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Category:Language preservation organisations

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The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 18:53, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Only one category in here, which isn't helpful for navigation. The only category is a language advocacy organization. Mason ( talk) 23:40, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Institutes of higher Islamic learning in Kerala

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Category:Sony's Spider-Man Universe characters

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Category:Art museums and galleries by year

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The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 18:54, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Redundant layer. Both sub-categories are already properly categorized in the above tree(s) so no merging is needed. – Aidan721 ( talk) 21:40, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
Support per nom Mason ( talk) 04:33, 27 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Islamic organisations based in Kerala

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Category:Former Continental Indoor Football League teams

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The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 18:54, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: The league is defunct so there "former" part is irrelevant. User:Namiba 19:34, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
Support per nom. Let'srun ( talk) 23:50, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Fictional Mexican people by city

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The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 18:55, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only two subcategories. Marcocapelle ( talk) 17:24, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Fictional characters from Tianjin

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The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 18:55, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: delete for now, only one article in the category. There is no need to merge because the article is already in the tree of Category:Fictional Chinese people in literature. No objection to recreate the category when some more articles are available. Marcocapelle ( talk) 17:22, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
Support per nom Mason ( talk) 03:08, 27 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Decompression practice

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Category:Women in Red edit-a-thons

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Category:Polynesian sculptors

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The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 18:55, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Empty category (technically it contains itself but that doesn't count because it shouldn't contain itself) DannyS712 ( talk) 14:44, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Jahangir Butt

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The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 18:56, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: WP:EPONYMOUS category with a single image, Jahangir Butt could be added but the category would still be too small to be useful DannyS712 ( talk) 14:37, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
Delete per nom. Omnis Scientia ( talk) 20:04, 27 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Years of the 20th century in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic

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The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 18:56, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Following precedents e.g. Category:Years in the Soviet Union. – Fayenatic London 14:26, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
Perhaps some others within Category:Republics of the Soviet Union such as "in Russia" and "in Azerbaijan" are not anachronistic in the same way, and therefore the chronology subcats of e.g. Category:Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and Category:History of Ukraine (1918–1991) can be left with their short names. Discuss? – Fayenatic London 14:26, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Merge per nom. Personally I agree with renaming the subcategories too, but I have noted that this is controversial with establishments (see e.g. recent discussion about pre-18th-century establishments in the United Kingdom). Marcocapelle ( talk) 15:08, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Culture of Sindh

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The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 18:56, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Overlapping categories. Mason ( talk) 13:41, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Kalmyk folklore

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Category:People from the Soviet Union by republic

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The result of the discussion was: rename ( non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 18:57, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per other categories in ‹The template Category link is being considered for merging.›  Category:Soviet people, borderline WP:C2C. Place Clichy ( talk) 13:06, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
Rename per nom. Omnis Scientia ( talk) 21:21, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Anarchists from Austria-Hungary

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 18:59, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Ok, now the merger has been carried out, I want to bring up deletion. I don't think this category of "Anarchists from Austria-Hungary" is a remotely defining characteristic for any of its entries, nor do I think it can be one. To go through the list: Luisa Landová-Štychová and Michael Kácha were Czech anarchists, involved in specifically Czech organisations both before and after the collapse of Austria-Hungary; Josef Peukert was from the German-speaking area of Bohemia and left Austria-Hungary to work in Germany at a young age, going on to spend the rest of his life in Britain and the United States; Hippolyte Havel probably comes the closest to having "anarchist from Austria-Hungary" as a defining characteristic, but even he spent most of his life and activist career in the United States, which he's far more known for than his origins.

To conclude, I don't think being an "anarchist from Austria-Hungary" is a remotely defining enough characteristic to constitute its own category. Each of its entries are already better categorised into different categories, whether "Czech anarchists", "Austrian anarchists" or "American anarchists". Unless I'm missing some pan-Austro-Hungarian anarchist movement that existed across national lines, I don't see any reason why this category shouldn't be deleted. Grnrchst ( talk) 11:41, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
Oppose per comments below. Omnis Scientia ( talk) 21:19, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Comment Particularly on the question of the first two people mentioned, I guess this comes down to the fundamental question about whether categories with titles like "Czech anarchists" are defined by nationality or ethnicity. (I assume) Landová-Štychová and Kácha were ethnically Czech, but were never Czech citizens as the country didn't exist as an independent entity until the 1990s. Personally I would err on the side of defining membership of such categories as being based on nationality due to the potential for endless disputes about ethnicity (which means Landová-Štychová and Kácha should be categorised as Anarchists from Austria-Hungary and Anarchists from Czechoslovakia). Therefore leaning oppose, but this probably needs a much bigger discussion. Number 5 7 11:54, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Leaning towards opposition. I don't think it is appropriate to push forward ethnicity rather than nationality, especially for anarchists. I added a few other members, including Ervin Szabó for instance. Place Clichy ( talk) 14:07, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose, while people may be categorized by ethnicity, that doesn't exclude them from categorizing by nationality. I am ok with moving people from Austro-Hungarian nationality to American nationality if the US is the country where they mainly were active as an anarchist. But that does not fundamentally change the need for Category:Anarchists from Austria-Hungary to exist. Marcocapelle ( talk) 16:32, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Early modern mergers and acquisitions by year

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The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 18:58, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated categories with only 1 or 2 articles each, this is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle ( talk) 09:33, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Sports national governing bodies logos

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The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 22:23, 2 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: merge for now, only 1-3 logos in each of these categories which is not helpful for navigation. No objection to recreate any of these categories when some more logos are available. Marcocapelle ( talk) 08:32, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
Support per nom Mason ( talk) 13:57, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Roman roads in Syria and Palestina

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 3#Category:Roman roads in Syria and Palestina

Category:Roman roads in Turkey

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: split. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 19:01, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: split, Turkey did not exist yet and it is odd to combine Roman roads in the Balkan with Roman roads in Asia Minor in one category just because Istanbul is nowadays part of Turkey. Marcocapelle ( talk) 07:10, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
Support per nom Mason ( talk) 13:10, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
Support but add to each "Roman sites in Turkey" Hugo999 ( talk) 22:36, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Female child soldiers

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The result of the discussion was: keep. WP:SNOW keep, withdrawn by nominator due to concerns being addressed. (non-admin closure) ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ ( ) 16:46, 31 January 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Would appear to violate WP:OCEGRS. Either parent category is defining but gender does not appear to be relevant in this intersection, nor is it necessary to split an overlarge category. If it is relevant, it would need evidence that it would support its own separate article. (In this case "split" means dual merge). ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ ( ) 03:52, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
Oppose. This intersection is indeed defining, these two categories are not something totally unnecessary such as "Category:Male adult soldiers". As for whether there could be an article on this subject, well you can take a look at a bunch of different potential sources. AHI-3000 ( talk) 04:38, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Created suo jure peeresses

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The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 18:57, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Overlapping category with no male equivalent Mason ( talk) 03:24, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Explorers of Georgia (country)

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Category:Roman roads in Arabia and Parthia

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The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 22:26, 2 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's only one page in here with is unhelpful for navigation Mason ( talk) 03:07, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Deaths in Djibouti

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The result of the discussion was: delete ( non-admin closure) House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 22:26, 2 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Deaths in FOO categories are container categories. There are no categories to contain Mason ( talk) 02:20, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:Art museums and galleries established in 1506

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 19:14, 3 February 2024 (UTC) reply
  • Propose merging
  • Propose deleting
Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT. All contain just one entry. I plan on some subsequent nominations to this tree, but I did not want to overload a single nomination. This tree and its parent need some massive cleanup. Side note (uninvolved in this nomination): what is cultural infrastructure? There is not even a Category:Cultural infrastructure. Seems like a very subjective intersection. – Aidan721 ( talk) 01:08, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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Category:UC San Diego Tritons football coaches

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Category:UNAM Pumas American football seasons

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The result of the discussion was: merge ( non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 19:27, 2 February 2024 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Only 1 page in category. Let'srun ( talk) 00:08, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply
Merge to Category:National Autonomous University of Mexico athletics, which is what UNAM is short for Mason ( talk) 13:59, 26 January 2024 (UTC) reply

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