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Category:Vegan bodybuilders

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 April 26#Category:Vegan bodybuilders

Category:Vassal city-state & miscellaneous Amarna letters

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: rename to Category:Amarna letters by city-state. No opposition to the merge since original listing in Feb. Kbdank71 14:32, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Vassal city-state & miscellaneous Amarna letters to Category:Amarna letters by city-state
Nominator's rationale: rename and diffuse, rename to a more usual category name. In addition, remove articles and redirects, as they are already in the subcategories. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:46, 28 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JBchrch talk 23:31, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Nightclubs

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The result of the discussion was: merge/delete all. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:35, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, currently one article in each of these categories. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:40, 27 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JBchrch talk 23:29, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Songs about bubbles

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 20:24, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, currently only two articles. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:41, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Cayman Islands stubs

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The result of the discussion was: Rename per discussion. Kbdank71 14:43, 9 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Standard naming within Category:Cayman Islands sportspeople stubs (which is being speedily renamed over the new Category:Caymanian sportspeople stubs). – Fayenatic London 21:02, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:North American Football League players

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) Marcocapelle (talk) 04:56, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Does not appear the league ever played a game. In fact, the chairman and his wife was arrested for defrauding the league's investors in 2017. JTtheOG (talk) 03:13, 1 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Category:Songs about religion

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 May 11#Category:Songs about religion

Category:English anti-fascists

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. The "heavily purge" option can be WP:BOLD-ly performed by editors, but all and all, it doesn't directly relate to the existence of this category. (non-admin closure) Steel1943 (talk) 01:38, 10 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Similarly to the English Anti-Communists category, this is another subjective WP:OPINIONCAT/WP:NONDEF category. Most English people are anti-fascists in the sense that they do not like fascism, and this seems to be how this category has been applied. No objections to recreating/renaming it so that it's limited to actual anti-fascist activists (e.g., members of Anti-Fascist Action) but no suitable category name occurs to me. FOARP (talk) 10:39, 29 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Dunno, was Winston Churchill an "anti-fascist activist"? Seems something less obviously subjective, requiring membership of actual anti-fascist groups is needed. FOARP (talk) 15:19, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
When it comes down purely to WP:OPINIONCATs, it is. Let's chose every tenth article on the list and see what we get:
This is an opinioncat pure and simple. It appears that every single English person who fought in WW2, criticised communism at any point, or has been on the far left could be included here regardless of whether they were ever actually activists against fascism. FOARP (talk) 12:11, 31 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

An RFC related to these categories can be found here.

-- Marcocapelle (talk) 05:15, 8 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Consider the result of the RfC linked above by Marcocapelle. I'm shocked at how long this took to get relisted.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:21, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Jc37: the (original) RfC was upheld and clarified, specifically "Bias categories must not include articles about individuals, groups or media that are allegedly so biased.". There is no distinction made between -ism and -ist categories, it just applies to all categories. @GRuban: pinging closer of the discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:47, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Editors are invited to comment in light of this RfC.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JBchrch talk 20:18, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Iranian clerics

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 May 10#Category:Iranian clerics

Category:Songs by key

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 all Timrollpickering (talk) 22:00, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The key a song is composed in is rarely documented, often changed during writing, especially when the writer and singer are different people. Entries in these categories can only be WP:OR, an assumption that songs are automatically recorded in the key they were written. This is not correct, the key will also change according to the range of the singer, which is why I have not proposed a change of name for this category. Besides the argument that there are no reliable sources, there is a strong argument that key signatures of performance are not defining of a song.
For reference, there have been a couple of recent discussions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Songs here and here and this nomination follows the advice given there.

. Richhoncho (talk) 10:03, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Songs with double entendres

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 19:57, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:TRIVIALCAT, the songs do not really have anything in common. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:49, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom. Too disparate to have any value. --Richhoncho (talk) 08:54, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Too many ways to make a double entendre to be defining. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:33, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nomination. QuietHere (talk) 10:17, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Songs about diseases and disorders

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 May 10#Category:Songs about diseases and disorders

Category:South Korean idol rappers

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 18:09, 29 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I don't think this kind of category is needed. It's not like you'll see the term idol rapper mentioned on any articles. They are simply rappers. Btspurplegalaxy 🗩 🖉 04:26, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Btspurplegalaxy: Oppose. The term "idol rapper" does not need to be mentioned in articles for the category to be absolutely useful. And the distinction between idol rappers and non-idol rappers should be made: in an K-pop idol group, an idol that raps only does so as it is part of their position; whereas non-idol rappers do not have to have the extra hassle of training, dancing or stifling of their creativity in the name of "concepts", they simply can just be rappers. Why is it that Vice12, XXL, Bustle, The Ringer, Billboard (in an article that quotes San E using the term) are pointing this distinction out? This should be pointed out in enwiki. The category also does users who like K-pop and care about categories a massive favour as the subject's position is stated, setting apart idol rappers from idol singers. —lIl-†V!wanna talk?` 09:14, 21 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per nom. Nowhere else is is necessary to categorise by route to success and type of performer. --Richhoncho (talk) 13:28, 22 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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