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Crimes in the United States

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The result of the discussion was: merge and delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:43, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Scattered monthly categories with 1 article each. Merge all as above. No need to merge to YYYY crimes in the United States since the articles are already populated there. –Aidan721 (talk) 22:28, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American school rivalry navigational boxes

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The result of the discussion was: delete. Favonian (talk) 13:41, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Empty category which housed a number of navboxes, all of which were just deleted with consensus over at TfD. Highly unlikely that any templates which are both worthy of inclusion and appropriate for this category are likely to be made. fuzzy510 (talk) 21:03, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Bougainville politics stubs

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Papua New Guinea stubs. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:46, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated stub category created for just one article with no indication of WikiProject approval. As always, stub categories are not free for just any editor to create on a whim for just a small handful of articles -- the minimum size bar for a stub category is 60 articles, and for that reason stub categories have to be authorized by Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting before they're allowed to be created. But there's just one article here, which isn't enough to warrant a dedicated category. And while there are a handful of other articles related to Bougainvillean politics sitting in the parent Category:Papua New Guinea stubs, there are nowhere near 59 of them, so there's no evidence that this can be populated enough to earn admission. Bearcat (talk) 20:46, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Fires in South America by year

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:47, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:SMALLCAT, these categories mostly contain 1-3 articles. Especially in later years merging to a year disaster category in South America is unnecessary when articles are already in a year disaster by country category. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:09, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • The nomination exactly aims to end this "procedure" because there is not enough content by year by continent. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:14, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No objection to recreation if they grow to 5+ articles. - RevelationDirect (talk) 19:39, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Rulers of Styria

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Medieval nobility of the Holy Roman Empire and Category:History of Styria. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:52, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT 2 C, 0 P. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 01:24, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, ((ping|ClydeFranklin)) (t/c) 19:19, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Sports events by month

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The result of the discussion was: Dual merge/delete Timrollpickering (talk) 20:02, 14 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
more nominations
Nominator's rationale: Most have 1-2 articles per month. WP:OVERCAT. Merge to month year events category. Do not need to merge to year sports category since all are already somewhere in that tree. –Aidan721 (talk) 19:00, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Numerical artefacts

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The result of the discussion was: Rename. - jc37 02:07, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: To match spelling of most other articles and categories related to the topic Artifact (error), including the subcategory Category:Computer graphic artifacts. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 18:05, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Zaporizhian Cossacks noble families

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The result of the discussion was: delete. No real arguments against deletion have been offered. The category contents will be purged before processing for deletion. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:33, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The result of the discussion was: keep. No real arguments for deletion have been offered. I was informed by Marcocapelle (talk · contribs) that category contents had already been purged at the time of the original closure. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 12:27, 4 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is a mixture of families that ruled as Hetmans and those who were descendants of families that used to rule as Hetmans without themselves being Hetman. Plus Don Cossacks were different from Zaporizhian Cossacks. It's all too confused. Laurel Lodged (talk) 17:13, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
If we purge the Don Cossacks, what is left that is not already in Category:Zaporozhian Cossack nobility? Laurel Lodged (talk) 20:21, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • That seems a fair point, but in order to solve that, all content of this tree should be merged somewhere. It will be a massive amount of work. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:51, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Hamilton College (New York)

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) William Allen Simpson (talk) 06:15, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:PRIMARYTOPIC Pageviews show a primary topic. (https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org&platform=all-access&agent=user&redirects=0&range=latest-20&pages=Hamilton_College_(New_York)%7CHamilton_College_(England)%7CHamilton_College,_South_Lanarkshire%7CHamilton_College_(Iowa)%7CHamilton_College_(Kentucky) and per WP:CATNAME, Names of topic categories should be singular, normally corresponding to the name of a Wikipedia article which in this case would match Hamilton College. Wozal (talk) 16:15, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Birmingham is not the primary topic and the longstanding mismatch with the category name acknowledges as much. - RevelationDirect (talk) 22:57, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Belgium railway line templates

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:55, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose renaming Category:Belgium railway line templates to Category:Templates for railway lines of Belgium
  • Propose renaming Category:Bulgaria railway line templates to Category:Templates for railway lines of Bulgaria
  • Propose renaming Category:Japan railway line templates to Category:Templates for railway lines of Japan
Nominator's rationale: Standard titling in Category:Rail routemap templates by country. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 15:36, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People by ethnic or national descent and occupation

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:55, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:People by ethnic or national descent and occupation (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (1 C)
  • Propose deleting Category:Filipino people by occupation and ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (1 C)
  • Propose deleting Category:Indonesian people by occupation and ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) (1 C)
  • Propose deleting Category:Malaysian people by occupation and ethnic or national origin (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)‎ (1 C)
Nominator's rationale: WP:OCEGRS: triple intersection of occupation and nationality and descent is not defining.
William Allen Simpson (talk) 09:40, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Byzantine Empresses regnant

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Byzantine empresses regnant. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:52, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:C2A should be lowercase 'e' empresses. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 03:05, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:May 1909 sports events in Europe

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:May 1909 sports events and Category:May 1909 events in Europe. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:53, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT. Isolated cat. –Aidan721 (talk) 02:59, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Greta Van Fleet

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:53, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Unnecessary eponymous category with only a discography page and two interlinking subcategories per WP:OCEPON. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 02:49, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:January 1859 events in Europe

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The result of the discussion was: merge and delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:54, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT (1 article). Isolated. Merge to Category:January 1859 events. –Aidan721 (talk) 02:46, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Events by month

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:53, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT. 1-2 articles. Year events by month cats are isolated. No realistic merge target. –Aidan721 (talk) 02:32, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Sovereign states of Europe with multiple official languages

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The result of the discussion was: Delete. (non-admin closure) William Allen Simpson (talk) 06:01, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose deleting Category:Sovereign states of Europe with multiple official languages (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Nominator's rationale: Not remotely a WP:CATDEF. Countries add or remove official languages sometimes, or have different statues for different languages, and other sorts of legal wrangling. That doesn't make them part of some overarching group linked to other countries who may or may not have done similar. The geographical aspect is another layer of arbitrariness on top. CMD (talk) 01:41, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:1737 disasters in the Russian Empire

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:54, 26 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT. Unnecessary layers for 1 article. The lone article is already in Category:1737 disasters and Category:1737 in the Russian Empire so no additional merging is needed. –Aidan721 (talk) 00:54, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Fires in North America by year

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The result of the discussion was: Merge/delete Timrollpickering (talk) 19:56, 14 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
more nominations
Nominator's rationale: Nominating many 19th century yearly fire cats in US and North America. Most have 1-2 articles yearly. Merge up to century or decade as listed above. This tree will require some subsequent nominations to cleanup the remainder but not want to overload with too much at once. –Aidan721 (talk) 00:28, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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