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Category:Quito Metro

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 * The result of the discussion was: keep. Currently 6 articles. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:20, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting quito metro
 * Nominator's rationale: Eponymous category for a topic without the volume of spinoff content needed to justify an eponymous category. As always, everything that exists does not automatically get its own category to contain itself -- but the only other thing here is a list of the metro stations, and every single station in that list is just a redirect back to the eponym rather than a standalone article — which in turn means that even the list is of dubious necessity, with no clear reason why it needs be a separate article instead of just being a subsection in the eponym. This would be fine if the stations all had their own articles, but it's not needed just to hold two pages. Bearcat (talk) 21:43, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * I will create station pages starting tomorrow. This why I created the category. Ymblanter (talk) 21:45, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * You create the content first, and the category to contain them second, not vice versa. Bearcat (talk) 22:00, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 10:12, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete for Now As it doesn't currenntly aid navigation. If/when and other editors create 5 or more articles (not just redirects), no objection to recreating. - RevelationDirect (talk) 21:11, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * We have now three, and I am sure you can point me out to the policy which mentions five. Ymblanter (talk) 21:51, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep, station articles are in the process of being created. Garuda3 (talk) 10:57, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete — so far, the 3 station articles are stubs that tell which stations come before and after them on the line, and the date it opened. These are cookie cutter, not much more than a template. The guideline currently mentions 5, but is in the process of upgrading to 20. For stubs, it is 60.
 * This statement about the articles is demonstratably incorrect. Ymblanter (talk) 12:10, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * There now appear to be four. What benefit does deleting the category now have, only for someone to have to create it again later? Garuda3 (talk) 12:45, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep, the category is being populated in sufficiently rapid speed. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:20, 10 March 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Icelandic superheroes

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:20, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Icelandic superheroes to Category:Fictional Icelandic people
 * Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. This category has only 1 entry. Sole article to be upmerged to parent category/categories (id est: Category:Fictional Icelandic people, Category:European superheroes) Estopedist1 (talk) 08:27, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  17:35, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * The category has been emptied. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:57, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

William Allen Simpson (talk) 10:18, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete as empty. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:40, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete as empty.


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Category:Estonian government officials
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Category:Baseball venues in Saskatchewan
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Category:People by city or town in Anguilla

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:33, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:People from Blowing Point, Anguilla to Category:Anguillan people
 * Propose merging Category:People from Island Harbour, Anguilla to Category:Anguillan people
 * Propose merging Category:People from North Hill, Anguilla to Category:Anguillan people
 * Propose merging Category:People from Sandy Ground, Anguilla to Category:Anguillan people
 * Propose merging Category:People from Sandy Hill, Anguilla to Category:Anguillan people
 * Propose merging Category:People from The Farrington to Category:Anguillan people
 * Propose merging Category:People by city or town in Anguilla to Category:Anguillan people
 * Nominator's rationale: Manually merge all per WP:SMALLCAT. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:43, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  17:16, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per nom, but the categories (except the last one) can simply be deleted: the articles already are in the tree of Category:Anguillan people by occupation. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:41, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Weak keep to the Island Harbour category (which has four articles and may be undersorted) and the last one (as it would have two subcategories); merge the rest per nom. Grutness... wha?   12:19, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Nominator note: If Category:People by city or town in Anguilla is kept and the discussion results in a rename, then it should be renamed to Category:People by populated place in Anguilla. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:17, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I'd definitely support that. Grutness... wha?   01:40, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

William Allen Simpson (talk) 09:38, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Support for Now If when any get to 5+ articles, no objection to recreating. (Support renaming parent if kept.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 21:20, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Support for Now — If when any get to 20+ articles, no objection to recreating. (If kept, support renaming parent to Category:People by populated place in Anguilla.)


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Category:People by city or town in Barbados
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Category:Estonia international beach soccer players

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:34, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Estonia international beach soccer players to Category:Estonian beach soccer players
 * Nominator's rationale: "international beach soccer players" is unique name in Wikipedia category system. Redundant layer Estopedist1 (talk) 16:24, 2 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:19, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Football's list of association football-related page discussions. GiantSnowman 11:24, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge it is well established that we categorise footballers by both nationality and national team. So, we have (e.g. ) as well as  (e.g. ). However, the parent category here  shows no other nation has a 'national team' category, so happy to merge the beach soccer ones. GiantSnowman 11:29, 4 March 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Pakistani wedding

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:34, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Pakistani wedding to Category:Marriage in Pakistan
 * Nominator's rationale: Most articles in the category are about general marriage not wedding ceremonies. ★Trekker (talk) 15:48, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 10:35, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:C2D. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:44, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Rename


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Category:Mixed traffic locomotives

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:35, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting mixed traffic locomotives
 * Nominator's rationale: I am concerned this category is too broad to be useful. "Mixed traffic locomotives" refers to locomotives that can pull both passenger trains and freight trains. The issue is, that means almost every locomotive ever built! There's over 300 models of locomotives in the category already. I believe it is so broad as to fail to serve any useful purpose. An alternative would be to split the category by type of locomotive (mixed traffic steam locomotives, mixed traffic diesel locomotives, mixed traffic electric locomotives, etc). Trainsandotherthings (talk) 14:49, 2 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Delete, not a defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:41, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Keep, we have and  but not all locomotives fall neatly into one or the other, it's not a black/white decision. This category covers the grey area in between; most diesel and electric locomotives will sit there (there are few diesel locomotive designs, and even fewer electric locomotive designs, that cannot be described as mixed traffic). With steam locomotives, those with smaller driving wheels have a lower speed but greater pulling power and are suited to freight trains; and those with larger driving wheels have a higher speed but lesser pulling power and are suited to passenger trains. Generally speaking, the division is around 5 ft 6 in; but it's not a sharp distinction, and a more practical method is to say that those with driving wheels smaller than 6 feet diameter are capable of hauling freight trains, those with driving wheels larger than 5 feet diameter are capable of hauling passenger trains; those between 5 feet and 6 feet are capable of hauling either, and during a day's work may well haul a passenger train "out" and a freight train "back". or the other way around. Those are the mixed-traffic locomotives. -- Red rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 18:26, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * That sounds like WP:OCMISC though. - RevelationDirect (talk) 21:25, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 01:06, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete Too common to be defining. - RevelationDirect (talk) 21:25, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete — these engines are already covered by many other categories under Category:Locomotives by type. Since it nominally includes all turbine, electric, diesel, diesel electric, and/or electo-diesel engines, that leaves steam where it might be WP:DEFINING. is already very finely divided.  and  handle the outliers, all the rest can be considered mixed.


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Category:ETHA Engomis

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:35, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting etha engomis
 * Nominator's rationale: This is not a category. It may be a disambiguation page for a basketball and football club that share the same name. Boba 99 (talk) 09:29, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 10:37, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:SMALLCAT. By the way, it is more than disambiguation, it is a multi-sport club. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:45, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete


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Category:Sasanian governors of Egypt

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:36, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Sasanian governors of Egypt to Category:Governors of the Sasanian Empire, Category:Governors of Egypt and Category:Sasanian Egypt
 * Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, only two articles in the category. Egypt was ruled by the Sasanian Empire from 619 to 629. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:16, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 10:37, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge


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Category:76 Classic

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:36, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting 76 classic
 * Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. An inactive event with only 2 entries. User:Namiba 02:29, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 10:38, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. SportsGuy789 (talk) 20:24, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete


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Category:Portal namespace categories

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:36, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Portal namespace categories to Category:Wikipedia portal administration
 * Nominator's rationale: Redundant category layer with only one subcategory. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:19, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 10:40, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:44, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Support Should begin with "Category:Wikipedia", open to alternative renames. - RevelationDirect (talk) 21:26, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge


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Category:Wikipedia transport-related portal templates

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:37, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Wikipedia transport-related portal templates to Category:Wikipedia Portal templates
 * Nominator's rationale: Contains only one entry. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:15, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 10:40, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:44, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge


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Category:Wikipedia sports-related portal templates
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:37, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Wikipedia sports-related portal templates to Category:Wikipedia Portal templates
 * Nominator's rationale: Contains only one entry. * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 02:15, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 10:41, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:45, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Merge


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Category:Catholic Church-related portal navigational boxes
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:37, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting catholic church-related portal navigational boxes
 * Nominator's rationale: Contains one entry, which isn't even a navbox. * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 02:15, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 10:42, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:45, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Support effectively empty. - RevelationDirect (talk) 21:27, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete


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Category:Portal peer review archives
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Category:Old requests for portal peer review
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:39, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting old requests for portal peer review
 * Nominator's rationale: Category containing portals that at one point in time underwent a WP:Portal peer review, often over a decade ago. Useless and redundant to the list at Portal peer review in the unlikely event anyone cares. * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 02:02, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 10:44, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete


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Category:Wikipedia featured portal reviews
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:39, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Wikipedia featured portal reviews to Category:Wikipedia featured portals
 * Nominator's rationale: Redundant two-element category with only the main page and a subpage of it. * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 02:02, 2 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:49, 2 March 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Wikipedia featured portal candidates
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:39, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Wikipedia featured portal candidates to Category:Wikipedia featured portals
 * Nominator's rationale: Will be basically a C2F with only the main page and one obsolete userpage after the below CfDs. * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 02:02, 2 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Merge, assuming that the proposals below are implemented. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:51, 2 March 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Featured portal candidate log
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:40, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Featured portal candidate log to Category:Wikipedia featured content candidate logs
 * Nominator's rationale: Pointless two-element category with no clear potential for growth. * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 02:02, 2 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:51, 2 March 2023 (UTC)


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Category:Wikipedia featured portal candidates (contested)
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  16:40, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting wikipedia featured portal candidates (contested)
 * Nominator's rationale: Category containing portals that at one point in time failed WP:Featured portal candidates, often over a decade ago. Useless and redundant to Featured portal candidates/Failed log in the unlikely event anyone cares. * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 02:02, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

William Allen Simpson (talk) 10:45, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Delete


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