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Questions To clear things up, I only created the Category:Shopping malls by architect cat; User:Asiess835 did the developer one. And back then, when I helped them make the additional categories for the developer one, I didn't realize malls developed or designed by the companies would move outside of just the U.S. Should it be categorized as Category:Shopping malls by country or just put both the US and Canada cats on them, or should any categories about malls developed or designed by those firms should have their own separate cats instead of being grouped in one (e.g. Category:Shopping malls developed by The Mills Corporation -> Split into Category:Shopping malls in Canada developed by The Mills Corporation for Vaughan Mills and Category:Shopping malls in the United States developed by The Mills Corporation for Potomac Mills)? Aspifi (talk) 21:08, 27 July 2026 (UTC)reply


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August 4

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August 3

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Category:Far-left politicians

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Nominator's rationale: There is no standard definition of far-left that works for an encyclopedia. Omar Fateh is categorized as far-left while being a member of the Democratic Party. Joseph Stalin is as well. This underscores that this lightly-populated category tree is subjective. User:Namiba 21:13, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Keep. I'd oppose deleting this without also deleting Category:Far-right politicians, which has the same issue. They're equally subjective and it makes no sense to have one but not the other-though on their own merits I'm not sure if we should delete either. Can't we just restrict to those who RS describe as far-left or far-right? PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:22, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Antiziganist political parties

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Nominator's rationale: Per this discussion , we do not label groups or people with these "bias categories". See recent discussion here . PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:11, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Political parties with anti-Korean sentiment

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Nominator's rationale: Per this discussion , we do not label groups or people with these "bias categories". See recent discussion here . PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:10, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Anti-Arab political parties

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Nominator's rationale: Per this discussion , we do not label groups or people with these "bias categories". See recent discussion here . PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:10, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Political parties with anti-Hungarian sentiment

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Nominator's rationale: Per this discussion , we do not label groups or people with these "bias categories". See recent discussion here . PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:09, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Films about neo-Nazis

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Nominator's rationale: Unclear separation. There doesn't seem to be any difference in scope? It's not like the person one is more focused on individuals. PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:07, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Fiction about Neo-Nazism

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Nominator's rationale: Originally this contained the subcategories "films about..." "television about..." and "television episodes about..." However, this was inappropriate for the fiction subcategory, as quite a few entries in those subcategories were not fictional. E.g. Blood in the Face, Louis and the Nazis, Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America. As is there are only 3 subcategories so I think the existence of a small fiction subcategory does not help navigation. PARAKANYAA (talk) 21:05, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Alumni by high school in Alberta

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Nominator's rationale: This is the only Canadian province which uses high school for an alumni category, see Category:Alumni by secondary school in British Columbia, Category:Alumni by secondary school in Ontario, and Category:Alumni by secondary school in Quebec. I think Category:High schools in Canada should also be renamed but that is a different discussion. User:Namiba 20:52, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Years of the 19th century in Malta

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:07, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Buildings and structures in Arita, Saga

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:03, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary overcategorization, using a scientific classification for something that is decidedly not scientific. It is unclear whether many fictional badgets, otters, weasels, etc. are "Mustelidae". ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 07:46, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary overcategorization, using a scientific classification for something that is decidedly not scientific. It is unclear whether many fictional cats, hyenas, etc. are "feliforms". ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 07:41, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Films about ungulates

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Nominator's rationale: Similar reasoning to the now-deleted Category:Fictional ungulates, this is unnecessary overcategorization outside a scientific context. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 07:34, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Slovenian sports commentators

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 07:11, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Name changes due to the George Floyd protests

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Nominator's rationale: the spirit of WP:SHAREDNAME, WP:NOTDICTIONARY, and WP:NONDEFINING
During 2020, a number of institutions revisited the racist meanings behind their long established names and finally updated them to be more representative. The old name is often in the intro with maybe a sentence on the rename but that doesn't seem defining as the actual topics have nothing in common creating a jumble of articles unlikely to aid navigation. This includes the Thick-billed longspur bird (née McCown's longspur), Hotel 24 South (Stonewall Jackson Hotel), America's Best Chew (Redman Chewing Tobacco), The Chicks (Dixie Chicks), Edy's Pie (Eskimo Pie), John R. Lewis High School (Robert E. Lee High School), and Wunaamin Miliwundi Ranges (King Leopold Mountains). This could still work if we had enough articles specifically on the name changes but we only have Cleveland Indians name and logo controversy and Washington Redskins name controversy while the third one, 2020 Rhode Island Question 1, doesn't mention Mr. Floyd. We already have List of name changes due to the George Floyd protests for any reader interested in this topic. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:34, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Edinburgh Festival performers

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Nominator's rationale: textbook WP:PERFCAT and WP:NONDEFINING
Greg Davies, Hannah Gadsby, and Space Cowboy are stars who have performed in many venues, including the the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In practice, the comedy subcategory is also a performance category which is not remotely defining for Joan Rivers, John Hegley, or Imran Yusuf. No objections to list articles but this leads to category clutter because prominent performers are prominent because they get booked for many performances. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:09, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

August 2

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Category:Mass media in Cuban city

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Already in Category:Newspapers published in Cuba. LibStar (talk) 23:56, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Maritime incidents by time period

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Option 1:
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Nominator's rationale: Hi! I originally made a CfDS under C2C, my initial rationale being "Per subcats such as Maritime incidents in the 2000s". However, I later regretted the proposal per parent categories such as 12th-century disasters. Anyway, I have two options to help harmonize the "maritime incidents by year/decade/century/whatever" subcats. If one is chosen, the other can't be chosen: - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 23:40, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Pinging @Marcocapelle, who agreed on moving this to the full CFD :D - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 23:42, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Meh... Why not, but on the other hand, the immediate parent category for the yearly cats are subcats of Category:Transport disasters by year which are all of the form Category:Transport disasters in XXXX. I guess we could change that too. I'm not sure I see a benefit either way. Pichpich (talk) 03:27, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Gravitational-wave astrophysicists

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Nominator's rationale: In practice, these are the same thing. Shocksingularity (talk) 21:29, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Maltesian football club seasons by club

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Nominator's rationale: Not only is the name ridiculous, it is massively incomplete and unnecessary. Anwegmann (talk) 21:21, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Years in the Kingdom of Sicily

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Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, mostly isolated one- or two-articles categories, this is not helpful for navigation. This is a complex one. Only the first 13 nominated categories contain articles about Sicily proper. The other nominated categories only contain articles about Malta, which was at the time a vassal state of the Kingdom of Sicily. After the proposed merge the articles about Malta will still be in the century categories of the Kingdom of Sicily. If there is consensus to merge to Europe instead of to Italy then by all means but I do not expert so considering previous discussions. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:06, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply

*To Italy, not to Europe. No idea why the nom suddenly switches from "Italy" cats to "Europe" cats, but in any case, all of them should be merged to the Italy tree (which is obviusly part of the Europe tree as well). Fram (talk) 08:23, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

  • Merge to Europe. Sicily is not part of the Italian peninsula, and so it makes no sense to call it Italy when it is not in a country so named.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:41, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Oppose - Italy did not exist before 1861. We do not rewrite history. Mjroots (talk) 16:30, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply
    Italy as a geographic, cultural, historical and ethnic region definitely existed, or we wouldn't have the 1849 "Belgium, the Rhine, Italy, Greece, and the Shores and Islands of the Mediterranean Volume 1" or he 1847 "Sights in Italy. With Some Account of the Present State of Music and the Sister Arts in that Country" (yep, country), or the 1766 "Letters from Italy, Describing the Customs and Manners of that Country, in the Years 1765, and 1766" (again, country!) or an 1859 book on the history(!) of Italy. We have things like an 1826 opera titled "The Turk in Italy", we have Italians writing "Storia d'Italia dal 1789 al 1814" in 1824 or "Viaggi in Italia" in 1832, there even was an Italian war before it apparently existed, "Memorie della guerra d'Italia degli anni 1848-1849 di un veterano austriaco", we have "Italia sacra" in 1721, we have an early 18th century "Giornale de' letterati d'Italia", we have "Annali d'Italia, dal principio dell'era volgare fino all'anno MDCCL." in 1752, and so on. But no, Italy didn't exist. Fram (talk) 17:39, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply
@Fram: That Italy is not Italy. Mjroots (talk) 17:51, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply
In most of these books and the like, "Italy" is about the large region, not about the HRE subentity. The sources between 1801 and 1861 especially show a continuation of the general use of the term. Fram (talk) 17:57, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply
While I definitely agree with you, settling that target category seems like a separate nomination rather than something that would delay this discussion about these cats. RevelationDirect (talk) 23:42, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Early modern period in the history of Serbia

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Nominator's rationale: Highly overlapping categories SMasonGarrison 15:42, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Medieval Serbian codices

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Nominator's rationale: Highly overlapping, we don't have a Codices tree as far as I can see SMasonGarrison 15:30, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Australian Aboriginal kings

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Nominator's rationale: Unless there is something I'm missing, this category should be called: Indigenous Australian kings, per the parent categories: Indigenous Australian people SMasonGarrison 14:10, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:S Club 7

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Nominator's rationale: There's a lot going on this category about the pop group S Club. There's their activities as S Club 7, which includes one album as "S Club" after a member leaves. There's the activity of their spinoff kids group S Club 8. There's the activities of S Club Allstars, which is a combination of the previous two groups. All of it occurs under the umbrella of "S Club," which should thus be the category title. Mike Selinker (talk) 02:56, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply

August 1

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Category:Resistance to the Spanish Empire

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:37, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:People with FOO disorders

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Nominator's rationale: There is no need to isolate these people based on the symptoms they experience. It doesn't serve navigation and in my view is problably contrary to WP:EGRSD in regard to disability. SMasonGarrison 21:38, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
This is not based on "symptoms", it is an entire classification of mental disorders that affect brain development (neurodevelopment) and onset in the early developmental period (childhood, often defined as before age 18). See also existing categories Category:People with genetic disorders, Category:People with rare diseases, Category:People with mood disorders, Category:People with personality disorders, etc. Shocksingularity (talk) 21:44, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Highly overlapping categories. SMasonGarrison 21:27, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
The newly-created category is highly redundant with the long existing Category:People with psychotic disorder. Category:People with psychotic disorder is being used to describe people with documented psychosis, while the new category is being treated as a parent category that I think is trying to isolate specific mental diagnoses based on symptoms. SMasonGarrison 21:29, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
As creator of the new category, I would merge the other way. "Psychotic disorders" is a broader, recognized classification of different disorders that cause psychosis, such as schizophrenia and delusional disorder - see BlockL1‑6A2 in the ICD-11 and the "Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders" chapter of the DSM-V. "Psychotic disorder" implies one specific disorder, but there is no disorder with that name.
I would also support merging the categories and renaming to "people with psychosis", although this risks implying that people listed are currently undergoing psychosis. Shocksingularity (talk) 21:39, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
I just don't see the benefit to categorizing/isolating people to this level of detail for their disabilities. It seems contrary to the spirit of EGRS. SMasonGarrison 21:41, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
I am trying moreso to group categories of similar disabilities so pages like Category:People by medical or psychological condition and Category:People with disabilities aren't flooded with a million subcategories. The people are all still in their original categories, I'm just grouping some of the categories to reduce clutter. For example, people with autism are still in the Category:Autistic people, it's just that Category:Autistic people is now under Category:People with neurodevelopmental disorders instead of directly under Category:People with mental disorders. Shocksingularity (talk) 21:51, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
I have ADHD myself and would consider it a disability. It defines me a lot, because it affects how my brain works and almost every aspect of my life. Most of my friends with ADHD also consider it a disability.
I added the nationality subcats because the "people with ADHD" category was being very large. (See WP:EGRS/I). I also noticed that the "autistic people" category had nationality subcats so why not ADHD? Shocksingularity (talk) 21:20, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Works about cattle

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:16, 11 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Merge to Category:Cattle in popular culture and Category:Foxes in popular culture as redundant categories that I had to connect to to find them. Alternatively, reverse merge those categories to these ones in line with "X in fiction" precedents. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:05, 11 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Note these were only recently created by @Johnpacklambert and while I don't believe it is good practice to leave them in this state, I'm curious what the intent was in creating them and if there is further work intended. As is I support merging, though as noted they may not need to be and can just be deleted. WinstonDewey (talk) 20:35, 13 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sennecaster (Chat) 18:18, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Support 1st, oppose 2nd The idea of "works about cattle" is not defining, but "works about foxes" is. It is fairly common to see a work that is, specifically, about a fox. I am more dubious about the subcategory combinations of "anthropomorphic+species" (what usually matters is either or, not necessarily both) but that is not what is up for debate here. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 07:21, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Pages with citation errors

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Nominator's rationale: The former is a parent category for malformed <ref> syntax according to the description, while the latter hosts such pages directly. Category:Pages with Cite taxon errors should probably be moved to Category:Articles with incorrect citation syntax, but having the rest entirely separate from the other categories seems confusing. 1234qwer1234qwer4 16:57, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Hard Rock Cafe

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Nominator's rationale: Alongside changing the parent page for this category from Hard Rock Cafe to Hard Rock International. My reasoning for it; Places in the category, such as Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City, are entirely separate from the cafes; in fact, that location does not have a Hard Rock Cafe. Neither does the former Hard Rock Casino Vancouver or Hard Rock Stadium. The article I'm working on in my sandbox also does not have a Hard Rock Cafe. Making the category based strictly on the restaurant division is potentially confusing, and it would be better to rename it this way to better reflect and match the pages in this category. Hard Rock Hotel and Casino itself operates separately from the restaurant division. Aspifi (talk | contributions) 15:02, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
  • New Main Article/Rename The nominator is correct, while HRI is over both the restaurant chain and the casino chain, this category is mostly the latter so it makes sense our naming catch up to the actual scope here. (Note: I removed Universal Orlando from this cat; their presence as a concession does not define the overall park.)- RevelationDirect (talk) 21:07, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Buildings and structures in Shimane Prefecture by city

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Nominator's rationale: To make room for towns in their respective parent categories (Shimane: Misato, Okuizumo, Tsuwano; Saga: Arita; Tokyo: Okutama; Wakayama: Katsuragi, Kushimoto, Nachikatsuura). See also Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 July 24#Category:Buildings and structures in Kanagawa Prefecture by city. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 14:44, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Other prefectures did not have any town subcats so I left those out, but if it's preferred that they all be renamed for consistency's sake then I can nominate those too. There's also the question of Hokkaido, which has both buildings and structures in Hokkaido by city and by town; should those be merged into buildings and structures in Hokkaido by populated place also to keep consistency? QuietHere (talk | contributions) 14:53, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:History of the Jews in the Mashriq

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Nominator's rationale: A similar category for the Mashriq does not exist, which can be verified with a look through Category:Mashriq. There is no evidence that this category should exist either, since it only contains sub-categories. For comparision, there is no Category:History of the Jews in the Great Lakes region, despite Jewish people also being notably present there. HerrHeulsuse (talk) 14:18, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Keep BOTH categories because (1) Any category does not owe its existence to an article that has not been written yet since categories are often created before and precede articles. (2) Paradoxically, part of the nominator's "rational" actually supports a small parent category that is made up of WP:N sub-categories, this helps readers and web searches finding such categories much easier had the parent category not existed. (3) The nominator, or anyone else, is free to create an article about Jews in the Great Lakes region since WP:NOTPAPER and the absence of such an article until now is not a reason to push out and destroy other helpful and well thought out categories and articles that exist because editors have taken the time to create them. If it ain't broke, don't fix it! IZAK (talk) 02:33, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Delete, largely overlapping with Middle East categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:41, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply
@Marcocapelle: Would you care to elaborate please because your reason makes no sense. Are you implying that Jewish history topics and categories by city/country/region/continent should all be deleted because they are "largely overlapping categories"? Jews are a small minority, but very WP:N community of people and this category like many others about Jews and Jewish history is a valid recognition that they have a long history and existence in any city/region/country/continent such as in the Mashriq and other regions so-named in Arabic and accepted in English as well. IZAK (talk) 21:41, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Merge because Jewish History is an important encyclopedic angle just like the history of other extreme global minority populations. I think the sparseness of the topic is a sign that there should be more editing activity here, not less. yonkeltron (talk) 23:19, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply
  • IZAK asked me to comment here. Jews and Judaism in the Mashriq seems to me like something someone would reasonably look up; the fact that we don't have a main article at that level is a very weak argument against keeping that category. This seems to me to group a fair number of mutually related articles, which is the primary purpose of a category. The absence of a "main" article is not normally a reason to get rid of a category that might be useful to someone navigating the cat hierarchy looking for material on a particular subject. - Jmabel | Talk 23:43, 3 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Indigenous peoples of Northeast India

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Nominator's rationale: delete, both articles are already in Category:Naga ethnic groups. These two are not "more Indigenous" than other Naga ethnic groups. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:02, 25 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 13:22, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete: Naga ethnic groups is a subcat of multiple cats which already cover this. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 15:02, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Lisa Nandy

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Nominator's rationale: Category empty except for the eponymous article; not a prominent enough politician to suggest it will be populated anytime soon. See also, nominations for Category:Chris Bryant and Category:Torsten Bell. OGBC1992 (talk) 09:56, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete per nomination. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 14:57, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Chris Bryant

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Nominator's rationale: Category empty except for the eponymous article; not a prominent enough politician to suggest it will be populated anytime soon. See also, nominations for Category:Torsten Bell and Category:Lisa Nandy. OGBC1992 (talk) 09:56, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete per nomination. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 14:57, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Torsten Bell

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Nominator's rationale: Category empty except for the eponymous article; not a prominent enough politician to suggest it will be populated anytime soon. See also, nominations for Category:Chris Bryant and Category:Lisa Nandy. OGBC1992 (talk) 09:55, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete per nomination. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 14:57, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Gamergate (harassment campaign)

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Category:Fictional tonfajutsuka

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Nominator's rationale: WP:OVERLAPCAT. Most are already listed as ninja if necessary, so I don't think a dual merge is needed. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 05:42, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Fictional saijutsuka and jittejutsuka

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Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT. The members are all in some other related category, like ninja, stick-fighters or what have you. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 05:40, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Universities and colleges in Dąbrowa Górnicza

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Nominator's rationale: Single-article category with very little potential for expansion. Janhrach (talk) 11:32, 23 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: dual merge?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 04:24, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:1847 establishments in the Philippines

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Nominator's rationale: Per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 July 19#19th century in the Spanish East Indies, this should be likewise upmerged. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 02:10, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply

July 31

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Antisemitic political parties by country

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Nominator's rationale: There was an entire discussion held that forbid categorizing groups or people as antisemitic . The category description of Category:Antisemitism, of which this is a child category, in fact says "It must not include articles about individuals or groups that are allegedly antisemitic.". This is a MOS:LABEL issue and cannot be presented this way. PARAKANYAA (talk) 23:48, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Strong Keep These categories are limited to certain countries in Europe and the United States; they are not categories related to the controversial Middle Eastern anti-Zionist political parties. In particular, in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, "antisemitic political parties" were a type of political party. ProgramT (talk) 00:35, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
If we do not create only categories related to non-European, non-American parties, there is absolutely no reason to delete existing categories. ProgramT (talk) 00:39, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
(Note, this is the category creator). So what? Source? And why would that make it any better? The consensus is that the antisemitism tree "must not include articles about individuals or groups that are allegedly antisemitic", at all. It is a MOS:LABEL violation. PARAKANYAA (talk) 00:45, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
However, the concept of "antisemitic political parties" is more nuanced; rather than mere slanderous labeling, there were actually many political parties in 19th‑century Europe that directly referred to themselves as "antisemitic political party". ProgramT (talk) 00:56, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
1. Source? 2. That would not solve the issue. 3. That does not apply to the contents of these categories. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:14, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Source: Hermann Greive: Geschichte des modernen Antisemitismus in Deutschland. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1983, S. 70.
On the German Wikipedia page, there is an article titled de:Antisemitenparteien and a category named de:Kategorie:Antisemitische Partei. ProgramT (talk) 01:31, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Could you get a quote from that source?
That Wikipedia article is almost entirely unsourced and the claims that are sourced do not say what you are claiming. PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:20, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Furthermore, even before I created these categories, there were many instances where specific types of political parties were categorized based on discrimination (e.g., Category:Political parties with anti-Hungarian sentiment, Category:Anti-Romanyist parties in the Czech Republic, Category:Anti-Islam political parties, etc.). ProgramT (talk) 01:01, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Those are problematic too. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:15, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
However, I believe it is unfair that while there is almost no controversy regarding political party categories related to other forms of discrimination, deletion discussions are frequently held regarding categories associated with Jews and antisemitism. I, too, believe that anti-Zionism and antisemitism are distinct, and this category does not apply to articles that express hostility solely toward Israel, rather than toward ethnic Jews. ProgramT (talk) 01:37, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
I did not mention Zionism in this conversation. That is not the issue, the issue is MOS:LABEL and our longstanding consensus that the antisemitism tree "must not include articles about individuals or groups that are allegedly antisemitic", at all. There is no objective way to determine it ; why wouldn't we include anti-Zionist groups, by the scope this category is using? Feel free to suggest deletion for the other bias categories applying to groups or people - I will support the deletion noms. PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:21, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Scholars of ancient Greek history

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Nominator's rationale: WP:OVERLAPCAT and, unlike other Historians of Foo categories, the parent category is currently empty, with just subcats. Brandmeister talk 22:29, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Merge, looks like a very similar scope. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:42, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Comment: there are two possible issues with this proposal. One is that "historians of ancient Greece" sounds like it would mean the same thing as "ancient Greek historians", although its contents are modern historians and scholars. This would likely cause confusion over what articles should be included or excluded, and it would be a candidate for renaming to something less ambiguous. Secondly, not all of the persons in this category are identified as "historians". Some are scholars in other fields relating to ancient Greece, such as linguists, mythographers, classicists, etc. They fit loosely under the current category name, but would clearly be excluded under the proposed name. Is there any benefit to narrowing the scope of the category? Remember, the category name will tend to govern what is added to or removed from the category, rather than the intent of the persons involved in this discussion. P Aculeius (talk) 14:03, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply
If an article is not about a historian it should be in neither Category:Scholars of ancient Greek history nor Category:Historians of ancient Greece. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:03, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Not all notable scholars of history are historians. Some are antiquarians, linguists, philosophers, classicists, etc. Being a scholar of history does not make one a historian. P Aculeius (talk) 11:02, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply
Ok, then purge non-historians. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:00, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply
If you change both the name and scope of the category, you're creating a new category serving a different purpose from the existing one. Anyone is free to create a new category; what benefit is there to eliminating an existing category that serves another purpose? P Aculeius (talk) 16:38, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Gran Hermano (Spanish TV series) winners

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Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated categories. there is no need to slice up this category to have one or two people in it SMasonGarrison 18:48, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Ambassadors of Australia to Colombia

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Category:Stoke City L.F.C. players

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Nominator's rationale: Correct name of club as per Stoke City F.C. Women Add92 (talk) 18:01, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Ambassadors of Austrlia to San Marino

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Category:Ambassadors of Australia to Romania

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Category:Ambassadors of Australia to Zimbabwe

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Category:Businesspeople from Fargo, New Mexico

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: speedy delete. Per WP:G7. Epicgenius (talk) 17:37, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Nominator's rationale: Speedy deletion, I had a severe dyslexic moment. Gjb0zWxOb (talk) 16:24, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply
The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Academics by nationality

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Nominator's rationale: parents (Scholars and academics) have been combined per discussion. so this category should also be merged SMasonGarrison 12:35, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Health professionals from the District Municipality of Muskoka

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Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated category. upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 12:26, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Belgian drag performers by populated place

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Nominator's rationale: there are only two populated places in here, upmerge for now. the norm is that we have more than two. SMasonGarrison 12:17, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Establishment category Indian state tracking categories

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Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary tracking categories. BlasterOfHouses (HouseBlaster's alt • talk • he/they) 11:55, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Paintings in Gotha

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:54, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Tourism in Gotha

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:52, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Artists that declined XXL Freshmen

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Nominator's rationale: We don't need a category for the refusal of a particular magazine write-up. It's not important enough to these people who said no. It's not defining. They went on to become notable despite the refusal. Binksternet (talk) 05:59, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Support per nom. Good find. this definitely isn't defining. SMasonGarrison 12:23, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:1494 in the Spanish Empire

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Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated single-article category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:59, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Kingdom of Sardinia

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Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, mostly isolated one- or two-articles categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Merge to decades in the 1840s and 1850s. If there is consensus to merge to Europe instead of to Italy then by all means but I do not expert so considering previous discussions. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:23, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Schools in Kannur

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 03:13, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply

July 30

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Category:Railway stations in Gotha

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge as unhelpful for navigation; only two members. 1234qwer1234qwer4 22:34, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply
You mean merge to Category:Rail transport in Gotha and Category:Railway stations in Thuringia, right? Both are already in Category:Buildings and structures in Gotha (district). Οἶδα (talk) 22:44, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Books about white nationalism in the United States

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Nominator's rationale: With only a few articles in each category, and most of the books in the parent also focusing on white nationalism in the United States, and most of the articles in this category also focusing on white nationalism outside of the United States, I don't think it is worth making this separation on the book level. Too closely intertwined. PARAKANYAA (talk) 20:08, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Filipino Resistance activists

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Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:OVERLAPCAT, all articles but one are also in Category:People of the Philippine Revolution and there is no reason to keep these articles apart. The one exception is Aman Dangat, that article just does not fit together with the rest. There is also not an article Filipino Resistance. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:38, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Filipino independence activists

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Nominator's rationale: merge, largely overlapping categories. All five articles and the subcategory are about people of the Philippine Revolution and there is no reason to keep these specific articles apart. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:26, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Netherlands rock

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Nominator's rationale: Maybe could be speedied, but the parents are Rock music by country and Music of the Netherlands, and the core category is Rock music in the Netherlands. It should be either named Rock music of the Netherlands or Dutch rock music. SMasonGarrison 13:05, 17 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Category:Dutch rock music? Clear consensus for a rename.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 15:36, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Spanish colonial architecture

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Nominator's rationale: rename, the parent category and one sibling have "c" instead of "C", supposedly they all should have "c". It is not a case of WP:C2C, perhaps it is WP:C2A. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:05, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply
I would support the use of lower case in these examples relating to historic buildings, although "Spanish Colonial" does exist as a style.--Thoughtfortheday (talk) 13:14, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply
More pedantically, but with relevance to this discussion, the style is written in English Wikipedia as Spanish colonial architecture. I would therefore have allowed this set as WP:C2D, per Talk:Spanish_colonial_architecture#Requested_move_12_May_2026. – Fayenatic London 21:05, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Portal-Class Country music pages

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Nominator's rationale: Portal:Country music, the prime eligible page to belong to the first category, was deleted in 2019 per Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Country music. UnitedStatesian created this category in 2021, stating that they were recreating it, but I can't trace anything that ever populated it. – Fayenatic London 09:32, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply

19th century in Afghanistan

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Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, 6 categories for 3 articles, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:31, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Merge I have come to realize my attempt to create an intersection between country level entity and year of establishment to hold every article in any given year was misguided. I do not seem to have created this category, but did in the same time period create several other similar categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:59, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply
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Nominator's rationale: manually merge, these aren't articles about terminology as a subject, they rather are articles about subjects in canon law. Move articles to the root category if they aren't already somewhere else in the Canon law of the Catholic Church tree, and uncontainerize the parent category. There is one exception, article List of Catholic canon law legal abbreviations, which should be moved to Category:Catholic terminology too. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:23, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Ballets set during the Third Servile War

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Nominator's rationale: Category with only one entry, unlikely to expand. PatGallacher (talk) 01:28, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply

July 29

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Category:Alt-right politicians in Canada

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Nominator's rationale: 2 of the people in this category (Southern and Goldy) are clearly alt-right but are political commentators, not politicians. Goldy did attempt and fail to run for mayor so I suppose she could count but that is only 1 article, too small for such a specific subcategory. The other one, Fromm, is not described as alt-right, which is a specific 2010s movement and not synonymous with far right; he is straightforwardly a white supremacist. PARAKANYAA (talk) 19:33, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:American alt-right politicians

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Nominator's rationale: Not one of the 3 people in this category is described as alt-right in their articles. Alt-right refers to a specific 2010s movement and is not synonymous with far right. PARAKANYAA (talk) 19:30, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Christian terminology stubs

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Nominator's rationale: manually merge, redundant stub category, most articles are already in another Christianity stub category. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:25, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Kashmiri atheists

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Nominator's rationale: The other categories for athiests by ethnicity have more coverage. Jewish atheism has a lot of coverage. Arab atheism doesn't have that much coverage, and I'm fine with its deletion, but it does cover more people. HerrHeulsuse (talk) 16:38, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Transgender villains

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Nominator's rationale: Category violates WP:OCEGRS. The creator seems to have a long history of making trivial intersection categories, this may need some sort of attention. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 15:59, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Transgender characters in video games

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Nominator's rationale: Category violates WP:OCEGRS. The creator seems to have a long history of making trivial intersection categories, this may need some sort of attention. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 15:56, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Merge per nom, but please nominate sibling categories (e.g. Category:Bisexual characters in video games) too. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:37, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Keep. While the above "villains" category is too small and specific, this one is perfectly acceptable. The representation of transgenderism in different types of media is a typical study object in sociology and other science branches, and also a typical thing that gets reported upon. Something like the very broad "The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies" repeatedly refers to appearances in video games (e.g. in Tell Me Why (video game), but also Assassins Creed and Persona). Here, in "Crime, Punishment, and Video Games", is a lengthy discussion about the depiction of transgerder people in video games, and this book, "Queerness in Play" has a lot more detail about it, with e.g. a table of 97 transgender characters in 91 games, and discussion about the shifts in number and importance of characters over the years. Just a few of the many examples about this. This is an important topic, and very, very clearly a defining characteristic about these characters, and merging thiq to the more general categories is not herlpful or appropriate at all. Fram (talk) 08:09, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Keep per User:Fram. This category has enough articles for diffusion. The "Transgender villains" category can be merged for now until there are enough articles. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 16:09, 31 July 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Withdraw Based on the argument above, I've been convinced it is in fact defining as a category. I would withdraw the nomination, but it would be a supervote. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 11:42, 1 August 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Retro TV

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Nominator's rationale: This categories feels unnecessary as the articles with this category are only about Retro TV, no original shows, or other things. OWaunTon (talk) 12:34, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Publications

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Nominator's rationale: Continuation of , see there for an explanation of the problems with "publication" as a categorization scheme. In summary, publication has multiple different definitions which different categories are using inconsistently, such as including books in some but excluding in others, problematic as there are different categorization considerations for book and periodical literature, as referring to the business of publishing, or as a synonym for "mass media". Publication taken to be all inclusive of all types of media is redundant to the "mass media" category tree so that does not work either.

In this case, all of these categories are using publication to mean "periodical", so we should move it there. I did magazines for one because all of those were magazines. I also did one the opposite direction for books as everything in there is books. PARAKANYAA (talk) 10:01, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply

No objection from me.----3family6 (Talk to me|See what I have done) 10:08, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
When you inevitably rename them, do not continue linking them to Wikidata as most of the languages there refer specifically to *publications* and not *periodicals*. Create new items for them so we don't have to once again fix the mess on the Wikidata side or on other language Wikipedias. - Yupik (talk) 13:23, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
In addition, the previous batch needs to be decoupled from their Wikidata items and new wd items created. This is something you need to do each time you rename categories instead of leaving it to people on Wikidata and other language versions to fix. - Yupik (talk) 13:25, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply

19th-century publications

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant and extremely underpopulated categories, where populating would result in thousands of redundant categories, already handled by a plethora of better subcategories in the 2nd tree. The first ones' scopes are periodicals established in that century. Same as the second. Also more accurate, as periodicals are not individual works like books where there is one single time but they exist over a range and so are defined by starting and cessation dates. PARAKANYAA (talk) 09:35, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Tonlé Sap

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Nominator's rationale: Move per the main topic. Henrydat (talk) 07:41, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply

16th-19th century in Angola

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Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, mostly isolated one- or two-articles categories, this is not helpful for navigation. A second merge target is not necessary, the articles are already in an exact year in Africa. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:01, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Crimes in Asia by month

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Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, isolated categories, this is not helpful for navigation. The merge needs to happen manually because the articles may already be in another subcategory of the targets. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:59, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply

July 28

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Category:Works about raw foodism

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Nominator's rationale: Only contains one article. Could not find any others. (Oinkers42) (talk) 19:05, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Big City Greens characters

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Nominator's rationale: Only contains two articles. Should also be merged into Category:Disney Television Animation characters. (Oinkers42) (talk) 18:32, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Places in Hacienda de Mandaloyon

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Nominator's rationale: delete, none of the articles provide more information about the hacienda than the header of the category page already does. This should rather be converted to an article. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:47, 14 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, toby (t)(rw) 13:22, 21 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Attacks in the 1870s

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:54, 21 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 17:27, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Maltesian football club seasons by club

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Nominator's rationale: The demonym for Malta is Maltese, not "Maltesian". Bearcat (talk) 15:44, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Yet another

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Nominator's rationale: WP:SHAREDNAME. The contents here are computer software or utility packages which, by the geekazoid conventions of software development, have been named "Yet Another X" and/or "Yasomething" -- but per longstanding consensus, we don't categorize topics by characteristics of their names. Bearcat (talk) 15:06, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Delete categorization by shared name. John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:28, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Keep. Categorized subjects are directly related—most are software or otherwise computing-related, in this case—and I daresay their names are essentially "defining" (though I am not completely sure of the meaning of that wikijargon); for example, yacc and YARV per se define those tools as a compiler-compiler and a Ruby virtual machine, respectively. That category was created primarily because those related articles were mostly scattered about, with nothing linking them like that, and such a linking was needed in the Yet another article (see the See also section, then compare with what we had before). For more, see this discussion on that article's talkpage. ～ bytekast [talk • cont • logs] 16:07, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply
WP:SHAREDNAME, stating that we do not categorize topics by characteristics of their names, is an absolute rule and not an optional suggestion. Bearcat (talk) 16:08, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Okay, I know, and I was directly referencing that policy's page! I fully read it over before writing my reply. ～ bytekast [talk • cont • logs] 16:11, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply
I think you didn't even access the informational links I provided in the reply! You replied just so quickly. Hopefully other people will click on them and understand the full issue before deciding on anything. ～ bytekast [talk • cont • logs] 16:13, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply
It is a guideline, not even a policy, so no, this is far from an "absolute rule". Fram (talk) 08:01, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Agreed, guidelines can have exceptions and be re-evaluated if/when consensus shifts. RevelationDirect (talk) 22:20, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Haven't you just described exactly what categories are? The Rolling Stones and Nirvana (band) articles aren't about rock bands, they are mere examples. --Escape Orbit (Talk) 11:00, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Delete. Agree that this is better presented in a list. --Bsherr (talk) 01:07, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
    @Bsherr What would you say (or do) then about the issue discussed in the article's talkpage and raised by Escape Orbit? That 25-year-old stub needs improvements and expansion, yet having a complete list of examples in it is apparently a bad idea! So what else shall be done with those namewise related but otherwise scattered (and soon category-orphaned) articles? No good list can be had, no category either, and the YA/Ya prefix pages are way too broad (the category is much better for that purpose)… Every solution I tried has failed! I have no idea what else to do about this, so I'll just leave it for the community to sort it out by yourselves. ～ bytekast [talk • cont • logs] 01:26, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
    If the consensus at the article is that an open-ended list would make the article too long or be disproportionate within a summary style, you could create a stand-alone list. --Bsherr (talk) 01:55, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
    I am not sure whether one person agreeing and another disagreeing (but eventually complying after finding another solution) on an issue qualifies as consensus. (After all, it's just a duo!) In any case, a list article does sound like the most viable and sensible solution, all things considered so far. Thank you for the suggestion. ～ bytekast [talk • cont • logs] 02:15, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
    Indeed, that would not be a consensus. The hope is that, through further discussion, you might agree and thus form a consensus. Boldly creating a stand-alone list is another approach. --Bsherr (talk) 02:25, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
    In the mean time, you may want to copy the current category contents to one of our user pages for now. RevelationDirect (talk) 22:20, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
    For what it's worth, I don't see it as problematic to replace the "examples" with an open-ended list in the article, provided that when the software is known by an initialism, a source is cited for the definition of the initialism. Since the article is short, I don't think such a list would detract, and neither do I think a separate stand-alone list would be justified. So, to that extent, I disagree with User:Escape Orbit. Sorry you are getting the runaround but, based on the guidelines, a category isn't the solution. --Bsherr (talk) 02:05, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
My issue about the list in the article was not that the list would be opened ended, although that is not a desirable situation, but that it had an unexplained, very probably opinion based, split into two lists that performed exactly the same function within the article. Beyond that, I think there needs to be a clearer understanding of the purpose of the article. Is it to explain the naming used across a number of software projects, and beyond, or is it to attempt an exhaustive list of everything that uses it? The former seems like something that Wikipedia should and can do. It only needs examples, and we can safely assume that the reader gets the idea after the first ten. The latter seems like a futile exercise of little use or interest to anyone. Having a category seemed to me to be more apt, but having read WP:SHAREDNAME, perhaps not. I'm not overly concerned either way. --Escape Orbit (Talk) 11:00, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:People from Dong District, Incheon

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Nominator's rationale: Single entry grapesurgeon (talk) 15:05, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:People from Jung District, Incheon

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Nominator's rationale: single entry grapesurgeon (talk) 15:04, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Mamata Banerjee ministries

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Nominator's rationale: Do we really need this category? It has only 3 articles. Instead we can re-purpose it by renaming. I guess if we rename it to Category:Political career of Mamata Banerjee, then more article will be under it. Mehedi Abedin 00:09, 3 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 14:16, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Royal Navy Radar

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Nominator's rationale: not a proper name; in accordance with the parent Category:Naval radars. --Altenmann >talk 14:07, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Loyalist slave owners in the Thirteen Colonies

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Nominator's rationale: I don't think that this interseciton is defining. Maybe if this were a war about slavery, maybe... but I don't think that this case applies. SMasonGarrison 13:41, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Merge a non-defining intersection. I actually think if we are going to keep the slave owner cat, we should limit it to people who owned large numbers of slaves in a way that was economically impact, and exclude people who only owned 1 and maybe a few more slaves. Just how we do not include everyone who owns their house and the small plot of land it is on as a landowner.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:30, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Comment Patriot slave owning and Loyalist slave owning was a big deal during the time of the American Revolution, Wikipedia should keep that distinction intact with the ability to respectively find the information, somewhere in Wikipedia, in separation, with respect to the fact that it adds both historical value as well as encyclopedic value to Wikipedia. See for example Expulsion of the Loyalists, which said Loyalist slave owners took their illicit slave property north with them when they departed the colonies for Loyalist Canada, or the Philipsburg Proclamation, which allowed Loyalist slave owners to keep their "property". Merging this category would leave a bald spot, a blindness, for users seeking this information in an easily accessible way. It would be less encyclopedic to make the information harder to find. I think making information increasingly difficult to find violates what Wikipedia stands for. Progressingamerica (talk) 16:59, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Further note, if articles are not in a state subcategory of loyalists or a state subcategory of slave owners yet they should certainly be added manually. But a wholesale merge to the parent categories is inappropriate. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:15, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Harvard College Loyalists in the American Revolution

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Nominator's rationale: I don't think that this intersection is really defining. We don't have alumni by war in any other case that I can find. SMasonGarrison 13:40, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Fictional superhumans

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Nominator's rationale: I discovered a pretty major problem with this category, in that many superheroes, supervillains, and superpowered individuals are not actually human. It's better to get rid of this category than try to fully recategorize all its subcategories to split superhumans from superpowered non-humans. "Superhumans by ability" can be made to work by removing the "superhuman" requirement. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 09:12, 1 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Why not use superpower like Superpower (ability)? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:05, 1 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Precisely for the reason that article is disambiguated. "Superpower" can also mean a country, making it confusing. "Superpower" also tends to be more heavily associated with superhero comic books rather than fiction overall. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:12, 1 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Ambiguity is doubtful in this context, but we can use superpower (ability) if we must. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:39, 1 July 2026 (UTC)reply
"Superbeings" might work. "Supernatural" is not a reasonable word here, since many of these characters are mutants or scientific characters. Perhaps "Fictional characters by ability" would suffice. Mike Selinker (talk) 15:14, 1 July 2026 (UTC)reply
@Zxcvbnm: Why do you propose merging Category:Fictional superhumans instead of renaming it like the two lower subcategories? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:49, 1 July 2026 (UTC)reply
It's an unnecessary category layer and NARROWCAT, there is not even a need to rename it. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 22:50, 1 July 2026 (UTC)reply
With current contents, it would make more sense to upmerge Category:Fictional superhumans by ability to it. In that case, we don't lose the other four subcategories (Category:Lists of fictional superhumans, Category:Fictional super soldiers, Category:Superheroes, and Category:Supervillains). Or is your proposal because that the layer is too overlapping with other subcategories of Category:Speculative fiction characters? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:02, 8 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Charities based in Syria

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 06:08, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply

18th century in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata

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Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, isolated one-articles categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:19, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Fictional tessenjutsuka

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Nominator's rationale: Many characters in this category are miscategorized, like using normal fans rather than tessen, or just not being defined as a fan fighter. When those are removed, almost nothing remains and this would qualify as a WP:NARROWCAT. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 05:16, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply
  • Delete We need to avoid categorizing fictional characters just as a user of a weapon just because there is one scene in which he or she uses a that weapon. We should only categorize if use of that weapon is defining to the character. Mulan is not defined as a fan fighter. Most of the film she is using and practicing with other weapons. Weapons people pick up in one fight because of a lack of normal weapons do not become defining because of that.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:36, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Years of the 18th century in Ukraine

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Nominator's rationale: merge for now, only one article in the category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:13, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Alexandria basketball containers

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Nominator's rationale: All categories only contain 2026 Women's Basketball League Africa or other categories that contain it. Unhelpful for navigation, article already in other relevant categories. ScalarFactor (talk) 02:42, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Sky News Australia reporters and presenters

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Nominator's rationale: C2D after Sky News Australia rebranded as News24 (Australia). Xeronneis (talk) 01:46, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Article disambiguator has been changed per WP:NCBC, category should now instead be moved to Category:News24 (Australian TV channel) reporters and presenters. Happily888 (talk) 13:10, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply

Category:Sky News Australia

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Nominator's rationale: C2D after Sky News Australia rebranded as News24 (Australia). Xeronneis (talk) 01:44, 28 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Article disambiguator has been changed per WP:NCBC, category should now instead be moved to Category:News24 (Australian TV channel). Happily888 (talk) 13:11, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Obviously the category should match wherever the main article ends up. Not sure if it's stable yet though. - RevelationDirect (talk) 22:42, 29 July 2026 (UTC)reply
WP:NAMECHANGES will apply. Can't predict anything though. Οἶδα (talk) 03:21, 30 July 2026 (UTC)reply
Alt Rename Per Happily888 to match the current name. RevelationDirect (talk) 21:24, 2 August 2026 (UTC)reply

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