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Category:Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions)

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Category:Massacres of Hazara people

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Category:Cornish-Australian culture

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 03:06, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Though it's supposed to be about Cornish culture in Australia specifically, in practice it is about the Cornish diaspora in Australia. Arctic Circle System (talk) 21:14, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Dancers from Tbilisi

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Category:Wonder Woman video games

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 03:06, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: None of these games are primarily about Wonder Woman. I don’t think this needs to be merged to any of the parent categories. (Oinkers42) (talk) 19:32, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:1950 Thai novels

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 18:56, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: "by year" container category consisting of one subcategory containing one article. Created today. Οἶδα (talk) 18:43, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge/delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:37, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment The country was Siam before 1939. If kept the first three need renaming and if not the targets need to shift to Year in Siam. Timrollpickering (talk) 11:40, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge to Thailand or Siam as appropriate. 1 article categories hinder navigation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:15, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:19th-century Trinidad and Tobago medical doctors

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 18:55, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Nominator's rationale There is only 1 article in this category. This makes navigation to other articles harder. Merging to both parent categories will make navigation to other articles easier.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:53, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:38, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Campa languages

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 18:55, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: match main article 🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 17:06, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename for consistency. The main article was moved with minimal participation to the discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:09, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • rename per nom --Lenticel (talk) 07:39, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
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17th century in Australia and Oceania

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 18:56, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, isolated one- or two-articles categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:49, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge These are all too narrow of carltefories to aid navigation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:09, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Worcester, MA–CT metropolitan area

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The result of the discussion was: delete/merge. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 18:55, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: This category just groups two counties within Greater Boston. Worcester, MA-CT MSA redirects to Greater Boston. Even if it is still an existing statistical area, it's an unnecessary category considering we have no article about it. The county articles and subcategories are already categorised within Category:Greater Boston. Mclay1 (talk) 16:35, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:11, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete/Merge Maybe once upon a time this made sense as a separate metro, but it's fully part of the Boston area now. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:27, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:1st century in transport

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 18:54, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Isolated category. The sole member Nemi ships is within Category:Ancient shipwrecks, and I do not think any other merging to transport or chronological categories is needed. – Fayenatic London 15:56, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Government buildings of the Valencian Community

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Category:American artists by state

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:American artists by state or territory. Per consistency with similar container categories (non-admin closure) - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:32, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename per nom. There are a lot of these categories that need renaming. They should be bundled or speedied. Mclay1 (talk) 16:42, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
    I've added the rest of the subcats of Category:American people by occupation and state or territory as described in this nomination. Hope that's not overstepping. Everything else should be speedied. Οἶδα (talk) 18:13, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Support expanded nomination. I have to admit I am less than convinced it makes sense to sort diplomats by US state at all. Diplomats act as agents of the US government, not individual states. Mostly they do their work in either the greater Washington DC area or outside the US. So it really is not very meaninful which state they are from. On the other hand there are some lower level sub-categories of some of these like Category:American photographers by state that could be added.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:31, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment I added the 8 sub-cats of Category:American artists by state that use by state and so can be changed to by state or territory.John Pack Lambert (talk) 19:44, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
    Support. I'm in support of this renaming. It'll help make the category tree consistent, and not exclude other state-like entities (disctricts, terrorities, etc) SMasonGarrison 23:34, 19 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:American merchants by state

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 18:54, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Nominator's rationale We already have at least 2 categories clearly by state here. In other cases many of these people were actually mainly or fully operating when the place they operated was a territory. There is no good reason to split off by state from by territory for this occupation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:41, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename per C2C. Mclay1 (talk) 16:42, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • rename per above --Lenticel (talk) 08:00, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
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ISIL terrorist incidents

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The result of the discussion was: merge all as nominated. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 20:59, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: merge, only one or two articles in each of these categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:26, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
The rest is mostly covered in other categories or not sourced. Late Night Coffee (ping me) 03:05, 5 June 2026 (UTC)
No objection to clearing out any subcats that aren't backed up by reliable sources. RevelationDirect (talk) 00:28, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 14:16, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. If some of the articles are miscategorised, it doesn't make sense to keep the categories; they should be deleted. The articles can be purged now and the empty categories deleted, or they can be purged after merging. Mclay1 (talk) 16:40, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
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Years in Afghanistan

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:55, 21 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, isolated mostly single-article categories, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:04, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Fictional haunted houses

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus for merge. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 12:07, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Overly diffused subcategory. Luckily, all 5 of these pages are ficitonal elements and not works. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 01:59, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge especially since some of these are redirects not articles.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:11, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep It's very, very likely the Overlook Hotel is notable, and the article just needs to be rewritten. I have also added The Haunted Mansion and refined the categorization of Phantom Manor, as they have fictional storylines in which they are in-universe haunted houses despite also being attractions. I think that overall, the amount of articles prevents it from being called a NARROWCAT, and there's also the probable notability of Baker House (Resident Evil) if I went back to improve it further. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:11, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
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  • Keep I don't that this this is "overly diffused". Haunted house is a notable subject in itself, not a random combination of features.★Trekker (talk) 17:44, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Religious terminology

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Category:Centuries in Nassau, Bahamas

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The result of the discussion was: delete/merge. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 18:57, 15 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: per WP:NARROWCAT
Date categories are conceptually fine for cities and, for instance, the branch for New York City is generally well populated. But Nassau only has 300,000 people and, despite my best efforts, I'm struggling to fill out the Category:20th century in the Bahamas parent category. (No dual merge is needed because the 3 articles are already in the appropriate national date categories.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:31, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge/delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:31, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge and Delete per nom. I actually think for the most part we should not diffuse cities by time at all.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:11, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Official residences in the Bahamas

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The result of the discussion was: alt merge as suggested by Marcocapelle. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:08, 18 July 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose Renaming Category:Residential buildings in Suriname to Category:Houses in Suriname
Nominator's rationale: per WP:NARROWCAT and WP:OVERCAT
For each of these countries, English Wikipedia only has one house article so far (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) but we have multiple categories per article. This proposal would categorize each article in "Category:Houses in Foo", which would still only have 1 article per cat but that seems more reasonable for smaller countries. (As always with narrowcat, no objection to recreating any of these later if multiple new articles appear.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:31, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Alt merge to Category:Official residences in North America and [Category:Buildings and structures in country] [Category:Residential buildings in country] because the Houses categories are equally poorly populated. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:35, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
    Sure we could keep going and get rid of the house cats too for now. But for the 2nd merge target, except for Suriname, the next layer up with another article or subcategory is "Residential buildings in Foo". RevelationDirect (talk) 10:21, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Tagged House Cats All the "Houses in Foo" categories have also been tagged to give us more flexibility with possible outcomes. - RevelationDirect (talk) 10:16, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
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Centuries in religions

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Category:Hungarian jazz vibraphonists

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Jazz vibraphonists. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 04:11, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: underpopulated category, upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 02:09, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: if merge, dual or single merge?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, GoldRomean (talk) 00:04, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Single Merge Per Marcocapelle, but with no objection to future recreation if multiple articles are published. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:24, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
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Thonburi Kingdom

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 04:10, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: merge, per WP:OCYEAR, only a few articles in all year and decade categories together, this is not helpful for navigation. Category:Thonburi Kingdom is not needed as a second merge target because all articles are already in Category:Wars involving the Thonburi Kingdom. Note that the Thonburi Kingdom was a short-living kingdom anyway: 1767 to 1782. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:21, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
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  • Merge for Now with no objections to future recreation if many additional articles are ever published. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:22, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht

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Canada's Drag Race episodes

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:00, 18 July 2026 (UTC)

Nominator's rationale: Each sub category only contains around 3 or 4 episodes, with the other episodes from each season not having enough notability to exist as stand alone articles. Also, in comparison to the Category:RuPaul's Drag Race episodes which has way more seasons and way more episodes, Canada's Drag Race episodes will not be overpopulated without the sub categories. The other categories being upmerged into, Canadian television episodes per year and LGBTQ-related television episodes per year are also not overly populated, plus the most recent three seasons of Canada's Drag Race have aired in multiple calendar years, so those episodes are already in the individual Canadian and LGBTQ-related television episode categories. HighlandFacts (talk)

  • Oppose Firstly, three is more than enough for a category, secondly I'm not sure why you believe that the episodes of Canada's Drag Race are less notable than the ones from the US version. To compare, at this point Canada's Drag Race season 3 was in 2002 as was RPDR season 14. (Category:RuPaul's Drag Race season 14 episodes) currently has mainspace articles for 11 of the 16 episodes and CDR 3 currently has 4 of 9. But I see nothing indicating that they are inherently less notable.Naraht (talk) 21:31, 19 May 2026 (UTC)
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  • Support. Three is not "more than enough for a category". That leaves one season subcategory with 4 articles. Keeping that one wouldn't improve navigation between the adjacent articles. Once upmerged, Canada's Drag Race episodes would contain 15 articles, which is not so large as to require diffusion. Especially when that diffusion results in these narrow categories with few members. Οἶδα (talk) 18:24, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
  • These are just going to be recreated as more episode articles are created. We already went through the process of deleting and then recreating all of the Drag Race (U.S.) episode categories. I'd be fine if these were kept. ---Another Believer (Talk) 14:45, 30 June 2026 (UTC)
    WP:CRYSTAL. Yes deleted categories are free to be recreated when more articles exist to be grouped. But we don't categorize based on predictions of such a future. We categorize by what exists right now. Οἶδα (talk) 23:23, 3 July 2026 (UTC)
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