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Category:Wikipedia item cleanup

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:06, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: "item" is not a meaningful distinction between Category:Wikipedia item cleanup and Category:Wikipedia cleanup. Some subcategories, e.g. Category:Articles lacking ISBNs, should be under the tree of Category:Wikipedia template parameter issues.
Another example of a member of this category is Category:Uncategorized pages – it's already under Category:Wikipedia category cleanup. —⁠andrybak (talk) 23:06, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Bernie Madoff

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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: Delete per WP:EPONCAT; anything related to Madoff is in Category:Madoff investment scandal and Category:Madoff family. Omnis Scientia (talk) 23:01, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete an unneeded Category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:31, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, the subcategory suffices. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:19, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Not everything needs eponymous parent categories. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 00:09, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Works about the Madoff investment scandal

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Works about the Madoff investment scandal et al., including for Category:Cultural depictions of Bernie Madoff. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:09, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Dual merge to parent category. has less than three articles in each. Omnis Scientia (talk) 22:59, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Shouldn't it be a dual merge to both parent categories? There is also Category:Cultural depictions of Bernie Madoff with overlapping content. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:22, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
    @Marcocapelle, good point on the dual merge. I'll add those. Should the Madoff cultural depiction category also be merged with "Works about the Madoff scandal"? Omnis Scientia (talk) 08:53, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
    • Yes, all 5 articles in Category:Cultural depictions of Bernie Madoff are about works. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:01, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Photographers on Wikimedia Commons

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 May 10#Category:Photographers on Wikimedia Commons

Category:Former districts of Vietnam

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 04:00, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: See Category talk:Districts of Vietnam. Henrydat (talk) 21:09, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
Merge For posterity, the original comment by nom read: District or former district when all districts was dissolved? Vietnam abolished the district tier in 2025. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:34, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, apparently duplicate categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:25, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Former cities of Vietnam

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The result of the discussion was: redirect to Category:Former cities in Vietnam. Done manually. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 14:57, 10 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Redundant with Category:Former cities in Vietnam Henrydat (talk) 20:27, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
Redirect Category is empty. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:38, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Current and former naming rights held by Slush Puppie

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:59, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose deleting Category:Current and former naming rights held by Slush Puppie (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: This is not a defining characteristic of these two arenas. Pichpich (talk) 19:54, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
Delete per WP:SHAREDNAME. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:39, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete we do not categorize things by what they are named, but by what they are.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:56, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:People associated with the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:09, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Recently created but unnecessary (not to mention in contradiction with Wikipedia:ASSOCIATEDWITH). If we place these five articles (and the category Category:Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists) in Category:Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, we're already clearly indicating that these people are known in large part because of their association with Sandy Hook. Pichpich (talk) 19:43, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
Merge per nom. Omnis Scientia (talk) 23:17, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:10, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose deleting Category:Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: We simply don't need this category. We have a single article on Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories and the rest of the category is formed by the categories Category:Alex Jones and Category:Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists. Note that Alex Jones and his ilk are conspiracy theorists, not conspiracy theories. They belong in Category:Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Pichpich (talk) 19:37, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
There's nothing to merge really. Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting conspiracy theories is already in Category:Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and the conspiracy theorists category is in the subcategory Category:People associated with the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, which I've submitted for a merge to Category:Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting (see entry right above!) Pichpich (talk) 22:50, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
Merge per Marco. Omnis Scientia (talk) 23:17, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Caegory:Ancient Greek slaves and freedmen

  • Nominator's rationale There are 25 categories in Category:Slaves by former country. 20 of them use in. 2 more have current nominations to change to using in. The only one that is now not nominated for a change is one that uses "under" because the named thing is a dynasty not exactly an empire. This rename will give us more consistency among categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:10, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename for consistency. I don't think that "ancient" needs a capital though. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:24, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename to match title conventions for similar categories. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 23:00, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Don't rename, because doing so will dramatically change the scope of the categories in ways that cannot have been intended, and will inevitably cause confusion for both editors and readers. Ancient Greeks and Romans could have lived anywhere throughout the Mediterranean world, or even beyond—in Gaul, Britain, Germany, along the Danube frontier, the Black Sea coast, Mesopotamia, etc. By renaming these categories "in ancient Greece" you're suddenly restricting a cultural category to a small fraction of its geographic extent—even more so with "in ancient Rome". People categories should not be treated this way, because people are mobile, not rooted to a specific location.
Right now these categories include slaves and freedmen who were ethnically or culturally Greek or Roman, irrespective of where in the Greek or Roman worlds—or even beyond them—they happened to go. There is no benefit to limiting their geographic scope to a small region or to one city—even if it is Rome. You could argue that these terms can be extended to persons of Greek or Roman origin beyond the places specified—in spite of the ordinary and specific meaning of the preposition in—but that merely creates confusion as to whether people who are clearly includable now should be included or excluded, or whether they would or wouldn't be found in these categories. Why take something that's clear now and make it ambiguous? Consistency is vastly overrated when we're talking about sacrificing clarity and usefulness in order to achieve it. P Aculeius (talk) 05:42, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment Ancient Rome is a term that covers both the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. It is not limited to just the city. If we cannot document these people being either slaves or freedmen in something we would consider Ancient Rome or Ancient Greece I do not think we should include them in the category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:17, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
    So in your judgment, a Roman slave living in Gallia Belgica, a camp in Dacia, a colony in Numidia, is "in ancient Rome", which I take it you mean means the entire Roman empire, from end to end. Or do I have that right? Because the next editor who comes along may not read it that way, and may be astonished to find the category populated with people who lived hundreds of miles away, across the sea, who may never have seen Rome. And that editor might then begin removing those persons systematically from a category that appears to exclude them. In fact the entire WikiProject might be enlisted in paring the category contents down to what its title says it should include. Leaving who knows how many entries uncategorized by the key trait that they have in common—and suggesting that what we need to create instead is a new category called "Ancient Roman slaves and freedmen". Which we currently have. And then that category gets nominated for deletion because it's inconsistent with the titles of other articles, and we already have a category for slaves and freedmen in ancient Rome.
    So let's talk about Greece, shall we? Archimedes has three slaves who go on to be notable. In Syracuse, the largest city in the Greek world. Which isn't in Greece, but Sicily! You might think, "well, Magna Graecia is part of Greece". Will the next editor reviewing the articles' categorization agree? They surrender to the Romans. One goes to Rome, one ends up in Carthago Nova with Scipio, one is given his freedom and travels to Massalia, then Sardis in Lydia. All of them are Greek; none of them are in Greece or Magna Graecia; one lives in Greek colonies that are hard to say are in ancient Greece, the other two wind up elsewhere. Under our current categories, all three are included in "ancient Greek slaves and freemen"; under the proposed category names two of them are excluded and the third may be, but that will depend on how other editors choose to interpret in ancient Greece. Ironically the other two could be included under "slaves and freedmen in ancient Rome", but not Greece. But that also depends on other editors agreeing that anywhere in the Roman empire is in ancient Rome, which we can't take for granted.
    We have two categories here that are relatively unambiguous with their current names, which become incredibly ambiguous with the proposed names. It's no good saying, "well, my definition is... and I propose everyone else observe that", because there's no way to ensure that other editors will do so, or that readers will understand what that definition is or why. All so that the category names will be consistent with the names of other categories. Consistency is overrated! P Aculeius (talk) 14:04, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
      • This is not about what I think Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome are. They are about what the articles themselves cover. We have Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome as articles. The scope of what the articles cover is what would be the scope of the categories. I am not saying what my definition is, I am saying what the definition used in the articles is.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:00, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
        But you're counting on everyone else to know, understand, and adhere to those broad definitions when categorizing or uncategorizing other articles about individuals. And that's not a realistic expectation when the language you use is at best ambiguous and at worst seems to contradict those definitions. Because it's only a very clumsy, awkward and inaccurate definition that allows us to say "in ancient Rome" means "anywhere that was, at least nominally, under the control of the Roman state". I'm not arguing that people don't use it that way; merely that not everyone uses it that way—and we don't apply that definition to most other places; that itself is inconsistent. If you say "in the United States", you don't mean "the Philippines after the United States seized it from Spain", and if you say "in France" very few English speakers will think you could mean to include people who spent their entire lives in Algeria, even when it was technically part of France for over a century.
        And things become even hairier when you say "in ancient Greece", since most readers will assume that this means an area roughly contiguous with the region known today as "Greece", unaware that over a millennium the Greeks colonized Asia Minor, parts of Italy, France, and elsewhere in the Mediterranean, including Egypt, before being absorbed into the Roman world. Many of the most important Greek settlements were far from Greece, and are rarely spoken of as being "in Greece".
        Ultimately, there is no good reason to substitute ambiguous category titles for unambiguous ones. Consistency with other category titles is not a good reason to create an unnecessary conflict between the literal definitions and the clumsy, metaphorical extension of places to mean "anywhere the cultures of those places touched". P Aculeius (talk) 13:58, 30 April 2026 (UTC)
      • People need to understand the definition of terms before they start building categories. By linking the names to actual articles we make it very easy for people to understand what those terms mean. Those articles provide defitions of the terms.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:07, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

Category:Japanese slaves

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:59, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename Category:Japanese slaves to Category:Slaves in Japan
  • Nominator's rationale 27 of the 41 sub-cats of either Category:Slaves by nationaity or Slaves by former country use the in form. We primarily sort slaves by where they were when they were slaves. This rename will put the category in line with most of the other contents in the category. Of the 14 categories that do not use this form at least 4 are currently nominated for being renamed and 1 is nominated for being upmerged. We also use in in the parent Category:Slaves in Asia as well as in the other by continent categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:04, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename for consistency. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:25, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename to match titling conventions for similar categories. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 21:41, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Terrorist incidents in Yemen by perpetrator

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:59, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: redundant category layer, upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 16:38, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, currently only one subcategory in it. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:26, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Flags of indigenous peoples

Nominator's rationale: Currently, this category suffers from extreme semantic drift and violates WP:OC (Overcategorization). It conflates sovereign state flags (e.g., Israel and Bhutan), administrative provincial flags (e.g., Balearic Islands and Asturias), and actual indigenous minority flags (e.g., Aboriginals and Sámi). Categorization should be defining. For a sovereign state or an administrative region of a modern European country, the "Indigenous" label is not a defining characteristic in an encyclopedic context, their sovereignty or administrative status is. Including them here creates a false equivalence between established governments and marginalized/stateless peoples. I propose tightening the inclusion criteria to exclude sovereign states and top-level administrative divisions of non-indigenous-majority states. Miiversal (talk) 15:02, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

  • Comment I added a connection to the proposed name and removed unneeded quote marks. I have not decided on what else I feel on this category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:45, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Question do we have Category:Flags of former countries? We have category:Obsolete national flags. However that based on its name is for flags that counties no longer use. A flag for a country that no longer exists would be something else.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:51, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
    @Johnpacklambert: You should create that. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:52, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge to Category:Ethnic flags but exclude from both any flags that are used by any actual government, unless we have an article that is just on the use of the flag as an ethnic symbol. I really do not think it makes sense for use to have category:African-American flags seperated from a lot of other flags just because we know in broad terms when African-Americans ancestors came to live where they do now. The controlling thing here is that this is a flag used to sympbolize a group that does not have a government unit to identify with. The flag is not used as the flag by a specific government.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:53, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Purge and merge per Johnpacklambert. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:29, 27 April 2026 (UTC)


Category:Tajik words and phrases

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:59, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:23, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
Merge Only content is a category for surnames. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:42, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Women association football coaches in Africa

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 May 6#Category:Women association football coaches in Africa

Category:Single schools in Uganda

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:59, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Recently created 2-article category. The word "single" does not appear in either article. Not sure what "single" is being referred to. Gjs238 (talk) 12:53, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
The word single in relation to school means that the school is single gendered one okwedarious (talk) 18:32, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • That would be entirely duplicative because there is already Category:Boys' schools in Uganda and Category:Girls' schools in Uganda. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:33, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
    Also there are some schools which are single in only one level like you amy find a school single only in Ordinary level but mixed in Advanced level. How can we categorize them?
    I think making them under single schools will make it better okwedarious (talk) 07:25, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
    • In this example (with mixed in Advanced level) the school should not be in single. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:05, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Tajik soups

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:59, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category, overcategorization, article already well categorized. Gjs238 (talk) 12:50, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Korean slaves

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:59, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Nominator's rationale This is a sub-category of Category:Slaves by former country. Of the 25 categories there 20 use "in". At least one more uses under. Another has an active nomination to use "in". We categorize slaves by country where they were enslaved, and it is best to make that explicit in the category name.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:46, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename for consistency. Note that after renaming the subcategory can no longer be here, it contains Koreans enslaved in Japan. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:51, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Ecuadorian slaves

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:11, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Nominator's rationale There are only 4 articles in this category. Ecuador was actually part of a much larger Spanish Viceroyalty. This is the level we generally categorize slaves in at, so we have Category:Slaves in New Spain. However first Ecuador was part of the Viceroyalty of Peru and later the Voceroyalty of New Granda. I believe we have articles from both. Merging to the parent category I think would be best for navigation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:41, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Manually merge, the last two articles are fit for Category:Slaves in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:02, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:58, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose renaming Category:Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award to Category:Kate Wilhelm Solstice Award winners
Nominator's rationale: Category of people who have won this award. Naming scheme used in Category:Award winners. Gjs238 (talk) 12:34, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
Makes sense Nickpheas (talk) 13:09, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per WP:OCAWARD. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:03, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per WP:OCAWARD as suggested by Marcocapelle. Gjs238 (talk) 01:00, 28 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete/Rename if Kept per WP:OCAWARD. Lifetime achievement awards are rarely defining because they reflect the pre-existing prominence of the winners. (If kept, by all means rename.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:30, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Japanese representatives by prefecture

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:58, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Naming scheme used in parent Category:Members of the House of Representatives (Japan) Gjs238 (talk) 12:29, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename, all subcategories use this format too. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:04, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Irish diaspora association football clubs in Scotland

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:58, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose deleting Category:Irish diaspora association football clubs in Scotland (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category. Article fits nicely, and is already in, Category:Irish diaspora sports clubs in Scotland and Category:Diaspora association football clubs. Gjs238 (talk) 12:20, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Pujiang line

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:58, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Per this requested move, let's uppercase the "L". Sinsyuan✍️HBDTRTS 11:36, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Astropolitics

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:58, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: To match the main article, Politics of outer space Prezbo (talk) 11:34, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

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Category:Philosophical terminology

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Category:Explosions in Borno State

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:58, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:46, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
Support per nom SMasonGarrison 00:24, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Murder in Borno State

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:58, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only two subcategories (or one subcategory if the proposed merge below goes ahead). Marcocapelle (talk) 07:40, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
Support per nom SMasonGarrison 00:24, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Murder in Maiduguri

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:15, 6 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:36, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Anti-Ukrainian sentiment

Nominator's rationale: purge, this is mere circumvention of WP:OPINIONCAT. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:33, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
Purge Per the precedent regarding Category:Climate change deniers, this is also a BLP issue. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:41, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Propagandist Anton Krasovsky lost his job for calling to drown and burn to death Ukrainian children in live state television . Quite the defining moment for a biography, probably worth having a category over. Several other individuals' contributions to the hate campaign have likewise had real-life palpable consequences. Many of these have worked up for decades the justification of the current war with its aim of destroying and assimilating an entire people. These are not mere "opinions". Super Ψ Dro 22:35, 28 April 2026 (UTC)

History of the Basques

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Category:Ranger's Apprentice books

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:57, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary level of indirection, not helpful for navigation. Eponymous category only has the series article with a ' ' defaultsort, the novels should be the rest of the slots. (Can WP:C2F work in reverse to merge to an otherwise empty eponymous category?) ScalarFactor (talk) 05:17, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:User mis

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:57, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Per ISO_639-3#Non-language_codes this is not an actual language one can speak. It should be deleted and excluded from the Babel system by editing MediaWiki:Babel-category-override just like Category:User mul, Category:User und, and Category:User zxx are. * Pppery * it has begun... 04:43, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Blossoms (band) members

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:57, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Per long-standing precedent and as defined by the Musicians by band category, "categories should not be created when only one member has an article." StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 04:27, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Terrorism in Maiduguri

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Category:Islamic terrorism in Maiduguri

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:56, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. No merge needed, the subcategory is already in Category:Terrorist incidents in Maiduguri. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:45, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
Support per nom SMasonGarrison 00:23, 29 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Kings of Ruthenia

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:56, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: rename for two different reason. First, while the category is only populated with kings of Galicia–Volhynia there were also other claimants on the title King of Ruthenia. In other words, as category name it is ambiguous. The second reason is that the founder of Galicia–Volhynia, Roman the Great, is annoyingly not included in this category because he was a duke rather than a king. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:52, 19 April 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:51, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Refugees of South Sudan

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Category:Wilfred (Australian TV series)

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 03:56, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: This subcategory is probably unnecessary for housing only one other related article. Suggest merging to its parent. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 02:34, 27 April 2026 (UTC)
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