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Category:Environmental organizations based in Cape Verde

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) 18:51, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 23:20, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge 1 article categories hinder navigation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:25, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, these are not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:37, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, underpopulated. -- Just N. (talk) 21:15, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Public utilities by region

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Liz Read! Talk! 19:09, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer. Upmerge for now SMasonGarrison 23:12, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • The only article is about a business association rather than about a company, I moved it to Category:Energy business associations and Category:Energy in the Caribbean. The nominated category is empty now. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:45, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment It seems that nearly nobody in English Wikipedia is really interested in the topic Public utilities companies. So a category that should have potential is not filled at all. -- Just N. (talk) 21:20, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete category for lack of interest by Wikipedians. An empty cat serves nobody. -- Just N. (talk) 21:23, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Dances of the United States

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 18:51, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Redundant category. ForsythiaJo (talk) 22:49, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, overlapping scope. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:51, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, of course nothing else makes sense. -- Just N. (talk) 21:26, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Screenshots of Xbox Series X/S games

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 18:52, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: For consistency with other subcategories of Screenshots of video games and Xbox Series X and Series S. thejiujiangdragon 🔥🐉 22:06, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename per nom, for sake of consistency. -- Just N. (talk) 21:28, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Jatiya Sangsad

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 March 23#Category:Jatiya Sangsad

Category:Southwest India

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 March 23#Category:Southwest India

Category:Portuguese in Kerala

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 March 27#Category:Portuguese in Kerala

Category:Guyana–Soviet Union relations

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Liz Read! Talk! 22:52, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Category containing only a single subcategory which itself contains only a single article about a non-resident ambassador. Not helpful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 19:14, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:55, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete both per nom. LibStar (talk) 05:06, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete as lacking any contents that are appropriate to the categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:40, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete both per above. -- Just N. (talk) 21:48, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Ambassadors of Bolivia to the Soviet Union

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 18:52, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Category containing only a single article, unhelpful for navigation. AusLondonder (talk) 19:02, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge as nominated. The 1 article is in another Ambassadors of Bolivia Category so we do not need to merge to that parent.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:28, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. LibStar (talk) 04:48, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:56, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. For the sole reason that nearly nobody in English Wikipedia is interested in writing/translating articles about Soviet ambassadors. -- Just N. (talk) 21:51, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Dimes Square

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:45, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: This list of people can be listified at Dimes Square. Gjs238 (talk) 18:07, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
So? Aren’t templates also important for that as well Aradicus77 (talk) 20:14, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
Keep There are several figures associated with the Dimes Square scene, the category hasn't even fully encompassed all the artists in the scene yet, which I will add right now. It should be renamed to "Dimes Square artists" or "Dimes Square musicians". There is no rule for deleting a category for "micro-categorization". Dimes Square is a term used in culture mags like the Guardian and Dazed, and these notable people associated with the scene are being tagged with it. Aradicus77 (talk) 04:04, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Denmark–Uruguay sports relations

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 18:52, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Newly-created category containing only a single article about a football tournament in France in 2023 in which both Denmark and Uruguay participated. Also contains a subcategory which was created seven years ago and was added to this category unnecessarily four days ago. AusLondonder (talk) 16:45, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:00, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete The article does not belong in this category. We do not want to put tournaments in relations categories for every team that is present. What next, will we categorize as relations between all counties represented each event at the Olympics? Down that road lies madness. If an event had competitors from just 11 countries it would be in 100 categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:44, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. LibStar (talk) 06:11, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Of no reasonable interest for encyclopedia just as it is. -- Just N. (talk) 21:55, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Barbados–Poland relations

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Liz Read! Talk! 22:50, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Despite recent discussions here, another newly-created, severely underpopulated category containing no articles and only a subcategory for expatriate sportspeople which itself only contains a single article (which is in 11 expatriate-related categories). AusLondonder (talk) 16:40, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, relations categories should not exist if they just contain migrants/expatriates subcategories which are only tangentially related to the topic. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:02, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete second Marcocapelle's view that these categories need articles that actual discuss the mater as a topic, not just biographies ofp people who migrated from one place to another. We should only have categories when we have articles that discuss the topic.John Pack Lambert (talk) 23:54, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Ambassadors of Russia to Nicaragua

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The result of the discussion was: speedy deleted per C2F. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:56, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Contains only a single list article and Category:Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to Nicaragua which has recently been added to this category tree despite objection and itself only contains a single biography on an Estonian who was Soviet ambassador in the 1980s. AusLondonder (talk) 16:31, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete Ambassadors should only be classed as Ambassadors of the country they served, not as from other countries that succeeded or preceded the country they served.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:30, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per all above. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:04, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Films directed by Farhan Rana Rajpoot

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 18:52, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Category is only populated by a bogus entry, and the director in question has been deleted several times for not asserting notability, or being straight-out promotional. SarekOfVulcan (talk) 15:53, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. The only entry in this category is The Woman in Cabin 10 (film), which the person in question did not actually direct. That film's article has been spammed over the past week by a new user Bearcet and a series of temp accounts adding and readding the fake director's name. Reliable sources about this film say that there is only one director, Simon Stone. Astaire (talk) 16:02, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. I have also just removed this category from the above film article. DoubleCross (‡) 21:07, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Speedy delete per G3. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 05:57, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Jewish fascists

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The result of the discussion was: speedy keep. withdrawn, I'll just deal with this manually. (non-admin closure) PARAKANYAA (talk) 20:03, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection between ethnicity and ideology, for the same reason we deleted Category:Neo-Nazis of Jewish descent and Category:Jewish neo-Nazis. This category is a mixture of several things: religiously Jewish fascists, and ethnically Jewish fascists who are white supremacists and rejected Jewish identity and religion, e.g. Harold von Braunhut, Dan Burros, William Potter Gale. These two things are not the same at all, the second is not defining, and the category opens it up to both in combination. PARAKANYAA (talk) 15:34, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep. Yes defining. We have the whole Category:Fascists by nationality. Jews are special case due to their "exterritoriality" and mixed ethnoreligious definition, therefore Jews do not pegeonhole neatly into standard categories. Hence this category is, as you say, "the mixture", but all items are Jews, and it is a common denominator. I checked a couple of bios, and they are explicitely defined as fascists. It would be really weird to place, e.g., Abba Ahimeir into category "Russian fascists". --Altenmann >talk 15:46, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
    Jewish is not a nationality, also WP:OCEGRS. Several of these people are Jews only if we go by the "one drop rule" of anyone with any amount of Jewish ancestry being Jewish, even if they have no tie to the community at all, which is grossly inappropriate, and not all of them are defined as fascist. PARAKANYAA (talk) 15:54, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
    • If you do not like comparison with "Nationality" category, we have Category:People by ethnicity and political orientation. --Altenmann >talk 16:08, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
      Quite possibly all those categories are problematic too, as evidenced that out of the thousands of ethnicities in the world we only categorize by 5 random assortments - Jews, Chechens, Aromanians, Arabs, and Kurds. Not the sign of a consistent category system! PARAKANYAA (talk) 16:35, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
    • OCERGS spells an exception "unless that combination is recognized as a defining topic". "Jewih fascists" is a recognized topic. If you think some entries are inappropriate, you may remove them. --Altenmann >talk 16:04, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
      The sources there are about many different things, not one recognized topic. Jewish religious extremists, secular but nationalist Jews/extreme Zionists, and total rejectors of Jewish identity who we cannot actually define as "Jewish" per our category system. These are not at all the same thing.
      Removing the entries doesn't fix the category because it's a combination of many different things. Putting everyone in here with a Jewish grandparent who happens to be a white supremacist (of which we have several articles) is a violation and they will keep getting put in here. PARAKANYAA (talk) 16:31, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
      You know what, I'll just remove the non-Jewish ones with Jewish descent, and withdraw this. PARAKANYAA (talk) 20:02, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Surnames of Croatian origin

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The result of the discussion was: No consensus * Pppery * it has begun... 00:36, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Inclusion into the categories "Surnames of ... origin" is for surnames in cultures other than the origin. The content of this category is 100% match for the Category:Surnames by language for articles of this type.. --Altenmann >talk 15:15, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
Correction: not simply renamed, but Category:Croatian-language surnames must be defined in the standard way, see, eg., Category:Latvian-language surnames. And then content moved. --Altenmann >talk 15:19, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
We had several discussions about these a while back,
These categories are in fact by culture, because the standard language varieties are younger than the vast majority of the surnames. (Keep) --Joy (talk) 18:12, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
<he-he> I looked there and see "Propose renaming Category:Croatian-language surnames to Category:Surnames of Croatian origin" ; the result of the discussion was: "keep". So how come they ended up renamed into what we have now? <...> Ah, I see: freaking super-lightning-fast speedy! So I would say revert speedy rename of critical categories--Altenmann >talk 21:42, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
As you can see in the 2021 RfD, we used just "Croatian surnames" etc until that point in 2023. I searched in the history of CFDS and found the proposal which claimed C2C. It went unopposed and accepted a few days later. I don't know if CFDS should have some sort of an automated check for previous RfDs, but anyway, it wasn't really a critical difference compared to the language stuff from before. --Joy (talk) 22:14, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

See the discussion in the section below. --Altenmann >talk 21:33, 12 March 2026 (UTC)

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Category:Surnames of Serbian origin

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The result of the discussion was: No consensus * Pppery * it has begun... 00:36, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale:Inclusion into the categories "Surnames of ... origin" is for surnames in cultures other than the origin. The content of this category is 100% match for the Category:Surnames by language for articles of this type. --Altenmann >talk 15:12, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
Correction: not simply renamed, but Category:Serbian-language surnames must be defined in the standard way, see, eg., Category:Latvian-language surnames. And then content moved. --Altenmann >talk 15:19, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
Is there any reason for this section not to be merged with the above one? --Joy (talk) 18:14, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
The only reason is that I am not aware of sources that say Serbian-language surnames and Croatina-language surnames are the same, as well as other post-Yugoslav languages. Not to say, I would hate to start Balkan wars here. Adding insult to injury, 95% of them are unreferenced. Articles Serbian surname and Croatian surname do not make me wiser and in fact make me to rethink my proposals: there may surnames of definitely Serbian or Croatian origin: the toponymic ones, judging from ppalenames that were historicallyand firmly Croatian. But again, to make this judgement we need <sigh> RS.
So maybe you are right: put the all into Category:Serbo-Croatian-language surnames: Serbo-Croatian, also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a South Slavic language. --Altenmann >talk 21:32, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
There's ample documentation of these surnames appearing in these cultures, sometimes overlapping, sometimes not; the fact most surname pages are no more than navigation aids doesn't detract from that. This argument seems to boil down to "Wikipedia sucks, therefore let's burn it all down!". You didn't seem do much due diligence and appear to be shooting from the hip.
Because of the well-known controversy in the naming of Serbo-Croatian and the well-known propensity of editors to use Wikipedia as a battleground in this topic area, this change should absolutely not be done. This would waste so, so many of our volunteer man-hours if we were to do that. On top of that, we'd lose the existing level of granularity that we already accumulated over the years. So it's like waste on top of more waste. The thought of this fills me with dread. --Joy (talk) 22:26, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
WOW! Calm down. I simply misread your suggestion "Is there any reason for this section not to be merged with the above one?" - I mistook it for the suggestion to mere categories. As for "why not merge" - I had the same idea, but unlike AfD, in category pages the rename templates are not substed, so I canot easily make both of them point to the same discussion. You may try. --Altenmann >talk 00:36, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
P.S., when the dust settles, I wil place warnings on both categories to suggest speedy renaming of them. Or, if you woud like, we may request move protection, to avoid futher confusion. --Altenmann >talk 00:36, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
Regarding There's ample documentation of these surnames appearing in these cultures, well, as you put it, "Wikipedia sucks" If I were as vicious as you think, I would go around, slap {unreferenced} everywhere and after some time delete all text but lists. Speaking about "ample documentation", I have solid sources for Polish, Lithuanian, German, Yiddish, and Russian surnames (per my cultural origins:-). And whenever I run into one, I am adding a ref, like, e.g, here. If you point me at reliable refs to the "ample documentation" you mentioned, I will gladly use it for South Slavic surnames as well. --Altenmann >talk 00:36, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
We have in the past cited a local database called Acta Croatica, cf. They don't seem to be controversial. (Sometimes Wikipedia editors have cited them wrong and made overly generic claims based on them, but that's a separate issue). --Joy (talk) 22:52, 14 March 2026 (UTC)
@Joy:There is actacroatica.com (what is cited in wp) and Acta Croatica(Acta Croatica. Hrvatska enciklopedija, mrežno izdanje. Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, 2013). Any relation? I do not see any indication who are actacroatica.com and what is their relation to enciklopedija.hr.--Altenmann >talk 23:47, 14 March 2026 (UTC)
They appear to be two completely different things, yes. --Joy (talk) 08:27, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose this way, the language is Serbo-Croatian. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:11, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge both this one and Croatia into Category:Serbo-Croatian-language surnames, they share a common language, and there is a large overlap between the contents. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:49, 24 March 2026 (UTC)
    @LaundryPizza03 No, please don't merge just because of overlap, because we've spent literally decades tagging appropriately. I know that it's just gnome work, and of course it's fallible, but it's largely there already and there's no actual issues with it. Squashing it, just because we're here, and risking more nationalist soapboxing while at it, would be a net loss and a waste of volunteer time. --Joy (talk) 13:38, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
    Besides, if these numbers are correct, it's not even a big overlap - PetScan shows 423 overlapping out of 892 and 1,229, resp.? So 47% and ~34%? I would have actually expected it to be much higher. Why would we even ponder this based on these numbers? --Joy (talk) 13:40, 25 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Yugoslavia

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 April 5#Category:Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Yugoslavia

Category:Belarusian podcasters

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Liz Read! Talk! 22:48, 19 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category. Gjs238 (talk) 12:12, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • del. In fact, I am emptied it: she is not "Belarusian" poscaster at least no refs describe her as such, even in ruwiki. --Altenmann >talk 00:49, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete we really need a way to stop there 1 article categories. They actively hindering navigation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:32, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Comment Well, the category is empty now. Liz Read! Talk! 21:01, 15 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Sinking of the SS Marquette

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 March 25#Category:Sinking of the SS Marquette

Category:Genocide of Muslims and Croats in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

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The result of the discussion was: rename to use massacres. With no prejudice to further nominations to merge/delete, if desired. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 00:59, 27 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose renaming Category:Genocide of Muslims and Croats in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to Category:Chetnik genocide of Muslims and Croats
  • Propose renaming Category:Perpetrators of the genocide of Muslims and Croats in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia to Category:Chetnik perpetrators of the genocide of Muslims and Croats
Nominator's rationale: While the Chetniks who perpetrated this genocide were notionally fighting for the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, this kingdom no longer existed de facto when it took place. The current name is equivalent (for example) to describing UPA atrocities as taking place in the "Ukrainian Independent United State" (as this was the hypothetical entity the UPA fought for). GCarty (talk) 09:50, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Massacres is a specific sort of war crime, but for sure all massacres articles in Category:Chetnik war crimes in World War II can be moved to the nominated category, especially after it is renamed to massacres. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:47, 14 March 2026 (UTC)
    The POV fork aspect was specifying genocide and pushing the weird view of this being in the kingdom. Apparently, this was created by the account "Lightiggy", which is now blocked indefinitely. I don't think we should take cues from what we know to be abusers. There would be point in thinking about subcategorizing if this wasn't so badly done in the first place - for example Gata massacre was actually left behind in the parent category. Besides, it's a list of a dozen entries either way, so this just sounds like micromanagement. --Joy (talk) 22:46, 14 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Per above, rename to Chetnik massacres of Muslims and Croats + Chetnik perpetrators of massacres of Muslims and Croats. Although I also concur with the last comment that this seems like too much sub-categorization since the parent category Chetnik war crimes in World War II is already filled with just massacres articles. --~2026-17054-05 (talk) 17:34, 17 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Kansas Jayhawks wrestling coaches

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 22:52, 23 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge single-article category. Not helpful for navigation. This category was intended to be included in a previous nomination that upmerged all other single-article categories in the tree, but it was accidentally left out. The parent Category:Kansas Jayhawks wrestling contains nothing else so can be deleted. Mclay1 (talk) 06:45, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge and Delete as nominated. These 1 article categories are counter the purpose of categories in that they make navigation between articles harder.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:34, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Egyptian mathematics

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 16:55, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Presumably Ancient Egyptian mathematics is the main article for the category. (Note that Category:Egyptian mathematicians should be moved out of this category, with Category:Ancient Egyptian mathematicians replacing it.) Otherwise, the category should be called Category:Mathematics in Egypt to match others in Category:Mathematics by country. 1234qwer1234qwer4 04:15, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Permanent representatives of Andorra to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 18:53, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. Already in other ambassador cats. LibStar (talk) 04:07, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Cigar factories

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Former cigar factories. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 16:59, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: I fail to see much distiction. --Altenmann >talk 03:08, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Considering the content of the articles the category can be salvaged as former cigar factories. When we do that, factories is more appropriate because it refers to the buildings, not the organizations. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:42, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename to Category:Former cigar factories for clarity per above. Mclay1 (talk) 06:49, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
    • In this case, IMO the two categoried must be cross-referenced somehow, e.g., in their descriptions. --Altenmann >talk 15:27, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Salvadoran people of English descent

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The result of the discussion was: Delete * Pppery * it has begun... 18:41, 26 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category, not helpful to navigation. Gjs238 (talk) 00:47, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, this is not helpful for navigation. No objection to recreation when there are a few more articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:45, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename to Category:Salvadoran people of British descent. British is a nationality, European is not. European descent categories should be containers and not contain individual articles as otherwise this would serve as a proxy for race, per WP:ETHNICRACECAT and consensus in many previous discussions: (1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Place Clichy (talk) 15:05, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete since we avoid directly placing people in by continent of descent categories since they too often start to serve as proxies for race.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:38, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
  • Ok, if Category:Salvadoran people of European descent is meant to be a container category then I agree with deletion too. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:37, 13 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Motorsport venues in Goa

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). GoldRomean (talk) 18:53, 20 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category, not helpful to navigation. Gjs238 (talk) 00:43, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Annual events in Cape Town

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn (non-admin closure) Marcocapelle (talk) 20:06, 16 March 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Recently created 2-article category. Overcategorization, not helpful to navigation. Gjs238 (talk) 00:30, 12 March 2026 (UTC)
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