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Category:Linguists of Kven
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Category:Slovene-speaking people by occupation
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Category:Liechtenstein emigrants
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Category:Combat veteran Wikipedians
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Comment I will state that these are not even close to duplicative in scope. Many vets have never seen combat. And if Ukraine is any example, the border police have entered into combat without being military. And in Iraq, non-military combatants were widely seen in combat. The CIA entered combat operations in Vietnam, also clearly not a recognized military force --
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Merge per nom for now, with a suggestion we look at the target category for deletion in the future. I am not sure that grouping people whose only common denominator is that they are a veteran suggests any sort of increased willingness or ability (at least that isn't
WP:OR) to collaborate on a specific group of articles by those individuals, meaning there is a strong argument such a category violates
WP:USERCAT. If the goal is to group individuals interested in improving military related content, a more inclusive category that would also include non-veterans seems like a better approach.
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Category:Medieval Kingdom of Croatia
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Support per nom It makes the chronology clearer. No objection to create another category for the subsequent Kingdom of Croatia.
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Oppose, the category covers history of Croatian monarchy until 1526, there is no need to to change its name to something with clearly narrower scope
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Rus' people by century
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Category:Mastodons
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Nominator's rationale: I'm aware that in North America, the Mammut genus is commonly referred to as the common name "mastodon" (or "American mastodon" or "Pacific mastodon" for the two late Pleistocene species). However, "mastodon" is really almost only referred to the one Plio-Pleistocene genus of North America, not the entire mammutid family in paleontological research whose history spans as far back as the early Miocene in Africa to dispersals in Eurasia via a
Gomphotherium land bridge. For instance, rarely would you see academic researchers refer to Zygolophodon as a "mastodon" if at all rather than "mammutid." Mammutidae fits better as a category name not only because of this but also because for fossil taxon categories, it's almost always standard to refer to them by taxonomic names like family names. — Preceding
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Category:Children's action films
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Nominator's rationale: Per
WP:NARROWCAT, superseded by other more specific categories (apologies if this isn't a correct deletion rationale, categories are confusing) ―
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Category:Youtuber
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That seems to be a common misunderstanding. It's the tagging that STARTS the 7 day waiting period. That's how we keep track of how many days it's been empty. LizRead!Talk!03:52, 15 April 2023 (UTC)reply
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Category:Peace Corps volunteers
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Delete per precedent. Although having known quite a few, and dated several in my distant past, Peace Corp volunteers are amazing folks. I'd long planned to become one after retirement, but sadly have cancer instead. William Allen Simpson (
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Category:Wars involving the Rus'
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Category:Wildfires in Spain by year
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Nominator's rationale:WP:SMALLCAT. 1-2 articles per year.
Category:Wildfires in Spain and YYYY wildfires are not needed for merge targets since they are already in there (except for the one mentioned). — Preceding
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Category:Russian knights
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Nominator's rationale:WP:C2D main article
Bogatyr. When I found this category, most people in it were indeed bogatyrs: fictional or legendary
knights-errant in medieval East Slavic legends / (Kievan) Rus' literature. However, a few were 17th-century Russian noblemen (dvoryanin) and/or voivodes (military chieftains) such as
Prokopy Petrovich Lyapunov and
Dmitry Pozharsky, who were not bogatyrs. They were arguably "Russian knights", if we choose to apply the English word "knight" to 17th-century Russia. But as we've already got
Category:Russian nobility, an elite social class created in the
Tsardom of Russia in the 16th century, I moved them there. The remainder of this category consists of fictional or legendary medieval bogatyr, either fictional stock characters such as
Anika the Warrior, or possibly historical people about whom most material is probably legendary, and who never had been granted formally
knighthood, such as
Oslyabya and
Alexander Peresvet, who were "monks". "knights" doesn't properly describe them (certainly not the
Category:Knights by country, which I have already removed), and "Russian" is anachronistic; Kievan Rus' or just Rus' would be appropriate, but in this case it is unnecessary. The main article
Bogatyr provides us the proper word; we don't have to invent anything else.
Category:Ukrainian knights is entirely inappropriate as anarchronistic
WP:OR, apart from being a
WP:SMALLCAT, and should be deleted; the only member
Dobrynya is already in
Category:Russian knights and can stay there if it is moved to
Category:Bogatyrs.
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Category:2017 Idaho wildfires
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Netball Superleague seasons
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Nominator's rationale: all are
WP:SMALLCAT, with no likelihood of expansion, not least because the 2021 and 2022 season categories only contained the eponymously named article. The articles for the seasons are in the parent category already, but the other articles (about grand finals or team articles) are not, and would in my opinion be valid in that category.
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14:39, 12 April 2023 (UTC)reply
They should, I had neglected to notice that they were in multiple categories. Having checked, the other categories look to be correct (as the seasons only have Scotland/Wales categories for the years that Scottish and Welsh teams competed).
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08:51, 13 April 2023 (UTC)reply
Oppose Don't see any reason to merge these categories. Just leave alone. Loads of issues to sort on Wikipedia. Nothing to fix here.
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Category:Police sports
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Category:Military symbols used during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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Category:Wikipedians interested in reading
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Category:Rulers of Duklja
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Category:Rulers of Moldavia and Wallachia
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Nominator's rationale:WP:ARBITRARYCATWP:NONDEFINING. This is just a combination of rulers of Moldavia who were also simultaneously at some point rulers of Wallachia. "Moldavia and Wallachia" doesn't refer to a single unified state in this case, except for the brief period of the
United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in 1859–1881. There were only two people ever reigning those United Principalities:
Alexandru Ioan Cuza (who preferred calling himself
Domnitor for the bulk of his reign from 1862 to 1866), and
Carol I of Romania (who changed Domnitor to
King of Romania in 1881). "Ruler/Prince of Moldavia and Wallachia" wouldn't even have applied to Alexandru from 1859 to 1862; he used two separate titles: "Prince of Moldavia", and "Prince of Wallachia", not a combo. All other people are just ruling it in a non-permanent, non-formalised personal union that was historically prone to change. It's also completely unnecessary; we're not creating categories like
Category:Monarchs of Castile and Aragon to stick
Category:Ferdinand II of Aragon in there; he is fine in the parallel category trees of
Category:Castilian monarchs and
Category:Aragonese monarchs. Same goes for people who just so happened to be simultaneously Prince of Moldavia and Prince of Wallachia.
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Category:Rulers of Wallachia
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