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November 14

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Ships built by JP Rennoldson & Sons

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. (non-admin closure) Omnis (talk) 17:34, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Omnis (talk) 17:25, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
Withdrawing this one; I've found a few more articles after a search on Google but the company itself was not mentioned in the articles. Omnis (talk) 17:33, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Ships built by ISOICO

Nominator's rationale: Merge per nom. Only one article. Omnis (talk) 17:25, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ships built by John T. Shirley

Nominator's rationale: Merge per nom; only one article. Omnis (talk) 17:18, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Buddhism and law

Nominator's rationale: merge, only one subcategory and one article, this is not helpful for navigation. The article can be moved to Category:Buddhism and government but the subcategory does not belong there. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:49, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Murder-suicides in the District of Columbia

Nominator's rationale: This is consistent with other murder–suicide and Washington, D.C. categories, as well as their respective articles: Murder–suicide and Washington, D.C.. Raskuly 🐰 16:49, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Fictional characters who are illegitimate

Nominator's rationale: I hardly ever nominate categories (or anything) for deletion - however, in this case, I believe this category should be deleted as:

1.) Thousands of characters are illegitimate - meaning this list will always be packed but not full - and for the vast majority of them, it is not a defining category 2.) There are hundreds of characters whose status as illegitimate or non-illegitimate is unknown, unclear and/or unsourced 3.) I think this is a very outdated term and for the majority of these characters, they have never used that word/been referred to as illegitimate 4.) There is not a category for real people who are illegitimate (nor should there be, in my opinion) DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 14:21, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

  • Delete Agree; this is an oudated term and also not a defining characteristic for almost every character included. – Meena • 14:25, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Dune Entertainment films

Nominator's rationale: A financing partner for every movie that Fox and later, Warner Bros. is involved in... However aside from their Warner Bros. partnership, RatPac Entertainment was more of an indie house since its founding so idk if we can make a category page for RatPac/Dune Entertainment if this can happen or. SBF2004 (talk) 20:16, 6 November 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 11:41, 14 November 2026 (UTC)


Category:Ships built by Edwards Shipbuilding Company

Nominator's rationale: Delete since only one or two articles in all cases; I cannot find others for these companies. Have put manually placed them in its parent category Category:Ships built on the River Tyne. Not helpful for navigation. Omnis (talk) 10:32, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge to Category:Ships built on the River Tyne, these categories are not helpful for navigation, but the articles can be kept in the parent category. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:16, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
    I've done them manually but if I missed any then yes, I agree with merge. Omnis (talk) 17:17, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:People who emigrated to escape Bolshevism

Nominator's rationale: A weird non-defining category, which itself is difficult to define. It is full of people who fled Soviet Union to escape anti-Semitism in the first place, but we do not have Category:People who emigrated to escape anti-Semitism (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs). --Altenmann >talk 09:51, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Imidazothiadiazoles

Nominator's rationale: This category currently only has one member. None of the entries on the first page of this PubChem substructure search has a Wikipedia page, and neither of the pages returned by this PetScan search is an imidazothiadiazole, so I don't think that there are any more pages that would fit. Care to differ or discuss with me? The Nth User 08:45, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Muslim figures favored in Shia Islam

Nominator's rationale: rename (or delete), I am not sure if this is particularly defining, but at least "figures" is a strange noun to use in this context. Another possibility is "people favored in Shia Islam". Marcocapelle (talk) 08:15, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Works about hebephilia

Nominator's rationale: Category:Hebephilia was deleted due to leaning too far into original research. As hebephilia is debated in the field of psychiatry and considered to heavily overlap with pedophilia and ephebophilia, it is not widely discussed or recognized in media the same way pedophilia is (and ephebophilia is non-pathological which seems to be why it doesn't have a category either). Puzzlepiecelad (talk) 02:51, 6 November 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting having tagged both the nominated category and Category:Literature about hebephilia.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 07:31, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete per nom. Omnis (talk) 17:19, 14 November 2026 (UTC)


Category:Islamic extremism

Nominator's rationale: convert to disambiguation page, there is already Category:Islamic fundamentalism and Category:Islamic terrorism, this seems one category too many. SubCategory:Islam and fascism is entirely outlierish and the remaining content can be moved to the trees of Category:Islamic fundamentalism and Category:Islamic terrorism insofar it is not already there. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:58, 6 November 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 07:27, 14 November 2026 (UTC)


Category:Shinto terminology

Nominator's rationale: manually merge, these aren't articles about terminology as a subject, they rather are articles about subjects in Shinto. Move articles to the root category if they aren't already somewhere else in the Shinto tree. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:49, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Sepik–Ramu languages

Nominator's rationale: Only a proposal right now. Upmerge into Category:Papuan languages for now or Category:Languages of New Guinea if the former gets upmerged as well. Arctic Circle System (talk) 06:30, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Papuan languages

Nominator's rationale: The only defining features uniting most of these languages is that they are spoken in New Guinea or associated municipalities (and some don't even get that far) and that they aren't Austronesian, Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, etc. This is not sufficient basis for a category, and these languages should be merged up into Category:Languages of New Guinea and after that merged down into the current sister categories where possible. Arctic Circle System (talk) 06:23, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Israeli people of Sephardi descent

Nominator's rationale: It contains less than a fistful of persons and to my uneducated glance, I fail tosee what distinguishes "Israeli people of Sephardi descent" from "Israeli Sephardi Jews". --Altenmann >talk 06:08, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Shia fundamentalism

Nominator's rationale: merge for now, sparsely populated categories, this is not helpful for navigation. There is little need for merging. The subcategory of the first category is already in Category:Shia Islam and politics. The subcategory of the second is already in Category:Violence against Shia Muslims. The article in the last category is already in Category:Islamic terrorism in New York (state) and Category:Shia Islam in the United States. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:02, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

November 13

Category:French international schools in Paraguay

Nominator's rationale: Sparsely populated category. Aids in navigation by being merged up. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:08, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:08, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:International schools in Guyana

Nominator's rationale: Sparsely populated category with only one entry. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:04, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:09, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Ambassadors of South Vietnam

Nominator's rationale: After purging non-resident ambassadors from the two former categories, they were too few to necessitate categorization. For the two latter categories, none of the entries were resident ambassadorships; the resident ambassadorship was in London. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 19:48, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge and delete as nominated.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:04, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge/delete for now, these categories are not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:10, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Ambassadors of Vietnam

Nominator's rationale: After purging non-resident ambassadorships or determining the category only had non-residents, these are the Vietnamese ambassadorships that should be merged immediately. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 15:53, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge/delete per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:01, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge and Delete as nominated. Non-resident ambassadorships are not defining.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:05, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge/delete for now, only one or two articles in every of these categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:12, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Districts by London Plan classification

Nominator's rationale: I am nominating this category and its subcategories Category: International centres of London, Category:Metropolitan centres of London, Category:Major centres of London, Category:District centres of London.

In general I think categorising things based on their London Plan classification is quite dubious. Reading this Prospect article (https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/essays/51484/boris-has-failed), it says things like "So depending on which document you read, Johnson is sponsoring anything from 19 to 43 priority areas for development". This set of categories is not about opportunity areas or priority areas for development, this is about a third type of classification (in the 2021 version of the London Plan, it is referred to as "network classification"), not mentioned in the quote, however, I think the entire thing is questionable. Different iterations of the London Plan move pages between tiers, and when you read the most recent iteration of the London Plan, you see several different systems of classification operating simultaneously (see https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/the_london_plan_2021.pdf). Other classifications are "Night-time economy classification", "Strategic area for regeneration", "Commercial growth potential", among others.

I think this is a pretty clear example of Wikipedia:Overcategorization. Specifically Wikipedia:Overcategorization#Trivial characteristics and wikipedia:Overcategorization#Non-defining characteristics. The fact that there are so many different distinct classification systems in this one document makes each one more trivial and non-defining.

Additionally. It seems strange to use phrases like "Major centres of London", but which are quite subjective, and are only somewhat objectively defined by this one document. It's a little bit like Wikipedia:Overcategorization#Published list. This is one government document and is not exactly like an article, however in combination with the other reasons (triviality, non-definingness), I think it should definitely be a factor. UrbaniteMunicipalist (talk) 21:25, 30 August 2026 (UTC)

Sorry
I would like to include Category:Major centres of London. UrbaniteMunicipalist (talk) 22:04, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep. These are town centre classifications and have been pretty solid for the 25 years of the London Plan, with very minor adjustment, and predate it. All the classifications mentioned in the rationale above are about other unrelated things, so do not apply here. MRSC (talk) 00:57, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
  • At least merge Category:Districts by London Plan classification to Category:London Plan (or reverse merge) just because the latter is almost empty. I do not have an opinion about the subcategories, just a procedural comment: they should be CfD-tagged as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:26, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Taggng the subcats
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, * Pppery * it has begun... 04:58, 27 September 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 14:53, 13 November 2026 (UTC)


Category:The Railway Series characters

Nominator's rationale: Identical to Category:Thomas & Friends characters. Signed, SleepyRedHair. (talk - contribs) 17:09, 14 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep: They shouldn't be identical. Category:The Railway Series characters states This category contains articles about characters from The Railway Series by the Rev. W. Awdry. For characters who have appeared on the TV series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends see Thomas & Friends characters. whereas Category:Thomas & Friends characters states This category contains articles about characters from the TV series Thomas and Friends and its derivative works. For characters appearing in the original Railway Series books, see The Railway Series characters. Whilst it is true that several characters - Thomas, Gordon, Duck and many others - appeared in both, there are characters that were invented for the TV series and never appeared in the books, and I imagine that there are characters in the books that for one reason or another didn't make it to the TV series. See also Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 August 6#Category:The Railway Series characters, where Category:Thomas & Friends characters is referred to under its original name, Category:Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends characters, which it had from its creation at 04:31, 9 May 2006 (UTC) by Pegship (talk · contribs), until 4 September 2011 when it was moved by the obsolete "copy, paste, save, delete" method. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:01, 14 October 2026 (UTC)
    While this is true, the category hasn't been serving its intended purpose for a long while. A bunch of Thomas character articles were deleted years ago and the chances of them being remade are slim to none. There is not nearly enough reliable coverage for most Thomas characters, hence why there's a list for them. If I'm wrong then the category can always be undeleted in the future, but it just isn't needed right now. Signed, SleepyRedHair. (talk - contribs) 20:10, 14 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep (and clean up) per Redrose. Grutness...wha? 00:50, 15 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge? Delete? Rename? There are exactly four articles in each category and they are the same articles. I can appreciate that one series is a spin off of the other but there are no viable articles to distinguish them as categories (see WP:OVERLAPCAT). We would do the same even if there were one or two differences, and there are none. Archrogue (talk) 14:15, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 14:08, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Angola–Germany relations

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are the main article and the German campaign in Angola in 1914–1915. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:59, 5 November 2026 (UTC)
Keep I've added Category:Angola–Germany relations.--User:Namiba 14:02, 6 November 2026 (UTC)
You meant Battle of Naulila? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:57, 6 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment, there are now three articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:12, 6 November 2026 (UTC)
There is established consensus that expatriate and diaspora categories do not belong in bilateral relations categories. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:07, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 14:06, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: the articles added do not seem to be entirely related to bilateral relations in this respect as they occurred whilst Angola was a colony of Portugal. Additionally, three articles is still too few to aid in navigation. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 15:48, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 1

Nominator's rationale: Only three episode articles across four seasons. We do not need categories for each season. --woodensuperman 14:02, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge instead to Category:Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episodes. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 15:46, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
No need, articles are already present. --woodensuperman 16:34, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per precedent. Οἶδα (talk) 20:06, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, this is not helpful for navigation. Merging is not needed, the articles are already otherwise in the right place in the tree. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:20, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Echuca-Moama

Nominator's rationale: Category:Moama is a separate category Gjs238 (talk) 13:07, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
Rename: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 15:45, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:WikiProject Indian cinema articles

Nominator's rationale: Redundant to Category:Indian cinema task force articles, which includes all of these as well and is C2A with Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Indian cinema task force and Template:Indian cinema task force. Vestrian24Bio 10:00, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge: per nomination; we shouldn't have redundant or overlapping administrative articles as that can make WikiProject management, growth, and creation incredibly difficult. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 15:45, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ambiregnal protists

Nominator's rationale: I don't think there's a reason to keep this category, no one used it since its creation in 2014 anyway. Pretty much every protist is ambiregnal too, so not needed. Jako96 (talk) 09:18, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
Comment: since the category is a soft-redirect, I am not sure if we are allowed to or should delete it, but I am in favor of deletion if the case is yes. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 15:44, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Baháʼí terminology

Nominator's rationale: delete, these aren't articles about terminology as a subject, they rather are articles about subjects in Baháʼí faith. This will also make it similar to the Buddhist, Christian and Judaism siblings which are containerized, except that the Baha'i tree does not contain any subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:01, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 15:43, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Surah chapters

Nominator's rationale: deletefor now, these categories only contain one chapter and one verse, this is not helpful for navigation. The articles are already in Category:Medinan surah and Category:Quranic verses respectively. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:34, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 15:42, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Isobutylthio compounds

Nominator's rationale: The category only has one page. Also, this PetScan search did not yield any applicable pages to add, and the first page of this substructure search does not have any chemicals with English Wikipedia pages, suggesting that the underpopulation of this category isn't due to lack of searching. I therefore propose upmerging to its parents. Care to differ or discuss with me? The Nth User 04:13, 6 November 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 04:52, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 15:42, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Pfeffer Peace Prize laureates

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING
The Pfeffer Peace Prize is 1 of 3 peace awards issued by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, an American peace group. The articles don't typically treat the award as defining, mentioning it in passing with other honours. Muhammad Yunus won both this award and the Nobel Peace Prize and the disparate treatment in that article is revealing. The winners are already listed in the main article for any reader interested in this topic. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:45, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 15:41, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Australian Lacrosse Hall of Fame

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING
The Australian Lacrosse Hall of Fame was established in 2025 and these biographies here were all part of the inaugural class. I don't see a class of '26 on their website, at least not yet. It's certainly possible over the years that this award may eventually rise to the very high threshold we have for WP:OCAWARD, but it's premature to create the category now. The winners are already listed in the main article for any reader interested in this topic. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:45, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
@RevelationDirect the Class of 2026 has been selected and will be announced in December, with a formal induction ceremony in April 2027. Please hold off deletion for now. Lukeoz (talk) 00:57, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
Good to hear. I would support updating the article to reflect those additions while still not favoring the category. RevelationDirect (talk) 01:17, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 15:40, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

November 12

Category:Recipients of the Medal of the 10th Anniversary of the People's Republic of Poland

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING and WP:OCAWARD. This was a one-time state jubilee medal issued in 1954–1955 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Polish People's Republic. Over 260,000 medals were awarded broadly across party officials, military personnel, civil servants and workers, making it a routine commemorative decoration rather than a defining characteristic of the recipients' notability. - Toadboy123 (talk) 11:41, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 19:44, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Proprietary technology salespersons

Nominator's rationale: Likely WP:NONDEFINING and vague, there's no parent Category:Salespersons which itself would be vague encompassing nearly everyone from CEOs to smaller vendors. Brandmeister talk 23:20, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
    • We have a category Category:Salespeople. So some of the claims above are just plain false. I havd no opinion on this particularly category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:38, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
    • Delete Contents are mostly businesspeople, not salespeople. It is also a pointless intersection, since nearly all commercial tech is proprietary. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:40, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per LaundryPizza03. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:40, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per LaundryPizza03 and nomination; it seems to be a trivial and vague intersection. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 19:43, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Sports relations categories

Nominator's rationale: Sports relations categories consisting entirely of irrelevant articles about the participation of country A at multinational, recurring sporting events hosted by country B (or with the addition of one other article) or only a single article. AusLondonder (talk) 18:20, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete with comment: delete most as it stands per the nomination, with a question/comment on whether or not the individual specific country to country sports rivalries and trophies should be recategorized into the main relations category if the rest of the category is to be deleted (e.g., Category:Romania–Russia sports relations has Kiseleff Cup in it which is Romania-Russia specific; should it not thus be merged to the regular relations category? The same is true of Category:Romania–United States sports relations, Category:Georgia (country)–Russia sports relations, Category:Australia–South Korea sports relations, Category:China–South Korea sports relations). Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 19:51, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
@AusLondonder pinging for your input. Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 19:51, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
@Blackfootferret Fair point with articles like Kiseleff Cup. Such articles should probably be manually recategorised if these categories are deleted. AusLondonder (talk) 19:33, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
Agreed. Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 19:42, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Doctor Who Screenshots/Episode Stills

Propose merging Category:Doctor Who screenshots and Category:Doctor Who episode stills. They appear to be redundant as they both have a seeming 1:1 overlap. Yes I am a nerd -XCBRO172 (How could you tell?) 16:47, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Merge to screenshots, matching parent Category:British television series screenshots. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:42, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Diners in Michigan

Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category, upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 12:31, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:42, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. The only article is already in the other parent cat. Οἶδα (talk) 20:02, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Dominion of New England

Nominator's rationale: merge/delete, enormously complicated category tree, while all it needs are three year subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:16, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge/delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 19:53, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge/delete per nomination. Οἶδα (talk) 20:03, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Jewsrael

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are a subcategory about Jews and the main article for Israel–Tajikistan. Israel ≠ Jews. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:22, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Ambassadors to Luxembourg

Nominator's rationale: At this point, I'm pretty sure all the non-resident postings are gone or at CfD. That just leaves several small categories to upmerge (and a few large ones), mostly from other countries in Europe. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:12, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. These categories are too narrow to aid navigation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 11:57, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, these categories are not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:44, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Israel–Luxembourg relations

Nominator's rationale: The Israeli mission to Luxembourg is concurrent with and stationed in Belgium. As for the other contents, there is the main article and Jews subcategory. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:55, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ambassadors of India to Luxembourg

Nominator's rationale: India does not have an embassy in Luxembourg. The ambassador is stationed in Belgium. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:53, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete this is a non-resident appointment. Such appoinrments are not defining.John Pack Lambert (talk) 11:55, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:46, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Apostolic nuncios to Luxembourg

Nominator's rationale: Not a resident posting. According to Apostolic Nunciature to Luxembourg, this position is stationed in Belgium. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:51, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Ambassadors of Cape Verde

Nominator's rationale: 10 unique articles and 1 list is probably the smallest I've seen thus far for UN member states. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:22, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge 12 categories to hold a total of 11 articles is truly excessive.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:41, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:47, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Cape Verde–Israel relations

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are an empty subcategory and a category about Jews. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:12, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Ambassadors of Canada

Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated ambassador categories for Canada, finally. I didn't check some of the larger categories not in the nomination, but I have little doubt of their contents. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:00, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge all these categories are too narrow to aid navigation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 11:54, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, these categories are not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:49, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep 'Ambassadors of Canada to Iceland' because both Canada has an embassy in Iceland and Iceland has an embassy in Canada since 2001. (source: https://www.government.is/ministries/diplomatic-missions/ottawa-canada/iceland-and-canada/ ). As an negotation that if it is deleted, then it does not need an undeletion to be recreated, only that sufficent amount of articles have been created to put in it. No comment on the other entries.--Snævar (talk) 12:09, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:High commissioners of Canada to South Africa

Nominator's rationale: Necessary cleanup for Canada. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:57, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge we categorize roles by what they do not what they are called. The holders of these two titles did the exact same things. For similar reasons we have ine category for the heads of an educational institution, despite both the institution changing its title over time and the title of the institution head changing over time.John Pack Lambert (talk) 11:50, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:High commissioners of Canada to the Dominion of Newfoundland

Nominator's rationale: Category layer with one subcategory and no direct contents. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:42, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment there are 3 bio articles and 1 list in the category, it is the only sub-category under the parent at present.John Pack Lambert (talk) 11:41, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge to Category:Ambassadors of Canada. There were only ever two people who held this appointment. The others were acting holders which is not defining. Since Newfoundland was not fully self governing at this point the UK did not have a high commissioner there and it apoears no other country had a high commissioner or ambassador there. So merging to this target is the best way to avoid narrow categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 11:48, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ruined cities

Nominator's rationale: Created two years ago, still barely populated. Covered by the more specific cats at Category:Ruins . Gotitbro (talk) 06:32, 29 September 2026 (UTC)
Created by a now blocked editor, blocked for creating inappropriate categories despite repeated warnings . Gotitbro (talk) 06:34, 29 September 2026 (UTC)
Keep and populate I don't think this matches any existing subcategory of Category:Ruins. It should be very easy to search the subcategories for Middle Eastern countries, in particular. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:56, 29 September 2026 (UTC)
Merge to subcategories of Category:Former populated places as completely overlapping. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:59, 29 September 2026 (UTC)
Actually, no, that doesn't quite match, either, since that could include former polities like East Berlin that are now part of a larger city. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:01, 29 September 2026 (UTC)
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Category:MyNetworkTV affiliates

Nominator's rationale: MyNetworkTV affiliates are essentially independent stations Mvcg66b3r (talk) 23:57, 14 September 2026 (UTC)
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  • The deletion of the list article is based on the all or nothing WP:NLIST which requires reliable source that talk about the whole list. In contrast, WP:NOTABLITY has a more piecemeal approach in evaluating each article definingness to MyNetworkTV. WP:CLNT asks to look at these different standards and not assume topics deletedin one XFD, should automatically be deleted in another. (Of course this doesn't mean we should automatically keep it either.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:14, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Novels set in 6th-century Anglo-Saxon England

Nominator's rationale: Only one article in category. Qualiesin (talk) 18:26, 20 August 2026 (UTC)
Merge to all parents. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:30, 20 August 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, to Category:Fiction set in 6th-century Anglo-Saxon England, Category:Novels set in Anglo-Saxon England and Category:Novels set in the 6th century, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:35, 20 August 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete Saying this is "set in 6th-century England" is not really accurate. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is as categorized Modern Arthurian Fiction. Arthurian fiction consistently has issue with complexities in the setting. I think we should just categorize it as such, and not engage in attempts to say what century it is set in, because it often has things about its setting that make it unworkable. The extreme is E. B. White's Once and Future King where we learn Uther Pendragon was the conqueor of 1066. Arthurian fiction does not have a real century of setting. We need to stop trying to be more precise that we can be accurate.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:56, 20 August 2026 (UTC)
    In this case, it is confirmed to be set in 528. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:01, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
      • That is an arbitrary date Samuel Ckemrnts assigned to the work. Just because he says that is the setting does not mean that everything in the work is realistic to that year. It is not. We need to not treat arbutary dates theown out by writers as meaning more than thry do. I do not think the sum total of the work justifies the century category just because the writer used that year to jystify parts of the plot.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:23, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
        We can not base categories (or category inclusion) based on "but it is or isn't convincingly set in that place or age". We have Category:Novels set in the 24th century, will you try to judge which ones are plausible for that period and which ones aren't? The accuracy of the novel has no bearing at all on our categorization, if the author claims it is set in place X and year Y, then we categorize it as place X and year Y, no questions asked. Fram (talk) 07:44, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep but change to Category:Novels set in 6th-century Anglo-Saxon Britain instead. The cat now has 3 entries, and with the wider (and arguably more accurate) scope, it can be expanded with e.g. The Misfortunes of Elphin as well. Fram (talk) 09:08, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
    In that case, all the similar categories will need to be renamed and expanded. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:50, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
    Correction, my proposal should be read as Category:Novels set in 6th-century Britain. Fram (talk) 09:59, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
    • It is a fair point that in the 6th century England did not exist and there was nothing resembling it either. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:55, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment The fact that England did jot exist at the time does not stop many Arthurian works from being explicitly and statedly set in England. We need to stop treating border line fantasy fictional works as if they are set in reality.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:26, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
    Why? We don't claim "these novels give the best image of country X in period Y", we just categorize based on "the author placed this in country X and period Y". A novel about secret nazi bases on the Antarctic is still a novel set at the Antarctic. Burroughs' novels about John Carter are set on Mars, even if doesn't resemble the actual Mars at all. Decategorizing novels because they are historically, geographically, ... inaccurate is a very slippery slope of WP:OR. They are novels, fiction. Fram (talk) 07:47, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Hamilton family

  • Nominator's rationale Hamiltom is a very common last name. There are other famoly groups of notable people with this last name than Alexander Hamilton, his wife and descendants. That is who this category is about. I think we shoukd rename it for clarity and to avoid incorrect placements.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:20, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
    Nomination fixed. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:43, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment. Normally I would agree. However, Hamilton family does exist. Οἶδα (talk) 04:43, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment we have Category:House of Hamilton which is a much larger Hamilton family. There are cases where categories need more disambiguation than article names. This is one. Alrhough the article might need to be renamed. For the record even who Alexander Hamilton's father actually was was not always universally agreed upon.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:03, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
    even who Alexander Hamilton's father actually was was not always universally agreed upon
    To be fair though, genealogical questions probably wouldn't preclude him from being considered a member of that family. Either way, I'm inclined to agree the main article should be renamed. It is ambiguous with House of Hamilton and the broader Clan Hamilton kindred. Οἶδα (talk) 17:59, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment Would something like Category:Hamilton family (United States) or similar disambiguation work? That better defines it as the American branch of the overall Hamilton family/clan. HighlandFacts (talk) 20:02, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
    • The overarchingly most notable petson here is Alexander Hamilton. This is a grouping of him, his wife and there deacendants.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:43, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename as nominated, for a better distinction versus Category:House of Hamilton. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:32, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename per nom. Οἶδα (talk) 06:17, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Bolivia–Canada relations

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are Bolivia's participation at international sports events in Canada. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:02, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 15:58, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Ambassadors of Yemen

Nominator's rationale: Small categories that do not aid in navigation. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 01:00, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge I presume you pre-filtered the non-resident positions this time? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:59, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge these are too narrow categories to aid navigation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:23, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ambassadors of Yemen to Ukraine

Nominator's rationale: Neither categories' entries were resident ambassadors to their mission countries and thus neither category is needed. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 00:47, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:12, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete non-resident ambassadorshups are not defining.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:24, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Algeria–Nigeria relations

Nominator's rationale: Only content is an article about an ambassador, who is already in Category:Ambassadors of Nigeria and Category:Ambassadors to Algeria. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:30, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 00:46, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete not justiified

Category:Burkina Faso–Nigeria relations

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are 2013 Africa Cup of Nations final and articles or subcategories about expatriates or diaspora. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:28, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 00:45, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ivory Coast–Nigeria relations

Nominator's rationale: Only content is an article about a diaspora group. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:27, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: not enough articles to aid in navigation. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 00:41, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Horror fiction television series

Nominator's rationale: Citing Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 May 29#Category:Horror, the main horror television series category was moved to Horror fiction television series at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 June 23#Category:Horror television series. User:JDDJS attempted to change this Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 November 4#Category:American horror fiction television series, but was held up because they did not nominate the whole tree. As JDDJS stated there: Including fiction in the title is not necessary. It's not include in Category:American horror novels or Category:American horror films. Unless we're going to argue Category:True crime television series is horror (it isn't), including fiction is redundant. Category:Horror was moved to Category:Horror fiction based on the mainspace article being titled horror fiction. But crime fiction is titled with 'fiction' as well. Yet we don't name Category:Crime television series as Category:Crime fiction television series instead. Οἶδα (talk) 00:21, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
Rename "Horror fiction" is redundant because there isn't horror nonfiction. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:37, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
Rename: per LaundryPizza03. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 00:40, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename, "fiction" is redundant because there isn't horror nonfiction. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:04, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

November 11

Category:Deniers of the Gaza genocide

Nominator's rationale: Broad and non-defining category that could encompass anyone who holds the same position on this issue as a significant number of reliable sources or disputes the activist framing of the issue. Partofthemachine (talk) 23:59, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete Classic WP:OPINIONCAT. I have repeatedly supported deleting Category:Holocaust deniers (but not Category:People convicted of Holocaust denial) for the same reason. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:39, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete per nomination and per WP:OPINIONCAT. Jweiss11 (talk) 03:44, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete Seconding LaundryPizza about this being WP:OPINIONCAT. EaglesFan37 (talk) 03:56, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
The description of this category (and the one it was modeled off of) is defined. It qualifies people who A: have denied these violent events happened, and/or B: have denied the events qualify as genocide. I didn't add Bernie Sanders because he previously said he was waiting on the ICC's ruling (CA), but did add Haley Stevens for explicit comments in office that "There is no genocide". (MIAdv) Pinoccappuccino (talk) 19:06, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
Weak keep I'm unsure if WP:OPINIONCAT applies here simply because of preceding similar categories (genocide deniers). It's very possible that this category was not made in good faith, but opinionated actions that don't violate rules/policies can still meet consensus. I think the category criteria could use some work, however. ThePoggingEditor (talk) 03:47, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete Totally unnecessary. GenuineArt (talk) 16:35, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • What does "encompass anyone who holds the same position on this issue as a significant number of reliable sources" mean? AusLondonder (talk) 16:56, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
    I think they mean that the people in this category have the same views on the issue that you would see on reliable sources. E.g. Hilary Clinton holding the same position that CNN or NYT holds on the issue.
    My problem with this argument is that to remove someone from the category could require original research, when the current criteria is primarily based on statements made by a figure (in which finding quotes from secondary sources does not constitute OR). Additionally, there's precedence to disregard reliable sources based on coverage of a particular topic (see WP:ADL).
    While I (weakly) disagree with deleting this category, I do agree that it at least has the potential to cast a wider net than it should, which I think is what nom is trying to get at (correct me if I'm wrong). ThePoggingEditor (talk) 04:00, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
    The more fundamental problem is that there are not really any sources that would be typical for BLP articles (e.g. mainstream news media) that accuse any of these individuals of "denying" the Gaza "genocide", because it's just something that radical activists made up in order to demonize the Western world. We do have sources from advocacy groups that follow these ideologues' lead (such as Amnesty International), but these do not mention any of these specific individuals, nor are they the best sources for BLPs. As a result, the entire category is an WP:OR/WP:SYNTH violation. This is very different from the Armenian genocide category, where all of the relevant sources agree the genocide actually happened and that the people listed in the category are denying it. Partofthemachine (talk) 04:55, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
    Consensus was reached that Gaza is committing a genocide. Unless consensus changes during the time of this discussion (which is unlikely to happen), any arguments must be approached with the baseline that Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza. Not doing so risks a deletion that violates WP:NPOV and/or WP:FRINGE. ThePoggingEditor (talk) 13:16, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep I created the category in line with pre-existing categories. The description and the criteria for who falls under the category was modeled after the Category:Deniers of the Rwandan genocide (sorry, I meant) Category:Deniers of the Armenian genocide. These categories are not on the subjects' opinion of these genocide, it is that they exercise an activity of genocide denial. People who are 9/11 conspiracy theorists have opinions on 9/11, yes, but they are categorized as such for being vocal proponents of alternative narratives. Note that the parent category Category:Genocide deniers falls under Category:Conspiracy theorists. Pinoccappuccino (talk) 19:06, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep per established criteria for similar categories in category tree. HighlandFacts (talk) 19:55, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, not a defining characteristic of these people. By all means nominate similar categories too. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:07, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Algerian people of Mauritanian descent

Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 23:10, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete for now, thesecategories are not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:09, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Church of England disestablishment

Nominator's rationale: Also about disestablishment of the Church of Scotland. Not sure about disestablishment of other churches as Disestablishmentarianism does not discuss any churches aside from those. Arctic Circle System (talk) 23:02, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Rename: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 00:32, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Caymanian expatriates in Sweden

Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary layer. The one category in this is up for merging anyway. LibStar (talk) 22:21, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 00:32, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete as empty, but wait until after the subcategories have been merged. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:14, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Caymanian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden

Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 22:20, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 00:31, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, these categories are not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:15, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Doms in India

Nominator's rationale: This category is related to the Doma castes, not the Dom people of the Arab world. While the Dom, Lom, and Roma are likely related to them, these terms are not synonymous with each other. Rather than deleting the category, I propose its scope be changed to be about the Doma castes rather than supposed subgroups of Doms still in India. Arctic Circle System (talk) 21:05, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename, consistent with the content of the main article. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:10, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Rename: per nomination; category names should verifiably reflect their contents or vice-versa. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 00:31, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Sports relations

Nominator's rationale: Sports relations categories consisting entirely of irrelevant articles about the participation of country A at multinational, recurring sporting events hosted by country B (or with the addition of one other article) or only a single article. AusLondonder (talk) 18:29, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete all per nom. LibStar (talk) 22:52, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 00:29, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Belize–China relations

Nominator's rationale: Category contains only a list of ambassadors of China to Belize (which is already categorized in two list of ambassadors categories for the two categories) and the main article for Belize-China relations. As it currently stands, this category is not useful in aiding navigation. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 18:18, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete Too small to genuinely aid navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 21:58, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete too narrow a category to be useful.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:37, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Too narrow. LibStar (talk) 22:46, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment, the two articles should be interlinked somehow, so I added a "See also" section in both articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:20, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:College football in the United Kingdom

Nominator's rationale: Rename to British English per MOS:TIES and for consistency with most other categories in the Category:Student sport in the United Kingdom by sport category tree. In British English, "college football" refers to intramural soccer (e.g., , , ). The sport covered by this category is called "American football" in British English (ei.g., , ), consistent with the rest of the Category:American football in the United Kingdom tree. Robminchin (talk) 17:34, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Nigeria–Russia sports relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing three articles for Nigeria's participation at events hosted by the Soviet Union and Russia. Also contains an article, Miracle of Dammam, relating to Nigeria's defeat of the Soviet Union national under-20 football team in the 1980s. These articles are inappropriately categorised; Russia ≠ Soviet Union. AusLondonder (talk) 16:59, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 17:05, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ambassadors of the Republic of China (1912-1949) to Egypt

  • Nominator's rationale therr is 1 artivle total in all 4 of these categories. The subject's artivld focus' on thinks he did as a consul in the early 1940s. It is not even clear exactly what years he held these 4 postings and not fully clear they were all residential and defining. In theory we should merge to Category:Ambassadors of Taiwan, all these were post-1950 postings. However we do not havr that category. Ambassadors are a sub-set of representatives with more recognotion from the receibimg governmrnt but with the same status from the sending government. So I believe just merging to the category we have is the best choive at this time. This person was a post-1949 ambassador so foes not belong in the categories as named.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:00, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 17:00, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, the article has simply been miscategorized. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:25, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ambassadors of the Republic of China (1912-1949) to Australia

  • Nominator's rationale the one article here is on a man who served as an ambassador to Australia from 1959-1966. So well after 1949. He held the title ambassador. Since at that time Australia recognized the Republic of China with its cspital in Teipei as the legitimate government of China. That is no lomger the case so the representative of Taipei in Australia is no longer considered an ambassador by Australia. However in the eyes of Taiwan the representative it sends today to Australia is as legitimate and high status as the one it sent in the 1950s and 1960s. From the view of Taiwan these are the aand oosition and since these are agents of Taiwan we should form the category based on how Taiwan views it. So we should have one category for all the reoresentatives of Taiwan to Australia. If we had any pre-1949 holders of the ambassadorship to Australia in the category it might be worth having a seperate category but we do not so we do not need to worry about that at this time.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:53, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 16:58, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, the article has simply been miscategorized. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:26, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Puerto Rican medical doctors

  • Nominator's rationale this category has 1 article and is too narrow to be justified. The American target makes sense sicne the subject got his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:59, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 16:56, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:38, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Puerto Rican urologists

  • There is 1 article. The subject was part of multiple mainland US based medical associatioms with "American" in the name so I think it us a justified merge target. He was born in Spanish controlled Puerto Rico and received hos medical degree in Spain, returning to PR just after the American take over so I woukd not object to a merge to the general urologist category if that is thought better. His career was also in Puerto Rico under US control except brief advanced studies in France.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:49, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge: merge to nomination targets; I do not think it necessary to merge past American urologists. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 16:52, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. LibStar (talk) 22:22, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:38, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Puerto Rican ophthamologists

  • Nominator's rationale There is 1 article here. Thus the category is too narrow to justify keeping. The subject died in 1898, so he lived basically all his life when Puerto Rico was part of the Spanish Empire so upmerging to American ophthalmologists would not make sense.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:37, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Should it be merged to Category:Spanish ophthalmologists? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:01, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
I would say no. Generally we would not place people who lived in ovwrseas colonies of Spain directly in Spanish categories. We generally reserve the Spanish categoroes for people in the main area that is today Spain. At least for part of their lives. The exceptions are diplomats and military personnel, who were direct agents of the Spanish government. There we will include people in Spanish categories who never were in the main area of Spain. That does not include doctos so I think placing directly in the not differentiated by nationslity parent makes sense. Medical specialists is one case where we havd gone hog wild in spiltting into absurdly narrow intersection cstegories of nationality and speciality. There are lots more such categories that should probably be nominated fo7r merger.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:45, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. LibStar (talk) 22:22, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:42, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Caymanian expatriates in Canada

Nominator's rationale: Redundant layer. The sole category in this is up for merging. LibStar (talk) 06:13, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete All these tiny expatriate categories including the sportspeople ones serve no navigational purpose, they actually complicate navigation. There are thousands of them as well. AusLondonder (talk) 22:00, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
    • In the case of especially the sportspeople ones a huge number of the categorized articles are being categorized by a non-defining trait. Some of the people involved played sports in the country they were "expatriates" in for less than a year. What next will we have Category:Amerucans who made state visits to France etc. To categorize every US president by every country he made an official visit to while he was president?John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:49, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Caymanian expatriate sportspeople in Canada

Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Already in Category:Caymanian expatriate men's footballers. LibStar (talk) 06:12, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:44, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia articles by source of incorporated citation

Nominator's rationale: This category tree largely duplicates Special:WhatLinksHere, eg. Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Cite Cyclopaedia 1728. It contains lists of Wikipedia articles by the source that they cite. We don't typically create such categories, and we shouldn't, because it would result in a typical article being in an overwhelming number of (hidden) categories.
I wouldn't oppose a category containing articles containing a references list of short citations copied from a particular source. I have seen these from time to time in articles copied from old public domain encyclopedias. Daask (talk) 16:29, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 00:43, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Also tagged all nominated categories. Staraction (talk · contribs) 00:51, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • If the information is still available based on a template then there is no argument against deletion of these categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:17, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Iraqui romance novels

Nominator's rationale: The category has a typo of the word "Iraqi"; WP:C2A applies. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 00:33, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Rename: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 00:44, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Speedy rename per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:25, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • That is a good point. I support deletion too. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:34, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Ambassadors of Zambia

Nominator's rationale: Sparsely populated categories or unnecessary category layers. I have not gone through and purged non-resident ambassadors. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 23:27, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge to Zambia, manually to mission countries. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:25, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
@LaundryPizza03 Letting you known that I have finished the Zambia tree of what I felt certainly needs merging/deleting. I will go through though and purge non-resident ambassadors and update accordingly with which categories may need to be deleted instead of merged. Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 02:01, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Okay, normally that should be done before opening a CfD. Great to see someone tackling these categories in reverse alphabetical order! –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:03, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Additionally, going through the African Union category, research suggests that Mwamba was also concurrently a resident Ambassador to Ethiopia in Addis Ababa, where the African Union is also headquartered. Not sure how to proceed with that one.
Furthermore, the sole entry in High commissioners of Zambia to Brunei appears to be incorrectly assigned to Brunei when it was supposed to Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania. The article has been fixed and the nomination has been updated to merge to Zambia and Tanzania. Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 16:33, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
The following were changed from CfM to CfD: Denmark (Emptied as neither ambassador was a resident ambassador); Djibouti (Emptied as sole entry did not serve as resident ambassador); Estonia (Emptied as part of earlier entry); Finland (Emptied as part of earlier entry); Iceland (Emptied as part of earlier entry); Ivory Coast (Emptied as sole entry did not serve as resident ambassador); Latvia (Emptied as part of earlier entry); Lithuania (Emptied as part of earlier entry); the Netherlands (Emptied as sole entry did not serve as resident ambassador); Norway (emptied as part of earlier entry); Peru (emptied as sole entry did not serve as resident ambassador); Romania (emptied as sole entry did not serve as resident ambassador); Somalia (emptied as part of earlier entry); Sudan (emptied as part of earlier entry); Uganda (emptied as sole entry did not verifiably hold resident ambassadorship); Holy See (emptied as part of earlier entry); Venezuela (emptied as part of earlier entry); Yemen (emptied as part of earlier entry); and Yugoslavia (emptied as part of earlier entry). Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 18:09, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom, these categories are not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:20, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge as nominated. If articles are then in non-defining categories thry can be removed. No objection to removimg artivles from current non-definimg categories either. Just make sure all artivles remain in the Ambassadors of Zambia category, unless that is an incrrect category. I have seen lower levrl diplomats incorrectly placed in ambassador categories so that is a potential concern.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:04, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment User:Blackfootferret, please do not empty categories out of process before this CFD discussion has been closed. Your edits here can justifiably be reverted. Liz Read! Talk! 17:56, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
    So sorry, just saw this notice! Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 18:10, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
    That's why I asked that you clean the non-resident postings first. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:40, 12 November 2026 (UTC)
    It looks like they all were emptied out of process. Liz Read! Talk! 05:16, 12 November 2026 (UTC)

November 10

Category:Canada–Rwanda relations

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are Mugesera v Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) and an empty subcategory. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:02, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 23:18, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, there is no proper content for this category yet. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:45, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete we lack any artivle that actually fit in this category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:05, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Canada–Paraguay relations

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are countries' participation at international sports events and an empty subcategory. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:01, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 23:17, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, there is no proper content for this category yet. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:46, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete we lack any articles that actuslly fit in this category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:05, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Canada–Nepal relations

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are the main article, the Nepali embassy in Canada, and two empty subcategories. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:56, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 23:15, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Non-resident co-accrediations of Canadian ambassadors in Kenya

Nominator's rationale: Each of these three countries is non-resident co-accredited from the Canada to the ambassador in Kenya. All articles are also in Category:High commissioners of Canada to Kenya. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:44, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 23:13, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Bulgaria–Canada relations

Nominator's rationale: The current contents are the main article, a diaspora category, an empty subcategory, and Bulgaria's participation at an international sports event in Canada. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:11, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 23:12, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ambassadors of Canada to Albania

Nominator's rationale: Only remaining content is a list. All others were non-resident co-accreditations to missions in Italy, or earlier to missions in Yugoslavia. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:06, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
@LaundryPizza03 should it not be merged to the ambassador parent categories? Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 23:11, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
It should already be in Category:Lists of ambassadors of Canada and Category:Lists of ambassadors to Albania. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:56, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete since the 1 article is already in the Albanian and Canadian lists categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:08, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Godzilla Minus One

Propose renaming Category:Godzilla Minus One to Category:Godzilla Minus One and Godzilla Minus Zero, or splitting it into Category:Godzilla Minus Zero due to the creations of the articles Godzilla Minus Zero, Godzilla Minus Zero (soundtrack) and Godzilla (Takashi Yamazaki). TalkTuahLunchly (talk) 21:53, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Canada–Vanuatu relations

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are Victoria-Vanuatu Physician Project and an empty subcategory. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 21:52, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
I propose upmerging it to Category:Vanuatu and the Commonwealth of Nations as this would still cover the Victoria-Vanuatu article without needing a specifically Vanuatu-Canada one, plus other bilateral relations for commonwealth nations and Vanuatu are included there. HighlandFacts (talk) 22:06, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Also including merging to Category:Canada and the Commonwealth of Nations, forgot that one! HighlandFacts (talk) 22:11, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge: per HighlandFacts. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 23:08, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Neutrois Wikipedians

Nominator's rationale: Too narrow Wikipedian category. Only two pages are in the category, one being the userbox "populating" it (User:UBX/neutrois) and the other being the category creator. There are other neutrois userboxes that could populate this, but it would only be 2 more users.
I'm unsure if this applies to any specific deletion criterion (I'm not as well versed in CfD), so I could understand a keep !vote. 🫀 Crash // Organhaver ( it / he | talk to me, maybe? ) 03:03, 13 September 2026 (UTC)
Weak keep Statistically, based on the estimated Gender Census 2025 (~0.3% of non-binary people) and the total estimates for all non-binary people (1–2% in the United States) there should be approximately 6–10 neutrois people among the roughly 260,000 active users. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:46, 13 September 2026 (UTC)
I do not believe that having "approximately 6–10 neutrois people" on Wikipedia as editors matters significantly for my rationale and this discussion, as it is not policy-based (I may be wrong). Right now, the category hosts one whole user, and I still believe it is too narrow. 🫀 Crash // Organhaver ( it / he | talk to me, maybe? ) 04:07, 15 September 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Keep, redirect, or something else?
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  • Delete - per WP:User categories, "the purpose of user categories is to aid in facilitating coordination and collaboration between users for the improvement and development of the encyclopedia." This category does not foster collaboration and achieves nothing by grouping the one user and associated userbox (which is miscategorized) together. I support any users who wish to include this information on their userpage via userbox, but a user category doesn't support improvement and development of the encyclopedia. Even if a hypothetical group of users self-identified into this category had some common knowledge or experiences, I fear that relying on that would violate WP:NOR, which is why is is far more useful to categorize users based on their interests rather than personal characteristics such as this. VegaDark (talk) 02:16, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia categories named after Canadian television shows

Nominator's rationale: Prior to me adding more categories, there was only one listed in this, however the ...television series one has a lot more. Additionally, in the tree with Wikipedia categories named after x country television series, all others use series only. HighlandFacts (talk) 20:16, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge: per nomination and Marcocapelle. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 23:04, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Google Artificial Intelligence

Nominator's rationale: Unclear definition/criteria for what pages belong to this category; probably missing dozens of pages that could fall under this category; incorrect capitalization and awkward grammar. I'm not opposed to a category like this per se, but it would require substantial cleanup and, at minimum, corrected capitalization. InfiniteNexus (talk) 19:54, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, the three articles are largely unrelated to each other. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:20, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination and Marcocapelle. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 23:02, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Ambassadors of Zimbabwe

Nominator's rationale: Small categories within the Ambassadors of Zimbabwe tree. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 19:48, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Support This is fairly routine. I'd like help finishing Canada. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 21:44, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge all these categories are too narrow to aid navigation. If we exclude the Ambassadors of the US and Ambassadors of the UK have we yet reached a point with less ambassador categories than ambassador articles.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:11, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Lance Inc. brands

Nominator's rationale: Parent company Update6 (talk) 07:23, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Oppose: not necessary as the two companies are distinct enough despite the parent-subsidiary relationship. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 22:59, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Snyder's-Lance Inc. brands

Nominator's rationale: Parent company Update6 (talk) 07:22, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Oppose: the two companies are distinct enough despite the parent-subsidiary relationship. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 23:00, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Painters and decorators

Nominator's rationale: Highly overlapping categories. SMasonGarrison 00:03, 3 November 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting to tag Category:House painters for merging.
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Category:China–the Gambia relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing only the main article and The Gambia at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships which obviously does not belong. No navigational purpose. AusLondonder (talk) 17:30, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:40, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 22:56, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Dominican Republic–Suriname relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing no main article and only a single article which does not belong - Suriname at the 2003 Pan American Games. AusLondonder (talk) 17:10, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:38, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 22:55, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Dominican Republic–Panama relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing only two articles, one of which clearly does not belong (Panama at the 2003 Pan American Games). AusLondonder (talk) 17:06, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete The 2018 Panama–Venezuela diplomatic crisis should not be in any bilateral category other than Category:Panama–Venezuela relations. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:38, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per LaundryPizza03, one of the articles does not belong in the bilateral category; the other article is an international sporting event, which we generally do not categorize in bilateral categories. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 22:54, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Czech Republic–Iran relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing only the main article and two articles about Persian missions to Europe in the 17th century, before the existence of both the Czech Republic and Iran. AusLondonder (talk) 17:00, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete Anachronistic category. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:40, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 22:46, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ships built by Howaldtswerke

Nominator's rationale: Merge; these are the same companies by the looks of it so merge to parent cat. Omnis (talk) 15:41, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge: per nomination; some other subcategories could be merged as well. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 22:45, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:17th-century Chinese illustrators

Nominator's rationale: Isolated underpopulated category, upmerge for now. SMasonGarrison 14:53, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge per nomination; some of the other categories within the parent could also be merged up. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:49, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Nursing schools in Colorado

Nominator's rationale: Category containing only a single redirect. Not useful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 14:51, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:42, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge at least to Category:Nursing schools in the United States, this category is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:24, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge to Category:Nursing schools in the United States. The actual set up of nursing schools in some cases makes this a logical targrt for 2 reasons. 1. Not all nursing schools are independently notable from their sponsoring institution. 2. Several nursing schools, espdcially for profit ones, hsve multiple campuses in multiple states. Somd of which end up existimg only a few years, and there are some that may have relocated a campus across state lines. So while some by state catefories will be justified, some will be too narroe to need and some nursing schools are defined only by beimg in the US and not by a specific state.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:19, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ships built by Nederlandsche Dok Maatschappij

Nominator's rationale: Per the article, these are the same companies. Omnis (talk) 14:50, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge: per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:38, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ships of APL

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. (non-admin closure) Omnis (talk) 14:59, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Delete; only one article. Omnis (talk) 12:19, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep. Was a useful, integral part of the ships by company category anyway, but was very easily populated and now has 15 entries. Fram (talk) 14:01, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
    @Fram, if you populated it, thank you! I tried to find ships for the categories before I nominated them. I see now why I struggled with this one! I can quick close this as keep then! :) Omnis (talk) 14:59, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Ships of Novoship

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) Omnis (talk) 15:33, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Delete; only one article. I've recategorised the one ship so it is the appropriate ones. Omnis (talk) 10:56, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep, now 2 entries, but can be renamed to Category:Ships of Sovcomflot (of which Novoship is now a part) and then further populated. Fram (talk) 14:05, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
    @Fram, I think that can be speedied. I now see the parent company has far more to give. Thoughts? Omnis (talk) 15:08, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
    I'm not well versed in speeedying categories for rename and the like, but I have no objections! Fram (talk) 15:16, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
    @Fram Great! I'll get on it then. Thank you for the help! :) Omnis (talk) 15:32, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Ships of Bland Line

Nominator's rationale: Delete for now with no objection to recreation if there are more articles to fill this category. Omnis (talk) 10:45, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: for now, this category is not necessary. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:36, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Note: Added a third existing article. Looking at the Bland Group, and a hitherto unreferenced book Bland Gibraltar (1981) on their maritime history, there is good scope for some additional individual ship articles. - Davidships (talk) 12:09, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ships of Empreza Nacional de Navegação

Nominator's rationale: Delete; only one redirect present. Omnis (talk) 10:39, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: too small to aid in navigation. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:36, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Culver Max Entertainment

Nominator's rationale: Just a category used for a temporary rename of SPN before SPE pulled the trigger on selling its Indian networks to ZEE. SBF2004 (talk) 10:38, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Grimaldi Lines

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The result of the discussion was: quick keep; category now quite populated. (non-admin closure) Omnis (talk) 01:20, 13 November 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Not sure how to have done this. But this should be redirected/merged with existing Category:Grimaldi Group. The ship in this category is already in the category of one the group's subsidiaries. Omnis (talk) 10:34, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Oppose. Grimaldi Group is the parent company just like Stena Group is Stena Line's parent company. Grimaldi Lines was the ship's operator. Kside1234 (talk) 16:53, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
@Kside1234, it still only has one article and, as such, is not helpful for navigation is the point. Omnis (talk) 23:22, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
I have since populated it. Regards the other categories, could you please clarify which ones you are referring to? Thanks Kside1234 (talk) 17:45, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
@Kside1234, I also noticed you made other categories but did not populate them after you made them. Try to do so in the future. And see if you can at least fill them up with four or five articles before you make them. Categories with just one or two articles are not helpful for navigation. Omnis (talk) 23:37, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete: the category is currently too small to necessitate categorization. In the future if there are more ships operated by Grimaldi Lines, then the category could be recreated. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:34, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Dalhousie Steam and Motor Ship Company

Nominator's rationale: Delete; only two articles about a non-notable company with no article of its own. Articles are already in other ship-related categories so no merge required. Omnis (talk) 10:14, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete per nomination: If it does not have an eponymous article, it generally does not need its own category. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:32, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:China–Paraguay relations

Nominator's rationale: The only content that is about the People's Republic is the main article. Else, we have a subcategory for ambassadors of an earlier Chinese state, which I haven't evaluated. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:35, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete the sub-category has 3 bio articles plus a list. All 3 articles are on people who were posted to Paraguay by the Republic of China well after 1949. One is the 1980s, another in the 2010s, the 3rd the article does not say when put he is currently alive and was recently if not currently posted to Panama so clearly he was not posted as an ambassador before 1949. The sub-cat does not belong here, sonce it deals with pist-1949 Taiwan.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:25, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
    • On further review the last subject was posted to Paraguay 2011-2015. His name is José María Liu. The article text is very weak amd it has 1 source, which I am not sure would count as an indepth source that is independent of the subject, reliable and secondary. This is especially concerning since the subject is a livong person. It looks like a bunch of articles in categories explicitly linkimg to the Republic of China and its ambassadors are on people who served as ambassadors after 1949 some of whom were not even born before 1950. It is possible that José María Liu was born after 1950 (if he was born in 1951 he would have been 60 years old when he started his appointment in Paraguay, so that he was that young or younger is very posdible). The big question is do we treat the 1949 location change of the government of China as so major that we have seperate before and after ambassador categorors? Complicating this is that some post-1949 akbassador cases at least where the person holds the title of ambassador the receiving country is recognizing the Republic of China as the only legitimate government of China. This has lots of messy parts. One solution is to just go de facto. And call all post-1949 positions Representatibes if Taiwan no matter what the receiving country called them. This will avoid lots of overly small categories and avoid being overly legalistic.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:38, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Attacks on diplomatic missions in Kyrgyzstan

Nominator's rationale: Category containing only a single article which is already well-categorised. Not serving any navigational purpose. AusLondonder (talk) 08:20, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:28, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Cricket tours categories

Nominator's rationale: International cricket tours categories containing only one or occasionally two articles. Not useful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 08:03, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge all as proposed. Looks as if most, if not all, of these were created by me some twelve years or so ago. They haven't grown, so adding each article to both "tours abroad" and "tours of" seems to be the best way forward. Jack (talk) 11:22, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge all per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:27, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Parliamentary committees → Legislative committees

Nominator's rationale: The phrase "Parliamentary committees" implies that the categories cover only committees of parliaments when in fact they cover all legislatures. For example the United States Congress which is not typically referred to as a parliament. Benboy250 (talk) 19:42, 24 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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  • Question, isn't this a matter of WP:ENGVAR? Marcocapelle (talk) 06:37, 2 November 2026 (UTC)
    It doesn't seem to be. At least The Guardian uses "congressional", not "parliamentary", when referring to the United States Congress.
    I therefore support renaming. Care to differ or discuss with me? The Nth User 01:31, 3 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment – Congress is a parliament, even if its name isn't "Parliament" – i.e. it is a deliberative assembly (usually possessing law-making and budget powers, in modern times). So the current state of affairs isn't a problem, in my view. I don't have a real problem with the change, either. A couple of considerations against, however: "legislative" could imply that these committees have the power to legislate; and using the term "legislature" for "parliament" reduces parliaments to their law-making role. §§ In solidarity, Leg.Fun. §§ 02:50, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
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Comment as in technicality, the United States Congress is not a parliament as it operates under a different system of separation of powers between it and the Executive Office of the President and a parliamentary system, which operates under a fused executive-legislative system in which the legislature is also the executive. Additionally, either parliamentary or legislative is terminologically correct. I don't think that legislative could imply legislative power generally as committees, by their very nature within a legislature, are subordinate to the whole legislature and thus cannot independently pass bills (though in the the U.S. Congress, committees do possess the power to draft legislation and submit it for consideration to the respective chamber; in the U.K., committees do not possess this power). Therefore, I support renaming as these categories are more terminologically correct and broader under legislative vs. parliamentary. Additionally, if it is needed, the categories can always be diffused by country in which they would refer to the term used by the country (e.g., legislative for the United States and parliamentary for the United Kingdom). Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:26, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Fictional power sources

Nominator's rationale: I don't think enough contents here qualify for inclusion. Especially if this is meant to be a fictional counterpart for Category:Energy sources instead of a magic source for superpowers; indeed, I think this is a mixture of both.
Delete per nomination. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:15, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Furry anime and manga

Nominator's rationale: None of the anime and manga here were created specifically for the furry fandom, and just having anthropomorphic animal characters and themes does not make a creative work a furry one. Neither is winning an Ursa Major Award, which is given to any creative work featuring an anthropomorphic animal character (honestly, all mentions on creative work articles should be removed given the award's lack of notability). ❤︎PrincessPandaWiki (talk | contribs) 02:46, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep. None of the above is a valid reason for deletion, and it's debatable whether it's even correct. Fury anime (and manga) are a "thing" - there are lists and database categories for it (, , , ), the concept of "furry anime" is used in media (, , , ), books , etc. It's a perfectly valid if niche category, although I am of two minds whether Category:Anime and manga by genre or Category:Anime and manga by topic is the correct parent cat - maybe both?
Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:07, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
The first three given news articles use "furry" with the colloquial definition of "anthropomorphic animals", and we do not describe creative works as furry just because they use anthropomorphic animals (or else Sonic the Hedgehog would be furry). The "furry" anime and manga may tap into the anthropomorphic theme more, but so does Zootopia. An anthropomorphic animal work may have themes that strongly resonate with furries, but we don't typically label works doing so unintentionally as if they were deliberate (such as labeling a work with unintentionally pro-Communist themes as "Communist"). ❤︎PrincessPandaWiki (talk | contribs) 04:14, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Rename per Marcocapelle. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:13, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
@Marcocapelle @PrincessPandaWiki Because a show about animals may have nothing to do with furry theme. In So I'm a Spider, So What? the protagonist is a spider, it has nothing to do with anthropomorphism. In Kemono Michi the protag runs a pet shop. Silver Fang is about a dog. The proposed new category is perfectly valid as an anime subcat of Category:Animated television series about animals, but it is not about the concept of anthropomorphic characters. Note we also have List of anthropomorphic comics which lists some related manga. Perhaps based on Category:Works about anthropomorphic animals, Category:Anime and manga about anthropomorphic animals might be the solution. I just wonder what's the relation between that category and Category:Furry works by genre (also given there is no Category:Furry works). Perhaps what we also need to do is to rename Category:Furry works by genre to Category:Works about anthropomorphic animals by genre and bump it up a level. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:34, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
@Blackfootferret Forgot to ping Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:35, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
@Piotrus I would also be fine with Category:Anime and manga about anthropomorphic animals. Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 16:47, 11 November 2026 (UTC)
Seems we have a reasonable compromise, I am fine with that Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:33, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:English Satanists

Nominator's rationale: The 2 people in the British category are also English, so... unnecessary.

I'm not really sure how the English/British division works for this, if we should do a reverse merge or what (merging the British to the English category), but this doesn't make much sense. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:37, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

  • Oppose biographical categories always have room for growth, plus 4 categories (as of the time of this edit) is not a small category by any standards. Inter&anthro (talk) 04:07, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
    @Inter&anthro ... that wasn't what I was arguing? The thing is you can move every entry to either British or English, we cannot have 2 categories that have exactly the same contents. Everyone in this category is both British AND English. PARAKANYAA (talk) 04:41, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, until there are enough Scottish and Welsh articles to perform a split. Currently there are none. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:01, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge to Category:British Satanists per nom. Unless they start to make a Welsh, Scottish and Northen Irish one, this category is effectively useless. Magikarp fan, Arenghtqru888 lol ( hopefully I don't get trouted...) 17:06, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge per Marcocapelle and Arenghtqru888. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:12, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Polish Satanists

Nominator's rationale: Not enough articles for a category. Merge for now. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:35, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose biographical categories always have room for growth, category already has 2 entries at time of this edit. Category does not fall under WP:NARROWCAT. WP:SMALLCAT has since been depreciated. Inter&anthro (talk) 04:10, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
    This does fall under narrowcat, the parent category of Satanists is tiny. "biographical categories always have room for growth" no. PARAKANYAA (talk) 04:42, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. "Room for growth" as part of WP:SMALLCAT has been depreciated. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:03, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge per Marcocapelle. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:11, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Italian Satanists

Nominator's rationale: Not enough articles for a category. Merge for now. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:34, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose biographical categories always have room for growth, category already has 2 entries at time of this edit. Category does not fall under WP:NARROWCAT. WP:SMALLCAT has since been depreciated. Inter&anthro (talk) 04:10, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
    This does fall under narrowcat, the parent category of Satanists is tiny. "biographical categories always have room for growth" no. PARAKANYAA (talk) 04:42, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. "Room for growth" has been depreciated. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:03, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge per Marcocapelle. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:08, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Czech Satanists

Nominator's rationale: Not enough articles for a category. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:34, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose biographical categories always have room for growth, category already has 2 entries at time of this edit. Category does not fall under WP:NARROWCAT. WP:SMALLCAT has since been depreciated. Inter&anthro (talk) 04:11, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
    This does fall under narrowcat, the parent category of Satanists is tiny. "biographical categories always have room for growth" no. PARAKANYAA (talk) 04:42, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. "Room for growth" has been depreciated. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:04, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per Marcocapelle. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 18:20, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Οἶδα (talk) 19:44, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Upcoming Philippine films

Nominator's rationale: For the same reason as Category:Upcoming Indian films. We don't even have Category:Upcoming American films. Kailash29792 (talk) 00:34, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Keep The current CfD for India is mostly about the actual contents being incorrect. In the 2014 CfD the main argument is that Category:Upcoming films was too small to diffuse, but currently, it contains 492 articles. There were no other arguments to delete that aren't circular reasoning or appeal to tradition — except that Category:Upcoming films is populated by a template, which goes against WP:TEMPLATECAT guidelines. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:15, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Keep per LaundryPizza03: The contents of the target category are genuine and necessary to diffuse the parent category (which needs to be diffused badly). Therefore, this one should be kept and expanded if possible, taking entries out of the parent. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:07, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Additionally, I'd like to note that a category for upcoming American films could be created as there are at least five articles that fit the bill. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 18:21, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:India–Nepal kho kho relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing only a single article, not useful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 00:00, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

November 9

Category:Saudi Arabic

Nominator's rationale: There is no unified "Saudi Arabic" dialect group. Only varieties of Arabic spoken in Saudi Arabia. Arctic Circle System (talk) 01:03, 2 November 2026 (UTC)
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List of Wards in Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation

Nominator's rationale: per WP:NARROW. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:02, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:13, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Kenya census

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROW. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 19:57, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:15, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Short stories about Napoleon

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROW. Singular article is already in other categories relating to Napoleon. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 19:51, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Pontifical Beda College alumni

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROW. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 19:44, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:17, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

KCN channels

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROW. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 19:39, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge somewhere, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:18, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:5.1 surround sound albums

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING categories. How an album is mixed in not something that "reliable, secondary sources commonly and consistently define, in prose, the subject as having". Often the these types of production mixes are on albums reissued many years later, which is not too different from the deleted category Category:Remastered albums. While verifiable and often discussed in the articles for the albums under production or reissue sections, it is not something that would necessarily need to be mentioned in the lead. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 06:36, 1 November 2026 (UTC)
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  • Delete per nom. I waited to vote on this one, but I'm still not convinced these "albums by technology" cats are DEFINING, the basis of which very much is "fanfare or acknowledgement from the media". Compare to, say, Category:IMAX films or (some) other Films by technology cats. Οἶδα (talk) 19:35, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Islamic jurisprudence

Nominator's rationale: rename, aligning with article name Fiqh. It can't be speedied because of this earlier discussion. It is quite inconsistent to accept Fiqh as an article title of Arabic origin but not as a category name. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:58, 1 November 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Crime in non-denominational Evangelicalism

Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary layers. – Fayenatic London 17:25, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Cláudia Pascoal albums

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROW. Additionally, the singular article within the category is interlinked to the artist. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 16:38, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Hong Kong cricket tours of Scotland

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROW. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 16:34, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:35, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

1843 disestablishments in Prince Edward Island

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCYEAR. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 16:28, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Of course merge, but please nominate the sibling categories too. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:37, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Wikiversity

Nominator's rationale: Only one article in it Froglord (Finnfrog99) (talk) 16:24, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Sports relations categories

Nominator's rationale: Sports relations categories consisting entirely of irrelevant articles about the participation of country A at multinational, recurring sporting events hosted by country B (or with the addition of one other article). AusLondonder (talk) 15:39, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Single article sports relations categories

Nominator's rationale: Sports relations categories containing only a single article. Not useful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 15:37, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:China–United Kingdom sports relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing approximately 35 misplaced articles from Guam at the 2008 Summer Olympics (Guam is a US territory) to Bermuda at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics. This category is such an utter mess than it is not worth saving. AusLondonder (talk) 14:58, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete as most of the articles are about general participation in international sporting events. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 16:07, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, I had expected that this category would be salvagable, but it really isn't. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:45, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:China–Fiji sports relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing five articles relating to Fiji's participation at multinational sporting events hosted by China and two articles relating to Fijian rugby unions tours that visited Hong Kong prior to the British handover. These articles don't belong. AusLondonder (talk) 14:51, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Converts to Judaism from paganism

Nominator's rationale: merge, "paganism" is a non-neutral term used by Christians, not applicable in this case. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:19, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:People of the Wendish Crusade

Nominator's rationale: merge for now, redundant category layer, currently only one well-populated subcategory and one single-article subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:10, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Establishments in unorganized territory

Nominator's rationale: merge, these are isolated and poorly populated year categories, but it is also an isolated tree as a whole because there is no Category:Unorganized territory of the United States. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:58, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Additionally, the issue of isolation should be addressed promptly. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 16:03, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge This isolated tree makes navigation more difficult and confusing. AusLondonder (talk) 16:11, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Works about animals playing sports

Nominator's rationale: None of these are animals "playing" sports, miscategorization. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 11:03, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
How do you mean? Something like Air Bud seems to be abou an animal playing sports, no? Fram (talk) 08:11, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
"Playing" sports implies the animal can understand they are participating in a game, as opposed to just being "in" the game.
I suppose it could instead be renamed "Category:Sports films about animals" to assuage this concern, since it does not imply anything about how the animal thinks. Category:Works about animals playing sports should still be merged as a WP:NARROWCAT, with most of its categories being miscategorized. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 10:28, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
Again, how is e.g. Air Bud not about an animal playing sports? It's fiction, you know, real animals can not understand this (although even then it is usually said that they play fetch and so on), but in fiction this is no issue. How is Bonzo Goes to College not a film about an animal playing sports? Why would Hockey Homicide or The Olympic Champ not be a work about animals playing sports? Fram (talk) 11:25, 12 August 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Fiction about creatures

Nominator's rationale: Kind of a vague and redundant category layer. Category:Fiction about cryptids should instead be in Category:Fiction about animals. Category:Xenofiction and Category:Legendary creatures in popular culture purged outright. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 04:34, 11 August 2026 (UTC)
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  • I am not opposed to deleting either, for both other subcategories it is questionable too whether they belong in the animals tree. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:39, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per * Pppery *. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 16:01, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Histories of colonies

Nominator's rationale: merge, all of it is history, there is no need for a separate history category. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:15, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep, don't understand the nom. Ancient Rome no longer exists, so we can't have a category for the History of Ancient Rome any more as that would be redundant, something like that? "History" here is separate from things like Category:People from New Spain, or the art with cats like Category:Spanish Colonial architecture in Mexico. Something like Category:16th century in New Spain belongs in a "History of New Spain" category quite obviously, just like we build all other "history of" categries. No objection against upmerging the "history by period" one into the "history" one though. Fram (talk) 08:00, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:SUBJECTIVECAT. With former countries it's all history so determining what goes in a "history of" subcat versus the main country parent category is subjective. - RevelationDirect (talk) 11:42, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
    That just makes no sense. Why is it subjective for former countries, but not for current countries? We put articles and subcats about periods, years, centuries into the "history of" cats, just like we put articles and subcats about people into the "people from" cat. It doesn't become subjective because the entity no longer exists (on the contrary, there would be slightly more of an argument to call it subjective for a current country, where e.g. the "2026" articles could be said to not belong in the history at a stretch). What articles or subcats in "Category:History of New Spain" are subjective entries, and why wouldn't they be subjective entries if New Spain still existed?
    Please look again at WP:SUBJECTIVECAT, this has nothing at all to do with this nomination. As for "overlap", History clearly is a subset of everything that can be said about a country, and there is no reason why this would change when the country ceases to exist. History, as separate from Geography, People, ... is a typical topic of interest and a broadly used category on enwiki. Removing these for just these few categories seems completely random, no idea why these are picked out of Category:History by former country. If you want to get rid of all of these, I would suggest starting a discussion for them all. If not, then please explain the difference between the ones nominated and the ones you don't want to delete. Fram (talk) 11:56, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
    From my perspective, the people, geography, and architecture are all part of the history of a former territory, i.e. there is no subset of non-historical subcategories. Based on your examples above you seem to think they are not part of the history. (Correct me if I'm misinterpreting). I think both of our perspectives are reasonable and that you make sense, while respectfully disagreeing.
    Regardless of which one of us is correct, that subjectivity in what counts as history is not well served by the bright line in/out nature of categories. Current territories don't have that issue since there are subcategories for current things as well as one for past ones. RevelationDirect (talk) 12:21, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
    You have not indicated why we would treat current and former countries differently, nor why we should treat these countries differently from all other former ones. The distinction you make with current countries is not at all how every single category tree is built until now. We don't separate "current" people and "historical" people from current countries, we don't separate "current" art and "historical" art from current countries, and the "history" category tree of probably every country includes not only current, but even future things like Category:2034 in the United States without anyone having an issue with "subjective" cat or "overlap" cats. So no, not "both of our perspectives are reasonable", your perspective is inventing completely new interpretations of overlapcat and subjectivecat to rationalize an indefensible, random deletion of bog-standard categories from one country. Everyone understands that a book about the History of X has different contents than a book about the Economy of X, the Arts of X, or the Geography of X. Whether X is a former or current country makes no difference there. Fram (talk) 13:21, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
  • If New Spain would still exist then an article like Slavery in New Spain would become part of a social history category. Other articles would become part of cultural history, or political history. Regardless, it is all history. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:21, 25 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge I don't buy Fram's concerns here - everything that happened in these colonies is fundamentally history. * Pppery * it has begun... 18:19, 26 September 2026 (UTC)
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  • Merge per nom. If a country or colony, in this instance, no longer exists, it is generally considered all to be history. History of categories for former countries and colonies is merely an extra layer of categorization that is generally unnecessary. Only in very, very rare circumstances might you need this extra layer. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 16:00, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • It's complicated.
    • Merging Category:History of New Spain into Category:New Spain seems OK, though I'll note we have History of New Spain as a separate article from New Spain. There are non-history sections of the main article, like Demographics and Economy, though unlike current countries these encompass the entire span of the country's lifespan rather than mostly just the current situation. Whether or not to have a "History of" category could go either way, but I don't think there's a large number of articles that clearly need to be separated to make this worthwhile. There are a lot of articles that are hard to clearly categorize (or would need to be dual-categorized), and having a "History of" tree would thus almose certainly confuse readers.
    • I wouldn't merge Category:History of New Spain by period into Category:New Spain. It has no clarity issues and it should remain for consistency with other categories in Category:Former countries by period. Not all of the categories there have "History of" in the title. I would be fine with removing that from all the categories there, including this one.
    • Category:History of the Spanish West Indies to Category:Spanish West Indies - this makes sense for similar reasons as New Spain.
    • Category:History of the Colony of Santo Domingo to Category:Colony of Santo Domingo - ditto, though this needs a "by century" subcategory created. -- Beland (talk) 18:55, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Characters created by Aaron Lopresti

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 07:25, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Empty category Emcgonigle (talk) 03:41, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
Withdrawn: I have withdrawn this nomination to put it through the speedy deletion process. Emcgonigle (talk) 18:05, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment Emcgonigle, you could have just tagged this empty category CSD C1. Liz Read! Talk! 04:11, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
    OK, thank you. Can I still do that or do I have to wait now that I have put this up? Emcgonigle (talk) 12:06, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
    @Emcgonigle You can withdraw this nomination to list it as CSD. Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 15:57, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
    @Blackfootferret To withdraw it, do I just delete the entry on this page and the category? Emcgonigle (talk) 17:09, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
    @Emcgonigle Just state that you've withdrawn this nomination and someone will close it. Then go and tag the category as a speedy deletion. Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 17:52, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
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November 8

Category:Eugenicists with disabilities

Nominator's rationale: Trivial, non-defining overlapping category per WP:NONDEFINING and WP:TRIVIALCAT. Being deaf, blind, or epileptic, *and* being a supporter or proponent of eugenics, does not appear to be a significant aspect. We don't make categories merely because they may be interesting. --Animalparty! (talk) 21:40, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete Hypocrisy and irony do not make a non-trivial intersection. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:18, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, trivial intersection. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:50, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 18:03, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete this is a non-definomg intersection. For the record I woyld say being a eugenicist is an opinion category and so I do not think we should have the category at all.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:22, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom and LaundryPizza03. Οἶδα (talk) 03:06, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Idk what my name will be stuff

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:UCFD/I#Personal userspace categories. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:05, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Anti-Nazist Users

Nominator's rationale: Fails WP:USERCAT for lacking any discernible collaborative function. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:03, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Test Wikipedia rollbackers

Nominator's rationale: Fails WP:USERCAT for lacking any discernible collaborative function -- so what?. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:02, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:User fr-1c

Nominator's rationale: We don't need categories for Babel levels outside the standard set. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:00, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
Fusionnez La catégorie est redondante. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:22, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:User ko-1a

Nominator's rationale: We don't need categories for Babel levels outside the standard set. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:00, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedians who refuse Wikipedia Awards

Nominator's rationale: Fails WP:USERCAT for lacking any discernible collaborative function. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:40, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
Keep: The category has a clear collaborative function: it tells fellow editors that this user does not want to receive awards or barnstars, but not including not acknowledgments, casting a thanks, etc.. Traditional Customs of the Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg is a good example. That spares award-givers the effort and awkwardness of giving one to someone who would decline it, and lets users opt out without having to explain themselves on each talk page. This is the same purpose as other notice-style categories that help editors know how to interact with one another, which is the purpose WP:USERCAT describes.
The nominator's rationale doesn't say why this category fails that test, so I'd ask them to explain it. As it stands, the rationale is a bare assertion. --だ☆ぜ (Dasze) 21:16, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, only one user in this category. A userbox will suffice. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:55, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per Marcocapelle. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 18:12, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
    The userbox is brand new, so I think this kind of rationale is better raised later, once it has had time to attract users, rather than immediately after creation. "A userbox will suffice" seems to imply the category could be created later if more users join. In that case I'd suggest keeping it for now (or setting it aside) rather than deleting it and re-creating it down the line. Also, such a category should not be such expensive, if ultimately deleted, for such a period of time.--だ☆ぜ (Dasze) 06:30, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete - No reason to group such users together via a user category, displaying this information via userbox or otherwise on a userpage is more appropriate than a user category which violates WP: USERCAT. VegaDark (talk) 02:20, 13 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Djibouti

Nominator's rationale: Category containing List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Ethiopia and two biographies of individuals who served as concurrent, non-residential ambassadors. Duplicates the existing UK ambassador to Ethiopia category. AusLondonder (talk) 19:48, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete per well-established precedent. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:50, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:1866 disestablishments in Colorado Territory

Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated single-article category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:10, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Trinamool Congress politicians from Bihar

Nominator's rationale: Narrow category per WP:NARROW. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 23:08, 30 October 2026 (UTC)
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More sports relations categories

Nominator's rationale: Sports relations categories consisting entirely of irrelevant articles about the participation of country A at multinational, recurring sporting events hosted by country B (or with the addition of one other article). AusLondonder (talk) 16:38, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Single-article sports relations categories

Nominator's rationale: Categories containing only a single article. Not useful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 16:34, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete for now, per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:36, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete and don't let the novel concept of "sports relations" take hold on Wikipedia, even with larger-populated articles. Geschichte (talk) 18:18, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Czechoslovakia–Ireland relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing no articles specifically about bilateral relations. One of the articles is simply about Ireland's participation at a multinational sporting event that took place in Prague in the 1970s, completely unrelated to bilateral relations. AusLondonder (talk) 14:24, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Lists of awards received by Tanzanian musicians

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Lists of awards received by Tanzanian musician. – Fayenatic London 23:33, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Consistency with other categories listed at Category:Lists of awards received by musicians by nationality. Frost 14:07, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Lists of awards received by Senegalese musicians

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Lists of awards received by Senegalese musician. – Fayenatic London 23:33, 10 November 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Consistency with other categories listed at Category:Lists of awards received by musicians by nationality. Frost 14:07, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Argentina–Czechoslovakia relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing only a single article about a football match in the 1950s. Not useful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 14:00, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:40, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, oh my. Not an example of "relations". Geschichte (talk) 18:20, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Fictional kobolds

Nominator's rationale: Only two articles about fictional characters, Kobold (Dungeons & Dragons) and Pittiplatsch. Those two can also be put into Category:Fictional fairies. (Oinkers42) (talk) 13:47, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Afghanistan–Egypt relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing only a single article about an Egyptian field hospital established during the war in Afghanistan. Not useful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 13:15, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:1849 disestablishments in unorganized territory of the United States

Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated and poorly populated category. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:24, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Pagans by nationality

Nominator's rationale: merge, Germanic, Slavic and late Roman era aren't nationalities. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:57, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Former pagans

Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:53, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Weak keep. Another page Kerry Bolton is now in it, since the article only says "By 1983 Bolton had left the Church" (of Odin), not that he was converted to anything else. Another possibility would be to upmerge Category:Converts from paganism into this one (it currently contains subcats for converts to Judaism and Christianity, and Menander who converted to Buddhism). However, it is useful to keep a paganism subcat in each of the respective parents Religious converts and People by former religion. – Fayenatic London 15:20, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
    • The case for keeping currently looks weaker, as Marcocapelle has removed the only direct member article on the grounds that Article does not say he abandoned paganism. Bolton is now reported as a Satanist, and I don't think Satanists are categorised within pagans, so I suggest reinstating the category on the article. – Fayenatic London 23:22, 10 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Anti-Islam sentiment in Iceland

Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer. Arctic Circle System (talk) 11:17, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Nghĩa Đô

Nominator's rationale: Nghĩa Đô isn't mentioned in the article within the category, even in the Vietnamese wiki, which suggests that the cemetery isn't part of the place. Also there's only one page, which doesn't help with navigation IMO... - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 10:57, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Wiccan terminology

Nominator's rationale: manually merge, these aren't articles about terminology as a subject, they rather are articles about subjects in Wicca. Move articles to the root category if they aren't already somewhere else in the Wicca tree. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:08, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Shia Islam by region

Nominator's rationale: delete, there is no objection against a category like this per se, but it is overcategorization in the sense that all three articles are already interconnected in Category:Shia Islam in Asia. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:02, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Adult culture

Nominator's rationale: Failure to make a distinction between the Adulthood category. That was already stubby enough as it was until I added more articles to it, but I can't discern any difference in the "culture" category. We don't have a Child culture or Adolescent culture category either so this feels even more useless. Puzzlepiecelad (talk) 06:55, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. On top of that, part of the content of both categories can be purged insofar it may just as well apply to adolescents (e.g. parenthood) or is unrelated to age (e.g. men and women). Marcocapelle (talk) 07:16, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
    • @Marcocapelle: Well to be fair, Category:Childhood already has Category:Boys and Category:Girls which are the antonyms to Men and Women just as Adulthood is to Childhood, and both the man and woman article men and women as adult humans of particular sex. I would agree about removing the rest of the categories as extensions of adolescence or non-relation to age, but I can make a defense for keeping Men and Women unless we also delete Boys and Girls from childhood. Men and Women is very much related to age for the same reason Boys and Girls are; Male and Female would be the age-neutral umbrella terms to apply to all of them, respectively. Puzzlepiecelad (talk) 08:10, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:40, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Upcoming Indian films

Nominator's rationale: We have categories for upcoming films based on various criteria such as language but not country. We don't have Category:Upcoming American films. If it doesn't exist, maybe it's not meant to be created. Kailash29792 (talk) 06:36, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, you can't populate it like this, country does not nicely coincide with languages. Bengali-language films can also be Bangladeshi films, Tamil-language films can also be Sri Lankan films. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:57, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete In principle we should categorize upcoming films by country, but this category system incorrectly juxtaposes country of production with language. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:51, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per LaundryPizza03. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 20:36, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment: Thank you guys for voting to delete. An October 2014 cFd too ended with the same consensus, yet it was recreated. Kailash29792 (talk) 02:53, 9 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete. Though this begs the question why we would delete this but then keep the language categories. They could just be removed as subcats per Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_October_21#Relation_between_by-language_and_by-country_categories. But that is not to say I believe either diffusion is necessarily warranted. Just that deleting this seems somewhat dependent on us deleting/upmerging the language cats as well at some point in the future. Οἶδα (talk) 19:50, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Novels about ephebophilia

Nominator's rationale: Ephebophilia is considered to be a normal part of human attraction as the target is post-pubescent, which many older adults and late teens are. It is not considered pathological like pedophilia nor has there been any incentive to classify it as a medical diagnosis. As a result it is widely under-researched and many would argue it as a subtype of teleiophilia which again would account for about 90% of sexuality-based works. In cases of adult-adolescent male sexual relationships in novels, that would be categorized under pederasty and I believe there's a separate category for that. Puzzlepiecelad (talk) 01:52, 8 November 2026 (UTC)

November 7

Category:Racing drivers from Guernsey

Nominator's rationale: C2C: Category:Guernsey sportspeople by sport. Sahaib (talk) 23:35, 7 November 2026 (UTC)

Evangelical Christianity → Evangelicalism

Nominator's rationale: In the Category:Evangelicalism tree there is inconsistent use of "Evangelical Christianity foo" versus "Evangelicalism foo", and also "Evangelical Christian foo" versus "Evangelical foo". The style proposed here is the most consistent one with the article title Evangelicalism and the category name Category:Evangelicalism. Ham II (talk) 15:56, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename per nom, for consistency. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:19, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
  • rename per above --Lenticel (talk) 00:59, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:1980 Thai television dramas

Nominator's rationale: Novel category scheme without precedent. While we do categorize television series by their individual year of debut and ending, we do not have any established scheme of intersecting individual years with genres of programming -- genre categories exist at the decade level (e.g. Category:1980s Thai television dramas), not at the individual year level, and Thailand does not have any special need to categorize drama series more granularly than other countries do.
Creator has also been making a hash of the category system in other ways, including the "Decade Thai musical groups" set listed below, a novel scheme for "YYYY Thai game shows" that's already been emptied out and deleted, and a half-assed attempt to unilaterally replace some (but not all) of the long-established "YYYY Thai television series debuts" tree with a new "YYYY Thai television shows" simulacrum without establishing any consensus that Thailand would need to be pulled out of line from the existing standard naming convention for such categories.
Some caution will also need to be taken here, as I've already caught at least one category (2000) which was populated entirely by shows whose articles stated that they didn't premiere until the latter half of the 2010s, so it's not unequivocally clear that everything under this tree has actually been categorized correctly. Bearcat (talk) 15:32, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge/rename per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:49, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Thanks for putting all of this together. Οἶδα (talk) 22:59, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. (Though I have not checked whether all articles are about a one-season series, so I do not know for sure if the debut target is always correct.) Marcocapelle (talk) 07:25, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
A one-season series should simply be categorized as both a YYYY debut and a Same-YYYY ending, rather than needing a whole separate tree to segregate single-season series from multiseason series. A single-season series does still debut, after all, and is subject to exactly the same "just because it isn't in production anymore doesn't mean it can't still be watched on a streaming service or in reruns, so it hasn't ceased to exist" considerations. Bearcat (talk) 16:37, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Reorganise under a better naming scheme. The current debuts/endings/seasons category scheme is unsuited for TV series where single, limited-run seasons are the norm. I previously raised this (and how to deal with วรุฒ หิ่มสาใจ's creations) at WikiProject Television, twice, but didn't see any suggestions, nor opposition to the idea of a new category scheme for such series. --Paul_012 (talk) 11:28, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
I don't think we can perfectly account for every international idiosyncracy so we shouldn't try. But Category:Television miniseries already exists for categorizing limited-run shows. If we are going to develop a novel categorization it would be built under that, no? And how would you account for limited-run shows like Love Alert (Thai TV series) that begin airing in one year and finish airing in the next? They still "debuted" and "ended". The same can said of shows that did so in the same calendar year. But does The Book of Boba Fett not belong in Category:2021 American television series debuts and Category:2022 American television series endings? And what is a miniseries if not a series? Yes, series are generally understood as having multiple seasons. But we don't need to contort ourselves in order to similarly call it a series. Οἶδα (talk) 19:48, 8 November 2026 (UTC)
That's easy. The debut and ending are the same year. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:04, 11 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Crime in Baptist Christianity

Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with currently only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:22, 7 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Baptist cemeteries

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:43, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with currently only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:17, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Baptist drama television series

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:43, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer, Category:Baptist Christianity in television is otherwise empty. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:12, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
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Category:1960s Thai musical groups

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:42, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Novel category scheme. While we do categorize musical groups by their individual years of establishment and disestablishment when known, we do not have any established tree of lifespan-categorizing them for entire decades in which they happened to be active, and Thailand does not have a special need to do a thing that no other country in the world is doing. Bearcat (talk) 14:58, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
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Evangelical and Baptist Christian art

Nominator's rationale: We should avoid using the term "art" in categories to refer to the arts or culture in general, as opposed to the visual arts. The latter is the scope of the parent Category:Christian art, but the subcategories of these categories are for films, hymnwriters, music festivals and record companies; Category:Evangelical Christian mass media is already a natural home for some of these. After deletion Category:Evangelical Christian music festivals could be added to Category:Evangelicalism and Category:Films about Baptist Christianity to Category:Baptist Christianity; the rest are already in other parts of those category trees. Ham II (talk) 14:57, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete/manually merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:10, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
  • support per nom --Lenticel (talk) 01:01, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Georgia (country)–Palestine relations

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:40, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Category containing only the main article and an article about a Greek Orthodox monastery in Palestine which has no apparent link to bilateral relations between these two countries. AusLondonder (talk) 12:29, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Establishments in Indian Territory by century

Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only one subcategory each. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:06, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
Delete The Indian Territory existed from 1834 to 1906. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:48, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
@LaundryPizza03: That's two centuries, so why delete? The C20 estab category was not properly parented into here, but it is now. – Fayenatic London 16:55, 9 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Shia mosques in Israel

Nominator's rationale: merge for now, currently only one article in the category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:53, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
Merge Israel is a Jewish state, and most Muslims in Israel are Sunnis, so there shouldn't be many articles that belong here. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:50, 7 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boats

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Staraction (talk · contribs) 09:45, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: As the article is called Marine Protector-class patrol boat (no coastal) the category should be the same. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 05:30, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority in the West Bank

Nominator's rationale: Consistency, cf.
  1. Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 19#Palestine
  2. Category:Governorates of Palestine TopoName (talk) 01:33, 7 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Governorates of the Palestinian National Authority in the Gaza Strip

Nominator's rationale: Consistency, cf.
  1. Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 January 19#Palestine
  2. Category:Governorates of Palestine TopoName (talk) 01:32, 7 November 2026 (UTC)

Category:Films about juvenile sexuality

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The result of the discussion was: rename. Staraction (talk · contribs) 06:59, 14 November 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Most films concern adolescents rather than children. Puzzlepiecelad (talk) 01:28, 7 November 2026 (UTC)
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