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Category:Xenornis

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:45, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge; this is a monotypic genus - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 23:18, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Religious nationalist terrorism

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:45, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: delete, overlapping with Category:Religious terrorism, the content is already in that tree. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:41, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
Support per nom. SMasonGarrison 20:18, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose The largest exception to the overlap is ISIS, who are responsible for a large proportion of recent religious terrorism and whose core ideology is intensely opposed to the concept of nation states. Late Night Coffee (ping me) 08:17, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
    Ok, but that's not responsive to the nomination that these categories are highly overlapping to the point that its redundant. SMasonGarrison 12:05, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, overlaps too much. PARAKANYAA (talk) 07:25, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
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Attacks on ISIL by decade

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:46, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: There are 11 pages across these two categories. I don't think we need to diffuse by decade. SMasonGarrison 18:52, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Khalistan movement terrorist incidents

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Insurgency in Punjab and Category:Sikh terrorist incidents. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:49, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose merging Category:Khalistan movement terrorist incidents to Category:1986 Muktsar bus massacre
Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category, upmerge for now. SMasonGarrison 18:44, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:ISIL activities by year

Nominator's rationale: Extremely similar to the recently closed cfd that merged Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 March 28#Category:ISIL-related incidents by year Practically the only contents in here are the subcat ISIL attacks in YEAR SMasonGarrison 18:27, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge/delete, the tree of Category:ISIL attacks by year already covers it. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:49, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
    Do all of the subcategories of activities fit in attacks?
    "...the only contents in here are the subcat ISIL attacks in..." I hadn't finished filling the categories, so far it's only attacks, but this is because I hadn't started on the other activities subcategories. Late Night Coffee (ping me) 08:00, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep the objections to "-related" were that it was non-standard / non-defining. This exactly matches a parent category in the tree (the parent category uses the long name of ISIL). Many other groups have a similar "activities" category. It is a very standard category, that fits with other categories and doesn't have the problems that got the "ISIL-related incidents" set deleted.
Late Night Coffee (ping me) 07:23, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
This is not response to the issue being raised abouy the intersection between activity and year. SMasonGarrison 12:06, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
That is not the issue you raised in your nomination. The issue you raised in your nomination is the overlap between attacks and activities. Late Night Coffee (ping me) 01:54, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
  • None of those other activities categories has been diffused by year. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:21, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
    Years would be useful for some. Late Night Coffee (ping me) 15:52, 10 May 2026 (UTC)

Balochistan Liberation Army attacks by year

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:46, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: There's not enough content to diffuse by year. Multi-upmerge SMasonGarrison 18:14, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:51, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge I should have written a list to check there were enough for the years before I created them. Late Night Coffee (ping me) 08:20, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
    @LateNightCoffee Do you understand that the mass creation of categories like this requires a lot of community time to undo? SMasonGarrison 12:08, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Pitangus

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Tyrannidae. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 18:55, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge; this is a monotypic genus - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 18:11, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:54, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. This could probably have been C2F'd. Mclay1 (talk) 12:05, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Erymnochelys

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Podocnemididae. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 18:55, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge; this is a monotypic genus - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 18:05, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:56, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. This could probably have been C2F'd. Mclay1 (talk) 12:06, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Elusor

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Chelidae. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 18:56, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge; this is a monotypic genus - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 18:05, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:57, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. This could probably have been C2F'd. Mclay1 (talk) 12:06, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Music schools in Croatia

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:46, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: upmerge for now. underpopulated category. SMasonGarrison 16:19, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Squares in Dushanbe

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Squares in Tajikistan. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 18:56, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category, upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 16:00, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
Merge –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:24, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:06, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Mass media in Paraguay stubs

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Paraguay stubs and Category:Mass media in South America stubs. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:50, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: I don't think that any of these stub tempaltes were approved... SMasonGarrison 15:59, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Caretta

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 01:11, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Monotypic genus; other article is an individual of this species. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:38, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
Support, but you could have just emptied and redirected it, I doubt anybody would have objected. —Trilletrollet [ Talk | Contribs ] 15:43, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
Where should Adelita (turtle) go? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:44, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
To Category:Cheloniidae presumably. —Trilletrollet [ Talk | Contribs ] 18:45, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Ambassadors of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 01:11, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Category:Ambassadors of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic contains 24 sub-categories, 18 of which have only a single article. Many of these are for diplomats accredited to several countries. It should be noted that many of these "ambassadors" are accredited to countries which do not recognise the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic as a sovereign state. I have proposed merging to destination country categories where that country does have diplomatic relations with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and the ambassador was a resident posting. AusLondonder (talk) 15:15, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
Merge per nom. What happens if there was a resident position to a country that doesn't have diplomatic relations with SADR? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:19, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
In that case the country would not usually recognise the individual as an ambassador and their articles usually describe them as a "representative" of the Polisario Front so I haven't proposed merging to ambassador categories for the receiving country. AusLondonder (talk) 15:26, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:11, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge This is excessive overcategorization and far too narrow categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 22:59, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Recipients of the King Charles III Coronation Medal

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 18:57, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose deleting Category:Recipients of the King Charles III Coronation Medal (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD. As always, we do not indiscriminately create categories for recipients of every single award that exists -- categories are acceptable for certain special and WP:DEFINING high-level honours such as the Order of Canada, but not just for every single award on earth. This is not, for instance, a medal that would make people notable because they were given this -- certainly many of the 430,000 recipients already had preexisting notability for other reasons as it is, but being a recipient of this medal would not turn a person who wasn't already notable for other reasons into an encyclopedic topic per se. And when any of these people die, the King Charles III Coronation Medal is not going to be highlighted in their obituaries as a central aspect of what made them notable enough to be obituaried, either -- if it even gets mentioned at all, that'll be as a postscript to other, more notable things rather than as the notability hook in its own right.
So it simply isn't defining enough to warrant a category for it, because it isn't the thing that makes any of these people notable. Bearcat (talk) 14:54, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Suicide by explosive material

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 May 13#Category:Suicide by explosive material

Category:Fictional animals by nationality

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The result of the discussion was: delete/merge. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 17:07, 13 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Recently created category tree that is split in a trivial manner from the nationality tree, since most of the characters are funny animals. It is likely that all characters are in a subcategory of Category:Fictional animals. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:35, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Shouldn't the targets be renamed to "characters" before this merge is implemented? Marcocapelle (talk) 20:27, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
    Perhaps the issue raised in nom would warrant renaming the whole tree, yes. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:18, 26 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose animals are not people.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:01, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
    @Johnpacklambert Do you have an alternative merge target? SMasonGarrison 19:15, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge to Category:Fictional animals. I do not think we have enough articles here to need a diffusion by nationality at all. There is also the complicated issue of when we assign nationality to fictional characters is it based on the nationality of the work they are from, or is it the nationality of the character in the story. These often do not match. The extreme example may be that in the oldest version of the story we have, Aladdin is said to be Chinese (from Cathay, but that is the same thing) but the setting has lots of aspects that are much more common in Southwest Asia than in China. Even with people we need to be careful to not assign things to a character that were never stated by the author (at one point Lucy van Pelt was in Category:Fictional American people of Dutch descent, something that Charles Schults never said, implied or explored about Lucy at all). I will say that we can categorize Ricky Ricardo as a fictional Cuban person, but we need to be very careful to only use these categories when they can be clearly supported by reliable sources.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:57, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
Should the articles be placed into the nationality targets where it's verifiable? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:05, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
I think it needs to be more the verifiable. 7 of the 16 articles in the British category are from Winnie-the-Pooh. That is verifiably set in Britain, but are the characters actually verifiably British? Is Padington Bear actually a fictional British animal, or is he a fictional Peruvian animal, or both? Is Speedy Gonzalez actually Mexican, or is he a Mexican American, or is it unclear? I would say if the trait is A-clearly verifiable that it is clearly a trait of the character in the story and B-if it is undoubably verifiable that the character is without question meant to be a national of a given place, than yes. Wilbur from Charlotte's web is not an American pig, even though he lives in the United States. We have to be able to verify that the fictional animal character in his own mind within the fictional work sees himself as a national of the country involved. Animals are default stateless. So I would say all Winnie-the-pooh animals do not belong. Christopher Robin can go in fictional British people (I guess, the fact that he is named for and based on a very real British person makes me wonder, but I guess there is room to have both an article on the character Christopher Robin and a bio of Christopher Robin Milne. That said there is a TV series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh where Christopher Robin is an American boy. Up until a few minutes ago the character Christopher Robin was in the category Fictional Wolrd War II veterans. A character who was last presented in his main literary form in 1928 cannot possibly be a fictional World War II veteran. I explained this issue a lot deeper on the talk page to the Christopher Robin article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:01, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:People from Mifflin, Pennsylvania

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:54, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: "People from" category for a small town (pop. 534) without enough people from there to justify it. As always, every town that exists does not automatically get one of these the moment one person from that town has an article -- there would need to be at least five or six notables from that town before a town-level category was warranted, and for just one person we leave them at the county level. Navigation of the encyclopedia is not aided by obsessively microcategorizing everything down to the narrowest possible level of one-item categories. Bearcat (talk) 14:32, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge Categories are for navigation, not listing every attribute of a subject. Single-article categories do not assist in navigation - instead they make navigation more complicated and difficult. AusLondonder (talk) 14:34, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:28, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge too small a town to justify such a category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:02, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:People from Forestville, Minnesota

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:54, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: "People from" category for a small ghost town without enough people from it to warrant one. As always, every place that exists does not automatically get one of these as a matter of course -- it would be fine if there were a significant number of people from the town (as in at least five or six, and preferably even more than that), but is not automatically needed for just one or two. But the only people filed here are one of the original settlers and his nephew -- the brother-slash-dad also has an article that hasn't been filed here, but even three people still isn't enough to justify a town-specific category, especially if all three of them are from a single family and the place is a short-lived ghost town that never really had any other notable residents. The county level is all that's required in the meantime. Bearcat (talk) 14:26, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
Merge per nom. Boots the Blackfoot Ferret 17:13, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
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Bilateral relations categories that contain only expatriate and descent categories (Aa–Aq)

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 18:57, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Basically the same as Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_April_21#Redundant_bilateral_relations_categories, except for categories that contained other contents at the time. The tree will need to be swept again after cleaning up all the ambassador categories, especially for Andorra where the majority of bilateral subcategories contain only ambassadors. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 13:46, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, we do not need bilateral relations categories for just migrants or expatriates who are merely tangentially related to bilateral relations. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:32, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete none of these categories are needed.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:47, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Algeria–Croatia relations

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 01:12, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Contains only expatriate and descent categories; Algeria–Yugoslavia relations and Category:Algeria–Yugoslavia relations (which are anachronistic); and Hidroelektra workers massacre, in which workers for a Croatian company were killed by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria in 1993. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 13:33, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Bosnian mujahideen bilateral relations categories

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 01:12, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Bosnian mujahideen and Category:Bosnian mujahideen are in four bilateral relations categories connecting to B&H. Besides this,
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Category:Algeria–Serbia relations

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 01:12, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Contain only the main article, Category:Algeria–Yugoslavia relations and Algeria–Yugoslavia relations (which are anachronistic), and expatriate/descent/emigrant categories. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 13:21, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Ambassadors of Thailand to India, Afghanistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete per nom. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 02:14, 11 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Two-article category for a multi-mission ambassadorship that was resident in India. Nominated parents are empty except for this page and Category:Afghan expatriate sportspeople in Thailand. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 13:03, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge/delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:43, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge and Delete as nominated. We have let ambassador categories go to extremes in extremely narrow categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:54, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • No opposition for the ambassador categories, as creator of the first nominated one, since the result would be consistent with other recent discussions. Weak oppose including Category:Afghan expatriates in Thailand in this discussion, as unrelated. --Paul_012 (talk) 04:42, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Portuguese singers by populated place

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:54, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: dual upmerge for now, redundant category layer SMasonGarrison 12:54, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Dual merge for now, per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:46, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Mclay1 (talk) 12:09, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Afghanistan–South Africa relations

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 04:00, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Only contents are an expatriates category and 2017 South Africa A Team Tri-Series, which included teams from 3 countries. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 12:53, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete Only these categories exist to contain a single article. This is specifically unhelpful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 14:31, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, mere participation in a multi-country tournament should not be in a bilateral relations category. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:49, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete the categories are nit needed.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:55, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Afghanistan–Oman sports relations

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 04:01, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Only one article, Afghan cricket team against Oman in the UAE in 2015–16. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 12:51, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Suicide bombings in Kurdistan in 2015

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:54, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: dual upmerge for now. This category tree doesn't have enough content to justify diffusion by year SMasonGarrison 12:49, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Dual merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:53, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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More redundant bilateral relations categories

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 01:12, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Redundant bilateral relations categories containing no articles and only descent/expat/emigrants subcategories. Not useful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 12:32, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
Delete per nom. One category name has been corrected. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 12:33, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, we do not need bilateral relations categories for just migrants or expatriates who are merely tangentially related to bilateral relations. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:55, 25 April 2Category.
  • Delete more unneeded categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:56, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Republic of the Congo–Mali relations

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The result of the discussion was: delete and rename Republic of the Congo relations categories to sort by "Congo", as proposed by Place Clichy. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 19:34, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose renaming Category:Republic of the Congo–Mali relations to Category:Mali–Republic of the Congo relations
Nominator's rationale: Bilateral relations are ordered in alphabetical order. Every other category and article in Category:Bilateral relations of the Republic of the Congo and Category:Bilateral relations of the Democratic Republic of the Congo sorts those countries by their long names because the countries have no short name. Alternatively, we need to rename all the other categories and articles to sort them by "Congo". Mclay1 (talk) 03:48, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
The categories were tagged and linked to this discussion. Place Clichy (talk) 19:57, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Support alt rename, it is more intuitive to sort at "Congo". Also support deletion of Category:Republic of the Congo–Mali relations in particular, per Johnpacklambert. Marcocapelle (talk) 00:35, 18 April 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: There is consensus to delete the initial nominee, but the rename proposal remains unsettled.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 12:28, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Support rename per Place Clichy. Deltaspace42 (talk • contribs) 21:46, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Support alt rename. It should be followed up the DRC categories. The eponymous articles will need renaming too or else we'll end up with C2D requests to reverse it again. Mclay1 (talk) 12:12, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Curaçaoan expatriate sportspeople in Nicaragua

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:55, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. A merge is not needed, the subcategory is already in Category:Curaçaoan expatriate baseball players and Category:Expatriate baseball players in Nicaragua. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:13, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete All these unnecessary layers are clearly unhelpful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 15:18, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Musicians from Adjara

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:55, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:51, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
Support per nom. Thanks for digging deeper! SMasonGarrison 14:58, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Musical groups by nationality and populated place

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:55, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge redundant category layers with only one subcategory. Not helpful for navigation. Mclay1 (talk) 10:02, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Census-designated places in Louisiana by geographical region

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:56, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose merging Category:Census-designated places in Louisiana by geographical region (0) to Category:Census-designated places in Louisiana
  • Propose deleting Category:Census-designated places in the United States by geographical region and state (0)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge redundant category layers with only one subcategory. Not helpful for navigation. Mclay1 (talk) 09:34, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Note that in other states this is typically categorized by county and in Louisiana we also have a tree by parish. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:25, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
    Parish is the Louisiana equivalent of county. Mclay1 (talk) 12:16, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge Metropolitan areas have their definition change too much over time. Plus they are loosely and often conflictingly defined.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:59, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Single-article non-resident ambassadors

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:56, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: More non-defining single-article categories for non-resident ambassadors. Useless for navigation. Also results in major over-categorisation of individual articles. Antonio Manuel Lagdameo is in eight non-resident categories, of which he is the only article. AusLondonder (talk) 08:00, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, we should not categorize non-resident ambassadorship. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:27, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete nom-residebt ambassadorships are not defining.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:00, 26 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Mongolian musical groups by populated place

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:56, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Redundant layer with one subcat. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 05:40, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Sino-Tibetan-speaking people

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:21, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: @Min Yu-Seok: Category moved from Category:Sino-Tibetan-speaking peoples without explanation in 2020, most of the subcategories are related to the ethnic group or need to be separated into root and people categories per WP:COPSEP. Arctic Circle System (talk) 05:32, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Support. The category was actually moved in 2018. That move shouldn't have happened, and I'm not sure how User:Min Yu-Seok was able to move the page since they do not appear to be an admin or page-mover. Maybe the functionality was different in 2018. Mclay1 (talk) 09:45, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename, the articles are clearly about peoples, not about individuals. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:31, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
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Post-close comment to Mclay1 - the requirement to be an admin or page mover only dates to 2019 - see Wikipedia_talk:Categories_for_discussion/Archive_18#Page Moves for Categories?? * Pppery * it has begun... 19:23, 5 May 2026 (UTC)


North Caucasian languages

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 17:05, 13 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: The only category other than Northwest and Northeast Caucasian that this category contains is "Linguists of North Caucasian languages", which can easily be broken out into Northwest and Northeast as it is just two articles. There is nowhere near enough support for a North Caucasian language family to justify this category's existence. Arctic Circle System (talk) 04:02, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete categories and recategorize the article, this is a merely proposed classification. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:33, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per Marcocapelle. There is a proposal to group the Northwest Caucasian languages with the Indo-European languages instead. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 12:35, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • delete per above --Lenticel (talk) 00:06, 26 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Makati OKBet Kings players

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:20, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Following the parent article's latest move. Hariboneagle927 (talk) 03:10, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • rename to match parent article --Lenticel (talk) 00:06, 26 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Makati OKBet Kings

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:20, 2 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Following the parent article's latest move. Hariboneagle927 (talk) 03:09, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • rename to match parent article --Lenticel (talk) 00:06, 26 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Translators of the Bible into Tibeto-Burman languages

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:57, 3 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: merge, only one article in the category, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:05, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
Merge, the only things the "Tibeto-Burman languages" have in common with one another are that they are Sino-Tibetan but not Chinese (or Bai or Cai-Long if those are taken as branches of Sinitic). There are very few linguists who consider it a phylogenetic group within Sino-Tibetan these days. Arctic Circle System (talk) 04:04, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep, perfect for navigation. When I come to Category:Bible translators (which is your preferred merge target surely, not the one you gave?), it is natural to see thel divided by language, no matter if there are 1 or 100 articles in those subcats. Having a dump of all smaller languages together just creates a mass of names without any information which could be helpful for, well, navigation. Fram (talk) 09:39, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
    Although if, like argued below in other CFDs, the "concept" of Tibeto-Burman languages is the problem, then of course we should delete the cat. Fram (talk) 10:39, 16 April 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 02:37, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge to Category:Bible translators (the target in the nomination is a redirect). Single-article categories are not useful regardless of whether the parent category is divided into other languages or not. Mclay1 (talk) 09:39, 25 April 2026 (UTC)
    Comment Thinking about it further, perhaps a Category:Translators of the Bible into Sino-Tibetan languages category could be warranted? Though this obviously would depend on how many relevant articles and subcategories there are, but given it's Sino-Tibetan, surely there's enough for a moderately-sized category. Though there's also the question of whether dividing by language family rather than just languages would even be all that helpful for this subject. Arctic Circle System (talk) 00:29, 26 April 2026 (UTC)
    Personally, I don't feel like language families would be useful groupings for this sort of category. Most readers aren't going to know which groups to find languages in. Mclay1 (talk) 12:22, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
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