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Category:Given names of South Africa

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 00:15, 14 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Redundant category. ForsythiaJo (talk) 23:49, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Tribal Arab personality

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 22:34, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Recently created 2-article category with uncertain and unclear scope. Gjs238 (talk) 21:44, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Veterans of the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:34, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose deleting Category:Veterans of the 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Military personnel not categorized by unit. Gjs238 (talk) 21:38, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete we do not categorize military personnel by unit.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:26, 7 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose: It doesn't cause less precision. Why can't we categprize personnel by unit? What great harm does it do? Boo Boo (talk) 16:31, 7 June 2026 (UTC)
    • The category is currently uncategorized. You could categorize the category to test the concept. Gjs238 (talk) 18:18, 7 June 2026 (UTC)
      I do not understand your comment. I might be missing something. What do you mean "categorize the category"? Can you please tell me more? Boo Boo (talk) 22:27, 7 June 2026 (UTC)
      • @Hhfjbaker: it does not have any parent categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:43, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
        Okay, thanks! Boo Boo (talk) 00:44, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
      • As a courtesy, I just added the following as parent categories: Union Army personnel and Massachusetts Civil War people. These appear at the bottom of the page but feel free to pick better ones. RevelationDirect (talk) 11:15, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
        Thank you! Boo Boo (talk) 00:45, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete Expanding out this approach would lead to category clutter because soldiers are often switched between multiple units: Adin Ballou Underwood also fought with the Massachusetts 33rd and XI Corps, George Leonard Andrews with the 4th Brigade and XIX Corps, and Samuel Miller Quincy with the 73rd African American regiment. - RevelationDirect (talk) 11:09, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
    • Exactly. For some career military personnel this could get to a lot of duplicate categories. This is not the way we want to go.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:07, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
      Respectfully disagree Boo Boo (talk) 00:46, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
      For the bulk of the regiments in the American Civil War, there were few career soldiers. Most returned to civilian life when the war was over. It is interesting how many, especially in the U.S. Volunteer army were movers and shakers in later life in a wide variety of fields. That is why I think it is a worthwhile category. Boo Boo (talk) 00:49, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Jones family (Glamorgan Shipping Magnates)

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Jones family (Glamorgan shipping magnates); no consensus to delete or convert into an article. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 23:33, 22 June 2026 (UTC)
Convert Category:Jones family (Glamorgan Shipping Magnates) to article Jones family (Glamorgan Shipping Magnates)
Nominator's rationale: This seems more like something that should be an article rather the a category. SMasonGarrison 00:03, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Do not Convert Category:Jones family (Glamorgan Shipping Magnates) to article Jones family (Glamorgan Shipping Magnates): Whereas there are multiple sources for the notability of each of the individual people in the category, there is only one short source for their shipping company M. Jones and Brothers. Yet that source of this family's wealth needs to appear in brackets in the category's name, to distinguish them from other Glamorgan families who have the surname Jones (which is a common surname in Wales). BritishColumbia789 (talk) 16:23, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete we do not need categories every time we have a handful of biographies of related people.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:17, 19 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose as Nominated If there are reliable secondary sources to establish notability for a main article, go ahead and boldly create it. We sometimes listify categories but this one seems beyond the remit of CFD. (No opinion on keeping the category.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:45, 23 May 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:People educated at girls' schools

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Category:21st-century cyber-broadcasters by nationality

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 June 26#Category:21st-century cyber-broadcasters by nationality

Early modern period in Brazil

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 18:35, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
More information 17th and 18th century ...
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Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, many isolated one- or two-articles categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:03, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge These categories are too narrow to aid navigation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:27, 7 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Roman Catholic bishops by religious order

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus for this proposal. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 13:53, 26 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: here belongs not only Roman Catholic bishops, but also Coptic Catholic, Maronite and members of other Catholic Churches sui iuris Noel baran (talk) 16:49, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
Oppose. No reason given why the scope of the articl should be expanded. Parallel categories for other catholic churches can be created if wanted (and numerous enough), but this one is part of Category:Roman Catholic bishops and evidentluy more than large enough to reman separate. Fram (talk) 09:43, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
It should be transferred to category Category:Catholic bishops, because pesons can be accepted into the Roman (Latin) Catholic orders, but them retain their rite. Parallel categories for other Catholic Churches not the case, because sometimes it will be one or two people. And the solution I have proposed will avoid inaccuracy. And it's strange that you wrote that no reason was given, when I explained it clearly. Noel baran (talk) 08:22, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
No, that was (and still isn't) clear. That non-Roman Catholic bishops may perhaps also belong to religious orders doesn't in any way invalidate the Roman Catholic bishop category or make it trivial. All it means is that a parent cat of Catholic bishops by religious order may be useful, where the Catholic but non-Roman Catholic bishops can be included. A nom should explain why this cat is unwanted, not why other articles could belong in similar cats as well. We don't apply the same reasoning to, say, Category:British politicians by occupation, claiming it is trivial or needs to be expanded because there are also non-British politicians with those occupations (or British non-politicians with these occupations, or British politicians with other occupations).
The current cats are well-populated and relevant (the religious order of religious bosses is a logical, pertinent division). you claim "the solution I have proposed will avoid inaccuracy. " but you haven't indicated any inaccuracy. if there are people in the categories who aren't Roman Catholic bishops or not from that otder, then they should be removed from that cat, just like we do with every cat. But the two aspects of the category are well defined and don't lead to inaccuracies.
"pesons can be accepted into the Roman (Latin) Catholic orders, but them retain their rite." But then they won't be Roman Catholic bishops of course. The category is for "Roman Catholic bishops" (characteristic number one) by "religious order" (characteristic number two), and you are arguing about "non-Roman Catholic bishops" (different characteristic number 1" by "Roman Catholic religious order", which is simply not the same thing.
Again, nothing stops you or anyone else from creating e.g. "Maronite bishops by religious order", assuming there are enough of them to make such a tree worthwhile. But the existence or non-existence of that cat does not make this one any more or less accurate or acceptable. Fram (talk) 08:45, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
Thank you for your extensive explanation. You are right that the category is correct for Roman Catholic bishops, members of religious orders. I don't see any other practical solution yet, but thank you for crystallizing it. Noel baran (talk) 09:01, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
  • If all Catholic religious orders are open to members of all Catholic autonomous churches then you could argue that this is a trivial intersection, but I do not know if this condition is met. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:51, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Coasts of South Asia

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:59, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose deleting Category:East Coast of India
  • Propose deleting Category:West Coast of India
  • Propose deleting Category:South Coast of India
  • Propose deleting Category:East Coast of South Asia
  • Propose deleting Category:West Coast of South Asia
  • Propose deleting Category:Coasts of South Asia
  • Propose deleting Category:Coasts of Asia by region
Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary category layers. There are no eponymous articles for these categories. The contents are already sufficiently categorised elsewhere. Mclay1 (talk) 13:31, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 16:15, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Cluster of by-year categories, created scattershot for just one or two films each. Per longstanding consensus (see also Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_June_14#LGBT-related_films_by_year), LGBTQ-related films are subcatted by individual year only from 1960 on, but by decade for the 1950s and before, because the number of notable LGBTQ-related films produced before 1960 just wasn't sufficient to warrant by-year categories.
From 1960 on, there's not a single year whose category has less than five films in it, and not a single year where a category has had to be skipped due to the total lack of even one film to file in it -- but before 1960, there were some years when no notable LGBTQ-related films were released at all, and some years where there were only one or two films to file in a by-year category. But this isn't a tree where small categories or completely skipped years would be valuable -- it's a tree where no by-year categories should exist unless the entire decade can be justifiably split into by-year categories with no skips and no small categories.
Even the LGBTQ-related film lists are only handled by year from 1960 on, and by decade prior to the 1960s, precisely because for most years prior to 1960 a year-specific list would be either too small to stand alone, or would not exist at all due to there being no films to list.
So there's no value in scattershotting by-year categories with skipped years here: any year whose LGBTQ-related films are listed in a subsection of a by-decade list instead of a standalone by-year list should also be categorized by decade instead of by year, because small categories and completely-skipped years aren't useful here and don't aid navigation. Bearcat (talk) 15:12, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Author: It's true that by the time this discussion was created, there were fewer movies in each category. However, in some cases that has changed now. For example, theres 7 articles in Category:1933 LGBTQ-related films and 4 articles in Category:1929 LGBTQ-related films. I agree some of the categories have fewer articles than what I anticipated and they can be merged.
👁 Ceaseless Watcher 👁 17:29, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nomination. Οἶδα (talk) 16:19, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, there are only some 20 articles per decade in this period, this does not need diffusion. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:09, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Foothill High School (Orange County, California) alumni

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The result of the discussion was: merge and rename as suggested by Marcocapelle. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 20:43, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: duplicate of Category:Foothill High School (Santa Ana, California) alumni Joeykai (talk) 12:08, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
Merge but rename to Foothill High School (Orange County, California) SLIDD (talk) 14:24, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Community railway lines in the United Kingdom

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Category:Establishments in the Confederate States of America

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:56, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose deleting Category:Establishments in the Confederate States of America (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:01, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. The subcategory is already sufficiently categorised and there is no corresponding Category:Disestablishments in the Confederate States of America. Mclay1 (talk) 14:38, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Burials in the Kingdom of Northumbria

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:56, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: We don't categorise people based which country they were buried in at the time they died. The two subcategories for the abbeys/cemeteries are already in categories for the current places they are in. Mclay1 (talk) 08:05, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Burials in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:56, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: These articles are about burial places. "Burials in" categories are supposed to be for people buried in a place. Mclay1 (talk) 07:58, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Tombs in South Korea

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:58, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge/delete redundant category layers. Mclay1 (talk) 07:53, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Burials in Florence

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:56, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Per previous CfD consensus, Category:Burials by populated place categories are supposed to be containers in the form "Burials in X by place", with no people categorised directly in the category for the city. Category:Burials in Florence by place already exists and should be placed directly in the merge targets. I purged the handful of articles that were directly in Category:Burials in Florence. Mclay1 (talk) 07:41, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Yugoslavia redundant category layers

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:58, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge/delete redundant category layers with only one subcategory. Not helpful for navigation. Also delete two categories that contain only subcategories for the present countries that were part of Yugoslavia with no content related only to Yugoslavia, which is not how any other Yugoslav categories are structured. Mclay1 (talk) 07:29, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:History by topic and former country

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 06:45, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge unnecessary category layer. Mclay1 (talk) 06:38, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Economic history of the Soviet Union

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 06:45, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: The Soviet Union no longer exists so everything about its economy is history. Category:Economy of the Soviet Union is already in economic history categories. This is the only remaining "Economic history" category for a former country. Mclay1 (talk) 06:33, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:57, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge/delete unnecessary category layers. Mclay1 (talk) 06:17, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:History of the Confederate States of America

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Category:Radio stations in the Milwaukee metropolitan area

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 18:06, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Redundant category Mvcg66b3r (talk) 03:35, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose. How is it redundant? No clear rationale has been given. The places in the Milwaukee metropolitan area are not all in Milwaukee so the direction of this merge doesn't make sense. Mclay1 (talk) 09:20, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Background: We use headers in categories sometimes to help clarify the contents but in this topic area they often contradict the actual article title; see the top of Category:Radio stations in Pittsburgh for one I haven't gotten to yet. That just doesn't follow current WP:CATNAME best practices. To fix that, I've been clearing similar headers and creating clearly named metro level parent categories. - RevelationDirect (talk) 14:39, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose Readers will more intuitively understand where to find suburban stations following the pre-existing city/metro parent categories trees we use for countless other topics. - RevelationDirect (talk) 14:39, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Reverse merge the metro is defining, not the exact municipality.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:08, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Reverse merge per JPL; in this case nearly every station mentioned in this category has a presence somewhere in Milwaukee County outside the K-LOVE and other remotely-managed religious stations. Nathannah • 📮 23:11, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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  • Information Note: I've tagged the target articles as well since a reverse merge has been proposed and seriously considered. Staraction (talk · contribs) 05:22, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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  • @Mvcg66b3r, Mclay1, and RevelationDirect: what do you think of the reverse merge alternative? See also the relistings below. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:19, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
    I don't know enough about the topic to know if the city subcategory is needed. A cursory glance at the contents shows that they are based in the city. RevelationDirect created the category so I'll defer to them. Also, I didn't get a notification for this ping, so the others might not have either. Pinging again: User:Mvcg66b3r, User:RevelationDirect. Mclay1 (talk) 06:24, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
    I'm respectfully opposed. I appreciate Johnpacklambert's perspective that all of these stations broadcast beyond city lines and I would generally start with the metro category and diffuse as needed, including to potentially county cats. But for large trees like this, the metro/city pairing are both defining which is why we also categorize newpspapers and companies in general based on the city of their main office even though they do business in a wider area. RevelationDirect (talk) 10:19, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Burial sites of the Chosroid dynasty

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 15:57, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge single-article categories and delete redundant category layers. Mclay1 (talk) 05:14, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Radio stations in Greater Austin

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus (non-admin closure). Compare also with this other discussion with a slightly more elaborate discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:16, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Redundant category Mvcg66b3r (talk) 03:36, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose. How is it redundant? No clear rationale has been given. The places in Greater Austin are not all in Austin so the direction of this merge doesn't make sense. Mclay1 (talk) 09:20, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Background: We use headers in categories sometimes to help clarify the contents but in this topic area they often contradict the actual article title; see the top of Category:Radio stations in Pittsburgh for one I haven't gotten to yet. That just doesn't follow current WP:CATNAME best practices. To fix that, I've been clearing similar headers and creating clearly named metro level parent categories. - RevelationDirect (talk) 14:39, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose Readers will more intuitively understand where to find suburban stations following the pre-existing city/metro parent categories trees we use for countless other topics. - RevelationDirect (talk) 14:39, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Reverse merge being in Greater Austin is defining. The exact Municipality of location is not.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:06, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
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  • Information Note: I've tagged the target articles as well since a reverse merge has been proposed and seriously considered. Staraction (talk · contribs) 05:22, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Radio stations in Norfolk, Virginia

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus (non-admin closure). Compare also with this other discussion with a slightly more elaborate discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:19, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Redundant category Mvcg66b3r (talk) 03:40, 9 May 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:26, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Marcocapelle (talk) 05:02, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Religion in Botswana

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. Marcocapelle's suggestion has been manually done. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 16:00, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge/delete redundant category layers. Mclay1 (talk) 04:41, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Cyber-broadcasters

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Category:Environmental law schools

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 01:10, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose Deleting Category:Environmental law schools
Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING
We have a number of law schools that offer environmental law classes, law clinics, or clubs. But schools like Yale Law School and UCLA School of Law also have many other areas of study so this isn't defining to the whole institution. This seems akin to a category for undergrad colleges that offer a French major. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:02, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. We do not categorize schools by one of the many programs they offer. None of these are described as being "Environmental law schools". Οἶδα (talk) 02:49, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:29, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:IEEE Student Branch

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 01:10, 13 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose Deleting Category:IEEE Student Branch
Nominator's rationale: Per the spirit of WP:C1, an empty category
We don't have a single article about a student branch of the IEEE. Rather, the only article here is Pensacola Christian College, which has a variety of student organizations and activities including this engineering club. Categorizing whole colleges by each group on campus is not defining and I don't think individual student branches are notable enough for stand-alone articles. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:02, 6 June 2026 (UTC)
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