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==== Category:African-American Crooners ====
==== Category:African-American Crooners ====
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:''The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. <span style="color:red">'''Please do not modify it.'''</span> Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's [[Help:Using talk pages|talk page]] or in a [[Wikipedia:Deletion review|deletion review]]). No further edits should be made to this section.''

:''The result of the discussion was:'' <!-- Template:Cfd top --> '''keep'''. <small>[[Wikipedia:NACD|(non-admin closure)]]</small> [[User:Polemic-nerd|Polemic-nerd]] ([[User talk:Polemic-nerd|talk]]) 07:57, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
:* '''Propose deleting''' {{lc|African-American Crooners}}
:* '''Propose deleting''' {{lc|African-American Crooners}}
:'''Nominator's rationale:''' No explanation or criteria for definition, unnecessary and unhelpful. [[User:Ghmyrtle|Ghmyrtle]] ([[User talk:Ghmyrtle|talk]]) 09:09, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
:'''Nominator's rationale:''' No explanation or criteria for definition, unnecessary and unhelpful. [[User:Ghmyrtle|Ghmyrtle]] ([[User talk:Ghmyrtle|talk]]) 09:09, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
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*'''Rename''' with lower-case "crooners". [[User:Binksternet|Binksternet]] ([[User talk:Binksternet|talk]]) 18:25, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
*'''Rename''' with lower-case "crooners". [[User:Binksternet|Binksternet]] ([[User talk:Binksternet|talk]]) 18:25, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
*:'''Rename''', but keep. per namiba [[User:Smasongarrison|Mason]] ([[User talk:Smasongarrison|talk]]) 21:25, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
*:'''Rename''', but keep. per namiba [[User:Smasongarrison|Mason]] ([[User talk:Smasongarrison|talk]]) 21:25, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
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==== Category:Fictional Australian characters by descent ====
==== Category:Fictional Australian characters by descent ====

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Category:Fictional space force personnel

Nominator's rationale: Disperse to parent categories if needed, though I don't think it is. "Space force" is not a typical term for this nor does it actually encompass the subcategories, making this miscategorized. Category:Space marines already covers the military-oriented space soldiers. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 23:44, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Category:Space marines and Category:Fictional United States Space Force personnel should certainly count as "space force personnel" as well. AHI-3000 (talk) 23:48, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
"Space marines" is an accepted term for it, "space force personnel" is not. The latter is redundant. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 00:03, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Even many of the real-life military organizations listed under Category:Space units and formations are called "space forces", such as the United States Space Force. AHI-3000 (talk) 22:48, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional characters with disfigurements

Nominator's rationale: This category isn't defining, nor is there a non-character equivalent. I think we should upmerge this category to Category:Fictional characters with disabilities Mason (talk) 22:48, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Nazis who committed suicide in Nazi Germany

Nominator's rationale: I don't think we need to diffuse by german vs west german. The intersection of nationality is only there to help diffusion, and I don't think we really need to diffuse by when/where in germany they died by suicide Mason (talk) 22:35, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:21st-century controversies by country

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's only one (or two in the 21st cent) category in each category, which is unhelpful for navigation Mason (talk) 22:04, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Clone characters in Neon Genesis Evangelion

Nominator's rationale: Made by a blocked user, obvious WP:NARROWCAT that doesn't have any potential to get larger. Should be dual upmerged to both its parent categories. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 21:56, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support dual merger AHI-3000 (talk) 22:01, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Azerbaijani composers by century

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's only one category in each of these categories, which isn't helpful for navigation Mason (talk) 21:42, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Franco-Flemish composers by century

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's nothing else in the parent categorym which is unhelpful for navigation Mason (talk) 21:46, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Murder committed by female minors

Nominator's rationale: I'm not sure that this intersection of type of crime, gender, and age is a notable intersection. I'm on the fence, and figured it was worth bringing to CFD to get some opinions Mason (talk) 21:15, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Dimadick: What do you think about this? AHI-3000 (talk) 22:56, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
> This nomination seems very arbitrary.
What makes you say that? I saw it, while checking if any death/assassination categories seemed overpopulated, wasn't sure that it was defining, and nominated it to get some additional opinions. Mason (talk) 23:29, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Female murderers and Category:Murder committed by minors both exist because the article subjects they cover are very notably defined because of the demographic anomalies of homicide committed by perpetrators who are female or underage respectively, and this is doubled if the killer happens to be both. So what's the big deal if there's another subcategory that intersects both of them, it doesn't make it any less of a defining trait, and I believe the opposite is true, it's even more defining. AHI-3000 (talk) 23:56, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's not doubled by that at all. You have to prove that both combined is a separately defining grouping. In other words, female children have to be separately notable to just females in general. I don't think you can prove that, though if you can, you should probably demonstrate the evidence. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 00:17, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Women National Football League executives

Nominator's rationale: All major sports leagues in America have had women executives but this is the only one which categorizes them as such. WP:EGRS since it is specific to a league (IMO, a very small target at this time) rather than the sport. Omnis Scientia (talk) 21:09, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sportswriters

Nominator's rationale: WP:EGRS. The first one is the only sportswriter category sorted by male. For the sport and country specific, these are the only ones like it (only chess in split by country, not the rest). The Gaelic games category has a commentator/broadcaster category already (Category:Gaelic games commentators) so the name is redundant. And for the last one: the golf category is large with a mix of writers and commentators that makes navigation hard. The combination is only done when there are not enough of either to warrant seperate categories. Omnis Scientia (talk) 20:37, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support in principle. However, I think that all of the intersection categories need to be merged as well.
Mason (talk) 21:37, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Smasongarrison, American male sportswriters are already in subcats of Category:American male writers which is why I didn't add that. Same is the case with Martial artists (I spent a lot of time in the American sportswriters category so I'm sure). Australian one I'm not about though so I will add the second one. Omnis Scientia (talk) 23:23, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Great! I suspected you'd already checked :) Mason (talk) 23:25, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Murders of IDF soldiers

Nominator's rationale: Duel merge as these are still military casualties Mason (talk) 04:06, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Merge to Category:Israeli military casualties. AHI-3000 (talk) 21:30, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Polymaths by nationality

Nominator's rationale: Non-defining Mason (talk) 04:18, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Further comment: Category:Polymaths was deleted after this discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:53, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep. Firstly, what's the difference compared to other, very similar categories (e.g. philanthropists, dissidents) which already exist? Should we delete them? Secondly, this category has been deleted several times a long time ago because "it was undefined, which allows almost anyone to be included in it if they have demonstrated any sort of ability in more than one discipline or area of life" or so. But if you read the article Polymath, it is clearly defined: an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific problems and polymaths include the great scholars and thinkers of the Renaissance and Enlightenment, who excelled at several fields in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and the arts. Furthermore, and last but not least (on the contrary), if a person is mentioned as a polymath in reliable sources, then this fact should be respected, and that's what the Wikipedia rules say, don't they? --Silverije 20:18, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
    Thank you for posting this here. The issue of defining is key. If they excelled in multiple fields, the person belongs in each of those categories, not a grab back category that effectively says that they belong in multiple categories. And what counts as different fields? Does that mean that biostatisicians are all polymaths because they excel in biology AND statistics? Mason (talk) 21:23, 5 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Probably not. But if they excelled in SEVERAL, MULTIPLE fields, they belong to each of those categories, but also to the Category:Polyhistor as well. I see no reason why this person should not also belong to that category; there are other categories that similarly overlap (e.g. urban planners, architects, civil engineers, architecture writers…). BUT I REPEAT, only if, and it is decisive here, such a person is listed in the relevant sources (encyclopedias, lexicons, etc.) as polymath, so it should also be in Wikipedia, as stated in its rules. And you did not answer the question of similar categories (philanthropists, dissidents) in which a person can also belong to multiple categories? --Silverije 23:47, 7 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
You're correct that I didn't answer your question about similar categories because those are not relevant here. The issue is that this category has been deleted by consensus several times on the basis of not being well defined. What has changed in the last ten years to make this category well defined? Mason (talk) 21:21, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Support nom per Marcocapelle. Omnis Scientia (talk) 13:50, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Defining a polymath as someone whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects is too subjective for a category: what is a substantial number and how much knowledge is required from each? Defining a polymath by being called a polymath in sources is equally vague. If anything, a list may be more appropriate because that will allow quoting sources. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:51, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Why should defining a polymath by being called a polymath in sources be vague? If someone is a polymath in sources, then so be it. Or should we go against Wikipedia's rule WP:NOR and do our own research? --Silverije 23:23, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please, be serious. I need no sources; Wikipedia needs. How many? As usual in any other article. Contradictions? As usual; why should it be something special here? --Silverije 19:28, 13 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Property companies of Ireland

Nominator's rationale: Except for these, all other sibling categories in Category:Real estate companies by country are named as "Real estate companies of Country", not "Property companies of Country". Ireland seems to be the one oddity where both categories seem to exist with "real estate" sitting as a subcategory of "property" -- with the added bonus that they're both sitting in the by-country category as sibling categories for the same country. In the other countries, "property" exists instead of "real estate" rather than alongside it, but the divergence has caused several real estate companies in those countries to get left in the Category:Real estate companies parent due to the seeming lack of a country-specific subcategory. Bearcat (talk) 17:11, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
support per nom Mason (talk) 23:05, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Armenian Roman Catholics

Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only two subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 23:28, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge, category contains only one article which is unhelpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 23:28, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom Mason (talk) 00:00, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:1981 Spanish novels

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. This is the only year Spanish novel category. Mason (talk) 03:47, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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@Uriahheep228 please populate these categories with more pages, they all have between 1 and 4 pages in them. Mason (talk) 21:52, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
If the categories do not get populated beyond 4, I would lean towards merging the entire tree. –Aidan721 (talk) 17:13, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Merge for Now per WP:MFN and WP:NARROWCAT with no objection to later recreating of the article count grows. But, for right now, having a 1-article category does not aid navigation. - 16:45, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

Category:Judo national governing bodies logos

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. Unhelpful to diffuse judo logos to this level of detail. Mason (talk) 02:26, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Also note that the Category:Sports governing body logos by sport has a lot of double categories holding a single file. Respublik (talk) 12:32, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:History of climbing

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. Single category in here that's unhelpful for navigation. Mason (talk) 02:13, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
From WP:CFDS
@Marcocapelle: Mason (talk) 02:17, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Keep. There are a few more articles now in the category that are primarily "history of climbing" (especially rock climbing) related. The structure also mirrors the structure in WikiCommons where there are separate "History of Climbing" and "History of Mountaineering" categories (both linked to in the en-WP categories). Other historical climbing articles will be added (e.g. history of ice climbing), so worth keeping at this stage. Would not recommend lumping it into the head "Climbing" category, which we should keep as clear as possible. Aszx5000 (talk) 11:20, 14 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Impractical sorting algorithms

Nominator's rationale: Less subjective. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:49, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I thought "impractical" is less subjective, as humor is typically very subjective.
I got the idea for the category, when I watched this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktgxMtWMflU
The video uses the word "impractical" multiple times, and also in the description: "In this video, I explored the realm of impractical sorting algorithms. Say goodbye to the usual and practical methods..."
Though, if the community prefers renaming, I don't mind. Marjeta42 (talk) 20:26, 4 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Fictional creditors and moneylenders

Nominator's rationale: Tiny category with only one member, made by a blocked user. Should be merged as unnecessary. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 18:06, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sportspeople by country and populated place

Nominator's rationale: Only contain 1 sub-category. Upmerge as appropriate below. Note Category:Sportspeople from Bangkok is already in Category:Sportspeople by province in Thailand so dual merge is not necessary in that case. –Aidan721 (talk) 17:21, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional water sports people

Nominator's rationale: Yet another WP:NARROWCAT made by a blocked user that is better off merged. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 17:03, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional winter sportspeople

Nominator's rationale: Wowee - only two tiny categories. A clear WP:NARROWCAT created by a blocked user that should be merged. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 17:01, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Neuroscience competitions

Nominator's rationale: Only contains 2 articles. Both articles are already in Neuroscience organizations so dual merge is not needed. –Aidan721 (talk) 17:00, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Women and education

Nominator's rationale: Renaming the parent category will align it with the subcategories, e.g. Category:Women's education in India. User:Namiba 16:48, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional cult members

Nominator's rationale: While I am not opposed to this category's existence, the more common term is cultist, not "cult member". ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 16:22, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support renaming AHI-3000 (talk) 18:32, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support renaming. Betther use of English. Dimadick (talk) 08:51, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

History of the Republic of New Granada

Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary layers for former country that only existed 1831–1858 i.e. in one century. Merge/delete per precedent at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_December_15#Category:Establishments_in_Gran_Colombia_by_century. Note: I have already manually merged some of the former contents. – Fayenatic London 16:13, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of films by country or language

Dozens more categories covering 1920 to 2025
Nominator's rationale:

The mix of country and language makes the navigation and searching unnecessary complicated. Not all American films are in English. This seems to have been mostly been done for the Indian films as they are split by language (which isn't a valid reason for this imo). As a side note, I'm not sure how many of these currently have language articles so some might be empty after the split. --Gonnym (talk) 16:07, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Planned amusement parks

Nominator's rationale: Categories seem to cover the same topic DeputyBeagle (talk) 15:00, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: I'm happy with reverse merge. Makes more sense now I think about it DeputyBeagle (talk) 14:17, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional parasites and parasitoids

Nominator's rationale: This category was being confused for being a species category rather than one about individual characters who are parasites. There could be a complementary Category:Fictional parasitic species and races category, but I'm not sure there are enough of them to justify it. Either way, the species should be purged and recategorized to Category:Fictional species and races. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:41, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Alternate rename to Category:Fictional parasites. There's no reason why this should be restricted only to individual characters, especially because parasites/parasitoids are biological terms applied to various species of animals, creatures and organisms. AHI-3000 (talk) 19:01, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Rename per nom I don't see any real distinction here. Parasitoids are parasites who eventually kill their host. Their strategy is different to other parasites, but they are still parasites. Dimadick (talk) 08:59, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Deities and spirits

Nominator's rationale: There's already a "Deities" category, and there's no specific article about the concept of spirits as used here. This is therefore a WP:SUBJECTIVECAT that should be merged into either "Mythological creatures" or "Legendary creatures". The only alternative name I can think of is "Supernatural beings", but there's no article about that either, and that can also be potentially subjective. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 14:18, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Keep both categories, but alternately rename them to Category:Spirits and Category:Fictional spirits. AHI-3000 (talk) 19:03, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional vampire types

Nominator's rationale: This is basically just a glorified DAB page in category form, and should probably be upmerged to this, and the relevant subcategories of Category:Vampires in popular culture. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:39, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Alt merge to Category:Fictional vampires instead. AHI-3000 (talk) 19:05, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional space units and formations

Nominator's rationale: Totally overlapping categories. One of these should not exist, but I don't mind if it's reverse-merged either based on what title people think is better. The "Space navies" category has existed for much longer but has no real-world analogue. Another possibility is that the merge goes through as proposed, but then "Space navies" is renamed "Fictional space units and formations" as probably should have been done. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:16, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Reverse merge Category:Space navies into Category:Fictional space units and formations, if only because the former has no real-life counterpart while the latter can be compared with Category:Space units and formations. AHI-3000 (talk) 18:31, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional counterterrorism organizations

Nominator's rationale: Only has two articles that aren't redirects, too small to be realistically needed as a subcategory. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:10, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not all counterterrorism organizations are military (e.g., CTU is not). Apokrif (talk) 13:37, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I was thinking the redirects would just be removed unless they became an article. These categories are not redirect dumping grounds for every little mention of a fictional organization somewhere. If not they can be diffused accordingly. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:41, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, if only because counter-terrorist organizations are not necessarily all military, some can be civilian law enforcement agencies instead. AHI-3000 (talk) 19:08, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional political organizations

Nominator's rationale: Most of these don't qualify as "political organizations" and have been miscategorized. When you eliminate those, this category is too small to be necessary and its members can be dual upmerged. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:52, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose AHI-3000 (talk) 18:28, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Wikipedia:NOTAVOTE Mason (talk) 21:39, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
This doesn't seem very true to me, all these discussions come down to whichever group of people dominate the discussion for a so-called "consensus". AHI-3000 (talk) 00:11, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The editing guidelines are right there for anyone to read. People link the relevant ones in many discussions. If you choose to ignore them, jump right into a massive category creation spree, and then think people are ganging up on you, that's on you. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 01:00, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional government investigations of the paranormal

Nominator's rationale: When you purge everything that's not actually an article about a fictional government agency, such as TV series and franchises, this category is too small to be necessary. Not sure whether it should be merged to this target or Category:Fictional detective agencies, but it should be merged somewhere. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:40, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Rename to Category:Fictional paranormal investigation agencies, and purge any subcategories or articles that aren't about a specific fictional organization. Strongly oppose any deletion or merger of this category. AHI-3000 (talk) 19:11, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional military aviators

Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary holding category with few subcategories. Per WP:NARROWCAT rules, should be merged. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:30, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, this parallels well with the real-life Category:Military aviators. AHI-3000 (talk) 18:27, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional commercial aviators

Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary vague cross-categorization made by a blocked user. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:25, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, this parallels well with the real-life Category:Commercial aviators. AHI-3000 (talk) 19:15, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:EVA pilots

Nominator's rationale: Frankly, I think this category is too specific to ever be necessary, and it can be dual upmerged into "Fictional mecha pilots" and "Neon Genesis Evangelion characters" without problems. If kept, it should be renamed Category:Neon Genesis Evangelion mecha pilots due to Extravehicular activity. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:15, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nom. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 13:13, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Dual merge into both Category:Neon Genesis Evangelion characters and Category:Fictional mecha pilots. AHI-3000 (talk) 19:17, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

American sports journalists

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: withdrawn Will be relisted but with a different set of categories. (non-admin closure) Omnis Scientia (talk) 20:35, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:EGRS. Merge/delete as per nomination. For full disclosure: I created all but two of these. Omnis Scientia (talk) 11:55, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Please note: withdrawing this due to misunderstanding a policy. Will relist but with a different set of categories. Omnis Scientia (talk) 20:34, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The above is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:African-American Crooners

The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) Polemic-nerd (talk) 07:57, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: No explanation or criteria for definition, unnecessary and unhelpful. Ghmyrtle (talk) 09:09, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional Australian characters by descent

Nominator's rationale: merge, redundant category layer with only one subcategory each. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:26, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional European people by nationality

Nominator's rationale: merge, there does not seem to be a reason to keep European nationalities separated from other continents. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:21, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Dual merge into both Category:Fictional European people and Category:Fictional people by nationality. AHI-3000 (talk) 07:37, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Libyco-Berber

Nominator's rationale: merge, only two articles in this category which already are directly interlinked. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:07, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Berber people by religion

Nominator's rationale: delete double WP:EGRS violation. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:51, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Question What is being violated here? How is this any different from anything else in Category:Christians by ethnicity? ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 08:24, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose, I don't see any issues with this or any other subcategories of Category:People by ethnicity and religion. AHI-3000 (talk) 19:24, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Gloria Groove live albums

Nominator's rationale: Sole entry is a redirect. Not much point in keeping it separate. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 04:49, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Harford County, Connecticut

Nominator's rationale: Qualifies for speedy deletion/merging under WP:C2A Staraction (talk) 04:45, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Specifically, "Harford County" is a misspelling of "Hartford County, Connecticut" Staraction (talk) 04:46, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:15th-century American people

Nominator's rationale: No one is defined as being American until the 16th century. Moreover the only page in this entire tree isn't even a person Mason (talk) 03:17, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete: Whole tree exists just to house one article in three different places. Should probably also add Category:15th-century American women and Category:15th-century Native Americans as they won't be doing much different on their own. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 04:57, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional vehicle operators

Nominator's rationale: Made by blocked user, no real life category parallel. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 03:11, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Merge target inappropriate due to being a container cat, unless you mean for Terra Branford and Rikku to be decategorized. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 04:52, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@QuietHere: I've moved them both into Category:Fictional mecha pilots, now the category has only subcategories. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 12:07, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
That'll do then. Merge per nom. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 13:09, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional university and college personnel

Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary subgrouping made by a blocked user. WP:NARROWCAT. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 03:05, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional au pairs

Nominator's rationale: Too few members to make this a viable category. Should be merged. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 02:50, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom Mason (talk) 02:55, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Members of the Aycinena family in Central America

Nominator's rationale: All this extra information isn't needed Mason (talk) 02:43, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:18th-century Central American people by nationality

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. There's only one category in here, which is unhelpful for navigation Mason (talk) 02:42, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wilhelmstrasse

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME & WP:NONDEFINING
This category contains articles about streets that either are or were named after Wilhelm II. They really have nothing else in common. If anyone wants to create a list article, all the category contents are already in this disambiguation page. - RevelationDirect (talk) 02:27, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
No objection to listifying outside of CFD, but I was having trouble finding an online English source to satisfy WP:NLIST. - RevelationDirect (talk) 17:15, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Things named after Christa McAuliffe

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME & WP:NONDEFINING
Christa McAuliffe was the teacher astronaut who was killed in the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster. Even if they weren't named after her, everything in this category would still exist but would just be named after a different astronaut (with one exception). All the category contents are already right here in the main article for any reader interested in this topic. - RevelationDirect (talk) 02:27, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:17th century in Pembrokeshire

Nominator's rationale: Unhelpful for navigation. Upmerge for now as it only has one page in it Mason (talk) 02:16, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional female soldiers and warriors

Nominator's rationale: Not the same thing and there is no real reason for these two things to be grouped together. This split would also apply to Category:Fictional female soldiers and warriors by medium and its subcategories. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 02:14, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support splitting AHI-3000 (talk) 19:22, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support splitting We define real-life warriors as members of tribal or clan-based warrior cultures, as opposed to organized armies. Dimadick (talk) 09:17, 12 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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