Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 4

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Category:Carolus-Duran

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 17:05, 12 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose deleting carolus-duran
 * Nominator's rationale: There's no need to have a category with two interlinked pages. It doesn't help with navigation because the two pages are the painter and the list of their works. Mason (talk) 23:00, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Delete per WP:OCEPON. Marcocapelle (talk) 01:24, 5 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Beacom College football

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 17:04, 12 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose deleting beacom college football
 * Nominator's rationale: Category lacks subjects. Let&#39;srun (talk) 21:19, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 01:23, 5 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Films by country and year

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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 17:04, 12 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose deleting films by country and year
 * Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary category. We don't categorize films for the intersection of their home country with individual year, so there's no prospect of this being filled out -- the only contents here are the Egyptian category listed for discussion below (which isn't actually catting the films by year, but by century, and thus wouldn't belong here even if it were kept), and, which is already filed in other subcategories of the parents and thus doesn't need this. Bearcat (talk) 20:34, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Delete, this naturally follows from the nomination below. Marcocapelle (talk) 01:22, 5 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Egyptian films by year
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Category:Defunct IMAX venues

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 19:17, 11 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose merging Category:Defunct IMAX venues to Category:IMAX venues
 * Nominator's rationale: Category lacks subjects. Let&#39;srun (talk) 14:33, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Upmerge for now without prejudice. NLeeuw (talk) 15:04, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Merge per nom, without objection to recreate the category when some more articles are available. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:38, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Statues depicting Mary Magdalene

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 19:17, 11 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose renaming Category:Statues depicting Mary Magdalene to Category:Sculptures of Mary Magdalene
 * Nominator's rationale: Not all of these sculptures are statues; The Deposition (Michelangelo) is a sculptural group of multiple figures. In this recent CfD "Sculptures of" became the preferred phrasing over "Sculptures depicting". Ham II (talk) 13:13, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Rename per nom. NLeeuw (talk) 13:22, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Rename per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:34, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Courtroom novels

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 19:17, 11 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose merging Category:Courtroom novels to Category:Novels set in courtrooms
 * Nominator's rationale: Perhaps I've just misunderstood something here, in which case please resoundingly reject this, but I can't seem to find the difference between these two categories or any reason why they should be separate. All but one (The Children Act) of Courtroom novels' entries appear in both categories. If I had to guess, I think one refers to the legal drama (or, more specifically, the "courtroom drama") genre while the other is the setting, but I get the sense that may just be a distinction without difference. QuietHere (talk &#124; contributions) 12:54, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Merge per nom. Seems like a solid observation. NLeeuw (talk) 13:23, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:33, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Support per nom Mason (talk) 23:43, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Battles by country

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 * The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 17:04, 12 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose renaming Category:Battles by country to Category:Battles by country involved
 * Propose renaming Category:Wars by country to Category:Wars by country involved
 * Propose renaming Category:Military operations by country to Category:Military operations by country involved
 * Propose renaming Category:Military campaigns by country to Category:Military campaigns by country involved
 * Propose renaming Category:Sieges by country to Category:Sieges by country involved
 * Propose renaming Category:Naval battles by country to Category:Naval battles by country involved
 * Nominator's rationale: To avoid further confusion, and make clear that we mean by country involved, not the geographical location in which the battle, war, military operation/campaign, siege or naval battle took place. All six categories already have a description explaining this, but apparently it is not enough, because editors keep misinterpreting the scope. Follow-up to Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 3. NLeeuw (talk) 12:48, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Rename for more clarity about the purpose of these categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:30, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Sikh monarchs
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 16%23Category:Sikh monarchs

Category:Hindkowan families

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 21:44, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  11:42, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Hindkowan families to Category:Hindkowan people
 * Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:59, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


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Category:Hindkowan diaspora

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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 21:44, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  11:42, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Hindkowan diaspora to Category:Hindkowan people
 * Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:01, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


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Category:Fictional West Asian people

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 * The result of the discussion was: Merge West Asia but no consensus on the others. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:01, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose upmerging Category:Fictional West Asian people to Category:Fictional Asian people; purging Category:Fictional Arabs and Category:Fictional Middle Eastern people (has been cat-see also'd), because not necessarily "Asian"
 * Propose upmerging Category:Fictional Central Asian people to Category:Fictional Asian people
 * Propose upmerging Category:Fictional South Asian people to Category:Fictional Asian people
 * Propose upmerging Category:Fictional Southeast Asian people to Category:Fictional Asian people
 * Propose upmerging Category:Fictional East Asian people to Category:Fictional Asian people
 * Nominator's rationale: Follow-up to Categories for discussion/Log/2023 April 29 (all Upmerged) per WP:NONDEFINING and WP:ARBITRARYCAT. NLeeuw (talk) 13:29, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkl  talk  11:41, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Comment, European regions do not have natural geographic boundaries and in history the European countries have interacted with each other heavily irrespective of any region definitions. I am not sure if the same applies to Asia. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:11, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep all except West Asia. Most people agree on the definitions of the subregions of Asia, except for West Asia and the classification of Afghanistan. –Laundry<b style="color:#fb0">Pizza</b><b style="color:#b00">03</b> ( d c̄ ) 08:15, 3 May 2024 (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.
 * Let's do a simple reading, shall we?
 * South Asia: The geographical extent is not clear cut as systemic and foreign policy orientations of its constituents are quite asymmetrical. Beyond the core territories of the Indian Empire (territories of the British Empire which were under the system of British Raj), there is a high degree of variation as to which other countries are included in South Asia.
 * Central Asia: The borders of Central Asia are subject to multiple definitions.
 * East Asia: (complicated, read for yourselves)
 * Southeast Asia: Although from a cultural or linguistic perspective the definitions of "Southeast Asia" may vary, the most common definitions nowadays include the area represented by the countries (sovereign states and dependent territories) listed below. (WP:UNSOURCED, typical case of WP:OR)
 * West Asia The term West Asia is used pragmatically and has no "correct" or generally accepted definition.
 * It's quite evident that there are no universally accepted definitions of these subregions. Same as with Europe. East Asia seems closest to having a commonly accepted definition, but even there we see lots of variation in official usage by governments and international organisations like the UN. Geography doesn't really provide natural boundaries, at least very few that seem to follow present-day national borders. (E.g. the Himalayas do represent the northern boundary of "South Asia", but UNESCO includes Tibet and Uyghur in "Central Asia", which most definitions include into "East Asia", so that doesn't help very much.) As LP indicates, Afghanistan could be included in Central, South and even West Asia (for biological, geological or cultural-linguistic reasons); Pakistan is also sometimes included in "Middle East / West Asia and North Africa". Myanmar could be both South and Southeast Asia. And so on. NLeeuw (talk) 12:20, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * LaundryPizza03's made a comment about West Asia. It does make sense to merge West Asia and keep Asia as a parent of Middle East because West Asia and Middle East are almost coterminous. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:28, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm even more opposed to "Fictional Middle Eastern people", actually. It's one of the most arbitrary eurocentric neologisms of the 20th century, rarely has a positive connotation, and comes with numerous generalisations. I've been gently steering towards commonly accepted continental categorisations where that seems appropriate instead of these arbitrary regions and subregions that everyone seems to have a home-made arbitrary definition for. NLeeuw (talk) 22:16, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * You might nominate Category:Fictional Middle Eastern people too, for manual merge to Category:Fictional Asian people, but I do not expect consensus for that to be honest. I am indifferent between West Asia and Middle East myself, I was merely argueing that we do not need both. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:09, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I am planning to. NLeeuw (talk) 22:12, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Merge West Asia. For the rest I have no opinion. --Aldij (talk) 12:45, 21 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Public baths in the Arab world
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 * The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Hammam. (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 18:07, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Implementation note: as this is a set category not a topic category, I am merging it to the existing Category:Hammams. – Fayenatic  L ondon 16:01, 18 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose upmerging Category:Public baths in the Arab world to Category:Public baths, except those already in Category:Public baths in Spain
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:ARBITRARYCAT. 5 out of 16 are located in Spain, 1 in Israel, which are not usually considered part of the "Arab world" (itself a contested and arbitrary term). It also seems that "Turkish bath", "Islamic bath" and "Arab(ic) bath" are all lumped together. I think the non-Spain articles are best upmerged for now. For the others, subcategories can be created once they have at least 5 articles. Morocco, Syria, Egypt etc. NLeeuw (talk) 15:07, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

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 * Rename to Category:Hammam per article title Hammam. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:02, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hmmm but not all of those were "Turkish/Ottoman" baths. I do agree that some of them could be transferred to Category:Ottoman baths instead, especially the 9 with "Hammam" in their article titles. NLeeuw (talk) 16:10, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 * From what I understand from the Hamman article, it does not have to be restricted to Turkish/Ottoman. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:10, 29 April 2024 (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.
 * Hmmm ok. Rename to Category:Hammam per Marcocapelle. NLeeuw (talk) 12:23, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Natural history
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 * The result of the discussion was: No consensus Timrollpickering (talk) 17:43, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting:
 * Category: Natural history
 * Category: Natural history by continent‎
 * Category: Natural history by country‎
 * Category: Natural history by dependent territory‎
 * Category: Natural history museums by country‎
 * Category: Natural history of Africa by country‎
 * Category: Natural history of Africa‎
 * Category: Natural history of Antarctica‎
 * Category: Natural history of Asia by country‎
 * Category: Natural history of Asia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Bahrain‎
 * Category: Natural history of Bangladesh‎
 * Category: Natural history of Barbados‎


 * Category: Natural history of Belarus‎
 * Category: Natural history of Belgium‎
 * Category: Natural history of Belize‎
 * Category: Natural history of Benin‎
 * Category: Natural history of Bhutan‎
 * Category: Natural history of Bolivia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Bosnia and Herzegovina‎
 * Category: Natural history of Botswana‎
 * Category: Natural history of Brazil‎
 * Category: Natural history of Brunei‎
 * Category: Natural history of Bulgaria‎
 * Category: Natural history of Burundi‎
 * Category: Natural history of Cambodia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Cameroon‎
 * Category: Natural history of Chile‎
 * Category: Natural history of China‎
 * Category: Natural history of Colombia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Costa Rica‎
 * Category: Natural history of Croatia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Cuba‎
 * Category: Natural history of Cyprus‎
 * Category: Natural history of Denmark‎
 * Category: Natural history of Dominica‎
 * Category: Natural history of East Timor‎
 * Category: Natural history of Ecuador‎
 * Category: Natural history of Egypt‎
 * Category: Natural history of El Salvador‎
 * Category: Natural history of Eritrea‎
 * Category: Natural history of Estonia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Eswatini‎
 * Category: Natural history of Ethiopia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Europe by country‎
 * Category: Natural history of Europe‎
 * Category: Natural history of Fiji‎
 * Category: Natural history of Finland‎
 * Category: Natural history of France‎
 * Category: Natural history of Gabon‎
 * Category: Natural history of Georgia (country)
 * Category: Natural history of Germany‎
 * Category: Natural history of Ghana‎
 * Category: Natural history of Greece‎
 * Category: Natural history of Grenada‎
 * Category: Natural history of Guatemala‎
 * Category: Natural history of Guinea‎
 * Category: Natural history of Guinea-Bissau‎
 * Category: Natural history of Guyana‎
 * Category: Natural history of Haiti‎
 * Category: Natural history of Honduras‎
 * Category: Natural history of Hungary‎
 * Category: Natural history of Iceland‎
 * Category: Natural history of India‎
 * Category: Natural history of Indonesia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Iran‎
 * Category: Natural history of Iraq‎
 * Category: Natural history of Israel‎
 * Category: Natural history of Italy‎
 * Category: Natural history of Ivory Coast‎
 * Category: Natural history of Jamaica‎
 * Category: Natural history of Japan‎
 * Category: Natural history of Jordan‎
 * Category: Natural history of Kazakhstan‎
 * Category: Natural history of Kenya‎
 * Category: Natural history of Kosovo‎
 * Category: Natural history of Kuwait‎
 * Category: Natural history of Kyrgyzstan‎
 * Category: Natural history of Laos‎
 * Category: Natural history of Latvia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Lebanon‎
 * Category: Natural history of Lesotho‎
 * Category: Natural history of Libya‎
 * Category: Natural history of Lithuania‎
 * Category: Natural history of Luxembourg‎
 * Category: Natural history of Madagascar‎
 * Category: Natural history of Malaysia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Mali‎
 * Category: Natural history of Malta‎
 * Category: Natural history of Mauritania‎
 * Category: Natural history of Mauritius‎
 * Category: Natural history of Mexico‎
 * Category: Natural history of Moldova‎
 * Category: Natural history of Mongolia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Montenegro‎
 * Category: Natural history of Morocco‎
 * Category: Natural history of Mozambique‎
 * Category: Natural history of Myanmar‎
 * Category: Natural history of Namibia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Nepal‎
 * Category: Natural history of New Zealand‎
 * Category: Natural history of Nicaragua‎
 * Category: Natural history of Nigeria‎
 * Category: Natural history of North America by country‎
 * Category: Natural history of North America‎
 * Category: Natural history of North Korea‎
 * Category: Natural history of North Macedonia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Norway‎
 * Category: Natural history of Oceania by country‎
 * Category: Natural history of Oceania‎
 * Category: Natural history of Oman‎
 * Category: Natural history of Pakistan‎
 * Category: Natural history of Palau‎
 * Category: Natural history of Panama‎
 * Category: Natural history of Papua New Guinea‎
 * Category: Natural history of Paraguay‎
 * Category: Natural history of Peru‎
 * Category: Natural history of Poland‎
 * Category: Natural history of Portugal‎
 * Category: Natural history of Qatar‎
 * Category: Natural history of Romania‎
 * Category: Natural history of Russia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Rwanda‎
 * Category: Natural history of Saint Kitts and Nevis‎
 * Category: Natural history of Saint Lucia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines‎
 * Category: Natural history of São Tomé and Príncipe‎
 * Category: Natural history of Saudi Arabia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Serbia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Seychelles‎
 * Category: Natural history of Singapore‎
 * Category: Natural history of Slovakia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Slovenia‎
 * Category: Natural history of South Africa‎
 * Category: Natural history of South America by country‎
 * Category: Natural history of South America‎
 * Category: Natural history of South Korea‎
 * Category: Natural history of Spain‎
 * Category: Natural history of Sri Lanka‎
 * Category: Natural history of Sudan‎
 * Category: Natural history of Suriname‎
 * Category: Natural history of Sweden‎
 * Category: Natural history of Switzerland‎
 * Category: Natural history of Syria‎
 * Category: Natural history of Taiwan‎
 * Category: Natural history of Tajikistan‎
 * Category: Natural history of Tanzania‎
 * Category: Natural history of Thailand‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Americas‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Bahamas‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Czech Republic‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Dominican Republic‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Federated States of Micronesia‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Gambia‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Maldives‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Marshall Islands‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Netherlands‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Philippines‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Republic of the Congo‎
 * Category: Natural history of the United Arab Emirates‎
 * Category: Natural history of Trinidad and Tobago‎
 * Category: Natural history of Tunisia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Turkey‎
 * Category: Natural history of Turkmenistan‎
 * Category: Natural history of Uganda‎
 * Category: Natural history of Ukraine‎
 * Category: Natural history of Uruguay‎
 * Category: Natural history of Uzbekistan‎
 * Category: Natural history of Venezuela‎
 * Category: Natural history of Vietnam‎
 * Category: Natural history of Western Sahara‎
 * Category: Natural history of Yemen‎
 * Category: Natural history of Zambia‎
 * Category: Natural history of Zimbabwe‎
 * Category:Natural history of Alabama‎
 * Category:Natural history of Alaska‎
 * Category:Natural history of Arizona‎
 * Category:Natural history of Arkansas‎
 * Category:Natural history of California‎
 * Category:Natural history of Colorado‎
 * Category:Natural history of Connecticut‎
 * Category:Natural history of Delaware‎
 * Category:Natural history of Florida‎
 * Category:Natural history of Georgia (U.S. state)
 * Category:Natural history of Hawaii‎
 * Category:Natural history of Idaho‎
 * Category:Natural history of Illinois‎
 * Category:Natural history of Indiana‎
 * Category:Natural history of Iowa‎
 * Category:Natural history of Kansas‎
 * Category:Natural history of Kentucky‎
 * Category:Natural history of Louisiana‎
 * Category:Natural history of Maine‎
 * Category:Natural history of Maryland‎
 * Category:Natural history of Massachusetts‎
 * Category:Natural history of Michigan‎
 * Category:Natural history of Minnesota‎
 * Category:Natural history of Mississippi‎
 * Category:Natural history of Missouri‎
 * Category:Natural history of Montana‎
 * Category:Natural history of Nebraska‎
 * Category:Natural history of Nevada‎
 * Category:Natural history of New Hampshire‎
 * Category:Natural history of New Jersey‎
 * Category:Natural history of New Mexico‎
 * Category:Natural history of New York (state)
 * Category:Natural history of North Carolina‎
 * Category:Natural history of North Dakota‎
 * Category:Natural history of Ohio‎
 * Category:Natural history of Oklahoma‎
 * Category:Natural history of Oregon‎
 * Category:Natural history of Pennsylvania‎
 * Category:Natural history of Rhode Island‎
 * Category:Natural history of South Carolina‎
 * Category:Natural history of South Dakota‎
 * Category:Natural history of Tennessee‎
 * Category:Natural history of Texas‎
 * Category:Natural history of Utah‎
 * Category:Natural history of Vermont‎
 * Category:Natural history of Virginia‎
 * Category:Natural history of Washington (state)
 * Category:Natural history of Washington, D.C.‎
 * Category:Natural history of West Virginia‎
 * Category:Natural history of Wisconsin‎
 * Category:Natural history of Wyoming‎
 * Category: Natural history of Africa by dependent territory‎
 * Category: Natural history of Anguilla‎
 * Category: Natural history of Asia by dependent territory‎
 * Category: Natural history of Bermuda‎
 * Category: Natural history of Bougainville Island‎
 * Category: Natural history of British Overseas Territories‎
 * Category: Natural history of Christmas Island‎
 * Category: Natural history of Europe by dependent territory‎
 * Category: Natural history of French Guiana‎
 * Category: Natural history of Gibraltar‎
 * Category: Natural history of Greenland‎
 * Category: Natural history of Guadeloupe‎
 * Category: Natural history of Hong Kong‎
 * Category: Natural history of Îles des Saintes‎
 * Category: Natural history of insular areas of the United States‎
 * Category: Natural history of Macau‎
 * Category: Natural history of Martinique‎
 * Category: Natural history of Mayotte‎
 * Category: Natural history of Mayotte‎
 * Category: Natural history of Montserrat‎
 * Category: Natural history of New Caledonia‎
 * Category: Natural history of North America by dependent territory‎
 * Category: Natural history of Oceania by dependent territory‎
 * Category: Natural history of Overseas France‎
 * Category: Natural history of Puerto Rico‎
 * Category: Natural history of Réunion‎
 * Category: Natural history of Saint Barthélemy‎
 * Category: Natural history of Saint Pierre and Miquelon‎
 * Category: Natural history of South America by dependent territory‎
 * Category: Natural history of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands‎
 * Category: Natural history of the British Virgin Islands‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Cayman Islands‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands
 * Category: Natural history of the Dutch Caribbean‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Falkland Islands‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Faroe Islands‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Pitcairn Islands‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Pitcairn Islands‎
 * Category: Natural history of the Turks and Caicos Islands‎
 * Category: Natural history of the United States Virgin Islands‎


 * Nominator's rationale: delete, Natural history used to be what we call Natural sciences today, the umbrella term of biology, physics, chemistry etc. The current meaning of natural history is very fuzzy. The content of these categories largely overlaps with Category:Environment of Bangladesh, Category:Environment of Barbados etc. This is a follow-up nomination after Categories_for_discussion/Log/2024_April_11. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:35, 26 April 2024 (UTC)


 * Delete per precedent. These are WP:ARBITRARYCATs which do not aid navigation. NLeeuw (talk) 17:34, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is a confused nomination citing another confused discussion as precedent.  There is certainly a reasonable intersection between the natural sciences, such as the biology, botany, zoölogy, paleontology, geology, etc. of a place, and the place that they represent.  The nominator here and in the previous discussion linked above notes that the term "natural history" is somewhat synonymous with "natural sciences", which would be a valid reason to move these categories or change the titles to "natural history of foo", but not to delete them unless they simply duplicated "natural sciences of foo" or "environment of foo", or a similarly-named set of categories.
 * But in many instances there are no such categories; I came here from WikiProject West Virginia, and there does not seem to be a similar category combining the included articles or subcategories. The overlap mentioned by the nominator does not exist in this instance, and probably does not in many others.  It makes no sense to use the supposed overlap with categories that do not exist as a justification for deleting others that do.  The second comment above, supporting deletion, is for a completely different reason: the supposition that there is no valid intersection between the natural sciences of an area, region, or country.
 * The nominator seems to suppose that there is value in collecting these articles and subcategories, but that these are redundant and mistitled; the other person does not think there is any point in collecting them in the first place. This is the same pair of contradictory reasons provided by the same two editors in the above-linked discussion being cited as precedent.  I also submit that said discussion involved only these two and one other editor, and so does not set a very strong precedent for deciding the fate of hundreds of existing categories.  P Aculeius (talk) 11:54, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Category:Natural history of West Virginia consists like its siblings of biota, flora, fauna, forests which are or belong in environment. There are also geology and paleontology subcategories which are very unrelated. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:00, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
 * They are related in the sense that "environment" is related to both geology and paleontology, and readers might be served by finding a category or container category for these items together, grouped by state, region, or country. Just as a category for "natural sciences" groups these topics (or parent categories containing them), someone studying a particular place wold benefit from being able to find a grouping of biology, geology, paleontology, etc. relating to that place.
 * It also makes sense to group the natural sciences away from cultural topics, such as history, politics, education, etc., rather than just having one overarching category for the place containing all of the subcategories or topics relating to it. For example, it makes sense to have "Fauna of West Virginia", "Geology of West Virginia", "Cheat Canyon", and "Mingo Oak" grouped together with each other, but not with "List of governors of West Virginia", "Taxation in West Virginia" and "Tennessee Gas Pipeline".
 * As far as the title is concerned, alternative formulations—"environment of", for example—can be a bit vague; is a list of species part of "environment", or the geography of the Appalachians? Is paleontology a topic within "environment"?  It seems to me that "natural history" is the broadest formulation, as "natural sciences" might be understood to have a more limited scope; a salamander or a canyon might not sound like it fits in the latter category—although I suppose someone unfamiliar with the term "natural history" might regard it similarly.  Either way, deleting the category seems unhelpful to readers.  P Aculeius (talk) 15:00, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

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 * Keep per P Aculeius, whose arguments have completely convinced me that these categories are both useful and not redundant. Whether "natural history" or "natural science" is the better title I'm unsure of, but whichever is deletion is not the answer. Thryduulf (talk) 20:59, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
 * There isn't any grouping in science that treats biology (flora and fauna), geology and paleontology as a coherent group. Neither "natural history" nor "natural sciences" are commonly used for such combinations. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:20, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
 * And yet, it seems that all of these are included under the headings of "natural history" and "natural sciences". So are those groupings invalid, or just not the categories that come first to mind when thinking of individual sciences?  P Aculeius (talk) 15:38, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
 * They are included under the headings of "natural history" here in Wikipedia categories. But that does not mean anything. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:05, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
 * If "natural history" and/or "natural sciences" are valid categories of science, as they seem to be, then it makes sense to group the subjects of these headings by location. Anyone researching places, such as West Virginia, California, Poland, Saudi Arabia, etc. would presumably benefit from finding categories containing sciences related to those specific places, as opposed to history, politics, economics, etc.  It may be possible to subdivide "natural history" or "natural sciences" into narrower groups of topics—but that doesn't mean that the overarching categories are of no value to readers.  P Aculeius (talk) 14:47, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Delete all country and continent categories as an unnecessary duplication of existing categories. We should probably keep Category:Natural history and Category:Natural history museums by country‎. But if not deleted, due to lack of consensus, then restore those deleted in the previous nomination. – Fayenatic  L ondon 13:50, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
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 * Keep per P Aculeius's explanation, which is one of the most graceful arguments I've ever read on Wikipedia. I would like someone to set out a principled way for distinguishing this from related categories (such as 'environment of') but, in any case, I am convinced that natural history is neither useless nor arbitrary as a categorisation. I agree with Fayenatic that whatever is decided here should also apply to the categories deleted in the previous nomination. Jlalbion (talk) 20:40, 9 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep because the key word here is history, not natural. This category isn't about the science of these places but the histories of these places as seen through their biota, changing landscapes, natural resources and extractive industries, as a subsidiary to History of place, along with Military history of place, social history of place, economic history of place, etc. jengod (talk) 22:27, 9 June 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Beringia
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Category:Virginia dynasty
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 21:45, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose deleting virginia dynasty
 * Nominator's rationale: per WP:NARROWCAT. The category is a limited scope to only four people. There will not be further additions to this. Omnis Scientia (talk) 19:09, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

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 * Oppose Five articles are more than enough for a category. Dimadick (talk) 19:15, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Lean to delete, it does not seem a defining characteristic. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:50, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
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 * Delete. The main article Virginia dynasty is poorly developed, and most of the bios of the 4 presidents do not even mention the term, or only in passing. The term "dynasty" can only be considered a very loose metaphor anyway, as these were elected presidents in a republic, not related to each other biologically, none of them was born in Virginia, the 2nd president John Adams breaks the "line", even the first president's "Virginity" (pun intended) is questioned in the 2nd sentence, so all we really have is 3 presidents who weren't really born in Virginia, not really related to each other, not really monarchs who succeeded each other dynastically, being randomly associated by some people, but not really a lot of people. Yeah... nah. We might almost delete the main article as well, but that's beyond this CFD. NLeeuw (talk) 11:50, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Battles in Northamptonshire
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 18:07, 12 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose upmerging Category:Battles in Northamptonshire to Category:Military history of Northamptonshire
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:MILMOS. Follow-up to Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 3. NLeeuw (talk) 10:53, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Battles in Fukushima Prefecture
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 19:11, 11 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose upmerging Category:Battles in Fukushima Prefecture to Category:Battles involving Japan
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:MILMOS. Follow-up to Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 3. NLeeuw (talk) 10:51, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Support, these are battles with involvement of local rulers, "involving Japan" is slightly off because the government of Japan was not involved, but "in Fukushima Prefecture" makes even less sense. On top of that, the number of articles is not such that we should keep this category under a better name. Marcocapelle (talk) 15:15, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Battles in the Azores
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 * The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Military history of the Azores and purge Category:Battles involving Portugal as a parent. (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 02:04, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose renaming Category:Battles in the Azores to Category:Military history of the Azores; purge parent Category:Battles involving Portugal
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:MILMOS. Follow-up to Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 3. Not all these battles involved Portugal, but they did have something to do with the Azores. NLeeuw (talk) 10:48, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Admittedly a few of these battles took place between 1580 and 1640 when Portugal was part of Spain (which is probably a legally incorrect way of phrasing it) but I don't think that this is a good enough reason to remove Category:Battles involving Portugal as a parent category. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:30, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Every single one of them is already in Category:Battles involving Portugal, or a subcategory of it. Purging is completely justified. NLeeuw (talk) 14:27, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * do you still oppose purging Category:Battles involving Portugal?<span id="HouseBlaster:1715608192764:WikipediaFTTCLNCategories_for_discussion/Log/2024_May_4" class="FTTCmt"> House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 13:49, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I am no longer opposing the purge, NL Leeuw's reply suffices. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:03, 16 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Battles in Uganda
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 * The result of the discussion was: manual merge. (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 18:09, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose manually upmerging Category:Battles in Uganda to...
 * Category:Battles involving Uganda if Republic of Uganda was a participant;
 * otherwise to Category:Military history of Uganda
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:MILMOS. Follow-up to Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 3. I propose to manually upmerge these to battles in Uganda where applicable, and if the modern Republic of Uganda was not a participant, to Category:Military history of Uganda. NLeeuw (talk) 10:28, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Support in principle, but I would recommend Category:Battles of the Uganda–Tanzania War as a third option. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:43, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Well-spotted! There is large overlap with Category:Uganda–Tanzania War already. NLeeuw (talk) 12:29, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Battles in Latvia
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 * The result of the discussion was: manual merge as nominated. (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 19:09, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose manually merging Category:Battles in Latvia to (where applicable)...
 * Category:Battles of the Livonian Crusade, or
 * Category:Battles involving the Livonian Order, or
 * Category:Battles involving Latvia, or
 * Category:Military history of Latvia (remainder)
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:MILMOS. Follow-up to Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 3. These battles are an WP:ARBITRARYCAT / WP:OVERLAPCAT mix of Category:Battles of the Livonian Crusade, Category:Battles involving the Livonian Order, Category:Battles involving Latvia, and others. I propose to manually merge all items into one of these categories (if they're not there already), and put any remainders into Category:Military history of Latvia. NLeeuw (talk) 10:21, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Support, "in Latvia" is anachronistic because Latvia did not exist yet, but there have been other states in the same region who already have their own battles category. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:38, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Battles in Jamaica
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 19:07, 11 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose upmerging Category:Battles in Jamaica to Category:Military history of Jamaica
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:MILMOS, WP:ARBITRARYCAT; location seems to be WP:NONDEFINING. Even if it were defining, it's only 3 items, so Upmerge for now applies. Follow-up to Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 3. NLeeuw (talk) 10:05, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Support, the anachronism argument (which I argued below) may not apply, arguably this refers to the island of Jamaica. But nom is right about the small size of the category anyway. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:30, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Battles in Estonia
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Military history of Estonia and purge Battle of Määritsa and Battle of Wesenberg (1268). (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 19:06, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose merging Category:Battles in Estonia to Category:Military history of Estonia; purge Battle of Määritsa and Battle of Wesenberg (1268)
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:MILMOS, WP:ARBITRARYCAT; location seems to be WP:NONDEFINING. Parent Category:Battles involving Estonia does not apply to 13 out of 15 articles, as "Estonia" as such did not exist, or was not a participant. Battle of Määritsa and Battle of Wesenberg (1268) are already in Category:Battles involving Estonia, and although that involved the Estonian partisans/Forest Brothers and the Duchy of Estonia (1219–1346) ("Danish Estonia") respectively, that is arguably correct. Follow-up to Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 3. NLeeuw (talk) 10:01, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Support, "in Estonia" is anachronistic because Estonia did not exist yet. "History of" is arguably correct though. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:25, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Battles in Angola
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 * The result of the discussion was: implement the alt proposal. Namely, manually recategorise most contents to Category:Battles involving Portuguese Angola; Upmerge remainder to Category:Military history of Angola. (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 21:46, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose upmerging Category:Battles in Angola to Category:Military history of Angola
 * Alt proposal: manually recategorise most contents to Category:Battles involving Portuguese Angola; Upmerge remainder to Category:Military history of Angola
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:MILMOS, WP:ARBITRARYCAT; location seems to be WP:NONDEFINING. Not all battles involved the modern republic of Angola, so parent Category:Battles involving Angola does not always apply. Follow-up to Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 3.
 * Alt proposal rationale: A partial alternative may be to manually recategorise the majority of the contents into a to-be-created Category:Battles involving Portuguese Angola (as many involved the colony of Portuguese Angola), and Upmerge the remainder to Category:Military history of Angola. NLeeuw (talk) 09:44, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Prefer the alternative because many of the battles did involve (Portuguese) Angola. The alternative will also ensure that the battles are kept in the tree of Category:Portuguese Angola if applicable. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:11, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Agreed. NLeeuw (talk) 12:26, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Private battles in the British Isles
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 * The result of the discussion was: disperse to Category:Military history of England and Category:Military history of Scotland. (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 19:03, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Propose upmerging WP:MILMOS, Category:Private battles in the British Isles to Category:Military history of Great Britain
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:ARBITRARYCAT WP:NARROWCAT; location seems to be WP:NONDEFINING. Unclear what added value "private" has, and both other parents by definition do not apply to all items and subcategories. Follow-up to Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 3. NLeeuw (talk) 09:34, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Support in principle, per nom, but disperse to Category:Military history of England and Category:Military history of Scotland because Category:Military history of Great Britain is only about the 18th century. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:08, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Oh that's well-spotted. I agree with you. NLeeuw (talk) 12:27, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Battles involving the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia
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 * The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 19:02, 11 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose deleting battles involving the seljuk turks in anatolia
 * Nominator's rationale: WP:MILMOS, WP:ARBITRARYCAT WP:NARROWCAT; location seems to be WP:NONDEFINING. Follow-up to Categories for discussion/Log/2024 May 3. NLeeuw (talk) 09:31, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom. Category:Sultanate of Rum is already in Category:States in medieval Anatolia, that should suffice. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:04, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Category:Deaths from asthma in the Isle of Man
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 19:02, 11 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose splitting Category:Deaths from asthma in the Isle of Man to Category:Deaths from asthma and Category:Disease-related deaths in the Isle of Man
 * Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's only one asthma death in the isle of man, which isn't helpful for navigation. Mason (talk) 05:34, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Dual merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 10:57, 4 May 2024 (UTC)


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Medieval canals
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 * The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) House Blaster  (talk · he/him) 19:02, 11 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Propose merging Category:Canals opened in the 1120s to Category:Canals opened in the 12th century and Category:Transport infrastructure completed in the 1120s
 * Propose merging Category:Canals opened in the 1230s to Category:Canals opened in the 13th century and Category:Transport infrastructure completed in the 1230s
 * Propose merging Category:Canals opened in the 1270s to Category:Canals opened in the 13th century and Category:Transport infrastructure completed in the 1270s
 * Propose merging Category:Canals opened in the 1390s to Category:Canals opened in the 14th century and Category:Transport infrastructure completed in the 1390s
 * Propose merging Category:Canals opened in the 1460s to Category:Canals opened in the 15th century and Category:Transport infrastructure completed in the 1460s
 * Propose merging Category:Canals opened in the 1490s to Category:Canals opened in the 15th century and Category:Transport infrastructure completed in the 1490s
 * Nominator's rationale: merge, isolated categories with very little content, this does not contribute to easy navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 02:42, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Support per nom Mason (talk) 05:35, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. NLeeuw (talk) 06:23, 7 May 2024 (UTC)


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