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Explorers of Montana

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Explorers of Washington (state)

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Category:Explorers of the colonial Southwestern United States

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Category:Pages with Nazi common name editnotice

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Category:Pages with unclassified custom editnotice

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Category:Free Negroes

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:African-American people with free status before 1865. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 01:49, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Nominator's rationale I am very hesitant to write the category name here. I know lots of African-American people who find any use of that term to be objectionable. We generally do not insist on using outdated no longer current terms for groups, we follow current practice in how to refer to groups, even when referring to them historically. I have to admit I am not 100% sure we actually need to categorize all African-Americans by status of being slave or free, even those living pre-1865, but if we are doing so we should not use an outdated term that many find highly objectionable.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:08, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename for to be WP:PRECISE, and MOS:BLACK clearly states, "The old epithets Red and Yellow, plus Colored (in the American sense) and Negro, are generally taken to be offensive, and should only be used in quotations", so the current category should be deleted or renamed as soon as possible. Yuchitown (talk) 17:32, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename, MOS:BLACK appears to be clear enough about this. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:53, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
  • rename per above --Lenticel (talk) 01:17, 7 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename if Kept to fix the outdated terminology. (I'm also unsure if the category is defining let's start with renaming.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 03:56, 7 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 01:48, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCEPON. Contains just the burials sub-category and Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia). Both are already in their appropriate subcategories. User:Namiba 19:51, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, redundant category layer, the subcategory suffices. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:02, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • delete per above --Lenticel (talk) 01:21, 7 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:People murdered in 1573

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Category:Medical practitioners convicted of murdering their patients

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Medical doctors convicted of murdering their patients. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:37, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose renaming Category:Medical practitioners convicted of murdering their patients to Category:Physicians convicted of murdering their patients
Nominator's rationale: Parent is Physicians SMasonGarrison 18:19, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename We have a parent which is named "health care professionals" so anyone who is not a physician can be placed there. I do have to wonder how this would work with the use of physician in some places. In Britain a physician is a specific specialty under the broader term "medical doctor". I still think that in American English "medical doctor" is essentially a synonym of "physician" and so I think we should just rename the whole tree "medical doctor" (or even maybe Category:Doctors (medical)) but think that should probably not be carried out by nominating one small low level article.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:53, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename to "medical doctors" per WP:ENGVAR, and Purge/Merge per above. Using a term more broadly understood, is preferred per ENGVAR. I'm wondering if this is possibly noted in an MoS somewhere. - jc37 12:59, 7 January 2026 (UTC)
    WP:COMMONALITY is the guideline that essentially says what you're saying. Mclay1 (talk) 13:18, 9 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename to Category:Medical doctors convicted of murdering their patients. The entire tree of Category:Physicians should be renamed per the article Medical doctor, which was moved after an RM a few months ago. Mclay1 (talk) 13:22, 9 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Providence Friars basketball venues

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:39, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Dual merge as it does not help navigation with only two articles. User:Namiba 15:34, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Armenia–Yugoslavia relations

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 01:50, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Categories based on a misunderstanding. For much of the existence of Yugoslavia, Armenia was part of the Soviet Union. The only content here is Arman Kirakossian, Armenia's ambassador to Greece in 1994-99, who was also accredited to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which at the time consisted of only Serbia and Montenegro. Non-resident ambassadors do not usually justify a category, especially to the wrong country. Place Clichy (talk) 15:21, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete one non-resident ambassador is not enough to justify a category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:03, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
    • The non-resident ambassador here was also evidently credited to Albania and Cyprus, and so those 2 categories also have the same 2 as the one for Greece. I think we have far too many narrow ambassador categories, with 3 or less articles. We probably should upmerge many of these.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:05, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:28, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • delete per nom --Lenticel (talk) 01:21, 7 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:2025 Iranian protests

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:2025–2026 Iranian protests. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 01:51, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: The current protest cycle started late December 2025, is continuing as of 5 January 2026, shows no sign of stopping, and the title of the main article 2025–2026 Iranian protests is uncontroversial (there was one extremely brief suggestion/discussion for a rename). The alternative to renaming to Category:2025–2026 Iranian protests would be to create Category:2026 Iranian protests, in which case most of the articles in Template:2025–2026 Iranian protests would have to be double-categorised to the 2025 and 2026 categories. I'm not sure what the preferred Categories convention is, but the split would seem a bit unnatural. Boud (talk) 15:07, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
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İznik District

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The result of the discussion was: Merge/rename * Pppery * it has begun... 03:35, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: İznik is a municipality and a district - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 00:01, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Support, this is a case when a district and a municipality coincide. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:00, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Nothing won by that. -- Just N. (talk) 15:51, 4 January 2026 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GothicGolem29 (Talk) 14:20, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • It is a win because we currently have two categories with identical scope. Per WP:OVERLAPCAT. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:31, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge/Rename Iznik has the same scope no matter if it is the municipality or the district.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:54, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Support – There is only one article for İznik and I can't see any need for two categories. Mclay1 (talk) 13:07, 18 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Taichung Metro

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Category:Iranian Arab people

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Iranian Arabs. Rough consensus to rename, and I am picking the option which plurality support as a WP:BARTENDER close. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 20:53, 1 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename Category:Iranian Arab people to either Category:Arabs in Iran or Category:Arab peoples in Iran or Category:Arab ethnic groups in Iran
  • Nominatoor's rationale This is different from Category:Arab people in Iran since the later is a category for biographies. This is a topic category. Its current direct content is all articles on ethnic groups/peoples who live in Iran who are ethnic Arabs. However we have several other similar cases where we have a topic category named ethnic group+s in Boo and a biographical category named ethnic group people in Boo. I believe the suggested target is the form that will match the most other categories. I am very sure we want to avoid double demonym titles as much as possible.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:43, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
  • Alt rename to Category:Iranian Arabs per article title Iranian Arabs. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:19, 29 December 2025 (UTC)
    • That still is essentially a double demonym which I think is something we want to avoid.John Pack Lambert (talk) 06:03, 1 January 2026 (UTC)
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Relisting comment: Thoughts on the proposed alt rename?
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  • Rename to Category:Arabs in Iran, consistent with the majority of subcategories in Category:Arab diaspora. --Hassan697 (talk) 19:22, 23 January 2026 (UTC) WP:SOCKSTRIKE. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 20:53, 1 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Alt rename to Category:Iranian Arabs per the main article title. I don't see the issue with a "double demonym"; they're very common, e.g. Japanese Americans, British Indians, etc. I don't think we should double-guess the article name in this forum for reasons that aren't related to categorisation or consistency. Mclay1 (talk) 08:15, 26 January 2026 (UTC)
      • But we do not have Category:Japanese Americas. We have Category:American people of Japanese descent because double demonyms as ambiguous. Back when we had such unclear categories such as Russian Americans it ended up being a mixed of Russian people in the United States and American people in Russia.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:36, 27 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment we have African Americans but Category:African-American people. For categories by ethnicity that contain biographies we general designate the contents as people.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:11, 29 January 2026 (UTC)
    But your argument is that this isn't a category for biographies; it's a topic category. Mclay1 (talk) 11:58, 16 February 2026 (UTC)
  • Mild oppose. Reading this discussion I find that neither the problem with the present category nor the desired target are clear. The nominator seems to dislike "double demonyms" in the form of Fooian Barian people, and I largely share this feeling because they are often ambiguous. However, it is not the case here, because Iranian is a nationality, not an ethnicity, and Arab is an ethnicity and does not refer to any country. Place Clichy (talk) 20:20, 30 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Iranian Baloch people

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The result of the discussion was: Rename Uncontested for almost a month. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:34, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Shia LaBeouf

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 01:52, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: WP:OCEPON. The works by category is sufficient. --woodensuperman 11:53, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. The eponymous article links to the other two articles and the other two articles do not have any commonality that requires interlinking. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:16, 7 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom and the above. Οἶδα (talk) 18:59, 8 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete This does not meet our stringent guidelines for eponymous categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:45, 12 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Alumni of Allan Wilson High School

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:36, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: This category has just two entries. Categories are meant to be a navigational tool and just two entries not meets that threshold. Besides, both the alumni have been listed under the alumni section of Allan Wilson High School. Maintaining a category with such small number of entries creates unwanted category clutter. If the school gets more alumni in the future, it can be recreated later. BhikhariInformer (talk) 11:51, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep, now 3 entries, no need to delete, no idea why this would be "unwanted category clutter". Fram (talk) 12:03, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
    Even with 3 entries, it remains a case of WP:OVERCAT and provides little navigational utility per WP:CAT. For a school founded in 1940, having just three alumni in 85 years is indicative that the list won't suddenly grow into a robust size. These entries can be more efficiently handled under the Notable Alumni section of the main article. And as I said, I don't have any prejudice with creating this category in future, when it has more entries. BhikhariInformer (talk) 19:17, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete 3 people can easily all be listed on the high school article page.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:56, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
    True, but having a list is not a reason to delete a cat (and vice versa), they serve different purposes and complement each other. Fram (talk) 09:38, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
      • For cases like high school graduated from that is not really defining having a list is a very good reason to not have a category.John Pack Lambert (talk) 11:52, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete for Now Even in expanded form, still seems too narrow to really aid navigation. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:45, 9 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Arabic-language poets from Sicily

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The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:Siculo-Arabic poets. The parent category has received no discussion at all, so I'm closing is as no consensus without prejudice against renomination. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:33, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Refers to people from the Category:Emirate of Sicily, not Sicily as a region of current Italy. Rename and reparent. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 10:07, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep, all three are from the region of Sicily, and one of the three isn't from (or known to be from) the Emirate, but from the County of Sicily. I added a 4th article, also about the county. Fram (talk) 12:12, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Split to Category:Poets from the Emirate of Sicily and Category:Poets from the County of Sicily as applicable. These were no poets in Sicily as a sub-unit of a unified Italy, so I think we should categorize them by the polity in which they actually lived.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:58, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
    Sicily is an island and was the name of the island. No idea why you are so focused on the Emirate/county/province/colony/ whatever status it had across history, when it was Sicily all along. "Poets from the county of Sicily" would still be a subcat of "poets of Sicily" anyway, so it's not as if your proposal would remove it from the Sicily tree anyway. All four are Arabic-language poets from Sicily, the category is perfectly describing what they were and were notable for. Having additional cats for "Poets from the county of Sicily" (independent from the language) is of course not a problem, but not a reasonn to delete the current category. There is even a name for these, "Siculo-Arabic poets", with plenty of scholarly research into them. See e.g. this or this. The combination of Arabic and Sicily is exactly what they are known for. Fram (talk) 09:53, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
      • We categorize in rare cases people by the intersection of country, language used and occupation. We do not categorize people by the intersection of geographic feature and language used. The political status of where someone lived is very important to the language categories we do or do not place them in.John Pack Lambert (talk) 11:55, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
        "We" do and don't do all kinds of things all the time, depending on many circumstances (from the whims of whoever is involved in creation or discussion, to the actual use in sources). In this case, the sources treat this intersection of language, occupation, and geographical location as an important one. "Arabic-laguage poets from Sicily" is a notable topic of study and a notable characteristic of these people, hence it is a good category fit. That doesn't mean that we should create "spanish-spealing soccer players of the Rocky Mountains", as that one is not a notable intersection. But that notable intersections of language, occupation and geographic feature are perhaps rare doesn't mean that it shouldn't exist in the few case where it is notable. Fram (talk) 13:21, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Alternatively rename to Category:Siculo-Arabic poets, per Siculo-Arabic and the sources I provided above. Fram (talk) 09:46, 7 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename per Fram. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:00, 7 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename per Fram. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:47, 9 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:History of cinema in Bangladesh

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Category:Hapoel Migdal HaEmek F.C. managers

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 01:53, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Single article category. It was part of a previous CfD that closed as delete, but this one was left out. There doesn't seem to be any need to keep it. If there are more articles in future, it can be recreated. Mclay1 (talk) 09:37, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Drafts about fictional people

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:26, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Draft maintenance categories covering the same scope. I propose a reverse merge because the target matches the naming of Category:Draft articles on media and many of its subcategories. It is counterintuitive to have this duplication. — Trailblazer101🔥 (discuss · contribs) 06:38, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:09, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment - I think most of the subcats of Category:Draft articles on media could be renamed to follow the standard of: Draft articles about X. In this case "characters" would be preferred over "fictional people", per common usage. - jc37 13:05, 7 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Iranic women

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 01:52, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Individual people aren't typically listed in such broad ethnolinguistic groups. Arctic Circle System (talk) 06:36, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, we do not have container categories for women by broad ethnolinguistic group. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:14, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete. Language family is good for sorting ethnic groups but not individual people. Place Clichy (talk) 14:28, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete I do not think we should sort women by language family. Women by language on the other hand might work as a container category, for that language women writers and maybe other categories where the instersection of language and role is defining. However since that is mainly just for writers in a lot of ways I do not think we really even need women by language, and just x-language women writers might work. The fact that most x-language writers are really just "x-language writers in countries where x-language is not dominant" makes this sorting a bit odd even. Regardless, this category is clearly not needed.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:08, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • delete per above --Lenticel (talk) 01:22, 7 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Iranic people

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Category:History of Pattani

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:History of Patani. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 01:52, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Same subject, should be merged as such or deleted entirely given that the one page in this category is in Category:South Thailand insurgency which is already in the relevant category. Arctic Circle System (talk) 06:30, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Adult filicides

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The result of the discussion was: Merge * Pppery * it has begun... 03:32, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Do we really need to have both adult and child filicide subcats? SMasonGarrison 05:44, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge in the spirit of WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:26, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep Yes it's needed because otherwise several adult deaths almost certainly will end up categorized under "child murder". It's just easier to split the two and keep the child murder parent category on Category:Child filicides. There are so many enough cases of each that both categories have more than enough articles. A merge would only cause issues and solve nothing.★Trekker (talk) 08:42, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge: Children have their own subcategory. I don't see why upmerging the adults will result in them being categorised wrong. Mclay1 (talk) 05:58, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Portuguese criminals by crime

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:34, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: redundant category layer SMasonGarrison 05:28, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • There are now three subcategories instead of one. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:32, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep Three child categories, and almost certainly room for expansion.★Trekker (talk) 08:43, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Singaporean people convicted of fraud

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The result of the discussion was: keep. SMasonGarrison 05:19, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: dual upmerge for now (also to Singaporean fraudsters). underpopulated category SMasonGarrison 05:08, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
nvrmind. I found a 2nd person SMasonGarrison 05:18, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:People convicted of embezzlement by nationality

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The result of the discussion was: Merge * Pppery * it has begun... 03:32, 24 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: redundant category layer SMasonGarrison 04:16, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. I guess the subcategory can be merged too. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:36, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge and upmerge child cat as well. The parent category only has about 75 articles. That is not enough to justify dividing by nationality.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:01, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
  • Adding subcat below. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:35, 6 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:War historians

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:33, 13 January 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: All the sub categories in this can also be found under Category:Military historians, mainly in Category:Military historians by war. The only article in the category I already moved to the specific wars he wrote about (WW1 and WW2). HighlandFacts (talk) 03:22, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Politicians of Taiwan

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