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Category:2011 Texas wildfires

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Wildfires in Texas and Category:2011 in Texas and Category:2011 wildfires in the United States. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:15, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: upmerge, isolated 2-article category. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:21, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Brand names that end with a +

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) CLYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE 20:26, 30 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not sure we need this Qwv (talk) 20:16, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Scandinavian musicians

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:15, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Is this really needed for three countries? The subcats can just as easily be found in Category:European musicians and there is not a scheme for "Scandinavian people by occupation". StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 17:59, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Misogynists

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The result of the discussion was: delete and salt. A list can be created if there's significant coverage. (non-admin closure) CLYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE 19:54, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not every personality trait or opinion needs to be categorised for. ★Trekker (talk) 16:34, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Kim Il-sung

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The result of the discussion was: speedy rename. (non-admin closure) CLYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE 19:54, 29 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per Special:PermanentLink/1149753649#Requested_move_6_April_2023. :3 F4U (they/it) 16:30, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Young British Artists

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The result of the discussion was: Keep and feel free to create the proposed targets as subcats at editorial discretion. - jc37 10:20, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Believe this should be two categories, one containing people per WP:COP, one containing the works, open to suggestions how this should be named though. --woodensuperman 09:56, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the existing category as is. No objection to creation of a sub-category for works, but is the category so large that that is needed? And what will you do with things that are neither people nor works, such as the exhibitions? The main problem here is not the name or size of the category, but the contents, which need some informed attention – "Young British Artists" does not mean "young artists from Britain". Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:16, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
It's not about the size of the category, per WP:SEPARATE we should "Keep people categories separate: categories with a title indicating that the contents are people should normally only contain biographical articles and lists of people, and perhaps a non-biographical main article, though this can also be added in a text note at the top of the category. This is for clarity and ease of use, and to preserve the integrity of trees of people articles." --woodensuperman 10:33, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
True, that makes sense. What do you think aboout the naming of the category/ies? --woodensuperman 15:23, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Etymologies of names of country subdivisions

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The result of the discussion was: upmerge and delete. bibliomaniac15 19:28, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:OVERLAPCAT. Content already in Category:Lists of place name etymologies.
This a compound neologism by banned User:Tobias Conradi (User:ChemTerm), who used 150+ sockpuppets over 5+ years to spam this all over wikipedia, one of the worst cases ever seen. One of the sockpuppets was User:Country subdivision. Before coming here, he'd been banned at the German wikipedia. These were all supposed to be fixed (and many articles were simply deleted), but sadly others linger a decade later. It is so easy to mass create categories, and so much harder to fix them.
William Allen Simpson (talk) 09:17, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Kestenbaum, Laurel Lodged, Marcocapelle, Oculi, Place Clichy, RevelationDirect, and SilverStar54:: currently active participants in previous discussion.
William Allen Simpson (talk) 09:54, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Association football defenders

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The result of the discussion was: Rename all Timrollpickering (talk) 18:43, 16 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category names should be aligned per the outcome of this RfC, thus matching Category:Women's association football players by position. S.A. Julio (talk) 04:46, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:1716 disasters in the Ottoman Empire

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The result of the discussion was: merge and delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:17, 23 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT. Unnecessary layers for 1 article. The lone article is already in Category:1716 disasters and Category:1716 in the Ottoman Empire so no additional merging is needed. –Aidan721 (talk) 02:18, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Rulers of the Habsburg Netherlands

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The result of the discussion was: delete. bibliomaniac15 19:28, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:ARBITRARYCAT. First, there was no dynastic title with "Netherlands" in it, let alone "Habsburg Netherlands". The people in question were all Duke of Luxemburg, Guelders, Brabant etc. Count of Flanders, Holland, Hainaut etc. Lord of Groningen, Friesland, Utrecht etc. Being a "ruler" of the Netherlands was just a combo of having all those dynastic titles. The only thing that might have come close was the informal title of "Sovereign of the Netherlands", or the historiographic term "Lord of the Netherlands", neither of which had any legal validity. This has everything to do with the fact that nobody can agree on the periodisation of "Burgundian Netherlands" versus "Habsburg Netherlands" versus "Spanish Netherlands" versus "Austrian Netherlands", but technically, they were all Habsburg from 1477 onwards. Second, why only these 4? Why not Isabella Clara Eugenia, Albert VII, Archduke of Austria, Philip III of Spain etc? Even Mary of Burgundy might qualify as a Duchess regnant married to Maximilian of Habsburg. All of this is just WP:OR. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 02:16, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I should add that "rulers" is also too vague. It might fail to distinguish the dynastic monarchs of Habsburg (usually somewhat anachronistically referred to as the "kings of Spain") from the Category:Governors of the Habsburg Netherlands and the stadtholders of the provinces, which were filled by nobility, but were non-hereditary positions (at least, originally; the stadtholderate in the Dutch Republic would eventually become hereditary in the 17th century, but I digress). Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 02:30, 14 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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