Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: delete or upmerge the last two?
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part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme. But so was, for example, Category:18th-century monarchs in North America (until it was deleted yesterday). And so are several closely related categories (see next nom below; so far most people agree that at least some of them should be deleted or merged, even if they aren't empty). Are we really going to need Category:19th-century monarchs in South America to exist, for example? I doubt it. It doesn't mean there were no Brazilian monarchs in the 19th century, but if Category:Brazilian monarchs is the only subcat, that's a little.... little. We don't need to have a nearly-empty cat just so that the number "19th" at the top doesn't turn grey and people will start thinking there were no monarchs in South America in the 19th century.
does not have realistic potential for growth. You can always add more presidents at the front as long as U.S. voters and electors keep electing them, but the thing about the past is that you cannot add anything to it anymore. You may discover that certain events happened that weren't widely known, but you can't make new things happen in old times. I'm sorry that your country was founded in a categorisation-inconvenient time, but I'm afraid that we cannot accept any special pleading. To draw a fair comparison with my own country (or rather, one of its predecessor states), I think several categories within Category:History of the Batavian Republic by period may also not pass the WP:SMALLCAT test, such as Category:1795 disestablishments in the Batavian Republic > Category:1795 disestablishments in the Dutch Empire > Category:1795 disestablishments in Dutch India, which contains only 1 item. Three completely useless cats that I'm ready to throw out like yesterday's newspaper, even though the Batavian Republic was founded and abolished in really categorisation-inconvenient times. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 18:07, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
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