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Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_August_26#Category:Iberian_locality_names_of_Arabic_origin

* Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:13, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 July 28#Category:Places in Hacienda de Mandaloyon

GoldRomean (talk) 16:08, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

Bsherr, would you be willing to do this? :) GoldRomean (talk) 16:09, 7 August 2026 (UTC)

I looked at it and I thought the better approach was to copy the category header to the article, since its prose essentially encompasses a list. That's done and I have left Template:Copied on the destination talk page. What do we do with the category page now to preserve attribution? --Bsherr (talk) 17:59, 22 October 2026 (UTC)

Thanks, Bsherr (and congrats on your recent election!). The sole author is Ganmatthew, so I've credited them as outlined at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia § List of authors. That should be enough attribution-wise, so the category can be deleted now—I've listed it at WT:CFDW accordingly. Best, GoldRomean (talk) 04:08, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Thank you! Ah, that's smart. Should have done that with my edit. Cheers. --Bsherr (talk) 15:19, 23 October 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 August 2#Category:Linux distributions offering KDE desktop environment

--Qwerfjkl talk 19:34, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

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There are also 24 pages in Category:Categories needing manual work after a discussion.

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Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 October 24#Category:Animal spirits: Delete/disperse. In solidarity, Iseult^Δxtalk to me 16:49, 28 October 2026 (UTC)

@Zxcvbnm: would you be willing to do this one? Marcocapelle (talk) 07:13, 29 October 2026 (UTC)
My nomination was for a pure delete, not dispersion. Perhaps one of the people who !voted to disperse it could do it, but I really doubt there will be much, if anything, to actually disperse that isn't already in a relevant category. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 07:23, 29 October 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 July 9#Category:American slaves: Split Category:18th-century slaves in the United States to Category:18th-century slaves in the Thirteen Colonies; Split Category:Former slaves in the United States to Category:Former slaves in the Thirteen Colonies

Done the first. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:07, 29 October 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_July_18#Category:Fictional_giants

Split. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:15, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

@Zxcvbnm: do you want to do this one? Marcocapelle (talk) 18:08, 30 September 2026 (UTC)
Let me list them out first to ensure there is agreement here. The ones to be kept are bolded. Maybe someone else can handle the actual process of doing so.
(Categories)
- Paul Bunyan - Keep, unequivocally a giant
- Fictional half-giants - Keep
- Kaiju (fictional monsters) - Remove, not all are humanoid, giant, or giants
- Marvel Comics giants - Keep
- Fictional ogres - Upmerge to fictional humanoids
- Fictional trolls - Upmerge to fictional humanoids
(Articles)
- Aaravos - Remove, seems to be an elf
- Adamastor - Keep
- Alice the Goon - Upmerge to Fictional humanoids and Fictional monsters
- Gim Allon - Remove, not a giant, can turn large
- Angalo - Upmerge to giants, not fictional
- Anti-Monitor - Recategorize to Fictional humanoid robots
- Apache Chief - Remove, not a giant, can turn large
- Atom Smasher (DC Comics) - Remove, not a giant, can turn large
- Bergmönch - Upmerge to Giants, not fictional
- The BFG - Remove, not a character
- Billy (Adventure Time) - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Paul Bunyan - Remove, already in Category:Paul Bunyan
- Canyon (Adventure Time) - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Chemo (character) - Remove, large but not a giant
- Clifford (character) - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Darren the Ancient Sleeper - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Devastator (Transformers) - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Druon Antigoon - Upmerge to Giants, not fictional
- Elasti-Girl - Remove, not a giant, can turn large
- Ent - Upmerge to Fictional humanoids and Middle-Earth monsters
- The Farm (Adventure Time) - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Febold Feboldson - Keep, probably fictional rather than real folklore
- Friendly (The Friendly Giant) - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Gantu - Remove, an alien but not a giant
- The Giant (Twin Peaks) - Remove per WP:SHAREDNAME
- Giantess - Upmerge to Giants, not solely fictional
- Giants (ThunderCats) - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Giganta - Remove, not a giant, can turn large
- Ginormica - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Glew (character) - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Grape Ape - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Green Giant - Remove, not a character
- Gustav the Giant - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Hurtaly - Keep
- Infinites - Remove, nominated for RfD
- Inhumanoids - Remove, not a character
- Iron Bull - Remove, not a giant
- The Iron Giant - Remove, not a character
- Jaguar D. Saulo - Remove, unclear
- Kaiju - Remove, per kaiju category above
- Johnny Kaw - Keep
- King Andrias Leviathan - Remove, not a giant
- King Caesar - Remove, not a giant
- King Kong - Remove, not a giant
- King of All Cosmos - Upmerge to fictional humanoids
- Kyodai Hero - Remove, not a character
- Lange Wapper - Upmerge to Giants, not fictional
- Legion (DC Comics) - Recategorize to Fictional humanoid robots
- Bruno Mannheim - Remove, unclear
- Mettekoe - Remove, not a giant
- Mogarzea and his Son - Remove, not a character
- Morgan le Fay - Remove, not defined as being a giant
- Ogre (Adventure Time character) - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Prince Huge - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Regi (Pokémon) - Remove, not a giant
- Robo Warriors - Remove, not a character
- Robot Jox - Remove, not a character
- Siren Head - Upmerge to fictional humanoids
- Stay Puft Marshmallow Man - Remove, not a giant
- Stumbo the Giant - Keep (I'd be stunned if this was notable)
- Sturmer (comics) - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Sweet P - Remove per WP:RCAT
- Thunderdell - Keep
- Titano - Remove, not a giant
- Treebeard - Upmerge to Fictional humanoids and Middle-Earth monsters
- (Various Ultraman characters) - Upmerge to Fictional humanoids
- Unicron - Recategorize to Fictional humanoid robots
- Voltron - Remove, not a character
- Willie the Giant - Keep
- Wun Wun - Keep
- Ymir (Marvel Comics) - Remove, already in Category:Marvel Comics giants
- Zentradi - Recategorize to Fictional extraterrestrial humanoids
- Zoids - Remove, not a character
ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 19:23, 30 September 2026 (UTC)

@Johnpacklambert: as the other participant in the discussion, feel free to check the above. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:26, 30 September 2026 (UTC)
@Zxcvbnm: I suppose you can just go ahead. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:46, 11 October 2026 (UTC)
@Marcocapelle: Whoops, I forgot this was a thing. I finished everything, with some minor changes because I had made small errors. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 09:34, 29 October 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_July_21#Category:2025_American_television_episodes: Split. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:15, 27 September 2026 (UTC)

@Woodensuperman: would you like to do this one? Marcocapelle (talk) 03:53, 3 October 2026 (UTC)
Is there a bot that could do this? And could the {{Television episode redirect handler}} template be updated to include year and nationality? --wooden superman 07:31, 3 October 2026 (UTC)
- @Woodensuperman: not that I know of. This sort of things is always implemented manually. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:50, 11 October 2026 (UTC)
  That's a shame, it's quite a task! Have made a start, see Category:American television episode redirects to lists. Have also been clearing the redirects from the season categories at the same time, when they are in the series episode redirect categories. --wooden superman 10:35, 12 October 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_July_29#c-Pppery-20260926183000-Publications: Cleanup Wikidata per Yupik's comments. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 18:31, 26 September 2026 (UTC)

@Yupik: would you like to do this one? Marcocapelle (talk) 03:56, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_August_26#Category:Fictional_martial_arts

Manually merge/delete. @Zxcvbnm and LaundryPizza03: I suppose the two of you can sort this out together. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:25, 25 September 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_July_31#Category:Academics_by_nationality

Merge was approved, but support was subject to also merging the subcats. @Smasongarrison: will you be taking this forward too? – Fayenatic London 12:52, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

Yeah, I can handle this. It'll take a bit to implement, but I'm happy to make it happen. (The semester started this week, and I have a grant submission due next week.)^SMason_Garrison 19:37, 28 August 2026 (UTC)

@Smasongarrison: friendly reminder about nominating the subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:16, 3 October 2026 (UTC)
Thanks for the ping! ^SMason_Garrison 14:16, 3 October 2026 (UTC)
Doing...

DoneCategory:Academics by nationality

DoneCategory:Scholars by nationality ^SMason_Garrison 14:41, 3 October 2026 (UTC)
Doing... There is more clean up to be done on renaming and redirecting the specific nationalities. So this should probably stay open for a bit while I do that. ^SMason_Garrison 15:52, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 May 28#Category:Hybrid characters in comics

@LaundryPizza03: Are you able to tackle this one? Thanks, House Blaster (talk • he/they) 03:18, 17 July 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 January 23#Toys by decade

Split off the toys. House Blaster (talk • he/they) 05:30, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

Note that currently the games and sports are combined in one category tree and splitting that is still under discussion, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_March_30#Category:Games_and_sports_by_decade_of_introduction. So I have just purged games from the toys tree, from the 1800s to 1990s. Next decades still to be done. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:51, 8 March 2026 (UTC)
It was noted by multiple commenters that some games are toys, so those ones should not be purged; they should be in both toys and games. Mclay1 (talk) 12:58, 13 March 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_November_18#Mass_murderer_categories

Purge. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 02:27, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

@HPfan4: is this something you would like to do? Marcocapelle (talk) 14:01, 13 December 2025 (UTC)
I checked root Category:Mass murderers just now. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:11, 10 June 2026 (UTC)

Also Category:Executed mass murderers. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:26, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
@HPfan4: can you do the other ones please? Marcocapelle (talk) 17:58, 14 June 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 16#Fictional characters by mental disorder categories

Purge. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 02:27, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

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A number of these are listed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Large/Manual * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 15:34, 15 March 2026 (UTC)