June 2024

1. Category:Philadelphian cricket tours of England: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:International cricket tours of England; notified Evadb ( talk · contribs) 23:53, 7 June 2024 (UTC)
   • Reason: Narrow category, do we really need a category for only tours from a single city in the united states?
2. Category:Convicted participants in the Canada convoy protest: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:Protesters involved in the Canada convoy protest, Category:21st-century Canadian criminals; notified CT55555 ( talk · contribs) 04:33, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
   • Reason: Dual merge for now. There's only one person in here, which isn't helpful for navigation.
3. Category:Protesters: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Activists; notified Dimadick ( talk · contribs) 04:34, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
   • Reason: Overlapping categories.
4. Category:Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand: nominated at CfDS (C2F); New name: Category:Reformed denominations in Oceania 14:18, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
5. Category:International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation: nominated at CfDS (C2F); New name: Category:Global union federations 14:21, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
6. Category:Mughal Court: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Mughal court 17:52, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
7. Category:Vietnamese poets by era: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Vietnamese poets by period 01:56, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
   • Reason: parent is Poets by period
8. Category:Former atheist critics of atheism: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:Former atheists and agnostics, Category:Critics of atheism; notified ThePartOfLife123 ( talk · contribs) 03:21, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
   • Reason: Upmerge this narrow intersection. Also, it's unclear from the name if this is supposed to be former critics of atheism or former atheists.
9. Category:18th-century African-American politicians: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:African-American politicians; notified Bohemian Baltimore ( talk · contribs) 17:58, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
   • Reason: 3x Upmerge. Per African-American officeholders in the United States, 1789–1866. There is only one person Wentworth Cheswell who will ever be in this category.
10. Category:Accidents during the New Year celebrations: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Seckends ( talk · contribs) 02:00, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Non defining itnersection between day of the year and nature of the event
11. Category:People with speech impediment: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:People with speech impediments 22:27, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: norm is to make it plural (see parent People with disabilities)
12. Category:Hypochondriacs: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:People with hypochondriasis 22:32, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Norm is either FOOian people or People with FOOs, see Category:People with mental disorders for examples. The exception is Amputees.
13. Category:Medieval Kurdish philosophers: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Kurdish philosophers; notified Gomada ( talk · contribs) 23:08, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Upmerge for now. There's no need to diffuse the Kurdish philosophy category by period. There are only 9 people in the entire tree (at the time of nomination).
14. Category:Kurdish microbiologists: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Kurdish scientists; notified Rathfelder ( talk · contribs) 23:14, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Upmerge. Extremely narrow intersection. There's not even a Kurdish biologist category, so why would we need a subfield?
15. Category:Kurdish physicists: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Kurdish scientists; notified Spivorg ( talk · contribs) 23:15, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
16. Category:October 1941 events ln the United Kingdom: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:October 1941 events in the United Kingdom 01:01, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
17. Category:19th-century Tasmanian architects: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:Tasmanian architects, Category:19th-century Australian architects; notified MainlyTwelve ( talk · contribs) 04:08, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Dual upmerge this isolated category
18. Category:Socialists by occupation: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Socialists; notified Bodhisao77 ( talk · contribs) 04:49, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: I'm not sure how helpful it is to have a socialists by occupation category.
19. Category:Assam dramatists and playwrights: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Assamese-language dramatists and playwrights 13:15, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: parent is Assamese-language writers
20. Category:Australian leather merchants: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Australian merchants; notified Doug butler ( talk · contribs) 01:24, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Do we really need to diffuse merchants by whether they sell leather?
21. Category:Australian newspaper proprietors: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Australian newspaper publishers (people); notified Doug butler ( talk · contribs) 01:26, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Duplicate category.
22. Category:Khazar military history: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Military history of the Khazars 02:38, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: siblings are all Military history of FOO see Category:Military history of former countries
23. Category:Artesian people: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Rotational ( talk · contribs) 02:40, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Non-defining for the only person in the category Maximilien Robespierre
24. Category:Australian metal workers: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Australian metalworkers; notified Doug butler ( talk · contribs) 02:48, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: There are three ways this category can be handled. Either rename this to match the parent category of Metalworkers, merge to Australian metalsmiths‎ or rename to reflect that the intent of this category Metal manufacturing companies of Australia‎.
25. Category:Australian event managers: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Australian event planners; notified Doug butler ( talk · contribs) 02:50, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: I'm on the fence about speedying this category, however, I'm not 100% sure that I've correctly mapped this category to the right parent of event planning.
26. Category:Australian bigamists: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Bigamists; notified Doug butler ( talk · contribs) 02:54, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: There's no need to diffuse this category by nationality.
27. Category:Australian commercial artists: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Australian artists; notified Doug butler ( talk · contribs) 02:56, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Non-defining type of artist. Notably there is not a parent category of commercial artists as far as I can find.
28. Category:Australian flour millers and merchants: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:Australian merchants, Category:Australian food industry businesspeople; notified Doug butler ( talk · contribs) 03:14, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Dual merge. There's no parent category, and for the most part merchants aren't defined by whether they sold flour or not.
29. Category:People in King William's War: nominated at CfDS (C2B); New name: Category:People of King William's War 23:04, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: siblings in Category: 17th-century people by conflict are called People of FOO
30. Category:Military regiments raised in Nova Scotia: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Military units and formations of Nova Scotia; notified Hantsheroes ( talk · contribs) 23:08, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Overlapping category, no parent category:Military regiments exists.
31. Category:People in Dunmore's War: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:People of Dunmore's War 23:19, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: norm is for people of conflict, see Category:18th-century people by conflict
32. Category:People in Father Rale's War: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:People of Dummer's War 23:24, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Father Rale's War redirects to Dummer's War, also the norm is People of FOO, not in Foo
33. Category:People prosecuted for blasphemy: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:People charged with blasphemy 22:14, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: siblings in Category:People by criminal charge are styled People charged with Foo (e.g. Category:People charged with heresy‎
34. Category:Jesuit musicians: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Dentren ( talk · contribs) 23:52, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Non defining intersection between occupation and religion
35. Category:18th-century German Jewish theologians: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:18th-century German theologians; notified Neddyseagoon ( talk · contribs) 04:03, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Isolated category
36. Category:10th century South Slavs: nominated at CfDS (C2B); New name: Category:10th-century South Slavs 16:32, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
37. Category:20th century rump states: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Rump states; notified Beshogur ( talk · contribs) 21:59, 15 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Upmerge this isolated category. If not merged, it should be renamed to 20th-century rump states
38. Category:African women in engineering: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Yaw tuba ( talk · contribs) 03:44, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: There's no African engineers category parent category. Delete per EGRS. I'm working on adding each person to the proper parent categories.
39. Category:African women mathematicians: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:African mathematicians; notified IllQuill ( talk · contribs) 03:45, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Is underpopulated at the moment
40. Category:21st-century Somali-Canadian women engineers: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Canadian people of Somali descent; notified Yaw tuba ( talk · contribs) 04:14, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Extremely narrow intersection, made by a user who hasn't really learned how categories work
41. Category:Somali monarchs: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Somalian monarchs 04:16, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: parents are Somalian not Somali
42. Category:21st-century Somali women engineers: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:21st-century Somalian women engineers 04:17, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: parent is Somalian women engineers
43. Category:Authors of Spanish ethnographic accounts of the Philippines in the 16th century: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:Spanish ethnographers, Category:16th-century Spanish historians; notified Alternativity ( talk · contribs) 12:47, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Multiple merge. Narrow category. If not merged, it should be renamed to Spanish ethnographers of the colonial Philippines or something to that effect
44. Category:Primary sources on Philippine history in the 16th century: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:History of the Philippines (1565–1898); notified Alternativity ( talk · contribs) 12:54, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: merge. Is a non-defining 3x intersection category, and several of the documents aren't actually from the 16th century
45. Category:Philippine Military Academy Class of 1971: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Philippine Military Academy alumni; notified Alternativity ( talk · contribs) 12:56, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: We don't categorize alumn by the year they graduated (with rare exception)
46. Category:Philippine Military Academy Class of 1940: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Philippine Military Academy alumni; notified Alternativity ( talk · contribs) 12:56, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
47. Category:Philippine Military Academy Class of 1967: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Philippine Military Academy alumni; notified Alternativity ( talk · contribs) 12:56, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
48. Category:Philippine Military Academy Class of 1981: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Philippine Military Academy alumni; notified Alternativity ( talk · contribs) 12:56, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
49. Category:Philippine Military Academy Class of 1986: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Philippine Military Academy alumni; notified Alternativity ( talk · contribs) 12:56, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
50. Category:Primary sources for early Philippine history: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:History of the Philippines (900–1565); notified Alternativity ( talk · contribs) 12:58, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
51. Category:Political positions of Philippine politicians: nominated at CfDS (C2B); New name: Category:Political positions of Filipino politicians 13:02, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: norm is Filipino politicians
52. Category:Expulsions of Jews in The Americas: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Expulsions of Jews; notified Keizers ( talk · contribs) 13:15, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Narrow category that's not helpful for navigation. if not merged, it needs to be renamed to Expulsions of Jews in the Americas
53. Category:Expulsions of Jews in Communist Europe: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Expulsions of Jews; notified Keizers ( talk · contribs) 13:15, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
54. Category:Expulsions of Jews in Medieval Europe: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Expulsions of Jews; notified Keizers ( talk · contribs) 13:15, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
55. Category:Expulsions of Jews in antiquity: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Expulsions of Jews; notified Keizers ( talk · contribs) 13:16, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
56. Category:Expulsions of Jews in 19th-century Europe: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Expulsions of Jews; notified Keizers ( talk · contribs) 13:16, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
57. Category:Expulsions of Jews in Nazi and Axis countries: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Expulsions of Jews; notified Keizers ( talk · contribs) 13:19, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
58. Category:Expulsions of Jews from the Middle East: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Expulsions of Jews; notified Keizers ( talk · contribs) 13:20, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
59. Category:Expulsions of Jews from Palestine: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Expulsions of Jews; notified Keizers ( talk · contribs) 13:20, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
60. Category:Off-price department stores of the United States: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Department stores of the United States; notified Keizers ( talk · contribs) 13:30, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Non-defining category
61. Category:Defunct off-price department stores of the United States: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Department stores of the United States; notified Keizers ( talk · contribs) 13:31, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
62. Category:Knights of Chaumont: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:French knights, Category:People from Chaumont, Haute-Marne; notified Stijn Calle ( talk · contribs) 14:27, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Dual upmerge. The only person is this category doesn't mention this knighthood
63. Category:Knights of Boufflers: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:French knights, Category:People from Hauts-de-France; notified Stijn Calle ( talk · contribs) 14:28, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
64. Category:Osu Salem School teaching staff: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Teachers at Osu Salem School 15:10, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: siblings are Schoolteachers by school and they're either FOOian teachers or Teachers at FOO (and definitely not teaching staff). I'm indifferent between Osu Salem School teachers and Teachers at Osu Salem School, so I picked one. If anyone feels strongly, I'm happy to use the alterative name
65. Category:2020s bombings: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Azavaza ( talk · contribs) 18:38, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Empty category by a new editor who's category creation behavior is reminiscent of @ Brudelman:. Mason ( talk) 18:38, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
66. Category:2024 bombings: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Azavaza ( talk · contribs) 18:39, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
67. Category:Bombings by year: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Azavaza ( talk · contribs) 18:41, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
68. Category:Bombings: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Azavaza ( talk · contribs) 18:41, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
69. Category:Terrorist shootings in the 2010s: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Azavaza ( talk · contribs) 18:47, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: We don't need to distinguish that the shooting was terrorist related
70. Category:Terrorist shootings by year: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Azavaza ( talk · contribs) 18:50, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
71. Category:Terrorist shootings in 2024: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Azavaza ( talk · contribs) 18:50, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
72. Category:Shootings in 2024: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Azavaza ( talk · contribs) 18:50, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
73. Category:Terrorist shootings in the 2020s: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Azavaza ( talk · contribs) 18:51, 16 June 2024 (UTC)
74. Category:Plague doctor: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:History of medieval medicine; notified Andrewaskew ( talk · contribs) 01:48, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Selective merge/major purge. Only two of the pages actually fit in this category; the rest are medical professionals who treated the plague.
75. Category:Institute of Ukrainian Archaeography people: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Institute of Ukrainian Archaeography and Source Studies people 22:12, 18 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: parent is Institute of Ukrainian Archaeography and Source Studies
76. Category:Kryvyi Rih National University, General Faculty: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Kryvyi Rih National University; notified Aleksandr Grigoryev ( talk · contribs) 01:59, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Upmerge this is a redundant category layer
77. Category:Kryvyi Rih National University, General Faculty alumni: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Kryvyi Rih National University alumni; notified Aleksandr Grigoryev ( talk · contribs) 01:59, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
78. Category:Business and industry organizations based in Chicago: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Business organizations based in Chicago 22:35, 19 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: all parents to the category are Business organizations
79. Category:The Taste contestants: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Participants in American reality television series; notified Ceedub88 ( talk · contribs) 04:18, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Upmerge for now. There is only one person in this category for a tv show that ran for 3 seasons
80. Category:Defunct Catholic schools in Louisville, Kentucky: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:Defunct schools in Louisville, Kentucky, Category:Catholic schools in Louisville, Kentucky; notified StefenTower ( talk · contribs) 01:00, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Dual merge. There's only one page in here, and no other city (or state) level categories in Defunct Catholic schools in the United States
81. Category:Scottish women embroiderers: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:Scottish women artists, Category:British embroiderers; notified Aedis1 ( talk · contribs) 03:18, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Dual upmerge. This is a non-defining intersection between the type of textile artist and gender.
82. Category:Dropout: nominated at CfDS (C2D); New name: Category:Dropout (media company) 05:15, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: page is named Dropout_(media_company)
83. Category:Saadi Shirazi: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Aryzad ( talk · contribs) 13:38, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Delete for now. Only the writer and work of theirs in the category. Unhelpful for navigation when there are only two pages like this
84. Category:Jesuits of the Austrian Netherlands: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Jesuits from the Austrian Netherlands 23:26, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: parent is Roman Catholic priests from the Austrian Netherlands
85. Category:Jesuits in Belize: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Belizean Jesuits 23:31, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: all other categories in Jesuits by nationality use FOOIAN Jesuits
86. Category:Jesuits of the Spanish Netherlands: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Jesuits from the Spanish Netherlands 00:59, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: parent is Roman Catholic priests from the Spanish Netherlands
87. Category:Roman Catholic theologians of the Habsburg Netherlands: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Roman Catholic theologians from the Habsburg Netherlands 20:22, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: paent is Writers from the Habsburg Netherlands
88. Category:Poets of the Habsburg Netherlands: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Poets from the Habsburg Netherlands 15:18, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Writers from the Habsburg Netherlands is parent
89. Category:Habsburg Netherlands historians: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Historians from the Habsburg Netherlands 15:22, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: parent is Writers from the Habsburg Netherlands
90. Category:Jewish jazz pianists: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Jewish jazz musicians; notified Mochgamen1 ( talk · contribs) 22:18, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Upmerge. Non-defining intersection between genre, instrument, and ethnicity per WP:EGRS
91. Category:Jewish American jazz composers: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:American jazz composers, Category:Jewish American composers; notified Mokgamen ( talk · contribs) 22:19, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
92. Category:Japanese-American instrumentalists: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:American multi-instrumentalists of Japanese descent 22:37, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: parent is American musicians of Japanese descent and American multi-instrumentalists
93. Category:National military histories by war: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Military history by war and country; notified XTheBedrockX ( talk · contribs) 04:58, 24 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: I find this name very confusing. I think, based on the contents, it would be better off as Military history by war and country, and the child categories could be renamed Vietnam War military history by country etc
94. Category:Male wartime nurses: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Male nurses; notified Obiwankenobi ( talk · contribs) 01:57, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Upmerge for now. This category has only one page in it, who is already in a more specific Wartime nurses category
95. Category:New Zealand men by century and occupation: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:New Zealand men by occupation; notified Thedarkknightli ( talk · contribs) 02:03, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Upmerge for now. There's only one category in here, which isn't helpful for navigation
96. Category:New Zealand men by occupation and century: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:New Zealand men by century; notified Thedarkknightli ( talk · contribs) 02:03, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
97. Category:Lebanese Protestant hymnwriters: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:Lebanese songwriters, Category:Protestant hymnwriters; notified DilletantiAnonymous ( talk · contribs) 03:00, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: 3x upmerge. Narrow category that's only got one person in it
98. Category:Roman Catholic dioceses in Macau: nominated at CfDS (C2F); New name: Category:Catholic Church in Macau 08:59, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
99. Category:Jewish Canadian philanthropists: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:Canadian philanthropists, Category:Canadian Jews; notified Delotrooladoo ( talk · contribs) 07:45, 29 June 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Duel upmerge. This is a non-defining intersection between nationality, ethnicity/religion, and occupation.
100. Category:20th-century Indigenous Mexican painters: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:Indigenous Mexican painters, Category:20th-century indigenous painters of the Americas; notified Missvain ( talk · contribs) 23:44, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
     • Reason: Duel upmerge for now. This is an isolated category without a real need to diffuse by century

July 2024

1. Category:Haydn's patrons: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Patrons of Joseph Haydn; notified Opus33 ( talk · contribs) 12:17, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
   • Reason: Rename the cat to make what's happening a tad clearer. We tend to avoid possessives
2. Category:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's employers and patrons: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Patrons of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; notified Opus33 ( talk · contribs) 12:17, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
3. Category:Patrons of Romantic artists: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Patrons of the arts; notified Erroramong ( talk · contribs) 12:20, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
   • Reason: Non-defining category. People are patrons of whatever era of artists they happen to be alive during
4. Category:Book publishers (people) of the Austrian Netherlands: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Book publishers (people) from the Austrian Netherlands 03:34, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
   • Reason: parent is Businesspeople from the Austrian Netherlands
5. Category:Pro-Confederate clergy: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:19th-century clergy; notified Deisenbe ( talk · contribs) 13:29, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
   • Reason: Non-defining intersection between occupation and political orientation. This category is not the same as Category: Confederate States Army chaplains‎
6. Category:LGBT men artists: nominated at CfDS (C2B); New name: Category:LGBT male artists 19:52, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
   • Reason: Norm is "Male artists"
7. Category:LGBT men artists by nationality: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:LGBT male artists by nationality 19:53, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
   • Reason: parent is Male artists by nationality and the norm is "Male"
8. Category:British LGBT men artists: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:British LGBT male artists 19:53, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
   • Reason: parent is British male artists
9. Category:American LGBT men artists: nominated at CfDS (C2B); New name: Category:American LGBT male artists 19:55, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
   • Reason: norm is American male artists
10. Category:Brazilian LGBT men artists: nominated at CfDS (C2B); New name: Category:Brazilian LGBT male artists 20:10, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: parent is Brazilian male artists
11. Category:Commercial photographers: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified D C McJonathan ( talk · contribs) 20:19, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Non-defining type of artist. there's no commercial artist category
12. Category:9th-century biologists: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:9th-century scientists; notified Sugrammr ( talk · contribs) 13:39, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Isolated category. Upmerge for now. Most of the people in the category aren't defined as being biologists.
13. Category:Philologists from Yugoslavia: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Yugoslav philologists 13:56, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: parents use FOOian philologists Philologists by nationality and see Yugoslav academics
14. Category:Civil servants of Albania: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Albanian civil servants 23:53, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: norm is Fooian civil servants, see Civil servants by nationality
15. Category:21st-century Nepalese film directors: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:Nepalese film directors, Category:21st-century Nepalese people; notified बडा काजी ( talk · contribs) 00:17, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Modern occupations aren't diffused by century. /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2010_March_2#Film_directors_by_century
16. Category:20th-century Nepalese film directors: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Nepalese film directors; notified बडा काजी ( talk · contribs) 00:17, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
17. Category:Ardit Sadiku: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Films by Albanian directors; notified Rheadaniella ( talk · contribs) 00:20, 5 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Redudant category layer. There's not even a epon page for this category. Ardit Sadiku
18. Category:Former Muslims turned agnostics or atheists: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Converts to atheism or agnosticism from Islam; notified User36373733838 ( talk · contribs) 03:10, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Parent is Category:Converts from Islam and the sibling category is Category:Converts to Islam from atheism or agnosticism
19. Category:People from the Savoyard state: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:People from Savoy; notified Johnpacklambert ( talk · contribs) 23:21, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Overlapping category
20. Category:Female archivists: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Women archivists 21:28, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Only gendered parent is Women curators
21. Category:Jurists from Denmark–Norway: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Norwegian jurists; notified Johnpacklambert ( talk · contribs) 22:38, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Non-defining for the only person in here. Extremely small category with only 1 person, who doesn't have any mention of Denmark–Norway in the text. I urge the category creator to stop making categories that only have one person in them.
22. Category:Jewish libertarians: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Uglytriangle999 ( talk · contribs) 23:38, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Do we really need an intersection with ethnicity and liberaltarians? This doesn't meet the criteria for EGRS as far as I can tell
23. Category:Jewish classical liberals: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Uglytriangle999 ( talk · contribs) 23:38, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
24. Category:Constitutionalism: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Constitutional law; notified Uglytriangle999 ( talk · contribs) 23:44, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Duplicate category. The category creator really needs to slow down with the creation of narrow/non-defining categories.
25. Category:Critics of socialism: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Critics of Marxism; notified Uglytriangle999 ( talk · contribs) 23:45, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Overlapping category
26. Category:Slavs by political orientation: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Uglytriangle999 ( talk · contribs) 23:49, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: redundant category that conflates nationalities with ethnicity
27. Category:Hispanic and Latino American socialists: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Uglytriangle999 ( talk · contribs) 00:05, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Non-defining intersection between specific ethnicity and specific political orientation, per egrs
28. Category:Classical accordionists by nationality: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Classical accordionists; notified Bencherlite ( talk · contribs) 00:16, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Upmerge. This category layer is redudant
29. Category:Jewish British slave owners: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified DonBeroni ( talk · contribs) 23:08, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: This non-defining intersection between occupation+nationality+religion/ethnicity is problematic, under WP:EGRS
30. Category:Spanish and Portuguese Jews: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:Spanish Jews, Category:Portuguese Jews; notified Olve Utne ( talk · contribs) 23:11, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: This topic category either needs to be purged, split, or renamed. There are way too many individual people in this category instead of in Spanish Jews or Portuguese Jews
31. Category:Boorana people: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified SiniyaEdita ( talk · contribs) 00:50, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: The only person is this category doesn't have Boorana mentioned anywhere in the page. The category creator needs to populate the categories they create.
32. Category:Soviet businesswomen: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Soviet women in business 02:29, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Women in business by nationality all follow the FOOian women in business naming convention
33. Category:Nilotic people: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Nilotic peoples; notified SiniyaEdita ( talk · contribs) 12:41, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Redundant category layer
34. Category:Jospong Group: nominated at CfDS (C2F); New name: Category:Conglomerate companies of Ghana 12:42, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
35. Category:Expatriates from the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the Dutch Republic: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Expatriates in the Dutch Republic; notified Johnpacklambert ( talk · contribs) 14:56, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Upmerge for now. Narrow, underpopulated intersection between two fomer countries.
36. Category:Conjunctivitis: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Eye diseases; notified Ainty Painty ( talk · contribs) 19:23, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Unhelpful for navigation to only have two pages that are already interlinked
37. Category:1979 in Pakistani law: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Ainty Painty ( talk · contribs) 19:29, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Redudant category layer. Please don't create categories like this enmass without populating them
38. Category:1972 in Pakistani law: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Ainty Painty ( talk · contribs) 19:29, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
39. Category:1950 in Pakistani law: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Ainty Painty ( talk · contribs) 19:30, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
40. Category:1952 in Pakistani law: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Ainty Painty ( talk · contribs) 19:30, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
41. Category:1986 in Pakistani law: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Ainty Painty ( talk · contribs) 19:31, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
42. Category:1987 in Pakistani law: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Ainty Painty ( talk · contribs) 19:31, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
43. Category:1988 in Pakistani law: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Ainty Painty ( talk · contribs) 19:31, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
44. Category:1990 in Pakistani law: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Ainty Painty ( talk · contribs) 19:31, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
45. Category:1994 in Pakistani law: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Ainty Painty ( talk · contribs) 19:31, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
46. Category:1995 in Pakistani law: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Ainty Painty ( talk · contribs) 19:31, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
47. Category:1996 in Pakistani law: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Ainty Painty ( talk · contribs) 19:31, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
48. Category:1999 in Pakistani law: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Ainty Painty ( talk · contribs) 19:33, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
49. Category:1998 in Pakistani law: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Ainty Painty ( talk · contribs) 19:33, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
50. Category:1978 in Pakistani law: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Ainty Painty ( talk · contribs) 19:36, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
51. Category:Ministries of El Salvador: nominated at CfDS (C2A); New name: Category:Government ministries of El Salvador 19:43, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: sibling in Ministries by country, are styled Government ministries of FOO
52. Category:Ministries of Guatemala: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Government ministries of Guatemala 19:43, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: sibling in Ministries by country, are styled Government ministries of FOO
53. Category:Ministries of Bulgaria: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Government ministries of Bulgaria 19:44, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: sibling in Ministries by country, are styled Government ministries of FOO
54. Category:Palestinian ministries: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Government ministries of the State of Palestine 19:45, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: sibling in Ministries by country, are styled Government ministries of FOO
55. Category:Religious eugenicists: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Biohistorian15 ( talk · contribs) 20:26, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Non-defining intersection
56. Category:Postwar eugenicists: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Biohistorian15 ( talk · contribs) 20:27, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
57. Category:Liberal eugenicists: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Biohistorian15 ( talk · contribs) 20:27, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
58. Category:Latinx eugenicists: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Eugenicists; notified Biohistorian15 ( talk · contribs) 20:29, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
59. Category:Politicization of science: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Politics of science; notified Biohistorian15 ( talk · contribs) 20:32, 13 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Overlapping category.
60. Category:South Korean anti-feminists: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:South Korean critics of feminism; notified CJ-Moki ( talk · contribs) 14:15, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: I think we should rename this category to mirror the sibling categories (Female critics of feminism‎ etc) in its parent Critics of feminism.
61. Category:Longitudinal study: nominated at CfDS (C2C); New name: Category:Longitudinal studies 14:38, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: I think that this category needs to be renamed to match the sibling category Cohort studies‎
62. Category:Human enhancement: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Transhumanism; notified Biohistorian15 ( talk · contribs) 14:41, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: This seems like too narrow of a category as well as fairly overlapping with existing categories related to Bioethics and Transhumanism
63. Category:De-extinction genetic engineering: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Genetic engineering; notified DinosaursLoveExistence ( talk · contribs) 14:42, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: This category only has one page in it and seem to be highly overlapping with Genetic engineering
64. Category:People from the Austrian Empire of Swiss descent: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Austrian people of Swiss descent; notified Johnpacklambert ( talk · contribs) 16:06, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Extremely narrow category. There's no need to have the intersection between era, nationality, and ethnicity
65. Category:Scottish noblewomen: nominated at CfD (CfR); renaming to Category:Scottish women by rank; notified Tagishsimon ( talk · contribs) 16:46, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: I think we should rename and purge this category to mirror British women by rank and English women by rank
66. Category:WWE wrestlers: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified WrestlingWikipedian ( talk · contribs) 17:25, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: We don't need to categorize people by which wrestling organization they're signed
67. Category:Professional wrestlers who use Asian mist: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Mr. C.C. ( talk · contribs) 17:30, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Narrow in subject and non-defining. We don't have other categories were the subject as ever used a specific move. The category description indicates a huge inclusion criteria of using a specific move. "This category is for all professional wrestlers who, at some point, used Asian mist."
68. Category:Professional wrestlers who boxed amateurly and professionally: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Davidgoodheart ( talk · contribs) 17:36, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Why do we need people who are at the triple intersection of three sports?
69. Category:Expatriates from the Spanish Empire: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Johnpacklambert ( talk · contribs) 18:11, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: This category is underpopulated and unhelpful. The only person in here is cuban, and there is no mention of the spanish empire on the page
70. Category:Artists from New Spain: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified Johnpacklambert ( talk · contribs) 18:13, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Non of the people in here are described as being New Spanish. I think that this kind of category could work as a parent/container category, but I don't see how it's helpful to bundle such disparate people together
71. Category:Pro-Confederate writers: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:19th-century American writers; notified Deisenbe ( talk · contribs) 19:36, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: There's no need to have an intersection between nationality, period, occupation, and opinion.
72. Category:Novelists of the Confederacy: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:19th-century American novelists; notified Deisenbe ( talk · contribs) 19:37, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
73. Category:Poets of the Confederacy: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:19th-century American poets; notified Deisenbe ( talk · contribs) 19:37, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
74. Category:American high school teachers: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:American schoolteachers; notified Apokrif ( talk · contribs) 19:46, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Do we really need to diffuse by level of educator? Do we have middle school, elementary school? This just doesn't need to be very defining
75. Category:Mid 19th Century Revival architecture: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Revival architectural styles; notified Doncram ( talk · contribs) 23:45, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: This category seems underpopulated and doesn't seem to be very defining by itself
76. Category:Mid 19th Century Revival architecture in the United States: nominated at CfD (CfS); splitting to Category:Revival architecture in the United States, Category:19th-century architecture in the United States; notified Doncram ( talk · contribs) 23:46, 14 July 2024 (UTC)
77. Category:19th-century feminists: nominated at CfD (CfD); notified The9Man ( talk · contribs) 02:06, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: There is no need to have an intersection between political orientation and century.
78. Category:Decades in the Colony of Virginia: nominated at CfD (CfM); merging to Category:Decades in Virginia; notified Gonnym ( talk · contribs) 03:08, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Redundant categoey lay
79. Category:People involved in race and intelligence controversies: nominated at CfDS (C2E); New name: Category:People associated with race and intelligence controversies 21:16, 16 July 2024 (UTC)
    • Reason: Realized that this name implies that each person is directly involved in the controversy (or advocating that there are genetic between group differences). A subset of folks in here do work that effectively argues the opposite (or folks who are actively involved in demonstrating that the differences aren't caused by race.