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June 24

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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1 article Athletics (Track & Field) Venue categories

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Nominator's rationale: per WP:OCVENUE and WP:NARROWCAT approaching WP:C1, an empty category
All of these categories have two things in common:
  • They only have 1 article
  • That article is not about a dedicated athletics venue
Most of these single articles are association football venues that are nominally multi-purpose stadiums with occasional exhibitions for other sports, including athletics, which is not defining. Other articles don't mention athletics at all. As always with NARROWCAT, no objection to future recreations if multiple new article appear, but these articles should not be included. -


June 23

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Category:Major League Baseball history by location

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Nominator's rationale: Under-developed categories which are redundant of Category:Baseball in X and Category:History of sports in X. All articles are otherwise correctly categorized. User:Namiba 16:27, 25 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Other opinions on whether these categories hinder or help navigation?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 22:58, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Still only two participants in the discussion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 00:00, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Legal software companies

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Nominator's rationale: These companies primarily do legal software, the crossover is not necessary. N3rsti (talk) 20:26, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 21:02, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Codrington, Barbuda

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Nominator's rationale: Consistency with main article CROIXtalk 19:07, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Men by social class

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only two subcategories. Possibly put Category:Knights under Category:Men by occupation. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:15, 16 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 18:50, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nomination, for the articles that are currently in these category scheme, this is not defining. Katzrockso (talk) 00:05, 24 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Critics of Israel by religion

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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.

Terrorist incidents by decade

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with mostly only one subcategory. Follow-up after this earlier discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:40, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Comment By chance, I just left a message on Smasongarrison's User talk page because I was going through some of the terrorism categories for 1910 and found myself confused by how to distinguish between some of them in the big picture (see User talk:Smasongarrison#Terrorism_categories). For example, we have "political violence", "nationalist" and "right-wing" terrorist incidents that could be up for debate among editors. I'm really looking for some guidance so if you browse through our many categories on terrorism and terrorist incidents and you can find a way to make them less ambiguous, I'd welcome that. But not here, I didn't mean to start a new discussion here, just looking for experts on categories to weigh in elsewhere. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 21:20, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions)

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Nominator's rationale: Overlapping categories. Merge or reverse merge. SMasonGarrison 22:42, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Follow-up discussion see Category_talk:Port_Adelaide_Football_Club_players_(all_competitions)#c-The-Pope-20260621072100-Deletion_decision. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:04, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: re-opened per the discussion linked above.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 15:58, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Friendslop video games

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Nominator's rationale: WP:SUBJECTIVECAT. "Friendslop" is often used pejoratively and as a quality judgement by the commentor. ~ A412 talk! 14:41, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Warm Regards, Miminity (Talk?) (me contribs) 15:20, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Free-to-play video games that got offline versions

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Nominator's rationale: Fails WP:CATDEFINING. ~ A412 talk! 14:05, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Angry Birds spinoff games

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Nominator's rationale: They're essentially on the same subject, and I believe there's not enough Angry Birds spinoffs to justify a separate category. Signed, SleepyRedHair. (talk - contribs) 12:54, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:19th-century Unitarian Universalist church buildings

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Nominator's rationale: Align with the parent Category:Unitarian Universalist church buildings by century of completion and all siblings such as Category:Churches completed in the 19th century. Opposed at speedy because they were bundled with different categories for which it was decided needed discussion, but I don't think these ones did need discussion. Nevertheless, it's an opportunity to confirm the name format for the tree. Mclay1 (talk) 06:03, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Besides it is often not fully completed. Many famous churches and cathedrals are expanded in the course of centuries but that is not what we mean here. What is being meant here is first-time completion, or having a service for the first time. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:20, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Destinyokhiria (talk / cont) 12:25, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Russian directors by federal subject

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Nominator's rationale: redundant category layer, upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 10:05, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Scholars of business at Durham University

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Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category. If not merged, it should be renamed to Business theorists of Durham University to match the parents. SMasonGarrison 09:29, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional revenge seekers

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Nominator's rationale: Fails WP:SUBJECTIVECAT pretty hard. Whether someone is "motivated by revenge" is open to interpretation and may be one of numerous things driving a character, not necessarily being defining. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 09:28, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Educational theorists of Durham University

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: keep. SMasonGarrison 10:42, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category, upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 09:26, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Nevermind, we've found enough to populate the category. SMasonGarrison 10:42, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Japanese Lutheran theologians

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Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category, upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 09:21, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Superheroes who are adopted

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Nominator's rationale: Since the previous attempt to delete the category did not reach consensus, I propose a rename to make the category more defining. It expands the scope to any adoptee characters from comics, who will still be almost entirely superheroes because most comics are about them. It's a virtual overlap. This will cause it to be removed from Category:Superheroes by type and added to Category:Comics characters instead. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 09:20, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
"who will still be almost entirely superheroes because most comics are about them. " American comics (excluding newspaper comics), not comics worldwide. Fram (talk) 10:52, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename since a-there are comics characters who are not superheros b-superhero is a subjective term. However we need to make sure this is a defining characteristic of the character, so it should be present in basically all the stories about them. I would suspect there is a story somewhere where Bruce Wayne got adopted by someone after his parents were killed, but that would not put him in this category. Clark Kent belongs though.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:23, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Books by Levon Helm

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Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category, upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 09:14, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Converts to Roman Catholicism from deism

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Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category, that's vaguelydefined. What constitutes deism? I could't find a category for Converts from deism SMasonGarrison 09:13, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:New Zealand Thomists

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Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category, upmerge for now. SMasonGarrison 09:06, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sanamahist communities

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Nominator's rationale: Fails WP:DEFINING. Sanamahism is a religion, while the members of this category are ethnic groups. Religious affiliation is not a defining characteristic of these communities, nor are all members necessarily Sanamahist. The category is therefore non-defining and misleading per WP:CAT. Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 06:57, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Keep : The category functions normally like other categories, Category:Buddhist communities, Category:Christian communities, Category:Donyi-Polo communities, Category:Hindu communities, Category:Jain communities, Category:Jewish communities, Category:Muslim communities, Category:Sikh communities, Category:Spiritualist communities, Category:Taoist communities, etc. Haoreima (talk) 10:43, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Haoreima@Marcocapelle See, WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. Per WP:DEFINING and WP:CAT, entire ethnic groups cannot be placed into a religious category. Pluralistic ethnic populations are defined by ancestry and culture, not a single uniform faith. Unless a group is strictly of that religion (example articles can be sanamahism in manipur, or some sanamahi religious organisation), this categorization is misleading. A religious category should contain specific religious organizations or topic articles, not general ethnic groups. You are using this category to list ethnic groups Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 14:31, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Haoreima@Marcocapelle leaving this aside, I do not know what the difference is between this and Category:Sanamahists. They probably should be merged. It appears to be the same kind of category. Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 18:04, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • That is actually a very good point. In sibling categories it has the meaning of populated places or ethnic groups with a majority- (or sometimes even minority-) population who have that certain religious belief. But that is not the case with the articles in this category. So based on that we can easily conclude on merging this one after all. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:32, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Aquatic superheroes

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Nominator's rationale: Just a bunch of loosely related superheroes who revolve around water in some way. As the characters are already in Category:Fictional characters with water abilities if merited, the category can just be deleted as overly vague. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 06:10, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional underwater divers

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Nominator's rationale: Being divers is not defining for Betty or Veronica. When those and the various redirects or miscategorizations are removed, there are too few members to support a category, as it boils down to a couple of GI Joe characters of unclear notability and a comics character who seems non-notable but can be upmerged to Category:Fictional competitive swimmers if necessary. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 05:55, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional water sports people

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Nominator's rationale: Relisting as the original discussion ended in no consensus. Category is too narrow to be needed and was originally made by a blocked user. The subcategories can be merged, while category members can simply be removed, they are already classified as male or female sportspeople. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 04:08, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:30, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional aquatic characters

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Nominator's rationale: Renominating as the original discussion was opposed by a user who was later blocked. This category runs afoul of WP:OCASSOC as it can better be described as "characters associated with the ocean" than literally aquatic - aside from the one category "aquatic creatures". If non-aquatic characters are removed, it fails WP:NARROWCAT. It's also dubiously defining. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 04:03, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Delete No meaningful cohesion.
–LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:45, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedia cheese-inspired shortcuts

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Nominator's rationale: These two related types of pages are usefully grouped together EEng 03:37, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:1359 establishments

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 14:43, 11 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:29, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]


June 22

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Category:David Benveniste Artists

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Nominator's rationale: We don't categorize artists by music managers because it's rarely a defining characteristic. I am also nominating the subcategory Category:Velvet Hammer Music & Management Group Artists for the same reason. Pichpich (talk) 20:15, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 22:22, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Nominator's rationale: En dash Mvcg66b3r (talk) 20:46, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 22:17, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

People from Kovno Governorate

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Nominator's rationale: Categorizing people born by a former third-level administrative subdivisions that are not mentioned anywhere in the article of the subject, or even in the article of the town/village they were born in (quite clearly non-defining). This also presents issues with verifiability as town's former subdivision cannot be easily checked. Propose up-merging to the second-level admin division. Renata•3 21:58, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Asian youth football seasons

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Nominator's rationale: One article in each season category, well underpopulated. FastCube (talk) 19:57, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Field propulsion

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Nominator's rationale: This is not a properly defined subject and, as such, there ought not to be a category. jps (talk) 18:13, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. This is not an actual category anyone uses. It a bunch of otherwise unrelated technologies glued together even though they are not considered to be "field propulsion" by anyone in the field.
In particular, I see one technology that I am personally familiar with as an electronics and hydraulics engineer: The drive system of the ship Yamato-1. I have personally seen the Yamato-1 thrusters at the Ship Science Museum in Tokyo and have read several papers on them. Fascinating stuff, but so far not practical.
The basic idea behind most ships and boats (sailboat and sailing ships being a notable exception) is "apply force to water. Water goes this way. Ship goes that way". Same with most aircraft (sailplanes and gliders being a notable exception) except with air.
Propellers, ducted fans, jet engines, Jet Ski motors, and even rowing with oars all use the same basic principle. The nature of the air pump or water pump varies, but not the basic drive principle.
The Yamato-1 was basically a giant Jet Ski. It pumped water out of a tube. See [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV-VAjrh1dI ]. The difference was the nature of the pump. Instead of an impeller it used a Magnetohydrodynamic drive.
I can find zero sources -- reliable or not -- calling the drive system of the Yamato-1 "field propulsion".
Another dubious inclusion is the mention of maglev trains. That's just a standard Linear motor. All electric motors propel something with a (magnetic) field, but nobody calls them "field propulsion".
There are many, many fringe/unreliable sources online that talk about "field propulsion". This is largely driven by Bob Lazar describing the "field propulsion" system he says UFOs use in the 2019 Netflix documentary Bob Lazar: Area 51 & Flying Saucers. If someone runs into the phrase "field propulsion" somewhere on the Internet and comes to Wikipedia to read about it, the odds are very high that they ran across it on a site talking about UFOs and not one talking about anything in this category. Alas, we can't create an article on the UFO engine because no reliable source cares about the technical details of the engines used by flying saucers. Not just very few. None. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:26, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Economic crises in Iran

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Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category, Merge to parents Economic crises in Asia, Economic history of Iran, Disasters in Iran. Gjs238 (talk) 14:35, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 17:25, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Works set in the 30s

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Nominator's rationale: Isolated decade category. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:34, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Fiction set in $YEAR

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Nominator's rationale: Completely overlapping subcategories. There's a gap at the decade level after the 2090s where the Works category has a missing Fiction sub-level but there are often Films subcategories. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:48, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Added the individual years and container categories. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:45, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support. --Fadesga (talk) 16:54, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. The fiction ones feel redundant in my opinion... :) - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 17:00, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support but for consistency, there will be more cleanup to do with categories such as Category:Fiction set in 10th-century Abbasid Caliphate. Pichpich (talk) 18:27, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support, although some things that "are set" in a year are not a Fiction, such as documentaries, paintings, history books. -- Genoskill (talk) 19:53, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:High commissioners of Uganda to India

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 05:29, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Same as below, but for India. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 21:41, 2 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: n.b. "below" refers to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 June 2#Category:High commissioners of Uganda to Tanzania.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 14:41, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Hills of Chennai

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Nominator's rationale: Overcategorization Gjs238 (talk) 14:12, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
MErge Just 3 articles. Didn't even bother to check if they belogn in a Chennai category. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:55, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
One is not in Chennai proper, and the other two are already in other subcategories for Chennai. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:39, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ivorian television series endings by year

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Nominator's rationale: With only one article and one category, these make navigation rather tedious... - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 14:57, 2 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nom. Some of the target categories have even more subcategories to be upmerged. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:36, 2 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Such as...? I'd love to help out :O - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 03:34, 3 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Siblings of Category:2005 in Montenegrin television are two isolated years. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:47, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Employee relations

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Nominator's rationale: Employee relations redirects to Industrial relations. This is part of one category loop at User:SDZeroBot/Category cycles/1 and another loop at User:SDZeroBot/Category cycles/2 * Pppery * in solidarity 18:36, 2 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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1921-22 in Russia

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Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:OCYEAR, isolated one- or two-articles categories, this is not helpful for navigation. A merge is not needed, the articles are already in a year in Russia category and in a month by continent category. If not merged, then at least rename and change "Soviet Union" to "Russia" because the Soviet Union was established 30 December 1922. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:49, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Note: The article is 1922 in the Soviet Union and the category is Category:1922 in the Soviet Union.--User:Namiba 13:52, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes, in case of a transition during the indicated period the name at the end of the period is decisive. For the whole year that is 31 December but for the month categories it is at the end of the month. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:39, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 13:22, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Diesel multiple units with locomotive-like power cars

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Nominator's rationale: The trains here do not meet the criteria for a Diesel multiple unit, i.e. A DMU requires no separate locomotive, as the engines are incorporated into one or more of the carriages. I therefore propose simplifying the category name to match this - not least as no one outside WP regards these trains as DMUs... Cheerio, Mattdaviesfsic. Talk to me. 08:24, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 13:22, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:1768 establishments in Italy

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  • Nominator's rationale There are 3 articles here. 1 was established in the Duchy of Mantua by the ruler of that duchy who was also the Archduchess of Austria, Queen of Hungary and eventually Holy Roman Empress. Another was established in the Kingdom of Naples. The third was established in the Kingdom of Sicily. If we had more articles I would argue for establishment categories for each of those because those were clear and specific states. However there is not enough content to justify this. There was no clear state of "Italy" in the 1760s. There is as a result no way to clearly identify what is and is not Italy. In that year the Kingdom of Sardinia, which is the force that eventually unifies Italy, included significant areas now in France. Is something established in Savoy in 1768 established in Italy? Is something establishied in Nice in 1768 established in Italy? I do not think there is any coherent way to argue yes or no here. What about in Avignon, since it was part of the Papal States? What about in the area along the eastern coast of the South Adriatic sea in Venice? I do not think we should be creating categories that call on us to ignore contemporary bounders and ask us to treat as if they control for all time the borders imposed by treaty at an end of war. Also, is something established in southern Tyrol established in Italy in 1768? I think we are best off just not having the category at all.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:20, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge per nom, the articles are all referring to different states. After the merge, the articles are still together in the continent category. This presumably is a trial nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:42, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep, these are commonly referred to as "in Italy", both then and now. Italy (like Germany) is not some novel concept that only started existing when the country was finally unified, but has been a common indicator for much longer. It's also very, very strange to nominate one, seemingly random year from this continuous series (the 18th c. is nearly complete, Category:18th-century establishments in Italy). Fram (talk) 07:55, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
    Which reader is helped by putting these in "Europe" instead of in "Italy" actually? To use a commonly misused claim around here, this nom makes navigation worse, not better. Fram (talk) 07:57, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Dramatists and playwrights from Georgia (U.S. state))

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Category:Politicians from Córdoba

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Nominator's rationale: Córdoba Department of Colombia is never considered the primary topic compared to Category:Politicians from Córdoba, Argentina (major city) and Category:Politicians from Córdoba, Spain (historic city). Unknown Temptation (talk) 07:46, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional canids

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT. Unnecessary category. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 07:01, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Unnecessary taxon layer. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:06, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional felids

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT. A classification of this specificity is not necessary for fictional characters. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 06:50, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to Category:Fictional mammals, etc. It is not helpful to group all felids under cats. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:47, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Durand Line

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Nominator's rationale: The names are exactly synonymous, but it is unclear which target should be used. The main article is titled Durand Line, but "Afghanistan–Pakistan border" is a systematic name. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:57, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Founders of cities in New France

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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Given Mexico below, this one will need to be closed the same way (and Category:Founders of populated places in New Spain from June 1 will require another CfD if the consensus favors the use of present-day national boundaries).
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:25, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Alternate reality

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Nominator's rationale: Essentially the same, except less coherent. Main article is a disambiguation page. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:03, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hindu devotional films

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Nominator's rationale: Common and precise name per multiple sources including [1], [2], [3] and so on. Kailash29792 (talk) 04:39, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Founders of cities in Mexico

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Nominator's rationale We only have 1 article here. My experience is that there are some founders of populated places who have not been categorized. I have no idea if there might be more for Mexico. In this case a lot of populated places in Mexico were founder when the area was New Spain, and some were founder in earlier times than that, so this category does not have a super huge potential. It does have some potential for growth in theory, since there were many populated places founded in Mexico after indepedence, but I have no idea if we have articles on any of the founders of those populated places. The vast majority of populated place founders are not notable (some number of populated place founders even their names are not recorded) so for now I think the best move is merging. If someone can find others who go here I would instead support renaming to Category:Founders of populated places in Mexico.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:33, 1 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Literary awards by genre and type

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Nominator's rationale: It should use "or" because "and" has a specific use in meta category: instead of using two criteria to sort the way a category like Category:People by occupation and nationality does, it's just the combination of content that would otherwise be in "Literary awards by genre" and "Literary awards by form". Circéus (talk) 22:59, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
On second thought, it should be "by genre or category", to match the scheme already used for Category:Mass media awards by category. Circéus (talk) 15:52, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:2021 classical albums

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Nominator's rationale: Diffusion by year is probably not necessary at this time. Other decades have diffused in this manner but not needed for one album for one year for this decade. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 23:45, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Tetuán Walk of Fame

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Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD and WP:V
We don't have a main article on the Tetuán Walk of Fame and none of the biography articles in this category so much as mention this award. Doesn't get any clearer than that. If anyone thinks they can establish enough notability for an article, I copied the current category contents right here so no work is lost. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:07, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lucky Strike Designer Award recipients

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Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING
We don't have a main article on the Lucky Strike Designer Award [de] but it's named after Raymond Loewy who designed their iconic cigarette packaging. The biographies in this category don't treat the award as defining with just over half mentioning it in passing and the rest not mentioning it at all. If anyone thinks they can establish enough notability for an article, I copied the current category contents right here so no work is lost. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:07, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:29, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose: It was actually a pretty important accolade in the history of the industrial design industry (that's why I created the category). It was discontinued—presumably due to the association with the tobacco industry, but the list of 20 people who accepted the award in its heyday is a veritable "Who's who" of the period when it was still an active (and highly coveted) award. It is important that we maintain this information from a historical perspective. I would be happy to add a mention of the award to all of the articles that are included in the category if you like. Again, I strongly oppose deletion of the category. Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 05:39, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
PS: The German and French Wikipedia articles actually list 23 three people (22 entities) rather that the 20 I mention above. I've just added one (Kurt Weitzmann) who's already covered in enwiki, and there are possibly three more candidates for new articles there too (if either Tom Schönherr or Andreas Haug or their design firm are WP:N). On the Wikidata side (Lucky Strike Designer Award [d]), the entity also is somewhat developed. -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 06:05, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
It can be challenging to port information across Wikipedias since, in this case, the French article has no sources while the German one seems to rely largely on primary sources and outdated links. Ideally this category information could be preserved by converting it into a new list article that meets the sourcing and notability standards for English Wikipedia. (I wasn't sure if that was possible though, which is why I didn't propose listifying.) RevelationDirect (talk) 11:58, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
The French and German articles are useful but also somewhat irrelevant. The award is real, it was significant, and if we wanted one, we could easily justify a small article about the award itself. We are discussing the Category deletion nom here—and I see no rational for its deletion full stop. (Have a look here too, which might help you see my point of view.) Cheers, Cl3phact0 (talk) 12:09, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • As it is not even sure if an article can be created then we should certainly not have a category. And even with a small article, the winners can simply be listed in that article. This is not comparable to a Nobel Prize or a Victoria Cross. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:28, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]


June 21

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Category:Television stations in Fargo–Moorhead

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Nominator's rationale: Better suited category name and aligns with the other similar categories. OWaunTon (talk) 22:02, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Mvcg66b3r (talk) 22:05, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Songs by language

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Nominator's rationale: For some context, all of these categories were previously named "[X]-language songs" but were speedy renamed to "Songs in [X]" after the brief discussion started by NLeeuw at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_August_11#Category:Latin-language_songs, which was kickstarted following Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_August_9#Category:Hindi-language_works. A week later, citing that Latin discussion, Hindi-language songs was merged to Hindi songs after the latter was renamed to Songs in Hindi after another brief CfD by NLeeuw at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_August_18#Category:Hindi_songs. A week later, another brief discussion from NLeeuw at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_September_1#Songs_in_Fooian_part_1 renamed the song categories for Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Judaeo-Spanish, Malayalam, Urdu, and Yiddish due to the same rationale of Latin that they're in languages whose name cannot be mixed up with a nationality or ethnicity, and whose articles (just like Latin and Hindi) don't have the word "language" in the title. The rest were speedy renamed.
In July 2025, this was revived by NLeeuw at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_July_18#Category:Serbo-Croatian_books, resulting in the category Books in Serbo-Croatian. A month later, a wider discussion that included NLeeuw, myself and others at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 August 25#Category:Algerian writers in French instead resulted in consensus to adopt the "-language" construction for over 200 categories intersecting language and nationality. This was affirmed for English-language television shows and English-language novels. The "-language" construction is also consistent with the overwhelming majority of similar Categories by language that already exist on Wikipedia: Albums by language, Books by language, Films by language, Magazines by language, Mass media by language, Newspapers by language, Novels by language, Operas by language, Radio stations by language, Singers by language, Surnames by language, Television by language, Websites by language, Works by language, Writers by language.
NOTE: The aforementioned Books in Serbo-Croatian has been renamed Serbo-Croatian-language books to be consistent with its adjacent categories at Books by language. I argued that CfD (Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 April 22#Category:Books in Serbo-Croatian) against the "Latin argument" that some categories don't require "-language" per their respective language articles/categories (C2C/C2D). One user disagreed. For that reason, I am leaving those Latin, Arabic, Yiddish, etc categories for a separate discussion that can be focused on just that. Οἶδα (talk) 20:10, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom, consistent with other categories, and this is far clearer. PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:16, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support The previous discussions were clearly based on lickspittle. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:16, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Comment I notice that two of the current categories, Songs in Sámi languages and Songs in Yolŋu languages, have names which indicate they cover more than one language, yet the proposed rename doesn't capture or account for this. I wonder whether there's a way of capturing this within the proposed format, or whether these should be left out given the proposed format implies it's referring to a singular language, rather than several? Turnagra (talk) 10:46, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I'm happy to leave them out. I considered both those categories when nominating but still went ahead given the subcategories at Sámi languages. I'll remove them so as to keep this discussion focused. Οἶδα (talk) 17:58, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
 Done Οἶδα (talk) 18:00, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Months in Spain

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Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, mostly isolated one- or two-articles categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Apart from the United Kingdom, no other European country has categories by month this early. With one exception, Category:May 1906 in Spain, all articles are already in a year in Spain category or in another subcategory thereof so that a dual merge is not needed. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:57, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Count's Feud

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Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer, the subcategory suffices. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:16, 14 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:WikiProject Greyhawk participants

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Nominator's rationale: The project or task force hasn't been a thing since 2009 when it was redirected. Gonnym (talk) 17:49, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]


Category:Rail transport stations in London outside fare zones area

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Nominator's rationale: Currently the title suggests that these stations are in London when actually 0 are in London, 12 are in Hertfordshire, 6 are in Surrey, 5 are in Essex, and 1 is in Sussex by my count. JacobTheRox(talk | contributions) 11:26, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, Definitely not "London ticketing area". That could refer to CPAY. The current naming follows Category:Rail transport stations in London by fare zone etc. naming of the London fare zone system these stations are in (despite being on the very fringe). MRSC (talk) 11:31, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Well then an alternative is needed, but it can't be rail transport stations in London outside fare zones area because they're not in London! How about Railway stations in non-publicised London fare zones, because they actually in higher fare zones but it's just not shown to the public. JacobTheRox(talk | contributions) 12:35, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
But they are in the "London outside fare zones area". MRSC (talk) 12:41, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete, ticketing systems come and go, this is not a defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:57, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Delete, misleading category name, plus per Marcocapelle Cheerio, Mattdaviesfsic. Talk to me. 16:06, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment Okay, okay. I agree now. It needs to be renamed to something that does not imply these places are in London. MRSC (talk) 16:09, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment This category seems to have some people hot under the collar. Just to give some explanation, I am currently working on converting {{Infobox London station}} to {{Infobox station}}. Infobox London station was generating London zonal categories for all stations that had the fare-zone field populated. All of these 23 stations were in London fare zone categories. As part of the work of moving from one template to another the automatic categories have been removed and I have manually added all articles to a category. For the stations in the "unofficial" zones 10+ I put them all in the same category. So that's how we ended up here. If you are not aware, these are the 23 stations that are within the TfL ticketing area for Oyster and contactless but don't have publicised zones and appear on the London rail maps as "Outside fare zones" which is the naming I used for the category (clearly not a good choice!) MRSC (talk) 16:22, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
WP:CLN is always helpful: while having a list, template or category does not mean you cannot have one the others, the different namespaces have different standards which is called out in the third paragraph. - RevelationDirect (talk) 16:54, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:GalaxyCon navigational boxes

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Nominator's rationale: the category consists of a singular navbox Template:GalaxyCon, and there are no prospects of the category becoming bigger. —⁠andrybak (talk) 11:18, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Histories by former British Caribbean colonies

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Nominator's rationale: per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:SUBJECTIVECAT
None of these British colonies exist anymore so there's no difference between these history subcategories and their parent categories. It would be subjective for an editor to decide what went in the history subcategory because it's all history since these countries gained independence. I checked and all the target categories are already under "History in Foo by period" so this content will still remain in the history tree. - RevelationDirect (talk) 03:47, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Bahamas national football teams

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Nominator's rationale: per WP:OVERLAPCAT
National football teams will have different squads for men, women, youth, beach soccer, etc. The Caribbean sibling categories aren't consistent whether they describe that as singular "team" or plural "teams" but there's no purpose in having both categories. (We do sometimes see this pairing when one is a WP:SETCAT and the other a WP:TOPICCAT, but that's not how these are being used.) Both cats are tagged in case the consensus is to reverse merge. - RevelationDirect (talk) 03:47, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Delete the category instead of merging it into that. Because that's referring to the men's Bahamas team, which the women's team article can't go in. FastCube (talk) 04:21, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Huh, Bahamas women's national football team is already under Category:Bahamas national football team right now. @FastCube: In any case, based on your description, I think your suggesting a reverse merge where we would keep Category:Bahamas national football teams (and get rid of Category:Bahamas national football team). If that is the case, could you clarify your !vote as "Reverse Merge"? (If I misunderstood and you're against a merge in either direction, "Oppose" should stay.) RevelationDirect (talk) 09:50, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
No, I'm suggesting delete Category:Bahamas national football teams because it's not populated enough (for now, there's not many Bahamas national team articles), and keep Category:Bahamas national football team because it is populated enough as an eponymous category. Just keep Bahamas women's national football team out of Category:Bahamas national football team because they're two seperate teams. FastCube (talk) 23:07, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for clarifying. RevelationDirect (talk) 00:40, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment (as nominator) No objection if the consensus is to keep both cats and repurpose them. If that is the close, this should go to the working/manual process to move around some of the current articles, make the "teams" category a parent of the "team" one, and change some of their existing parent categories to avoid the current overlap. - RevelationDirect (talk) 17:02, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]


June 20

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Category:Grand Cru Champagne villages

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Nominator's rationale: Possibly eligible for speedy, but my French is rusty so bringing it here. Grand cru should be lowercase, and the French term should be pluralized to match the plural subject (grands crus...villages). Note that Champagne should remain uppercase, as it refers to the region in France. pburka (talk) 22:35, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Cocktails with Champagne

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Nominator's rationale: Possibly eligible for speedy, but bringing it here out of caution. Previous RM has established that uppercase Champagne is the region, and the wine should be lowercase; see Talk:History of champagne#Requested move 9 January 2025. Also see usage in, e.g. champagne cocktail (a kind of cocktail with champagne). pburka (talk) 22:15, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Publications of the United States government

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Nominator's rationale: merge, this category seems to be only about the federal government, but it is a distinction we do not need to make. If not merged, rename to Category:Publications of the federal government of the United States per WP:C2C. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:42, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Rename per nom as the category includes subcategories for state publications. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 02:29, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The current tree is

Renaming the sub-category to the category, or merging makes no sense. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 06:16, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Government agencies by region

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Nominator's rationale: The contents of this category aren't regions (city, continent, country). Therefore we should rename this to reflect the contents SMasonGarrison 17:32, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:North Carolina Provincial troops

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Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category, upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 17:28, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Publishers Weekly bestselling novels series

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 eponymous article. PARAKANYAA (talk) 17:17, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Given below, keep is fine. PARAKANYAA (talk) 02:20, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Publications of the United States

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Nominator's rationale: Totally isolated category, there are no other publication in country categories doing it this way, they all use the [x] published in [country] format or periodicals by country. Unclear what this is going for. It has two subcategories which are using different definitions of "publication" (far-right uses it to mean periodical, i.e. magazines and newspapers, and government publications uses it to mean things like Category:United States national commissions, which are not periodicals. And then there's another article in it that is a book.

So its definition of "publication" is "all media" which means it is redundant to Category:Mass media in the United States, which has the same scope. PARAKANYAA (talk) 16:45, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Taiwan Dancer aircraft

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. Underpopulated category SMasonGarrison 15:47, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:History of Spain by autonomous city

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Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only two subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:51, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Actors from Richmond County, Georgia

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layers. I've tried to populate each, but didn't find anyone. Delete for now. only child cat is already in Category:Actors from Georgia (U.S. state) by populated place SMasonGarrison 14:28, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sacramental law

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 05:28, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: rename, the content is specifically about the Catholic Church but that is not obvious from the title. This is also sort of a WP:C2C nomination per parent Category:Catholic liturgical law. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:06, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Rename for clarity and C2C. SomeoneDreaming (talk) 02:36, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Republic of Genoa

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Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, mostly isolated one- or two-articles categories, this is not helpful for navigation. I can imagine that there will be objections to the targets because the modern country of Italy was only established in 1860. However, discussions in order to have that changed did not lead to consensus so far. Meanwhile this nomination takes for granted that these years in Italy categories simply exist, without prejudice to discuss them again any other time. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:15, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge to Europe not Italy. I do not think Italy as a geographical concept is clear enough to use in these years. What is the scope of Italy as a location before unification? Do we include things happening in South Tyrol because it is now in Italy, even though that happens decades after reunification and thus treat the post-World War I (or maybe World War II) border of Italy as a thing that defines Italy for all time? Is it the "Italian peninsula" in which case we exclude thing happening in Sicily, Sardinia and I guess Corsica, which might actually exclude some of these contents. Do we include everything happening in the Republic of Venice, or just what happened in the part of that Republic now in Italy. How about things happening in the Savoyard State in the parts of the state that are now in France? Which is probably the trickiest because the Savoyard State is the entity that drives the unification of Italy. We can determine who is and is not Italian in 1780 with at least some idea, but determining where is and is not Italy in 1780 is much harder. Especially since the Papal States in the year also include Avignon. So in 1780 do we include Avignon, Savoy, the region of Nice, the entire Republic of Venice in Italy, if so why? on what principal? Any decision we make I do not think is justified. For event by year and establishment by year categories I think we should either categoriez by special Republic/Kingdom/Grand Duchy etc. or just use the general Europe category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:10, 22 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Arab geographers

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Nominator's rationale: delete, as far as articles are directly in it, the category is going to overlap strongly with Category:Geographers of the medieval Islamic world and the subcategories are already in Category:Geographers by nationality. Move article Kamal Abdulfattah directly under Category:Geographers. Move article Ahmad ibn Majid directly under Category:Cartographers. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:59, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support the whole nomination. We really should not be putting nationalities under the Arab category. In South-west Asia and North Africa all countries have or have had in the last 200 years significant non-Arab populations. In a few like Lebanon who is an is not Arab is a major cause of contention and we should not be flippant labeling people Arab.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:48, 21 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Christian terminology

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Nominator's rationale: containerize, these aren't articles about terminology as a subject, they rather are articles about subjects in Christianity. Move articles to the root category if they aren't already somewhere else in the Christianity tree. There are two exceptions that can stay: Glossary of Christianity and List of Christian terms in Arabic. Note that siblings Category:Judaism and Category:Buddhism are also container categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:12, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Terrorist incidents in the 1910s by continent

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Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer, upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 03:58, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Sammarinese politicians cleanup

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Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT Arctic Circle System (talk) 00:23, 18 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Since apparently Mass CFD does not include the proposed merge destinations in the nomination itself, here's a list (destination then categories to be merged):
Category:Sammarinese nationalists: Category:Sammarinese National Alliance politicians, Category:Sammarinese Fascist Party politicians
Category:Sammarinese socialists: Category:New Socialist Party (San Marino) politicians, Category:Unitary Socialist Party–Socialist Agreement politicians
Category:Sammarinese communists: Category:Sammarinese Communist Refoundation politicians
Category:Sammarinese Christian democrats: Category:Centre Democrats (San Marino) politicians
Category:Sammarinese social democrats: Category:New Socialist Party (San Marino) politicians Arctic Circle System (talk) 00:29, 18 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Arctic Circle System: Are you using User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massXFD? Separate the nominee and each merge target with a vertical bar. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:23, 18 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@LaundryPizza03: Yeah, that one. In the list of titles box, right? Arctic Circle System (talk) 05:28, 18 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Arctic Circle System: Yes, in the list of categories nominated for merging. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:38, 18 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Akron Aeros

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Nominator's rationale: Akron Aeros redirects to Akron RubberDucks because "Aeros" is a former name... - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:16, 17 May 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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  • Merge while there is no guideline on this, I think it makes more sense to merge. There is significant continuity between the Aeros and the RubberDucks except for the names. They play in the same stadium and same league.--User:Namiba 15:48, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Conflict involving Arab tribes

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Nominator's rationale: Another recently created category by the same user that created Category:Tribal Arab personality. The best I can tell, Arab tribes (Tribes of Arabia) are not subcategorized this way. Gjs238 (talk) 18:21, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Captaincy General of Chile

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 05:28, 23 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, mostly isolated one- or two-articles categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:32, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Metro Conference teams

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Nominator's rationale: The category nominated for deletion is an unnecessary layer when the conference itself is defunct. Of course all the teams are going to be former teams! The subsidiary "former" category should be its replacement and sit directly under the conference category. The "former" category also adds the disambiguator added to the parent in a recently concluded RM to make way for an article expected to take the Metro Conference title on July 1. It was not C2D'd to permit this nomination.
Not nominating in this batch, but at least Category:American South Conference teams and Category:Great West Conference teams have the same issue. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 06:59, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Deaths in the medieval Islamic world

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Nominator's rationale: I think that we should move this category up a level to "Death" rather than "deaths". that way we'll have to diffuse this category less of individual people SMasonGarrison 02:52, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Suicide bombings in the Insurgency in Punjab, India

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now, underpopulated category SMasonGarrison 01:33, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Real estate and property developers

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Nominator's rationale: I think we need to rename this category to make it clearer that this category is for people, not companies. Publishers (people) does something similar. I've just spent time purging the category of companies. Maybe the rename will help? SMasonGarrison 00:53, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:American amusement park businesspeople

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Nominator's rationale: Upmerge highly overlapping categories SMasonGarrison 00:42, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Retailing in Antigua and Barbuda

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Nominator's rationale: per WP:NARROWCAT
Without exception, all of these have no direct articles and one subcategory (either "Fooian brands" or "Retail buildings in Foo"). The brands are already well categorized without this unnecessary layer and I've given more specific merge targets for some of the buildings. No objection to future recreation of any of these categories, but there would need to be significant growth in the article space. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:05, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Guyanese brands

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Nominator's rationale: Per the spirit of WP:C1, an empty category
The only article in this category is the Demerara Distillers but it doesn't belong because, according to the article, is a consolidated parent company whose main brand is El Dorado Rum. I went through the Guyanese company cats and didn't find any obvious candidates to populate the category. Without the brands category, this branch just creates empty layers like the ones I nominated above. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:05, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Realogy brands

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Nominator's rationale: per WP:CATMAIN and WP:CATNAME
In 2022, Realogy changed their name to Anywhere Real Estate which was bought out by Compass, Inc. in 2025. All of these brands are now managed by Compass. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:05, 20 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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