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Current requests

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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).

Opposed requests

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  • Adam of Macedonia is in Category:Prehistory of North Macedonia. I've noticed both categories I listed are further categorized with Greece-specific subcats, and started off as such (before older renaming). But they cannot have a wide-scope name and a smaller-scope content. If they are functionally Greece-specific categories (and that's what they are) their name needs to reflect that. Deiadameian (talk) 10:17, 24 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

On hold pending other discussion

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Done at Talk:Swedish Institute of Dramatic Art#Requested move 21 May 2025. TSventon (talk) 20:53, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Moved to full discussion

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Current discussions

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June 1

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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May 31

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Category:Alkene stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Alkenes; there are less than 60 articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:05, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Tilapiini stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Tilapiini; there are less than 60 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:51, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Acanthuridae stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Acanthuridae; there are less than 60 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:42, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Argentiniformes stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Argentiniformes; there are less than 60 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:41, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Batrachoidiformes stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Batrachoidae, as there are less than 60 articles in this category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:40, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Chaetodontidae stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Chaetodontidae; there are less than 60 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:40, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Synbranchiformes stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Synbranchiformes; there are less than 60 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:39, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Gymnotiformes stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Gymnotiformes; there are only 49 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:31, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Osmeriformes stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Osmeriformes, as there are only 26 articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:30, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Notothenioidei stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Notothenioidei; there are only 7 articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:30, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Galaxiidae stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Galaxiidae; there are only 38 articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:29, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lampriformes stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Lampriformes; there are only 30 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 21:20, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Seasons in Mexican sports

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Nominator's rationale: to better fit the naming scheme in Sports seasons by country - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 19:09, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Navigators

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Nominator's rationale: rename and disambiguate, the header says that it is for maritime navigators (not for flight navigators) but editors who categorize do not have to visit this page and may easily add flight navigators. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:13, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Opposers of the July Revolution (Bangladesh)

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Nominator's rationale: Original research and possible BLP violation Vinegarymass911 (talk) 16:12, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ambassadors of the Netherlands to the Kingdom of England

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Nominator's rationale: merge, only one article in the category, this is not helpful for navigation. Besides merge to Dutch Republic instead of the Netherlands. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:05, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Article Two Vesting Clause case law

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Nominator's rationale: There is no Article Two Vesting Clause case law (nominated by creator) Wrensewn (talk) 15:36, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Alcaldes of the Province of Cáceres

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Nominator's rationale: Unclear why this is using the Spanish word for mayor "Alcalde"; all other categories use the English word "mayor" Grnrchst (talk) 14:36, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Alcaldes of the Second Spanish Republic

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Nominator's rationale: Unclear why this is using the Spanish word for mayor "Alcalde"; all other categories use the English word "mayor". Grnrchst (talk) 14:36, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Military zhuangyuan

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Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category. upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 13:13, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Airfield Complex

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Nominator's rationale: Unclear scope; from the looks of it seems like a WP:SHAREDNAME issue. Paul_012 (talk) 11:39, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Nakagawa, Fukuoka

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:52, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Early colonists in America

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Nominator's rationale: merge, "early" is quite vague and in practice this category has been populated with 17th-century people, which makes the two categories coincide in purpose. One may wonder if the name of the target is well chosen, but let's leave that for a different discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:30, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Works about fictional serial killers

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Nominator's rationale: Category is duplicative and the name is not intuitive. silviaASH (inquire within) 10:26, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Victims of Red Terror in Soviet Russia

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Nominator's rationale: There's a grammatical mistake in saying "Victims of Red Terror" rather than "Victims of the Red Terror". Grnrchst (talk) 09:28, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Executioners by nationality

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Nominator's rationale: merge, only one of two articles in each of these categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:22, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Anarchists victims of the Great Purge

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Nominator's rationale: I made a grammatical mistake while creating this category and I can't move it myself. Grnrchst (talk) 09:19, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Discover Financial

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Nominator's rationale: On May 18, 2025, Discover Financial has acquired by Capital One. 180.251.226.66 (talk) 08:10, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Royal consorts of Transylvania

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Nominator's rationale: rename, per article title List of princesses consort of Transylvania. Perhaps it could have been listed at speedy. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:41, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Years in Wallachia

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Nominator's rationale: merge, mostly single-article categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:53, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:English male characters in soap operas

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Nominator's rationale: This is an overly specific category - most of the articles are located in the English subcategory with very few in the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish subcategories. This category has led to a lot of fictional characters being allocated the wrong category and has made the process harder, so I am proposing a merge (if someone could please add Category:Scottish male characters in soap operas, Category:Northern Irish male characters in soap operas and Category:Welsh male characters in soap operas to this discussion I would be extremely grateful). DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 05:37, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ghana–Belarus relations

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Nominator's rationale: No need for this category. We have Category:Belarus–Ghana relations. DB1729talk 03:04, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]


May 30

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Category:Hacrobia genera

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Nominator's rationale: Hacrobia is not a clade. All articles that were, as of today, classified here are placed in Category:Cryptista genera, rendering the category unnecessary. Alfa-ketosav (talk) 18:48, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Legislative districts of Metro Manila

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Nominator's rationale: These are not legislative districts of Metro Manila but rather legislative districts in Metro Manila. HueMan1 (talk) 07:12, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:49, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Helsingborgs SS swimmers

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Nominator's rationale: C2D Helsingborgs S. Category speedily moved 24 April but soon reverted. I haven't seen any intention to start a move discussion for the article after that. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 09:34, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:49, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Lynn Chircop songs

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Nominator's rationale: Only one known entry, which is itself a redirect, making this category essentially redundant. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 13:42, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Louisa Baïleche songs

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Nominator's rationale: Only one known entry, which is itself a redirect, making this category essentially redundant. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 13:41, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Rita Guerra songs

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Nominator's rationale: Only one known entry, which is itself a redirect, making this category essentially redundant. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 13:40, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Nakagawa, Fukuoka

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:09, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ghana–Azerbaijan relations

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Nominator's rationale: No need for this category. We have Category:Azerbaijan–Ghana relations. DB1729talk 06:21, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: I created this by mistake, back in 2021, not then seeing the existing A-G rels cat which had been created in 2018. PamD 07:01, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

History of Transylvania by period

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Nominator's rationale: split, aligning periodization with other countries and regions, without arbitrary intermediate cutoffs. Transylvania belonged to the Habsburg realm all the time so Category:Habsburg Transylvania suffices as a parent category for the entire period. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:13, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Athletes by country subdivision

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Nominator's rationale: Unneeded one-item category * Pppery * it has begun... 01:25, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Jewish-American gangs

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Nominator's rationale: Functionally the same as Category:Jewish-American organized crime, which is associated with the topic's main article Jewish-American organized crime and includes coverage of gangs (including subcat Category: Jewish American gangsters]] Longhornsg (talk) 00:55, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Do not change Looking at the gang parent categories and the organized crime parent categories finds they are different in general, and the Jewish categories are no different than the rest of ethnic categories here. Looking at the child categories and articles here just confirms this. No special treatment is warranted here. Hmains (talk) 01:49, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What is "special treatment"? How are the two categories different? Longhornsg (talk) 02:09, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
the special treatment is that it would then fit into the current gang parent category: Category:European-American gangs and its parents. This is about gangs and it belongs into the gangs category tree. Thanks Hmains (talk) 00:03, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:North Carolina State University articles missing geocoordinate data

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Nominator's rationale: Empty maintenance category from a project with <200 articles (most of which are biographies that don't need coordinates). Even if the project becomes active again, these maintenance categories are unlikely to be needed - there's unlikely to be any significant number of additional articles needing coordinates. Category:North Carolina articles missing geocoordinate data can handle any that do pop up. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:04, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Washington University in St. Louis articles missing geocoordinate data

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Nominator's rationale: Empty maintenance category from a project with <300 articles (most of which are biographies that don't need coordinates). Even if the project becomes active again, these maintenance categories are unlikely to be needed - there's unlikely to be any significant number of additional articles needing coordinates. Category:Missouri articles missing geocoordinate data can handle any that do pop up. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 00:02, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]


May 29

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Category:Popes of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria

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Nominator's rationale: rename, "of Alexandria" is redundant, per article titles Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church and List of popes of the Coptic Orthodox Church. This was originally User:Nederlandse Leeuw's suggestion. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:29, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Domesticus (Roman Empire)

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Nominator's rationale: Usually Latin-language categories tend to use the plural form, see gens categories like Category:Julii and Category:Aurelii. ★Trekker (talk) 20:57, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam weapons

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Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT. Created by an editor indiscriminately creating categories to make a point. Obi2canibe (talk) 13:39, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: The LTTE is known for building a large number of indigenous weapons and munitions. There are already several articles and the protentional for more. ÆthelflædofMercia (talk) 14:19, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No objection to WP:UPMERGE.--Obi2canibe (talk) 13:43, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. ÆthelflædofMercia (talk) 14:31, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam suicide weapons

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Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT. Created by an editor indiscriminately creating categories to make a point. Obi2canibe (talk) 13:21, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: The LTTE is known for using an extensive number suicide weapons ranging from bomb vests, bra bombs, car booms, different types of naval suicide craft and aircraft. Therefore, SMALLCAT doesn't apply here. ÆthelflædofMercia (talk) 14:23, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No objection to WP:UPMERGE.--Obi2canibe (talk) 13:43, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. ÆthelflædofMercia (talk)` ÆthelflædofMercia (talk) 14:30, 30 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Second ladies and gentlemen of the Philippines

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Nominator's rationale: No such role exist to refer to the spouse of the Philippine vice president. The vice presidential spouse did not serve as host of the vice president office either under the role "second lady". Associated article created and deleted as per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Second ladies and gentlemen of the Philippines Hariboneagle927 (talk) 10:48, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hotels in Jönköping

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Nominator's rationale: Only one article; does not help navigation. Already in Category:Hotels in Sweden and Category:Buildings and structures in Jönköping. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 10:42, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Buildings and structures in Sweden by municipality

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Nominator's rationale: To reduce the number of levels of Category:Buildings and structures in Sweden to Category:Buildings and structures in Sweden by county and Category:Buildings and structures in Sweden by city. The nominated categories are often sparsely populated as most buildings and structures are in a populated place. Category:Buildings and structures in Sweden by city is more developed than this category tree. For the cases of Hedemora and Karlskoga, there would be sufficient amount of articles to create a Category:Buildings and structures in Hedemora and a Category:Buildings and structures in Karlskoga. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 10:42, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

History of Wallachia by period

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Nominator's rationale: split, aligning periodization with other countries, avoiding arbitrary cutoffs. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:01, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Israel–Hamas war

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Nominator's rationale: To match main article's title per WP:C2D and WP:CONSUB. Skemous (talk) 02:42, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Eventual champion elimination seasons

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These categories run contrary to the guideline sections WP:NONDEF:

a defining characteristic is one that reliable, secondary sources commonly and consistently define, in prose, the subject as having.


if the characteristic would not be appropriate to mention in the lead section of an article (regardless of whether it is currently mentioned in the lead), it is probably not defining.

and WP:TRIVIALCAT:

Avoid categorizing topics by characteristics that are unrelated or wholly peripheral to the topic's notability.

Nominating for deletion. Left guide (talk) 00:11, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is to categorize teams that were eliminated by eventual champions.
In addition, this is part of franchise histories, and the only sources are, of course, the leagues' histories. These categories would get multiple teams. Mario662629 (talk) 00:26, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

the only sources are, of course, the leagues' histories.

Are there independent sources that provide serious treatment of this concept? Editorial decisions on Wikipedia are generally based more on the weight of what independent sources say, and less on what organizations (such as sports leagues) say about themselves and their connected activities. Left guide (talk) 00:41, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]


May 28

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Category:Turkey musical group stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be upmerged into Turkish musical groups, as this stub category has less than 60 articles in it. Either upmerge it, or rename it to "Turkish musical group stubs" per fooian naming scheme - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:46, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Nepalese dance stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be upmerged to Nepalese culture stubs and Dance in Nepal, since there are less than 60 articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:43, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Nepalese cuisine stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be upmerged to Asian cuisine stubs and Nepalese cuisine; this stub category has less than 60 transclusions - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:42, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Tuscany geography stub merging

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Nominator's rationale: All of these stub categories will likely be upmerged to Tuscany geography stubs since they have less than 60 transclusions - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:33, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Rome stubs

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Nominator's rationale: This stub category has less than 60 transclusions - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:28, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ajmer district geography stubs

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Nominator's rationale: This stub category has less than 60 mainspace articles - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:19, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Karnali Province politician stubs

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Nominator's rationale: This stub category has less than 60 mainspace articles - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:17, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Municipality seats in Mexico

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Nominator's rationale: Natural terminology. The relevant article is at municipal seat. Moscow Mule (talk) 22:09, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support sounds good to me - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 22:42, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There are also 31 daughter categories which, if this one proceeds, should be brought into line. Moscow Mule (talk) 22:12, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Nominator's rationale: Created by a promotional user, also seems if this was a valid cat, it would of be already created, - FlightTime (open channel) 21:23, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Category was previously deleted in 2009, based on Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_September_23#Category:Hollywood_Walk_of_Fame. Schazjmd (talk) 21:33, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Redundant infobox title param

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Nominator's rationale: This category is used to track unnecessary uses of title and name parameters in infoboxes, yet it is only utilized by a small number of comics-related infoboxes:
As the category's description says, "If the page is moved or merged the title needs to be re-added to the infobox." Because of this, there should be no reason to mark these usages as "redundant", as the duplicated information is perfectly acceptable, as it is with all other infoboxes. ~ Eejit43 (talk) 20:34, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Nobility from Florence

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Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:OCLOCATION, apart from the subcategory this is about nobility of the (Grand) Duchy of Tuscany. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:13, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:16th-century Canadian people

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Nominator's rationale: Category for a single person, on a characteristic that wasn't even applicable to her. The person here was an Inuit woman from Baffin Island, which is certainly in Canada now but was not part of Canada as it existed within her lifetime -- and since France didn't actually start sending any real number of settlers to Canada until 1608, there really isn't anybody else who could be refiled here in lieu. So we don't need this for just one person from a place that didn't even become part of Canada until almost 300 years after her death.
Upmerging not needed, as she's already in other appropriate subcategories of Category:16th-century North American people. Bearcat (talk) 18:02, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

History of Moldavia by period

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Nominator's rationale: split, to avoid unnecessary duplication with century categories, and to avoid arbitrary cutoffs. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:33, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Band frontmen

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Nominator's rationale: Category not usefully defining of its contents, as it's effectively indiscriminate and virtually unmaintainable. "Frontman" is not a defined role in its own right, but is just sometimes used by music writers as an alternative to repeating the word "singer" over and over again, and thus there isn't a functional distinction between being the "frontman" and being the "singer". So essentially, this should contain every single person who is or was the lead singer of any band at all -- but just 14 (now 20) people have actually been filed here, and it's painfully easy to think of hundreds upon thousands of other obvious notables who've been overlooked.
Update: Roger Daltrey, Eddie Vedder, Chris Cornell, David Gilmour and Tom Petty, the exact five people I specifically named as oversights in the original version of this nomination statement, just conveniently happen to have been added to this category after I mentioned them here, without any real further effort to add any of the other several thousand band frontmen that I didn't specifically call attention to — besides those five, the only other new entry that's been added at all is Kurt Cobain. But since two of the five I did call attention to were Vedder and Cornell, that doesn't prove that the creator's actually making an effort to properly populate this with all of its potential entries, and just proves that they went "oh yeah Seattle grunge bands whoops bye".
And we've also seen (and gotten bogged down in) more than one iteration of the argument that even a "solo" artist is technically also the "frontman" of an eponymously-named "band" of session musicians (e.g. the time somebody tried to create an article about "Natalie Imbruglia (band)" as a separate topic from Natalie Imbruglia the person), not to mention the fact that even singers in bands often also release solo recordings separately from their day jobs and/or go solo after the band breaks up too — so it doesn't even cleanly distinguish between singers in bands versus solo artists either.
We have a longstanding consensus that we don't categorize singers for the distinction between "lead singer" and "backing singer" -- since any singer can be a lead vocalist on some recordings and a backing vocalist on others, it's an utterly useless distinction -- but this is effectively just "Lead singers" by another name, and thus doesn't escape that consensus. Bearcat (talk) 15:58, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • I Abstain from voting as no one but me has added to it, but am now reconsidering as I see that people have added entries to it. I have also added more entries as well. It seemed like a good category to create. Davidgoodheart (talk) 19:00, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Dartmouth College Greek organizations

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Nominator's rationale: Match main article for Category. Naraht (talk) 13:35, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Activists from Fukushima Prefecture

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 10:20, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam bomber aircraft

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Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT. The LTTE only ever used two specific models of aircraft. No potential for growth as the LTTE has been destroyed. Obi2canibe (talk) 09:59, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Furthermore, it is not even a defining characteristic of the only article in the category. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:55, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

British Overseas Territory and Crown Dependencies cleanup

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Nominator's rationale: Missed by Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 March 29#British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies upmerge. -- Beland (talk) 08:08, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Music commissioned by the Hollywood Studio Symphony

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Nominator's rationale: I can find no evidence that any of this music was actually "commissioned by" and not just performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony. It also doesn't seem to be mentioned in any of the articles/redirects, so hardly a defining characteristic. Fram (talk) 08:27, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Aerial tramways in Armenia

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Also merge with Category:Transport in Armenia.

Also nominating for merge:

Category:Argentina–Angola relations

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Nominator's rationale: No need for this category. We have Category:Angola–Argentina relations. DB1729talk 07:09, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]


May 27

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Category:Events in the Arab world

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Nominator's rationale: delete, a category for pan-Arab events might be useful but better start that from scratch. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:25, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, bibliomaniac15 21:46, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Children's books set in early modern history

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Nominator's rationale: merge, mostly one- or two-article categories, which is not helpful for navigation. After 1600 some articles are possibly already in a fiction by year category which necessitates a manual merge. The 1770s and 1780s should also be manually merged to the other target because most articles are already in Category:Children's books set during the American Revolutionary War. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:16, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, bibliomaniac15 21:41, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Olympic sportspeople convicted of crimes

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Nominator's rationale: Trivial intersection of type of sports competition and outside-sporting career. The parent was deleted in 2012 and 2013, but since then recreated. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 19:06, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, bibliomaniac15 21:41, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Nobility from Nancy, France

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Nominator's rationale: manually merge, Nancy was simply the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine and many articles are already in Category:Dukes of Lorraine. The other articles can be added to the merge target. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:40, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Anarchist anthropologists

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Nominator's rationale: I don't see how this intersection with occupation is defining. SMasonGarrison 21:28, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Vehicular rampage

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Nominator's rationale: "Vehicular rampage" is rather ambiguous and is also highly sensational. it seems like this category is referring to vehicle-ramming attacks, so I propose renaming it and its subcategories to something like "Vehicular attacks" or something similar harrz talk 20:50, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ambassadors of Spain

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Nominator's rationale: merge, only one article in each of these categories. This is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:57, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Agree, but add Ambassadors of Spain to each person if not already included -this is their main occupation category if they are not already included. ¬¬¬¬

Category:Highways in Lesotho

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Nominator's rationale: I feel they are meant to have the same articles. GeographicAccountant (talk) 19:42, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Companies of Sweden by year of disestablishment

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Nominator's rationale: Most categories have maximum two entries, only three have 3 or 4 entries, making it more useful to categorise by decade. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 15:20, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Swedish sport by year and month

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Nominator's rationale: With a peak of about 10 articles per year in recent years, it is to narrow to be useful categorising sports events in Sweden by year and month. See also Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 11#Sports events in Russia by month. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 14:48, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pakistani airport stubs

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Nominator's rationale: Should also be merged into Pakistan geography stubs and Pakistan transport stubs; this stub category has less than 60 mainspace articles in it - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 13:11, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:18th-century Jacobite pretenders

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Nominator's rationale: Do we really need to diffuse this category by century? SMasonGarrison 12:03, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose No rationale offered for the merging. Dimadick (talk) 14:20, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: Most of these articles mention the Jacobite status in the lead or have a dedicated section on it. Maybe that is disproportionate, but that is a discussion that needs to be had on the talk pages of the individual articles. Until then, the category should not be purged. I'm neutral on whether this category gets merged or not. Furius (talk) 09:35, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Struthio

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Nominator's rationale: I have no idea what is the difference between struthio and ostriches and which way to merge, but now the categorization is absolutely random. --Altenmann >talk 09:36, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Judaic studies

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Nominator's rationale: Match the main article Jewish studies. Jewish studies, not Judaic studies, is the preferred academic name for this field, see for example UCL Institute of Jewish Studies, British Association for Jewish Studies, AAJR uses "Jewish studies", Association for Jewish Studies, World Congress of Jewish Studies. Longhornsg (talk) 08:38, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:English female characters in soap operas

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Nominator's rationale: Extremely specific - whilst the British and English female character templates have 100s of pages, the Welsh, Northern Irish and Scottish ones only have a few, and the British and English ones seem to be used interchangeably, so I believe the NI, Welsh, English and Scottish ones should be merged (not all of the categories obviously, just "female characters in soap operas". If someone could please add Category:Northern Irish female characters in soap operas, Category:Scottish female characters in soap operas and Category:Welsh female characters in soap operas to this nomination that would help as I don't know how to do it on twinkle DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 15:19, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 08:32, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ukraine military unit and formation stubs

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Nominator's rationale: To fit with the "fooian" naming scheme; see subcats of Military unit and formation stubs - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:52, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Works for me. Her Pegship (?) 03:29, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:American football defensive back, 1920s birth stubs

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Nominator's rationale: There are less than 60 transclusions in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:41, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Linux distribution logos

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Nominator's rationale: Category containing a single file. --Min☠︎rax«¦talk¦» 01:20, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]


May 26

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Category:Public Research Organisations in New Zealand

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Nominator's rationale: As there are 4 "Public Research Organisations" in New Zealand, the category will at most contain 4 articles plus 1 eponymous one, only 2 of which currently exist. Gjs238 (talk) 22:52, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for letting me know about the discussion @Gjs238. I'm not wedded to having the category but I made it because we have one for Crown Research Institutes, which are being replaced by PROs. The research institutes category contains a number of different types of organisation - individual labs, institutes at universities, CRIs and PROs, which I think is quite messy and difficult to navigate if you don't already know what these things are (there's also a lot of existing and historical orgs with Wp pages missing from the category, which I've put on my to do list to address). So having a subcat for the things we can cleanly delineate (like CRIs and PROs) made sense to me.
Also noting that three PROs currently exist - the third is being rebranded from a reorganised Institute of Environmental Science and Research. I hadn't added the category to that page yet as I was hoping for more info to come out that would help me decide if it should be dealt with as a section on the existing page, or if the reorganisation is drastic enough to merit a new organisational page (I've added the cat now, though, for what it's worth). We know at the moment that this current government plans four PROs but there is no reason to suspect that the number wouldn't change in the future.
I don't hang out in category discussions much so will leave the decision up to you, but thought these considerations might be useful. For future reference, what's the minimum number of pages for a viable category? DrThneed (talk) 23:30, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Gothenburg by occupation

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Nominator's rationale: Layer not needed. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 19:34, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:FL Studio

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Nominator's rationale: Eponymous category that only contains two articles, and I don't see anything else that would need it. Both entries are already in the sole parent category, and that category is not very full so it doesn't need diffusing. Otherwise, it provides a link to Commons, but I don't see why that would be a reason to keep it. Seems like an eponymous cat for its own sake rather than for any necessary purpose. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 13:15, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Oregon organization stubs

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Nominator's rationale: There are less than 60 mainspace articles in this stub category - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 12:56, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Activists from Ehime Prefecture

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. No need to merge. Both entries are already in the proper subcategory. Lost in Quebec (talk) 12:39, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:American political activists

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Nominator's rationale: Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't activism always political? I don't understand the distinction here. This also applies to everything in Category:Political activists by nationality -- I can list them all out if needed. Prezbo (talk) 11:21, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose: Political activist and three other redirects with "political" in the name all lead to activism, which could imply what the nominator is suggesting. However, the activism article does distinguish political activism as a specific method of activism, which leads me to believe that no, activism isn't always political. On top of that, both American political activists and American activists have hundreds of entries, and the other subcats of Political activists by nationality have dozens more, so there's valuable diffusion done here. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 13:24, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ambassadors of Mali

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Nominator's rationale: merge, only one article in every category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:44, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge There are only five distinct articles in all the nominated categories, and Ahmed Mohamed ag Hamani and Yeah Samake make up most of them. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:35, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per above. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 13:24, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]


May 25

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Category:The World at War

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Nominator's rationale: Only contains one article. (Oinkers42) (talk) 23:40, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Riize members

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Nominator's rationale: It's been accepted through precedent and as defined by Category:Musicians by band that single-member categories for groups should not exist. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 23:11, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hearts2Hearts

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Nominator's rationale: Overcategorization per WP:OCEPON. Only 3 articles and 2 subcategories, which sufficiently interlink amongst one another. Another subcategory only contains an image file.StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 23:01, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Petros Iakovidis

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Nominator's rationale: Category contains four albums by Iakovidis, and the artist himself. It should be an albums category rather than an eponymous category. 1857a (talk) 16:59, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Volleyball players from Yokohama

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Nominator's rationale: Also merge to Category:Volleyball players from Kanagawa Prefecture

Also propose merging-

All categories with just one or two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 12:00, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Communists oppose the Chinese Communist Party

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Nominator's rationale: Clearly mistitled new category (perhaps "Communists who oppose..."?), but irredeemable due to its binary nature. For example, Japanese Communist Party has been added to the category, but a cursory glance of that article indicates that there are both pro- and anti- sentiments towards the Chinese Communist Party. This appears to be WP:POV-pushing. Dorsetonian (talk) 11:11, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. There are certainly people who are communists and who are against the CCP, and they are relatively minor among the communists (especially the Leninist line), so they need to be classified individually. In addition, when it comes to the description or use of categories in articles usually related to existing political parties, the most emphasis is placed on the 'present'. ProgramT (talk) 11:17, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
However, I am not opposed to changing the title. Examples: Category:Communists' opposition to the Chinese Communist Party / Category:Communists against the Chinese Communist Party. ProgramT (talk) 11:22, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Albums produced by Bob Ferguson (music)

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Nominator's rationale: Both categories are for the same producer (Bob Ferguson (musician)). 1857a (talk) 07:33, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Isn't the end result the same regardless? StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 05:26, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Medieval Romanian nobility

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Nominator's rationale: split, as Romania is anachronistic. Wallachia and Moldavia merged to Romania in the 19th century. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:33, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose under the nominator's rationale, figures like Litovoi or Bărbat being "Wallachian" is anachronistic, while Transylvanian figures like Gelou do not fit in the proposed merge. The current category reflects the ethnic background of the nobility and the national historiography of which they are interest. Super Ψ Dro 09:26, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
"Vlach" is an exonym encompassing multiple ethnic groups. In such a category would also fit Nikoulitzas Delphinas, who is more commonly discussed in academia regarding the Aromanian ethnic group, or Ivanko (boyar), to whom attributing a precise ethnicity would probably be controversial. In any case, with a "Vlach" category we would be just recreating the nominated category, but with a broader and more vague scope. I consider it superior to group together figures with a clear shared ethnic background and common coverage in the national historiography of a country. The figures I mentioned in my first comment are relevant because they undoubtedly fit in the category even if it hasn't been added to their articles. Furthermore, the use of "Romanian" is not anachronistic as it refers to the Romanian ethnic group here. We also have Category:Slovak nobility for figures that lived in a period when there was no Slovak state for the same reason, as well as Category:Slovene nobility.
If the nominated category is considered problematic, it could just be merged to Category:Romanian nobility. Super Ψ Dro 12:19, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • With establishments specifically the current consensus seems to be that if the subject still exists today then the article can be listed in an establishment of today's country. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:03, 27 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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