Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 April 15

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Category:Extinct volcanoes of Oregon

 * The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.


 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 ( d  c̄ ) 13:56, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Extinct volcanoes of Oregon to Category:Extinct volcanoes of the United States
 * Nominator's rationale: Category currently holding just one article. While there are some other Oregon volcanoes sitting in the parent category, meaning that this is technically populatable, it's less clear that this would actually be useful -- there are no other "extinct volcanoes of [U.S. state]" subcategories for any other state, and with just 56 articles (plus the one here for 57 total) the parent category isn't large enough to require diffusion by state at all. (The article is already in the tree, so no upmerging in that direction is needed.) Bearcat (talk) 19:37, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom. –Aidan721 (talk) 02:05, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:12, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge per nom. The wider category is more useful. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 12:00, 16 April 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Constituent country

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 ( d  c̄ ) 13:56, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting constituent country
 * Nominator's rationale: I don't believe this is an official or widely used term for any of these inclusions, I can't think what the inclusion criteria would be and this has proved a controversial designation in Wikipedia in the past. I don't believe there would be consensus that it is meaningfully a thing. Mutt Lunker (talk) 17:39, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete - if kept it should be renamed to as it is a set category. Oculi (talk) 17:44, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep - This term is used for both constituent countries of the UK, Netherlands and Denmark e.g https://www.netherlandsandyou.nl/your-country-and-the-netherlands/united-states/about-us/curacao-and-you/about-curacao, https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/country-profiles/denmark_en, https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/constituent-parts-of-the-uk-and-membership-of-the-european-union etc.
 * Yes @Oculi a rename to "Constituent countries" would be fine.
 * (I am not opposed to a discussion on renaming as "Devolved countries" either.) Titus Gold (talk) 18:10, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * No, the term is not employed at https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/constituent-parts-of-the-uk-and-membership-of-the-european-union Mutt Lunker (talk) 19:19, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete - Per nom. Not at all clear how this category could be useful. This categorisation involves signfificant synthesis, mixing concepts of constitutent countries with autonomous regions and provinces - and that is just based on current category membership. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 18:19, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. --Nagsb (talk) 21:20, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:ARBITRARYCAT. This could include a virtually unlimited number of constituent countries in federal states. Category:Wales is already in Category:United Kingdom by country, while the others are in the Category:Dependent territories tree already, so it's also redundant. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 23:26, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete, it's ill-defined and half-baked to say the least, and probably of very limited use. Sionk (talk) 23:34, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Also used in a UK context:https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/families/datasets/familiesbyfamilytyperegionsofenglandandukconstituentcountries
 * I've provided evidence for the term has been used officially for the constituent countries of the UK, Netherlands and Denmark.
 * (Countries of the United Kingdom also uses the phrase in the opening paragraph)
 * I would urge editors to reconsider. Titus Gold (talk) 00:24, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @Titus Gold If I were you, I would start making sure that the existing categories feature the phrase "constituent countries" before throwing them all together into a new parent. At the very least, I would make sure their category trees align.
 * For the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the term "Caribbean countries" appears more useful: Category:Caribbean countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a child of Category:Kingdom of the Netherlands and Category:Dependent territories of European countries (and a sibling of Category:Treaties extended to dependent territories of the Netherlands, also indicating these are "dependent territories"). Separately, Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten can be found in Category:Autonomous regions, a child of Category:Autonomous administrative divisions (which is currently a parent of Category:Constituent country).
 * Similarly, but slightly different, Category:Faroe Islands and Category:Greenland‎ are already in Category:Danish Realm (directly) and Category:Danish dependencies (a child of Category:Dependent territories of European countries and Category:Autonomous regions, and thus a grandchild of Category:Autonomous administrative divisions).
 * By contrast, Category:Wales is in Category:United Kingdom by country, which is a child of Category:First-level administrative divisions by country and grandchild of Category:Administrative divisions by level and country. This is not in the Category:Dependent territories tree, nor in the Category:Autonomous administrative divisions tree; their common ancestor is Category:Administrative divisions, and nothing in the current tree suggests Wales should be considered an "autonomous region" or "autonomous administrative division", nor a "dependent territory" (like e.g. Category:Isle of Man).
 * The main article Wales is in the Category:Autonomous regions, but only because you put it there yesterday.
 * I think it's important to find out what the differences are between "dependent territories", "autonomous regions", "autonomous administrative divisions", and "Administrative divisions by level and country" (and "Devolved countries"). "Dependent" and "autonomous" may come down to the same thing, but they provide different perspectives. I suppose "dependent" usually refers to overseas territories (usually former colonies), while "autonomous" refers to areas which are contiguous parts of the rest of the country but have obtained a certain degree of autonomy towards the central government after some sort of political struggle due to differences in demographics, but that's just my observation. Perhaps the Caribbean countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Danish dependencies shouldn't be in Category:Autonomous regions, but Category:Wales should be? For starters, Category:Scotland is in Category:Autonomous regions, but Category:Wales, Category:Northern Ireland, and Category:England are not, which raises lots of questions. I see you're a member of WikiProjects Wales and Scotland, perhaps those are good places to ask these questions? Another obvious place to start is revisiting Category:United Kingdom by country's CfR of 2021.
 * These are questions that need to be answered before creating a category like Category:Constituent country or Category:Constituent countries. I hope this helps. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 12:05, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * @Sionk You may find this interesting as you mentioned issues with defining Wales' status in a related CfD. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 12:33, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * PS: Lol I see now that I'm saying this in indirectly in response to your vote on this very CfD, so you already find this interesting. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 12:40, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete, entirely arbitrary as has been noted repeatedly at other forums. CMD (talk) 01:34, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep but England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland should also appear (being the other three home nations). Alternatively, we should have separate subcats for Denmark, Netherlands and UK, reflecting their respective constitutional status.  NOte that Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man belong to British crown without being part of UK but are dealt with by Home Office, whereas Gibraltar, Falkland Islands, and some of West Indies are also crown dependencies or overseas territories (formerly colonies).  Peterkingiron (talk) 19:07, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I agree with @Peterkingiron on this. Titus Gold (talk) 19:17, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete It's just a fancy name for (non-sovereign) administrative sub-divisions of a sovereign state. Laurel Lodged (talk) 09:57, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete. I don't think that the statuses of Denmark, the Netherlands and the UK have in fact much in common, or are so different from other statuses in other countries (past and present) such as federal states, dependent territories, former Soviet republics or Crown lands of Austria-Hungary. The current structure of Category:United Kingdom by country and main article Countries of the United Kingdom is sufficient to describe the complicated (understatement) and politically divisive status of E/NI/S/W. This was discussed in 2021. Place Clichy (talk) 07:13, 20 April 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Winners in the Survivor franchise

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 * The result of the discussion was: Merge/Delete - There is No Consensus to delete both. Feel free to start a new separate nom at editorial discretion. - jc37 01:31, 19 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Propose merging Category:Winners in the Survivor franchise to Category:Survivor (franchise) winners
 * Nominator's rationale: Duplicate of the existing Category:Survivor (franchise) winners and Category:Survivor (American TV series) winners. George Ho (talk) 12:41, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Relisting comment: Listify? Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  17:16, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge Clearly overlapping. - RevelationDirect (talk) 20:43, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Surely Listify and delete both as we normally do for award categories. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:09, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
 * <p class="xfd_relist" style="margin:0 0 0 -1em;border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 2em;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * delete both per Peterkingiron above, and per WP:OCAWARD. I have tagged the target too. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:17, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I tried Draft:List of Survivor (American TV series) finalists (seasons 1–10), but that was rejected as "too arbitrary". Let's not "listify" please... unless you prefer redirecting the category to a mainspace article, like list of Survivor (American TV series) contestants. George Ho (talk) 18:34, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * If a list is not allowed then a category even less so. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:38, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Since the biography articles appear to be already in other Survivor categories, no objection to deletion. Reality TV contestants should be somewhere in the tree though since, say, J. T. Thomas (Survivor contestant) and Tommy Sheehan (Survivor contestant) are notable for nothing else. - RevelationDirect (talk) 21:53, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thomas and Sheehan are both in the subcat Category:Survivor (American TV series) winners, which has not been nominated. The others might all be in national subcats of Category:Survivor (franchise) contestants, but I have not checked. – Fayenatic  L ondon 21:50, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Almost forgot: I think nominating the other longtime, existing category is too soon, and I don't plan on having that other category deleted yet. But if you won't withdraw the nomination on that category, then.... so be it. I bet there'd be no consensus on deleting that other category, but I can stand corrected. George Ho (talk) 22:45, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 13:30, 19 March 2023 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  18:20, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete both per Marcocapelle
 * <p class="xfd_relist" style="margin:0 0 0 -1em;border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 2em;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Relisting comment: Consensus thus far is in favor of deletion, but there remain unaddressed objections to that outcome. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 17:14, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Deletion of both would go against prior consensus at e.g. Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_October_9. There are parents for Survivor contestants and for Category:Reality show winners, so it is not as if this is an isolated category. – Fayenatic  L ondon 21:55, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
 * <p class="xfd_relist" style="margin:0 0 0 -1em;border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 2em;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Nom's comment - You know what? By default, let's delete/merge just the category I nominated as a duplicate and say "no consensus" to the one that Marcocapelle nominated. What it's supposed to be a simple and short plan turned into draggy, convoluted mess that we're now in, especially by allowing other issues about reality TV genre in this project to seep through this discussion. --George Ho (talk) 03:30, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment on Expanded Nom The target category was tagged after the original nomination and I'm firmly against deleting both. Reality contestants typically get 30 minutes of fame and are notable for little else. That contrasts with professional actors with one role after another that would cause category clutter if not for WP:PERFCAT. - RevelationDirect (talk) 13:22, 23 April 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Palestinian terrorism
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 * The result of the discussion was: no consensus. (non-admin closure) –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d  c̄ ) 17:19, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Palestinian terrorism to Category:Palestinian political violence (over redirect)
 * Nominator's rationale: Propose renaming this page in line with its main article Palestinian political violence and away from the contentious labelling of dozens of militant groups and sub-categories about militant groups from different periods over the past century that are just as easily be described as resistant groups, insurgents etc. instead of the value-laden and here obviously distinct POV categorization. The separate Category:Terrorism in Israel exists for itemized acts of political violence that are consistently described as 'terrorist' in nature in reliable sources. Iskandar323 (talk) 07:53, 1 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Please see previous discussions:
 * Categories for discussion/Log/2020 January 17
 * Categories for discussion/Log/2008 November 4
 * I will go along with whatever consensus emerges. I do not concern myself much with Wikipedia categorization nowadays. I find other editing to be much more fruitful. --Timeshifter (talk) 12:07, 1 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Support per WP:C2D, if it weren't a sensitive topic the nomination could have been processed via speedy. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:59, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I don't see what has changed since the last discussion in 2020. The main arguments (change of scope to include other kinds of violence, consistency, RS referring to this as terrorism) still stand. Alaexis¿question? 09:29, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The outcome of that earlier discussion was "no consensus". - RevelationDirect (talk) 16:56, 2 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Oppose - Violence is more general, whereas terrorism is more specific. Numerous sources call it terrorism, there is no need for euphemism. A spade is a spade, and blowing up buses or deliberately shooting highschool students is terrorism, not just "violence" (such as attacking military targets). Call it like it is. Also, let's avoid double standards. See for example Category:Zionist terrorism (if we change one, we have to change both per consistency, balance and NPOV).Dovidroth (talk) 09:33, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Call what terrorism? This is sweeping category containing 11 sub-categories and dozens more articles. While the contents certainly all patently pertain to political violence, 'terrorism' per se is a contentious label and POV characterization of certain acts of political violence, and, per MOS:TERRORIST, should obviously not be applied in such a generalist and sweeping manner. Hence why Palestinian political violence is at the title it is at, and, as noted above, the category should follow this, per WP:C2D. Iskandar323 (talk) 10:04, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @Dovidroth: Why not simply support this AND support changing Category:Zionist terrorism to Category:Zionist political violence, since yes, by the same principle (and WP:C2D), that should also be the category for Zionist political violence. Iskandar323 (talk) 17:11, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I favor changing other category names to follow the main article name, including this one, Category:Zionist terrorism and Category:Birmingham, West Midlands. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:22, 4 April 2023 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  19:37, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Nothing has changed from the previous discussion in 2020. Repeating it over and over is pointless. Palestinian terrorism is the most accurate term and being used in professional literature and research. I oppose the attempt to obscure this, which I perceive as political bias. It is important to understand that Palestinian terrorism is often directed against illegitimate targets. Example of a small part of them: Munich massacre, Avivim school bus bombing, Fogel Family Massacre, 2014 kidnapping and murder of Israeli teenagers, Dolphinarium discotheque massacre and Shaar HaNegev school bus attack). This is not just "political violence". ℬ𝒜ℛ (talk) 15:36, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose. According to Wiktionary "terrorism" is The use of unlawful violence against people or property to achieve political objectives, so calling it "political violence" is just whitewashing. Much of the Palestinian terrorism is committed by, or credit for it is taken by, groups that are on "terrorist watch lists" or else is the result of "state sponsored terrorism". It walks like a duck and quacks like a duck; calling it "amphibious poultry" is just trying to pretend that it's not a duck when it is. Eliyahu S Talk 17:39, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Maybe I would be in favour, only though if Category:Zionist terrorism was changed as well to Category:Israel political violence, but if they are both different from each other, than it's an NPOV violation. אקסינו (talk) 22:11, 5 March 2023 (UTC) user has fewer than 500 edits to participate per WP:A/I/PIA
 * Oppose, the proposal is not neutral. Call a spade a spade, plus most of the sourcing on Palestinian terrorsim calls them terrorism. Researcher (Hebrew: חוקרת) (talk) 07:21, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Support - C2D is pretty clear on this point, it should be consistent with the main article title. Our article title is Palestinian political violence. It isnt even a NPOV issue, it is a basic categorization name issue. It should honestly be speedy, and all the above oppose votes that do not reconcile with out actual policy on category names and instead appeal to emotion or subjective opinion should be given the weight they deserve. As in none. And for that matter, the Category:Zionist terrorism name should be added to this nom, that article is also titled Zionist political violence. <small style="border: 1px solid;padding:1px 3px;white-space:nowrap"> nableezy  - 18:52, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Support Per C2D, objections appear to be POV. Selfstudier (talk) 14:58, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * <p class="xfd_relist" style="margin:0 0 0 -1em;border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 2em;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

William Allen Simpson (talk) 06:47, 17 March 2023 (UTC) Relisting comment: There don't seem to be any objections that WP:C2D applies. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  17:29, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Suppport per nom. I'd also support renaming Category:Zionist terrorism and the other categories with the same issue as well.--User:Namiba 19:11, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose - not all Palestinian violence aimed at causing terror in people's hearts in political in nature. It's often religious (usually Islam vs. Judaism, but sometimes other, see Christian emigration), sometimes economics (mobster style acts that happen to be between Jews and Arabs) and to my assesment often both political and religious at the same time (mainly by Hamas or Islamic Jihad type affiliates). DGtal (talk) 10:25, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
 * @DGtal: The only mention of Palestine at Christian emigration pertains to Ottoman times, so not relevant. This is a political violence cat, hence the main page. Religious examples are in theory here: Category:Islamic terrorism in Israel. Iskandar323 (talk) 10:59, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment. I participated in the last 2 CFDs. As I said before I am not wedded to either position. I just want even-handedness concerning Palestinians and Israelis. See: WikiProject Countering systemic bias. The US gets away with many uses and supports of terrorism over its history. Wikipedia's reliable sources are getting better at not letting that happen unnoticed. So what we decide here matters cause it is still going on: U.S. Splits on Prosecuting Russia for Ukraine War Crimes. By Alice Speri, March 15, 2023. In The Intercept. Subtitled: "The shadow of U.S. war crimes in Iraq hangs over the Pentagon’s refusal to support probes into Russian atrocities in Ukraine." --Timeshifter (talk) 14:14, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Rename or split — too many articles are not specifically terrorism, or are already covered under other categories.
 * <p class="xfd_relist" style="margin:0 0 0 -1em;border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 2em;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  16:35, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Rename to match the main article per WP:C2D. That speedy guideline is meant to aid readers by keeping the naming consistent to aid navigation. (If the oppose votes want to open a WP:RM to rename Palestinian political violence article, I would defer to that outcome too.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 16:53, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Rename per nom. MikutoH (talk) 17:07, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
 * <p class="xfd_relist" style="margin:0 0 0 -1em;border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 2em;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Relisting comment: Procedural relist, as the nominated category was not tagged. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 17:10, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Palestinian terrorism is a specific, highly notable subject, distinct from the generic “political violence”. The ruling party of Gaza is designated as a terrorist organization throughout most of the west. Also, the naming is consistent with the other existent category, “Zionist terrorism” Drsmoo (talk) 02:25, 4 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Palestinian terrorism and Zionist terrorism are redirects to Palestinian political violence and Zionist political violence respectively. An RM to rename Palestinian political violence to Palestinian terrorism is has been closed as not moved. Selfstudier (talk) 13:54, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
 * <p class="xfd_relist" style="margin:0 0 0 -1em;border-top: 1px solid #AAA; border-bottom: 1px solid #AAA; padding: 0px 2em;"> Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * Rename per nom, as has been long established, one person's "terrorist" is another person's "freedom fighter" or "defence force". Wikipedia shouldn't be picking sides. Sionk (talk) 23:50, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose as many editors above pointed out, there is a difference between terrorism and political violence. This category is specifically designed to hold articles on Palestinian terrorism . - Darwinek (talk) 14:39, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Oppose the numerous attacks, largely against civilians, and the groups included in the category are widely considered terrorist, which should be reflected in the category title. Thismess (talk) 19:42, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
 * If it is, it should be reflected in the article title. But the article title is at "political violence". Marcocapelle (talk) 06:30, 12 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Comment - I started to close this, then decided to leave a comment instead. First, the article title Palestinian political violence has apparently been stable since 2005, and Palestinian terrorism redirects to it. Second, I think the solution here is to rename, per C2D, and if, as some suggest above, that there are articles the meet the definition of terrorism, beyond being merely political violence, then create Category:Palestinian terrorism as a subcat, and categorize as appropriate. - jc37 01:51, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
 * In that case it would be much easier and more appropriate to instead create a new parent category called Category:Palestinian political violence, since all the articles in the current Category:Palestinian terrorism are well-established as sorting under terrorism. Thismess (talk) 19:17, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Btw it doesn't seem to have been noticed that there already exists a category called Category:Political violence in the State of Palestine, in which the article Palestinian political violence is the main article. Thismess (talk) 19:58, 22 May 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Crimes by month
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 * The result of the discussion was: Dual merge/delete Timrollpickering (talk) 20:22, 14 May 2023 (UTC)


 * Propose deleting Category:1970 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:February 1970 crimes to Category:1970 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:March 1970 crimes to Category:1970 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:July 1970 crimes to Category:1970 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:August 1970 crimes to Category:1970 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:October 1970 crimes to Category:1970 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1971 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:March 1971 crimes to Category:1971 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:August 1971 crimes to Category:1971 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:November 1971 crimes to Category:1971 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1971 crimes to Category:1971 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1972 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:January 1972 crimes to Category:1972 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:February 1972 crimes to Category:1972 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:March 1972 crimes to Category:1972 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:April 1972 crimes to Category:1972 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:July 1972 crimes to Category:1972 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:August 1972 crimes to Category:1972 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:September 1972 crimes to Category:1972 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:November 1972 crimes to Category:1972 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1972 crimes to Category:1972 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1973 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:January 1973 crimes to Category:1973 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:April 1973 crimes to Category:1973 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:May 1973 crimes to Category:1973 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:July 1973 crimes to Category:1973 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:September 1973 crimes to Category:1973 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1973 crimes to Category:1973 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1974 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:February 1974 crimes to Category:1974 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:May 1974 crimes to Category:1974 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:August 1974 crimes to Category:1974 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:September 1974 crimes to Category:1974 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:October 1974 crimes to Category:1974 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:November 1974 crimes to Category:1974 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1974 crimes to Category:1974 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1975 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:January 1975 crimes to Category:1975 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:March 1975 crimes to Category:1975 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:April 1975 crimes to Category:1975 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:August 1975 crimes to Category:1975 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:September 1975 crimes to Category:1975 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:October 1975 crimes to Category:1975 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:November 1975 crimes to Category:1975 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1975 crimes to Category:1975 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1976 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:January 1976 crimes to Category:1976 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:March 1976 crimes to Category:1976 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1976 crimes to Category:1976 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1977 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:January 1977 crimes to Category:1977 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:March 1977 crimes to Category:1977 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:May 1977 crimes to Category:1977 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:June 1977 crimes to Category:1977 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:July 1977 crimes to Category:1977 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:August 1977 crimes to Category:1977 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:September 1977 crimes to Category:1977 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:October 1977 crimes to Category:1977 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:November 1977 crimes to Category:1977 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1978 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:February 1978 crimes to Category:1978 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:March 1978 crimes to Category:1978 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:August 1978 crimes to Category:1978 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:October 1978 crimes to Category:1978 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1978 crimes to Category:1978 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1979 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:January 1979 crimes to Category:1979 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:February 1979 crimes to Category:1979 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:June 1979 crimes to Category:1979 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:July 1979 crimes to Category:1979 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:October 1979 crimes to Category:1979 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1979 crimes to Category:1979 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1980 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:April 1980 crimes to Category:1980 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:May 1980 crimes to Category:1980 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:June 1980 crimes to Category:1980 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:July 1980 crimes to Category:1980 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:August 1980 crimes to Category:1980 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:September 1980 crimes to Category:1980 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:October 1980 crimes to Category:1980 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1980 crimes to Category:1980 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1981 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:April 1981 crimes to Category:1981 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:May 1981 crimes to Category:1981 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:July 1981 crimes to Category:1981 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:September 1981 crimes to Category:1981 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:October 1981 crimes to Category:1981 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:November 1981 crimes to Category:1981 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1981 crimes to Category:1981 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1982 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:January 1982 crimes to Category:1982 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:March 1982 crimes to Category:1982 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:May 1982 crimes to Category:1982 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:June 1982 crimes to Category:1982 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:July 1982 crimes to Category:1982 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:August 1982 crimes to Category:1982 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:September 1982 crimes to Category:1982 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:October 1982 crimes to Category:1982 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1982 crimes to Category:1982 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1983 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:February 1983 crimes to Category:1983 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:April 1983 crimes to Category:1983 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:May 1983 crimes to Category:1983 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:August 1983 crimes to Category:1983 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:September 1983 crimes to Category:1983 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:October 1983 crimes to Category:1983 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:November 1983 crimes to Category:1983 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1983 crimes to Category:1983 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1985 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:February 1985 crimes to Category:1985 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:March 1985 crimes to Category:1985 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:April 1985 crimes to Category:1985 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:May 1985 crimes to Category:1985 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:June 1985 crimes to Category:1985 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:July 1985 crimes to Category:1985 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:August 1985 crimes to Category:1985 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:September 1985 crimes to Category:1985 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:October 1985 crimes to Category:1985 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:November 1985 crimes to Category:1985 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1985 crimes to Category:1985 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1986 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:March 1986 crimes to Category:1986 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:April 1986 crimes to Category:1986 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:May 1986 crimes to Category:1986 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:July 1986 crimes to Category:1986 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:September 1986 crimes to Category:1986 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:October 1986 crimes to Category:1986 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:November 1986 crimes to Category:1986 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1986 crimes to Category:1986 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1987 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:February 1987 crimes to Category:1987 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:March 1987 crimes to Category:1987 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:April 1987 crimes to Category:1987 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:May 1987 crimes to Category:1987 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:June 1987 crimes to Category:1987 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:July 1987 crimes to Category:1987 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:August 1987 crimes to Category:1987 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:September 1987 crimes to Category:1987 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:November 1987 crimes to Category:1987 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1987 crimes to Category:1987 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1987 crimes in North America by month
 * Propose deleting Category:1987 crimes in the United States by month
 * Propose merging Category:April 1987 crimes in the United States to Category:1987 crimes in the United States
 * Propose deleting Category:1988 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:February 1988 crimes to Category:1988 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:March 1988 crimes to Category:1988 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:April 1988 crimes to Category:1988 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:May 1988 crimes to Category:1988 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:June 1988 crimes to Category:1988 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:July 1988 crimes to Category:1988 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:September 1988 crimes to Category:1988 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1988 crimes to Category:1988 crimes
 * Propose deleting Category:1989 crimes by month
 * Propose merging Category:January 1989 crimes to Category:1989 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:April 1989 crimes to Category:1989 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:September 1989 crimes to Category:1989 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:October 1989 crimes to Category:1989 crimes
 * Propose merging Category:December 1989 crimes to Category:1989 crimes


 * Nominator's rationale: As noted by at Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_March_25, most of these monthly categories are WP:SMALLCAT with most having only 1–3 pages each. They actually recommended upmerging these categories up to the end of the 20th century, but I'm not confident yet about the ones in the 1990s. The astute viewer may notice that a little under half the months in the 1970s and 1980s are missing; in particular, there are no monthly categories at all in 1984. One of the categories even has 2 redundant sub-levels for a single redirect to Palm Bay, Florida. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d  c̄ ) 16:54, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Support in principle, per nom, but dual merge also to Category:February 1970 events. Admittedly I do not quite understand the added value of monthly events categories in general, but as they exist we should not randomly empty them. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:01, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Support in principle and dual merge also to Category:February 1970 events per Marcocapelle. Some of these are not as yet tagged. Oculi (talk) 00:55, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I have asked WP:AWBREQ to tag the categories. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 01:13, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Dual merge per Marcocapelle, but should be manual since some are in categories like Category:February 1970 events in Europe for example. –Aidan721 (talk) 02:14, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Support with dual merge options if that's technically feasible. I was just about to create Category:January 1971 crimes but with this plan I'm happy to leave my article in Category:Improvised explosive device bombings in 1971 and just add it to Category:January 1971 events which I'm not even sure I realized we had. In principle I'm not at all opposed to the month categories existing it just seems like we're not there yet in terms of practical need. Maybe in 2050 or so. jengod (talk) 16:19, 3 May 2023 (UTC)


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Category:IIFA awards
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d  c̄ ) 13:58, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:IIFA awards to Category: International Indian Film Academy Awards
 * Nominator's rationale: this seems to be exactly the same topic so let's merge both categories Robby (talk) 16:40, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Merge or delete per nom. If Category: International Indian Film Academy Awards and its subcategories already contain everything there is in Category:IIFA awards then we can simply delete it. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:05, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge or Delete International Indian Film Academy Awards is spelled out so the categories should be as well. - RevelationDirect (talk) 23:06, 16 April 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Military buildings and structures
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 * The result of the discussion was: rename and merge.


 * Merge Category:Military buildings and structures to Category:Military installations
 * Merge Category:Military buildings and structures in Denmark to Category:Military installations of Denmark
 * Rename Category:Former military buildings and structures to Category:Former military installations
 * Rename Category:Former military buildings and structures in Denmark to Category:Former military installations of Denmark (non-admin closure) –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 14:01, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Military buildings and structures to Category:Military installations
 * Propose merging Category:Military buildings and structures in Denmark to Category:Military installations of Denmark
 * Propose merging Category:Former military buildings and structures to Category:Former military installations
 * Propose merging Category:Former military buildings and structures in Denmark to Category:Former military installations of Denmark


 * Nominator's rationale: Also its subcategories to be merged accordingly Estopedist1 (talk) 15:27, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Support, apparently military buildings and structures by country are all under military installations and these three categories are the only exceptions. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:17, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Procedural comment you need to list the two subcategories explicitly and tag those category pages. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:17, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I added subcats as well--Estopedist1 (talk) 06:04, 16 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Merge/Rename Per the intent of this nomination. - RevelationDirect (talk) 23:08, 16 April 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Emigrants from the Kingdom of Hungary to the Kingdom of Bohemia
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d  c̄ ) 14:02, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting emigrants from the kingdom of hungary to the kingdom of bohemia
 * Nominator's rationale: delete, moving within the Habsburg monarchy is not really emigration. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:53, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete - it's also WP:SMALLCAT (1 article) and not defining. The category system is not intended to keep track of every move a person makes. I'm not sure how the brief article Vavrinec Benedikt of Nedožery manages to be in so many categories; possibly the place of birth is being used, which is not defining (WP:COP-PLACE). It is certainly not obvious from the article that he emigrated from the Kingdom of Hungary as Hungary is not mentioned. Oculi (talk) 18:07, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * He is in Czech and Slovak and Hungarian categories, that is the main reason. What currently is called Slovakia was part of the Habsburg part of the Kingdom of Hungary at the time. He moved from Habsburg 'Slovakia' to Habsburg Bohemia, but he was also a Slovak language activist. We might remove him from Hungarian categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:36, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Austro-Hungarian people by location
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:People from Austria-Hungary. (non-admin closure) –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d  c̄ ) 14:02, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Austro-Hungarian people by location to Category:People from Austria-Hungary
 * Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:48, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 23:27, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge per nom. Oculi (talk) 23:40, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge per nom. Down with the tyranny of demonyms. Laurel Lodged (talk) 10:00, 19 April 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Logothetti
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d  c̄ ) 14:03, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting logothetti
 * Nominator's rationale: delete, only two articles in this family category. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:37, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Support The 2 articles already link to each other so this cat doesn't add navigational value. - RevelationDirect (talk) 23:09, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per name. not enough content for this family. Place Clichy (talk) 07:27, 20 April 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Austrian knights
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Fires in Asia by year
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 * The result of the discussion was: Merge Timrollpickering (talk) 20:25, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:1837 fires in Asia to Category:1837 fires and Category:19th-century fires in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1901 fires in Asia to Category:1901 fires and Category:1900s fires in Asia and Category:1901 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1905 fires in Asia to Category:1905 fires and Category:1900s fires in Asia and Category:1905 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1911 fires in Asia to Category:1911 fires and Category:1910s fires in Asia and Category:1911 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1915 fires in Asia to Category:1915 fires and Category:1910s fires in Asia and Category:1915 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1916 fires in Asia to Category:1916 fires and Category:1910s fires in Asia and Category:1916 disasters in Asia


 * Propose merging Category:1917 fires in Asia to Category:1917 fires and Category:1910s fires in Asia and Category:1917 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1918 fires in Asia to Category:1918 fires and Category:1910s fires in Asia and Category:1918 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1923 fires in Asia to Category:1923 fires and Category:1920s fires in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1932 fires in Asia to Category:1932 fires and Category:1930s fires in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1934 fires in Asia to Category:1934 fires and Category:1930s fires in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1938 fires in Asia to Category:1938 fires and Category:1930s fires in Asia; move The Peak Hotel to Category:1938 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1945 fires in Asia to Category:1945 fires and Category:1940s fires in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1951 fires in Asia to Category:1951 fires and Category:1950s fires in Asia; move MV Dromus (1938) to Category:1951 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1953 fires in Asia to Category:1953 fires and Category:1950s fires in Asia and Category:1953 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1957 fires in Asia to Category:1957 fires and Category:1950s fires in Asia and Category:1957 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1961 fires in Asia to Category:1961 fires and Category:1960s fires in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1964 fires in Asia to Category:1964 fires and Category:1960s fires in Asia and Category:1964 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1966 fires in Asia to Category:1966 fires and Category:1960s fires in Asia and Category:1966 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1967 fires in Asia to Category:1967 fires and Category:1960s fires in Asia and Category:1967 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1971 fires in Asia to Category:1971 fires and Category:1970s fires in Asia and Category:1971 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1972 fires in Asia to Category:1972 fires and Category:1970s fires in Asia and Category:1972 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1973 fires in Asia to Category:1973 fires and Category:1970s fires in Asia and Category:1973 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1976 fires in Asia to Category:1976 fires and Category:1970s fires in Asia; move 1976 Azadi Cinema Complex fire to Category:1976 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1977 fires in Asia to Category:1977 fires and Category:1970s fires in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1978 fires in Asia to Category:1978 fires and Category:1970s fires in Asia and Category:1978 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1981 fires in Asia to Category:1981 fires and Category:1980s fires in Asia and Category:1981 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1982 fires in Asia to Category:1982 fires and Category:1980s fires in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1987 fires in Asia to Category:1987 fires and Category:1980s fires in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1989 fires in Asia to Category:1989 fires and Category:1980s fires in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1990 fires in Asia to Category:1990 fires and Category:1990s fires in Asia and Category:1990 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1991 fires in Asia to Category:1991 fires and Category:1990s fires in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1993 fires in Asia to Category:1993 fires and Category:1990s fires in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1994 fires in Asia to Category:1994 fires and Category:1990s fires in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1995 fires in Asia to Category:1995 fires and Category:1990s fires in Asia


 * Propose merging Category:1996 fires in Asia to Category:1996 fires and Category:1990s fires in Asia; move Garley Building fire and 1996 Pat Sin Leng wildfire to Category:1996 disasters in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1997 fires in Asia to Category:1997 fires and Category:1990s fires in Asia
 * Propose merging Category:1999 fires in Asia to Category:1999 fires and Category:1990s fires in Asia
 * Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, mostly 1- or 2-article categories in the 19th and 20th century. Especially in the later years a merge to disasters is often redundant when the article is already in a disasters by country subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 09:18, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom. –Aidan721 (talk) 12:58, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge per nom, and precedents set for other similar categories in other countries/continents e.g. Categories for discussion/Log/2023 April 10. <b style="color:#0033ab">Joseph</b><b style="color:#000000">2302</b> (talk) 12:27, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge per nom jengod (talk) 17:11, 7 May 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Australian people of Asian descent by occupation
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 * Propose deleting australian people of asian descent by occupation
 * Propose deleting australian actors of asian descent‎ (2 C, 5 P)
 * Propose deleting australian actresses of asian descent‎ (2 C, 33 P)
 * Propose deleting australian actresses of chinese descent‎ (8 P)
 * Propose deleting australian actresses of indian descent‎ (12 P)
 * Propose deleting australian actors of chinese descent‎ (1 C)
 * Propose deleting australian actresses of chinese descent‎ (8 P)


 * Propose deleting australian people of chinese descent by occupation
 * Propose deleting australian sportspeople of chinese descent‎ (17 P)
 * Propose deleting australian models of chinese descent‎ (4 P)
 * Propose deleting australian politicians of chinese descent‎ (24 P)


 * Nominator's rationale: WP:OCEGRS: triple intersection of occupation and nationality and descent is not defining.


 * Note: Asians are very special in Australia. Yet Chinese have another extra special WP:OVERLAPCAT tree.
 * Followup to:
 * Categories for discussion/Log/2023 April 6
 * Categories for discussion/Log/2023 March 27
 * Categories for discussion/Log/2023 March 8
 * Categories for discussion/Log/2023 January 14
 * Suggested by.
 * William Allen Simpson (talk) 07:58, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * William Allen Simpson (talk) 07:58, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 14:50, 15 April 2023 (UTC) William Allen Simpson (talk) 10:07, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete, trivial intersections between occupation and ancestors' nationality. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:38, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete, trivial intersections between occupation and ancestors' nationality. Place Clichy (talk) 09:41, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep all, especially the politicians We have List of Asian Australian politicians, which shows that the politicians categories easily qualify as defined. The ethnic descent of politicians, especially when coming from a marginalized community such as are Asian communities in Australia, is always a defining characteristic. See here for a BBC article about a "a trailblazing Chinese-Australian MP".--User:Namiba 11:42, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * That MP, Gladys Liu, is not Category:Australian people of Chinese descent. She would be Category:Immigrants to Australia, persuant to WP:COP-HERITAGE: Heritage categories (such as descent or diaspora) should not also contain any individual migrant, emigrant, nor immigrant. The real missing representation in occupations is Indigenous. But those would be of Australian descent.
 * Delete, trivial intersections between occupation and ancestors' nationality. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 23:39, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete - there are too many of these descent/expatriate/emigrant/immigrant categories, most of which rely on surmise rather than facts clearly sourced in articles (as well as being trivial intersections). They all should be upmerged to, , as appropriate, as these are not triple intersections. (There is Category:Indigenous Australian politicians.) Oculi (talk) 01:35, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * No upmerge, for the very reason that sampling shows many/most are not in fact "of descent" (see Gladys Liu above). Any that actually qualify (and otherwise) are usually already in those categories additionally.
 * Upmerges are required as no rationale has been given for taking (any) articles out of, , . Articles already in these (contrary to WP:SUBCAT) will not be affected. Incorrectly categorised articles are not a matter for cfd (unless a category becomes empty). No rationale has been given either for the deletion of so a wider upmerge is arguably required (the usual process at cfd is 'upmerge to all parents', not 'delete'). Oculi (talk) 12:58, 16 April 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Swiss colonels
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Category:Australian people by occupation and ethnic or national origin
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d  c̄ ) 14:12, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting australian people by occupation and ethnic or national origin
 * Propose deleting australian academics by ethnic or national origin‎ (2 C)
 * Propose deleting australian actors by ethnic or national origin‎ (4 C)
 * Propose deleting australian politicians by ethnic or national origin‎ (4 C)
 * Propose deleting australian writers by ethnic or national origin‎ (2 C, 1 P)
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:OCEGRS: triple intersection of occupation and nationality and origin is not defining. Also WP:COP-HERITAGE provides for descent or diaspora, not "origin". The subcategories are descent based, not origin based.


 * Followup to:
 * Categories for discussion/Log/2023 April 6
 * Categories for discussion/Log/2023 March 27
 * Suggested by.
 * William Allen Simpson (talk) 07:00, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete, trivial intersections between occupation and ancestors' nationality. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:40, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete, trivial intersections between occupation and ancestors' nationality. Place Clichy (talk) 09:41, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Former town councils in the Republic of Ireland
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Category:Lords of Zeta
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 * The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Princes of Zeta. (non-admin closure) –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d  c̄ ) 14:14, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Lords of Zeta to Category:Princes of Zeta
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:C2C parent Category:Principality of Zeta. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 02:24, 15 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Support per nom, or else the article should be renamed to Lordship of Zeta. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:40, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Either one will do. Incidentally, I proposed to merge Principality of Zeta into List of princes of Zeta, it's basically a WP:REDUNDANTFORK. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 23:42, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:C2D, List of princes of Zeta. (If that article gets renamed, by all means rename this category again.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 23:23, 16 April 2023 (UTC)


 * The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists politicians
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Category:Biblical rulers by century
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 * The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.


 * The result of the discussion was: merge and delete. (non-admin closure) –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d  c̄ ) 17:12, 11 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Biblical rulers by century to Category:Monarchs of the Hebrew Bible. All child categories should be upmerged too (but not grandchild cats).
 * Propose merging Category:2nd-century BC biblical rulers‎ to Category:Monarchs of the Hebrew Bible. (5 P) Propose deleting Category:2nd-century BC biblical rulers‎
 * Propose merging Category:6th-century BC biblical rulers to Category:Monarchs of the Hebrew Bible.‎ (5 C, 4 P)
 * Propose merging Category:7th-century BC biblical rulers to Category:Monarchs of the Hebrew Bible.‎ (3 C, 1 P)
 * Propose merging Category:8th-century BC biblical rulers to Category:Monarchs of the Hebrew Bible.‎ (5 C, 1 P)
 * Propose merging Category:9th-century BC biblical rulers‎ to Category:Monarchs of the Hebrew Bible. (5 C, 3 P)
 * Propose merging Category:10th-century BC biblical rulers‎ to Category:Monarchs of the Hebrew Bible. (6 C, 4 P)
 * Propose merging Category:11th-century BC biblical rulers‎ to Category:Monarchs of the Hebrew Bible. (1 C, 2 P) Propose deleting Category:11th-century BC biblical rulers
 * Propose merging Category:12th-century BC biblical rulers to Category:Monarchs of the Hebrew Bible.‎ (2 P) Propose deleting Category:12th-century BC biblical rulers
 * Propose merging Category:13th-century BC biblical rulers to Category:Monarchs of the Hebrew Bible.‎ (1 P) Propose deleting Category:13th-century BC biblical rulers
 * Propose merging Category:15th-century BC biblical rulers to Category:Monarchs of the Hebrew Bible.‎ (2 P) Propose deleting Category:15th-century BC biblical rulers
 * Nominator's rationale: Most of these are WP:SMALLCATs, but more importantly: the Hebrew Bible is notoriously unreliable and contradictory as a source for dating events (including reigns of people), especially before 750 BCE. The very historicity of many of these characters can often not be confirmed, and is sometimes rejected as literary invention by many modern scholars. By placing them in categories with pretty firm centuries, we are suggesting that their reign/lifespan can be quite accurately known through the Bible, which is very misleading. (For example, even if Moses and Joshua existed as historical people, it's extremely hard to tell when they lived. It's more probably in the 13th century BCE than in the 15th, where they are put now. That's a huge mismatch of 200 years for two people who may have never even walked the earth). In many cases, any reign/lifespan of any monarch mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, especially when calculated with means of extrabiblical sources, pretty much amounts to WP:NONDEFINING. In other cases, historical people are much-better known through extrabiblical sources so as to make their mention in the Hebrew Bible virtually irrelevant. (E.g. why does someone like Category:Cyrus the Great need to be in Category:6th-century BC biblical rulers?) If we are interested in said monarchs as historical people, then the correct route of categorising them is through Category:Pharaohs by century (as opposed to Category:Pharaohs in the Bible, because the historicity of some pharaohs mentioned in the Hebrew Bible like Shishak cannot be independently confirmed), etc.
 * There is no problem in upmerging all these cats. If overcrowding might ever become a problem, then let's split monarchs by books, not by (highly contestable) centuries. Compare Category:Torah monarchs, reserved for monarchs mentioned in Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 04:01, 6 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Rename from "rulers" to "kings" and purge everyone who was not a king. This will naturally resolve the smallcat and imprecision issues of the earliest centuries without the need to merge all subcategories. Also re-parent the subcategories from rulers by century categories to monarchs by century categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:27, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Why "king"? The parent cat has "monarchs" in it. More importanly, I disagree that it will solve the imprecision issues. It also leaves the historicity issue completely untouched. These categories should be about how these monarchs appear in the Hebrew Bible. That's why there is a Category:Pharaohs in the Bible, and (I just discovered) an article Cyrus the Great in the Bible. This is why Ahasuerus should be in there, but Xerxes I shouldn't; why Shishak is in, but Shoshenq I is out. We cannot just take the biblical accounts of these monarchs as historical at face value, and place them into historical categories. Besides (why didn't I mention that before?) there is massive WP:OVERLAPCAT with Category:Kings of ancient Israel and Category:Kings of ancient Judah, the appropriate cats for potentially historical monarchs. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 08:06, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
 * There is no issue of WP:OVERLAPCAT, it is merely a matter of hierarchy. For example Category:8th-century BC biblical rulers consists of Category:8th-century BC Kings of Israel and Category:8th-century BC Kings of Judah. Those are "kings" categories too. By limiting it to kings, Moses, Joshua and the judges will be purged and by that we will lose the earliest centuries categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:27, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Because the monarchs mentioned in the Hebrew Bible are primarily the kings of ancient Israel and Judah, any "biblical ruler" category will inevitably largely overlap with a kings of Israel/Judah category. WP:OVERLAPCAT: If two or more categories have a large overlap (...) it is generally better to merge the subjects to a single category, and create lists to detail the multiple instances. That already exists in the form of Kings of Israel and Judah. Subdividing them by century has led to many WP:SMALLCATs instead of making navigation easier. Upmerging them could solve that.
 * Maybe what I'm objecting to here is also WP:NARROWCAT? In general, intersection categories should only be created when both parent categories are very large and similar intersections can be made for related categories. To me, the intersection between "king of Israel/Judah" and "century X" is very narrow, and usually creates SMALLCATS anyway. The intersection between "biblical ruler" and "century X" is even narrower, especially when the century is difficult to establish because of how unreliable the Hebrew Bible is for dating events, and the character in question may not even have been historical. If a cat like "biblical ruler" is to have any function at all, it is to organise information found only in the Hebrew Bible itself, and not data from extrabiblical sources in order to interpret it. The very chronology of counting in "centuries BC(E)" is not a concept found in the Hebrew Bible itself (obviously; Jesus wasn't born yet). These are just two very different exercises. To take Cyrus the Great again as an example: Category:Cyrus the Great is in Category:6th-century BC Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, and that's fine. But Cyrus the Great in the Bible is in its subcat Category:Cultural depictions of Cyrus the Great, along with Cyrus The Great (screenplay), Civilization VI and so on. That's where his being mentioned in the Bible is relevant, not in which century he lived. We're not gonna create Category:6th-century BC Civilization VI monarchs either just because we can; it's just not that relevant for Cyrus as a person, and needlessly centres the importance of Civilization VI as a game depicting Cyrus. Cyrus is known through many other sources that are more reliable than the Hebrew Bible, and thus using it to date him also doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 22:23, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Upmerging the Kings of Israel and Kings of Judah categories by century requires a completely different nomination. In its current state there is hierarchy in the category tree, no overlap. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:05, 7 March 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 08:22, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Let's start all over again. The issue I have with the nomination is primarily with the 11th- to 15th-century BC categories, because they do not contain monarchs. My alternative proposal aimed to address that. I have no issue with e.g. Cyrus. I also have no issue with changing "biblical" to "of the Hebrew Bible" (though that implies the 2nd century BC subcat should be deleted). Marcocapelle (talk) 07:29, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Ok. I think we just shouldn't create subcategories by century for monarchs mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. I want them all in one big category without any century whatsoever. That's Category:Monarchs of the Hebrew Bible. I agree with excluding non-monarchs, and excluding monarchs not mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 00:44, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Thank you. This means we agree on deletion of C2 and C11-15 and on merging C5-C10 as nominated. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:16, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Ah, thanks for that clarification! (Sorry, sometimes I may get lost in the details of arguing my case for or against something. ;) I'll try to be more concise.) I agree with you and will update the nom. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 08:07, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
 * PS: As you may have noticed, I'm relatively new to CfD/CfR/CfM procedures; it's only in the past few weeks that I've become really active now that I'm starting to understand how to nominate quickly and efficiently, which arguments to use, and how to better organise the cats that we've got. I brought this whole mess onto myself by nominating such a huge cat as Category:Rulers. It's only because you and William have been so willing to help with taking all the steps in that process that I'm learning how to do this better. I want to do my part to bring a proper end to the process I began. I'd like to thank you for the cooperation so far. :) Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 08:14, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Concise would be appreciated.
 * I'm trying. Learning about abbreviations like WP:C2D helps a lot! Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 23:21, 16 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Manual double merge. The kings of Judah and of Israel are categorised as such, so do not need to be merged to Biblical monarchs. However, they should also be merged to e.g. Category:6th-century BC rulers where appropriate. I have put Category:Judges of ancient Israel within 2nd-millennium BC rulers, given the point about uncertain dating. – Fayenatic  L ondon 12:06, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Good point. For example in the 6th century BC, two out of seven articles need to be added to Category:6th-century BC rulers manually. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:04, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Well, that didn't last long; see Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_March_4. – Fayenatic  L ondon 14:28, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 08:41, 12 March 2023 (UTC) William Allen Simpson (talk) 14:05, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete 2nd, 11th, 12, 13th, 15th as nominated; Manually merge the rest to Category:Monarchs of the Hebrew Bible and any appropriate Category:Kings of ancient Israel and Category:Kings of ancient Judah century subcategories. Those century subcategories are already respective subcategories of Category:6th-century BC monarchs et alia.
 * Strongly object to deletion without merging e.g. Moses & Joshua to Judges of ancient Israel and 15th-century BC rulers, as acceptably estimated timing now that the millennium alternative has been deleted. – Fayenatic  L ondon 14:28, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
 * It seems ok to add Moses and Joshua to Category:Judges of ancient Israel, but they weren't rulers, because the people of Israel were ruled as a theocracy in the most literal sense of the word. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:07, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
 * No, Moses wasn't a judge of ancient Israel, he didn't make it into the promised land. Moses was a prophet and a religious leader, already in Category:Prophets of the Hebrew Bible and Category:15th-century BC religious leaders. But the text says 13th, and Rabbinical Judaism calculated a lifespan of Moses corresponding to 1391–1271 BCE, so 15th is probably wrong.
 * No, Joshua wasn't described as a judge of ancient Israel, either, but is sometimes considered an "honorary" judge. Joshua was a prophet and a religious leader, already in Category:Prophets of the Hebrew Bible. He's in Category:14th-century BC people, so I've moved him from 15th to Category:14th-century BC religious leaders. But the text says The apparent setting of Joshua is the 13th century BCE, so these most likely are wrong. Also, inexplicably in Category:Moses, which I've removed.
 * William Allen Simpson (talk) 04:43, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Moses was also depicted as a judge in Exodus 18. Thank you for checking the assumed centuries. feel free to comment as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:02, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Probably mostly tradition because of the names of the books (Joshua followed by Judges). I'm doing this from memory, having grown up in a very religious family. Note that Judges does not include Moses, and Joshua is in italics.
 * FYI yesterday I have CfR'd Categories for discussion/Log/2023 March 16 with 2 options, each with pros and cons. I'll add an extra comment about the exchange here over there. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 15:06, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 01:44, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment Category:15th-century BC biblical rulers has been emptied. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 01:50, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Support consensus for 10th century and more recent. I see no difficulty over the chronology there, provided by Kings and Chronicles. The lengths of the reigns of early kings, Saul, Davis and Solomon are not clear.  The chronology before that is highly uncertain.  Rather than trying to assign to centuries, we may be better merging to Category:Judges of Israel, for those in Judges (also Eli) or Category:Leaders and Judges of Israel, which could include Moses and Joshua.  It all depends on how you date the Exodus and whether the rule of judges was successive to each other or overlapping, soemthing that cannot be determined.  Peterkingiron (talk) 16:38, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I suggest we shouldn't even try to date-by-century people who may have never even existed. It's just WP:OR if we took the Hebrew Bible at face value, and the texts contradict themselves and each other, so this is just a dead end. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 23:16, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
 * For the record, the Judges category has been renamed to Category:Hebrew Bible judges.
 * I do not agree about de-categorising by date all "people who may have never even existed". (See also High Priests of Israel CFD.) How would that criterion be applied? perhaps to all biographies of persons whose existence is doubted by some percentage of scholars? No. Many cultures' early traditions are of uncertain historicity, but their figures should be categorised in good faith according to the majority-view dating stated in the articles, or at least in the chronological parent e.g. century over decade or millennium over century. – Fayenatic  L ondon 15:58, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * That is a fair question. I think by categorising such a person by century, we are implying they existed in history, because they are categorisable by century. There is a Category:People whose existence is disputed, some items of which like Beowulf (hero) are not in any X by century category. But it also hosts characters like John Abercromby (monk), who seems to have been entirely made up by 1 person (Thomas Dempster), but is still categorised as Category:16th-century Roman Catholic martyrs. I don't quite know where to look to see if any conventions about this exist on English Wikipedia. Have you got any ideas? WikiProject Years, perhaps? Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 17:32, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The talk page of WP:Categorization of people would be the best place to pursue this discussion. The narrower issue of uncertain dates of birth was raised at Wikipedia_talk:Categorization_of_people/Archive_9 resulting in use of decades etc. – Fayenatic  L ondon 13:40, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
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William Allen Simpson (talk) 05:34, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete/Merge per nom. I don't think we should be splitting any subcat of Category:Hebrew Bible people by date. See also Dating the Bible and Biblical literalist chronology. This is at times a contentious topic, for example: New Chronology (Rohl). And List of biblical figures identified in extra-biblical sources complicates matters further. These should be lists, at best, where references can be provided - something that cannot be done in categories. - jc37 08:41, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Completely agree. And to a certain extent I'm not opposed to listification, but only if such lists have added value and do not already exist. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 23:44, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep the items tagged for merger. None are monarchs of the Hebrew Bible, because they did not rule the Bible: they are rulers mentioned in the Bible; and I do not think it is necessary to specify Hebrew Bible, as the term Bible is not used for the holy books of other religions.  The books of Kings and Chronicles are consistent in giving dates of succession and death and these are not affected by Rohl's New Chronology.  Saul and David have no clear precise dates, but the period is clear.  Before that it will be better to a single category for the Judges and for earlier leaders.  Peterkingiron (talk) 19:20, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
 * DUPLICATE !vote.
 * They are already categorised by date - Category:8th-century BC Kings of Syria, for example. The issue here is that these categories' inclusion criteria is specifically monarchs who appear in the Bible. And all of the other things you mention need explanation - and that means lists, not categories. - jc37 22:19, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Renaming monarchs of the Hebrew Bible to monarchs in the Hebrew Bible is actually a good idea. I propose we do that after this nomination has been completed so as to not complicate the process. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 10:19, 21 April 2023 (UTC)


 * Balance so far: 4 users in favour of Delete C2 and C11-15 & merge C5-C10 to Category:Monarchs of the Hebrew Bible as nominated (Marcocapelle, William Allen Simpson, jc37, myself); 1 in favour of Manual double merge, put non-monarchs in Category:Hebrew Bible judges (Fayenatic London); 1 user Oppose Deletion of C2-C10, Merge C11-15 to Category:Hebrew Bible judges (Peterkingiron). The nomination has clear support, and I think that during the nomination, as well as several related CfRs, the renaming of Category:Judges of ancient Israel/biblical judges to Hebrew Bible judges/Category:Hebrew Bible judges and populating the latter have already addressed/solved the concerns (rightly) voiced by Fayenatic and Peterkingiron. Per Peterkingiron and myself, I recommend a CfR be done for monarchs of the Hebrew Bible to monarchs in the Hebrew Bible after the current nomination is completed. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 21:17, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: While I still support Delete/Merge, I'm not opposed to someone also manually categorising pages to Category:Hebrew Bible judges at editorial discretion. I don't think that they're mutually exclusive. - jc37 01:59, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Comment After 2 months, is this discussion ever going to get closed? I only ask because one of these categories is empty and shows up on the Empty Categories every night for the past 8 weeks now. Just wondering what is holding up the closure here. At this point, any decision, even a non-decision, would be good. Liz <sup style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: #006400;">Read! Talk! 03:27, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
 * @Liz My "Balance so far" comment was intented to summarise the current state of affairs. The nom has clear support. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 20:35, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
 * @Liz is it possible to close this? The nom has clear support, and we haven't had any more comments, except jc37 confirming their position (in support of the nom). Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 22:12, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
 * is it possible to close this? Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 14:18, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Instead of pinging specific editors, perhaps listing this at WP:CR might be a way forward. - jc37 15:52, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Oh I didn't know that existed, thanks! Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 16:55, 8 June 2023 (UTC)


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