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The result of the discussion was: triple merge. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 04:17, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Bahraini female freestyle swimmers to Category:Bahraini female swimmers

Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Also merge with Category:Bahraini freestyle swimmers and Category:Female freestyle swimmers. LibStar (talk) 23:15, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Triple merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:44, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:18, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Scottish entertainers by city to Category:Scottish entertainers by populated place

Nominator's rationale: parent is Scottish people by occupation and populated place ^SMason_Garrison 19:49, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Rename per WP:C2C, this could have been listed at speedy. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:07, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Oops. I must have clicked the wrong box ^SMason_Garrison 21:47, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: keep (not merged) (non-admin closure) ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:21, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Musicians from Oost Gelre to Category:People from Oost Gelre

Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 19:12, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment, there are now five articles in the category. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:09, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. I see five items: Peter Beets, Marco Blaauw, Tom Holkenborg, Thomas Puskailer, Suzan & Freek. Thanks, Marcocapelle! gidonb (talk) 00:26, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep sufficient items now in category. LibStar (talk) 23:45, 20 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Beland (talk) 07:51, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Least dense things (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose deleting Category:Densest things (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: WP:ARBITRARYCAT. –Aidan721 (talk) 18:16, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment, this discussion should be closed together with "Oldest things" below. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:51, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Delete In any case, Category:Densest things is mostly redirects and Category:Least dense things are mostly the items that are the least dense materials of some arbitrary group. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:07, 14 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete except for oldest people. -- Beland (talk) 07:48, 27 March 2025 (UTC) Beland (talk) 07:48, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Oldest things (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose deleting Category:Oldest human remains in the Americas (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose deleting Category:Oldest organisms (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose deleting Category:Oldest animals (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose deleting Category:Oldest people (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
• Propose deleting Category:Oldest trees (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Non-defining categories with arbitrary cut-off/inclusion criteria. WP:ARBITRARYCAT. These topics are better served by lists. Open to merging if deemed necessary via discussion, but I think blowing it up is a good option. There are more subcategories in Category:Superlatives that can and should be nominated, too. –Aidan721 (talk) 18:10, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep: nominator alleges WP:NONDEF, which is contradicted by, e.g., Jeanne Calment: "the oldest person ever whose age has been verified". Nominator also alleges WP:ARBITRARYCAT, but these categories involve the single most superlative individuals, with some variation for subclassing (oldest woman, oldest man) -- there's no cutoff age (this is not Category:Old age). fgnievinski (talk) 20:05, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'll acknowledge that Category:Oldest people may be an exception to this nomination as the description states that it is people who were once the oldest living person. I still feel that the list is sufficient for that use case, but you've failed to address the remaining categories. –Aidan721 (talk) 00:23, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: keep. Beland (talk) 07:48, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose deleting Category:Oldest people (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

(Pro forma split from above for scripts.) -- Beland (talk) 07:47, 27 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 07:24, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Interactive television producers to Category:Television producers

Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated category, upmerge for now ^SMason_Garrison 14:31, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:11, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge per nom. / RemoveRedSky ^{[talk] [gb]} 22:47, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 04:17, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Entertainers from Augsburg to Category:People from Augsburg by occupation

Nominator's rationale: Category with just two entries.

Also nominating for merging-

• Category:Entertainers from Potsdam to Category:People from Potsdam by occupation
• Category:Entertainers from Regensburg to Category:People from Regensburg by occupation
• Category:Entertainers from Würzburg to Category:People from Würzburg by occupation
• Category:Entertainers from Nuremberg to Category:People from Nuremberg, Bavaria, by occupation

All subcategories with just two entries. Lost in Quebec (talk) 09:02, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge, redundant category layer. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:34, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 04:16, 5 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Ceylon Medical Corps officers to Category:Sri Lanka Army Medical Corps officers

Nominator's rationale: Same military branch under an older name, ppresumably before the country was renamed in 1972. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 19:56, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment Category:Ceylon Medical Corps officers is part of Category:Ceylon Defence Force officers and thus of Category:British colonial army officers so I think it is useful. TSventon (talk) 21:34, 27 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• If merged, shouldn't it also be merged to Category:Ceylon Defence Force officers? Marcocapelle (talk) 17:32, 5 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @TSventon and LaundryPizza03: thoughts? it's lio! | talk | work 03:03, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  @LaundryPizza03: could you respond to my comment? TSventon (talk) 08:40, 7 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  Of course. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:39, 8 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ✗plicit 04:00, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:00, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Moroccan mass murderers to Category:Moroccan murderers and Category:Mass murderers
• Propose merging Category:Afghan emigrants to Portugal to Category:Afghan emigrants and Category:Immigrants to Portugal

Nominator's rationale: underpopulated categories, only one redirect. Upmerge for now. I urge the category creator to not create categories if they can't put more than one person in them. ^SMason_Garrison 03:54, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge per nom. Creation of categories is not a goal in itself, it is a means for navigation between articles about the same topic. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:28, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge per nom. I note the one entry in Category:Afghan emigrants to Portugal is now a redirect. LibStar (talk) 00:27, 13 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) ^SMason_Garrison 03:40, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose merging Category:Uzbekistani people by location to Category:Uzbekistani people

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. Redundant category layer ^SMason_Garrison 03:40, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:00, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose splitting Category:State Organizations of the People's Republic of China to Category:Government of the People's Republic of China and Category:Political organizations based in the People's Republic of China

Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge overlapping categories. If not upmerged, it needs to be properly capitalized. ^SMason_Garrison 02:12, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Dual merge per nom. Note that this contains a huge tree for ultimately only two subcategories. More intermediate categories may be nominated. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:52, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:01, 22 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Propose renaming Category:Local Politics of the People's Republic of China to Category:Localism in the People's Republic of China

Nominator's rationale: sibling is Category:Localism in Hong Kong. The proposed rename broadens the category slightly so it can be populated a bit. But if not rename/populate, it should be deleted as a redundant category layer ^SMason_Garrison 02:03, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete as a redundant category layer. I have added the subcategory to Category:Political organizations based in the People's Republic of China. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:02, 12 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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