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October 25

NEW NOMINATIONS

Category:Disinformation in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Nominator's rationale: WP:CONSISTENT with Disinformation in the Russo-Ukrainian war. The need for two separate categories is unclear.

Consensus from the August 2025 RM on Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to be that the distinction is that Russo-Ukrainian war and Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present) refer to the war as a whole, while 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine refers to the initial phase of the full-scale war (defined there as 24 February to 8 April 2022). However, most of the articles in this category are not limited to that initial phase (only Ghost of Kyiv is). I suggest we don't need two separate categories and should upmerge this one. Helpful Cat🐈 12:30, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Obsolete category

Nominator's rationale: Taxonomic revisions are commonplace, and creating separate categories for every historical taxonomic arrangement would unnecessarily complicate Wikipedia's category system. Otherwise, we could end up with a proliferation of categories labelled sensu latissimo, sensu lato, sensu stricto, and sensu strictissimo. This category reflects an outdated circumscription of Falconiformes, and its contents can be accommodated within the existing categories for the currently recognized taxonomic groups. Historical classifications can be explained in the relevant articles without maintaining separate categories for them. As there is no suitable target for a category redirect, I propose deletion. コロネン/Coronene (talk) 12:27, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Namibian expatriate sportspeople in Palestine

Nominator's rationale: Category containing only a single article, for a subject (Quinton Jacobs) who played for a Palestinian football team for one season. Already covered by Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Palestine and Category:Namibian expatriate men's footballers. Serves no navigational purpose. AusLondonder (talk) 11:25, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

More ambassador categories

Nominator's rationale: More non-defining categories for non-resident ambassadors containing only a single article. Unhelpful for navigation and contributing to over-categorisation of individual articles (such as Helene Budliger Artieda, who is in seven non-resident categories. AusLondonder (talk) 11:23, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Australian rules football in Switzerland

Nominator's rationale: Merge also to Category:Australian rules football in Europe.

Category containing only a single article, not useful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 10:50, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedians who use Mozilla Firefox

Nominator's rationale: Fails WP:USERCAT for lacking any kind of collaborative purpose BooksBooksBooks3 (talk) 02:51, 25 October 2026 (UTC)
Keep Knowing which browser a user uses is important for technical tasks. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:29, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Danish Satanists

Nominator's rationale: 1 article category. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:43, 25 October 2026 (UTC)
Merge per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:31, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Brazilian satanists

Nominator's rationale: 1 article category. Also capitalized wrong. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:41, 25 October 2026 (UTC)
Delete He is in Category:Satanist religious leaders. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:30, 25 October 2026 (UTC)



Category:Video games created using generative AI

Nominator's rationale: Clear WP:NONDEF failure. A video game created entirely by generative AI might be defining, but many games use generative AI for small aspects of it that may not be perceivable by the average player, if anyone at all. If games made totally by AI start becoming commercial successes at a high rate, perhaps something like this may be warranted, but it's still too soon for that. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 21:28, 17 October 2026 (UTC)
Tbhotch™ (CC BY-SA 4.0) 21:30, 17 October 2026 (UTC)
Hrm, that is indeed another can of worms. But I would also say that it is specifically worth discussing this one because it's far easier for video games to have imperceptible amounts of GenAI in them. With films and music, it's more commonplace for them to be made entirely with it or not at all. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 21:34, 17 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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October 24

Category:Imams by period

Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer, upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 22:53, 24 October 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)

Category:Animal spirits

Nominator's rationale: Renominating this category for deletion. It is extremely vague and ill-defined. There is no main article about animal spirits. Spirits may resemble animals but not actually be any real animal. Its contents should probably be dispersed to its parent categories based on what they actually are. Otherwise it is unacceptably subjective. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 15:31, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
Shouldn't this be an upmerge? WinstonDewey (talk) 16:24, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
  • "Disperse to parent categories" is more accurate in this case, because articles do not need to be moved to all four parents. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:28, 9 July 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Oppose after reviewing the previous discussion, I'd say my previous points still stand. WinstonDewey (talk) 20:08, 15 July 2026 (UTC)
Keep, oppose, a valid category per its description "Animal spirits and spirit animals are supernatural entities resembling animals, as commonly depicted in folklore, legends, mythology, and religion." A part of the culture of, say, many native Americans, the category is actually well-filled out and functional. Actually, thanks to whoever created it. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:23, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete/Disperse per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 11:33, 22 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete/Disperse We don't typically require a main article to start a category of course but, in this case, the lack of one makes it subjective. Open to future reconsideration if/when that gets created. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:48, 24 July 2026 (UTC)
    Several articles in the disamb. Spirit animals fit main article status for this category. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:27, 31 July 2026 (UTC)
  • @Randy Kryn: sorry, they don't. The only actual article is Familiar which already has its own sub-cat. Power animal redirects to a section in Neoshamanism, where it is stated that the term is used for tutelary spirits, and neither of these could be a main article for this category. Spirit guide is mainly about human ancestors, and Totem is not specific to animals. So, lacking a lead article, delete/disperse. The articles seem to be rightly categorised as mythological or legendary creatures. The claimed distinctive for "spirit animals" is that there is something supernatural about this selection of myth./leg. creatures, but that's too vague, WP:SUBJECTIVECAT. – Fayenatic London 21:37, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Last relist to allow for potential counterarguments.
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More ambassador categories

Nominator's rationale: Non-defining categories for non-resident ambassadors containing only a single article. Unhelpful for navigation and contributing to over-categorisation of individual articles such as Beryl Sisulu who is the sole subject in six non-resident categories. AusLondonder (talk) 18:23, 24 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete non-residential ambassadorships are non-defining.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:29, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Cambodian noodle dishes

Nominator's rationale: Narrow cat with just two articles. Checked for more but didn't find any. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 17:25, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Rides designed by John Wardley

Nominator's rationale: Proposing to change this category name from attractions "designed" to "developed" by John Wardley, since John Wardley was a park development director, not a designer of these individual rides (other than the earliest attractions for Chessington World of Adventures). He is already credited as developer of most these attractions on all their relevant pages so renaming would bring the category in line. Also "attractions" is a more fitting term.Detachio (talk) 17:21, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Laotian noodles

Nominator's rationale: Redundant layers with just one subcat each. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 17:19, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Nigerian women scientists by century

Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated category, delete for now SMasonGarrison 11:18, 7 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete Nigeria is at times called "the mistake of 1908". It was formed by the British government in 1908, attempting to impise one identity on an area woth broad and differeing histories. Because of this we are only able to have 20th and 21st century Nigerian categories. We geberally require the pissibility of 3 century catrgories. Necause of this I wouks say we shoukd have no Nigerian by century categories at all.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:06, 8 October 2026 (UTC)
    That's not a good reason to not have these at all. We have hundreds of "20th century X by country" and "21st century X by country" categories, excluding all countries which haven't existed for at least 3 centuries from these "by country" trees would be a completely useless, reader-unfriendly restriction. Please, for the umpteenth time (not just for you, but for many regulars here), when thinking about "too narrow" or "not enough categories" or some similar arguments, think in all directions this category would appear in, not just in one single direction. Fram (talk) 07:40, 8 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge to Category:Nigerian women scientists since the subcategory has not been nominated. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:54, 9 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Note that with two subcategories (as it stands now) this merge can still go ahead. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:30, 10 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep, now 13 and 31 pages (plus a subcat) and can be further populated. Standard members of parent cats, no reason not to include Nigeria in those. Fram (talk) 07:52, 9 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Arabic architecture

Nominator's rationale: "Arabic" only refers to the language. Use of it to refer to the people or anything other than the language is incorrect. HerrHeulsuse (talk) 13:05, 19 July 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Flamingos

Nominator's rationale: Essentially identical categories. - In solidarity, UtherSRG (talk) 21:32, 15 September 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment/Keep Redirect I'll defer to more intelligent editors on which category should be retained, but whatever the "loser" is should be kept as a redirect. - RevelationDirect (talk) 02:15, 16 September 2026 (UTC)
  • Reverse merge per article title Flamingo and similar categories like Category:Dogs, Category:Lions. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:09, 16 September 2026 (UTC)
    The standard is to merge to the scientific name, when they are essentially the same. The two categories you use as an example have no other similar category possible; we wouldn't have a "Canis lupus" category, not a "Panthera leo" category. - In solidarity, UtherSRG (talk) 14:18, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

    we wouldn't have a "Canis lupus" category, not a "Panthera leo" category.

    Why not? Besides the fact they haven't been created by anyone. How is this different? Οἶδα (talk) 03:29, 17 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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  • Reverse merge Wikipedia has a common nane guideline. We use the common name, not the scientific nane or the official name. What next will people insist on creating Category:William Jefferson Clinton?John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:11, 17 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Relisting for a full week having tagged the target, as a reverse merge appears to be seriously considered.
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Early 19th century in Hawaii

Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, with the exception of 1832 establishments they are mostly semi-isolated one- or two-articles categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:27, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Welsh people of Singaporean descent

Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 03:01, 24 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Unless it can be further populated. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:51, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:The Opportunities Party leaders

Nominator's rationale: I'm open to any variation of the name. The name of the category is outdated as the Opportunities Party is now called the Opportunity Party. This category should be renamed to ensure it reflects the current name of the article (Opportunity Party (New Zealand)). Ebalia Nux (talk) 02:58, 24 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename per WP:C2D, this could have been listed at speedy. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:54, 24 October 2026 (UTC)
    Sorry, I wasn't sure of the protocol as I've never dealt with categories before. Ebalia Nux (talk) 07:12, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

October 23

Category:Free-content attribution

I propose moving all subcategories of Category:Free-content attribution out of Category:Free-content attribution and placing them instead in Category:Wikipedia articles by source of incorporated text. This would leave Category:Free-content attribution purely as a tracking category for {{Free-content attribution}} with no subcategories. Daask (talk) 18:06, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Greece–West Germany relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing two articles related to Greek participation at multinational sporting events hosted in West Germany. Both unrelated to bilateral relations. AusLondonder (talk) 17:01, 23 October 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)

Category:Burkina Faso–Nigeria relations

Nominator's rationale: Previously deleted and now re-created bilateral relations category containing only a single article, Burkinabes in Nigeria and two expat/descent categories. AusLondonder (talk) 15:45, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
Delete Then we can speedy delete per G4 if this happens again. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:07, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:History of the Dominion of New England

Nominator's rationale: rename, "history of" is redundant, everything about the Dominion of New England is history. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:38, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Non-defining, non-resident ambassador categories

Nominator's rationale: Resuming the removal of non-defining categories for non-resident ambassadors containing only a single article. Unhelpful for navigation and contributing to over-categorisation of individual articles. AusLondonder (talk) 15:33, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
Delete per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:07, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Dwkete as non-defining. We should also delete mukti-article non-resident ambassadors and remove articles from any category for which that subject help a non-resident ambassadorship even if some of that same ambassadorships were resident.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:26, 25 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Οἶδα (talk) 03:45, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Sailor Moon games

Nominator's rationale: All parent categories are for video games, and the main article is for the video game list. The only entry that isn't a video game is Sailor Moon Collectible Card Game, which can be moved to Category:Sailor Moon mass media. (Oinkers42) (talk) 15:33, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ecuador–Trinidad and Tobago sports relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing only a single article, 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL–CONCACAF play-off). Not useful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 14:23, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
Delete This involved exactly two countries but contributes no navigational purpose without other articles eligible for inclusion. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:08, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Engineers from Lynn, Massachusetts

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT. The Lynn category contains only 2 articles. The populated place category contains only two sub-categories, one of which will be deleted as proposed. User:Namiba 13:57, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

18th century in Hawaii

Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, with the exception of 1790 they are mostly isolated one-article categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:45, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Lance Inc. brands

Nominator's rationale: Parent company Update6 (talk) 07:23, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Snyder's-Lance Inc. brands

Nominator's rationale: Parent company Update6 (talk) 07:22, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Gibraltarian people of Sindhi descent

Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 05:13, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:42, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge Serves no navigational purpose. AusLondonder (talk) 08:08, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Οἶδα (talk) 03:45, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Welsh diaspora in Europe

Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer Arctic Circle System (talk) 04:31, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Azerbaijan–Peru relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing only the main article and a redirect. Serves no navigational purpose. AusLondonder (talk) 02:28, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Azerbaijan–Greece relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing only the main article and Caucasus Greeks which does not belong. Serves no navigational purpose. AusLondonder (talk) 02:07, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Azerbaijan–France sports relations

Nominator's rationale: Once this category has been purged of ridiculous articles such as Soviet Union at the 1968 Winter Olympics it contains only a single article which serves no navigational purpose. AusLondonder (talk) 02:05, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, meanwhile only one article left. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:48, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

October 22

Tunisian companies established in 1995

Nominator's rationale: Narrow and sparsely populated category per WP:OCYEAR and WP:NARROW. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 21:26, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. LibStar (talk) 02:11, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:50, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge even after the merger the target category will only have 6 articles or redirects.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:02, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Mozambican companies established in 1981

Nominator's rationale: Narrow and sparsely populated category per WP:NARROW and WP:OCYEAR. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 21:19, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. LibStar (talk) 02:11, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:50, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge Only 1 entry. GenuineArt (talk) 04:46, 24 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge after the merger the targrt category will only have 3 articles.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:03, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Paramount Skydance

Nominator's rationale: Paramount Skydance recently renamed themselves to "Skydance Corporation". The Wikipedia article has been renamed to "Skydance", so this category, and the other categories baring the name, should be renamed to have "Skydance" in the title. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gilliebillie (talk • contribs) 17:11, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Ambassadors of Azerbaijan

Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated subcategories to Azerbaijan. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:59, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Support per nom. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 19:57, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge these categories are all too narrow to aid navigation. I have been meaning to nominate more categories for a while but have been very busy. I want to thank LaundryPizza03 for this nomination. It is much needed.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:06, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ambassadors of Belgium to Turkey

Nominator's rationale: The Ottoman Empire is not Turkey. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:52, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Support Per nom. AusLondonder (talk) 01:38, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Support Yes both are different things. GenuineArt (talk) 04:50, 24 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:07, 24 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. LibStar (talk) 07:56, 24 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete for ambassador postings we should not place pistings under countries they were not to.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:07, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Ambassadors of Angola to the Holy See

Nominator's rationale: Single-article category. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:25, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:46, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge Serves no navigational purpose. AusLondonder (talk) 01:38, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Counties on the James River (Virginia)

Nominator's rationale: Following the merge agreed at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_July_8#Category:Counties_on_the_James_River_(Virginia), rename following Virginia counties and Kentucky counties on the Ohio River. – Fayenatic London 10:05, 14 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename per precedent. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:57, 14 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete the set of conties that touch a river is not a defoning trait we categorize by.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:19, 16 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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  • I thought the same about deletion, but there happen to be similar categories, so deletion would require a broader nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:57, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
    • We should not keep categories that do not meet our criteria just because there are other poorly created categories. We shoukd consider categoriea based on if thry meet our criteria regardless of what other categories there are.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:09, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Treviso FBC

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are the main article and two subcategories for players and managers. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:18, 14 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, the subcategories are already directly interlinked. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:11, 15 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep, I added another article, and that the subcategories are already interlinked doesn't help when you come from e.g. Category:Football clubs in Italy. Fram (talk) 07:54, 15 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page discussions. GiantSnowman 08:36, 16 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep per Fram. NB that it's fairly standard to have a category of this size for a football club. GiantSnowman 08:37, 16 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Keep or delete?
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Category:Deserts of Lithuania and Russia

Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer Arctic Circle System (talk) 03:14, 2 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Delete or merge?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 12:00, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • LaundryPizza03 has a fair point, deletion is the better option. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:49, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete sand dunes are not deserts.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:10, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Ambassadors of Estonia

Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated categories. In this case, I have filtered out all of the non-resident positions to the best of what I could discern. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 09:38, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:50, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge Serves no navigational purpose. AusLondonder (talk) 01:39, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge these excessivrky narrow categories activrly hinder navigation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:11, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Belarusian people of Buryat descent

Nominator's rationale: One applicable article, born in Russia. Arctic Circle System (talk) 09:14, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge or delete, while born in Russia it is not certain that he was really Russian. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:55, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete the subject was born in the Soviet Union. We shoukd not assume all residebts of the RSSFR were Russian.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:13, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Belarusian people of Ossetian descent

Nominator's rationale: Only one applicable article as far as I can tell, born in Russia. Arctic Circle System (talk) 09:13, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge or delete, he did not emigrate from Russia to Belarus because it was one country (Soviet Union) when he moved there. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:56, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep as it is: Ossetians are a different ethnicity from Russians Czalex 14:38, 24 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete this is an overly narrow category. The subject of thd one article was born in the Soviet Union. We should not impose ethnic labels on residents of the Soviet Union based on which of its constituent units were resident in at birth.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:16, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Portuguese-language singers by country

Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated categories from countries where Portuguese is not an official or commonly used language. It is likely that all articles are adequately categorized by nationality. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:31, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:58, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete all as non-defining. The language a person sings in is non-definimg for 2 reasons. 1. Almost no singers do improv singing. They are not singing the words they are creating in the moment. Some did also create the words as dong writers. So song writers can be sorted by language but not singers. 2. There are some singers who sing in a half dozen or more languages. People can and do sing words in languages they cannot even hold the most basic of conversations in. Language sunf in is a trivial thing that should not be categorized by.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:20, 25 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. As for the non-defining issue, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_May_8#Category:Esperanto-language_singers. Οἶδα (talk) 03:38, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Bilateral sports relations of Peru

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are sports brackets with more than two countries and countries' participation in international sports competitions. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:22, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete Full of misplaced articles. Once removed these categories would be empty. AusLondonder (talk) 01:44, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete a whole scheme where we are miscategorixing articles.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:21, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Haiti–Kosovo sports relations

Nominator's rationale: Only content is a single sports match. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:22, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete Serves no navigational purpose. AusLondonder (talk) 01:43, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Chile–Peru sports relations

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are Chile–Peru football rivalry and various sports events where Chile played in Peru or vice versa. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:19, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Peru–United States sports relations

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are Category:Baseball in Peru and Peru at various sports in the United States or vice versa. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:17, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Italy–Peru sports relations

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are Peru at a sports event in Italy and Circolo Sportivo Italiano. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:14, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Haiti–Nicaragua relations

Nominator's rationale: After removing an article about an immigration program to the United States (Parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans) from all bilateral categories, the only content is a sports match (2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification (CFU–UNCAF play-off)). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:08, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete Category contains a single misplaced article. AusLondonder (talk) 01:42, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Bolivia–Venezuela sports relations

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are a tennis event where Venezuela played against Bolivia; and one of the categories nominated below, which is for the Venezuela team at a sports event in Bolivia. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:58, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Venezuela at the Copa América

Nominator's rationale: Only contents are navigation boxes and articles about the Copa América rounds where Venezuela participated. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:54, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Bilateral sports relations categories

Nominator's rationale: Small bilateral sports relations categories containing only recurring events. An example is Category:Colombia–Costa Rica sports relations which contains only of 1995 Copa Interamericana and Copa América Centenario Group A. Another is Costa Rica at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics which is in Category:Argentina–Costa Rica sports relations because Argentina hosted the games. Consensus has consistently been that such articles should not be categorised in this way. AusLondonder (talk) 07:31, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
Delete per nom. Sports relations categories should be only for matches and events involving two countries. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:12, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Bolivia–Montenegro relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing only a single article. Serves no navigational purpose. AusLondonder (talk) 07:21, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
Delete Diaspora groups are not related to bilateral relations. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:30, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Tapastic webcomics

Nominator's rationale: Opaque name for a category of webcomics on a platform. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 21:32, 14 October 2026 (UTC)
Apparently this is a former name of the platform, but that still warrants a rename. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:22, 21 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Personal Choice Party politicians

Nominator's rationale: Only applicable article is already in Category:American libertarians. Arctic Circle System (talk) 04:50, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, I added a redirect to the category, but that does not mean the category is viable. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:02, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Support per nom. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 14:21, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Chief Medical Officers for Northern Ireland

Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 02:52, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

October 21

Category:Spectrum (band) songs

Nominator's rationale: One article category, unhelpful for navigation, creator blocked for creating a lot of useless categories. Not too familiar on how to handle cases like this, but I think upmerging makes sense here? If kept, this should be renamed to Category:Spectrum (Australian band) songs to match Spectrum (Australian band). Skarmory (talk • contribs) 22:03, 21 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep, for artistic creations (songs, albums, books, films, ...) it is standard and reader-friendly to have all categories, from the one-article ones up to the hundreds. Agree with the rename argument though. Fram (talk) 08:38, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Support per nom. Merge to the target in nom or potentially merge the song article into the main article for Spectrum, probably under the section for Discography though that is an idea for an AfD. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 14:31, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename if Kept I'll defer to others on the keep/delete part of the nomination, but so long as we have a category it should follow the band name. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:47, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedian Toxicologist

Nominator's rationale: Old category (created 2014!), but not formatted correctly (should be "Wikipedian toxicologists") and only one entry (from the creator). No major preference for upmerge, delete, rename, or keep from me, but just want to hear ideas on this. ⚙ Crash >> Organhaver ( it / he | talk to me, maybe? ) 21:46, 21 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, too specific for a user category. Creator is already in several related categories, so merging is not needed. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:28, 22 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Support per nom and Marcocapelle. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 14:31, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Imperial Valley Desert Warriors football players

Nominator's rationale: The football program at Imperial Valley College was discontinued after the 1985 season when the school's sports teams were still known as the Arabs. Jweiss11 (talk) 19:13, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Deaths in Barcelona

Nominator's rationale: Not defining. There isn't subcategories like Category:People murdered in Paris, Category:Suicides in Moscow. Sahaib (talk) 16:11, 21 October 2026 (UTC)
Delete By WP:OCLOCATION, generic deaths should not be categorized by location. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:54, 21 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per LaundryPizza03. Οἶδα (talk) 17:59, 21 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per LaundryPizza03. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:29, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Costa Rica–Panama sports relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing only a single article on a planned multinational sports event, 2020 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup and the related category. Serves no purpose. AusLondonder (talk) 14:53, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Pakistan–Panama relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing two articles, one about a Panama-flagged vessel which ran aground in Pakistan and another relating to the Panama Papers. Not useful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 14:08, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Panama–Portugal relations

Nominator's rationale: Category containing only a single sub-category, Category:Portuguese-language Panamanian singers, unrelated to bilateral relations between these two nations. AusLondonder (talk) 13:42, 21 October 2026 (UTC)
Delete per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:53, 21 October 2026 (UTC)
The subcategory is itself now nominated at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_October_22#Portuguese-language_singers_by_country. Also, the only person in the category, Erika Ender, isn't Portuguese. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 08:34, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Apiculture

Nominator's rationale: Synonym of Category:Beekeeping. All contents are already in a subcategory of that category, except Category:Beekeeping itself. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:07, 21 October 2026 (UTC)
That's three small redundant categories I spotted among this user's page creations. There's probably more like it. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:08, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Nature educators

Nominator's rationale: Isolated two-article category with an unclear purpose. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:04, 21 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep, now 8 entries. Fram (talk) 11:17, 21 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep per Fram's efforts. - RevelationDirect (talk) 02:03, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Fictitious medical conditions

Nominator's rationale: Synonym. Most fictional element categories do not segregate hoaxes from works of fiction. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:02, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Controversial top-level domains

Nominator's rationale: Clear WP:NPOV violation; appears to be an arbritrary collection of four articles/redirects based on a made-up definition of the word "controversial". Does not seem helpful. InfiniteNexus (talk) 06:45, 21 October 2026 (UTC)
Delete Classic WP:SUBJECTIVECAT. Articles should be in Category:Internet-related controversies if there is discussion of a controversy. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:51, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Academic staff of Sri Sri University

Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 05:46, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

Relation between by-language and by-country categories

Nominator's rationale: Nontraditional CfD. See: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Film/Archive_89#Indian_film_and_languages_categories. I am seeking consensus that by-language categories and by-country categories do not logically have a subset relation, and should therefore be decoupled in the minority of instances where that is currently the case, rather than arranged in a parent–child relationship. Οἶδα (talk) 05:23, 21 October 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's extended rationale I am seeking explicit consensus because, as I wrote in that discussion, I am being told that the Indian film categories are secretly functioning as industry categories when they are actually named as categories for languages. The issue with that is the category system does not support categorization of films by industry, it supports films by country and films by language. It is also inappropriate because these industries are actually subsets of these language categories. For example, Bollywood is really a subset of Hindi-language films, not the other way around. We even have Bengali-language film categories currently being the subcats of Indian *and* Bangladeshi film categories, meaning the category includes films from both countries (which it should) but is also set up as the child of Indian and Bangladeshi categories, when "Bengali-language" does not imply logical membership of both unless they are somehow all Indian-Bangladeshi coproductions, but they are not. This of course ignores the fact that "Bengali-language" does not automatically imply logical membership of either of them. There are plenty of other language categories for which you could say most of the films contained therein originate from the country where that language originates. But we do not have such a parent-child relationship on those categories either. Because, again, not every Tamil-language film originates from India. And not every Persian-language film originates from Iran. Only if that were somehow logically true would this current categorization be warranted. Currently, every single film contained in Category:2020s Finnish-language films originates from Finland. But Category:2020s Finnish films is not the parent category, because language and country are two entirely different constructs and forms of classification, regardless of overlap. One does not logically imply the other. Category:2026 French-language films and Category:French-language Canadian films are logical subcats of Category:French-language films. Category:French films, however, is not a logical subcat (or parent cat) of Category:French-language films. That logic doesn't become untrue the second India comes into the equation and become true the second India exits it.
The user telling me otherwise, User:Gotibro, has also added other illogical relationships to large numbers of Indian categories, which I raised in the recent discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Film#Indian_film_and_languages_categories_redux. They insist that the entire basis of these Indian language categories was to function as industry categories. They have offered no evidence of such a carve-out consensus at CfD. I have asked over and over again for links where such discussion is located. I've received nothing of the sort. They say "Cinema of India was the first case at enwiki where regional/lingual sub film industries had to be tackled for categories and sub-articles" and "that is what their leads state and what we have always followed at enwiki". What do their leads state? The articles--which are titled Hindi cinema, Kannada cinema, Telugu cinema, Tamil cinema etc and not Hindi-language cinema, Kannada-language cinema, Telugu-language cinema, Tamil-language cinema--state that Hindi cinema is India's Hindi-language film industry. That Tamil cinema is India's Tamil-language film industry. That Telugu cinema is India's Telugu-language film industry. They do not state that Hindi-language films are exclusively those produced by India's Hindi-language film industry. That Tamil-language films are exclusively those produced by India's Tamil-language film industry. That Telugu-language films are exclusively those produced by India's Telugu-language film industry. And those are Wikipedia articles, not Wikipedia categories, which are governed separately. Any category can be renamed, merged, split, and deleted at CfD regardless of whatever someone says enwiki has "always followed". There is no proof that these categories have been covertly functioning as industry-only catgories or that there is some sort of implicit consensus behind that decision. The longstanding description at Category:Hindi-language films has simply stated that it contains "Films in which the Hindi language is wholly or partially spoken." And at Category:Tamil-language films: "Films in which the Tamil language is wholly or partially spoken." And at Category:Telugu-language films: "Films in which the Telugu language is wholly or partially spoken." You can view the CfDs from 20 years ago that established the category tree.
Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_January_16#Films_by_language
Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_April_11#Category:Films_by_language
Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_July_8#Films_by_language
They are about the division of films by language, not about films by industry or country. And again, India is not actually unique in this regard. There are a great deal of other "films by language" categories for which you could say most of the films contained therein originate from the country where that language originates. But we do not have those language categories as children of their country categories there either, and wherever we still do we shouldn't. Because, again, one does not logically imply the other. The reason Category:Punjabi language is a subcat of Category:Languages of India and Category:Languages of Pakistan is because it is both of those things at the same time. The reason Category:Bengali-language drama films should not be a subcat of Category:Indian drama films or Category:Bangladeshi drama films (it wasn't before this user added them) is because it is not both of those things at the same time. And, more importantly, it is neither of those things because a film being in a given language does not logically imply the film originates from the country that the given language originates from. Οἶδα (talk) 05:23, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Fictional talking animals

Nominator's rationale: So how exactly is this different from Category:Anthropomorphic animals? Scoopednirvana (talk) 04:06, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Amy Acton

Nominator's rationale: Not enough Amy Acton-related articles to justify having a whole category for her. NesserWiki (talk) 01:12, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

October 20

Category:Salah terminology

Nominator's rationale: merge, these aren't articles about terminology as a subject, they rather are articles about subjects in Salah. Marcocapelle (talk) 23:42, 20 October 2026 (UTC)
Merge Yet another ill-justified terminology category. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:13, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

Establishments in the Pitcairn Islands by year

Nominator's rationale: Narrow and sparsely populated categories per WP:OCYEAR and WP:NARROW. Merge targets maintain the categorization scheme. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 21:10, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Foreign relations of Independent Hawaii

Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:56, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Olympic synchronized swimming venues

Nominator's rationale: Consistent with main article, which is List of Olympic venues in artistic swimming Whizz40 (talk) 17:17, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

Establishments in Abkhazia by year

Nominator's rationale: Narrow and sparsely populated categories per WP:OCYEAR and WP:NARROW. The merge targets maintain the category trees. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 14:57, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Fascism in China

Nominator's rationale: Many of the pages in the category were added only on the basis of WP:SYNTH claims or misinterpretations of page scope. Category will end up with more subcategories than pages within it. Probably worthwhile to delete. Simonm223 (talk) 14:04, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

Permanent representatives of third countries to the European Union

Nominator's rationale: In the EU the title of "permanent representative to the European Union" is used exclusively for the ambassadors of EU member states, while non-EU country ambassadors use the title "ambassador to the European Union". See e.g. . In 2025, a number of permanent representative categories were mistakenly created for non-EU country ambassadors by Asrefaei. For eight of the categories "ambassadors to the European Union" categories already exists so I propose merging them. For the five others I propose renaming. Samoasambia ✎ 13:53, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Synchronized swimming at the Summer Olympics

Nominator's rationale: The sport was renamed in 2017 but is exactly the same sport and thus all Olympic events in this sport should fall into the same parent category https://www.olympics.com/en/sports/artistic-swimming/ Whizz40 (talk) 11:52, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Bay-class ocean liners

Nominator's rationale: Delete per WP:OVERLAP with Category:Ocean liners of Australia. Omnis (talk) 11:05, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:1840s establishments in Alaska

Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated single-article category. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:18, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

October 19

Category:Asahi Broadcasting Corporation original programming

Nominator's rationale: Needed to do this because as of 2018, the TV operations are now under ABC TV. SBF2004 (talk) 23:20, 19 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Hong kong

Nominator's rationale: Duplicate of Category:Hong Kong. ScalarFactor (talk) 16:29, 19 October 2026 (UTC)
Sounds like it may have been created just to argue over Hong Kong not being a country. Οἶδα (talk) 17:23, 19 October 2026 (UTC)
Delete WP:POVPUSH, not a useful Category redirect. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:09, 19 October 2026 (UTC)

Live CD/USB

Nominator's rationale: Redundant, overly fine-grained, likely not restrictive subcategorisation. 1234qwer1234qwer4 16:03, 19 October 2026 (UTC)

1860s disestablishments in Indian Territory

Nominator's rationale: Narrow and sparsely populated per WP:OCYEAR. The merge targets maintain the disestablishments and timeline trees for Indian Territory; note that the pages contained in the nomination are already contained in their respective disestablishments in the United States categories. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 00:48, 19 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, entirely isolated category. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:56, 19 October 2026 (UTC)
  • merge per above --Lenticel (talk) 00:13, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

Slovenian television series endings by year

Nominator's rationale: Narrow and sparsely populated categories per WP:OCYEAR and WP:NARROW. The merge targets maintain the disestablishments and television trees. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 00:33, 19 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia administrator hopefuls

Nominator's rationale: This category fails WP:USERCAT, which requires that user categories facilitat[e] coordination and collaboration between users for the improvement and development of the encyclopedia. The only way that purpose could be met is if nominators use this category to identify potential nominees. I frequently speak with RfA nominators. None—none—of us use this category to locate potential nominees. That's for good reason: Between the many CIR cases and even more long-inactive users, finding the handful of "diamonds in the rough" is impossible. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • edits • he/they) 00:32, 19 October 2026 (UTC)
One other thought: This category populates WP:HOPEFUL, a page which solves the "long-inactive" problem but doubles the "CIR" problem. It's still pointless and contrary to the purpose of user categories. Best, HouseBlaster (talk • edits • he/they) 00:43, 19 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Not useful and. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 00:33, 19 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete. If it isn't used for collaboration between the hopefuls, nor between RfA nominators, it isn't useful. Οἶδα (talk) 16:15, 19 October 2026 (UTC)
  • delete per nom --Lenticel (talk) 00:11, 25 October 2026 (UTC)

October 18

Category:Summer World University Games medalists in synchronized swimming

Nominator's rationale: FISU uses -ise spellings https://www.fisu.net/2013/07/06/synchronised-swimming-debutes-at-universiade-in-kazan/ "Synchronised Swimming debutes at Universiade in Kazan" Whizz40 (talk) 22:12, 18 October 2026 (UTC)
This sport was only included once in the World University Games in 2013. The sport was renamed in 2017 but it is exactly the same sport and thus even historical events in this sport could fall into a category named Summer World University Games medalists in artistic swimming as an alternative to the proposed move above. See for example, https://www.olympics.com/en/sports/artistic-swimming/. Whizz40 (talk) 12:28, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Synchronized swimming at the Summer World University Games

Nominator's rationale: FISU uses -ise spellings https://www.fisu.net/2013/07/06/synchronised-swimming-debutes-at-universiade-in-kazan/ "Synchronised Swimming debutes at Universiade in Kazan" Whizz40 (talk) 22:11, 18 October 2026 (UTC)
This sport was only included once in the World University Games in 2013. The sport was renamed in 2017 but it is exactly the same sport and thus even historical events in this sport could fall into a category named Artistic swimming at the Summer World University Games as an alternative to the proposed move above. See for example, https://www.olympics.com/en/sports/artistic-swimming/. Whizz40 (talk) 12:29, 20 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Stalinism-era scholars and writers

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: delete. Staraction (talk · contribs) 21:02, 24 October 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: The current title is ambiguous as to whether it is referring to scholars and writers who write about this era and ideology or scholars and writers who lived during this era of the Soviet Union. I should note I am not confident in the title I have proposed, I only put it there because I have to put in something. Arctic Circle System (talk) 21:57, 9 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename but use about instead of using of. I think that will make it even clearer. I think the target name is not clear enough.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:18, 10 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, it looks like this was originally meant to be for Soviet Union writers during the reign of Stalin, and writing about Stalinism is not a defining characteristic of these articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:21, 10 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Rename or delete?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 22:03, 18 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Think it's best just to delete. I looked through the first ~half of this category and basically none of the articles used the phrase "Stalinism" in the prose. Those that did were writing about Stalinism, but I don't believe that would be considered defining; and even if it is, it's not evident that very many of the articles currently contained would count as that, so categorizing people as writers-about-Stalinism would need to start from a relatively clean state anyways. ScalarFactor (talk) 23:53, 18 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete on further review this in not a defining characteristic.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:36, 19 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per Marcocapelle. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 11:40, 19 October 2026 (UTC)
  • delete per above --Lenticel (talk) 00:09, 24 October 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:Premier Volleyball League men's division teams

Nominator's rationale: Spikers' Turf and the PVL men's division are in the same lineage and have shared history, so putting them into a single unified category may be a better option. MarcusAbacus (talk) 18:29, 1 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.
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  • Oppose. Things that have history with each other aren't reason enough to merge them. Sincerely, Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 18:54, 21 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Apollo 11 crew

Nominator's rationale: Unnecessarily specific category, only links together three people that are already very well linked in normal articles. Not useful for navigation. ScalarFactor (talk) 21:02, 18 October 2026 (UTC)
Delete There were three people aboard Apollo 11. That is all. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 21:59, 18 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:02, 19 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep or at the very least Upmerge then instead? There is no reason why these three cats (because the nominated category isn't just linking three people, it is linkng three large subcats) should not be included in e.g. Category:People associated with Apollo 11? As far as I can see, the deletion would remove these three large cats completely from the Category:Apollo 11 tree, which would be rather silly. Fram (talk) 08:04, 19 October 2026 (UTC)
    Then they should be merged there. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:59, 19 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge to Category:People associated with Apollo 11 for now. (Not crazy about the proposed target either but it's not nominated.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 16:59, 20 October 2026 (UTC)
  • CU note I had deleted the category per WP:CSD#G5 prior to seeing Fram's keep vote above. I've restored the category to allow the deletion discussion to play out.-- Ponyobons mots 17:09, 21 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Additional Note The unnominated Category:People associated with Apollo 11 parent article was also deleted separately from this nomination as it was created by a banned editor. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:57, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete Being an astronaut is certainly defining but this single mission seems akin to WP:PERFCAT and only originally grouped three people so it's WP:NARROWCAT as well. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:57, 23 October 2026 (UTC)
  • delete per above --Lenticel (talk) 00:10, 24 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment And now this category has been emptied so there is nothing left here to merge. Liz Read! Talk! 19:01, 24 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Latter Day Saint belief and doctrine

Nominator's rationale: merge, for consistency with article space, Latter-day Saint belief redirects to Mormonism. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:55, 3 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Latter Day Saint concepts of the afterlife

Nominator's rationale: rename, for brevity, and aligning with Category:Afterlife in Christianity. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:47, 3 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Disney core universe characters

Nominator's rationale: More accurate name given the characters included in the category. "Disney core universe" is not well-defined given how the company also sees Disney Princesses and the other feature films as their core properties. Go D. Usopp (talk) 03:51, 3 October 2026 (UTC)


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Category:Zero-gravity indicators

Nominator's rationale: This is too much of a WP:NARROWCAT/WP:CRYSTAL given that there is only one such article on Wikipedia besides the main one and associated list. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:57, 10 October 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Champoeg Meetings

Nominator's rationale: rename (and purge very few articles), almost all articles in this categories are biographies. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:28, 18 October 2026 (UTC)
Seven of the articles in that are not bios, which is not exactly "very few" in a cat with 45 articles. That is general enough for its own cat, as it will likely continue to grow. I would suggest a new cat for the participants and move the bios there. Aboutmovies (talk) 19:48, 18 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Anti-apartheid organisations

Nominator's rationale: (Not actually wanting this to be moved but I want this to be a parent category; I was unsure how to format this at XfD)
I've noticed that some articles in this category include those opposing Israeli apartheid as well as South African apartheid. Should the category be a parent category to Category:Organisations opposing apartheid in South Africa and Organisations opposing apartheid in Israel/Organisations opposing apartheid in Palestine. Thoughts? GnocchiFan (talk) 15:25, 18 October 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose, those are two different issues. If an article is about both then they can be put in two categories. There is no reason to change the parenting. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:06, 19 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Vertebrate zoologists

Nominator's rationale: There is no reason to subdive these categories by whether zoologists specialize in Invertebrates or Vertebrates, I don't see how this is helpful for navigation. SMasonGarrison 15:19, 18 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:Mediaset Group

Nominator's rationale: Gruppo Mediaset, the parent company is now MFE - MediaForEurope SBF2004 (talk) 23:19, 10 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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  • Comment, apart from a redirect to a template the category is already empty. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:57, 18 October 2026 (UTC)

Category:R.T.I. - Mediaset

Nominator's rationale: Removing redundant categories for red links… SBF2004 (talk) 23:18, 10 October 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 09:02, 18 October 2026 (UTC)

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