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Category:Short stories set in 1922

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)LaundryPizza03 ( d ) 04:48, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: We don't categorize short stories through the year of setting. We don't even do it for novels. There aren't that many notable short stories so this is bound to be a WP:SMALLCAT. Pichpich ( talk) 23:29, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply
If deleted, recategorize in Category:Fiction set in 1922. Gonnym ( talk) 10:54, 20 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Four Digit Wings of the United States Air Force

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Category:People from Ireland (1801–1923)

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The result of the discussion was: delete. This is the only logical outcome now that WP:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_June_16#Emigrants_from_Ireland_(1801-1923) has closed as merge. (non-admin closure)LaundryPizza03 ( d ) 04:52, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: A wholly un-needed chronological division of Category:Irish people. All the contents are already adequately categorised, so no need to merge.
See also the related discussion at WP:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_June_16#Emigrants_from_Ireland_(1801-1923). BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 22:03, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Tell that to the Poles. Their states may have evolved / dissolved over the centuries, but there were always a Polish nation. Didn't you write elsewhere that Irish people were Irish in 1799 and in 1802? Laurel Lodged ( talk) 16:54, 22 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Why not group by both? They're complimentary. Plus the periods don't neatly overlap at the end. Laurel Lodged ( talk) 16:56, 22 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Voodoo texts

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Category:International Academic Competitions

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)LaundryPizza03 ( d ) 04:53, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Duplicate of Category:Intellectual competitions, and a WP:SMALLCAT as only 1 entry (and that entry is invalid, as the article is for a person, not a competition). If kept, should be renamed to the proper capitalisation Category:International academic competitions Joseph 2302 ( talk) 17:02, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Association football people by prefecture in Japan

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Category:People known for going barefoot

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)LaundryPizza03 ( d ) 04:54, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Very clearly not a defining feature of any people. Di (they-them) ( talk) 16:02, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Films set in summer camps

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Aside from the redundancy to Category:Films about summer camps, there was also a claim that it was less defining. (non-admin closure)LaundryPizza03 ( d ) 04:55, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Redundant with the existence of Category:Films about summer camps. (Oinkers42) ( talk) 15:35, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Albanian footballers from North Macedonia

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The result of the discussion was: Delete This has been relisted twice, and no actual opposition to deletion has been provided in over a month ( non-admin closure) * Pppery * it has begun... 19:23, 1 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Should follow the wider category tree of Category:Sportspeople by country of descent, which has many subcategories of sportspeople by nationality and country of descent (but does not split by specific sport). S.A. Julio ( talk) 10:24, 19 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Musical television specials

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Musical theatre television specials. – Fayenatic London 08:05, 22 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: These were originally separated with the rationale of a distinction between television specials that were staged broadcasts of theatrical musicals and television specials that were not, but based on the contents of the categories that's not what's actually happening. Instead, "musical" actually contains numerous entries that would belong in "music" rather than "musical" by that yardstick (such as Céline Dion and Liza Minnelli concerts). So even if separate categories are warranted here, the theatrical one would need to be purged of inappropriate entries and renamed for clarity — but as it stands, the names of these two categories aren't communicating a very clear distinction to begin with, and it's at best debatable whether the category system really needs to maintain the distinction at all. Bearcat ( talk) 22:56, 19 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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  • comment These two categories seem to be made up of (by my reckoning) at least four different kinds of things, of which two are clearly TV stagings of musicals per se, and broadcast concerts. After that it gets murkier, as there are at least a couple of different things which aren't either of these two (e.g., Amahl and the Night Visitors is a made-for-TV opera, and there appear to be a number of variety shows in the list). I'm betting there are others (what's with the Peanuts special?). I'm having a hard time even coming up with an overarching category that describes all these things. Mangoe ( talk) 03:17, 19 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:LeAnn Rimes

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Category:Tsardom of Russia nuns

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 16:58, 5 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: AFAIK, we don't have any categories "by country" for nuns. We only have "by nationality" categories for nuns. The Tsardom / Empire is the exception. Laurel Lodged ( talk) 08:35, 18 May 2023 (UTC) reply
@ Laurel Lodged we do, see Category:Kievan Rus' nuns (currently in CfR). Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 07:37, 20 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Greek chronicles

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The result of the discussion was: rename/manual upmerge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 17:00, 5 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Category tree has been reorganised by language and by topic, see Category talk:Greek chronicles#Categorisation by language and topic for the full background, explanation and process. See also other current CfRs concerning renaming Fooian chronicles to Chronicles about Fooland. Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 11:58, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply
PS: We could theoretically create an additional Category:Greek-language chronicles about Greece, by which "Greece" means the territory of the modern Hellenic Republic (excluding "Ancient Greek" and "Byzantine" areas in Asia Minor, southern Italy etc.). This would include the following 6 items: Leipziger Weltchronik (founding of Thebes), Lindos Chronicle (local history of Lindos on Rhodes), Chronicle of Monemvasia (purported history of early medieval mainland Greece), Chronicle of Ioannina (local history of Ioannina, Epirus), Chronicle of the Tocco ( Tocco family history of Epirus), and Chronicle of Galaxeidi (local history of Galaxidi, Phocis). But I'm worried that this category may be misunderstood or abused by people who interpret "Greece" more broadly than that, or that extending "Greece" before the 19th century may lead to accusations of WP:OR. So I haven't created it yet, and maybe we shouldn't. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 12:23, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Chechen-speaking countries and territories

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Category:Hindi-speaking countries and territories

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Category:Parody television series based on Star Wars

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The result of the discussion was: split. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 17:16, 5 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: While there are some TV series in the category, there are also episodes of shows and TV specials. New name would more accurately represent categories scope. JDDJS ( talk to mesee what I've done) 16:05, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply
Appears to be following Category:Parody television series' name scheme, as opposed to Category:Parody television episodes'. Perhaps a split would be more helpful. QuietHere ( talk | contributions) 16:38, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply
There would only be like 4 articles in the category if we split. JDDJS ( talk to mesee what I've done) 20:05, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Swedish-speaking countries and territories

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 17:29, 5 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:C2C parent Category:Countries and territories by official language, and per category description This category lists countries and territories where Swedish is used as an official language. Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 16:26, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply
It looks that two out of five entries don't fit with is and probably don't fit with official either. Kaffet i halsen ( talk) 16:56, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply
The historical Grand Duchy of Finland and Estonia under Swedish rule? Perhaps is is not grammatically correct. However, I checked at least the official status of the former, and German Wikipedia has an officially designated "excellent article" (Exzellente Artikel) on it: de:Großfürstentum Finnland. It says Das Schwedische bewahrte sich seine Position als Amts- und Verwaltungssprache auch unter der russischen Krone. ("Swedish also kept its position as language of administration and government under the Russian crown"). It continues saying that Finnish was recognised as an equal language of administration in 1902, and Russification efforts which began in 1900 were abandoned in 1906. About Estonia I'd have to check. Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 18:19, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:RUSNANO

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Next time, please use WP:C2F. (non-admin closure)LaundryPizza03 ( d ) 04:56, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. This category has only 1 entry. Estopedist1 ( talk) 15:15, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Unpopulated villages in Turkey

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Former populated places in Turkey. – Fayenatic London 13:32, 20 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: More accurate as the populations were forcibly removed. "Unpopulated" is a more vague term here. Semsûrî ( talk) 10:12, 8 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Although there is no parent like Category:Depopulated villages by country, there is a great number of singular "depopulated villages" categories for – you guessed it – very controversial conflict-related topics. Some examples:
Obviously, such categorisations are implicit/explicit accusations of war crimes / crimes against humanity by some other state or non-state actor. I would generally be in favour of Listify to allow WP:RS to be added for WP:V. We can't have baseless accusations of serious crimes without evidence. If, as it seems, these villages were "depopulated" during Turkish/Kurdish conflicts as Peterkingiron says, we need evidence, and Listify is the best option. Otherwise, I suggest we do not use the term "depopulated" here.
The only one which doesn't appear to be controversial is Category:Villages in Norway (depopulated). This one might as well be called "Abandoned villages in Norway". Its parent is Category:Former populated places in Norway, which is part of the Category:Former populated places by country. Not sure what the difference is between "ghost towns" and "former populated places", except that the last one doesn't have to be a "town", thus satisfying Semsûrî's objection against "ghost towns". Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 17:52, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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  • Merge to Category:Former populated places in Turkey per Nederlandse Leeuw. —  Qwerfjkl talk 17:32, 5 July 2023 (UTC) reply
  • In agreement with Merge to Category:Former populated places in Turkey. My feeling is that 'ghost town' is kind of an Americanism (I could be wrong, but that's my feeling) and carries with it a certain connotation related to the American Old West. The 'former populated places' is by no means a perfect category as it makes no distinction between modern and ancient times; for instance, certainly Antioch is a formerly populated place, but it also has some current population related to the archeological activities going on there, albeit not likely a transient population and not "incorporated", but can we say that ancient cities were "incorporated" in the modern sense - I don't think so, myself. Regards --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 01:53, 12 July 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Persian-speaking countries and territories

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 17:34, 5 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:C2D main article List of countries and territories where Persian is an official language, and per WP:C2C parent Category:Countries and territories by official language. Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 16:54, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Dynasty genealogy

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Family trees of royalty and purge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 11:23, 7 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: "Dynasty genealogy" is not a term I have ever heard before, and it seems to not really reflect a lot of the articles and templates collected in it. ★Trekker ( talk) 12:56, 17 May 2023 (UTC) reply
Precedents: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_January_2#Ruling_families_of_counties_and_duchies and Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_April_22#Category:Nobles_of_Kievan_Rus.
Ongoing: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_May_14#Category:Princes_in_Rus'.
At User:Nederlandse Leeuw/People from Kievan Rus' category tree#Rationale, I've explained further problems. Excerpt: I have come to the conclusion that the terms "royalty" and "royal houses" are pretty useless for categorisation. (...) " royalty" refers only to the reigning king/queen (or higher: emperor/empress, tsar/tsarina etc.) and their immediate family: the immediate family of a king or queen regnant, and sometimes his or her extended family. Once the reigning monarch dies and the next monarch accedes, this may completely change who is now "royalty", just like the order of succession may change suddenly when a royal (including the monarch himself/herself) dies. Moreover, it's always possible for a dynasty to fall by being overthrown (during wars of succession or princely rebellions) by another noble family, whose core members then suddenly become "royalty" at the expense of the immediate family of the overthrown/previous monarch. That they are all nobility, however, is something that never changes until modern times when royalty and nobility are abolished. (...) Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 19:01, 21 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • rename to Category:Family trees of royalty and purge of any who are not royal (or imperial). People appear in these because of relationship to a monarch. We may need a "noble family trees" category, but we would need one for each country. In UK, there is a list article for each peerage, so that there is usually no family tree article as such, so that "noble family trees of UK" would probably be unnecessary. Peterkingiron ( talk) 15:30, 23 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Manuscripts by area

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Category:European chronicles

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Besta deild kvenna

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure)LaundryPizza03 ( d ) 04:56, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: The league and its main article were renamed from " Úrvalsdeild kvenna (football)" to " Besta deild kvenna" in 2022. Categories should align accordingly. Additionally, Category:Úrvalsdeild Women duplicates Category:Úrvalsdeild kvenna (football) and should also be merged into the new category; its only contents are the same main article and Category:Úrvalsdeild Women clubs. - Socccc ( talk) 13:14, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Comment: I intentionally did not nominate Category:Úrvalsdeild kvenna (football) players by team as it is separately up for CfD. If it is kept rather than deleted, it should be added to this request to rename it accordingly. - Socccc ( talk) 13:20, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Places of local interest needing cleanup

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Category:Novels set in fictional villages

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Category:Two-time VFL/AFL Premiership players

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Category:21st-century viceregal rulers

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 14:11, 7 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: WP:C2C Category:Viceroys. "Rulers" seems to have no added meaning or value here. It's almost never used in modern literature. The point seems to be that their title wasn't necessarily "viceroy", but so what? The category is about functions, not titles.
I don't think upmerging per WP:SMALLCAT is necessary because it can be populated with, say, lots of items in Category:Viceroys in Australia. There is clear potential for growth, and this century is far from over. Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 21:54, 24 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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(Sailing class) competitions

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The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:12 Metre class sailing competitions, Category:420 (dinghy) class sailing competitions etc. – Fayenatic London 11:14, 29 June 2023 (UTC) – Fayenatic London 11:14, 29 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Other categories related to Sailing by class ( Category:Sailors (sport) by class, Category:Olympic sailors by class, and Category:World champions in sailing by class) follows the proposed scheme. Kaffet i halsen ( talk) 11:35, 2 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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I've now tried to look at the use outside Wikipedia but there is no tendency to support either (Boat) competitions or (Boat) class competitions. On Wikipedia it is a strong preference towards using (Boat) class, e.g. 470 class when talking about competitive sailing. Kaffet i halsen ( talk) 10:31, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply
I support such a solution. Further suggestions on how to categorise handicap sailing are welcome, but I guess they won't suit in this exact discussion. Kaffet i halsen ( talk) 10:31, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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  • Comment - My concerns about the tree aside, just to re-affirm what I said above, I support: Rename to Category:X class sailing competitions. And keeping the disambiguation parentheticals, per Oculi. - jc37 11:40, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Indian ancestors by region

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn. – Fayenatic London 12:25, 29 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Propose merging
more categories nominated
Nominator's rationale: delete, e.g. for American people with Indian ancestors the specific region in India where their ancestors lived is trivial for their own living in the United States. Marcocapelle ( talk) 06:05, 23 May 2023 (UTC) reply
In making these nominations, can you please set out the number of articles in each category? In America, where there are relatively few people of Indian descent and they are mainly in professional classes, the melting pot may have erased differences. In Britain, where Indian and Pakistani immigration was largely for manual jobs, integration has been much less complete. Peterkingiron ( talk) 16:38, 23 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Support - per nom. Oculi ( talk) 12:45, 23 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose This is much too sweeping a nom and in some cases utterly inaccurate. Azad Kashmir is the Pakistani sector of Kashmir; this also applies to Sindh, while Punjab is split between India and Pakistan. I would also oppose merger where a category is well populated. It may be appropriate to use "Indian" where the emigration took place before 1947, but not subsequently. Most immigration to Britain was 1950s and 1960s, while emigration to West Indies may have been in the 19th century (for sugar plantations); also to Africa, where Indians were imported to build railways. I would also oppose merger where a category is well populated. India is a country of many languages, so that the use of provincial demonyms is wholly appropriate where a category is well populated. Such people often retain links with their home provinces. This may be trivial in USA. It is not so in Britain. We had ethnic tension in Leicester recently, which was due to tensions arising from Indian politics. Peterkingiron ( talk) 16:34, 23 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Support per nom. Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 23:23, 23 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Comment Are you sure you want to merge "Bangladeshi descent" into Indian descent, even with Bangladesh being a present-day country? Why not merge "Pakistani descent" into "Indian descent", then? And if you're separating by country, please note that Bengalis and Punjabis are split, half in the present-day state of India, and half in Bangladesh / Pakistan. I am also notifying some related WikiProjects about this discussion. — Lights and freedom ( talk ~ contribs) 00:37, 31 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose Merging the "of Bangladeshi descent" and "of Bengali descent" categories into "of Indian descent" makes no sense. For example, Rumaan Alam's parents emigrated from Bangladesh in the early 1970s. Bangladesh was not a region of India then, or likely at any time in their lives. There's no evidence that they were Indian. Why would we put him in Category:American people of Indian descent? Bengal has at times been independent, at times part of India, at times been split between India and Pakistan, and is currently divided between Bangladesh and India. People who identify as being of Bengali descent might or might not be of Indian descent. -- Worldbruce ( talk) 04:38, 31 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose I see no benefit to these mergers. ★Trekker ( talk) 11:26, 31 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose. What has been said above about the UK also holds in South Africa, where there were waves of Indian immigration from different regions, at different times and for different purposes. Those differences were magnified by apartheid and other racial inanities (try a Google Scholar search). I can't comment about the significance of regional origin in other countries, but generally I see no reason to merge well-populated categories. Jlalbion ( talk) 13:06, 2 June 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Strong oppose As Lights and freedom mentioned, the application of the category "Pakistani people of Indian descent" in this context is itself a misnomer, because Pakistan and India were one landmass until 1947. Marcocapelle acknowledges that the Category:Pakistani people of Indian descent would therefore apply only to individuals who migrated from India to Pakistan "after the split". However, going through the Pakistani subcategories above, the individuals here are not Indian citizen emigrants to Pakistan, but rather Muhajirs who arrived in Pakistan during the partition (and their descendants) from the various provinces of India, a complex Pakistani ethnolinguistic community who in any case cannot be called "Indian" in the post-partition context. To ascribe them as 'Indian' would be to ascribe the millions who left Pakistan for India as 'Pakistani'. The Azad Kashmir nominations are also wholly inaccurate. Mar4d ( talk) 05:41, 3 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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  • Oppose- Despite the nominator trying their best to change according to comments and votes they are still errors remaining. Take Category:Chinese people of Punjabi descent to Category:Chinese people of Indian descent, the Punjabi category has both Indians and Pakistanis, so merging it with Indian descent would be wrong. This is too big of a nomination to check every single entry. I would have no problem if the nom were to nominate them individually or in smaller manageable groups. Vinegarymass911 ( talk) 11:20, 19 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:People from Alta Loma, Rancho Cucamonga, California

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Category:Malay-speaking countries and territories

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 14:18, 7 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:C2D main article List of countries and territories where Malay is an official language, per WP:C2C parent Category:Countries and territories by official language, and partially per category description This category lists countries and territories where Malay is used as either a first or native language or an official language. Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 08:24, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Malay/Indonesian: This category and its main page List of countries and territories where Malay is an official language may have a similar issue as noted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 May 28#Category:Hindi-speaking countries and territories. We may need to exclude Indonesia, because the Indonesian language is a standardized variety of Malay, which may in practice differ significantly from the standardised varieties of Malay as used in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Thus, it might be incorrect/misleading to throw them all together as "Malay as an official language" (as with "Hindustani", which for official purposes is practically split in "Hindi" and "Urdu"). @ Austronesier: I couldn't possibly do without asking your linguist opinion here about this most prominent example of Austronesian languages. Thanks in advance! Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 08:32, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Singapore religious cases

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The result of the discussion was: merge. – Fayenatic London 10:38, 30 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: category name Foo country "religious cases" is unique. Per WP:SMALLCAT. This category has only 1-2 entries. Estopedist1 ( talk) 05:31, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Welfare state in the United Kingdom

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Category:Prix Louis Guilloux winners

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The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic London 13:58, 29 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD, WP:NONDEFINING
The Louis-Guilloux Prize is a literary award from France given to individual books that reflect "the humane qualities of generous thought, refusing all dualism and all sacrifice of individuality in favour of ideological abstractions". This category groups authors who wrote the winning books but those biography articles don't treat this award as defining, generally listing it with other honours. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. - RevelationDirect ( talk) 00:43, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar Puraskar

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The result of the discussion was: Delete ( non-admin closure) * Pppery * it has begun... 19:23, 1 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:C1, an empty category, WP:V, WP:DNWAUC, and presumably WP:OCAWARD
Based on the parent category, I'm assuming that the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar Puraskar is an Indian literary award. (I Googled this and it's related to Sahitya Akademi but I'm not sure past that.) The only article in the category is Eli Ahmed which doesn't even mention thhe award--or Sahitya Akademi--so it should not be in the category. Indian topics are under-represented on English Wikipedia so this award may very well be notable, but the right place to add that content is in a list article with reliable sources. - RevelationDirect ( talk) 00:43, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply
 Comment: @ RevelationDirect, Hello. With regard to your proposal to remove the above category, I would like to comment that, I have created Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar and lists of recipients by languages. There is a bit of a mess in the title of the above category. Here the Puraskar is shown twice. If the category is to be retained, the title of the category has to be revised or the category has to be deleted and a new category Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar or Recipients of the Bal Sahitya Puraskar has to be created.
As i mentioned i created the list articles by languages. In which, 31 articles (mentioned below) are available where we can add the category. (Few have references and remaining, I have cross checked on Sahitya Akademi Website)
Sudha Murty, Ramesh Parekh, Yoseph Macwan, Dhiruben Patel, Chandrakant Sheth, Hari Krishna Devsare, Bolwar Mahammad Kunhi, Na D'Souza, Sumatheendra Nadig, N. S. Lakshminarayan Bhat, Zareef Ahmad Zareef, S. Sivadas, N. P. Hafiz Mohamad, P. K. Gopi, Malayath Appunni, Gracy, Raghunath Paleri, Sethu (A. Sethumadhavan), Priya A. S., Dilip Prabhavalkar, Ratnakar Matkari, Dash Benhur, Karnail Singh Somal, Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra, H. R. Vishwasa, Sampadananda Mishra, Joba Murmu, M. L. Thangappa, Era Natarasan, Dasari Venkataramana.
If the community decides to retain the category, then i will add it to above articles. Snehrashmi ( talk) 07:35, 29 June 2023 (UTC) reply
@ Snehrashmi: Thank you very much for all your work! I would still favor removing the category as non-defining based on how the articles treat the awards but, if the community decides to keep, obviously it should be renamed. (Either way, we probably need a category to hold the lists.) I don't want to speak for the other editors below though so I'll ping them so they can re-evaluate their iVotes based on this new information. - RevelationDirect ( talk) 03:49, 30 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Short stories set in 1922

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)LaundryPizza03 ( d ) 04:48, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: We don't categorize short stories through the year of setting. We don't even do it for novels. There aren't that many notable short stories so this is bound to be a WP:SMALLCAT. Pichpich ( talk) 23:29, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply
If deleted, recategorize in Category:Fiction set in 1922. Gonnym ( talk) 10:54, 20 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Four Digit Wings of the United States Air Force

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Category:People from Ireland (1801–1923)

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The result of the discussion was: delete. This is the only logical outcome now that WP:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_June_16#Emigrants_from_Ireland_(1801-1923) has closed as merge. (non-admin closure)LaundryPizza03 ( d ) 04:52, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: A wholly un-needed chronological division of Category:Irish people. All the contents are already adequately categorised, so no need to merge.
See also the related discussion at WP:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_June_16#Emigrants_from_Ireland_(1801-1923). BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 22:03, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Tell that to the Poles. Their states may have evolved / dissolved over the centuries, but there were always a Polish nation. Didn't you write elsewhere that Irish people were Irish in 1799 and in 1802? Laurel Lodged ( talk) 16:54, 22 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Why not group by both? They're complimentary. Plus the periods don't neatly overlap at the end. Laurel Lodged ( talk) 16:56, 22 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Voodoo texts

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Category:International Academic Competitions

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)LaundryPizza03 ( d ) 04:53, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Duplicate of Category:Intellectual competitions, and a WP:SMALLCAT as only 1 entry (and that entry is invalid, as the article is for a person, not a competition). If kept, should be renamed to the proper capitalisation Category:International academic competitions Joseph 2302 ( talk) 17:02, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Association football people by prefecture in Japan

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Category:People known for going barefoot

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)LaundryPizza03 ( d ) 04:54, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Very clearly not a defining feature of any people. Di (they-them) ( talk) 16:02, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Films set in summer camps

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Aside from the redundancy to Category:Films about summer camps, there was also a claim that it was less defining. (non-admin closure)LaundryPizza03 ( d ) 04:55, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Redundant with the existence of Category:Films about summer camps. (Oinkers42) ( talk) 15:35, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Albanian footballers from North Macedonia

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The result of the discussion was: Delete This has been relisted twice, and no actual opposition to deletion has been provided in over a month ( non-admin closure) * Pppery * it has begun... 19:23, 1 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Should follow the wider category tree of Category:Sportspeople by country of descent, which has many subcategories of sportspeople by nationality and country of descent (but does not split by specific sport). S.A. Julio ( talk) 10:24, 19 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Musical television specials

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Musical theatre television specials. – Fayenatic London 08:05, 22 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: These were originally separated with the rationale of a distinction between television specials that were staged broadcasts of theatrical musicals and television specials that were not, but based on the contents of the categories that's not what's actually happening. Instead, "musical" actually contains numerous entries that would belong in "music" rather than "musical" by that yardstick (such as Céline Dion and Liza Minnelli concerts). So even if separate categories are warranted here, the theatrical one would need to be purged of inappropriate entries and renamed for clarity — but as it stands, the names of these two categories aren't communicating a very clear distinction to begin with, and it's at best debatable whether the category system really needs to maintain the distinction at all. Bearcat ( talk) 22:56, 19 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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  • comment These two categories seem to be made up of (by my reckoning) at least four different kinds of things, of which two are clearly TV stagings of musicals per se, and broadcast concerts. After that it gets murkier, as there are at least a couple of different things which aren't either of these two (e.g., Amahl and the Night Visitors is a made-for-TV opera, and there appear to be a number of variety shows in the list). I'm betting there are others (what's with the Peanuts special?). I'm having a hard time even coming up with an overarching category that describes all these things. Mangoe ( talk) 03:17, 19 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:LeAnn Rimes

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Category:Tsardom of Russia nuns

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 16:58, 5 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: AFAIK, we don't have any categories "by country" for nuns. We only have "by nationality" categories for nuns. The Tsardom / Empire is the exception. Laurel Lodged ( talk) 08:35, 18 May 2023 (UTC) reply
@ Laurel Lodged we do, see Category:Kievan Rus' nuns (currently in CfR). Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 07:37, 20 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Greek chronicles

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The result of the discussion was: rename/manual upmerge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 17:00, 5 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Category tree has been reorganised by language and by topic, see Category talk:Greek chronicles#Categorisation by language and topic for the full background, explanation and process. See also other current CfRs concerning renaming Fooian chronicles to Chronicles about Fooland. Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 11:58, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply
PS: We could theoretically create an additional Category:Greek-language chronicles about Greece, by which "Greece" means the territory of the modern Hellenic Republic (excluding "Ancient Greek" and "Byzantine" areas in Asia Minor, southern Italy etc.). This would include the following 6 items: Leipziger Weltchronik (founding of Thebes), Lindos Chronicle (local history of Lindos on Rhodes), Chronicle of Monemvasia (purported history of early medieval mainland Greece), Chronicle of Ioannina (local history of Ioannina, Epirus), Chronicle of the Tocco ( Tocco family history of Epirus), and Chronicle of Galaxeidi (local history of Galaxidi, Phocis). But I'm worried that this category may be misunderstood or abused by people who interpret "Greece" more broadly than that, or that extending "Greece" before the 19th century may lead to accusations of WP:OR. So I haven't created it yet, and maybe we shouldn't. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 12:23, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Chechen-speaking countries and territories

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Category:Hindi-speaking countries and territories

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Category:Parody television series based on Star Wars

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The result of the discussion was: split. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 17:16, 5 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: While there are some TV series in the category, there are also episodes of shows and TV specials. New name would more accurately represent categories scope. JDDJS ( talk to mesee what I've done) 16:05, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply
Appears to be following Category:Parody television series' name scheme, as opposed to Category:Parody television episodes'. Perhaps a split would be more helpful. QuietHere ( talk | contributions) 16:38, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply
There would only be like 4 articles in the category if we split. JDDJS ( talk to mesee what I've done) 20:05, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Swedish-speaking countries and territories

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 17:29, 5 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:C2C parent Category:Countries and territories by official language, and per category description This category lists countries and territories where Swedish is used as an official language. Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 16:26, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply
It looks that two out of five entries don't fit with is and probably don't fit with official either. Kaffet i halsen ( talk) 16:56, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply
The historical Grand Duchy of Finland and Estonia under Swedish rule? Perhaps is is not grammatically correct. However, I checked at least the official status of the former, and German Wikipedia has an officially designated "excellent article" (Exzellente Artikel) on it: de:Großfürstentum Finnland. It says Das Schwedische bewahrte sich seine Position als Amts- und Verwaltungssprache auch unter der russischen Krone. ("Swedish also kept its position as language of administration and government under the Russian crown"). It continues saying that Finnish was recognised as an equal language of administration in 1902, and Russification efforts which began in 1900 were abandoned in 1906. About Estonia I'd have to check. Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 18:19, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:RUSNANO

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The result of the discussion was: merge. Next time, please use WP:C2F. (non-admin closure)LaundryPizza03 ( d ) 04:56, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. This category has only 1 entry. Estopedist1 ( talk) 15:15, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Unpopulated villages in Turkey

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Former populated places in Turkey. – Fayenatic London 13:32, 20 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: More accurate as the populations were forcibly removed. "Unpopulated" is a more vague term here. Semsûrî ( talk) 10:12, 8 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Although there is no parent like Category:Depopulated villages by country, there is a great number of singular "depopulated villages" categories for – you guessed it – very controversial conflict-related topics. Some examples:
Obviously, such categorisations are implicit/explicit accusations of war crimes / crimes against humanity by some other state or non-state actor. I would generally be in favour of Listify to allow WP:RS to be added for WP:V. We can't have baseless accusations of serious crimes without evidence. If, as it seems, these villages were "depopulated" during Turkish/Kurdish conflicts as Peterkingiron says, we need evidence, and Listify is the best option. Otherwise, I suggest we do not use the term "depopulated" here.
The only one which doesn't appear to be controversial is Category:Villages in Norway (depopulated). This one might as well be called "Abandoned villages in Norway". Its parent is Category:Former populated places in Norway, which is part of the Category:Former populated places by country. Not sure what the difference is between "ghost towns" and "former populated places", except that the last one doesn't have to be a "town", thus satisfying Semsûrî's objection against "ghost towns". Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 17:52, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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  • Merge to Category:Former populated places in Turkey per Nederlandse Leeuw. —  Qwerfjkl talk 17:32, 5 July 2023 (UTC) reply
  • In agreement with Merge to Category:Former populated places in Turkey. My feeling is that 'ghost town' is kind of an Americanism (I could be wrong, but that's my feeling) and carries with it a certain connotation related to the American Old West. The 'former populated places' is by no means a perfect category as it makes no distinction between modern and ancient times; for instance, certainly Antioch is a formerly populated place, but it also has some current population related to the archeological activities going on there, albeit not likely a transient population and not "incorporated", but can we say that ancient cities were "incorporated" in the modern sense - I don't think so, myself. Regards --User:Ceyockey ( talk to me) 01:53, 12 July 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Persian-speaking countries and territories

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 17:34, 5 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:C2D main article List of countries and territories where Persian is an official language, and per WP:C2C parent Category:Countries and territories by official language. Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 16:54, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Dynasty genealogy

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Family trees of royalty and purge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 11:23, 7 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: "Dynasty genealogy" is not a term I have ever heard before, and it seems to not really reflect a lot of the articles and templates collected in it. ★Trekker ( talk) 12:56, 17 May 2023 (UTC) reply
Precedents: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_January_2#Ruling_families_of_counties_and_duchies and Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_April_22#Category:Nobles_of_Kievan_Rus.
Ongoing: Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_May_14#Category:Princes_in_Rus'.
At User:Nederlandse Leeuw/People from Kievan Rus' category tree#Rationale, I've explained further problems. Excerpt: I have come to the conclusion that the terms "royalty" and "royal houses" are pretty useless for categorisation. (...) " royalty" refers only to the reigning king/queen (or higher: emperor/empress, tsar/tsarina etc.) and their immediate family: the immediate family of a king or queen regnant, and sometimes his or her extended family. Once the reigning monarch dies and the next monarch accedes, this may completely change who is now "royalty", just like the order of succession may change suddenly when a royal (including the monarch himself/herself) dies. Moreover, it's always possible for a dynasty to fall by being overthrown (during wars of succession or princely rebellions) by another noble family, whose core members then suddenly become "royalty" at the expense of the immediate family of the overthrown/previous monarch. That they are all nobility, however, is something that never changes until modern times when royalty and nobility are abolished. (...) Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 19:01, 21 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • rename to Category:Family trees of royalty and purge of any who are not royal (or imperial). People appear in these because of relationship to a monarch. We may need a "noble family trees" category, but we would need one for each country. In UK, there is a list article for each peerage, so that there is usually no family tree article as such, so that "noble family trees of UK" would probably be unnecessary. Peterkingiron ( talk) 15:30, 23 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Manuscripts by area

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Category:European chronicles

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Besta deild kvenna

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure)LaundryPizza03 ( d ) 04:56, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: The league and its main article were renamed from " Úrvalsdeild kvenna (football)" to " Besta deild kvenna" in 2022. Categories should align accordingly. Additionally, Category:Úrvalsdeild Women duplicates Category:Úrvalsdeild kvenna (football) and should also be merged into the new category; its only contents are the same main article and Category:Úrvalsdeild Women clubs. - Socccc ( talk) 13:14, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Comment: I intentionally did not nominate Category:Úrvalsdeild kvenna (football) players by team as it is separately up for CfD. If it is kept rather than deleted, it should be added to this request to rename it accordingly. - Socccc ( talk) 13:20, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Places of local interest needing cleanup

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Category:Novels set in fictional villages

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Category:Two-time VFL/AFL Premiership players

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Category:21st-century viceregal rulers

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 14:11, 7 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: WP:C2C Category:Viceroys. "Rulers" seems to have no added meaning or value here. It's almost never used in modern literature. The point seems to be that their title wasn't necessarily "viceroy", but so what? The category is about functions, not titles.
I don't think upmerging per WP:SMALLCAT is necessary because it can be populated with, say, lots of items in Category:Viceroys in Australia. There is clear potential for growth, and this century is far from over. Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 21:54, 24 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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(Sailing class) competitions

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The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:12 Metre class sailing competitions, Category:420 (dinghy) class sailing competitions etc. – Fayenatic London 11:14, 29 June 2023 (UTC) – Fayenatic London 11:14, 29 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Other categories related to Sailing by class ( Category:Sailors (sport) by class, Category:Olympic sailors by class, and Category:World champions in sailing by class) follows the proposed scheme. Kaffet i halsen ( talk) 11:35, 2 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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I've now tried to look at the use outside Wikipedia but there is no tendency to support either (Boat) competitions or (Boat) class competitions. On Wikipedia it is a strong preference towards using (Boat) class, e.g. 470 class when talking about competitive sailing. Kaffet i halsen ( talk) 10:31, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply
I support such a solution. Further suggestions on how to categorise handicap sailing are welcome, but I guess they won't suit in this exact discussion. Kaffet i halsen ( talk) 10:31, 28 May 2023 (UTC) reply

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  • Comment - My concerns about the tree aside, just to re-affirm what I said above, I support: Rename to Category:X class sailing competitions. And keeping the disambiguation parentheticals, per Oculi. - jc37 11:40, 27 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Indian ancestors by region

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The result of the discussion was: withdrawn. – Fayenatic London 12:25, 29 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Propose merging
more categories nominated
Nominator's rationale: delete, e.g. for American people with Indian ancestors the specific region in India where their ancestors lived is trivial for their own living in the United States. Marcocapelle ( talk) 06:05, 23 May 2023 (UTC) reply
In making these nominations, can you please set out the number of articles in each category? In America, where there are relatively few people of Indian descent and they are mainly in professional classes, the melting pot may have erased differences. In Britain, where Indian and Pakistani immigration was largely for manual jobs, integration has been much less complete. Peterkingiron ( talk) 16:38, 23 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Support - per nom. Oculi ( talk) 12:45, 23 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose This is much too sweeping a nom and in some cases utterly inaccurate. Azad Kashmir is the Pakistani sector of Kashmir; this also applies to Sindh, while Punjab is split between India and Pakistan. I would also oppose merger where a category is well populated. It may be appropriate to use "Indian" where the emigration took place before 1947, but not subsequently. Most immigration to Britain was 1950s and 1960s, while emigration to West Indies may have been in the 19th century (for sugar plantations); also to Africa, where Indians were imported to build railways. I would also oppose merger where a category is well populated. India is a country of many languages, so that the use of provincial demonyms is wholly appropriate where a category is well populated. Such people often retain links with their home provinces. This may be trivial in USA. It is not so in Britain. We had ethnic tension in Leicester recently, which was due to tensions arising from Indian politics. Peterkingiron ( talk) 16:34, 23 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Support per nom. Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 23:23, 23 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Comment Are you sure you want to merge "Bangladeshi descent" into Indian descent, even with Bangladesh being a present-day country? Why not merge "Pakistani descent" into "Indian descent", then? And if you're separating by country, please note that Bengalis and Punjabis are split, half in the present-day state of India, and half in Bangladesh / Pakistan. I am also notifying some related WikiProjects about this discussion. — Lights and freedom ( talk ~ contribs) 00:37, 31 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose Merging the "of Bangladeshi descent" and "of Bengali descent" categories into "of Indian descent" makes no sense. For example, Rumaan Alam's parents emigrated from Bangladesh in the early 1970s. Bangladesh was not a region of India then, or likely at any time in their lives. There's no evidence that they were Indian. Why would we put him in Category:American people of Indian descent? Bengal has at times been independent, at times part of India, at times been split between India and Pakistan, and is currently divided between Bangladesh and India. People who identify as being of Bengali descent might or might not be of Indian descent. -- Worldbruce ( talk) 04:38, 31 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose I see no benefit to these mergers. ★Trekker ( talk) 11:26, 31 May 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Oppose. What has been said above about the UK also holds in South Africa, where there were waves of Indian immigration from different regions, at different times and for different purposes. Those differences were magnified by apartheid and other racial inanities (try a Google Scholar search). I can't comment about the significance of regional origin in other countries, but generally I see no reason to merge well-populated categories. Jlalbion ( talk) 13:06, 2 June 2023 (UTC) reply
  • Strong oppose As Lights and freedom mentioned, the application of the category "Pakistani people of Indian descent" in this context is itself a misnomer, because Pakistan and India were one landmass until 1947. Marcocapelle acknowledges that the Category:Pakistani people of Indian descent would therefore apply only to individuals who migrated from India to Pakistan "after the split". However, going through the Pakistani subcategories above, the individuals here are not Indian citizen emigrants to Pakistan, but rather Muhajirs who arrived in Pakistan during the partition (and their descendants) from the various provinces of India, a complex Pakistani ethnolinguistic community who in any case cannot be called "Indian" in the post-partition context. To ascribe them as 'Indian' would be to ascribe the millions who left Pakistan for India as 'Pakistani'. The Azad Kashmir nominations are also wholly inaccurate. Mar4d ( talk) 05:41, 3 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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  • Oppose- Despite the nominator trying their best to change according to comments and votes they are still errors remaining. Take Category:Chinese people of Punjabi descent to Category:Chinese people of Indian descent, the Punjabi category has both Indians and Pakistanis, so merging it with Indian descent would be wrong. This is too big of a nomination to check every single entry. I would have no problem if the nom were to nominate them individually or in smaller manageable groups. Vinegarymass911 ( talk) 11:20, 19 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:People from Alta Loma, Rancho Cucamonga, California

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Category:Tucana (constellation)

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Category:Russian city-states

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Category:Malay-speaking countries and territories

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 14:18, 7 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:C2D main article List of countries and territories where Malay is an official language, per WP:C2C parent Category:Countries and territories by official language, and partially per category description This category lists countries and territories where Malay is used as either a first or native language or an official language. Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 08:24, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Malay/Indonesian: This category and its main page List of countries and territories where Malay is an official language may have a similar issue as noted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 May 28#Category:Hindi-speaking countries and territories. We may need to exclude Indonesia, because the Indonesian language is a standardized variety of Malay, which may in practice differ significantly from the standardised varieties of Malay as used in Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Thus, it might be incorrect/misleading to throw them all together as "Malay as an official language" (as with "Hindustani", which for official purposes is practically split in "Hindi" and "Urdu"). @ Austronesier: I couldn't possibly do without asking your linguist opinion here about this most prominent example of Austronesian languages. Thanks in advance! Nederlandse Leeuw ( talk) 08:32, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Singapore religious cases

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The result of the discussion was: merge. – Fayenatic London 10:38, 30 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: category name Foo country "religious cases" is unique. Per WP:SMALLCAT. This category has only 1-2 entries. Estopedist1 ( talk) 05:31, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Welfare state in the United Kingdom

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Category:Prix Louis Guilloux winners

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The result of the discussion was: delete. – Fayenatic London 13:58, 29 June 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD, WP:NONDEFINING
The Louis-Guilloux Prize is a literary award from France given to individual books that reflect "the humane qualities of generous thought, refusing all dualism and all sacrifice of individuality in favour of ideological abstractions". This category groups authors who wrote the winning books but those biography articles don't treat this award as defining, generally listing it with other honours. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. - RevelationDirect ( talk) 00:43, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar Puraskar

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The result of the discussion was: Delete ( non-admin closure) * Pppery * it has begun... 19:23, 1 July 2023 (UTC) reply
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:C1, an empty category, WP:V, WP:DNWAUC, and presumably WP:OCAWARD
Based on the parent category, I'm assuming that the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar Puraskar is an Indian literary award. (I Googled this and it's related to Sahitya Akademi but I'm not sure past that.) The only article in the category is Eli Ahmed which doesn't even mention thhe award--or Sahitya Akademi--so it should not be in the category. Indian topics are under-represented on English Wikipedia so this award may very well be notable, but the right place to add that content is in a list article with reliable sources. - RevelationDirect ( talk) 00:43, 18 June 2023 (UTC) reply
 Comment: @ RevelationDirect, Hello. With regard to your proposal to remove the above category, I would like to comment that, I have created Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar and lists of recipients by languages. There is a bit of a mess in the title of the above category. Here the Puraskar is shown twice. If the category is to be retained, the title of the category has to be revised or the category has to be deleted and a new category Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar or Recipients of the Bal Sahitya Puraskar has to be created.
As i mentioned i created the list articles by languages. In which, 31 articles (mentioned below) are available where we can add the category. (Few have references and remaining, I have cross checked on Sahitya Akademi Website)
Sudha Murty, Ramesh Parekh, Yoseph Macwan, Dhiruben Patel, Chandrakant Sheth, Hari Krishna Devsare, Bolwar Mahammad Kunhi, Na D'Souza, Sumatheendra Nadig, N. S. Lakshminarayan Bhat, Zareef Ahmad Zareef, S. Sivadas, N. P. Hafiz Mohamad, P. K. Gopi, Malayath Appunni, Gracy, Raghunath Paleri, Sethu (A. Sethumadhavan), Priya A. S., Dilip Prabhavalkar, Ratnakar Matkari, Dash Benhur, Karnail Singh Somal, Abhiraj Rajendra Mishra, H. R. Vishwasa, Sampadananda Mishra, Joba Murmu, M. L. Thangappa, Era Natarasan, Dasari Venkataramana.
If the community decides to retain the category, then i will add it to above articles. Snehrashmi ( talk) 07:35, 29 June 2023 (UTC) reply
@ Snehrashmi: Thank you very much for all your work! I would still favor removing the category as non-defining based on how the articles treat the awards but, if the community decides to keep, obviously it should be renamed. (Either way, we probably need a category to hold the lists.) I don't want to speak for the other editors below though so I'll ping them so they can re-evaluate their iVotes based on this new information. - RevelationDirect ( talk) 03:49, 30 June 2023 (UTC) reply

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