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Vendée Globe sailors categories

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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: delete/merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:34, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: One-entry categories that does not aid navigation and that are WP:NARROWCAT. The next event is in four years. Possibly non-defining intersection by nationality and competition as the competitors are not chosen to represent a national entity. Almost all other Category:Sports competitors by nationality and competition are competitions where a NOC or similar send a delegation. Three articles are not in other Fooian sailors (sport) categories and therefore merge proposals. If kept, rename as the article is Vendée Globe and not Vendee Globe. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 22:54, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:LessWrong

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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: delete (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:34, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary Gjs238 (talk) 21:06, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Years in New York (state) politics

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 15#Category:Years in New York (state) politics

Category:Museums in France by department

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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: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:34, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: All contain 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 16:59, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Châteaux in France by department

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:34, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: All contain 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 16:33, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Churches in France by department

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:35, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: All contain 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 16:24, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Sports venues in Flemish Brabant

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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: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:35, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Each contain 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 16:07, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Christian monasteries in Luxembourg (Belgium)

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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: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:35, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Contains 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:59, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Canals in Belgium by province

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:35, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: All contain 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:57, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Airports in Walloon Brabant

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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: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:35, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Contains 1 article. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:53, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Buildings and structures in Albania by populated place

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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: merge (non-admin closure). –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:35, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: All contain 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:45, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Redundant WP:RUSSIA categories

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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: delete. (non-admin closure) —Compassionate727 (T·C) 22:13, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: More redundant categories; all categories, templates, etc. are of NA-importance to WP:RUSSIA. Delete them as redundant to e.g. Category:Template-Class Russia pages. BlasterOfHouses (HouseBlaster's alt • talk • he/they) 22:00, 15 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: So far, the only person who has expressed a clear opinion on the nominator's substantial proposal (eliminating the NA-importance categories in favor of categories specifying only class) is the nominator himself.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, —Compassionate727 (T·C) 15:19, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Alumni lists

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Nominator's rationale: Use pre-existing category Gjs238 (talk) 15:08, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Fine to me, I was not aware of this category and I didn't saw it on any page that I added to my alumni category. I don't know how to merge categories though. PhotographyEdits (talk) 19:31, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Gjs238 Wait, I do actually disagree because not all articles are educational institutions. Examples include List of Clarion Writers Workshop alumni and List of Bell Labs alumni. PhotographyEdits (talk) 20:21, 4 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Murdered American gangsters by criminal organization

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 11#Category:Murdered American gangsters by criminal organization

Medieval events

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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: merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 04:36, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: manually merge, the word "events" is used here as "anything that happened" in this period, and is thus a rather meaningless distinction. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:28, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Scholars of Precolonial East Africa

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Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 February 10#Category:Scholars of Precolonial East Africa

Category:Works set in prison

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Nominator's rationale: Forms a category loop with Category:Fiction set in prison, and contains no articles. All the other subcategories are already in the other category. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:00, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Experts on refugees

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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: no consensus. Making a concrete proposal might find consensus. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:24, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I stumbled on this category when I stumbled on the deletion discussion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zoe Gardner (migration expert), and I saw a tangent about this category. While it is true that many people on Wikipedia are widely considered as experts in their subject, there are only three categories named "Experts on...": those are for terrorism, North Korea and refugees. Other categories on specialism would be like Category:Psephologists (not "experts on elections") or Category:Seismologists (not "experts on earthquakes") I looked at the articles in this category, and there is a mixture of activists and academics. Both of these can be problematic when we have a category on expertise. If the category was named "pro-refugee activists", that seems better to me, because it is about their position, rather than expertise. If a pro-refugee activist is not academically qualified, I feel that opens the way to having anti-refugee activists also having to be in the category of "experts", as both will be known for activism on the subject, and both will have no academic credentials to prove it. When it comes to academics, obviously they do not pin their colours to the mast quite like activists, but there are also highly qualified people who are known for writings that criticise migration and asylum. Those would fall under the banner of "experts on refugees", and would probably lead to edit wars on exactly who qualifies as an expert. TLDR: Category mixes activists and academics. Should they be separated? Category is based on expertise, which is subjective. In the case of unqualified activists, the category could also be applied to anti-refugee activists, as the category only mentions unquantifiable "expertise", not position. Unknown Temptation (talk) 21:04, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 04:49, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: I will note that creating a category does not need discussion, but merging a category does.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 22:34, 24 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Delete, or rename pro-refugee activists. Calling someone an expert is POV, and even worse almost no one in this category is even described that way. It's an arbitrary assortment of people Campaigning on something does not make you an expert, and I'm not sure if there is a relevant academic field. In any case, only one or two of the people here would fit in an academic category. Our two other "Experts on" categories are misnamed and have also been nominated. PARAKANYAA (talk) 00:22, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Thoughts on the discussion between PARAKANYAA and Marcocapelle?
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:27, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Setians

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Nominator's rationale: The title and description is confusing, but every item listed is affiliated with or is the Temple of Set. Non-Temple of Set Set affiliations are not included. Category should thus be renamed. PARAKANYAA (talk) 23:15, 25 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Needs third-party opinion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:25, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Theatres by populated place

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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: merge/delete as nominated. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:11, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: All contain 1-2 articles. Not useful for navigation. Merge per WP:NARROW. –Aidan721 (talk) 05:05, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:12, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge. Roundtheworld (talk) 17:51, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per nom but without prejudice towards recreation at a future date if a sufficient number of theatre articles are created in a given location to have a separate cat.
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Category:Polish engineers who worked in Azerbaijan

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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: merge. HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 23:11, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Non-defining intersection between nationality, occupation, and place of work. already added members of the category to Foo-th century Polish engineers SMasonGarrison 02:52, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per WP:OCEGRS. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:08, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Scholars of Precolonial West Africa

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Nominator's rationale: isolated category. Category:Precolonial West Africa doesn't exist SMasonGarrison 02:16, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge The commonly accepted definition of West Africa is based on the modern countries. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:10, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
There are archaeological categories which have been accepted for years which delineate by region. HiddenHistoryPedia (talk) 21:18, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge, anachronistic distinction as both north and west precolonial Africa were under Islamic influence. By far the most entries are Islamic scholars. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:46, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    By far the most entries are Islamic scholars, because I am busy and do not have time to trough through Wikipedia to find every scholar who ever lived in West Africa. The point of this category is for other people to add to it over time, so that it would comprise a thorough list of scholars from relevant regions for those interested. The regionalization schema is chosen because it tends to reflect how people, including Africans, tend to concieve of the continent. Not that this would matter anyway - we wouldn't merge every islamic scholarly history related section simply because the scholars invoked are muslim. HiddenHistoryPedia (talk) 21:18, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    I will also note that the distinction is a historic one as much as a contemporary one. There are substantive distinctions between the histories of even the islamic regions of North Africa, and the islamic regions of West Africa -- including the circumstances within which islam spread, the cultures which practiced the religion, and the scholarly movements which developed in each region. There is no Muhammed Bello in North Africa; no 18th-century islamic abolitionism (that I know of) in Morocco, and so on. HiddenHistoryPedia (talk) 21:29, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Scholars of Precolonial North Africa

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Nominator's rationale: underpopulated cateogry SMasonGarrison 02:15, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Merge The commonly accepted definition of North Africa is based on the modern countries. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 07:11, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge, anachronistic distinction as both north and west precolonial Africa were under Islamic influence. The only entry is about an Islamic scholar. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:47, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    The only entry is about one islamic scholar because I am the only person working on this category, and I am busy. Obviously, there are dozens of scholars who could be added to this category, including Ahmed Baba, Al-Kanemi, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Battuta, etc. Not to mention, pre-islamic scholars (ie: Augustus of Hippo, Hypatia, possibly Cleopatra (who may have written on hair care), and so on. HiddenHistoryPedia (talk) 21:15, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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