Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 February 13
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
February 13
Category:Former Russian Orthodox Christians
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 February 21#Category:Former Russian Orthodox Christians
Category:Albanian professional wrestlers
- 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). GoldRomean (talk) 00:10, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Albanian professional wrestlers to Category:Albanian wrestlers and Category:Albanian entertainers
- Propose merging Category:Antigua and Barbuda professional wrestlers to Category:Antigua and Barbuda entertainers and Category:Wrestlers
- Propose merging Category:Ghanaian professional wrestlers to Category:Ghanaian entertainers and Category:Ghanaian wrestlers
- Propose merging Category:Iraqi professional wrestlers to Category:Iraqi entertainers and Category:Iraqi wrestlers
- Propose merging Category:Luxembourgian professional wrestlers to Category:Luxembourgian entertainers and Category:Luxembourgian wrestlers
- Propose merging Category:Jordanian professional wrestlers to Category:Jordanian wrestlers
- Propose merging Category:Martiniquais professional wrestlers to Category:Martiniquais martial artists and Category:Wrestlers
- Propose merging Category:Saudi Arabian professional wrestlers to Category:Saudi Arabian martial artists and Category:Wrestlers
- Propose merging Category:Trinidad and Tobago professional wrestlers to Category:Trinidad and Tobago martial artists and Category:Wrestlers
- Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 23:47, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
- Merge for Now per WP:NARROWCAT with no objcection to future recreation if/when more articles appear. - RevelationDirect (talk) 12:47, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
- Support one article categories are too narrow.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:51, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
- Merge, these categories are not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:23, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
- Merge but also to Category:Professional wrestling in X.--User:Namiba 14:58, 16 January 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: thoughts on Namiba's proposal?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 23:06, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Don't merge to Category:Professional wrestling in X per WP:COPSEP. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:25, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Orthodox bishops of the Cossack Hetmanate
- 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: no consensus. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 20:54, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: delete, these were bishops of the Metropolis of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' (1620–1686) and already categorised as such. It is unclear whether they were Cossacks. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:07, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
- Marcocapelle, they were not Cossacks. Cossack Hetmanate is the name of the country in the Wikipedia. Not all citizen of the country were Cossacks. The mentioned bishops were citizens of the Cossack Hetmanate. The Metropolis of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' is a title, not a country. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 01:43, 25 January 2026 (UTC)
- As an example, we have a category like Category:Polish bishops, which includes all the bishops from Poland. Ukraine during the 17th-18th centuries was known as the Cossack Hetmanate. Aleksandr Grigoryev (talk) 01:49, 25 January 2026 (UTC)
- It leaves two issues unresolved, one is the overlap with Category:Metropolitans of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus' (1620-1686) and the other is that "bishops of" means bishop of a diocese. Besides the article gives the impression that the territory of these bishops extended well into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:39, 25 January 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 02:42, 4 February 2026 (UTC) - Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 22:24, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club
- 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 (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 00:10, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: Delete as per Category:Member of the Sedgwick Club at Cambridge University, Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_February_5#Category:Member_of_the_Sedgwick_Club_at_Cambridge_University Gjs238 (talk) 22:21, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Delete, not a defining characteristic for the biographies. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:26, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
- Delete generally we do not categorize people by clubs they belong to while students.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:48, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
- delete per above --Lenticel (talk) 10:11, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:American memoirists of Armenian descent
- 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). GoldRomean (talk) 00:10, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:American memoirists of Armenian descent to Category:American writers of Armenian descent
- Nominator's rationale: upmerge for now. there's not a major need to distinguish American memoirists of Armenian descent from American writers of Armenian descent SMasonGarrison 21:24, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Place Clichy (talk) 04:17, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Social history by former country
- 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/rename. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 20:59, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Social history of Czechoslovakia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Society of Czechoslovakia and Category:History of Czechoslovakia
- Propose merging Category:Social history of the Dutch East Indies (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Society of the Dutch East Indies
- Propose merging Category:Social history of the Soviet Union (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Society of the Soviet Union and Category:History of the Soviet Union by topic
- Propose merging Category:Social history of Yugoslavia (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Society of Yugoslavia and Category:History of Yugoslavia by topic
- Propose merging Category:Social history by former country (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Society of former countries
- Propose renaming Category:Social history of the Dutch Republic (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Society of the Dutch Republic
- Propose renaming Category:Social history of the Holy Roman Empire (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Society of the Holy Roman Empire
- Propose renaming Category:Social history of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) to Category:Society of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Nominator's rationale: Social history is essentially the history of society. By definition, everything that happened in a former country is history, so the distinction between the "society" and "social history" categories seems arbitrary. Mclay1 (talk) 06:22, 2 February 2026 (UTC)
- Support merging/renaming to "society", per nom. I am not sure if merging to "history (by topic)" is necessary, for the very same reason that everything that happened in a former country is history. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:44, 2 February 2026 (UTC)
- I was planning to do something with the history categories next, but figured these should be merged there until then, rather than anticipating what the consensus might be. Mclay1 (talk) 11:23, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
- @Mclay1: Fair enough. For your information, I have been trying to have history of former countries merged in a mass nomination some years ago, but that proposal did not lead somewhere. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:46, 6 February 2026 (UTC)
- I was planning to do something with the history categories next, but figured these should be merged there until then, rather than anticipating what the consensus might be. Mclay1 (talk) 11:23, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 20:28, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:College ice hockey venues
- 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). GoldRomean (talk) 00:10, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:North Dakota Fighting Hawks ice hockey venues to Category:North Dakota Fighting Hawks sports venues, Category:College ice hockey venues in North Dakota and Category:North Dakota Fighting Hawks ice hockey
- Propose merging Category:Syracuse Orange women's ice hockey venues to Category:Syracuse Orange women's ice hockey, Category:College ice hockey venues in New York (state) and Category:Syracuse Orange sports venues
- Nominator's rationale: These categories are both small (1-3 articles) and do not help navigation. User:Namiba 19:03, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:28, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
- Merge These categories are too narrow to be needed at this time.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:49, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
- merge per nom --Lenticel (talk) 10:12, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Sports in Smithtown, New York
- 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). GoldRomean (talk) 00:10, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Sports in Smithtown, New York to Category:Smithtown, New York
- Nominator's rationale: Contains just one article and a subcategory. User:Namiba 17:02, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Merge, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:30, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
- merge per nom --Lenticel (talk) 10:12, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Draft articles about art and architecture
- 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: split. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 21:12, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose splitting Category:Draft articles about art and architecture to Category:Draft articles about visual arts and Category:Draft articles
- Nominator's rationale: Basically, merge to visual arts, but fix the parent categories manually. Update Template:Draft article if this is approved. – Fayenatic London 17:03, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Support. The more specifically named categories are better. Mclay1 (talk) 12:06, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Draft articles about agriculture, food and drink
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 February 23#Category:Draft articles about agriculture, food and drink
Category:Draft articles by ORES topic classification
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 February 23#Category:Draft articles by ORES topic classification
Category:Sports venues in Schenectady County, New York
- 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). GoldRomean (talk) 20:59, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Sports venues in Schenectady County, New York to Category:Buildings and structures in Schenectady, New York and Category:Sports in Schenectady, New York
- Nominator's rationale: Contains only 2 articles, both of which are in Schenectady, New York. User:Namiba 16:48, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:33, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
- merge per nom --Lenticel (talk) 10:12, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Riff languages
- 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 to Category:Zenati languages. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 00:11, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- Nominator's rationale: Riff languages was deleted recently due to dubious sourcing. This should probably be deleted as well. Arctic Circle System (talk) 05:51, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
- Merge to Category:Zenati languages, not a defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:48, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: thoughts on merge?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 14:45, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- @Arctic Circle System: do you have an objection to merging? Marcocapelle (talk) 07:35, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
- @Marcocapelle: I do not. I believe that is what I meant to write in the first place. Arctic Circle System (talk) 22:36, 17 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Leaders of the opposition (Canada)
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 February 20#Category:Leaders of the opposition (Canada)
Category:Mass murders inspired by ISIS
- 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: speedy delete. CSD G7 Liz Read! Talk! 05:21, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Mass murders inspired by ISIS to Category:Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant activities
- Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category and narrow category. inspired by is not defining. The categiry creator seems to be overeager, see the newly created tree as well. Category:ISIS-related incidents by year SMasonGarrison 13:22, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- undisputed – Just delete it. I'll remove the one page in it and nominate it myself. I created it with that name then someone pointed out that the word "murder" sometimes isn't suitable if there's not a criminal conviction, so some of the pages I was planning to add were not suitable. Late Night Coffee (talk) 16:55, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- I did get a bit "overeager" a while ago. I thought I already deleted most of the unnecessary categories. If you find any others that I missed just message me on my talk page. Late Night Coffee (talk) 17:32, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- You made Category:ISIS-related incidents by year all of these within the last week. SMasonGarrison 20:43, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- It was mostly on one day. Someone pointed out a few errors I had made and told me to slow down, so I fixed the errors they pointed out and stopped being so "overeager". Late Night Coffee (talk) 05:22, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
- You made Category:ISIS-related incidents by year all of these within the last week. SMasonGarrison 20:43, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- I've done that now. Late Night Coffee (talk) 05:18, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:American people of Zimbabwean descent by occupation
- 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). GoldRomean (talk) 20:59, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:American people of Zimbabwean descent by occupation to Category:American people of Zimbabwean descent
- Nominator's rationale: two cats is really not enough for this parent category SMasonGarrison 13:14, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison, do you think that the same argument in Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 September 3#American sportspeople by country of descent would apply to these categories? --Habst (talk) 16:04, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- I think that the argument is a little different. I think that the child categories here could help diffuse the parent category Category:American people of Zimbabwean descent SMasonGarrison 20:39, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- @Smasongarrison, do you think that the same argument in Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 September 3#American sportspeople by country of descent would apply to these categories? --Habst (talk) 16:04, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Merge 2 categories is not enough for this additional container category level.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:52, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:History books about regions
- 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 to Category:History books about continents. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 16:25, 20 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose renaming Category:History books about regions to Category:History books about continents
- Nominator's rationale: rename per actual content. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:09, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Rename per nom. Mclay1 (talk) 13:15, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- rename per nom --Lenticel (talk) 10:13, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Films and television featuring greyhound racing
- 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 to Category:Greyhound racing films. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 16:34, 20 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Films and television featuring greyhound racing to Category:Greyhound racing films
- Nominator's rationale: Duplicate categories with the exception of the first category also including two TV series and one TV episode, which doesn't seem like enough to justify the creation of greyhound racing TV category. No other category combines film and TV by topic. Manually move the TV articles to appropriate categories. Mclay1 (talk) 12:59, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Support merge required. ApricotFoot (talk) 13:04, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Jews
- 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: no consensus. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:30, 1 March 2026 (UTC)
- Propose renaming Category:Jews to Category:Jewish people
- Nominator's rationale: WP:COPSEP applies here, and I don't want to just leave the talk page here by moving it improperly. Arctic Circle System (talk) 08:40, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
- Keep status quo. We currently have Category:Jews and Judaism as a root topic category for the ethnoreligious group, Category:Jews and Category:People of Jewish descent for individuals, whether they identify as Jewish or only have this heritage, and Category:Judaism for religious topics. This structure is widely replicated for almost every country, provided there is actual content. WP:COPSEP is respected. If it's not broken, don't fix it. Place Clichy (talk) 08:50, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
- Jews is not a demonym for a country, it is a demonym for an ethnic group and a religious group, These changes would make it consistent with other ethnic group categories, i.e. Category:Kurdish people. Arctic Circle System (talk) 17:30, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- I did call it an ethnoreligious group in my reply, which is consistent with your presentation I believe. Your proposition is well-intended, but there has been so much back-and-forth around Jewish categories that I am afraid that, in this case, this drastic change would not bring an improvement. Place Clichy (talk) 19:59, 10 February 2026 (UTC)
- It would be more consistent with similar categories, at least in relation to ethnicity categories, though religion categories use the current scheme. Perhaps this should be changed, but that would be another discussion. I don't think this relates to WP:ARBPIA in any significant way, so it shouldn't be that contentious at least. Arctic Circle System (talk) 04:37, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
- I did call it an ethnoreligious group in my reply, which is consistent with your presentation I believe. Your proposition is well-intended, but there has been so much back-and-forth around Jewish categories that I am afraid that, in this case, this drastic change would not bring an improvement. Place Clichy (talk) 19:59, 10 February 2026 (UTC)
- Jews is not a demonym for a country, it is a demonym for an ethnic group and a religious group, These changes would make it consistent with other ethnic group categories, i.e. Category:Kurdish people. Arctic Circle System (talk) 17:30, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- Keep because this is an absolutely ridiculous nomination. If the nominator has his way then Category:Christians, Category:Muslims, Category:Hindus etc, etc, should likewise be changed to Category:Christian people, Category:Muslim people, Category:Hindu people etc, etc! The nominator is requested to withdraw his misguided nomination ASAP. Thank you, IZAK (talk) 23:52, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
- And you are
requested
to watch your language, be civil and assume good faith, though.
Place Clichy (talk) 08:11, 5 February 2026 (UTC) - My pronouns are she/her jsyk, and arguing that the status quo should be maintained for the sole reason that it's the status quo is rather misguided to say the least. Arctic Circle System (talk) 17:32, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- I should also note that Jews is not just the demonym for a religious group but an ethnic group as well. The change I have proposed would make it consistent with other ethnic group-related categories. Arctic Circle System (talk) 17:36, 8 February 2026 (UTC)
- And you are
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 12:57, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Neutral: As a convention, we name biography categories (which is what this is) "X people". Topic categories are named after the article on the group of people. Hence we have Category:Kurds and Category:Kurdish people. So the nominator's proposal is accurate, and Category:Christians, Category:Muslims, Category:Hindus, etc. could also be renamed similarly (not sure where User:IZAK finds that so ridiculous). However, there is already a status quo in Category:People by religion that isn't broken, and the current names are more natural. I don't know if the "X people" convention is the best system to begin with. Mclay1 (talk) 06:07, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
- I'm not sure you can call it a convention. I seems more like a case of we've done that for a long time without an explicit reasoning behind it and with many exceptions. In other words, a habit. The only relevant explicit convention I am aware of is WP:COPSEP i.e. separating people and topic categories, without explicitly stating a rule about their naming. Here, Jews and Judaism is unequivocally the topic category, so COPSEP can't be an argument towards renaming.
- This naming pattern as it is currently seen may perhaps be formalized as such:
if and only if corresponding topic and biographical categories are named in a way that can be understood to refer to people, then the topic category should use the plural (e.g. Kurds) and the people category should use a <adjective> people format (e.g. Kurdish people).
This excludes anything related to religion, for which the topic category would not be named ambiguously, and discourages another format sometimes seen of Fooians topics/Fooians. Place Clichy (talk) 18:58, 28 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:List templates with deprecated parameters
- 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). GoldRomean (talk) 21:16, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose renaming Category:List templates with deprecated parameters to Category:Pages using module:list with deprecated parameters
- Nominator's rationale: This is more inline with the other categories in Category:Deprecated parameters. Gonnym (talk) 10:30, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 12:57, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Middle schools in Central Bedfordshire District
- 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). GoldRomean (talk) 00:11, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Middle schools in Central Bedfordshire District to Category:Middle schools in England
- Nominator's rationale: Category containing only a single article, not helpful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 09:51, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:40, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
- Merge for now. There are evidently only 107 actually Middle schools in England. They enroll children a little younger than American Middle schools. In general we only consider the highest level of secondary schools notable, and we have somewhat moved away from that. Anything lower than that there is a very high bar to show notability. I am not sure it is really worth sorting the few articles we have on schools in England that enroll children under about age 11 at all, we might only need 1 Category for all those schools.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:57, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
- comment it looks like there are only 12 actual articles in the while muddle schools in England tree.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:59, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Children of prime ministers of Great Britain
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 February 23#Category:Children of prime ministers of Great Britain
Category:People from the Talpur dynasty domains
- 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). GoldRomean (talk) 20:58, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:People from the Talpur dynasty domains to Category:People from Sind State
- Nominator's rationale: merge, unusual sort of category comparable to Category:English people under the House of Plantagenet which we also do not have. Both articles are about people in Sind State and the Talpur dynasty was the second ruling dynasty of Sind State. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:43, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Merge on more reflection it seems Sind State is the best name to use. We do split some countries by dynasty, such as Iran and China, but I do not think we such split this case.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:51, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Children of prime ministers of the United Kingdom
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 February 23#Category:Children of prime ministers of the United Kingdom
Category:Primary schools in the Borough of Hartlepool
- 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). GoldRomean (talk) 00:12, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Primary schools in the Borough of Hartlepool to Category:Primary schools in England and Category:Schools in the Borough of Hartlepool.
- Propose merging Category:Community schools in the Borough of Hartlepool to Category:Community schools in County Durham and Category:Schools in the Borough of Hartlepool
- Nominator's rationale: Categories containing only a single article, unhelpful for navigation.
AusLondonder (talk) 08:10, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:50, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
- Merge These categories are too narrow to aid navigation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:05, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Ukrainian theatre prizes
- 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). GoldRomean (talk) 00:12, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose renaming Category:Ukrainian theatre prizes to Category:Ukrainian theatre awards
- Nominator's rationale: To match Category:Theatre awards by country. AusLondonder (talk) 07:53, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Support, all other categories in the parent category use "awards". --Gurkubondinn (talk) 16:16, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Private schools in Denbighshire
- 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: dual merge. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 20:57, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Private schools in Denbighshire to Category:Private schools in Wales
- Nominator's rationale: Merge also to Category:Schools in Denbighshire. Category containing only two articles, better categorised within parents. AusLondonder (talk) 07:40, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Dual merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:47, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Fiction about Hasidic Judaism
- 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: alt rename. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 21:10, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose renaming Category:Fiction about Hasidic Judaism to Category:Fiction about Orthodox and Hasidic Jews
- Propose renaming Category:Films about Hasidic Judaism to Category:Films about Hasidic Jews
- Nominator's rationale: Not about Judaism, but about Jews. To be same as Category:Films about Orthodox and Hasidic Jews --Altenmann >talk 21:21, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
- Alt rename to Category:Fiction about Hasidic Jews, as no specific reason has been mentioned to merge Hasidic into Orthodox. I added the subcategory to the nomination. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:06, 4 January 2026 (UTC)
- Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on alt rename proposal?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GothicGolem29 (Talk) 16:23, 11 January 2026 (UTC) - Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: No new comments, not comfortable with BARTENDERing.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Sennecaster (Chat) 04:57, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Marcocapelle's alt rename for the first one is better than the original proposal. However, I don't really know why they need moving. Surely any work about Hasidic Jews is inherently about Hasidic Judaism? But I'm not going to read the plot summary of every movie to figure it out. Mclay1 (talk) 13:10, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Shire of Pioneer
- 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). GoldRomean (talk) 00:12, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Shire of Pioneer to Category:Mackay Region
- Nominator's rationale: Category about a defunct local government area containing only the article about the former LGA and an article about the former LGA's premises. Not useful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 04:39, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:51, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Port cities and towns in the Northern Territory
- 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 + I've manually merged. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 20:56, 23 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Port cities and towns in the Northern Territory to Category:Port cities and towns in Australia
- Nominator's rationale: Category containing only a single article, this is a redundant category layer. AusLondonder (talk) 04:29, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Manually merge and delete: just move the article, the subcategory does not belong there. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:54, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Manually merge just the article per Marcocapelle. Mclay1 (talk) 13:12, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
Category:Czech housing rights activists
- 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). GoldRomean (talk) 00:12, 22 February 2026 (UTC)
- Propose merging Category:Czech housing rights activists to Category:Housing rights activists
- Propose merging Category:Spanish housing rights activists to Category:Housing rights activists
- Nominator's rationale: upmerge for now. underpopulated SMasonGarrison 04:14, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Merge per nom, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:55, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Merge we do not need these 1 article categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:52, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.