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Speedy renaming and merging
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New requests
[edit]- Category:Military Campaigns of the Second Boer War to Category:Campaigns of the Second Boer War – C2C: consistency with other "campaigns of" categories, i.e. "Campaigns of World War II", "Campaigns of the American Civil War", etc. XTheBedrockX (talk) 22:17, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Candidates for speedy deletion as unreviewed LLM-generated content to Category:Unambiguously LLM-generated content – C2B: Per Wikipedia talk:Speedy deletion#RfC: Updating G15 ("LLM-generated pages without human review"). SuperPianoMan9167 (talk) 20:35, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Poetry in Classical Chinese to Category:Classical Chinese poetry – C2D: per Classical Chinese poetry. Ham II (talk) 20:12, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Ningbo International Women's Tennis Open to Category:Ningbo International Tennis Open – C2D: To match the article title, Ningbo International Tennis Open. – numbermaniac 09:05, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Southern California Open to Category:San Diego Open (tennis) – C2D: To match the article title, San Diego Open (tennis). – numbermaniac 04:42, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:San Luis Potosí Challenger to Category:San Luis Open (tennis) – C2D: Matches article title, San Luis Open (tennis). – numbermaniac 04:38, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Taipei WTA Ladies Open to Category:Taipei Open – C2D: To match the article name, Taipei Open. – numbermaniac 04:34, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:MMTS stations in Hyderabad to Category:Hyderabad MMTS stations – C2D: name correction ~2026-44141-00 (talk) 03:25, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Xhosa-language books to Category:Xhosa-language novels – C2D: Per Novels by language's subcats - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 03:20, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Santali-language literature to Category:Santali language, Category:Literature by language, and Category:Indian literature by language – C2F: Upmerge; only article in here is the main one - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 03:20, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Trinidad, Bolivia to Category:Trinidad, Beni and Category:People from Trinidad, Bolivia to Category:People from Trinidad, Beni – Match with Trinidad, Beni Krisgabwoosh (talk) 00:38, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:People from Oruro, Bolivia to Category:People from Oruro – Match with Oruro. Krisgabwoosh (talk) 00:13, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Earls of Arran to Category:Earls of Arran (Scotland) – C2B: To distinguish it from the Irish category: Category:Earls of Arran (Ireland) Solidest (talk) 23:55, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:2016 Czech Senate election to Category:2016 elections in the Czech Republic and Category:Senate elections in the Czech Republic – C2F: Upmerge - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 23:28, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Ischnovalgus to Category:Valgini – C2F: Upmerge - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 23:10, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Acanthovalgus to Category:Valgini – C2F: Upmerge - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 23:08, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Platygeniini to Category:Cetoniinae – C2F: Upmerge - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 23:08, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Cryptodontini to Category:Cetoniinae – C2F: Upmerge - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 23:07, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Al-Hazem F.C. to Category:Al-Hazem FC - C2D, main article is named Al-Hazem FC. KibolLP (talk) 22:12, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Al-Hazem F.C. managers to Category:Al-Hazem FC managers - C2D, main article is named Al-Hazem FC. KibolLP (talk) 22:12, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Al-Hazem F.C. players to Category:Al-Hazem FC players - C2D, main article is named Al-Hazem FC. KibolLP (talk) 22:12, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Al-Hazem F.C. seasons to Category:Al-Hazem FC seasons - C2D, main article is named Al-Hazem FC. KibolLP (talk) 22:12, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:WikiProject Science pearls to Category:WikiProject Bibliographies Science task force – C2D, Wikipedia:WikiProject Bibliographies/Science task force was formerly known as WP:WikiProject Science pearls. It is necessary to use the long name including the WikiProject, as "Science task force" does not make clear that the scope is science bibliographies. If this is agreed as Speedy then I propose to move Category:WikiProject Science pearls articles and its sub-cats under WP:G6. – Fayenatic London 21:48, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Top Gun to Category:Top Gun (franchise) – C2D: Category is about the franchise, at Top Gun (franchise), rather than the individual movie Top Gun alone. – numbermaniac 17:11, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Paestum (ancient city) to Category:Paestum – C2D: Aligns with article name, Paestum. – numbermaniac 17:05, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:The Twilight Zone to Category:The Twilight Zone (franchise) – C2D: Covers The Twilight Zone (franchise) - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 14:00, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Israeli Security Forces to Category:Israeli security forces – C2D: Israeli security forces - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 13:55, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:2002 Gujarat riots to Category:2002 Gujarat violence – Per C2D — EarthDude (Talk) 12:01, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Colonial architecture in Chile to Category:Spanish colonial architecture in Chile – C2C within Category:Spanish colonial architecture by country. – Fayenatic London 10:10, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- REDIRECT Category:Oji-Cree to Category:Anisininew – C2D. Arctic Circle System (talk) 01:14, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:TBS Television (Japan) dramas to Category:Tokyo Broadcasting System Television dramas – C2D: To match with Tokyo Broadcasting System Television. SBF2004 (talk) 22:56, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:TBS Television (Japan) original programming to Category:Tokyo Broadcasting System Television original programming – C2D: To match with Tokyo Broadcasting System Television. SBF2004 (talk) 22:52, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Comment: wait a minute, can someone change it to a C2D? SBF2004 (talk) 22:54, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:2030 South Australian state election to Category:2030 elections in Australia – C2F. AusLondonder (talk) 16:06, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- @AusLondonder it should also be upmerged to the other three parent categories - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 19:31, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- I don't think it should be upmerged to Category:2020s in South Australia. The article is already in Category:Elections in South Australia and the only article in Category:March 2030 in Australia, which is dubious as there's no guarantee the election will take place in that month. AusLondonder (talk) 19:39, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- I've reparented the category from the erroneous 2020s category to Category:21st century in South Australia. I think that resolves the opposition re upmerging to all parents. The article is already held directly in the March 2030 category, so if that category is disputed then it should be nominated separately. – Fayenatic London 11:00, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- I don't think it should be upmerged to Category:2020s in South Australia. The article is already in Category:Elections in South Australia and the only article in Category:March 2030 in Australia, which is dubious as there's no guarantee the election will take place in that month. AusLondonder (talk) 19:39, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- @AusLondonder it should also be upmerged to the other three parent categories - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 19:31, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Opposed requests
[edit]- Category:Trichy railway division to Category:Tiruchirappalli railway division – C2D: name correction ~2026-43920-27 (talk) 10:20, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- OBJECT Source used in head article calls it Trichy. Head article should be moved. DuncanHill (talk) 10:23, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- IMHO the opposition is groundless; the head article in this category is Tiruchirappalli railway division, whose text and citations mainly say Tiruchirappalli rather than Trichy. The article has never been at Trichy railway division and there is not even a redirect at that name. If DuncanHill is referring to the city article Tiruchirappalli, both names are used in citations there, and the long name predominates in the article text. I would process the speedy rename as valid under C2C and C2D despite the oppose !vote. – Fayenatic London 11:10, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- @Fayenatic london: needs to read the very first reference in Tiruchirappalli railway division and then he needs to apologise. DuncanHill (talk) 15:21, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- OK, I apologise for not guessing which source you were referring to. That source is indeed first, but I trust you can forgive me as the title of that citation does not include any version of the name. There are other sources which call it Trichy in the citation title, but these are newspaper headlines, where the short name is clearly chosen for reasons of space. Other formal sources such as the map (currently citation 17) use Tiruchirappalli or Tiruchchirappalli (double ch). As the head article has long been at this name, I still think this qualifies for C2D, and even more clearly for C2C. – Fayenatic London 22:12, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Top tip - the important bits of a citation are in the text, not the title. Oh, and try looking at the article talk page if the name has been questioned - you'll often find useful comments there. DuncanHill (talk) 22:22, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- OK, I apologise for not guessing which source you were referring to. That source is indeed first, but I trust you can forgive me as the title of that citation does not include any version of the name. There are other sources which call it Trichy in the citation title, but these are newspaper headlines, where the short name is clearly chosen for reasons of space. Other formal sources such as the map (currently citation 17) use Tiruchirappalli or Tiruchchirappalli (double ch). As the head article has long been at this name, I still think this qualifies for C2D, and even more clearly for C2C. – Fayenatic London 22:12, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- @Fayenatic london: needs to read the very first reference in Tiruchirappalli railway division and then he needs to apologise. DuncanHill (talk) 15:21, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- IMHO the opposition is groundless; the head article in this category is Tiruchirappalli railway division, whose text and citations mainly say Tiruchirappalli rather than Trichy. The article has never been at Trichy railway division and there is not even a redirect at that name. If DuncanHill is referring to the city article Tiruchirappalli, both names are used in citations there, and the long name predominates in the article text. I would process the speedy rename as valid under C2C and C2D despite the oppose !vote. – Fayenatic London 11:10, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- @DuncanHill: you'd better start an RM nomination then. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:55, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- OBJECT Source used in head article calls it Trichy. Head article should be moved. DuncanHill (talk) 10:23, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Films directed by L. G. Ravichandran to Category:Films directed by L. G. Ravichandhar – C2D: The subject is L. G. Ravichandhar. Kailash29792 (talk) 00:38, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose Article recently moved; nom. needs to have a reference in order to qualify for CFDS.UnitedStatesian (talk) 01:00, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
On hold pending other discussion
[edit]- Category:Cultural institutions and organizations in Chicago to Category:Cultural institutions based in Chicago – C2C: parent is Cultural institutions and : Organizations based in Chicago SMasonGarrison 17:01, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
- Let's wait until this discussion closes. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:09, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
- Sounds good. :) SMasonGarrison 23:59, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- Let's wait until this discussion closes. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:09, 27 July 2026 (UTC)
- Category:500 BC to Category:500s BC and Category:Years of the 5th century BC – C2F: Upmerge - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 15:21, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
- @OpalYosutebito:
they should also be merged to the decade parent category.Marcocapelle (talk) 06:18, 5 July 2026 (UTC)- What do you mean? The decade parent category is 500s BC - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 13:51, 5 July 2026 (UTC)
- Were they already in the nomination? Then I must have been blind for a moment. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:24, 6 July 2026 (UTC)
- What do you mean? The decade parent category is 500s BC - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 13:51, 5 July 2026 (UTC)
- Category:419 BC to Category:410s BC and Category:Years of the 5th century BC
- Category:598 BC to Category:590s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:591 BC to Category:590s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:590 BC to Category:590s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:541 BC to Category:540s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:548 BC to Category:540s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:537 BC to Category:530s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:585 BC to Category:580s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:535 BC to Category:530s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:532 BC to Category:530s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:582 BC to Category:580s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:581 BC to Category:580s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:580 BC to Category:580s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:579 BC to Category:570s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:577 BC to Category:570s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:572 BC to Category:570s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:516 BC to Category:510s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:514 BC to Category:510s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:564 BC to Category:560s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:562 BC to Category:560s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:561 BC to Category:560s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:510 BC to Category:510s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:559 BC to Category:550s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:555 BC to Category:550s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:554 BC to Category:550s BC and Category:Years of the 6th century BC
- Category:501 BC to Category:500s BC and Category:Years of the 5th century BC
- COMMENT: A lot of these no longer qualify under C2F as they have more than one article. Those with more than one article should go to full CfD though. Grutness...wha? 13:29, 5 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Grutness: we never put biographies in year categories per WP:COPSEP. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:24, 6 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Marcocapelle: Categories for years are not mentioned in WP:COPSEP, nor in WP:CAAP, and I've frequently seen year categories on biographical articles where births and/or deaths are only marked by decade categories. In any case, not all of the articles are biographies. Grutness...wha? 06:48, 6 July 2026 (UTC)
- Ok, at least 535, 579, 500 and 419 are still a case of C2F. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:58, 6 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Marcocapelle: Categories for years are not mentioned in WP:COPSEP, nor in WP:CAAP, and I've frequently seen year categories on biographical articles where births and/or deaths are only marked by decade categories. In any case, not all of the articles are biographies. Grutness...wha? 06:48, 6 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Grutness: we never put biographies in year categories per WP:COPSEP. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:24, 6 July 2026 (UTC)
- COMMENT: A lot of these no longer qualify under C2F as they have more than one article. Those with more than one article should go to full CfD though. Grutness...wha? 13:29, 5 July 2026 (UTC)
- Meanwhile see this discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:49, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
- @OpalYosutebito:
Moved to full discussion
[edit]- Category:Homes of United States Founding Fathers to Category:Houses of the Founding Fathers of the United States – C2D: Per Category:Houses in the United States and Founding Fathers of the United States. User:Namiba 18:37, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Disagree, these are the homes, places where the lived. Some are houses, others are log cabins, others differ from those. Please leave this category be, thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 22:10, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Moved to full discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:00, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Disagree, these are the homes, places where the lived. Some are houses, others are log cabins, others differ from those. Please leave this category be, thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 22:10, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:12th-century maritime incidents to Category:Maritime incidents in the 12th century – C2C: Per subcats such as Maritime incidents in the 2000s. Please ping me if this should go the other way around... - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 19:50, 28 July 2026 (UTC)
- Wait a minute! There are parent categories such as 12th-century disasters that fit the categories I just edited. Should I move this to CFD? The centuries, decades, and years with maritime incidents should be harmonized somehow... - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 02:13, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
- @OpalYosutebito: you are right, better discuss this in full CfD. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:28, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- Category:15th-century maritime incidents to Category:Maritime incidents in the 15th century
- Category:16th-century maritime incidents to Category:Maritime incidents in the 16th century
- Category:17th-century maritime incidents to Category:Maritime incidents in the 17th century
- Category:18th-century maritime incidents to Category:Maritime incidents in the 18th century
- Category:19th-century maritime incidents to Category:Maritime incidents in the 19th century
- Category:20th-century maritime incidents to Category:Maritime incidents in the 20th century
- Category:21st-century maritime incidents to Category:Maritime incidents in the 21st century
- Moved to full discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:56, 5 August 2026 (UTC)
- Wait a minute! There are parent categories such as 12th-century disasters that fit the categories I just edited. Should I move this to CFD? The centuries, decades, and years with maritime incidents should be harmonized somehow... - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 02:13, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Mass killings by ideology to Category:Mass murder by ideology – C2C: parent is Mass murder SMasonGarrison 20:19, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison: It should be Category:Mass murders by ideology per the other subcategories of Category:Mass murder. Mclay1 (talk) 01:07, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
- Good catch. I wasn't sure if it should be plural or not. :) SMasonGarrison 01:10, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose rename: The rename is inappropriate for most of the mass killings on Wikipedia, "murder" is a specific crime, it does not include all killings. A very large proportion of mass killings on Wikipedia occurred in active war zones, most definitions of murder exclude warfare. Even if the victims are civilians, very few war crimes are classified as "murder", these crimes have other names. Murder is also usually a crime at the national or state level, so given the only current subcategories are "by regime" the killers are the same people who wrote the laws around murder, and would determine that their own actions are legal. Late Night Coffee (ping me) 04:37, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
- @LateNightCoffee: We don't have a main category for mass killings. Perhaps this should be renamed Category:Mass killings to broaden it, considering there are currently only two subcategories? Mclay1 (talk) 13:05, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
- @Mclay1 we should probably bring this to full.SMasonGarrison 13:54, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
- Full discussion here. Mclay1 (talk) 07:57, 7 May 2026 (UTC)
- @Mclay1 we should probably bring this to full.SMasonGarrison 13:54, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
- @LateNightCoffee: We don't have a main category for mass killings. Perhaps this should be renamed Category:Mass killings to broaden it, considering there are currently only two subcategories? Mclay1 (talk) 13:05, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison: It should be Category:Mass murders by ideology per the other subcategories of Category:Mass murder. Mclay1 (talk) 01:07, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Current discussions
[edit]August 13
[edit]NEW NOMINATIONS
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August 12
[edit]All categories for userboxes
[edit]The nominated categories are split into four lists for convenience:
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- Nominator's rationale:
The idea for this nomination was originally discussed at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#Rename all userbox categories. Quote of the relevant parts:
The subcategories of Category:Userboxes have been organized by topic of the user templates for a long time. The subcategories are mostly called "Foobar user templates" for topic "foobar", with occasional variations like "Foobar-related user templates". These categories are not called "Foobar userboxes" because sometimes they contain topical user namespace templates, which aren't userboxes. Examples: Template:WikiProject Animals topicon (part of Category:WikiProject user templates), Template:The Malta Barnstar (part of Category:Malta user templates).
Corresponding to the practice of mixing userboxes with non-userbox templates, the category header template {{Template category}} treats parameters
|type=userand|type=userboxas synonyms (since Special:Diff/1039882654), outputting textThe pages listed in this category are meant to be user templates, including userboxes.This makes Category:Userboxes to be very confusing in itself. It is called "Userboxes", but almost none of the subcategories in its tree have the word "userboxes" in the name (this search shows 17 examples). Category:Userboxes contains userboxes, but also a random assortment of user namespace templates not related to the template {{Userbox}}.
I propose a plan for a big renaming of the subcategories of Category:Userboxes:
- Through one giant CfD nomination, rename all template categories with
|type=useror|type=userboxfrom "Foobar user templates" to "Foobar userboxes" or equivalent, depending on the naming scheme.
- This will inevitably cause miscategorization for topical templates which aren't userboxes. We'll live with it for a bit until the new category structure is established.
- One good example of a local naming scheme are subcategories of Language user templates, which are named "User templates ISO language code".
- Update template {{Template category}} to support two separate values
|type=userboxand|type=user. The wording will be something like:
|type=userboxes:The pages listed in this category are meant to be userboxes|type=user:The pages listed in this category are meant to be user templates, including award templates, top icons, userboxes etc.- Replace
|type=userwith|type=userboxin the renamed categories.- After the renaming, create a new structure under Category:User namespace templates. That way, all non-userbox templates can be grouped together with similarly themed userbox templates. This new structure doesn't need to be deep at the start of the process. Just the standard 10 topical categories (same as in Category:Wikipedia templates by topic) + Category:Wikipedia-related user templates would be enough for the purposes of this plan.
- Move miscategorized non-userbox templates from userbox-specific categories into the new category tree. At this step, the miscategorized templates can be found using WP:QUARRY requests and using WhatLinksHere, like Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Top icon.
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The userboxes are an overwhelming majority of the user namespace templates. Splitting the userboxes from the rest will be similar to how Navigational boxes are split from the rest of templates (mostly in the realm of topical templates).
Some of the proposed nominations are reversing a previous CfD discussion, e.g. Category:DYK userboxes – Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 April 17#Category:DYK user templates.
The following lists of category pages that are excluded from this nomination, that might be useful to keep in mind for this nomination:
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I tried to include all relevant categories in this nomination. Please do let me know if I missed any. —andrybak (talk) 21:57, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Here are two previous CfD nominations from 18-20 years ago that were mentioned at WP:VPI. They seem to be the source for the current convention of "Foobar user templates":
- —andrybak (talk) 22:46, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support By now, this is the established terminology. It would also be consistent with sorting non-userbox user templates elsewhere. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:15, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Critics of Israel by religion
[edit]- Propose deleting Category:Christian critics of Israel, Category:Muslim critics of Israel
- Nominator's rationale:
- WP:CATDEFINE: Categorization must be based on defining characteristics. Religion is not a defining characteristic of political opposition to a state unless that religious identity is the explicitly stated, primary motivation for that opposition, as established by reliable secondary sources.
- WP:NOR: Populating these categories requires editors to synthesize an individual's religion and their political stance. This constitutes original research/synthesis by implying a causal link ("These people are critics because they are [Religion]") that is not supported by secondary sources.
- WP:OVERCAT: These categories are currently tagged as Template:Non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Anti-Zionists. As they do not diffuse the parent category and offer no unique navigational utility, they are redundant and serve only as associative "tags."
- WP:BLPCAT: Categorizing living persons by intersecting sensitive identity markers (religion) with political controversies is discouraged. The label "critic" is imprecise, lacks a clear inclusion criterion, and risks misrepresenting subjects.
Recommendation: Delete these categories. The existing parent category, Category:Anti-Zionists, is the appropriate and sufficient venue for grouping these subjects based on their documented political activities. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Biosketch (talk • contribs) 17:21, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per WP:OPINIONCAT, the subjects of the articles in these categories are not primarily known as anti-Zionists. The politics of Israel is just one of many topics that they have an opinion about. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:47, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
- delete per above --Lenticel (talk) 00:07, 24 June 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Closure withdrawn; what was in this category?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:40, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
- Comment Some editor programmed the JJMC89 bot to empty the two categories mentioned at the top of this nomination even though this discssion was never closed. This should never had been done and those edits should be reverted and then I'll untag the two categories mentioned. Biosketch, you never tagged these two categories with a CFD notice and I'm sure you didn't notify the category creators. Did you follow the CFD instructions?
- Really, all actions that occurred outside of the comments on this discussion page should be undone, this nomination should be withdrawn and a proper CFD discussion set up. And as I said, some editor also used JJMC89 bot to carry their own personal feelings about how this discussion should be closed before consensus was reached. I think that action is worth a block for using JJMC89 bot to carry out their own personal editing tasks. Liz Read! Talk! 07:04, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
- All cleaned up. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:07, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
- Liz, apologies for the oversight (wasn't using Twinkle for this one). I will handle properly from now. —Biosketch (talk) 13:06, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
- Delete Despite the procedural irregularities and obviously LLM-generated nomination, this is a clear-cut WP:OPINIONCAT. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:08, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
- Including obvious errors, such as misinterpreting the purpose of {{Non-diffusing subcategory}} and WP:SYNTH. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:10, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
- It is also WP:OCEGRS, since religious identity has nothing to do with criticism of Israel. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:11, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
- Delete - Saw this category and was surprised at its existence. It suggests that religion is the basis for criticism of Israel, which is to say antisemitism. That can be Weaponization of antisemitism. WP:OPINIONCAT O3000, Ret. (talk) 10:01, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep. I created these cateogires as they balance with Category:Anti-Zionist Jews. Why should "anti-zionists jews" have a cateogry and "christians" or "muslims" don't? Guz13 (talk) 15:11, 5 July 2026 (UTC)
- Zionism is a Jewish movement, hence balancing is not needed. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:08, 5 July 2026 (UTC)
- Zionism isn't only a Jewish movement. There have been many groups througout history who wanted and helped the Jews to return to Israel and Jerusalem.
- The other reason I created this was due to this category: Category:Muslim supporters of Israel. The category "Muslim critics of Israel" is the balance. Guz13 (talk) 04:14, 9 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep or move to Category:Christian anti-Zionists/Category:Muslim anti-Zionists. I think the problem stems more from the title than from the existence of the category itself. It is possible to criticize Zionism from a religious perspective, and even if it is not explicitly stated that the perspective is religious, elements of faith can influence criticism of Zionism. ProgramT (talk) 07:44, 7 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep I don’t see how WP:OPINIONCAT applies here. Having said categories help readers find individuals that fall into two independent characteristics- religion and being a critical of Israel (of course only if the info is well-sourced). These categories don't necessarily assume or imply that someone’s religion is the reason for their critical view, but that both characteristics are based. Also, I think that the fact that Wikipedia already has similar intersectional categories (Anti-Zionist Jews and Christian Zionists) points to their relevance and value. ScottyNolan (talk) 12:20, 7 July 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom:NesserWiki (talk) 22:35, 26 July 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Literature in Sardinian language
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Literature in Sardinian language (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Sardinian literature
- Nominator's rationale: I fail to see the difference between Literature in Sardinian language and Sardinian literature, so it's best to upmerge the former into the latter... - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 03:18, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Comment This is just one of many such categories. As I was saying at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_June_18#Books by writer nationality, it is worth noting the wide variety that exists between "[Nationality] literature" articles in the mainspace. They often present very different definitions and are often ambiguous by saying "[Nationality] literature" can refer to either all literature in [X] language, literature produced in [X] country, or produced by [X] nationals or in other countries or languages. That inherent ambiguity is interesting at the article level and problematic/inconsistent at the category level. Οἶδα (talk) 05:00, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge, the poems in the subcategory are not necessarily in Sardinian language, they could be in Italian language instead. I have added each of these articles to Category:Sardinian language though. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:27, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Keep, the Sardinian literature cat is the broader one, including the works (in the subcat "literature in Sardinian language") but also the writers (who should perhps be grouped in a subcat as well) and more general articles. The difference between the parent cat and the subcat is thus quite clear. Fram (talk) 08:20, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Comment: Category:Literature in Sardinian language should be moved to Category:Sardinian-language literature if it's kept, in line with a majority of equivalent subcategories of Category:Literature by language. Ham II (talk) 19:14, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Films about Nazis
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Films about Nazis to Category:Films about Nazism
- Nominator's rationale: As with category Category:Films about neo-Nazis, there is no distinction between what is supposed to go into one category and what is supposed to go in the other. The child category is not any more focused on individual people. PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:09, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support. I suppose the argument is that "about Nazism" means a particular focus on ideology, whereas "about Nazis" means a focus on characters who happen to be Nazis. But in practice, there's no distinction between what is supposed to go into one category and what is supposed to go in the other, per nom. I found a relevant CfD from 2011 where Films about communists was merged into Films about communism: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2011_December_30#Category:Films about communists. Relevant comment from The Bushranger: "
We shouldn't be categorising "films about communists" - it's nebulously defined. It's entirely possible to have a film about somebody who was a communist, with the film itself having nothing significant about communism in it at all. Films about communism, however is a very defining feature of said films, and the films about communists, in which their communist affiliation is the point of the film, are, indeed, films about communism.
" Indeed. Οἶδα (talk) 05:17, 12 August 2026 (UTC) - Merge, too much overlap. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:33, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
August 11
[edit]Category:Medieval Serbian codices
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Medieval Serbian codices to Category:Medieval Serbian literature
- 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)
- Just delete, duplicate of Category:Serbian manuscripts. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:24, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Totally oppose, keep and leave it as it is, Category:Medieval Serbian codices refers specifically to codices produced in medieval Serbia. In contrast, Category:Medieval Serbian literature covers Serbian manuscripts generally, including works that are not codices. The distinction is therefore precise and meaningful, rather than redundant. --Palatinosunriser (talk) 20:59, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
- Please review how categorization works. This distinction isn't defining. SMasonGarrison 00:54, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- I reviewed, and I am sure this distinction is defining.--Palatinosunriser (talk) 00:56, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- How is this defining, given that we dont even have a Codices tree ? SMasonGarrison 00:58, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Miroslav Gospels, Vukan Gospels, Zakonopravilo, etc are Serbian Medieval Codices, while Karyes Typikon and others are not Codices, but charters/manuscripts. It is necessary and important to have this distinguishing definition. --Palatinosunriser (talk) 03:36, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- How is this defining, given that we dont even have a Codices tree ? SMasonGarrison 00:58, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- I reviewed, and I am sure this distinction is defining.--Palatinosunriser (talk) 00:56, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Please review how categorization works. This distinction isn't defining. SMasonGarrison 00:54, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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- Note that the issue of duplication has not been rebuked. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:35, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role winners
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Seems to be a duplicate? It was probably best to simply rename the category with the older history. Solidest (talk) 23:45, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Background The SAG Awards were renamed with the merger of the sponsoring organization into SAG-AFTRA. The main article, Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role as well as the overall article, Actor Awards, were boldly moved earlier this year.- RevelationDirect (talk) 02:06, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Reverse Merge (Leaving Redirect) Ideally the categories would be nominated together but, since we just have the one, it makes sene to go with the current name and leave a redirect. (If the consensus is to merge as nominated, again, I'd urge keeping the redirect.) I just tagged the target category with this discussion. - RevelationDirect (talk) 02:08, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- I'd prefer we delete Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role winners and move the longstanding Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Screen Actors Guild Award winners as the nominator suggested. Because the first category was only created in March of this year and the user who created it tried to redirect the older category into it instead of nominating it for renaming as is standard practice. Οἶδα (talk) 04:03, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- I have since reverted their edits on the basis that they had attempted to manually rename the category by emptying it and moving all articles to the newly-created category name. The old category only avoided deletion because Betty Logan reverted their edit to Julie Christie, so it wasn't empty. So in advance to those involved in deleting empty categories: yes I emptied the category. Emptying a category that was populated by way of emptying another category is not the same act. Οἶδα (talk) 04:50, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- The process here was definitely imperfect. Ideally the main article, Actor Awards, would have been renamed in a formal WP:RM and then we'd rename these as a group. RevelationDirect (talk) 12:21, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- I have since reverted their edits on the basis that they had attempted to manually rename the category by emptying it and moving all articles to the newly-created category name. The old category only avoided deletion because Betty Logan reverted their edit to Julie Christie, so it wasn't empty. So in advance to those involved in deleting empty categories: yes I emptied the category. Emptying a category that was populated by way of emptying another category is not the same act. Οἶδα (talk) 04:50, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- I'd prefer we delete Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role winners and move the longstanding Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Screen Actors Guild Award winners as the nominator suggested. Because the first category was only created in March of this year and the user who created it tried to redirect the older category into it instead of nominating it for renaming as is standard practice. Οἶδα (talk) 04:03, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Speedy delete Category:Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role winners. If someone wants to rename the old category to that name then that should be done by nominating all of the subcats at Category:Screen Actors Guild Award winners because this one female actor category is not unique. Though that should probably occur after Category:Screen Actors Guild Awards is renamed. Assuming it will be. Οἶδα (talk) 04:54, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:The Simpsons pinball machines
[edit]- Propose merging Category:The Simpsons pinball machines to Category:Games based on The Simpsons
- Nominator's rationale: Only contains two articles. Should also be merged into Category:Pinball machines based on television series. (Oinkers42) (talk) 19:53, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Dual merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:15, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Dual merge per above. Οἶδα (talk) 03:48, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Dual merge Not only are there only two articles in the category there are no other potential articles that could be created. Wilbers (talk) 10:45, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Levante UD footballers
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Levante UD footballers to Category:Levante UD players
- Nominator's rationale: A "Footballers" category would be better for a multi sport club like Barcelona or Real Madrid, though ironically both clubs categorise their footballers as just "players". Levante appears to be only a football club and there is no ambiguity what its players are playing. Subcategories of Category:Men's footballers in Spain by club look about 80% "players" - may be a case for a bigger discussion. Unknown Temptation (talk) 19:49, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page discussions. GiantSnowman 18:44, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- 'Support per nom. If the article is about the football club, then 'players' will suffice, even for a multi-sport club. GiantSnowman 18:46, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:People from Ain Kfar Zabad
[edit]- Propose merging Category:People from Ain Kfar Zabad to Category:People from Zahlé District
- Nominator's rationale: Only one subject in the category, and the village does not seem big/notable enough to warrant a separate People category. Nehme1499 (talk) 18:44, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom, or just delete because in the article nothing is mentioned about this village in Lebanon except as the place of birth in the infobox. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:18, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Loud (electronic music act) albums
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: I have merged the one member of this category for lack of notability. UltrasonicMadness (talk) 18:42, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Presumably the category can be merged to multiple albums parent categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:20, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:WTA Tour tournaments by season templates
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: "templates" to "navigational boxes" in line with Category:ATP Tour tournaments by season navigational boxes. 8rz (talk) 18:01, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:ATP Tour tournaments by season navigational boxes
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: "navigational boxes" to "templates" in line with Category:WTA Tour tournaments by season templates. ATP & WTA represent male and female tennis associations. 8rz (talk) 03:38, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- I'm wondering if it should be the other way around. Looking at Category:Men's tennis tour tournaments by season navigational boxes, all 3 subcategories use "navigational boxes" rather than "templates". On the WTA side, Category:WTA Tour tournaments navigational boxes also uses "navigational boxes" instead of "templates". Perhaps it's the Category:WTA Tour tournaments by season templates category that needs to be renamed instead? – numbermaniac 16:58, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Will fix the request. Close this one as keep. 8rz (talk) 17:59, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Fixed See § Category:WTA Tour tournaments by season templates 8rz (talk) 18:10, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Shouldn't this be the other way round? Most of the other pages I found perusing the parent category Category:Sports navigational boxes by sport use "navigational boxes". Iffy★Chat -- 16:59, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:January 2021 in Venezuela
[edit]- Propose merging Category:October 2021 in Venezuela to Category:2021 in Venezuela and Category:October 2021 in South America
- Propose merging Category:November 2021 in Venezuela to Category:2021 in Venezuela and Category:November 2021 in South America
- Propose deleting Category:January 2021 in Venezuela
- Propose deleting Category:2021 in Venezuela by month
- Nominator's rationale: Each of these categories only has 1 article. I don't think we need to diffuse by month here, the year should be sufficient. (Jan 2021 doesn't need an upmerge, because the article is already in subcategories Category:2021 crimes in Venezuela and Category:January 2021 crimes in South America). – numbermaniac 16:48, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Why not start the nomination in 2018? This looks very random. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:22, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- I hadn't seen the other years. I can do that in a future nomination here. – numbermaniac 04:24, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Ok, in that case support. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:38, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- I hadn't seen the other years. I can do that in a future nomination here. – numbermaniac 04:24, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Homes of United States Founding Fathers
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: A declined speedy. Category:Homes is a redirect to Category:Housing. United States Founding Fathers redirects to Founding Fathers of the United States. User:Namiba 14:14, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose, "homes" is appropriately named as some founders lived in cabins or other residences rather than actual houses. Nothing wrong with this correctly named category. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:51, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Rename I think house is a better word. That is the best word to describe actual buildings. No, I am not convinced that anything mentioned above does not fall under house. House is a broad term and it can include any place that people use as a residence.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:21, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- For what it is worth, this is a subcategory of Category:Historic house museums in the United States, also using the word "house". Marcocapelle (talk) 20:25, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Category:Presidential homes in the United States also correctly uses 'homes'. 'Homes' defines living arrangements regardless of the type of buildings. Nothing broken here. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:03, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Coastal Television
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Coastal Television to Category:Coastal Television Broadcasting Company
- Nominator's rationale: Better suited name, also, there's four radio stations, and just "Coastal Television" would indicate it's only TV stations, while the full name fits more with that. OWaunTon (talk) 11:35, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Rename per WP:C2D, this could have been listed at speedy. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:28, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Rename per main article. - RevelationDirect (talk) 02:00, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Works about animals playing sports
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Works about animals playing sports to Category:Animals in sport and Category:Works about sports
- Propose merging Category:Films about animals playing sports to Category:Films about animals and Category:Sports films
- Nominator's rationale: None of these are animals "playing" sports, miscategorization. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 11:03, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- How do you mean? Something like Air Bud seems to be abou an animal playing sports, no? Fram (talk) 08:11, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- "Playing" sports implies the animal can understand they are participating in a game, as opposed to just being "in" the game.
- I suppose it could instead be renamed "Category:Sports films about animals" to assuage this concern, since it does not imply anything about how the animal thinks. Category:Works about animals playing sports should still be merged as a WP:NARROWCAT, with most of its categories being miscategorized. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 10:28, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Again, how is e.g. Air Bud not about an animal playing sports? It's fiction, you know, real animals can not understand this (although even then it is usually said that they play fetch and so on), but in fiction this is no issue. How is Bonzo Goes to College not a film about an animal playing sports? Why would Hockey Homicide or The Olympic Champ not be a work about animals playing sports? Fram (talk) 11:25, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- How do you mean? Something like Air Bud seems to be abou an animal playing sports, no? Fram (talk) 08:11, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:History of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:History of the Massachusetts Bay Colony to Category:Massachusetts Bay Colony
- Nominator's rationale: rename, "history of" is redundant because everything about the Massachusetts Bay Colony is history. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:45, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Nysa asteroids
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Nysa asteroids to Category:Nysa–Polana complex
- Nominator's rationale: "Nysa asteroid" is an obsolete term for an asteroid belonging to the group now known as the Nysa–Polana complex. See 44 Nysa and the aforementioned article for an explanation on why "Nysa" is an inaccurate term. I'd say this is an umambiguous move, but I wanted to bring this for discussion because I want someone to systematically change all articles under this category once it gets renamed. Nrco0e (talk • contribs) 06:35, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support the Nysa-Polana complex is the proper and more accurate terminology and renaming it also makes it keep consistent with its respective articles too - anonymsiy.user - (talk) 09:49, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Caribbean islands of Mexico
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer Arctic Circle System (talk) 06:30, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:22, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Burmese meteorologists
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Burmese meteorologists to Category:Meteorologists and Category:Burmese scientists
- Propose merging Category:Carniolan meteorologists to Category:Meteorologists and Category:Carniolan scientists
- Propose merging Category:Emirati meteorologists to Category:Meteorologists and Category:Emirati scientists
- Propose merging Category:Hungarian meteorologists to Category:Meteorologists and Category:Hungarian scientists
- Propose merging Category:Iraqi meteorologists to Category:Meteorologists and Category:Iraqi scientists
- Propose merging Category:Israeli meteorologists to Category:Meteorologists and Category:Israeli scientists
- Propose merging Category:Malawian meteorologists to Category:Meteorologists and Category:Malawian scientists
- Propose merging Category:Thai meteorologists to Category:Meteorologists and Category:Thai scientists
- Propose merging Category:Uruguayan meteorologists to Category:Meteorologists and Category:Uruguayan scientists
- Propose merging Category:Thai meteorologists to Category:Meteorologists and Category:Thai scientists
- Propose merging Category:Vanuatuan meteorologists to Category:Meteorologists
- Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 06:09, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:24, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge far too narrow of categories to aid navigation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:22, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Works featuring anthropomorphic animals
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: WP:OVERLAPCAT as overlapping, except in cases where it is not defining. All subcategories should also be renamed "about" in similar fashion, though many of them are clearly WP:NARROWCATs. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 04:48, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom and rename the subcategories, stressing that it needs to be a defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:36, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Support We should be categorizing by key feature. I will agree that many of the sub-cats here are fairly narrow. A lot of this was created by clearing works of fiction out of the characters tree where they had in many cases been put. This is probably still a problem. We need to make sure to not categorize article on works of fiction as if they were articles on characters.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:26, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Οἶδα (talk) 18:45, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Manx grammar
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT Arctic Circle System (talk) 04:44, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per WP:C2F, this could have been listed at speedy. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:38, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Fiction about creatures
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Fiction about creatures to Category:Fiction about animals
- Nominator's rationale: Kind of a vague and redundant category layer. Category:Fiction about cryptids should instead be in Category:Fiction about animals. Category:Xenofiction and Category:Legendary creatures in popular culture purged outright. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 04:34, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose this way, "creatures" is also uses for fictional types of characters that do not fit biology, like gnomes and giants. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:41, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- But not just "creatures" alone, right? That is under legendary creatures. The category is also Category:Legendary creatures. Then there's Category:Mythological creatures. But the only unqualified (meaning where "creatures" is not qualified as "legendary" or similar) categories I can find are Children's books about fictional creatures and Category:Wind creatures. Οἶδα (talk) 05:53, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- You are right, so I am okay with the merge if the legendary subcat is not included in the merge operation (i.e. manually merge). By the way I am surprised we do not have Category:Fictional creatures. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:18, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- But not just "creatures" alone, right? That is under legendary creatures. The category is also Category:Legendary creatures. Then there's Category:Mythological creatures. But the only unqualified (meaning where "creatures" is not qualified as "legendary" or similar) categories I can find are Children's books about fictional creatures and Category:Wind creatures. Οἶδα (talk) 05:53, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Schools in Alipurduar district
[edit]- Propose
mergingdeleting Category:Schools in Alipurduar districtto Category:Schools in West Bengal
- Propose
- Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 03:18, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Just delete, the article is already in Category:High schools and secondary schools in West Bengal. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:44, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Agree and have changed nomination. LibStar (talk) 05:49, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Mass media in Cuba by city
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary layer with only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 02:49, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge instead of delete, to Category:Mass media in Cuba and Category:Mass media by city. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:46, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Agree with merge suggested above LibStar (talk) 05:50, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:18th-century Irish women journalists
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Already in Category:18th-century Irish journalists. LibStar (talk) 02:37, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge instead of delete, to Category:18th-century women journalists and Category:Irish women journalists. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:48, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Agree with merge suggested above. LibStar (talk) 05:50, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Self-identification as Métis
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer. Arctic Circle System (talk) 02:10, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:51, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
August 10
[edit]Category:Alpa Yachts
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer Arctic Circle System (talk) 23:59, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Many siblings may be nominated too. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:53, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Australian diaspora in Malaysia
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer. Arctic Circle System (talk) 23:58, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:New Zealand diaspora in Malaysia
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer Arctic Circle System (talk) 23:58, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom, or possibly merge to Category:Australia–Malaysia relations but I am not sure if the subcategory really belongs there. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:55, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- I'm always confused about relations categories on diaspora categories and articles. Is it not meant for political relations? Is there any guideance on this? Arctic Circle System (talk) 06:33, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Cultural depictions
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Cultural depictions to Category:Cultural depictions by topic
- Nominator's rationale: It's a container category, so the title should not be open-ended. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 20:19, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose, container categories do not have to be "by" something. On the contrary, categories do not even have to be tagged as a container category when they are "by" something because then the containerization takes place naturally. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:58, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:African-American people by state or territory
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT, no other such diffusion at Category:African-American people Gjs238 (talk) 13:19, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose until the tree is further examined. This cat and its sole subcat duplicates Category:African Americans by state, which was created in 2013 and is in a separate place in the Category:African-American society tree. This creation appears to be an attempt to conform to prevailing consensus for a naming convention favoring "state or territory" over "state" (a lot of meaningless busy work which doesn't move the encyclopedia forward IMO, but I'm not going to argue with that consensus). Creating messy categorization without addressing existing categorization is the sort of half-measures the category's creator is famous for. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 16:50, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Oppose This is distinct from Category:African Americans by state. That is atopic category, it contains articles where that is the subject. This is an article for biographies of African-Americans sorted by the state where they were resident. We have lots of other categories that sort people, in some cases by ethnicity and by state. This is a sub-cat of the African Americans by state specifically to have only biographical articles. In general we have seperate categories for biographies and non-biographies.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:36, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Deletebut NARROWCAT is the wrong reason to nominate this. There are likely hundreds of articles which might fit in this category. This category and those associated with it should be deleted because simply residing in a state and being African-American is a trivial intersection. Being involved in the politics of a state is a non-trivial intersection but simply residence and ethnicity is trivial.--User:Namiba 18:08, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per Namiba, if and only if the subcategories are nominated too. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:01, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Are you going to go after Category:Native American people in the United States by state for the same reasons?John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:49, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- No, because there are many Native American ethnic groups. African Americans are often considered a single ethnic group. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:20, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Are you going to go after Category:Native American people in the United States by state for the same reasons?John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:49, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
- Keep Reasonable diffusion of biographies in a very large ethnic group. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:22, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Question: Just to clarify, what is the difference between Category:African-American people by state or territory and Category:African Americans by state? Gjs238 (talk) 23:36, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Self-answer: To use California as an example, I see there is parent Category:African Americans in California and children Category:African-American history of California, Category:African-American people in California and Category:African-American museums in California. Nation-wide, the child categories are going to need quite a bit of diffusion. Gjs238 (talk) 23:50, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
- Question: Just to clarify, what is the difference between Category:African-American people by state or territory and Category:African Americans by state? Gjs238 (talk) 23:36, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Schools in Vadodara
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: empty category. all the schools under the category have been deleted after XFD Coderzombie (talk) 10:54, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete: db-catempty, C1. Unpopulated categories Gjs238 (talk) 14:33, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Consider tagging empty categories CSD C1 in the future. Liz Read! Talk! 17:04, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Serbian endocrinologists
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 06:28, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Dual merge: Category:Endocrinologists and Category:Serbian medical doctors Gjs238 (talk) 14:35, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Dual merge per Gjs238. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:02, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
20th century in Andorra
[edit]- Propose merging Category:1930 establishments in Andorra to Category:1930s establishments in Andorra and Category:1930 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1933 in Andorra to Category:1930s in Andorra and Category:1933 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1934 in Andorra to Category:1930s in Andorra and Category:1934 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1934 establishments in Andorra to Category:1930s establishments in Andorra and Category:1934 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1939 establishments in Andorra to Category:1930s establishments in Andorra and Category:1939 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1942 establishments in Andorra to Category:1940s establishments in Andorra and Category:1942 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1950 establishments in Andorra to Category:1950s establishments in Andorra and Category:1950 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1955 in Andorra to Category:1950s in Andorra and Category:1955 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1957 establishments in Andorra to Category:1950s establishments in Andorra and Category:1957 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1961 establishments in Andorra to Category:1960s establishments in Andorra and Category:1961 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1965 establishments in Andorra to Category:1960s establishments in Andorra and Category:1965 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1967 in Andorra to Category:1960s in Andorra and Category:1967 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1969 in Andorra to Category:1960s in Andorra and Category:1969 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1969 establishments in Andorra to Category:1960s establishments in Andorra and Category:1969 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1970 establishments in Andorra to Category:1970s establishments in Andorra and Category:1970 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1971 in Andorra to Category:1970s in Andorra and Category:1971 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1971 establishments in Andorra to Category:1970s establishments in Andorra and Category:1971 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1972 establishments in Andorra to Category:1970s establishments in Andorra and Category:1972 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1973 in Andorra to Category:1970s in Andorra and Category:1973 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1975 in Andorra to Category:1970s in Andorra and Category:1975 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1975 establishments in Andorra to Category:1970s establishments in Andorra and Category:1975 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1976 in Andorra to Category:1970s in Andorra and Category:1976 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1977 in Andorra to Category:1970s in Andorra and Category:1977 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1978 in Andorra to Category:1970s in Andorra and Category:1978 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1978 establishments in Andorra to Category:1970s establishments in Andorra and Category:1978 establishments in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1979 in Andorra to Category:1970s in Andorra and Category:1979 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:1979 establishments in Andorra to Category:1970s establishments in Andorra and Category:1979 establishments in Europe
- Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, mostly isolated one- or two-articles categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:00, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Gjs238 (talk) 14:37, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Οἶδα (talk) 05:38, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
August 9
[edit]Category:Buildings and structures Benton Harbor, Michigan
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Typo; cf. #Category:Songs written Allan Caswell. 1234qwer1234qwer4 23:01, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as unlikely search term. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 01:34, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, we normally do not keep redirects for typos. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:41, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Orange County District Attorney elections
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT, contains 2 articles Gjs238 (talk) 17:14, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Dual merge, also to Category:Elections in Orange County, California. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:00, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Dual merge per above. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 01:34, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:November 2024 elections in the United States
[edit]- 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: withdrawn (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 04:46, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category. Category:November 2024 in the United States not diffused this way. Gjs238 (talk) 13:48, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- There are now multiple sub-categories and hundreds of articles in this category. Obvious keep. An underpopulated category that easily be populated is not a reason for deletion.--User:Namiba 19:47, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
Dual merge, also to Category:November 2024 elections.Marcocapelle (talk) 18:03, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Striking vote. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:43, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Withdraw nomination: Now has 4 subcats and 10 articles. Gjs238 (talk) 21:32, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- 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:Western Australian redirects
[edit]- Propose deleting Category:Western Australian redirects (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Western Australian suburb redirects (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Western Australian town redirects (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: Unusual category tree; redirects are generally not categorised by topic, with the exception of Middle-Earth redirects, whose rcats, as of writing this, seem to be at TfD as well though. (Note that this is also the only region-specific subcategory of Category:Geography redirects.) Looking at the members, it does not seem like the categories have been maintained after their creation in 2007. 1234qwer1234qwer4 03:12, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as creator It was created 19 years ago to meet a need at the time, which clearly has lapsed. Orderinchaos 04:47, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- yeah na, dont delete there seams to be a lot of pages(about 370 in the two subcats) listed in there that probably should be considered as primary topics rather than be disambiguated. The categories do have a capacity as being useful for having captured something that might have a level ok bulk effort applied. Though the current policy is not to mass move these unnecessarily disambiguated articles as it'll impact thousands of other articles and create one unnecessary unwholely mess of redirects. Gnangarra 09:06, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Songs written Allan Caswell
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Highly unlikely typo. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 01:37, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, we normally do not keep redirects for plain grammar or spelling mistakes. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:11, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Buildings and structures in Okutama, Tokyo
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Buildings and structures in Okutama, Tokyo to Category:Okutama, Tokyo
- Propose merging Category:Buildings and structures in Misato, Shimane to Category:Misato, Shimane
- Propose merging Category:Buildings and structures in Okuizumo to Category:Okuizumo
- Propose merging Category:Buildings and structures in Tsuwano, Shimane to Category:Tsuwano, Shimane
- Nominator's rationale: Redundant layers with only one subcat each. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 01:30, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:14, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:12th-century Serbian poets
[edit]- Propose merging Category:12th-century Serbian poets to Category:Medieval Serbian poets and Category:12th-century Serbian writers and Category:12th-century poets
- Propose merging Category:12th-century Serbian composers to Category:12th-century composers and Category:Serbian composers and Category:12th-century Serbian people
- Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated and isolated categories. Each of these categories only contains 1 page and a redirect. Upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 00:57, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation Marcocapelle (talk) 04:15, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
August 8
[edit]Category:Korean Empire emperors
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Korean Empire emperors to Category:Korean emperors
- Nominator's rationale: Highly overlapping categories. Do we really need both of these categories to contain the same people? SMasonGarrison 18:19, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Dual merge, also to Category:Imperial Korean royalty. The Korean Empire lasted very briefly, so I wonder about the whole tree of Category:Korean Empire people, but that should be discussed in a fresh nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:18, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Note that Korean emperors also includes these two self-proclaimed emperors: Gwangjong of Goryeo and Yi Chingok; these are not members of the same royal family as the Korean Empire emperors. Idk how much weight we give their self claims though grapesurgeon (talk) 03:58, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Uxoricides in London
[edit]- Propose splitting Category:Uxoricides in London to Category:Murder in London and Category:Uxoricides in England
- Nominator's rationale: Dual merge. I don't think we really need the intersection between location of death, the relationship between the murder and the victim, and crime. SMasonGarrison 18:16, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Hard Rock Cafe
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Hard Rock Cafe to Category:Hard Rock International
- 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. Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa 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. Hard Rock Vault also lacks a cafe, and Hard Rock Beach Club Choctaw was more of a summer-themed bar rather than a traditional cafe. Aspifi (talk | contributions) 15:02, 1 August 2026 (UTC)
- 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)
- Comment This nomination was malformed and has been fixed. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:06, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Rename per nom. Indeed a better solution. -- Just N. (talk) 05:40, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Stale discussion
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Aspifi (talk) 14:17, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Libraries in British North America
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: rename as more precise, British North America may refer to the post-1783 British colonies in North America but that is not what this category is about. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:46, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Paintings in Gotha
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Paintings in Gotha to Category:Gotha and Category:Paintings in Thuringia
- Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:54, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 06:43, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Οἶδα (talk) 20:53, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Tourism in Gotha
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Tourism in Gotha to Category:Gotha
- Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:52, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 06:43, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Οἶδα (talk) 20:53, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:1494 in the Spanish Empire
[edit]- Propose merging Category:1494 in the Spanish Empire to Category:1490s in the Spanish Empire
- Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated single-article category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:59, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 06:43, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Laws leading to the American Revolution
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: merge, overlapping scope, and "relating" is more objective than "leading". Marcocapelle (talk) 05:57, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge Too subjective and clearly overlapping. I would say that the Boston Port Act was caused by the emerging revolution rather than leading to it, but there is a back and forth escalation with many of these. - RevelationDirect (talk) 20:00, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
August 7
[edit]Category:English diaspora in Malaysia
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer Arctic Circle System (talk) 23:43, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:03, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Drug wars
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: There is already Category:War on drugs. Magnolia677 (talk) 15:29, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- If a change is needed, it should be merge or reverse merge rather than delete. Note that War on drugs is largely an American phrase and drug wars may also contain wars between drugs cartels. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:06, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- I agree with Marcocapelle. "War on Drugs" is an expression that refers to actions in the U.S. in the 1980s and 1990s by police and law enforcement agencies against drug smugglers or distributers. When I see the term "Drug war", I think of disputes between rival drug outfits, as happens in Mexico and Central America. I'm not sure how to make that more clear though. Are there subcategories? Liz Read! Talk! 20:44, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
- Keep. The OP has clearly misunderstood, perhaps due to regional differences in English. In American English the War on Drugs is a government program to fight against drug use and sale, while a drug war is a war between rival drug cartels or dealers. Not at all the same thing.--Srleffler (talk) 22:53, 9 August 2026 (UTC)
Former countries by period
[edit]- Propose merging Category:History of Bohemia by period to Category:History of Bohemia
- Propose merging Category:History of the Kingdom of Dahomey by period to Category:Kingdom of Dahomey
- Propose merging Category:History of East Germany by period to Category:History of East Germany
- Propose merging Category:History of Mandatory Palestine by period to Category:History of Mandatory Palestine
- Propose merging Category:History of Saxony by period to Category:History of Saxony
- Propose merging Category:History of Spanish Sahara by period to Category:History of Spanish Sahara
- Propose merging Category:History of the Trucial States by period to Category:Trucial States
- Propose merging Category:History of West Germany by period to Category:History of West Germany
- Nominator's rationale: Only one or two sub-cats each, so not useful for navigation. The contents are within the other parents via other routes. – Fayenatic London 12:18, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge all to Category:Mandatory Palestine, etc. if it does not coincide with a modern entity. Otherwise, as proposed, since all contents are years, decades, or centuries. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 13:05, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. I agree with LaundryPizza03 on the principle of upmerging History of former countries but these are not nominated now. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:10, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per rationale, not useful for navigation, few subcats jolielover♥talk 10:22, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge as WP:OVERLAPCAT since it's all history at this point. - RevelationDirect (talk) 20:01, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Tony Award for Best Orchestrations
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Category is empty except for its eponymous article and a similarly titular template category. It also does not belong in the single category it is itself a sub-cat of. OGBC1992 (talk) 11:43, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:12, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Fictional nunchakuka
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: This one, I'm doing preemptively for similar reasons as the other fictional martial artists. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:57, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Fictional kenpō practitioners
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Another overly narrow sorting key. Only 6 of the 9 articles mention kenpō (sometimes spelled kenpo or kempo), and usually in conjunction with other martial arts. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:47, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Kajukenbo practitioners by nationality
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Kajukenbo practitioners by nationality (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Kajukenbo practitioners
- Propose merging Category:Brazilian kajukenbo practitioners (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Kajukenbo practitioners
- Nominator's rationale: Two subcategories, one of which contains a single article. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:38, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:14, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Cassette magazines
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Namesake article and 1 other. Not enough articles for a category, now purged of the articles that should have actually been in Category:Audio periodicals, which are also sometimes called cassette magazines (I moved the articles that applied to that category). The description and the namesake page clarify that this is not for audio cassettes, but rather for publications "contained entirely on computer-readable media, specifically on cassette. Its content consists of some combination of text, graphics, multimedia, and executable programs, and it is normally specific to one particular computer platform or operating system." PARAKANYAA (talk) 08:58, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- I'm not even sure if the definition used here is a real thing. PARAKANYAA (talk) 09:00, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:16, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Braille publications
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Braille publications to Category:Braille
- Nominator's rationale: Only 1 article and 1 redirect. Not enough for a category. PARAKANYAA (talk) 08:35, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:19, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Keep, 3 articles now, useful subcat of Category:Publications by format. Fram (talk) 10:52, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Print media in Bristol
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Print media in Bristol to Category:Mass media in Bristol
- Nominator's rationale: This is the only "print media in [x]" category we have. When used this way, unclear and non-defining separation; I don't think it's worth differentiating "print" vs "mass" media on the city level. PARAKANYAA (talk) 08:20, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:23, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Newspapers of colonial America
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Newspapers of colonial America to Category:Newspapers of the Thirteen Colonies
- Nominator's rationale: rename, more precise description of the category content. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:53, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Rename the current title can be interpreted many ways.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:33, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Rename much clearer scope. - RevelationDirect (talk) 20:03, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Emirati biologists
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Emirati biologists to
Category:Arab biologists andCategory:Emirati scientists - Propose merging Category:Ivorian biologists to Category:Ivorian scientists
- Propose merging Category:Emirati biologists to
- Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 05:20, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge only to scirntists. I do not think we should assume Emrati people are Arab. Nor do I think we should merge natuonslity categories to ethnicity categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:34, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge only to scientists. It is not clear if the subject of the article is an ethnic Arab. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:29, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge to biologists. I don't think that we should be merging to Arab biologists.SMasonGarrison 22:21, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merging to Biologists is not needed, both articles are already somewhere else further down in that tree. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:06, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Catholic Church legal terminology
[edit]- Propose manually merging Category:Catholic Church legal terminology to Category:Canon law of the Catholic Church
- 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)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 05:11, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Filipino Resistance activists
[edit]- 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)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 05:05, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per overlap cat rules. Plus I am not sure we should directly categorize people who are notable for armed rebellion as activists. At least not on the sane general view category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:36, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Filipino independence activists
[edit]- 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)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 05:04, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge as overlapping categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:36, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Wireless
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Wireless to Category:Wireless communication
- Nominator's rationale: There is not enough distinction between these two categories for both of them to exist. Category:Wireless has most of the articles at present, but Category:Wireless communication has a clearer title. I propose that we merge all the articles there. Srleffler (talk) 04:08, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge or reverse merge per nom. Note that the article title is just Wireless but that could be changed too. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:07, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Reverse Merge (or Merge) I would lean toward a reverse merge based on the main article but, regardless of the name, these are clearly overlapping and should be merged in some form. - RevelationDirect (talk) 20:05, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
2027 by year upmerge
[edit]- Propose merging Category:2027 in Bahrain (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:2027 by country, Category:Years of the 21st century in Bahrain, Category:2020s in Bahrain, and Category:2027 in Asia
- Propose merging Category:2027 in Egypt (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:2027 by country, Category:Years of the 21st century in Egypt, Category:2020s in Egypt, and Category:2027 in Africa
- Propose merging Category:2027 in Estonia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:2027 by country, Category:Years of the 21st century in Estonia, Category:2020s in Estonia, and Category:2027 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:2027 in Lesotho (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:2027 by country, Category:Years of the 21st century in Lesotho, Category:2020s in Lesotho, and Category:2027 in Africa
- Propose merging Category:2027 in Lithuania (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:2027 by country, Category:Years of the 21st century in Lithuania, Category:2020s in Lithuania, and Category:2027 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:2027 in Montenegro (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:2027 by country, Category:Years of the 21st century in Montenegro, Category:2020s in Montenegro, and Category:2027 in Europe
- Propose merging Category:2027 in Nicaragua (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:2027 by country, Category:Years of the 21st century in Nicaragua, Category:2020s in Nicaragua, and Category:2027 in Central America
- Propose merging Category:2027 in Papua New Guinea (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:2027 by country, Category:Years of the 21st century in Papua New Guinea, Category:2020s in Papua New Guinea, and Category:2027 in Oceania
- Propose merging Category:2027 in Sri Lanka (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:2027 by country, Category:Years of the 21st century in Sri Lanka, Category:2020s in Sri Lanka, and Category:2027 in Asia
- Nominator's rationale: I was going to propose this at CFDS under C2F (one eponymous article), but I have some further rationale. Per WP:CRYSTALBALL, we shouldn't expect each of these "2027 by country" subcats to have a bunch of non-eponymous articles and categories before the year in question has even begun. - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:36, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Speedy merge per C2F. You did not need to come here; you could have just given your rationale as part of the CfDS nomination. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:09, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Speedy merge per C2F. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:08, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
August 6
[edit]Category:Song recordings produced Mel-Man
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Highly unlikely typo. Always comes up first in ABC order results from Hotcat and gets in the way (which probably isn't a good enough reason on its own to delete, but it is very annoying). Was kept after a move to the current redirect target/correct title, but should not have been retained. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 21:46, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete per nom. Οἶδα (talk) 22:03, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, we normally do not keep redirects in case of a typo. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:11, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:American colonial governors
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: delete, "American" is anachronistic considering the content of the category. Subcategories are already in Category:Spanish colonial governors and administrators if applicable. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:02, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete this is a merging of colonial governers for various colonial powers because the placea they were governors of at least in part later became part of the United States. Some of them were colonial governors in areas outside the US while the US existed. This includes officials of the French, Spanish, English/British and Russian Empire governments. It treats the current boumdaroes of the US as if they are the right, proper and correct boundaries. Ignoring the fact that these boundaries were brought about by historic events, including compromises in which people accepted less expamsive boundaroes than thry in some ways believed were the ideal boundaries. This category imposes an idea both spatially and temporarily beyomd where it actually existed. We should delete the category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:29, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:34th century BC
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: Only contents are the main article (which is nominated for merging) and a single archaeological site (the Ashleypark Burial Mound) dated to this time period. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:49, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:36, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete not helpful to navigation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:30, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Fictional kobudōka
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: After removing two articles that didn't mention kobudō, what's left are four articles that mention the term only in the infobox, possibly based on WP:OR. I don't think they are otherwise categorized as Japanese martial artists, except in other subcategories that are nominated at CfD. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:23, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:30, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Οἶδα (talk) 03:59, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Kobudoka by nationality
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Kobudoka by nationality to Category:Kobudoka
- Nominator's rationale: Only content is Japan and a Japanese prefecture (which shouldn't be a direct member). Both categories are also nominated for speedy renaming to correct the spelling of kobudō. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:20, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge, redundant category layer. I already removed the prefecture. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:40, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:TOC tracking on category pages where PAGESINCATEGORY returns zero
[edit]- Propose deleting Category:TOC tracking on category pages where PAGESINCATEGORY returns zero (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Automatic category TOC on pages where PAGESINCATEGORY returns zero (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Template Category TOC on pages where PAGESINCATEGORY returns zero (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Propose deleting Category:Template Large category TOC on pages where PAGESINCATEGORY returns zero (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary tracking categories; the use of Module:HTMLDecode has largely fixed the bug this was meant to be tracking. BlasterOfHouses (HouseBlaster's alt • talk • he/they) 14:34, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Delete as obsolete unless anyone comes forward to explain why they're still needed. - RevelationDirect (talk) 20:07, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Automatic category TOC tracking categories
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Template Large category TOC via Automatic category TOC on category with 1,201–2,000 pages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Automatic category TOC generates Large category TOC
- Propose merging Category:Template Large category TOC via Automatic category TOC on category with 2,001–5,000 pages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Automatic category TOC generates Large category TOC
- Propose merging Category:Template Large category TOC via Automatic category TOC on category with 5,001–10,000 pages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Automatic category TOC generates Large category TOC
- Propose merging Category:Template Large category TOC via Automatic category TOC on category with 10,001–20,000 pages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Automatic category TOC generates Large category TOC
- Propose merging Category:Template Large category TOC via Automatic category TOC on category with over 20,000 pages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Automatic category TOC generates Large category TOC
- Propose merging Category:Template Category TOC via Automatic category TOC on category with 101–200 pages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Automatic category TOC generates standard Category TOC
- Propose merging Category:Template Category TOC via Automatic category TOC on category with 301–600 pages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Automatic category TOC generates standard Category TOC
- Propose merging Category:Template Category TOC via Automatic category TOC on category with 601–900 pages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Automatic category TOC generates standard Category TOC
- Propose merging Category:Template Category TOC via Automatic category TOC on category with 901–1200 pages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Automatic category TOC generates standard Category TOC
- Propose merging Category:Template Large category TOC on category with up to 1200 pages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Categories which use Large category TOC without Automatic category TOC
- Propose merging Category:Template Category TOC on category with over 1200 pages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Categories which use Category TOC without Automatic category TOC
- Propose merging Category:Template Category TOC on category with up to 100 pages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Categories which use Category TOC without Automatic category TOC
- Nominator's rationale: The granular detail in these tracking categories is unnecessary, and they create lots of category loops. This proposal would simplify down to separate categories for whether or not {{Automatic category TOC}} is used, without the intricate detail. BlasterOfHouses (HouseBlaster's alt • talk • he/they) 14:28, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Question @HouseBlaster: Would this also require an update to the template? - RevelationDirect (talk) 20:08, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- @RevelationDirect: it would a straightforward update to Template:Category TOC/tracking and Template:Large category TOC/tracking. If there is consensus to merge, I'd be happy to do the updates if pinged. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:24, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom based on the above clarification, unless anyone can articulate a need for this granular breakdown. RevelationDirect (talk) 21:30, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- @RevelationDirect: it would a straightforward update to Template:Category TOC/tracking and Template:Large category TOC/tracking. If there is consensus to merge, I'd be happy to do the updates if pinged. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:24, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Indigenous languages of Central Amazonia
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: This and the various other region-based categories of Category:Indigenous languages of South America are poorly defined on the wiki if they are defined at all. They also do not align with region-based categories used on Category:Indigenous peoples of South America, though most of those at least are defined a bit better. Arctic Circle System (talk) 08:32, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- The categorization of all these wiki categories was based on the cultural areas of human groups in South America. This is like, for instance, the North American Southwest. I got them from professor Terrance Kaufman who specializes on indigenous languages. Note the cultural areas originate primarily from the time before the European invasions. It's just where people were distributed who tend to have similar cultural behaviors, material technology, etc. They may be heavily influenced by geography since that is a natural thing that restricts interactions between peoples. They seem to 'not align with region-based categories' because you don't about the cultural areas. So, they are actually based on regions. These regions, of course, probably do not align much with boundaries of modern nation-states since those are later regions defined by the migrants from across the ocean. If they are 'poorly defined,' then I guess wikipedia has no information about South American cultural areas (to its detriment). – ishwar (speak) 17:31, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- How are these regions defined? What sources exist about them? Where do they start and end? I would appreciate some more information about these cultural regions. Arctic Circle System (talk) 02:04, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- The categorization of all these wiki categories was based on the cultural areas of human groups in South America. This is like, for instance, the North American Southwest. I got them from professor Terrance Kaufman who specializes on indigenous languages. Note the cultural areas originate primarily from the time before the European invasions. It's just where people were distributed who tend to have similar cultural behaviors, material technology, etc. They may be heavily influenced by geography since that is a natural thing that restricts interactions between peoples. They seem to 'not align with region-based categories' because you don't about the cultural areas. So, they are actually based on regions. These regions, of course, probably do not align much with boundaries of modern nation-states since those are later regions defined by the migrants from across the ocean. If they are 'poorly defined,' then I guess wikipedia has no information about South American cultural areas (to its detriment). – ishwar (speak) 17:31, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- If any change is needed, it should be a rename or a merge instead of a deletion. After all, the articles should stay in the tree of Category:Indigenous languages of South America. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:37, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Comment/Merge We don't have an article on Indigenous languages of Central Amazonia and, for that matter, even Central Amazonia which makes the definingness of this category hard to evaluate as a non-expert. We don't generally require main articles to start categories of course but in this case we're getting ahead of WP:V with sources. Maybe both those articles should exist but, in the mean time, merging to Category:Indigenous languages of South America make sense for now. - RevelationDirect (talk) 20:18, 8 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge. I'd agree with deleting the ones without a primary topic article. @Arctic Circle System should we list the rest of these categories for discussion as well? 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 01:28, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Yeah, probably. I just figured I should start with the one. Arctic Circle System (talk) 02:04, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
- Merge. I'd agree with deleting the ones without a primary topic article. @Arctic Circle System should we list the rest of these categories for discussion as well? 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 01:28, 10 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Tonlé Sap
[edit]- Propose renaming Category:Tonlé Sap to Category:Tonle Sap
- Nominator's rationale: Move per the main topic. Henrydat (talk) 07:41, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
- Possibly rename to Category:Tributaries of Tonle Sap, and re-parent. Almost all articles are about rivers. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:23, 29 July 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 00:59, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- @Henrydat: what do you think of the alternative? Marcocapelle (talk) 05:13, 7 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Christian terminology stubs
[edit]- Propose manually merging Category:Christian terminology stubs to Category:Christianity stubs
- 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)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 00:58, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
Category:Open source
[edit]- Propose merging Category:Open source to Category:Open content
- Nominator's rationale: unclear scope; the eponym article, Open source, has has poor categorization. fgnievinski (talk) 01:13, 6 July 2026 (UTC)
- Comment Open source at least has a main article while "Open content" is a redirect pointing to Free content. Not opposed to considering potential mergers here, but would prefer doing so in a way that follows the main articles. - RevelationDirect (talk) 02:02, 6 July 2026 (UTC)
- Also notice the redirect and target article have separate categories: Category:Open content and Category:Free content. fgnievinski (talk) 13:08, 7 July 2026 (UTC)
- Comment, originally this was called "open methodologies", see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_May_31#Category:Open_methodologies. The rename was rather provisional. An alternative that was mentioned was Category:Openness but then it should rather become Category:Openness (information technology) per Openness#In information technology. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:56, 6 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Fgnievinski: What do you think of an alternate rename to Category:Openness (information technology)? RevelationDirect (talk) 15:05, 6 July 2026 (UTC)
- I just reviewed Open source and its scope seemed broader than Open-source software (OSS); "openness (IT)" seems a an invented synonym for OSS. I do like the idea of an umbrella Category:Openness, though. fgnievinski (talk) 12:59, 7 July 2026 (UTC)
- @Fgnievinski: What do you think of an alternate rename to Category:Openness (information technology)? RevelationDirect (talk) 15:05, 6 July 2026 (UTC)
- keep. Although related, open source and open content are two different concepts, indeed many of the articles under Category:open source should probably be under Category:open content. BTW, "Openness" is just too generic – openness is an attitude or philosophical concept ... — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 09:13, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Portraits of men
[edit]- Nominator's rationale: containerize per WP:EGRS, gender in itself is not a defining characteristic, but the subcategories remain valid. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:08, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
- Comment I can imagine arguments for why we should do away with these categories but, frankly, it's hard to think of a more defining characteristic for human beings than gender identity. It's one of the basic aspects that divide thousands of categories that have existed on this platform for decades. I think you need to have a better reason to do away with these categories than an argument that gender is non-defining. Liz Read! Talk! 03:30, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
- Keep, standard method of dividing portraits (men, women, groups, families, animals). See e.g. "The Painted Face. Portraits of Women in France, 1814-1914" or "History's Beauties. Women in the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900" or "Women and Portraits in Early Modern Europe. Gender, Agency, Identity", complete non-fiction books about the subject showing that gender is a defining characteristic. Fram (talk) 10:21, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Containerize per nom, clear case. -- Just N. (talk) 11:29, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
- Except for the fact that it isn't true that this is not a defining characteristic, like I clearly demonstrated? Fram (talk) 07:38, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- You demonstrated that it is a notable topic, worth an article. That is something else. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:56, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Then how do you decide if something is a defining characteristic or not? Why is "bathing" a defining characteristic of Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs, but "women" isn't? Why is it defining that Equestrian Portrait of Maria Amalia of Saxony is an equestrian portrait, but not that it is a portrait of a woman? Why is it defining that Comtesse de la Châtre is from 1789 and features a book, but not that it is the portrait of a woman? Why is it defining that Gold Marilyn Monroe is by an American, but not that it is of a woman? In what way is "portrait of a woman" not a defining characteristic of Portrait of a 62-year-old Woman. Fram (talk) 09:02, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Other categories, like Portraits by American artists, could very well be non-defining and thus deleted (or containerized). Very possible. But you raise an important question. Gender in itself is not a defining characteristic. But what about in visual art? Maybe not film (Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 June 12#Category:Films about women). But static art? What is the Venus de Milo if not a sculpture of a woman and a classical symbol of feminine beauty? Similarly I imagine most portraits of women in literature are described as being portraits of women. I could be missing something as I'm not as familiar with WP:EGRS cases. Would like to hear more rationale on emptying these categories. Οἶδα (talk) 21:42, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
- Then how do you decide if something is a defining characteristic or not? Why is "bathing" a defining characteristic of Gabrielle d'Estrées et une de ses sœurs, but "women" isn't? Why is it defining that Equestrian Portrait of Maria Amalia of Saxony is an equestrian portrait, but not that it is a portrait of a woman? Why is it defining that Comtesse de la Châtre is from 1789 and features a book, but not that it is the portrait of a woman? Why is it defining that Gold Marilyn Monroe is by an American, but not that it is of a woman? In what way is "portrait of a woman" not a defining characteristic of Portrait of a 62-year-old Woman. Fram (talk) 09:02, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- You demonstrated that it is a notable topic, worth an article. That is something else. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:56, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Except for the fact that it isn't true that this is not a defining characteristic, like I clearly demonstrated? Fram (talk) 07:38, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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