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Category:COVID-19 pandemic in Boston

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 23:43, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose merging Category:COVID-19 pandemic in Boston to Category:COVID-19 pandemic in Massachusetts and Category:Disasters in Boston
 * Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT. Only two articles. User:Namiba 22:52, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 00:21, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Merge per nom. –Aidan721 (talk) 13:51, 23 February 2024 (UTC)


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Category:East German sailors

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 23:43, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose deleting east german sailors
 * Nominator's rationale: There's only one category in here, which is about the sport. There's no need to have this redudant layer. Mason (talk) 22:50, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 00:21, 23 February 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Tongan women sailors

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 23:43, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose splitting Category:Tongan women sailors to Category:Female sailors and Category:Tongan women
 * Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's only one person in here, which isn't helpful for navigation. If not merged, the category should be repurposed/parented to be Tongan sailors. Mason (talk) 22:49, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Merge for now, without objection to recreate the category when some more articles are available. Marcocapelle (talk) 00:22, 23 February 2024 (UTC)


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Category:12th-century Danish sailors

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 23:43, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose splitting Category:12th-century Danish sailors to Category:12th-century Danish people and Category:Danish sailors
 * Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's no need to have an underpopulated category for this occupation. The category creator has the habit of creating the category and then not populating it. (If kept, I think the category should be broadened to all 12th-century sailors) Mason (talk) 22:46, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Just delete, the article is already in a subcategory of each of the targets. Marcocapelle (talk) 00:24, 23 February 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Solomon Islands women poets

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 23:43, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose splitting Category:Solomon Islands women poets to Category:Solomon Islands women writers and Category:Women poets
 * Nominator's rationale: Dual upmerge for now. There's really not a large enough content to support this subcategory of Solomon Islands women writers Mason (talk) 22:15, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom, without objection to recreate the category when some more articles are available. Marcocapelle (talk) 00:26, 23 February 2024 (UTC)


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Category:L'Osservatore Romano
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Category:Education in Yarmouth, Maine
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) <b style="font-family:Courier New;">House Blaster </b> (talk · he/him) 21:26, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose deleting education in yarmouth, maine
 * Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT. Category contained two articles after the recent merge. One of them, which was uncited and about the town school district, has been redirected to Yarmouth,_Maine. The remaining article is already in and so this category can be deleted. User:Namiba 21:23, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 00:29, 23 February 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Mali-Canada relations
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) <b style="font-family:Courier New;">House Blaster </b> (talk · he/him) 21:26, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose deleting mali–canada relations
 * Nominator's rationale: A Canada-Mali relations category already exists that follows the naming pattern for these types of cats. I moved the one category in this one to the correct one already (apologies if doing this incorrectly, first time) HighlandFacts (talk) 18:06, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Delete, duplicate of Category:Canada–Mali relations. Marcocapelle (talk) 00:31, 23 February 2024 (UTC)


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Category:English triplets
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Relisting comment: I have added Category:British triplets to the nomination because it would be emptied as a result of merging. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  17:34, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * The result of the discussion was: merge/delete as proposed. (non-admin closure) <b style="font-family:Courier New;">House Blaster </b> (talk · he/him) 21:26, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:English triplets to Category:Triplets
 * Propose deleting Category:British triplets
 * Nominator's rationale: merge, only one article left in this category after implementation of this earlier discussion, which is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:18, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Support in principle, but shouldn't it be merged to British triplets? Mason (talk) 03:51, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * This is equally empty. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:42, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
 * not sure I understand what you mean by "equally empty"? Do you mean that Category:British triplets should be merged, too?<span id="HouseBlaster:1708567130361:WikipediaFTTCLNCategories_for_discussion/Log/2024_February_14" class="FTTCmt"> <b style="font-family:Courier New;">House Blaster </b> (talk · he/him) 01:58, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * that is what I mean in principle, except there will be nothing left to merge from Category:British triplets after Category:English triplets is merged to Category:Triplets. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:43, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
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 * Merge per nom. –Aidan721 (talk) 18:45, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Merge per nom. I would also suggest we merge Category:Estonian triplets--User:Namiba 21:24, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I have purged Category:Estonian triplets per Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_February_4 as it only contained individuals. –Aidan721 (talk) 01:35, 23 February 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Hebrew gods
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl  talk  16:31, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Relisting comment: Merge or delete? Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  17:31, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Hebrew gods to Category:West Semitic gods
 * Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:49, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete - mainly because Hebrew is a language, thus it is unclear what this means - all gods written about in Hebrew? But Marcoapelle, you know this and are also arguing for the deletion of Cat:Hebrews. As for the merge, you are trying to merge that at the moment so what happens if that succeeds?  I note that El (deity) is is a term used in the Hebrew Bible.  Israelites is relevant but as User:Dimadick in that deletion discussion, quoting Hebrews, ": "Historians mostly consider the Hebrews as synonymous with the Israelites, with the term "Hebrew" denoting an Israelite from the nomadic era that preceded the establishment of the united Kingdom of Israel. However, in some instances, the designation "Hebrews" may also be used historically in a wider sense, referring to the Phoenicians or other ancient civilizations, such as the Shasu on the eve of the Late Bronze Age collapse.""  Doug Weller  talk 14:46, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
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 * Merge because the only member of the category (Category:Yahweh) belongs in Category:West Semitic gods. I suggest closing and directing further discussion to Category talk:Wahweh. <b style="font-family:Courier New;">House Blaster </b> (talk · he/him) 04:08, 1 March 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Philipsidae
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 * The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure) <b style="font-family:Courier New;">House Blaster </b> (talk · he/him) 21:25, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose renaming Category:Philipsidae to Category:Phillipsiidae
 * Nominator's rationale: Typo for Phillipsiidae. —asparagusus   (interaction)  <sup style="color:#050">sprouts!  16:42, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Rename, this could have been listed at speedy. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:47, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * @Marcocapelle, sorry about that! I've never worked with CfD before. —asparagusus   (interaction)  <sup style="color:#562">sprouts!  22:25, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Rename. --Fadesga (talk) 20:06, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Things named after Tolkien works
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) <b style="font-family:Courier New;">House Blaster </b> (talk · he/him) 21:25, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose deleting things named after tolkien works
 * Propose deleting organisms named after tolkien and his works
 * Propose deleting musical groups named after tolkien works
 * Propose deleting extraterrestrial surface features named for middle-earth
 * Nominator's rationale: I believe this is literally what WP:SHAREDNAME is for. -- wooden superman  16:27, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Support/Comment: I will archive them so I can add the linked pages to the appropriate page of List of things named after J. R. R. Tolkien and his works. ShadowDragon343 (talk) 01:42, 24 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Support per nom but the subcategories should be nominated too. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:48, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Meanwhile they are being nominated further above on this page. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:53, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Noted, have included in above. -- wooden superman  16:51, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Support all, of course. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:58, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Comment: I created "Category:Things named after Tolkien works" in August 2022 after seeing "Category:Things named after Shakespearean works", so that should go too, if this is bad. I wasn't aware that these categories seem to be frowned upon, i see multiples discussions in the past where they have been deleted.--Milowent • <sup style="position:relative">has<span style="position:relative;bottom:-2.0ex;left:-3.2ex;*left:-5.5ex;">spoken  17:47, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, the Shakespeare one should definitely go too. -- wooden superman  22:06, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Note. Have also nominated Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 23. -- wooden  superman  09:19, 23 February 2024 (UTC)


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Category:IBM Stubs
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) <b style="font-family:Courier New;">House Blaster </b> (talk · he/him) 21:39, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting ibm stubs
 * Nominator's rationale: Unused stub template and category. As always, it's not helpful to have an endless profusion of virtually unused stub templates and categories specially dedicated to every possible topic under the sun, so stub categories aren't free for just any user to create on a whim -- there have to be at least 60 articles to use a template on before it can legitimately have its own dedicated category. This template hasn't been applied to anything at all, however, so I have to presume that it was meant for IBM the computer company and not some other unrelated use of that initialism, but a quick scan of failed to find more than a tiny handful of articles that could legitimately be tagged as stubs -- and the very few I did find are all already tagged as compu-network-stub or something else that's already a subcategory of the only possible alternative place for this to upfile any entries to (i.e. ), meaning that this template would add nothing but unnecessary duplicate parent-and-child categorization. Further, both the template and the category have actually been misspelled -- note both the capitalization of "Stubs" in the category and the non-capitalization of "bm" in the template name. So the category isn't warranted if the template isn't already on 60 articles, and even the template isn't necessary at all if a dedicated category isn't viable. Bearcat (talk) 15:13, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Support per nom and the template should be deleted too. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:52, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Big League World Series Regions
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 * The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure) <b style="font-family:Courier New;">House Blaster </b> (talk · he/him) 21:40, 29 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose renaming category to Category:Big League World Series regions
 * Propose renaming category to Category:Intermediate League World Series regions
 * Propose renaming category to Category:Junior League World Series regions
 * Propose renaming category to Category:Senior League World Series regions
 * Nominator's rationale: "Region" should not be capitalized here. The categories holding the regions are not proper nouns. Creates consistency with Category:Little League baseball regions, Category:Little League World Series regions. No different than Category:FIFA confederations and other categories within Category:Continental sports governing bodies. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:47, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Category:Big League World Series Regions to Category:Big League World Series regions – C2A. –Aidan721 (talk) 02:22, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Don't the category members indicate a proper noun? Also see Category:Intermediate League World Series Regions, Category:Senior League World Series Regions, etc. Hyphenation Expert (talk) 03:03, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * There's also Category:Little League World Series regions. The regions themselves may be proper nouns but the topic is most certainly not a proper noun. –Aidan721 (talk) 03:25, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
 * I did see that, and disagree the set cannot be a proper noun. CfD for r/R consistency then? Hyphenation Expert (talk) 03:31, 9 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Support, these are regions (small r) of the Big League World Series. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:57, 22 February 2024 (UTC)


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Indian superhero films by decade
Relisted, see Categories for discussion/Log/2024 March 1%23Indian superhero films by decade

Category:Category:American people by town and state or territory
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 February 29%23Category:Category:American people by town and state or territory