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Category:Ambassadors of Prussia

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 17:40, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:The Amazing Race contestants

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: partial merge. I've processed this close manually. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 22:10, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: As these people were notable outside of their appearances here, this is a WP:PERFCAT and not WP:DEFINING. --woodensuperman 15:41, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Economy of the Emirate of Dubai

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 17:40, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge/delete redundant category layers. These only contain subcategories for the city of Dubai. There doesn't appear to be anything else to add to them. Mclay1 (talk) 15:36, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:SpektreWorks aircraft

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 June 4#Category:SpektreWorks aircraft

Category:Civil liberties in Ireland

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 14:11, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose deleting Category:Anti-discrimination law in Ireland (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Civil liberties in Ireland (0)
Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layers for one subcategory, which is already sufficiently categorised, so no merge is needed. Mclay1 (talk) 13:57, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Identity politics by country

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 13:47, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
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  • Propose deleting Category:Identity politics in Australia (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Politics of the Australia by issue (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Identity politics in Austria (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Politics of Austria by issue (0)
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Nominator's rationale: Many recently created unnecessary and dubious category layers. Some of the names have obvious errors. There are some more layers that can be dealt with later to avoid this nomination becoming too large and confusing. The LGBTQ politics categories could potentially be populated by some more subcategories, but I'd argue they're not needed, and the main LGBTQ country categories cover the topics fine. Adding more layers is not helpful for navigation. Mclay1 (talk) 13:45, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge/delete, unnecessary intermediate category layers. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:36, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
    Support per nom. I've reached out to the category creator, because they seem to be creating a ton of redundant and underpopulated categories.SMasonGarrison 22:53, 2 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Ambassadors of the Marshall Islands

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 13:46, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Nominator's rationale There are only 8 total articles in the whole tree of Ambassadors of the Marshall Islands, 7 biographies and 1 list article. Only the to the United States category has 3 articles, and that is 2 biographies and 1 list article. All of this is too narrow to aid navigation. These mergers will make it much easier to navigate between articles.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:26, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:38, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Ambassadors of Argentina to Belize

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 13:46, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Nominator's rationale all these categories only have 1 article so they hinder naviagation with how narrow they are. Other than Belize in all the other cases the article is on someone who is in at least 1 other sub-cat of Ambassadors of Argentina so we do not need to merge to that parent. We have already merged the Ambassadors of Argetina categories to countries starting with A that we too narrow.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:14, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:40, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Public services by city

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 13:46, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary category layer that will be left with only two subcategories if Category:Public services in Oran is deleted below. No merge needed. Mclay1 (talk) 13:00, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete I do not think we need this layer.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:28, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, the two remaining subcategories have little in common and are each also present elsewhere in the tree of Public services. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:44, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • delete per above --Lenticel (talk) 05:36, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Physicians from Chicago

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 13:46, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Health care in Algeria by city

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 13:45, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose deleting Category:Healthcare in Oran (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Health care in Algeria by city (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Public services in Oran (0)
  • Propose deleting Category:Public services of Algeria (0)
Nominator's rationale: Multiple layers for one article, which is already sufficiently categorised, so no merge is needed. Deleting the layers will leave Category:Public services of Algeria with only one subcategory, so it can also be deleted with no merge needed. Mclay1 (talk) 12:59, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete We need to stop creating empty trees where there are more categories than articles.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:01, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:47, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete for Now with no objection to recreation after a bunch more articles appear. - RevelationDirect (talk) 23:22, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • delete per nom --Lenticel (talk) 05:37, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Physicians from Atlanta

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 13:45, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Nominator's rationale We renamed the main article to medical doctors some months ago. We have also renamed almost all the categories to use medical doctor, including I believe all by US state and most by US city.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:57, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Physicians from Memphis, Tennessee

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 13:45, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:03, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Recently created 1-article category. Gjs238 (talk) 11:42, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom.John Pack Lambert (talk) 12:52, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:59, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • I'm not fundamentally opposed to a merger in principle, but the problem is that the category is being autogenerated at this name by a template ({{Infobox knot theory}}), and transcluded onto the page in lieu of a direct category declaration — so some care will have to be taken to ensure that this gets merged without either simultaneously breaking all of the other siblings that are at "knots and links", or leaving the page sitting in a redlinked category that doesn't exist. Yet again, this is exactly why WP:TEMPLATECAT specifically militates against using infobox templates to artificially generate and transclude content categories onto pages in lieu of direct categorization. Bearcat (talk) 21:52, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge after template is updated. - RevelationDirect (talk) 23:20, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge Follow-up to Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_March_30#Category:Twist_knots. There are no proper links in this family. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:39, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Sub-National Polish Politics

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 12:01, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge unnecessary and incorrectly named category layer. Mclay1 (talk) 10:46, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, a strange combination of two Voivodeship subcategories and two city subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:01, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Elections in Grand Est

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 12:01, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer with only one subcategory, which is already sufficiently categorised, so no merge is needed. Mclay1 (talk) 10:02, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete per nom. Strangely enough we have mainly subcategories and articles about former regions in the tree, and not so much about current regions. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:34, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • delete per nom --Lenticel (talk) 10:25, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Politics in Aisne

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 00:02, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge underpopulated category layers per WP:NARROWCAT. Mclay1 (talk) 09:59, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:State cabinet ministers of India

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). Staraction (talk · contribs) 12:01, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge. India has both states and union territories, so the name Category:Ministers of states and union territories of India is more appropriate. CosdonH (talk) 09:04, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge, I do not see a reason to separate states and territories in this respect. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:39, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • merge per above --Lenticel (talk) 10:25, 31 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:April 1962 sports events in Thailand

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 12:03, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose merging Category:April 1962 sports events in Thailand to Category:April 1962 in Asia and Category:April 1962 in sports
  • Propose deleting Category:April 1962 in Thailand
  • Propose deleting Category:1962 in Thailand by month
  • Propose deleting Category:April 1962 sports events in Asia
Nominator's rationale: This whole hierarchy of categories only exists for a single article. (A merge to the other parent, Category:1962 in Thai sport, is not needed, since the article is already in Category:1962 in Thai football.) – numbermaniac 07:20, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. This is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:40, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
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Sammarinese politicians cleanup

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 June 20#Sammarinese politicians cleanup

More language project categories

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 12:02, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Two categories that are newer than Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_May_14#Category:Wikipedia:English_language; same rationale applies. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 17:37, 18 May 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 06:10, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename per the same rationale as on your May 14 nomination. – numbermaniac 07:36, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:NDPB galleries, libraries and museums in the United Kingdom

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 July 16#Category:NDPB galleries, libraries and museums in the United Kingdom

Tribal communities

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 June 16#Tribal communities

Category:Campeonato Paranaense players

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2026 June 1#Category:Campeonato Paranaense players

Category:Fictional informants

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). - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 03:17, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Propose merging Category:Fictional informants to Category:Fictional double agents
Nominator's rationale: Highly specific category with 3 articles and 1 redirect. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:23, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on the merge target? (per Johnpacklambert's proposal)
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 05:54, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per nom. Category:Fictional double agents is pretty big. It can be discussed later. Mclay1 (talk) 13:08, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep or delete, a police informant is neither an agent nor a spy (delete insofar a fictional police informant it is not a defining characteristic). Marcocapelle (talk) 22:07, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
    Good point. The parent category is inaccurate. Delete. Mclay1 (talk) 08:03, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
    Does this potentially affect the real-world parent Category:Police informants? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:45, 29 May 2026 (UTC)
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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Sharia terminology. Relisted accidentally (meant for a different discussion), but thought it would've been too much of a hassle to undo. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 05:53, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: merge, the scope of the two categories is largely overlapping, they are all Arabic words and the fact that they all come from the Sharia make them all legal terms. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:05, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Reverse merge This one is shorter and to the point. It is redundant to specify that these are Arabic words because all Islamic terminology is in Arabic. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 12:08, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Actually, Category:Sharia terminology would be even shorter. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 12:09, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
  • That makes sense, I will tag the parent category too. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:18, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on merge direction?
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Category:Gay Wikipedians

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:17, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Follow-up to Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2026_May_7#Category:Gay_user_templates. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:07, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename to avoid ambiguity. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:17, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
  • rename per nom --Lenticel (talk) 00:28, 16 May 2026 (UTC)
  • At second thought, it should be Category:Gay men Wikipedians instead of Category:Gay male Wikipedians, per article title Gay men. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:51, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on the merge target?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Staraction (talk · contribs) 05:48, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose This is a demographic that wants a lot of options to choose its own labels. It is not helpful to intersect labels because then that would make a need for more categories than are natural to use. "Gay Wikipedians" currently includes gay men, gay NBs, gay queers, gays, and gay women if they feel like it. It is not useful or productive to make these distinctions or to sort this group out. A person is gay if they self-identify that way and there is no need to add a gender restriction here. Bluerasberry (talk) 19:12, 11 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Rename to Category:Gay men Wikipedians, since Category:Gay user templates has now been moved to Category:Gay men user templates. —Trilletrollet [ Talk | Contribs ] 12:34, 17 June 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose per Bluerasberry. This would categorize individuals that identify as gay in a category they might not want to be categorized within. There could be several reasons for why they can't remove the category or the template that adds the category, like them being inactive, retired, or dead. It would be better to create a new category titled Category:Gay male Wikipedians or Category:Gay men Wikipedians, instead of moving this one to that location. - Sebbog13 (talk) 03:44, 23 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Kaw women

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The result of the discussion was: dual merge to the respective "people" categories as well as Category:Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara women. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 21:24, 16 July 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. underpopulated categories SMasonGarrison 22:54, 19 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge especially since in general we have decided against categories that only intersect ethnicity and gender. The general view is that like nationality ethnicity by gender categories should be container categories.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:13, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
    " in general we have decided against categories that only intersect ethnicity and gender." Where was this decided? Looking at the subcats of Category:Native American women by tribe or Category:Indigenous women of Asia or Category:Indigenous women of Europe, this doesn't seem to be true, and seems like a bad idea in general. Ethnicity and gender is an important intersection, the topic of many books and scholarly research, and should not be dismissed "in general" (although individual cases may always merit deletion or upmerging of course). Fram (talk) 07:45, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
      • There was a discussion that resulted in making Category:African-American women and other related categories container categories. It is a good idea. We limit by gender categories to cases where gender is a defining aspect of the thing. This is generally not true for ethnicity. It is most often true for specific occupations.John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:33, 21 May 2026 (UTC)
        I don't think that your claim that ethnicity is generally not a defining aspect of "the thing" (you mean, er, the person?) has much basis in reality. Due to their large scope, it is better for large ethnicities (like African-American) to be subdivided, but that doesn't make it non-defining, and for ethnicities with fewer articles the intersection of ethnicity and gender is a clearly defining aspect. Note that African-American women are simply subdivided by century in thousands of cases (Category:African-American women by century), so it is obvious that your claims about the intersection of ethnicity and gender don't match actual practice (nor actual reality offwiki obviously). Fram (talk) 07:48, 21 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge for now, until there are a few more fitting articles. This is not helpful for navigation. Note that the articles are still in e.g. Category:20th-century Native American women. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:37, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge per WP:NARROWCAT when these respectively just have one and two pages, and neither amounts are adequate for separate categories. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 11:56, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Merge Not enough articles. Accesscrawl (talk) 16:50, 20 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Wouldn't a mergo to Category:Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara women (parallel with Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation) be a good solution? Together with articles like Alyce Spotted Bear, Juanita Helphrey and Twyla Baker? Fram (talk) 07:52, 21 May 2026 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: What ought to be the merge target?
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Category:Towns in Malta

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:16, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: In Malta, local councils are the only official level of administrative division. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:49, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Oppose this way, local councils are the governing bodies rather than the places themselves. I'd be fine with renaming to localities or populated places though. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:05, 17 May 2026 (UTC)
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  • Merging is also questionable because this category tries to capture first-level administrative divisions. The articles Local councils of Malta and List of localities in Malta speak of "localities". What about renaming to Category:Local council-based localities of Malta or just Category:Localities of Malta with an explanation on the category page or Category:Administrative divisions of Malta? Marcocapelle (talk) 22:21, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
    How would Category:Administrative divisions of Malta differ from Category:Subdivisions of Malta? Οἶδα (talk) 04:33, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
    • That is a good point. I will strike the last suggestion. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:14, 28 May 2026 (UTC)
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Ayutthaya Kingdom

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The result of the discussion was: rename/merge. (non-admin closure) GoldRomean (talk) 14:17, 8 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: rename/merge, merge for largely overlapping scope, rename after Category:Natural environment. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:25, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
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  • Rename/Merge the respective categories, as proposed by the nominator. Pretty overlapping topics....can be listed in a single category. BhikhariInformer‬ 📮 (Ping me or else I won't see it) 02:49, 7 June 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Jewish footballers

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Doctor Who serials novelised by author

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The result of the discussion was: delete all. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 05:36, 14 July 2026 (UTC)
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Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary sub-categorization. Hayles only has two articles listed under this category, both of which are already listed under Category:Doctor Who serials written by Brian Hayles, making this sub-cat redundant. Nominating this alongside Category:Novels by Brian Hayles, which only has this subcat as content and thus makes the parent unnecessary by proxy. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 05:56, 3 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Shouldn't it be merged to Category:Doctor Who novelisations? Marcocapelle (talk) 06:54, 3 April 2026 (UTC)
    @Marcocapelle was unaware of this wider topic; I just assumed they were listed here to begin with. Unopposed to a merger. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 19:04, 4 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Keep I shouldn't really bring up WP:WAX here, but why has this category been nominated, and not any others? The abovementioned Category:Doctor Who novelisations has 36 subcategories, of which 22 (more than half) have either two articles listed, or just one.
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Ian Briggs (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Kevin Clarke (writer) (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Jenny Colgan (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Paul Cornell (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Russell T Davies (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by William Emms (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Paul Erickson (screenwriter) (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by David Fisher (writer) (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Stephen Gallagher (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Robert Holmes (scriptwriter) (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Glyn Jones (South African writer) (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Malcolm Kohll (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Barry Letts (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Peter Ling (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Philip Martin (screenwriter) (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Glen McCoy (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Steven Moffat (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Eric Pringle (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Bill Strutton (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by David Whitaker (screenwriter) (0)
    Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Stephen Wyatt (0)
    It's not as if these subcats are likely to grow: many of the authors concerned are now dead, and of those still alive, they are unlikely to novelise any more Doctor Who serials, for the basic reason that the last Doctor Who serial (Survival) was produced in 1989, and all of them have now been novelised.
    As for the argument both of which are already listed under Category:Doctor Who serials written by Brian Hayles, making this sub-cat redundant, not all Doctor Who serials were novelised by the original scriptwriter. In particular, Category:Doctor Who serials written by Brian Hayles contains six articles, all of which have been novelised: one by Gerry Davis and Alison Bingeman; two by Hayles himself and three by Terrance Dicks. Regarding the last one, Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Terrance Dicks (63) contains many stories where the original scriptwriter was somebody other than Hayles or Dicks himself. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 11:38, 4 April 2026 (UTC)
    @Redrose64 While not AfD, Wikipedia:OTHERSTUFF applies here. I nominated this one just because this was the one I happened to stumble on, and was unaware of many of the others. Still, non-helpful subcats are non-helpful subcats, and I don't see why knowing who wrote particular novelisations is super helpful. None of these novelisations have articles, and even then readers looking for which stories have novelisations may not know what a story's given author is. Someone looking for particular novelisations are going to end up having to dig through tons and tons of one note categories with no room for expansion just to find a particular topic. I just don't see the point to these Wikipedia:Overcategorizations. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 19:04, 4 April 2026 (UTC)
    As stated above, I shouldn't really bring up WP:WAX here. But of course when nominating the category you did check if it was a branch of a tree. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:21, 4 April 2026 (UTC)
    Yes, but just because I'm checking if it's a subcat or not does not necessarily mean I'm going to be checking every other semi-related category. I shouldn't have to look at every semi-associated category just to determine if the one I'm looking at now is helpful or not. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 21:36, 5 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Shall we then just merge all the ones listed above? Marcocapelle (talk) 22:56, 4 April 2026 (UTC)
    I would support it personally, though if others feel it's better as a wider, separate discussion I am unopposed to starting one. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 21:37, 5 April 2026 (UTC)
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  • Upmerge all these 1 and 2 article categories. This narrow of categories actively hinders navigation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:53, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Tag and delete them all, because I don't think the writer of a novelisation is WP:Defining for a TV serial. There are some "new Who" categories here (wrongly called "serials"), but their parent cats Category:Novels by Steven Moffat and Category:Novels by Jenny Colgan have no content other than these novelisations of TV episodes, and should probably also be deleted. I am surprised that this hierarchy has been built for the old serials, rather than categorising them within Category:Television episodes by writer – I have just done that for a couple of writers. Where there is other content for a writer, then upmerge from DW novelisations to Novels by X. Keep only Category:Doctor Who serials novelised by Terrance Dicks because with 63 pages it's useful to keep separate from his original novels. – Fayenatic London 13:49, 22 April 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, Fayenatic london made an excellent point. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:47, 1 May 2026 (UTC)
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  • Delete them all. I don't automatically see an issue with the categorization. Songs are categorized by the artists that famously covered them (in a release). Films are categorized by the person who composed the soundtrack. My immediate estimation is that these are analagous, but maybe I'm wrong. Anyway, the articles here are focused on the TV serials, not the novelisations. But every article appears to have a section for the novelisation and an book infobox, as well as external links to the novelisations at ISFDB. But the novelisations are certainly not a considerable part of the articles. I could understand though how this could help readers navigate between novelisations. But this seems like it would be best served in a list article, which already exists at List of Doctor Who novelisations. The glaring issue here is the small size of these categories. And perhaps, as Fayenatic london touched on, just how defining this "writer of a novelisation of a TV serial" categorization is. Works adapted for other media is a defining categorization, and in this case it would be Works adapted into novels. But that appears to be true for virtually every single Doctor Who serial. So upmerging a bunch of TV serial articles to Category:Doctor Who novelisations makes no sense, and grouping them in a category such as Category:Doctor Who serials that were novelised wouldn't mean much or improve navigation when it all overlaps. Οἶδα (talk) 19:48, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Olympic rugby union venues

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Canada's Drag Race episodes

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Category:Films shot in Monterrey

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 06:13, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: "Films shot in" category newly created for just one film. As always, every city does not automatically get one of these the moment one film has been shot there -- there have to be several films shot in a city before it gets its own dedicated city-level category, and if there are just one, two or three films then they just stay in a higher-level category at the state or country level in the meantime.
As I'm not all that knowledgeable about the Mexican film industry, I'm willing to withdraw this if somebody with more expertise can populate the category properly with other films -- but it requires a lot more than just one film before it's justifiable. Bearcat (talk) 15:22, 19 May 2026 (UTC)
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  • Keep, now six articles. That should be enough. If it isn't then we should probably determine that via another CfD nominating every "shot in" category that has six members. Till then, keep. Οἶδα (talk) 04:05, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Game Plan pinball machines

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure). Staraction (talk · contribs) 12:05, 3 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Only one page in cat, clearly insufficient to warrant a keep. Go D. Usopp (talk) 02:37, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
I expect 2 pages in the category in also insufficient (is there a minimum number stated somewhere?) - Sharpshooter is on my list of pinball articles to create, and another couple of Game Plan machines might be notable but unlikely to be much more than that. Never heard of Mike Bossy before, but got partway through editing it now that I've seen it. Wilbers (talk) 17:13, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
WP:NARROWCAT doesn't have a numeric cutoff unfortunately, but most the categories nominated here have 1, 2 or 3 articles. Good luck on the next article! RevelationDirect (talk) 23:15, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:07, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
  • Delete for Now single article already cross-linked with the manufacturer article. No objection to future recreation though if multiple new articles get published. - RevelationDirect (talk) 23:11, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:People executed by Stuart England by decapitation

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) - OpalYosutebito 『talk』 『articles I want to eat』 01:11, 16 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: merge, trivial intersection between ruling dynasty and method of execution. This is follow-up on this earlier discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:14, 19 May 2026 (UTC)
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  • Comment: I'm ambivalent about the merge, but this is at risk of having a different result to Category:People executed by Stuart England by hanging, drawing and quartering, which is exactly why I said in the previous discussion that they should be nominated together. That one shouldn't have been deleted without any explanation of why it was different to its siblings (which I don't think it was). Mclay1 (talk) 06:38, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
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Category:Mass media in St. Louis

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) Staraction (talk · contribs) 23:57, 2 June 2026 (UTC)
Nominator's rationale: Per Greater St. Louis. Metro area is also more defining than city. Servite et contribuere (talk) 04:30, 19 May 2026 (UTC)
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