Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Categories

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Category:Politicide perpetrators

It's not clear to me what the criteria are for including a person's article in this category. I recently removed the category from Ali Larijani per WP:BLP, since I couldn't find any reliable sources using the term "politicide" in reference to Larijani. But looking at the people in the category, I'm not sure many of them meet that standard either.

One question is: if reliable sources refer to someone as a perpetrator of an event, and other reliable sources refer to the event as a politicide, is that enough to call the person a "politicide perpetrator"? That seems a bit like original research to me, but maybe I'm being too stringent. (I'm not sure the 2026 Iran massacres even meet the criterion of being referred to by reliable sources as a politicide, though.)

Personally, I'm wondering whether it might be best for the category to be deleted altogether. It seems like an uncommon enough term that its application to people might inevitably be inconsistent. Cadddr (talk) 20:45, 21 March 2026 (UTC)

Soviet Figure Skating Championships

Can someone please advise whether the action taken here (removing all but one category for this article) is appropriate or not? Thank you! Bgsu98 (Talk) 17:56, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

@Bgsu98: In the edit summary, Hillyrrr (talk · contribs) says pages should only be in their most specific category, per WP:CATEGORY. This uses "category", singular; this is a misreading of the guideline. What it actually says (at shortcut WP:CATSPECIFIC) is Each categorized page should be placed only in the most specific categories to which it logically belongs. This says "categories", plural. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:57, 27 March 2026 (UTC)

Redrose64: Thank you for responding; I didn't think that sounded right. By that logic, every article would belong in only one category. Bgsu98 (Talk) 07:11, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

No, it's a plural: more than one cat is allowed. The point is to discourage categories of trivial relevance. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 13:42, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Hi, I didn't misinterpret it to mean every article only belongs in one category. It just happens that Category:Soviet Figure Skating Championships is a subcategory of all the other categories in the page. My understanding is that if there is a more specific subcategory of a parent category, you should use only the subcategory instead of having both subcategory and parent category. Hillyrrr (talk) 14:23, 28 March 2026 (UTC)

Category:Greek Muslims

A user recently removed Category:Greek Muslims from the pages Cretan Muslims, Vallahades, Lyalevo, and Al-Hamidiyah; their reasoning was that "only individuals should be added to the category of Greek Muslims." I could see this maybe holding water for settlement-related articles like the latter two, which could be diffused into a more specific subcategory, but shouldn't the former two, pertaining to population subgroups, be categorized under it? For example, in the case of Cretan Muslims specifically, which is already categorized under the eponymous category Category:Cretan Turks, WP:CATMAIN seems to apply. – Demetrios1993 (talk) 07:22, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

Template:Alternative account

{{Alternative account}} is offered to editors so they can indicate they have alternative accounts.

But this template does not populate Category:Wikipedians with alternative accounts.

Shouldn't it? If it is intentional it does not, what was the reason?

Please discuss at Wikipedia talk:Sockpuppetry § Template:Alternative account and Category:Wikipedians with alternative accounts, thank you. CapnZapp (talk) 20:29, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Should singing synthesis sample libraries be considered "software"

Wikipedia talk:Categorization#Should singing synthesis sample libraries be considered "software" ~2026-23457-68 (talk) 18:29, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Discussion about history of instructions at WP:CFD/S

Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion#Reconstructing history of instructions of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy. —⁠andrybak (talk) 16:38, 16 May 2026 (UTC)

Islamic State terrorist incidents tree

Shouldn't we rename the tree of Category:Islamic State terrorist incidents to Category:Terrorist incidents claimed by Islamic State? In a number of cases it is not verifiable that Islamic State were the perpetrator, but it is verifiable that they claimed to be. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:54, 1 June 2026 (UTC)

@LateNightCoffee: I guess you will have an opinion about this. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:54, 1 June 2026 (UTC)