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Category:WikiProject assessment categories needing attention
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Category:All WikiProject Color pages

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 * The result of the discussion was: withdrawn. I realize my mistake now, and am going to edit the category's header to remove a misused template. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 ( d  c̄ ) 21:00, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting all wikiproject color pages
 * Nominator's rationale: No other WikiProject has a comprehensive list of members. It is also tagged as NA-Class, which does not match the intended purpose. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 21:50, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * This category feeds the user:HotArticlesBot for updating WikiProject Color/Hot articles. Curran919 (talk) 09:44, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
 * There are literally hundreds of such categories, including Category: All WikiProject Medicine articles, Category: WikiProject Geology articles, Category: WikiProject Biology articles, Category: WikiProject Agriculture articles, etc. They are created by the WikiProject templates. And NA class is for "A page that does not fit into any other category. Used as a 'catch-all' by all WikiProjects." That seems to be a good place to put something like a tracking category used by software (rather than a category intended for human browsing). Nosferattus (talk) 14:50, 23 June 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Television series based on novels

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 * The result of the discussion was: manual merge. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  18:33, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Television series based on novels to Category:Television shows based on novels
 * Propose merging Category:Television series based on American novels to Category:Television shows based on American novels
 * Propose merging Category:Television series based on Spanish novels to Category:Television shows based on Spanish novels
 * Nominator's rationale: Categories without a clear point of distinction from their parents. In theory, a distinction could be drawn between television series and television films, but the parent category isn't actually doing that: there's no at all, and instead virtually everything in  or its "Television shows based on [Country] novels" subcategories is a series (sometimes even with this and one or more of those both sitting alongside each other), so in actual practice this undergrown sapling is just duplicating the parent tree unnecessarily. And even populating it more fully would just entail moving virtually everything out of the parents anyway, so they'd still just be fundamentally redundant to each other. I'm willing to withdraw this if there's any kind of editorial will to start creating and populating "Television films based on novels" categories to sister this, but as things currently stand this isn't offering a clear differentiation from its parent. Bearcat (talk) 21:36, 22 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Agree in principle, but after this merge a clean-up operation will be needed because many articles are already in the tree of Category:Television shows based on novels by country other than American or Spanish. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:06, 23 June 2024 (UTC)


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Category:B-Class vital articles in Games

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete.  ✗  plicit  13:23, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
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 * Nominator's rationale: Categories for vital article classifications that do not exist, and some others of questionable usefulness. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 21:33, 22 June 2024 (UTC)


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X in the Republic of Artsakh
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge. House Blaster  (talk · he/they) 13:55, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose merging category to Category:Bodies of water of Azerbaijan
 * Propose merging category to Category:Rivers of Azerbaijan
 * Propose merging category to Category:Landmarks in Azerbaijan
 * Propose merging category to Category:Monuments and memorials in Azerbaijan
 * Propose merging category to Category:Mountains of Azerbaijan
 * Propose merging category to Category:Mountain ranges of Azerbaijan
 * Nominator's rationale: Country no longer exists, so there is no justification to keeping these around. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 20:57, 22 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Oppose Wikipedia stores historical information as well. When the country existed, it had various things. - Altenmann >talk 21:55, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Merge, we only keep content about former countries insofar they are directly or indirectly related to history (an example of an indirect relationship is a people subcategory). We do not have e.g. Category:Mountains of the Roman Empire. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:10, 23 June 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Populated places in the Republic of Artsakh
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl  talk  18:35, 2 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose deleting category
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 * Nominator's rationale: The Republic of Artsakh no longer exists, and all of these are likely in a subcategory of Category:Populated places in Azerbaijan. There is no clear consensus on what happens if a country ceases to exist — the only other times this happened during Wikipedia's existence was the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 2003, and Serbia and Montenegro in 2006. The most recent precedent I could find was Categories_for_discussion/Log/2022_December_13, but there are older precedents such as Categories_for_discussion/User/Archive/February_2007 and Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_7 which happened shortly after Serbia and Montenegro ceased to exist. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 20:51, 22 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Oppose Wikipedia stores historical information as well. When the country existed, it had various things. - Altenmann >talk 21:55, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Most of these objects still exist — by that logic, we should have Category:Populated places in Yugoslavia. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 22:32, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * And I see nothing wrong with such a useful category. - Altenmann >talk 00:16, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Merge, we only keep content about former countries insofar they are directly or indirectly related to history. We do have a Category:Roman towns and cities because of its significance for archaeology, but that is not applicable here. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:13, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @Marcocapelle, do you have a merge target in mind? House Blaster  (talk · he/they) 13:56, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Category:Cities and towns in the Republic of Artsakh should be merged to Category:Cities and towns in Azerbaijan. I think otherwise the articles are already in appropriate Azerbaijani categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:50, 30 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Delete. Artsakh is history, and Artsakh content should be in history categories, not geography categories. If we categorize every place on Earth by every former administrative division they were in at one point, there will be no end to that. It's perfectly fine to have articles about the defunct provinces and other subdivisions of Artsakh though. Place Clichy (talk) 19:04, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Mellk (talk) 09:04, 1 July 2024 (UTC)


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Submerged settlements in X
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 * The result of the discussion was: rename. House Blaster  (talk · he/they) 14:18, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming category to Category:Submerged places in Canada
 * Propose renaming category to Category:Submerged places in Ukraine
 * Propose renaming category to Category:Submerged places in the United States
 * Nominator's rationale: Settlement is not standard for categories, and there is no reason to limit the categories to settlements. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 20:33, 22 June 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Settlements demolished to make room for airports
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 * The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Populated places demolished to make room for airports. House Blaster  (talk · he/they) 13:57, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Settlements demolished to make room for airports to Category:Populated places demolished to make room for airports
 * Nominator's rationale: Category name is not standardized, but because there is no parallel I am not sure if it should exist. Should we have a Category:Populated places forcibly depopulated by eminent domain for the non-ghost towns on the list? –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 20:31, 22 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Rename, "populated places" is used throughout. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:19, 23 June 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Polish social activists of the Prussian partition
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 * The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Activists from the Grand Duchy of Posen. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  19:01, 2 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Polish social activists of the Prussian partition to Category:Polish activists
 * Nominator's rationale: This category should either be merged or renamed to make it clearer how this is defining. Mason (talk) 01:32, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  15:58, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Rename to Category:Polish activists in the Kingdom of Prussia for more clarity. "Polish" is meant as an ethnicity here. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:17, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
 * thoughts on this rename target?<span id="HouseBlaster:1718066236650:WikipediaFTTCLNCategories_for_discussion/Log/2024_June_3" class="FTTCmt"> House Blaster  (talk · he/they) 00:37, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't love the rename, but it is an improvement over what's here at the moment. Mason (talk) 01:36, 11 June 2024 (UTC)
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 * Comment This question is part of a wider issue concerning the categorisation of "Polish people" during the Partition period from 1795 to 1918. Last year I tried to address it, but no consensus emerged: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poland/Archive 19.
 * In short: we'll need to choose whether we mean "Polish" as an ethnicity (as Marcocapelle suggested), or as a nationality (as Mason is indirectly suggesting, since Category:Polish activists is in the Category:Activists by nationality tree). Ethnicity is always a difficult one to establish and results in lots of sourcing problems, and it means we can't put these people in the Category:Polish people tree (because it is part of the Category:People by nationality tree). So nationality seems the best approach. For our purposes here, the Prussian partition is best understood as the Grand Duchy of Posen, though it is a little more complicated than that (I'll get back to that).
 * But how do we grant a Polish "nationality" in a time when they did not have a state? My proposal was to recognise certain historic non-sovereign entities as "Polish":


 * Congress Poland > Category:People from Congress Poland. This is already in the nationality-based Category:Polish people tree.
 * Duchy of Warsaw > Category:People from the Duchy of Warsaw. This is already in the nationality-based Category:Polish people tree.
 * Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria > Category:People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria. This is not yet in the nationality-based Category:Polish people tree, perhaps also because it might also / better fit in the nationality-based Category:Ukrainian people tree. (E.g. List of people from Galicia (Eastern Europe): modern period is in Category:Lists of Ukrainian people). Neither Poland nor Ukraine can really claim the KGL exclusively for themselves as a predecessor.
 * Grand Duchy of Posen > Category:People from the Grand Duchy of Posen. This is indirectly in the nationality-based Category:Polish people tree, namely through Category:People from Greater Poland > Category:People by region in Poland > Category:Polish people by location > Category:Polish people (by nationality). But technically there shouldn't be a link between Category:People by region in Poland and Category:Polish people by location, because the former is about people by place of residence or origin (birth) regardless of nationality, while the latter is about nationality + residence.
 * Perhaps others? Prior to 1815 and after 1848, there was no Grand Duchy of Posen which at least nominally granted autonomy to the mostly-Polish population. But from 1792 to 1807, the four Prussian provinces New East Prussia, South Prussia, West Prussia and Netze District had no autonomy at all, and the post-1848 Province of Posen didn't either. It may be too much of a stretch to grand all inhabitants of these Prussian provinces (which we might understand as the Prussian partition) a "Polish nationality" just so that we can put them in the Category:Polish people (by nationality) tree.
 * Until we resolve that question, it's probably difficult to do anything with these Polish Partition categories. We do not want to erase Polish history, but it's really challenging to categorise it either. NLeeuw (talk) 07:01, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Relisting comment: For the second time, thoughts on the (new) alt rename target ? Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  20:26, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I'd be ok with Category:Activists from the Grand Duchy of Posen as well. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:32, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
 * That seems a good idea! Most of them were even born or died in the city of Posen / Poznan itself. Only the first one, Florian Ceynowa the Kashubian, seems to have spent his whole life in Eastern Pomerania, not Posen / Greater Poland. NLeeuw (talk) 21:46, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Jewish Palestine Liberation Organization members
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl  talk  19:02, 2 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose deleting jewish palestine liberation organization members
 * Nominator's rationale: Delete per WP:OCEGRS and possibly WP:NONDEF. Omnis Scientia (talk) 19:01, 22 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Keep Defining characteristic WP:COPDEF, not some random members of the PLO who happen to be Jewish. No, their significance is in being Jewish members of the PLO. --Yabroq (talk) 21:53, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: this person is the creator of this category. Either way, one article is not enough to justify keeping a category. Omnis Scientia (talk) 10:18, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete, only one article in the category, this is not helpful for navigation between related articles. No objection to recreate the category when some more articles can be added. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:24, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete single-article category, failing WP:NARROWCAT. The sole article is already in all of the parents, or their other subcategories. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 01:17, 1 July 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Drake & Josh video games
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Drake & Josh and Category:Nickelodeon video games and Category:Video games set in San Diego and and Category:Video games set in the 2000s. House Blaster  (talk · he/they) 13:58, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Drake & Josh video games to Category:Drake & Josh
 * Nominator's rationale: Category only consists of two articles. There were no other Drake and Josh games produced. (Oinkers42) (talk) 15:29, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Toadette Edit! 18:26, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * shouldn't it also be merged to other parent categories? Marcocapelle (talk) 16:06, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes, of course. (Oinkers42) (talk) 20:36, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * for clarity, are you supporting a quadruple merge to Category:Drake & Josh, Category:Nickelodeon video games, Category:Video games set in San Diego, and Category:Video games set in the 2000s? House Blaster  (talk · he/they) 22:40, 13 June 2024 (UTC)
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 * My answer to User:HouseBlaster's question is yes. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:28, 23 June 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Roman generals
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge/rename. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  06:59, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Roman generals to Category:Generals by former country
 * Propose renaming Category:Roman generals by century to Category:Generals by century
 * Nominator's rationale: Uphelpful bundling of Roman people. This category contains Ancient Romans and Byzantine people. Mason (talk) 03:03, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * Merge/rename, this is redundant as we already have Category:Ancient Roman generals by century. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:55, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose Byzantine people are Romans, just not ancient ones.★Trekker (talk) 08:49, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The Byzantine Empire is generally considered to be an empire in its own right. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:24, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
 * @StarTrekker, how is your opposition relevant to the nomination? We don't have any other categories that isolate Byzantine/Ancient Romans like this. There was a cfd (Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_September_27) that renamed Roman categories to Ancient Roman categories already to remove this kind of ambiguity. Mason (talk) 00:07, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * We should have. It's not accurate to consider it a separate empire, historical revisionism.★Trekker (talk) 07:02, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Ok, but that's not really responsive to nom. It's not helpful to have a Category:Roman generals by century when there's not even a regular generals by century category.Mason (talk) 23:02, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
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 * Defer. I think it's helpful to first await the outcome of Categories for discussion/Log/2024 June 5 (including a proposal to merge Category:Imperial Roman generals to Category:Ancient Roman generals). Until we agree that it's best to have a clean split between "Ancient Roman" on the one hand and "Byzantine" on the other, without overlapping "Roman" or "Imperial Roman" trees in between, I think we can't make a decision on whether to phase out the entire "Roman" tree. NLeeuw (talk) 17:09, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Oppose Byzantine people are Romans. Dimadick (talk) 17:24, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
 * That is a point of contention about which there will never be consensus. ;) NLeeuw (talk) 17:34, 12 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Merge It doesn't matter if Byzantine people are Romans if there is no navigational benefit in having an intermediate layer that, by its very nature, completely overlaps with two subcategories. –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 19:15, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
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 * Merge per LP03. * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 01:16, 9 July 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Battles of the War of 1812 in Canada
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) –<b style="color:#77b">Laundry</b><b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 01:15, 1 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose upmerging Category:Battles of the War of 1812 in Canada to Category:Battles of the War of 1812
 * Propose upmerging Category:Battles of the War of 1812 in Ontario ‎to Category:Battles of the War of 1812 and Category:Military history of Ontario
 * Propose upmerging Category:Battles of the War of 1812 in Quebec‎ to Category:Battles of the War of 1812 and Category:Military history of Quebec
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:MILMOS. Follow-up to Categories for discussion/Log/2024 June 6. See also recent precedents, e.g. Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 24. NLeeuw (talk) 09:28, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

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 * Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:19, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
 * do not merge There is nothing stated in WP:MILMOS that requires the deletion of geographic sub-categories within a 'battles of xx war' category. And doing so will harm the reader's navigation to desired articles, forcing them to mentally merge several requests together and open and read multiple articles together to obtain information such as 'what are the battles of the War of 1812 in Canada?' or 'what are the battles of the war of 1812 in Ontario?'  WP information consists not only of article content but also the category structure.  This is destroying content.  Thanks Hmains (talk) 00:33, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
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 * Destroyal of content is never the result of a category merge proposal. In this case the articles will stay in Category:Military history of Ontario and Category:Battles of the War of 1812. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:31, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I concur. Hmains (who created these categories) tried to use the same argument last time, and it was not accepted then either. NLeeuw (talk) 18:10, 23 June 2024 (UTC)


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Bengali–Assamese script
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Category:Rashidun governors of Ta'if
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Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  17:19, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * The result of the discussion was: merge/delete as nominated. House Blaster  (talk · he/they) 01:16, 6 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting rashidun governors of ta'if
 * Propose merging rashidun governors of mosul to Category:Governors of Mosul
 * Propose merging rashidun governors of fars to Category:Governors of Fars
 * Nominator's rationale: merge/delete for now, currently only 1-2 articles in each category, this is not helpful for navigation. No objection to recreate the category when some more articles are available. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:26, 14 June 2024 (UTC)
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Category:Cricket organizations
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Category:Jesuit musicians
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Category:Jews and Judaism in Portland, Maine
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 * The result of the discussion was: manual merge as per Marco. (non-admin closure)  Qwerfjkl  talk  07:03, 10 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Jews and Judaism in Portland, Maine to Category:Jews and Judaism in Maine
 * Nominator's rationale: Merge with parent category. The people in this category should be moved to Category:Jews from Maine. That leaves one synagogue and a school. Omnis Scientia (talk) 16:29, 22 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Split between Category:Jews from Maine (the biographies) on the one hand and both Category:Jews and Judaism in Maine and Category:Religion in Portland, Maine (the other two articles) on the other hand, per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:29, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * As nominator, I support Marco's alt plan. Omnis Scientia (talk) 11:00, 23 June 2024 (UTC)
 * This plan is not a good one, as both synagogue articles are already in Category:Religious buildings and structures in Portland, Maine.--User:Namiba 15:49, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks, then I'll strike that as a merge target. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:35, 25 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Keep for the same reasons as we discussed in December 2023.--User:Namiba 21:46, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Tagging those who participated in December's discussion User:Smasongarrison, User:Jahaza, User:LaundryPizza03, User:Place Clichy.--User:Namiba 15:49, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
 * That previous discussion was a no consensus. Place Clichy (talk) 18:59, 25 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Merge. I don't think that a city-level Judaism category brings any value to articles about people, e.g. the likes of movie executive, BTW already in . Seen the volume of articles not about people (which are already in other Portland-related categories), Category:Jews and Judaism in Maine is altogether a better location. Place Clichy (talk) 18:59, 25 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I guess you also mean "split" rather than "merge", right? Marcocapelle (talk) 06:16, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Indeed, biographies belong in the child category for individual people — if anywhere at all. Place Clichy (talk) 08:46, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Why though? The name of the category clearly indicates that it should include individual people (Jews) as well as Jewish institutions. Unless there is a mass rename, that doesn't make sense. Jewish elected officials (for example) are obviously defined by their connection to the city.--User:Namiba 12:53, 26 June 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Historical geography
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Category:Cross-platform free software (BSD; Linux; macOS; Windows)
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge to parents. House Blaster  (talk · he/they) 14:02, 30 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose merging to all parents:
 * Category:Cross-platform free software (BSD; Linux; macOS; Windows)
 * Category:Cross-platform free software (Linux; macOS; Windows)
 * Category:Cross-platform proprietary software (macOS; Windows)
 * Category:Cross-platform proprietary software (Linux; macOS; Windows)
 * Nominator's rationale: Non-defining/trivial intersection. * Pppery * <sub style="color:#800000">it has begun... 03:29, 22 June 2024 (UTC)


 * Merge Per nom, this sort of disambiguation does not follow Wikipedia policy in the slightest. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 07:48, 23 June 2024 (UTC)


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