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The result of the discussion was: Merge/delete/split Timrollpickering (talk) 18:27, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

• REDIRECT Propose merging Category:1520s in Mexico to Category:1520s in New Spain
• Propose deleting Category:1520s disestablishments in Mexico
• REDIRECT Propose merging Category:1520s establishments in Mexico to Category:1520s establishments in New Spain
• REDIRECT Propose merging Category:1530s in Mexico to Category:1530s in New Spain
• REDIRECT Propose merging Category:1530s disestablishments in Mexico to Category:1530s disestablishments in New Spain
• REDIRECT Propose merging Category:1530s establishments in Mexico to Category:1530s establishments in New Spain
• REDIRECT Propose merging Category:1540s in Mexico to Category:1540s in New Spain
• REDIRECT Propose merging Category:1540s establishments in Mexico to Category:1540s establishments in New Spain

• REDIRECT Propose splitting Category:16th century in Mexico to Category:16th century in New Spain and Category:16th century in North America
• REDIRECT Propose merging Category:16th-century establishments in Mexico to Category:16th-century establishments in New Spain
• Propose merging Category:16th-century disestablishments in Mexico to Category:16th-century disestablishments in North America
• REDIRECT Propose merging Category:17th century in Mexico to Category:17th century in New Spain
• REDIRECT Propose merging Category:17th-century establishments in Mexico to Category:17th-century establishments in New Spain
• REDIRECT Propose merging Category:18th century in Mexico to Category:18th century in New Spain
• REDIRECT Propose merging Category:18th-century establishments in Mexico to Category:18th-century establishments in New Spain

Nominator's rationale: merge (or delete one, split one) per precedent Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_November_6. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:03, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

• Merge or Delete Mexico at the time was often used as a synonym of New Spain, since Mexico City was the capital.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:44, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

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The result of the discussion was: Delete most; no consensus for Category:William Borah, Category:Rufus King, Category:Horace Mann, and Category:Samuel J. Tilden Timrollpickering (talk) 18:31, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

Propose deleting (63 in total):

• Category:Abigail Spanberger
• Category:Carl Albert
• Category:Carl Hayden
• Category:Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
• Category:Charles Curtis
• Category:Charles Rangel
• Category:Chris Smith (New Jersey politician)
• Category:Chuck Grassley

Nominator's rationale: VLWABC (talk · contribs) was recently-exposed as a prolific sockpuppet of blocked user Vinnylospo (talk · contribs), and both accounts created many eponymous categories on politicians and populated them with articles that are tangentially related to but not defined by the politician per WP:NONDEFINING and WP:OCEPON (and both were warned multiple times about over-categorization). Examples include elections and events the subject participated in as one of many people, electoral districts represented, groups the subject is/was a member of, or miscellany such as family members, namesakes, or media mentions of the subject, making them overcategorization by WP:ASSOCIATEDWITH or WP:SHAREDNAME as well. If these eponymous categories were purged of non-defining elements, the few remaining arguably directly related articles such as Lindsey Graham 2016 presidential campaign in Category:Lindsey Graham are not numerous enough to warrant a dedicated category per WP:OCEPON. --Animalparty! (talk) 20:34, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

• Delete These categories are not justified.John Pack Lambert (talk) 21:47, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:26, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

Selective Delete but keep Category:William Borah, Category:Rufus King, Category:Horace Mann, and Category:Samuel J. Tilden as there are more than enough articles to justify a category once the tangential ones are removed.--User:Namiba 17:45, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

Selective Delete per @Namiba, but also keep Category:Lindsey Graham who just had another article created today; should be enough to justify a category in addition to the article about his Presidential campaign and whatever other articles would belong there. RachelTensions (talk) 23:01, 13 July 2026 (UTC)

Comment - don't disagree with any of these but believe there is a case generally for including a politician's constituency in a category named after them. I propose also deleting Category:Torsten Bell, Category:Chris Bryant, and Category:Lisa Nandy. OGBC1992 (talk) 09:45, 30 July 2026 (UTC)

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 17:45, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

• Propose deleting Category:Neurotype (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Unclear what should contain it/redundant. It says the main articles are Neurotype (a redirect to Neurodiversity) and Autism, which categories already exist for.

All pages included are just about autism and neurodivergence. There's no evidence that I can see that neurotypes are discussed as a separate topic on Wikipedia. Just to mention, but I removed a few pages from this category before I discovered it. Unsure if this qualifies for deletion, but I would like to discuss this. 🫀 Crash // Organhaver ( it / he | talk to me, maybe? ) 16:42, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

• Delete per WP:OVERLAPCAT. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:12, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
• Delete per WP:OVERLAPCAT. Also the parent categories of cat:Neurotype are/were all wrong, which is why I'm removing a lot of them (even if we keep cat:Neurotype) Mitch Ames (talk) 08:18, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 17:45, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

• Propose merging Category:Child monarchs from sub-Saharan Africa to Category:Child monarchs from Africa

Nominator's rationale: Highly overlapping categories. We don't have a monarchs from sub-Saharan Africa category. ^SMason_Garrison 15:07, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Merge per nom. LincolnMagnus (talk) 17:42, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:18, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:06, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

• Propose deleting Category:Greatest Nine video games (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Only contains two articles. (Oinkers42) (talk) 11:39, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Delete- is there a magazine article or something that this was originally citing, or a publisher/developer? LincolnMagnus (talk) 17:43, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

• Delete for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:14, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:06, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

• Propose deleting Category:Nanashi no Game (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Only contains one article. (Oinkers42) (talk) 11:09, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

• Delete for now, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:15, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:06, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

• Propose merging Category:Fictional canaries to Category:Fictional birds
• Propose merging Category:Fictional turkeys to Category:Fictional birds and Category:Turkeys in popular culture

Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT. Big Bird also seems... miscategorized. The canary thing is from a single producer and doesn't speak for Sesame Street canon as a whole. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 11:08, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Merge per nom, plus at least one dubious non-work inclusion. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:07, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

• Merge These are too narrow categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:29, 12 July 2026 (UTC)

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The result of the discussion was: merge Category:Anthropomorphic penguins to Category:Anthropomorphic birds. No consensus regarding Category:Fictional penguins. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 19:54, 26 July 2026 (UTC)

• Propose merging Category:Anthropomorphic penguins to Category:Anthropomorphic birds
• Propose merging Category:Fictional penguins to Category:Fictional birds and Category:Penguins in popular culture

Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT, most entries are redirects or only superficially resembling a penguin. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 11:03, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Keep Category:Fictional penguins - I think there are just enough characters in the Category:Anthropomorphic penguins category to warrant the category's existence. Chilly Willy, Gus & Waldo, and Opus the Penguin all fit (The Pondus Penguin fits too, but I feel like that should be deleted). I wouldn't even necessarily rule out Prinny or Delibird either, as they are clearly based on penguins. Category:Anthropomorphic penguins can then be merged as a near WP:OVERLAPCAT. (Oinkers42) (talk) 11:19, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

Support per Oinkers42 reasoning. Category needs cleaning but is large enough WinstonDewey (talk) 16:28, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Fictional mammals. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 01:44, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

• Merge Category:Fictional warthogs to Category:Fictional mammals

• Nominator's rationale Although this is a sub-cat of fictional pigs, I do not think that is a good place to merge it. We only have 3 articles (and that is it, not even a redirect) so it is too narrow to keep. I think mammals is where this goes. I would not oppose the pigs target, but I do not think most people would feel in fiction it belongs there. I think for fictional non-human characters we should split by Birds, reptiles, mammals, amphibians, insects and a few other such broad categories, and then specifics like monkeys, horses, piggs, etc. We should avoid intermediate taxon, especially ones that are not generally used in the language of the works themselves. We also should use popular and used names in the works, even when they are not taxinomiacally precise.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:52, 2 July 2026 (UTC)
• Merge to Category:Fictional pigs instead. When combined with the contents of that category, it would cease to be a narrow intersection. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 10:51, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

  Support WinstonDewey (talk) 16:44, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

• Merge to Category:Fictional mammals, warthogs are different species than the pig. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:23, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

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• I'm fine with just merging to fictional mammals. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 11:12, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

  Agreed, unless we have any doubt as to Fictional ungulates not being upmerged there as well. WinstonDewey (talk) 15:47, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Works about ferrets. (non-admin closure) toby ^(t)(rw) 23:54, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

• Delete Category:Fictional ferrets

• Nominator's rationale All 8 articles and even the 1 redirect are works not characters. So we have nothing in this category that is a fictional ferret, only works that include a ferret.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:35, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

  Delete per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:10, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

• Possibly rename to Category:Works about ferrets. But this is no oppose. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:12, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

  That is acceptable as well, and probably preferable. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:21, 2 July 2026 (UTC)

• Comment I would not object to renaming to works about ferrets. We clearly do not need this category as is.John Pack Lambert (talk) 18:37, 2 July 2026 (UTC)
• Rename to works about ferrets and reparent. None are about characters. PARAKANYAA (talk) 16:43, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). toby ^(t)(rw) 23:52, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

• Propose deleting Category:People associated with the New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated category, delete for now ^SMason_Garrison 21:05, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

The reason this category is yet to have many folk added to it is because New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy of Science is the result of the merger of many New Zealand government research organisations included Landcare Research, Scion, AgResearch, and Plant & Food Research. There have been many redundancies as a result of this merger and as a result I and other New Zealand Wiki folk have been waiting until the websites relating to the NZBSI were updated to confirm folk who need to be in this category are employed by the NZBSI. I'm happy to spend some time this afternoon populating it. All the best Ambrosia10 (talk) 21:56, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

• If populated, then rename to Category:New Zealand Institute for Bioeconomy Science people as the standard format of people by employer. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:57, 4 July 2026 (UTC)

Note that this organisation has employees, but it's various parts have also previously hosted students, etc. Those students were also associated with a university, since it's not a degree-granting institution. Stuartyeates (talk) 04:38, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

• That is not a defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:46, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

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• The category has not been populated any further, so delete. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:39, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

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The result of the discussion was: reverse merge. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 03:26, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

• Propose merging Category:History of the Tumbuka people to Category:Tumbuka history

Nominator's rationale: These two recently created categories were created about the same time and seem redundant. Not sure which to merge into which. Gjs238 (talk) 14:12, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

• Reverse merge (or else merge) per article title History of the Tumbuka people. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:21, 3 July 2026 (UTC)

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MErge to Category:History of the Tumbuka people. In addition, a bulk CfD will be needed to standardize all category names in Category:History by ethnic group. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:00, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 01:43, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

• Propose merging Category:Belarusian anti-imperialists to Category:European anti-imperialists

Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated category, upmerge for now. ^SMason_Garrison 00:10, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

• Decategorize the only item there, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya as not supported by article text. --Altenmann >talk 00:25, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
• Delete per Altenmann. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:24, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
• Delete per Altenmann. More and more and more WP:OVERCAT. —Biosketch (talk) 02:49, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
• Delete per Altenmann. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:06, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

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The result of the discussion was: delete. I've dispersed everything before deleting. Please nominate categories as you see fit, just because one category is being solved doesn't mean others won't be eventually. Sennecaster (Chat) 18:29, 1 August 2026 (UTC)

• Propose merging Category:Jewish anti-imperialists to Category:Anti-imperialists

Nominator's rationale: I'm not sure how this intersection between religion/ethnicity and politcial orentaiton is defining, under WP:EGRS. ^SMason_Garrison 00:06, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

• disperse per citizenship. No need to clutter the topmost category. --Altenmann >talk 00:21, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
• BTW, shall we mark Category:Anti-imperialists as diffusing ? --Altenmann >talk 00:21, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
• Keep; unless all subcategories under Category:Jews by political orientation are deleted or merged, there is no reason to remove only Category:Jewish anti-imperialists. ProgramT (talk) 01:09, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
• Disperse per citizenship per Altenmann. Never-ending WP:OVERCAT... —Biosketch (talk) 02:51, 11 July 2026 (UTC)
• The first four articles are already in the tree of Category:Anti-imperialists by nationality, the last two articles do not belong there so these two should be moved to Category:Anti-imperialists manually after which the category can be deleted. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:08, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

  I don’t understand why only Category:Jewish anti-imperialists needs to be removed. In that case, the following categories also need to be removed:

  • Category:Jewish anarchists
  • Category:Jewish anti-communists
  • Category:Jewish communists
  • Category:Jewish eugenicists
  • Category:Jewish fascists
  • Category:Jewish anti-imperialists
  • Category:Jewish pacifists
  • Category:Jewish socialists

  ProgramT (talk) 05:30, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

  • By all means nominate these too. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:41, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

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