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Category:Football in French Polynesia by region

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: merge (non-admin closure). ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:37, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: I cannot find any other usage for referring to islands of French Polynesia as regions. But there is no reason to change to by island, the only content is the two football club categories and one article on a league that would fit directly in Category:Mo'orea. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 19:58, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Merge, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:37, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Merge per above --Lenticel (talk) 22:34, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 17:27, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
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Musician templates

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:37, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: All are navigational boxes. ~2025-34351-96 (talk) 18:13, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Rename per nom. Well noticed! -- Just N. (talk) 17:32, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
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Category:1983 disasters in Angola

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: Merge as nominated, with Fayenatic london's alteration * Pppery * it has begun... 04:18, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
More information + Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Libya, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rhodesia, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe ...
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Nominator's rationale: Very few disasters: 125 out of 168 nominated categories have one disaster per year, only 14 have three disasters (the most) per year. In-between years with categories there are many gaps. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 16:38, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:59, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • I must have made an error when counting the articles, Category:2022 disasters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has six entries. The rest are 125 with one, 28 with two and 14 with three. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 17:29, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Yes, underpopulated. OTOH what a huge mountain of work will be this 3-fold merging. -- Just N. (talk) 17:37, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Merge but change the last target from century to decades, at least for DRC, where Category:2000s disasters in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its successors will have 4, 8 and 12 articles respectively, and Morocco with 6, 6 and 5. I accept that some others are less useful, e.g. Mali disasters seem to be only crimes and Covid. All mergers should be without prejudice against splitting by decade where the numbers make this useful. – Fayenatic London 21:26, 22 November 2025 (UTC)
    I don't object. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 21:56, 24 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Merge we do not need so many small categories. I do not care if we merge to decade or century but we need larger categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:24, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Siobhán Donaghy

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:40, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: WP:OCEPON. Covered at Category:Works by Siobhán Donaghy. --woodensuperman 16:17, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:00, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom --Lenticel (talk) 22:35, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete per nomination. Lf8u2 (talk) 04:51, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 17:37, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Mutya Buena

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:42, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: WP:OCEPON. Covered at Category:Works by Mutya Buena. --woodensuperman 16:16, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:01, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom --Lenticel (talk) 22:35, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete per nomination. Lf8u2 (talk) 04:50, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 17:39, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Rivers with fish ladders

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The result of the discussion was: Delete * Pppery * it has begun... 04:17, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Propose Deleting Category:Rivers with fish ladders
Nominator's rationale: WP:TRIVIALCAT and WP:NONDEFINING
A Fish ladder is a series of pools going up the side of a dam or other structures that allow fish to move past the obstacle. We don't categorize rivers by dams, so it seems trivial to categorize them by an accessory structure and this seems akin to Category:Rivers with bridges. (Incidentally, I went to create a category for the fish ladders themselves, but the only article I found was Pitlochry fish ladder.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:30, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
  • If deleted, it may be useful to add a list section in article Fish ladder. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:13, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
    No objection to that, but it would take some effort because most of the rivers link to dam articles that then mention having a fish ladder. RevelationDirect (talk) 01:59, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Keep per Revelationdirect's objection above. -- Just N. (talk) 18:18, 8 November 2025 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 06:46, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
Hey, there is nothing hidden, just read above. "most of the rivers link to dam articles that then mention having a fish ladder." So I think it doesn' t make sense! -- Just N. (talk) 12:09, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
  • @Justus Nussbaum: nominator was referring to listification, not to deletion. If you agree with their objection to listify then you should support the nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:07, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
  • To be clearer, I have no objection to creating a list of fish ladders. (I'm not volunteering to create the list though.) As for the category, I don't think it's defining but we'll see where the consensus takes us. RevelationDirect (talk) 03:18, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 14:21, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete, minor infrastructure on a much larger landform. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:05, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Listify. WP:NONDEFINING applies to the category, but fish ladders are notable, and there are sources that give lists of several rivers with fish ladders, so I think that turning this into a list would be okay. Care to differ or discuss with me? The Nth User 18:40, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Note I copied the current category contents right here so no work is lost if anyone wants to find sources to satisfy WP:NLIST and then start a list article. - RevelationDirect (talk) 21:51, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete not defining to the rivers.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:24, 4 December 2025 (UTC)
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Category:2-Quinolone ethers at the benzene ring

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 26#Category:2-Quinolone ethers at the benzene ring

Category:Andino Sport Club players

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 any not singled out. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:14, 29 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Propose deleting Category:Andino Sport Club players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Boston West End F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Brampton Works F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Broadway Amateurs F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Cappry Rovers F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Clonmel Town F.C. managers (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Cloughfern F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:CS Cheminots players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Dahmani AC players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:FC Fandok Bobruisk managers (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:FC Gijduvon players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:FC Interkas Kyiv managers (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:FC Shakhtar Chervonohrad managers (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:FC Shkirtrest Odesa players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:FC Torpedo Berdiansk players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:FC Venita Lipkani managers (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Glencar Celtic F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Hapoel Midgal HaEmek F.C. managers (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Hapoel Migdal HaEmek F.C. managers (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Harps F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Hartshill Unity F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Hastings Rovers F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Heanor Athletic F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Hooley Hill F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Hull Albany F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Humber Trinity F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Huthwaite Colliery F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Immingham F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Immingham St Andrew's F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Kelloe F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:La Vitréenne FC managers (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Lagan Harps F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Lancaster F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Langley Heanor F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Lincoln CSOB F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Lincoln Wednesday F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Liverpool Police F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Lopham Street F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Lowestoft Harriers F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Lowestoft North End F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Manchester Calico Printers F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Market Harborough Town F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Marlpool F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Medomsley Juniors F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Methley F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Mezőkovácsháza TE players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Middlewich Athletic Rangers F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Milton True Blues F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Monticelli Terme players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Moreton Town F.C. players (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Moxley White Star F.C. players (0)
Nominator's rationale: Single-entry categories with no corresponding article; this doesn't help navigation. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 13:55, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:02, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Keep Category:Hapoel Midgal HaEmek F.C. managers as there is a club article (Hapoel Migdal HaEmek F.C.). The category name had a typo in it, which has been corrected. Number 57 15:31, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
    By moving categories around during the discussion, it is unclear which category we are discussing (the typo one or the one corresponding to the article name) and CFD banners have disappeared from the links above. And why would we keep the typo redirect, it doesn't seem a common typo given there is no article redirect? Kaffet i halsen (talk) 20:59, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page discussions. GiantSnowman 19:51, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete all - one entry in each cat is not enough. GiantSnowman 19:52, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete per nomination. Lf8u2 (talk) 04:44, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 17:41, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Keep Category:Medomsley Juniors F.C. players because it now has seven members. Delete the rest. Care to differ or discuss with me? The Nth User 02:35, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete Most for Now These are too narrow to aid navigation but open to future recreation if the article counts grow substantially. (Fine keeping the one The Nth User mentioned above.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 22:05, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Expatriate landowners in Denmark

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 26#Category:Expatriate landowners in Denmark


Category:Borders of Grisons

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: rename (non-admin closure). ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:46, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: The usage of the Grisons is supported by article use and lead (The Grisons (/ɡriːˈzɒ̃/; French: [ɡʁizɔ̃]) or Graubünden ...), nGrams ("the Grisons" is even heavier before 1920), and in Wikipedia article titles. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 12:19, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Support. I don't have any specific knowledge about the place, but this seems to be correct. Mclay1 (talk) 14:29, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Does this really still count as its common name, instead of simply Graubünden? Compare with . Marcocapelle (talk) 17:55, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
    I don't know if that is the exact source to define the name, however Graubünden is also used by EB and Swiss tourist board. The article Grisons has been named so or canton of Grisons since 2016 and the Grisons outscores Graubünden on nGrams. One may ask if all nGrams refer to the canton. Unless somebody opens a move request to Graubünden soon, I think we shall move the categories to follow the article use (and if successful of course follow the new name). Kaffet i halsen (talk) 19:44, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Support. Seems to be correct, see this publication from the regional government, for instance. By the way, Canton Grisons would be the formal English name , if there is one. But that is another topic. Zach (Talk) 11:31, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Rename per nom. Easy case. -- Just N. (talk) 17:43, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Rename. I came across this hierarchy a while back and did some related work on articles. – Fayenatic London 21:28, 22 November 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Indo-European

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:47, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: The scope of categories named with an adjective is always ambiguous. Here, the main topic category for Indo-European peoples and languages and their history is Category:Indo-European peoples. Place Clichy (talk) 11:28, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Southern Kaduna genocide

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:47, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Propose renaming Category:Southern Kaduna genocide to Category:Mass killings in Southern Kaduna
Nominator's rationale: No serious scholars I know of consider this genocide, framing it as genocide is largely rejected see e.g. . Suggest renaming to "Mass killings in Southern Kaduna". Katzrockso (talk) 10:23, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
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Cinema by decade

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The result of the discussion was: Delete Burmese, Panamanian, and Paraguayan; keep the rest. * Pppery * it has begun... 16:34, 25 December 2025 (UTC)
More information More redundant categories to delete ...
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Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary layers for single-category subcategories. Upmerge for now. Films by decade categories can go directly into Cinema of X categories. Mclay1 (talk) 10:19, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
These categories are simply unnecessary wrappers for their respective countries' films by decade trees, which are already sufficiently categorised within their countries' Decades and Cinema trees. Mclay1 (talk) 13:11, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
Oppose. You did not explan why this layer is unnecessary. It seems like a perfectly reasonably layer to me, a sub to Category:Decades. People talk of decades in fields of culture. For example, here's an entire book on American cinema of the 1990s: Themes and variations. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:34, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
Category:2000s in Bangladeshi cinema has one subcategory, Category:2000s Bangladeshi films, and is a redundant layer. There are plenty of such categories to come to Category:Bangladeshi films by decade from Category:Cinema of Bangladesh. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 10:52, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
We really need to reach a community consensus already on these film/cinema date categorizations. These "by country and decade" film categories only began in 2022 when it was boldly done following rather brief discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Film/Archive_80#One_of_the_best_films_in_[year]_or_[decade], overturning previous consensus at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_January_3#American_films_by_year_and_by_decade. I wanted to start a WPFILM discussion for "by country and year" categories following our recent discussion Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2025_September_28#Category:Films_by_country_by_year, but I didn't know how to broach it. Is this appropriate:

RfC: Should film articles adopt a Category:Films by country and year structure? How would it be implemented and maintained, and would the parent Films by year categories be diffusing or non-diffusing?

Do I create a second, separate RfC for this decade categorization? No one else took the initiative and I really didn't want to start something only to be chastised for doing it the wrong way. Still, repeated discussions here at CfD feel like a waste of time that continuously sidesteps the issue. Οἶδα (talk) 22:43, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
I have limited knowledge of RfC but to my understanding, there should be no RfC for a topic or issue that may be handled by XfD. So the categories in Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 September 28#Category:Films by country by year may be nominated here again. This is also mentioned by the closer. At the point I added them to the discussion it looked the discussion could have handled both things but then the rest of comments only adressed the original discussion. For the decades, I think the correct link is Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Film/Archive 80#Films by country (second discussion). Kaffet i halsen (talk) 09:55, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
Thank you for this information. Yes, that last link was the one I meant to link to. My real concern would be the less likelihood of a CfD to pull in significant community participation. Dropping a notice on a talk page has not had great results in my experience. And if these categories came about via WT:FILM, it would follow that consensus should be built there. But if CfD is the only appropriate avenue for this procedure then I shall heed your advice. Οἶδα (talk) 07:33, 24 November 2025 (UTC)
@Piotrus: I did explain, and if you look in the categories, you'll see what I mean. They don't contain any articles; they're just duplicating the structure of the countries' categories in Category:Films by country and decade. For example, Category:Soviet cinema by decade contains Category:Soviet films by decade and then a bunch of decades categories which themselves only contain the decades of Category:Soviet films by decade. I'm not proposing to delete the contents of the categories or remove them from the tree for Decades (the Films by decade categories will remain). Mclay1 (talk) 14:34, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
I don't see the problem. They are being populated, if perhaps slowly, and there is value in being able to group works by decades, as decades are culturally significant. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:04, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
@Piotrus: They're not being populated; they only contain the films subcategories, with no added benefit. The proposal isn't to delete the decade categories that actually contain something (e.g. Category:2010s Bangladeshi films), just the ones that contain those and nothing else (e.g. Category:2010s in Bangladeshi cinema); there's no reason for them to exist. We don't need to nest single categories like Russian dolls. The categories can just be moved up with no loss of content and simpler navigation. Mclay1 (talk) 12:44, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
@Mclay1 They will be populated, because they make logical sense to exist. Ex. I started populating Category:Polish cinema by decade, but as some said, it's really something that should be botted. Instead of destroying the contnet here that should be recreated one day, and will be, productive use of time would be to, well, populate stuff. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:23, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
PS. It's also ridcolous that only some categories were proposed. Why delete Category:Polish cinema by decade but not Category:British cinema by decade? Because we didn't have a volunteer to finish populating that tree? WP:SYSBIAS. Build, don't destroy. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:25, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
It's not ridiculous because the British tree actually has articles in it. Not every country currently has a cinema by decade tree and nor do all countries need one. You claim to have populated the Polish category but it doesn't contain anything except Films categories, which as I keep saying, don't need another layer above them. Mclay1 (talk) 07:36, 17 December 2025 (UTC)
There is no reason Polish or Bangladeshi or other trees cannot look like British. They'll be populated fully once someone cares to do it. Don't destroy the infrastructure or the early work that some have begun for that. Wikipedia:There is no deadline Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 06:04, 20 December 2025 (UTC)
If you care to do it, then do it. We don't need to keep essentially empty categories just in case some populates them in future. They should have been populated when they were created. If they're deleted and then needed in future, it's easy to recreate them. Mclay1 (talk) 06:17, 20 December 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Wikipedia categories named after international association football rivalries

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:50, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: I don't think it helps navigation in any way to have on one side articles and on the other side categories in this case. Hidden categories named after categories are only ever useful when the content of eponymous categories would not fit in the parent category, as is often the case for people. However it is not the case here: content is still about association football. The relevant guideline is WP:EPONCAT. Place Clichy (talk) 10:01, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Works about warfare

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The result of the discussion was: rename/merge. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 16:49, 6 December 2025 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: These two categories don't feel sufficiently differently. It would be clearer to combine them under the broader term "war". Works about specific wars are already categorised in the subcategory Category:Works by war. Mclay1 (talk) 06:44, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
"Feel" is subjective. While I acknowledge that warfare redirects to war and therefore this may make sense, we should restart this discussion by suggeting a merge from the top, wotjh Category:Warfare, not one of its subcats. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:36, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
@Piotrus: I'm not really sure what you mean. If these categories are merged and renamed, the new category can be reparented to Category:War. Mclay1 (talk) 00:23, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
Mhm. Weak support for merging them due to warfare redirecting to war. I just "felt" the nomination rationale could be stronger, for example by mentioning the redirect's existence. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:22, 27 November 2025 (UTC)
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Category:1990s Thai musical groups

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:51, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: No scheme exists for musical groups by decade and one that was started was deleted in a CfD from 21 June 2011. Groups are categorized by year of establishment/disestablishment but not by the time period when they were active. Upmerging isn't necessary as all content is already in a genre subcat of Category:Thai musical groups. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 06:31, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete, musical groups may exist for multiple decades, so that is not a good classifier. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:55, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete per above --Lenticel (talk) 22:36, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete per above. -- Just N. (talk) 17:48, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Fictional extraterrestrial humanoids

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Category:Bangladeshi women aviators

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:52, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 04:58, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:57, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Merge for now. The nominator was careful in checking, among parent categories, those that were already there or redundant, to keep only strictly necessary targets. Thanks for that! Place Clichy (talk) 10:54, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
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Mass murderer categories

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The result of the discussion was: Purge * Pppery * it has begun... 02:12, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

I feel that the categories (and their subcategories), as of now, are too much of a mixed bag to be useful. Here we have actual serial killers and bandits (Lee Boyd Malvo, Ado Aleru), alongside with politicians, rulers, and warlords (Henri Christophe, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Alexander Kolchak) - that is, despite the main category's disclaimer that the category is not to be used for those who carried out massacres in service of a state. I would suggest purging the category and moving the warlords and political leaders who have been found guilty of war crimes to other appropriate categories, such as, for example, Category:War criminals or Category:Genocide perpetrators. --HPfan4 (talk) 02:33, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

  • Purge, that feels like a no-brainer. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:59, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
Keep, though remove anyone who did not actually commit the act themself. That is not what this category is for. It's supposed to be for people described in RS as mass murderers (or equivalent terms), which is not the same thing as serial killers. People who kill a bunch of people in one go/a short period, which are multiple murderers but not serial murderers. E.g. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold are not serial killers, but they are mass murderers. What category would you put them in? The field of criminology distinguishes them. The problem with this category is that people have been adding it to any person who ordered any sort of war crime, which is like tagging a soldier with serial killer, which has also been done. Such people are not referred to as "mass murderers" in RS. That doesn't mean we delete the serial killer categories. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:09, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
I think this is basically equivalent to a purge vote, if I am understanding what that entails correctly. PARAKANYAA (talk) 19:05, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
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Category:American folklore films and television series

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The result of the discussion was: split. (non-admin closure) ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:52, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Other categories don't combine films and TV series like this. Mclay1 (talk) 01:46, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
Support, split per nom. WinstonDewey (talk) 14:48, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
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Category:Fantasy brick and mortar retail stores

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:52, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: "Fantasy brick and mortar retail store" is not a retail format as far as I can tell. It's not really clear what "fantasy retail" means here, and I don't think any of the stores in the category are known as "fantasy retail" stores. ArtemisiaGentileschiFan (talk) 00:55, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
Delete. Random name - what is fantasy brick? Or any other part of this except retail store? What's the parent concept here? This is some ORish or niche concept that neesd to be explained first. The creator is still active, maybe they'll do so here - ping me, I am curious. But so far this looks like some half-baked idea. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:39, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
I think that it is referring to Brick and mortar retail, but I agree that the inclusion criterion is subjective and nondefining to the point of accessing membership requiring original research. Care to differ or discuss with me? The Nth User 18:49, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete Seems random and incomprehensible. I'd assume it was stores depicted in a fantasy work. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 06:05, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete, I guessed it was retail, exclusively existing as brick-and-mortar store, and focusing on fantasy as a genre. But that is also not the case. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:05, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
    Googling gave me an AI explanation that they are retail stores with fantasy-theme decorations, but it's an AI concept, I didn't notice any other RS. Since the creator didn't bother to explain it, guessing is pointless. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:40, 18 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete per above --Lenticel (talk) 22:36, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. -- Just N. (talk) 17:49, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Delete. The what the category name means is ambiguous, and every explanation I can thing of has multiple problems, such as non-notability, trivial intersection, and subjectivity. Care to differ or discuss with me? The Nth User 18:49, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
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