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Category:Immigrants to Portuguese Mozambique

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:53, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Dual merge to Immigrants to Mozambique and People from Portuguese Mozambique. This is a small underpopulated category that's not helpful for navigation Mason (talk) 23:08, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Tuberculosis deaths in French Algeria

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:55, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The intersection between regime and type of death is not defining. I think we should rename this to be the broader category of Tuberculosis deaths in Alegeria as it is the kind of death that is notable, not the location of it. Mason (talk) 23:02, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. The only two members of the category were originally in Tuberculosis deaths in Algeria, before it was deleted out of process. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olof_Sager-Nelson&oldid=1165959036 Mason (talk) 17:53, 16 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Rename Effectively reverts a category rename carried out of process. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:54, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Writers who died by suicide

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:42, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I don't think that this intersection is defining. Mason (talk) 22:51, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Indigenous politicians of Asia

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:43, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: follow-up to WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2021 January 25 § Indigenous politics in Asia. These categories serve as containers for politicians from regions which some loosely associate with indigenous status, such as Kurds and Telugu. However they are applied in a weird way, e.g. a German of Kurd background will be categorized as indigenous politician even though Kurds are not indigenous to Germany. The indigenous peoples categories are probably more useful for ethnicity-themed content, rather than spreading or diffusing them in a geographic scheme.
@Johnpacklambert, Marcocapelle, SpinnerLaserzthe2nd, Carlossuarez46, Dimadick, Justus Nussbaum, and Good Olfactory: ping previous participants. Place Clichy (talk) 17:14, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
a German of Kurd background could still be called “indigenous” because he or she might be proud of their indigenous background. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 17:43, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
They may probably be proud of and cultivate their Kurdish background. Indigenous is quite a stretch. Place Clichy (talk) 00:31, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Indigenous politics in Europe

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:43, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: follow-up to WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2021 January 25 § Indigenous politics in Asia. In its current state, a container category for some regions including Politics of Catalonia and Politics of Tatarstan. Not all politics in Catalonia are related to indigenous politics, regardless to the degree in which one considers Catalans to be an indigenous people.
The only content here actually related to Indigenous peoples per the definition given at that article is: article Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples Secretariat and child Category:Indigenous rights organizations in Europe, which are already in Category:Indigenous rights organizations. They don't need another merge target as they are mostly about indigenous rights elsewhere than in Europe, such as Incomindios Switzerland or Free Tibet.
@Johnpacklambert, Marcocapelle, SpinnerLaserzthe2nd, Carlossuarez46, Dimadick, Justus Nussbaum, and Good Olfactory: ping previous participants. Place Clichy (talk) 17:14, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Fictional Chinese people by historical setting

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:56, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Agreement with Category:Fictional characters by period; probably not C2C because it is the only category of this type, other than parent. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:59, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support renaming AHI-3000 (talk) 21:04, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom Mason (talk) 01:08, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People of colonial West Virginia

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 December 20#Category:People of colonial West Virginia

Category:People of colonial Maine

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:People of colonial Massachusetts and Category:People of pre-statehood Maine. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:45, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Propose merging Category:People of colonial Maine to Category:People of colonial Massachusetts
Nominator's rationale: Maine was never a colony but a part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay Omnis Scientia (talk) 08:11, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:People of colonial Florida

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 December 20#Category:People of colonial Florida

Category:American serial killers by state

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 to delete Category:American serial killers by state ; no consensus to merge other listed categories. After bandying about for two months, there is a clear absence of consensus for any specific proposal, but there are a number of promising directions of refinement suggested in the discussion that can be further discussed or boldly pursued outside of the scope of CfD. Purging categories to restrict subjects to where they were actually "from" (in the sense of a sustained period of residence) is one possibility. Branching out a subcategory tree for serial killers who were "active in" a particular state or states is another possibility, provided that guardrails are established to prevent an individual murderous drifter from landing in a dozen categories. I suspect that can be resolved through a definition of "active in" that requires three or more confirmed murders (i.e. "serial killing") within the specified state. BD2412 T 21:58, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Misguided attempt at subcategorizing Category:American serial killers by location, done deeply incorrectly by a user who appears to deeply misunderstand how categories work: "from", here, has not been applied in the normal sense of where the person was actually resident, but has instead been pressed into overtime duty to mean anywhere and everywhere that were "at some point active in their killing", regardless of whether they lived there or were just temporarily passing through. Ted Bundy, for example, has somehow become "from" seven different states at the same time, Samuel Little is now "from" three states at the same time, Israel Keyes is "from" four states at the same time, and on and so forth. But that's not how "from" works.
In addition, most (though not all) of the articles in this tree were left in the parent category alongside the new state or city specific categories, which is also not how categorization works either. And although this isn't a deletion rationale per se, I do need to point out that they also left an absolutely appalling trail of redlinked category residue at Special:WantedCategories by misspelling the state names when trying to add these categories to articles. And I don't mean once or twice, which would be understandable (even I make typos sometimes!) — I mean so many misspelled redlinks that basic WP:CIR questions are in play.
To be fair, the parent category is large enough that subdividing by state could be acceptable — but that would have to be implemented by somebody who actually knows what they're doing, which the creator of this tree clearly doesn't. So even if there's a consensus to keep them, there would absolutely have to be a deep cleanup job done to ensure that the people are actually removed from inappropriate categories for places they weren't really "from". Bearcat (talk) 03:31, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Why would categorizing serial killers for "in" be useful? We normally only care about from, not "in", when it comes to categorizing people by location. Bearcat (talk) 03:43, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Why would that be a useful tree for us to have? You're the second person in this discussion to just assert that we should, but nobody has given any rationale for why we should. Bearcat (talk) 12:49, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Because that is where these serial killers became notable. Who would care where they came from? Marcocapelle (talk) 16:19, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • And how would we avoid category bloat? Namely, where's the value in having to add a serial killer to nine or ten different categories for the same thing just because he moved around and didn't commit all his killings in one place? We need to avoid category bloat, so nobody needs to be in nine or ten "serial killer + geography" categories — each person only needs one of those, so it has to be either "where they're from" or "leave them at American and don't subcat at all". Bearcat (talk) 23:25, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkltalk 09:42, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Qwerfjkltalk 20:01, 2 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, NmWTfs85lXusaybq (talk) 06:29, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Applicants for refugee status in Canada

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 16:46, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I don't think that this distinction is defining. Only the fact that they're refugees and are in canada are the defining features. Mason (talk) 04:34, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Eponyms in psychology

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 December 20#Category:Eponyms in psychology

Category:Science fantasy characters

Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 December 20#Category:Science fantasy characters

Category:Immigrants to Portuguese Angola

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) 16:47, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Dual merge to Immigrants to Angola and People from Portuguese Angola. This is a small underpopulated category that's not helpful for navigation. Mason (talk) 03:00, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:University and college shootings in insular areas of the United States

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:School shootings in North America, Category:University and college shootings and Category:Crimes in insular areas of the United States. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:10, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Only one page in here that is not helpful for navigation. Mason (talk) 00:49, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:21st-century illustrators of fairy tales

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The result of the discussion was: dual merge all. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:11, 20 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I don't think we need to difuse by century. There are only 88 people across the 3 categories [1]. Mason (talk) 00:16, 8 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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