Jump to content

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/All current discussions

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shortcuts
Deletion discussions
Articles
Templates and modules
Files
Categories
Redirects
Miscellany
Speedy deletion
Proposed deletion

Speedy renaming and merging

[edit]

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

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

Use the following format on a new line at the beginning of the list: 

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

If the current name should be redirected rather than deleted, use: 

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

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

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

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

A request may be completed if it is more than 48 hours old; that is, if the time stamp shown is earlier than 03:32, 15 April 2025 (UTC). Currently, there are 81 open requests (refresh).

Current requests

[edit]

Please add new requests at the top of the list, preferably with a link to the parent category (in case of C2C) or relevant article (in case of C2D).

  • 2 requests:
Category:Vampires in film to Category:Vampire films
Category:Films about zombies to Category:Zombie films
My reasons are simple, because the main articles for these 2 categories are named as Vampire film and Zombie film, and most of their respective subcategories are titled along the lines of "X vampire films" and "Y zombie films". AHI-3000 (talk) 21:38, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Opposed requests

[edit]

On hold pending other discussion

[edit]
  • None currently

Moved to full discussion

[edit]

Current discussions

[edit]
Shortcut

April 17

[edit]

NEW NOMINATIONS

[edit]

Category:Ethnic Hungarian people

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: redundant category layer that overlaps with Hungarian diaspora SMasonGarrison 02:59, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Weak oppose, I have further populated the category, in its new state it might stay. It is certainly not diaspora anyway, it is a matter of shifting borders in the course of history. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:29, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Apocalypticism in fiction

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Both categories are pretty much identical. Emolication (talk) 02:55, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Albeni family

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: These two brothers are already linked. Delete for now. SMasonGarrison 01:24, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Kisfaludy family

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Only two brothers who already are linked. Delete for now. SMasonGarrison 01:07, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lépes family

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Only two people who seem to just share a last name. Delete for now. SMasonGarrison 01:06, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Rhédey family

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Only two people who are already interlinked. Delete for now. SMasonGarrison 01:06, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Geőcze family

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: These two people seem to just share a last name. SMasonGarrison 01:02, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cservenyák family

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: This father-daughter pair are already linked. SMasonGarrison 00:54, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Grown Ups (film series)

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: SMALLCAT ★Trekker (talk) 00:31, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Monster House (film)

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: SMALLCAT ★Trekker (talk) 00:25, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]




April 16

[edit]

Category:List of colleges and universities censured by the American Association of University Professors

[edit]
Convert Category:List of colleges and universities sanctioned by the American Association of University Professors to article List of colleges and universities sanctioned by the American Association of University Professors
Convert Category:Community colleges censured by the American Association of University Professors to article Community colleges censured by the American Association of University Professors
Convert Category:Public colleges and universities censured by the American Association of University Professors to article Public colleges and universities censured by the American Association of University Professors
Convert Category:Baptist institutions censured by the American Association of University Professors to article Baptist institutions censured by the American Association of University Professors
Convert Category:Protestant Christian institutions censured by the American Association of University Professors to article Protestant Christian institutions censured by the American Association of University Professors
Convert Category:Historically black institutions censured by the American Association of University Professors to article Historically black institutions censured by the American Association of University Professors
Convert Category:Catholic institutions censured by the American Association of University Professors to article Catholic institutions censured by the American Association of University Professors
Convert Category:List of colleges and universities censured by the American Association of University Professors to article List of colleges and universities censured by the American Association of University Professors
Nominator's rationale: Categories are not lists. This just contains the unversity page. These categories need to be listified and contextualized. I encourage the user who created all of these categories to review the purpose of categories.SMasonGarrison 23:40, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm fine with the conversion if you think that would be more useful. Jjazz76 (talk) 00:23, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think it would be useful and interesting. Although I think you should start with the two core lists List of colleges and universities sanctioned by the American Association of University Professors and List of colleges and universities censured by the American Association of University Professors. I'm not sure that there's a need for each of the smaller lists that are broken up by type of institution. SMasonGarrison 00:45, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
could you create the pages and I will work on them? I'm worried they immediately might get nominated for deletion and would like your support. And we could probably create a tab for the type which would be helpful. Jjazz76 (talk) 01:51, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Counterterrorism in Spain

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: There are no articles about counterterrorism in this category. This was nominated for speedy for not having items in it, which the creator responded to by adding individual terrorist attacks that have little or no relevance to counterterrorism. These categories are not synonymous and using it this way is duplicative. I also don't know what's going on with this formatting! PARAKANYAA (talk) 22:05, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Counterterrorism in Germany

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: There are no articles about counterterrorism in this category. This was nominated for speedy for not having items in it, which the creator responded to by adding individual terrorist attacks that have little or no relevance to counterterrorism. These categories are not synonymous and using it this way is duplicative. PARAKANYAA (talk) 22:04, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Space tourism missions

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Per Spaceflight#Terminology and as shown by Collins Dictionary usage, space mission refers to a spaceflight intended to achieve an objective. Space tourism typically isn't intended to achieve an objective, scientific or maintenance one, so the proper word would be space tourism flight. Brandmeistertalk 20:15, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Suborbital space tourism missions to Category:Suborbital space tourism flights per above.
Category:Orbital space tourism missions to Category:Orbital space tourism flights per above.

Category:NBA championship–winning players

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Multiple discussions have found that this is a non-defining intersection. See Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_January_18#Category:Super_Bowl_champions for one discussion circa 2021. User:Namiba 19:08, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment I kind of disagree that being a Super Bowl champ isn't defining. I was on a wikibreak when that cat got Cfded but I probably would have !voted to keep it. It's always mentioned in obituaries and stuff if someone was a Super Bowl champ, likewise for NBA champ. It looks like you actually !voted to keep the Super Bowl cat too. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 20:16, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Books about Kuwait

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. No need to merge, the subcategory is already in the appropriate trees. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:43, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Locarno Film Festival

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: There's been some confusion generated here by the way these categories are named, which has caused some content to get misfiled in the wrong place. The festival-related articles have long been categorized at Category:Locarno Festival, even though the head article about the festival is at Locarno Film Festival -- and meanwhile, Category:Locarno Film Festival was recently created as a files category for the festival posters, even though categories of that type (see siblings in Category:Non-free images of film festival posters) are supposed to be named "[Name of Film Festival] posters", not just "[Name of Film Festival]", with the result that I just had to clear several articles out of the posters category. So the posters category should be renamed to have the word "posters" in it, and the articles category should be renamed to match the title of the head article. Bearcat (talk) 16:27, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support renaming: Both
Thank you for bring this under discussion @Bearcat:. I was unaware of the poster naming conventions when I created the files category. It would be wonderful to fix, especially since I am planning to make several more pages for the Locarno Film Festival and add posters. - SquawkGuard (talk) 21:14, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Works based on children's literature

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only two subcategories, of which one subcategory does not even entirely belong here. No need to merge, both subcategories are already in the tree of Category:Works based on literature. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:24, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:2000 in Czech motorsport

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Single-entry category for a country that doesn't have any other categories for motorsport in any other year. As always, navigation of the Wikipedia is not aided by obsessively subcatting everything down into the narrowest possible microcategories for just one thing -- this would be fine if there were several events to file here, but is not needed for just one, especially if it's the only year that even has a category at all. Bearcat (talk) 16:15, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Main Avenue, Sioux Falls

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Single-entry category for an individual street in a mid-sized city. As always, everything that exists does not automatically get categorized for the individual street it happens to be located on -- this can be done for highly meganotable streets (e.g. Broadway) that have a lot of notable things on them to so categorize, but is not automatically done for every street on the planet that has one thing on it with a Wikipedia article. Bearcat (talk) 15:52, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think upmerging is necessary, as the one article here is also in Category:Culture of Sioux Falls, South Dakota and thus doesn't need the duplicated parent category. Bearcat (talk) 17:23, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • It's not ideal, but in the absence of a category specifically for restaurants (which wouldn't be defensible with only one article in it), categorizing a restaurant as "Culture in City" is preferable to just "City". Bearcat (talk) 22:51, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:2025 European Running Championships

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Eponymous category without sufficient content to justify it. This is a new event being held for the first time in 2025, so the only thing that exists at this time is the head article about the 2025 event itself -- but as always, individual runnings of annual events do not automatically get their own year-specific categories just to contain themselves, and this is needed only if and when there are several spinoff articles besides the eponym itself. (For example, the Olympics get one of these because each individual sport at the Olympics has its own article covering the results in that specific sport, separately from the main overview article about the Olympics as a whole, meaning that each year's Olympics is covered by a couple dozen articles rather than just one.)
So no prejudice against recreation in the future if and when there are spinoff articles besides just 2025 European Running Championships itself, but this isn't needed just for that alone. No upmerging needed, either, as the article was left duplicate-categorized in all of the parent categories alongside this. Bearcat (talk) 15:30, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:20th-century disestablishments in the Soviet Union

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 December 28#Category:20th-century establishments in the Soviet Union HanTsî (talk) 14:56, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Places in Free Falling by Tom Petty

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: I think this fails Wikipedia:Overcategorization, particularly WP:NONDEFINING and WP:TRIVIALCAT. Do we really want such categories that collect articles on subjects that are referenced in a particular song (even if the song was written by a notable person? Zzyzx11 (talk) 09:37, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Writers by populated place in Idaho

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just two entries. Also merge to Category:American writers by populated place. Lost in Quebec (talk) 09:28, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Energy Ministers of Western Australia

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: This would be consistent with the list Minister for Energy (Western Australia), as well as articles within categories such as Category:Ministers of the New South Wales state government and Category:Ministers of the Victoria (state) state government. Steelkamp (talk) 07:41, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Krio genealogy

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge this underpopulated category SMasonGarrison 04:18, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:African return diaspora

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: There's no need to isolate these secondary diasporas SMasonGarrison 04:14, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People educated in Freetown, Sierra Leone

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Purge and rename. I'm also ok with deleting. SMasonGarrison 04:11, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Claude Nelson-Williams

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Not useful for navigation. At present only has two images of the subject in it. SMasonGarrison 04:08, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sierra Leonean businessmen

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection, we don't have businessmen as a category SMasonGarrison 04:02, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Byzantine architecture in Australia

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Per the spirit of WP:C1, an unpopulated category, and WP:OVERLAPCAT
This category can never have a direct article because the closest the Byzantine Empire came to Australia was Egypt along the Red Sea. The subcategory is already well parented under Category:Byzantine Revival architecture by country. - RevelationDirect (talk) 02:40, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Treasurers of Australian states and territories

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Category:Australian treasurers is fine to encompass the one federal category and all the states as well. Unnecessary extra step. GMH Melbourne (talk) 01:27, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]


April 15

[edit]

Category:Stockholm metro stations by line

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Layer not needed Kaffet i halsen (talk) 10:21, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Films set in the Israeli Military Governorate

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: merge, West Bank is a more specific location of setting of the only article in this category. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:23, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Rugby league players from Sutherland, New South Wales

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 04:30, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Comics based on Tron

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: The other categories in the parents are usually titled "Tron [subject]" or "[Film] comics" so this should be renamed to fit with them. RanDom 404 (talk) 00:32, 8 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Kingsmasher678 (talk) 04:24, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Filmed deaths from natural causes

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: non-defining intersection. we dont have a parent category for natural causes SMasonGarrison 04:20, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Argentine dermatologists

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Also merge with Category:Argentine physicians

Also nominating for merge:

Category:Austrian urologists

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Also merge with Category:Austrian physicians.

Also nominating for merge:


April 14

[edit]

Category:Cypriot pediatric surgeons

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Also merge with Category:Cypriot surgeons.

Also nominating for merge:

Category:United States Anglican church stubs

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: At world scale, the Anglican Communion comprises several Christian denominations, among others: the Category:Scottish Episcopal Church, the Category:Church of South India, etc. In particular, my nomination proposal is related to the Episcopal Church of the United States, specifically its church building-related stubs. Right now there are over 500 stubs. So, I am proposing the aforementioned renaming fron Category:United States Anglican church stubs to Category:Episcopal Church (United States) church stubs (itself a subcategory of Category:Anglican church stubs). Best, --Fadesga (talk) 23:17, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Marcocapelle: Thanks for your suggestion. But there is yet another problem. The Anglican Church in North America (established 2009) split from the Episcopal Church of the United States (established much earlier, in 1821), so they are two separate church bodies; both are part, though, of the worldwide Anglican Communion. That is the real problem here: on the one side, a rather big denomination with over 500 stubs (all of them church buildings), and on the other side, a much smaller denomination with less than 40 stubs (of which, only 5 church stubs. Maybe this tiny church stub category should be put into yet another different category. And that is why I am asking for a category renaming. Best, --Fadesga (talk) 10:45, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Church buildings in Östhammar municipality

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: One article; does not help navigation. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 19:17, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:D1ce members

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Per precedent of groups with only a single member having an article not needing a "musicians by band" category. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 18:26, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Buildings and structures in Lycksele

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: One article; does not help navigation Kaffet i halsen (talk) 13:49, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Eurovision Song Contest–winning songwriters

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Per MOS:HYPHEN and MOS:SUFFIXDASH, compound modifiers in category names should use hyphens, rather than en-dashes. See related discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 April 8#Category:Eurovision Song Contest–winning songs. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 11:03, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Entertainers from Duluth, Minnesota

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just two entries. Also propose merging-

All subcategories with 4 or less entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:47, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Buildings and structures in Valdemarsvik Municipality

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Only one article; does not help navigation. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 10:41, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:F0 and F1 tornadoes

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Per CFD nominations for the sibling categories. Possibly also split to levels 0 and 1. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:09, 19 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That name is too long, in my opinion; six different entries? Wouldn't it be more feasible to just call it F0 and F1-equivalent tornadoes to avoid having six different list entries as a category name? Departure– (talk) 18:13, 29 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: If renamed, rename target?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 06:07, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: One more go.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 08:28, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Philosophers of love

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, with very few exceptions this is not a defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:38, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak delete I picked three articles at random, and only one definitely had a philospoher studying love as a major topic, and not as part of a major topic such as Mozi. But I'd have to check all of the articles to decide for sure. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 12:46, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:51, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:4th millennium

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only one subcategory and one article. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:22, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete This is a surprisingly hard one, since Zeitpyramide doesn't obviously fit anywhere else into Category:Future. But then it can go directly into that category unless there is a better option. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 12:41, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: The nomination tag was removed by an IP only 4 days after nomination (9th April). Relisting since it was not tagged for full 7 days. May be closed even if no new comments are added.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:51, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Relations of Russia and its former colonies

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, neither of the three entries is about proper colonies. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:18, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • There most likely will have to something like this category to talk about relations between Russia and the other post-Soviet states. Perhaps it is better to rename than to delete the category. GreekApple123 (talk) 21:24, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Rename? If so, to what?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:12, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It depends on what we include. Is it just post-Soviet states or does it also include satellite states and/or additional post-Russian Empire states like Finland. Charles Essie (talk) 19:27, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: No clear consensus on delete or rename (if rename, then where?) yet.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:43, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Belgian people executed for witchcraft

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: These all predate Belgium by a few centuries. No obvious replacement category, these people are from different regions (Flanders, Wallonia/Liège, perhaps Northern Netherlands), so an upmerge seems best. Fram (talk) 08:26, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Rename or merge?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:40, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Vanuatuan female middle-distance runners

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Also merge with Category:Vanuatuan female athletes. LibStar (talk) 07:11, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Defunct public primary schools in Melbourne

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: i think we should broaden this category to Defunct schools in Melbourne SMasonGarrison 02:49, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support: Makes logical sense, especially considering that there is not a similar category in Category:Defunct schools in Sydney and that all other states have a Category:Defunct schools in STATE; and not a Category:Defunct TYPE schools in CITY. Rangasyd (talk) 10:37, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]


April 13

[edit]

Category:American ghostwriters

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Merge per WP:OVERCAT. There are already subcategories of nationality writers by type - novelist, biographers - and ghostwriters are included in that. Best to keep one category for this than divide up by nationality. Omnis Scientia (talk) 22:08, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Kirseberg

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: The single article does not mention Kirseberg. Already in other People from Malmö categories. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 20:12, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Girl japanese wikipedians

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: I personally think that this might be over-categorisation. Having the separate categories for Japanese Wikipedians and Female Wikipedians is sufficient. No other category of this type exists. If this is to be kept, then I propose a rename to 'Japanese female Wikipedians' or similar. 'Japanese' and 'Wikipedians' should not be in lower case. Spiderone(Talk to Spider) 19:29, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sparta in fiction

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: rename and re-parent, "in fiction" normally consists of a fictional works subcategory and one or more subcategories with fictional elements (e.g. fictional characters). But in this case the articles are about works only. Aligning with Category:Works set in ancient Greece. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:13, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on LP's suggestion?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 18:10, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Indonesia in fiction by province

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer, there is only content about Bali here, but that is already part of the tree of Category:Indonesia in fiction by island. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:50, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Skanör

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Proposed at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_March_30#Category:People_from_Skanör, due to the small size of this category. However, I doubt that there will be enough contents to expand the "People from" subcategory as well because the place has a population of only 7,000, and hence I closed that one as merge. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:03, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Legendary creatures

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: There are many open CfD's right now, such as Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_March_30#Category:Monsters, several items at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_March_31 that are about specific mythologies, and Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_April_5#Category:Legendary_birds, that are going nowhere. This one is also likely needed to settle the monsters CfD.
For my own perspective on this category, I interpret them as including mostly nonexistent species in folklore, and therefore the categories are redundant. But the birds CfD has not reached a consensus, either, on the merge target; this should be easier since there is no existent "in mythology" target. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:55, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - I'll agree that some sources can be pretty free with interchanging the two terms. But some sources do not. We should avoid WP:SYNTH. Add to that the issue that for some mythology is religion, and not merely folklore, and directly merging becomes very problematic. If you want to tighten the inclusion criteria, I would support merging both to: Category:Legendary creatures in mythology, and prune as necessary. That way we are better covering how these creatures are presented in source material (in some cases, going back thousands of years). - jc37 15:12, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose both nom and Jc37 for exactly the reason that Jc37 mentions: mythology is associated with (extinct) religion, e.g. in Greek mythology, Norse mythology, Indian mythology. I would not oppose merging "legendary" and "folklore" if they both exist, but that is not the case here. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:21, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Which is why I suggested pruning. That said, I'm fine with oppose/keeping them separate. I would like to see all the cats with "mythological" renamed to "...in mythology" though - I think it would make the formalized grouping (religion) more clear. - jc37 22:10, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Educators from Los Angeles

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated Subcategory. Lost in Quebec (talk) 21:44, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. This has two subcategories in it (after the nominator removed all of the subcategories of Category:Academics from Los Angeles). This category has been in existence for less than a week. I don't see why the nominator didn't add a few people or nudge me to do it. SMasonGarrison 22:29, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment This editor has been told multiple times by multiple editors that working, going to school, or dying in Foo, doesn't make the person automatically from there. See my talk page[1]. Lost in Quebec (talk) 22:47, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
And the above editor is adding incorrect articles to this category. Two academics, here and here. Plus an article on a teachers strike and a trade union. In fact the two people articles they added only mention the people working in Los Angeles not living there. They may not belong in academics either.Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:25, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Could you try to populate the category? I moving them from the broader "People from Los Angeles" category. SMasonGarrison 19:42, 7 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: The category has been significantly expanded since nomination, but there is dispute to the inclusion of some of them.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:24, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • This needs a broader discussion. Generally I would argue that the tree of people by location and occupation should be limited to the location(s) in which the occupation is exercised, whether the subject lives there or not. Currently the tree is also used for location of birth which is unrelated to occupation. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:28, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Egyptian film directors by populated place

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: upmerge for now. redundant category layer SMasonGarrison 14:05, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Martvili

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 13:49, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lists of synagogues in British Overseas Territories

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer. Not useful for navigation. –Aidan721 (talk) 22:10, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on Marcocapelle's comment about alt/additional merge targets?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 16:32, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Procedural relist, nominated category wasn't tagged and was renamed in another CfD to Category:Lists of synagogues in dependent territories of the United Kingdom. Two of the merge targets were also renamed, to Category:Lists of religious buildings and structures in dependent territories of the United Kingdom and Category:Synagogues in dependent territories of the United Kingdom.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 13:02, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Fåglavik

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: One article; does not help navigation. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 12:58, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Economists from Washington, D.C.

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: After the CfD that merged Category:Economists from New York City, I'm inclined to support the same for this one. It is also a rather small category, at nine pages within a parent that has only three others. I also picked three articles at random, and at least two of them did not work in DC so deletion is also an option. No attempt was made to determine if all pages are within other subcategories of Category:American economists. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 12:53, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FBG Duck categories

[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Categories related to artist article recreated after it was deleted by nomination. DBrown SPS (talk) 09:32, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Delete If Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Slide (FBG Duck song) closes as delete, then both categories will be empty. Also related to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/FBG Duck (3rd nomination). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:05, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Countries in fiction

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory each. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:52, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:04, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]


April 12

[edit]

Category:Flood films

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: C2C: Consistency with Category:Fiction about floods. Trailblazer101 (talk) 22:48, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Rename per consistency. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 12:08, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Drama television characters by occupation

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Not sure what this category redirect is doing, nor does it have a good redirect target. Delete it. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 20:18, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedians who wants to be extended confirmed

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Fails WP:USERCAT for lacking any discernible collaborative function. * Pppery * it has begun... 19:17, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Most editors get there eventually. Trailblazer101 (talk) 23:44, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:AHI-3000

[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: Speedy delete per WP:CSD#G7 (Author requests deletion), see post below timed at 18:55, 12 April 2025 (UTC); WP:CSD#G2 (Test pages) also applies. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 07:50, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Wikipedia category namespace is not a place to screw around. WP:OC/U#Personal userspace categories. * Pppery * it has begun... 18:53, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I have no objections. @Pppery: If you're an admin, just delete it right now if you want, why do we need to vote on it? Just get it over with already. AHI-3000 (talk) 18:55, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This is the normal process and venue for discussing categories that may not be compliant with policy. With the level of categories you create, I would think that you would understand that by now. Either state your case or let the discussion run its course. Either way, Pppery has done nothing wrong here. Sergecross73 msg me 23:36, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Mass murder in the Gaza Strip

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: This category seems to exist primarily if not entirely for POV pushing with attacks being labeled as 'mass murder' irrespective of what sources say. I don't know if a single article within it meets the standards for Verifiable, Neutral, and Defining. As an alternative maybe merge with "Massacres in the Gaza Strip". Bob drobbs (talk) 18:50, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What about Category:Mass murder in Palestine? AHI-3000 (talk) 19:00, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Looking through examples, it looks like that broader category should probably be deleted too, and that the POV pushing is happening on both sides. Look here Ramat Eshkol bus bombing. 5 people were killed in a terrorist attack. No mention anywhere of "mass murder" in the article but it's in the category. Bob drobbs (talk) 19:08, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Actually.... should I just withdraw this request and re-submit it as a collection of related "mass murder" categories? Bob drobbs (talk) 19:53, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
That makes more sense than just singling out one category. AHI-3000 (talk) 00:34, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Bob drobbs I would strongly oppose that - mass murder has a specific definition. If the entries in the category don't fit it then remove. Better than "massacre" which is inherently a POV term. PARAKANYAA (talk) 11:02, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merging to "Massacres in the Gaza Strip" seems the best solution. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:23, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Is massacre not the far more POV term? The massacre categories should be deleted as well. PARAKANYAA (talk) 11:01, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • The article Massacre starts by saying: "A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians en masse by an armed group or person." That seems a reasonable description to me and I can't see what is POV about it. The only question it leaves unanswered is about the minimum number of mortal victims before we call it a massacre. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:24, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose deletion of this or any of the other mass murder categories (Though upmerging to the Palestine category makes sense, idk why we would do it like this). If it's not described as such in the page then remove it, but mass murder is a thing. The massacre categories are a worse named subcategory of the mass murder ones. There is the distinction that all the mass murder categories are typically used for individual lone actor crimes, while many of the entries we call massacres are state actiosn that don't fit there ... but just as often not. In any case this category system should not be disrupted because people in this topic area have POV problems - most of the problematic articles shouldn't even exist PARAKANYAA (talk) 11:07, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The problem with all these categories is one I have never been able to think up a way to resolve: there are two encyclopedic, defining topics here, covered by both "mass murder" and "massacre" categories:
    • "mass killings", committed by the state or military or by ethnic/political lines without individual basis, also called massacres, e.g. My Lai massacre
    • "mass murders" committed by an individual or small group of people without state backing, also called massacres, e.g. École Polytechnique massacre
    In sourcing that I have read, "mass killings" and "mass murder" (regardless of whether a murder conviction was sustained or the perpetrator died before trial, "mass murder" is the WP:COMMONNAME of the non-state type - however very rarely they are also called mass killings) are almost never discussed in the same breath, but frustratingly the terminology used heavily overlaps, and as a result so does our categories, so we have two slightly overlapping ones but some of the second group is sorted with the first group because people like the word "massacre". I don't know how to fix this, but I don't think deleting all of them will help. It will probably make it worse, because we will have collapsed the minor distinction we have, and even worse, in the wrong direction. The massacre categories are decidely more problematic. PARAKANYAA (talk) 11:15, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Here's where I disagree with you. There are plenty of things which we describe as "massacre" in wikivoice. There should be no issue dropping the "My Lai massacre" into a massacre category. The same with the Flour massacre. If editors can argue that it should be called massacre in wikivoice it belongs in the category.
    But at least within the I/P space, I'm not sure there is a single event which is described in wikivoice as "mass murder". It seems like it's solely being used for POV pushing.
    I checked the mass murder page for guidance on possibly finding a definition. The page seems pretty problematic. First highlighting examples of terrorism as mass murder without seemingly sources calling them "mass murder". Then an entire section on "Criticism as an analytical category"
    I'm still leaning pretty strongly that at least in the I/P space the "mass murder" categories don't add any value, and just make a POV mess of things. Bob drobbs (talk) 14:02, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree with you that in the I/P area at least it's a mess but the massacre category should also go then, no? Is that not *more* POV pushing, since it basically means "bad killing" as opposed to lawful killing? If we are going purely by things that are called that by some people for a POV term with no cohesive definition we should not have the category at all. Do we get to have a category called "bad events" if most sources view an event as morally abhorrent? No, obviously. Are we going to put the Saturday Night massacre into a massacre category? It has it in the title.
    Yes, the mass murder Wikipedia page is deeply unfortunate and has been for a long time so I agree that I would not look at it for guidance on what constitutes that (I really need to get around to fixing that article), but the word does have a generally agreed upon definition - however, it is generally not applicable to state actions as agreed upon in those definitions, so there is widespread miscategorization going on here and probably none of the entries in this category would count.
    The massacre subcategory is also problematic because most of the articles aren't titled with it in there, and if it is included it's uncited in the infobox or just "people called it this" which is not defining and disputed. The massacre page is meanwhile almost entirely an etymology of the word with just as many definitional problems as the mass murder one. I think something needs to change but both of these categories have problems in a way that needs to be sorted out beyond just deleting one of them entirely and collapsing the distinction.
    Since nothing in this category is applicable to the non-state mass murder definition, this one can probably be deleted. There are a few in the other Palestine categories that do though. So delete this one and I would be open to deleting some of the other I/P ones but please do not do some general mass murder CfD. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:16, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose plain deletion, while one may argue about the category name (personally I think massacres fits better than mass murder) the articles clearly belong together as a group. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:47, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    Oppose deletion for same reasons given above by others. AHI-3000 (talk) 04:14, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:French television presenters by region

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: redudant category layer SMasonGarrison 17:37, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Moroccan people of Arab descent

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, not a defining characteristic because most Moroccans have some Arab ancestry. This is comparable to Category:American people of English descent or Category:Mexican people of Spanish descent which we also should not have. But let's first focus on one. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:20, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:New Zealand educators by populated place

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just two entries. Also merge to Category:New Zealand educators. Lost in Quebec (talk) 16:21, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Association football labor relations

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Currently an overlapping category with Category:Association football rules and regulations. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:43, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Premier League rules and regulations

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Narrow intersection with only 1 article. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:41, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Nadi F.C.

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: This category contains only an eponymous article and a players category. Not a useful category. The players category is already in Category:Men's footballers in Fiji by club. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:21, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:French models by populated place

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: upmerge for now. only one populated place in here SMasonGarrison 13:31, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Films set in Santiago de Cuba

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, not a defining characteristic of the only article in the category. If not deleted, merge to Category:Santiago de Cuba and Category:Films set in Cuba. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:04, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Newark, Maryland

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 09:06, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:18th-century Irish monarchs

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, these weren't Irish people. Supposedly the category tree has deliberately been named Irish monarchs instead of monarchs of Ireland. If this goes ahead the 17th and 16th century categories should be purged, as well as the Irish queens regnant category. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:14, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose May I remind you that none of the monarchs or politicians categories cover ethnicity? They all cover nationality, and the country in question was the Kingdom of Ireland. Dimadick (talk) 08:41, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:English pretenders to the French throne

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, too much overlap with Category:14th-century English monarchs to Category:17th-century English monarchs and not a defining characteristic for monarchs after Henry VI of England. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:56, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Subjective description of a hereditary claim that lasted all the way to the French Revolutionary Wars.Dimadick (talk) 08:42, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tamil Nadu temple stub categories

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, stub categories are supposed to contain at least 60 stub articles. Move the articles back to Category:Tamil Nadu Hindu temple stubs. As far as I can see there aren't even stub templates for these four categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:47, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Musicals set in Dahomey

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: merge for now, currently only one article is the category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:26, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:16, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Academics from Reggio Calabria

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 22:00, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. This can surely be populated. SMasonGarrison 22:30, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I've already found two from the parent category. SMasonGarrison 22:32, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:16, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cuba in fiction by medium

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, duplicate of Category:Works set in Cuba. We do not have any other "country in fiction by medium" categories as far as I am aware of. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:16, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ice hockey people from Glasgow

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: rename per actual content. The category already has a players parent category as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:16, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I agree players would be a better term but most ice hockey categories are people[2] not players. Lost in Quebec (talk) 08:55, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional Native American women

[edit]
Merge Category:Fictional Native American women to Category:Fictional Native American people
My reasoning: Do we really need this? We have no other categories which sort female fictional characters by their ethnicity or race. See this similar discussion. AHI-3000 (talk) 02:30, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Theorems in analysis

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Consistent with Category:Mathematical analysis (and some of its subcategories). 1234qwer1234qwer4 01:58, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]


April 11

[edit]

Category:Entertainers from Wilmington, Delaware

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just two entries. Also propose merging-

All subcategories with three or less entries.Lost in Quebec (talk) 21:55, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Belgian Congo in fiction

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:11, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Fiction by nationality

[edit]
  • Option A: rename all to "by writer nationality"
  • Option B: rename all to "by nationality"
  • Option C: rename all to "by country of publication"
  • Option D: rename all to "by country"
Nominator's rationale: rename for consistency. Option A aligns with Category:Works by writer nationality and is clearer than option B. Option B and D occur often enough in the names of the nominated categories. Option C is again clearer than option D. My personal order of preference is A-C-B-D. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:16, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I left a notification of this discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Literature. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:53, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I thought we were categorizing by the nationality of the publishing company. What happens with the works of writers with multiple nationalities? For example the writer Felix Salten lost his Austrian citizenship in the late 1930s, and produced his later works as a permanent resident in Switzerland. Dimadick (talk) 08:51, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, Georgia has never been a colony of the Ottoman or Russian Empire, it was simply part of those empires. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:35, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 15:27, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination. A neighboring empire owning their land doesn't make for a direct equivalent of European overseas colonialism, and it isn't really clear where the line can even be drawn (would the Achaemenid Empire mean that Georgia–Iran relations falls under that category?) Chaotic Enby (talk · contribs) 15:15, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Works about the military of the United States

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: All of the comparable sibling sub-cats use this simple, straightforward fcrmulation; viz. Category:Religion in the United States military, Category:Women in the United States military. Anomalous+0 (talk) 09:23, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 15:23, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose There is no "United States military", the main article is named United States Armed Forces. Dimadick (talk) 08:53, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Republican women

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Recently created category - may not be necessary, certainly misnamed. All articles are of American women in the Republican Party (United States), so would need to be renamed if retained. Gjs238 (talk) 12:20, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Actors from Ada County, Idaho

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Subcategory with just one entry. Also propose deleting-

Underpopulated subcategory also. Lost in Quebec (talk) 11:36, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Operas set in the Low Countries

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, trivial intersection between culture and historical region. It would have been different if there were medieval operas in the category, but that is not the case. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:09, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Relations of Europe and its former colonies

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, the category title is incorrect, it is not about relations of Europe, but about relations of one European country at a time. The parent category suffices, we have the country categories there anyway. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:24, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Surahs by number

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, duplicate of Category:Chapters in the Quran, contains redirects only. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:04, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lists of events

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only two subcategories. Other merge targets aren't needed, the subcategories are already in Category:Events by location and Category:Organized events respectively. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:51, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment the subcats need cleaning up if this is just for society lists, since there are such as lists of quakes in the category tree (and the problematic "event" here not being restricted to societal ones). Since Cat:Events is under Cat:Time; and not Cat:Society; this should not be in the society-tree at all. -- 65.92.246.77 (talk) 07:56, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Minsk in fiction

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:53, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Bangladesh in fiction by city

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only two subcategories. Move the Dhaka subcategory directly under Category:Bangladesh in fiction and Category:Cities in fiction. Move the Bogota subcategory directly under Category:Colombia in fiction and Category:Cities in fiction. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:35, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Dukes of Montblanc

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: rename and re-parent to Category:Heirs to the throne, being heir of the throne is a more defining characteristic than a title that is assigned because of that. Also purge articles about actual kings. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:11, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per the main article, the Duke of Montblanc was the designated heir to the Crown of Aragon until it was abolished in 1715. Since then, it is an empty title that does not actually correspond to any particular office. Dimadick (talk) 09:01, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Queens consort of India

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: rename per actual content, none of these queens consort was queen consort of the state India, instead they were queen consort of a former country in what is currently India. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:04, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Deceased fictional characters

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: I'm not sure if this is defining. At the very least I think that category should be containerized. SMasonGarrison 04:48, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. Of course this is a defining trait, if a fictional character is killed off and stays dead, that's very narratively important. You can't even think of what target page to merge with, this is just another frivolous nomination for the sake of it as usual. AHI-3000 (talk) 04:54, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mayiladuthurai

[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) 07:33, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Redundant with Category:Mayiladuthurai district Gjs238 (talk) 01:21, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Mayiladuthurai is not redundant with Category:Mayiladuthurai district. The town of Mayiladuthurai is the administrative headquarters and a distinct geographical entity within the district. Therefore, maintaining a separate category for the town is appropriate and enhances the organization and navigability of Wikipedia. It allows for proper classification of topics specifically related to the town, such as its history, culture, landmarks, and institutions, which may not be relevant to the broader district category. En.saravanan (talk) 07:11, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Paintings by Zeki Faik İzer

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category with no article about the artist. Gjs238 (talk) 01:17, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:LGBTQ designers

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Delete as per Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_December_3#Category:Women_designers Gjs238 (talk) 00:47, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Schools for the blind in South Africa

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: upmerge for now. this category is underpopulated SMasonGarrison 00:10, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]


April 10

[edit]

Category:End

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Entirely unnecessary and implausible category. The only article that's been filed here is Antichrist, if that gives you some insight into the thought process involved -- but even if it needed this (which it doesn't), there would still have to be a lot more than just one thing to file here before this needed to exist at all. Bearcat (talk) 18:43, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
To be fair, the creator did respond to the deletion nomination by explaining their reasoning on the category talk page — but it has something to do with "articles that are emotional in mood", and still doesn't really have a ton of logic or sense to it. (Like, what do emotional moods have to do with the word "end"?) Bearcat (talk) 15:01, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. VegaDark (talk) 20:33, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep – The concept of "end" holds significant thematic relevance across literature, film, music, and other disciplines. Endings often symbolize closure, transformation, or finality, which are key motifs explored across diverse subjects.

Wikipedia already recognizes emotionally and conceptually driven categories (e.g., melancholic music, tragic films), which indicates precedent for this kind of thematic grouping.

Rather than deleting the category, a better approach might be to clarify or refine its scope—perhaps specifying domains like literature, religion, or media—so it can better serve as a navigational aid for readers exploring concepts of finality and conclusion. Ibrahimmusa4 (talk) 05:14, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Republic Commando

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Consists of the main article about the video game: Star Wars: Republic Commando and 4 redirects to Star Wars Rebels episodes list. There is no indication in the Star Wars Rebels episode list that they somehow belong to the same series as the video game, Republic Commando. Mika1h (talk) 18:03, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination. Doesn't explain the subject matter; readers would be better off checking out a fanwiki for this. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 07:20, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional criminals by occupation

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: This was previously agreed to, and nothing has changed since then. JDDJS (talk to me • see what I've done) 15:15, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, because they are NOT the same. Category:Fictional gangsters, Category:Fictional mercenaries, Category:Fictional outlaws, Category:Fictional rebels, Category:Fictional vigilantes, Category:Supervillains, etc are not specific types of criminal charges, they are people who just necessarily do illegal things for a living. There's a difference between what kind of specific crimes they're committing, and what kind of career criminal they are. Some overlap does not equal equivalence nor redundancy.
See and compare Category:Criminals by crime and Category:Illegal occupations, nobody suggests merging them, so why merge their respective fictional counterparts together? That doesn't make any more sense. But I'm sure someone will just ignore these points and mindlessly repeat "merge per nom" without actually rebutting me anyways. AHI-3000 (talk) 16:52, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Law clerks of Judge Learned Hand

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: This is the style used by the other two judge-specific subcategories of Category:Law clerks: Category:Law clerks of J. Michael Luttig and Category:Law clerks of Harlan F. Stone. Dennis C. Abrams (talk) 15:07, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Rename per C2C. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 07:18, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Films directed by Silambarasan

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Subject is not mainly a director, he has officially directed only one film (this ain't that). Kailash29792 (talk) 14:40, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep: Works by creator cats don't need to meet any minimum number of entries, and director is a defining characteristic of the film. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 07:17, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per QuietHere's rationale. Dimadick (talk) 09:06, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman people

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Category with three entries only for a law firm without an article. Lost in Quebec (talk) 14:15, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Entertainers from Burbank, California

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Redundant subcategory layer. Also propose merging-

Also under populated redundant subcategories. Lost in Quebec (talk) 09:50, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nomination. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 07:14, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Angola in fiction

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:35, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nomination. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 06:43, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Male suicides

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Violates WP:TRIVIALCAT; being male is too trivial and broad a characteristic for a suicide category Songwaters (talk) 04:00, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Female suicides

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Violates WP:TRIVIALCAT; being female is too trivial and broad a characteristic for a suicide category Songwaters (talk) 04:00, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Non-designated terrorist organization categories

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Take 2, bundled this time. The last discussion was closed as no consensus for these two categories (though the other succeeded) without prejudice to renomination, so I am going to explain it better this time.
Violations of the structure of all of the other terrorism categories. We do not have categories for terrorists or non-designated terror groups, because the word varies by jurisdiction and definition, so sorting them by ideology is a no-go. Many of the groups in these categories are not designated as such and some are only by some jurisdictions. We do not have a similar category tree for extremist Muslim terrorism, nor should we, because of MOS:TERRORIST. We can qualify it and explain it in the text of articles, but cannot in categories.
In the past CfD, it was suggested that this be renamed to Category:Right-wing militant groups and Category:Fascist militant groups respectively a la Category:Left-wing militant groups, and while I am ambivalent towards the idea, most of the contents of these categories do not qualify as that (some are non militant groups, secret societies, political parties...). So if that is done this would necessitate a purge (and I don't think there is enough here to demonstrate the need for a fascist subdivision), but that is also an OK solution. So, keep, purge and rename as Category:Right-wing militant groups, or delete? PARAKANYAA (talk) 03:51, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Rename to Category:Right-wing militant groups and Category:Fascist militant groups so that we may have them as counterparts to Category:Left-wing militant groups and Category:Socialist militant groups respectively. AHI-3000 (talk) 04:11, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Fine by me, though as mentioned many groups in these categories do not fit the militant label. PARAKANYAA (talk) 04:13, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Entertainers from Sarasota, Florida

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Redundant layer. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 03:36, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Entertainers from Lakeland, Florida

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Redundant layer. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 03:35, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Entertainers from Coral Springs, Florida

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: Redundant layer. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 03:35, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Beatriz Haddad Maia Tennis coaches

[edit]
Nominator's rationale: A really trivial category. Fyunck(click) (talk) 22:32, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Theres literally another category that is exactly like this one but for Djokovic coaches, “Category:Novak Djokovic coaches”. I really do not see why this specific category should be seen as something different from that other one. Haddad Maia fan (talk) 23:01, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
A lot has to do with WikiProject Tennis guidelines for coaches. Bottom line is coaches are rare articles to be notable, and the most common case is when a player chooses coaching after retirement. Otherwise when a singles player wins one of the majors or is number 1 in the world, their coach gets way way more publicity. The bar is usually quite high for tennis coaches to have an article, let alone a whole tennis category. Fyunck(click) (talk) 01:04, 3 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, voorts (talk/contributions) 00:46, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Older discussions

[edit]

The above are up to 7 days old. For a list of unclosed discussions more than seven days old, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/All old discussions.

For older closed and unclosed discussions, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Previous 8 to 21 days.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/All_current_discussions&oldid=1267842097"