to the head article for lack of sourcing, so that the head article is all that's left. Obviously no prejudice against recreation in the future if categories start actually getting spun back out to standalone articles again, but it isn't necessary to retain this for just one article. Bearcat (talk) 19:57, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:1267 in Shanghai

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Nominator's rationale: Isolated category. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 17:58, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Holy See heads of mission who did not attend the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy

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Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEF. Not attending this Catholic institution is not a defining characteristic of these people. –Aidan721 (talk) 17:39, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Holidays

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Nominator's rationale: split, a holiday may mean an observance day, but holidays may also mean vacation. This category contains a mix of both. Split according to the two meanings and convert Holidays to a disambiguation page. This nomination is inspired by an earlier comment by User:Jc37. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:55, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seasonal events

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subcategories of Category:Seasonal events by country
Subcategories of Category:Autumn events by country
Subcategories of Category:Spring (season) events by country
Subcategories of Category:Summer events by country
Subcategories of Category:Winter events by country
Nominator's rationale: "Events" just means anything that occurred. Not a necessary distinction. Merge/rename seasonal events to the respective season categories. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:43, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Rename/merge per nom. In most cases the observances are, or should be, also in a month category such as Category:February observances. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:53, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Categories by event

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Nominator's rationale: merge, a "Category:Categories by" is only useful when there are a lot of subcategories, but that is not the case here. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:11, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Skanör

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 11:22, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 March 29


March 28

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Category:Hebrew-language names

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Nominator's rationale: It looks like there is something multiwrong with this category.
Done with subcats.
Final suggestion: What's in a Name?
  • Support. Articles about Hebrew-language names are of course ok to have in this category, but articles about any other Jewish topics are not. The fact that an article or subcategory has a Hebrew-language name is not relevant. We are categorizing content, not page names. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:22, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:1980s cold waves

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Nominator's rationale: For consistency with the rest of Category:20th-century cold waves. The content is already in subcategories of the other parents. –Aidan721 (talk) 23:04, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blizzards in Oceania

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Nominator's rationale: Not useful for navigation. Only 1 article each. WP:NARROW. Both articles are already in weather events in COUNTRY categories, so additional merging is unnecessary. –Aidan721 (talk) 22:47, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Blizzards in Afghanistan

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Nominator's rationale: Not useful for navigation. Only 1 article. WP:NARROW –Aidan721 (talk) 22:39, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lists of Pakistani people by ethnicity

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Nominator's rationale: This currently contains only List of Americans in Pakistan and List of Pakistani Hindus, which are by nationality and religion respectively rather than ethnicity. – Fayenatic London 22:48, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lists of Australians by ethnicity

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Nominator's rationale: We should use "Australian people" rather than "Australians" per multiple parents. That leaves a choice of "by ethnicity" or "by descent" like the parent Category:Australian people by descent. "By descent" was chosen to replace "by ethnic or national origin" at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_December_26#Category:People_by_ethnic_or_national_descent. – Fayenatic London 22:36, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Seasonal weather events

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Nominator's rationale: Just because we have Category:Winter weather events does not mean that we need categories for other seasons as well. Abnormal weather is not as common in other seasons and thus does not require categorization. –Aidan721 (talk) 22:22, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lists of political office-holders by province or territory in Canada

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Nominator's rationale: Use "of" rather than "in", per Category:Categories by province or territory of Canada. I could have taken this to Speedy, but maybe someone has a better name. Note: the contents are not all holders of provincial offices, as they include subcats for mayors of places within the provinces. – Fayenatic London 22:05, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Redirect-Class 20th Century Studios articles of Low-importance

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Nominator's rationale: All related categories for non-article pages have been renamed from "articles" to "pages", so nominating these for consistency — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:17, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Category-Class 20th Century Studios articles of NA-importance

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Nominator's rationale: All related categories for non-article pages have been renamed, so nominating these for consistency — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:52, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Changed nomination to delete per comment below. These are unnecessary and redundant categories — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:17, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all. These additional layers are really just a mess that should be eliminated. A page like Category talk:20th Century Fox film series is listed already in Category:Category-Class 20th Century Studios pages and in Category:NA-importance 20th Century Studios pages. Anyone wishing to find an intersection can use existing tools, such as petscan to find whatever intersection they want. Gonnym (talk) 10:32, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Arabs in Arab world

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Nominator's rationale: These categories are poorly defined, inconsistently populated, and in many cases redundant. Their scopes are vague—none of them clearly distinguishes between ethnic, cultural, linguistic, or political aspects of Arab identity, and most lack sufficient content to justify standalone categories. Moreover, since these categories refer to Arabs in countries that are themselves part of the Arab world, the distinction becomes unnecessary and potentially misleading. Instead, more meaningful and structured categorization already exists under Category:Arab nationalism by country and its subcategories, which provide a clearer thematic framework tied to a specific aspect of Arab identity—namely political ideology. Other valid categorization schemes include by language, religion, or diaspora status, but such schemes must have a well-defined scope and consistent usage across articles. Unless there is a compelling case for developing these categories further with reliable sourcing and clear scope, deletion is the most appropriate course to reduce clutter and maintain a coherent category system. --Hassan697 (talk) 20:17, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Palestine (disambiguation)

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Nominator's rationale: Delete. Hatnotes are enough for disambiguation. Hassan697 (talk) 19:15, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Society of Palestine

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Nominator's rationale: These presumably made sense when first created and populated by Greyshark09, but are now small and no longer helpful. – Fayenatic London 21:06, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

State of Palestine

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Nominator's rationale: Follow-up to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 19#Palestine. Hassan697 (talk) 19:05, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Regents of Germany

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Nominator's rationale: delete, none of the articles is about a regent on behalf of the German emperor, so "of Germany" is incorrect. At most we might rename the category to Category:German regents but we do not have any other regents by nationality, for obvious reasons. Manually move the articles to Category:Regents if they aren't already in the tree somewhere else. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:25, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

People by state

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Nominator's rationale: To match multiple parents, e.g. Lists of American people, American people by state or territory. – Fayenatic London 21:37, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of people by populated place

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Propose renaming:
Nominator's rationale: use "Fooian people" to match others within Category:Lists of Canadian people, etc; and use "populated place" like others within Category:People by populated place. – Fayenatic London 16:40, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:African-American mariachi musicians

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Nominator's rationale: Category of unclear necessity, newly created for just one person. As always, categories of this type do not automatically need to exist the moment there's just one person to file in them -- it would be fine if there were four or five people in it, but is not needed for just one person. No upmerging necessary, as the article has been left duplicate-categorized in one of the parent categories as it is, and is already in other appropriate subcategories of the other. Bearcat (talk) 16:07, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Entertainers from Portland, Maine

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Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with two entries. Also propose merging-

Subcategories with one or two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 15:23, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Explorers of India

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Nominator's rationale: merge, India did not exist as a unified state yet, so in practice explorers of India and explorers of South Asia are largely overlapping. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:51, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Video games set in the 2nd millennium BC

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Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated and poorly populated categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:08, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Rakovník District geography stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge with template into parent Category:Central Bohemian Region geography stubs. The category is not understubbed and fails to reach a reasonable number of stubs (minimum is 60–100). FromCzech (talk) 08:25, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Příbram District geography stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge with template into parent Category:Central Bohemian Region geography stubs. The category is not understubbed and fails to reach a reasonable number of stubs (minimum is 60–100). FromCzech (talk) 08:13, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Prague-East District geography stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge with template into parent Category:Central Bohemian Region geography stubs. The category is not understubbed and fails to reach a reasonable number of stubs (minimum is 60–100). FromCzech (talk) 08:12, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Nymburk District geography stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge with template into parent Category:Central Bohemian Region geography stubs. The category is not understubbed and fails to reach a reasonable number of stubs (minimum is 60–100). FromCzech (talk) 08:10, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mladá Boleslav District geography stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge with template into parent Category:Central Bohemian Region geography stubs. The category is not understubbed and fails to reach a reasonable number of stubs (minimum is 60–100). FromCzech (talk) 08:09, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Kutná Hora District geography stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge with template into parent Category:Central Bohemian Region geography stubs. The category is not understubbed and fails to reach a reasonable number of stubs (minimum is 60–100). FromCzech (talk) 08:08, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Kolín District geography stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge with template into parent Category:Central Bohemian Region geography stubs. The category is not understubbed and fails to reach a reasonable number of stubs (minimum is 60–100). FromCzech (talk) 08:06, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Kladno District geography stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge with template into parent Category:Central Bohemian Region geography stubs. The category is not understubbed and fails to reach a reasonable number of stubs (minimum is 60–100). FromCzech (talk) 08:06, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Beroun District geography stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge with template into parent Category:Central Bohemian Region geography stubs. The category is not understubbed and fails to reach a reasonable number of stubs (minimum is 60–100). FromCzech (talk) 08:04, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Benešov District geography stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge with template into parent Category:Central Bohemian Region geography stubs. The category is not understubbed and fails to reach a reasonable number of stubs (minimum is 60–100). FromCzech (talk) 08:03, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lebanese expatriate sportspeople in Mandatory Palestine

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Nominator's rationale: merge, complicated category tree for only one article, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:16, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Expatriate sportspeople in Mandatory Palestine by nationality

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Nominator's rationale: redundant category layer, upmerge for now. SMasonGarrison 04:30, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Australian pain physicians

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Also merge with Category:Australian medical doctors. LibStar (talk) 03:37, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Australian hepatologists

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Also merge with: Category:Australian medical doctors

Also propose merging:

Category:Memorials to Diana, Princess of Wales

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Nominator's rationale: For consistency with Category:Monuments and memorials by person and Category:Monuments and memorials to British women --Another Believer (Talk) 03:05, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Memorials to Harriet Tubman

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Nominator's rationale: For consistency with Category:Monuments and memorials by person and Category:Monuments and memorials to American women --Another Believer (Talk) 03:02, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Memorials to Rosa Parks

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Nominator's rationale: For consistency with Category:Monuments and memorials by person and Category:Monuments and memorials to American women --Another Believer (Talk) 03:01, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Kokborok-language film stubs

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Nominator's rationale: There are only two articles in this category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:29, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]


March 27

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Category:Relations of Japan and its former colonies

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Nominator's rationale: delete, Korea was annexed by Japan rather than a colony (or initially it was a protectorate). Marcocapelle (talk) 21:38, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This and the two nominations below are follow-up on this earlier discussion. @An anonymous username, not my real name, Seefooddiet, Sm8900, HouseBlaster, and Voorts: pinging contributors to that discussion. Creator of the categories has already been notified. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:52, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am not sure on whether all individual instances of Japan's conquests can be termed colonialism, but shouldn't the fact that the overall phenomenon is called the Japanese colonial empire mean something? Even if the category has to be renamed, it seems thematically and chronologically in line with the similar categories pertaining to European colonizers. GreekApple123 (talk) 22:07, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Relations of Turkey and its former colonies

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Nominator's rationale: delete, neither of the four entries is about proper colonies. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:26, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Relations of Russia and its former colonies

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Nominator's rationale: delete, neither of the three entries is about proper colonies. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:18, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • There most likely will have to something like this category to talk about relations between Russia and the other post-Soviet states. Perhaps it is better to rename than to delete the category. GreekApple123 (talk) 21:24, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Organizations of former colonies

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only the Commonwealth of Nations in it, which is already in Category:Relations of the United Kingdom and its former colonies. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:09, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Categories in fiction

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Nominator's rationale: rename, these are set categories containing articles about fictional works rather than topic categories containing articles about literature. This was a WP:C2C nomination at WP:CFDS and as such opposed by User:HandsomeFella. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:21, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename all No objection to widening the scope per your suggestion, but it is "the opioid epidemic", a singular event. Dimadick (talk) 08:59, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Agreed on "the" (I went ahead and added it, please feel free to revert).
    That said, I think each of these may need to be pruned once renamed, as not all the entries are "about" the topic - which is presumably why we have this naming standard: to prevent category bloat of mere mentions. In the case of the opioid epidemic one, what is likely left after purging might be better just merged to the parent (about opiods). - jc37 23:41, 30 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:2020s Chinese film stubs

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Nominator's rationale: The category only has 8 articles in there... - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 18:27, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Jacksonville Jaguars draft picks

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Nominator's rationale: There's not a draft picks cat for any other NFL team. This is basically covered by Category:Jacksonville Jaguars players. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 18:25, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete How is this defining for these players? Dimadick (talk) 09:00, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Next Generation Adelaide International

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Nominator's rationale: Tournament changed its name several times, but the main article is at Australian Hard Court Championships. See also Brisbane_International#History. Although it may be eligible for Speedy renaming, this case not entirely clear, so I've nominated it here in order to keep a record of any discussion. – Fayenatic London 15:37, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lists of West German people

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Nominator's rationale: upmerge for now. there's only one page in here, which isn't very helpful for navigation SMasonGarrison 12:50, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Turn of the 20th century

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Nominator's rationale: Non-defining category redundant category. SMasonGarrison 12:48, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Turn of the 21st century

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Nominator's rationale: Non-defining category with only 1 page in it The Turn of the Century SMasonGarrison 12:48, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Qin dynasty in fiction

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory and one article. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:05, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Beland (talk) 07:22, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hypothetical processes

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Nominator's rationale: I think this is a more accurate and inclusive description of its contents. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:46, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Beland (talk) 02:30, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:International Player Pathway Program participants

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Nominator's rationale: Official name of the program is International Player Pathway. ~ Dissident93 (talk) 07:13, 4 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Any second for deleting? -- Beland (talk) 02:29, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Beland (talk) 02:29, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Disasters in Denmark by year

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Nominator's rationale: WP:OCYEAR. It is not useful to diffuse disasters in Denmark by year or decade. –Aidan721 (talk) 01:21, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Terrorist incidents in Denmark in the 1980s

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Nominator's rationale: WP:OCYEAR. It is not useful to diffuse terrorist incidents in Denmark by decade. –Aidan721 (talk) 01:11, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional prisoners and detainees

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Nominator's rationale: Suggested by jc37 on Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 20#Category:Works set in prison. -- Beland (talk) 00:51, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, not a defining characteristic of a fictional character. If applicable the articles should already be in the tree of Category:Fictional criminals. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:31, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rather than copy-pasting, please just count my comments in the noted discussion, for this one as well. - jc37 16:46, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose As defining for fictional characters as for "real" people. Several of them are defined by spending many years in prison and having trouble fitting in to the outside world. Dimadick (talk) 09:03, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Being "detained" may be defining for some fictional characters, but not by all. It varies wildly by story. As I noted elsewhere, this is a trope for superheroes and their adversaries, as well as crime fiction in general. There's also the question of length of time. If you hold someone's wrist for a few seconds, you have detained them. And how much of a mention was it? A throwaway line by an author to explain why a character hasn't shown up until now - a not uncommon occurrence in soap operas. All of which suggests that this should be a list, to explain the differences. - jc37 00:02, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

19th-century terrorist incidents

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Nominator's rationale: WP:OCYEAR/WP:NARROW. Not useful to diffuse terrorist incidents of the 19th century by year or location. –Aidan721 (talk) 00:51, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Aidan721: shouldn't we delete these as anachronistic? The articles are already in a Massacres category when appropriate. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:55, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Many acts of terrorism are not massacres, they are not a sub kind of massacres. Terrorism often does not kill people. (I don't even think we should have massacre categories but that's a topic for another CfD...) Also if reliable sources on the event from long after call it terrorism that's more reliable than sources near the event calling it terrorism. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:06, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support idea of upmerging, but I disagree with Marcocapelle's idea of deleting them as anachronistic. Provided they are labeled terrorism by reliable sources looking back at the events it's not any less accurate than a contemporary source describing it as that - probably more accurate. Also oppose upmerging to "disasters" as not all terrorism is. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:04, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • If not deleted, merge to decade/century terrorist incidents, per nom, and selectively merge to disasters categories per PARAKANYAA. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:42, 28 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Prison healthcare in fiction

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Nominator's rationale: Suggested by jc37 on Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 20#Category:Works set in prison. -- Beland (talk) 00:49, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Belizean immunologists

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry, also dual merge with Category:Belizean physicians.

Also propose merging:

Older discussions

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