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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 15:00, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deleting Category:Indian LGBT photographers (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: WP:NARROWCAT – unnecessary categorization. Edward-Woodrow • talk 22:01, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Question - Would this fall under WP:OCEGRS? - jc37 01:38, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete as a virtually empty category. The single article in the category is about a Canadian, who was not known as a photographer when he lived in India as a child. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:21, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 15:00, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deleting Category:8th-century Frankish rabbis (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: A WP:NARROWCAT of limited use – not much room for expansion, and it's unclear if the subject of the one article was even Frankish per se. Delete and add the one article to both major parent categories. Edward-Woodrow • talk 21:57, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Category:8th-century rabbis and Category:8th-century Frankish Jews per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 08:24, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. (non-admin closure) Edward-Woodrow • talk 12:44, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deleting Category:Government of the Ghaznavid Empire (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: delete, redundant category layer with only one subcategory. The subcategory is already in Category:People from the Ghaznavid Empire so a merge is not needed. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:23, 7 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per WP:SMALLCAT: "a category which does have realistic potential for growth, such as a category for holders of a notable political office, may be kept even if only a small number of its articles actually exist at the present time." This category has a lot of potential for growth, here are some Ghaznavid-era offices/posts just to name a few [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] --HistoryofIran (talk) 13:33, 7 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not an expert in Iranian history, but why those people belong in the subcategory? * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 01:06, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you referring to the links I posted? Those are offices/posts the Ghaznavid government had. --HistoryofIran (talk) 12:59, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: Manual merge * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 00:40, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deleting Category:Harvard University Department of Psychology alumni (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Alt proposal: manual upmerging in Category:Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni and Category:Harvard College alumni‎

Nominator's rationale: I don't think that this is a particularly useful category (WP:OCTRIVIAL) and I don't really think that it is defining intersection of Harvard Alumni (Category:Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni or Category:Harvard College alumni‎) and having a major in psychology (WP:OCNARROW). However, I'd love to be convinced otherwise. Mason (talk) 18:59, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

A concern seems to be addressing the inclusion of BA recipients, which I could easily remove, as there were only a couple in the category. The BA degree is somewhat irrelevant since anyone can continue studying something else. However, the alumni category for graduate students could be helpful to see any trends, developments or connections regarding Harvard psychology. Also, the Harvard Graduate Alumni list is very long and challenging to navigate. That is why a list of the individual alums of the department of Psychology would also be beneficial. Schiller12 (talk) 22:45, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Although removing undergraduates solves some of the problem. I still think that the intersection is trivial from a category perspective WP:OCTRIVIAL, in addition to having a psychology major isn't defining WP:NONDEF. If you think a list is beneficial you can create a list, but a category isn't a list. Mason (talk) 23:20, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It is one of many Harvard subcategories. Siblings are e.g. Medical School and Divinity School. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:34, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Medical school and divinity school are actual distinct schools with distinct degrees (doctor in medicine, master's in divinity), while psychology is a department within the school of arts and sciences (or whatever it's specifically called), and grants a grad degrees, like master's in arts, like every other department within arts/sciences. So, philosophy alumni would be a sibling. Medical school is more like an uncle to Psychology, while it would be a sibling to Category:Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni or Category:Harvard College alumni‎ ) Mason (talk) 02:38, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Ok, but in that case, if not kept, the category should be presumably merged to Category:Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:03, 2 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  That's a good point. It'll have to be a manual merge because some are Category:Harvard College alumni‎. I wasn't sure how to handle the fact that some of the folks are Category:Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni, while others are Category:Harvard College alumni‎. Mason (talk) 23:12, 5 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Upmerge per Mason's rationale. We sometimes have separate categories for schools within a university, but essentially never for departments within schools. ((u|Sdkb)) ^talk 22:06, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: keep and purge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 18:25, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deleting Category:IMAX venues in the United States (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Propose deleting Category:IMAX venues in Canada (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Propose deleting Category:Defunct IMAX venues (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Propose deleting Category:IMAX venues in the United Kingdom (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
Propose deleting Category:IMAX venues (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)‎

Nominator's rationale: Having an IMAX theater is not a defining characteristic for the overwhelming majority of the places included. Yes, Jordan's IMAX is an example that fits the category, but among those articles I checked, Garden State Plaza, Kennedy Space Center, Liberty Science Center don't even mention IMAX in the body of the article. All of these places may have IMAX available on tap, but the category does not appear to be defining. Alansohn (talk) 20:06, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. If the category isn't defining, then why was every item in the category already sitting in the generic Category:IMAX venues for years and years, without anybody ever having one word to say about it until I started subcategorizing that for individual country within the past 24 hours? If having an IMAX theatre isn't defining, then the parent category never should have existed at all, but it's existed since 2005 without anybody ever previously taking any issue with its definingness — but there's simply no argument to be had that "IMAX venues" itself was fine, and geographically subbing it is somehow the point where a new problem somehow arises, especially if you're only targeting the US category and not the Canadian or UK ones or the already-longstanding parent. Bearcat (talk) 20:13, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Bearcat, you used the word KEEP, but you offered no argument for retention. Let me try to understand your "argument" by paraphrasing it with a shorthand substitution. There's shit in a category here in the United States. But there's also a category for shit in other places in the world along with a parent shit category. Nobody has noticed the shit since 2005 and because the shit has been sitting around for 18 years that makes it OK, besides no one has dealt with the global shit issue. While I do agree that we should deal with the entire tree, I also notice that Bearcat has not offered a single explanation for WHY the category is defining nor addressed the fact that multiple articles in the category can't even be bothered to mention that there is an IMAX theater in the place. I will be honest and point out that I had never noticed the category, until two days ago, when I saw this edit that changed an IMAX-related category. As soon as I saw that, I reacted. I sincerely apologize for doing nothing about this since 2005. Alansohn (talk) 17:34, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  - Imma stop you right there. If the category has existed since 2005, the explanation for that is profoundly unlikely to be "nobody noticed shit for 18 years", and infinitely more likely to be "the category actually is not shit in the first place". I'll grant that Wikipedians do sometimes fail to notice low visibility and low traffic articles for a decade or more, but categories are not low traffic, because they get actively navigated into and through on a regular basis and do not get overlooked for long if they're shit — so a category that has lasted that long is, by definition, unlikely to be shit. Accordingly, it ain't my job to have to build a case for why it isn't shit — you cannot prove a negative, after all — it's your job to prove that it is shit, and just asserting that it is so doesn't make it so. Bearcat (talk) 17:49, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    - Bearcat, per Wikipedia:Defining, The defining characteristics of an article's topic are central to categorizing the article. A defining characteristic is one that reliable sources commonly and consistently refer to[1] in describing the topic, such as the nationality of a person or the geographic location of a place. Clearly, the test that needs to be passed here to merit retention is to demonstrate that being an IMAX venue is a defining characteristic of these locations. As I demonstrated in the nomination based on a review of most of the entries, other than the one article for Jordan's IMAX that is a small network of IMAX theaters, the remainder either mention the presence of an IMAX theater largely in passing or not at all. The category is not defining in any way and merits deletion root and branch throughout the world. I have fulfilled my burden. There is no statute of limitations on deleting a category, no mater how old it is; Bearcat, after nearly 1.4 million edits and almost 20 years you should be well aware of that. Please come up with anything other than asserting it has existed since 2005 as an argument for retention. Anything would be a start. Alansohn (talk) 19:27, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There are almost no cases where an IMAX theatre would ever qualify for its own standalone article as a separate topic from the larger institution that hosts and operates it — for very nearly all IMAX theatres, it's more appropriate for the theatre to be discussed within the article on the host institution rather than as its own separate article about the theatre as an independent topic. So if you'd like to go around creating a comprehensive set of redirects from "IMAX Theatre at [Institution]" to "[Institution]" so that the category can be moved to those redirects, then by all means go right ahead — but we have content about IMAX theatres in Wikipedia, and being an IMAX theatre is a defining characteristic of an IMAX theatre, and therefore we need a category that helps people find IMAX theatres. Whether that category should go on the article about the larger institution that hosts the IMAX theatre, or on a standalone redirect from "IMAX theatre @ Institution" to the institution is a different question that it isn't within CFD's purview to determine — but one way or the other, we do need a category that helps direct readers to IMAX theatres, because they are a thing readers are looking for information about. Bearcat (talk) 19:49, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

being an IMAX theatre is a defining characteristic of an IMAX theatre - yes, tautologically it is. But having an IMAX theatre is not a defining characteristic of a venue, hence this category shout not be slapped onto a venue, see my comparison with Pizza Hut in my !vote below. - Altenmann >talk 23:26, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Then any venue which has an IMAX theatre, but is not itself an IMAX theatre, needs to have a redirect that goes from "IMAX Theatre @ Venue" to "Venue", so that the redirect can remain in the category, and the category can thus still serve the incredibly important purpose of remaining a comprehensive navigation tool to all articles that we have about any venue where an IMAX film can be seen while still accommodating your concern. Bearcat (talk) 23:36, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It is evident that we should discuss the tree as a whole. The parent category is a mix of IMAX theaters (defining) and places that happen to contain an IMAX theater. Because of the former, the category tree as a whole should certainly not disappear. I am open to alternatives though. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:39, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and cleanup the contents of the category and write a clear "statute" for the category. If the article is not about an IMAX venue then it does not belong to the category. Wikipedia writes about notable things, right? Now, Liberty Science Center is in the category? The article does not mention IMAX meaning there is no notability for Liberty Science Center IMAX, meaning it does not belong to this category. We don't include every mall that has Pizza Hut into Category:Pizza Hut, right? Then why we have to do this for IMAX? - Altenmann >talk 18:19, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note To address the problem on a more global basis, I have added IMAX venues in Canada, Defunct IMAX venues, IMAX venues in the United Kingdom and the parent IMAX venues to the list of categories to be deleted as part of this nomination. Alansohn (talk) 19:35, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Purge all venues that are not specific IMAX venues. Wikipedia is not here to promote IMAX, they can do that themselves. If not enough content is left, merge all to Category:IMAX venues. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:05, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I've just tagged the additional categories and notified the creators. Qwerfjkl talk 18:00, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Bearcat. I think they are right about this. IMAX is definitely a different type of theatre. And I can see readers wanting to find out where they are. Which is our focus - the readers. This is clearly a notable topic. If no consensus to keep, Listify whatever isn't already at List of IMAX venues. - jc37 23:27, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 23:53, 3 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Propose deleting Category:Wikipedians who like Lu & the Bally Bunch (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: No article on Lu & the Bally Bunch -> no collaborative value in a user category. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 16:11, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep - WP:OTHERSTUFFDOESNTEXIST argument. LuGus DeclanBiba ElodieBarnaby 19:28, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per WP:USERCATNO - avoid categories that are overly narrow in scope. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:12, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Delete it has no Wikipedia article, this is another reason to delete. I do not even know what country it is from. Even the userbox should be deleted as well. Catfurball (talk) 19:37, 26 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 18:39, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Propose merging Category:Foreign relations of the Greater Republic of Central America to Category:Greater Republic of Central America
Propose merging Category:Bilateral relations of the Greater Republic of Central America to Category:Greater Republic of Central America
Propose merging Category:Greater Republic of Central America–United States relations to Category:Greater Republic of Central America

Nominator's rationale: merge, only one article in three categories. The Greater Republic of Central America existed from 1896 to 1898, not too many additional foreign relations articles can be expected for such a short time frame. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:46, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 15:13, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom. Place Clichy (talk) 21:05, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: Split * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 00:42, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Propose splitting Category:Judaism in the Arab world to Category:Judaism in the Middle East and Category:Judaism in North Africa
Propose splitting Category:Rabbis in the Arab world to Category:Rabbis in the Middle East and Category:Rabbis in North Africa
Propose splitting Category:Synagogues in the Arab world to Category:Synagogues in the Middle East and Category:Synagogues in North Africa
Propose splitting Category:Jews and Judaism in the Arab world by city to Category:Jews and Judaism in the Middle East by city and Category:Jews and Judaism in North Africa by city
Propose splitting Category: Jewish politicians in Arab and Islamic Countries to Category:Jewish politicians in West Asia and Category:Jewish politicians in North Africa

Nominator's rationale: This is a follow-up to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 August 31#Category:Religion in the Arab world, to complete the splitting of Category:Jews and Judaism in the Arab world. Note: I have chosen West Asia rather than Middle East for the last one as it includes Azerbaijan. – Fayenatic London 09:08, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

For the record, some other former content from the parent category has been moved to Category:Mizrahi Jews topics. – Fayenatic London 09:14, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Split per precedent. I would also be ok with splitting the last one to Category:Jewish politicians in the Middle East instead of West Asia, for consistency, with purging of the Azerbaijani subcat. Marcocapelle (talk) 12:35, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Split. Agree with Marcocapelle that it's better to use Middle East all along and purge Azerbaijan. It is counter-productive to use moving sets of nations without consistency just because one editor wants to add another country in a container category that already considerably overlaps existing ones. Place Clichy (talk) 21:09, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Big Sugar (band) albums. (non-admin closure) House Blaster^talk 03:09, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Propose renaming Category:Big Sugar albums to Category:Big Sugar (band) albums

Nominator's rationale: Big Sugar redirects to Sugar industry. the article on the band is at Big Sugar (band). Jeeputer ^Talk 07:09, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 15:12, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkl talk 18:54, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Propose merging Category:Expatriates in Overseas France by nationality to Category:Expatriates in Overseas France

Nominator's rationale: merging into the parent because there's only on category here Mason (talk) 03:03, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge per nom. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 03:42, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There is only one article in no less than five categories, isn't that a bit exaggerated? I.e. shouldn't Category:West German expatriate sportspeople in New Caledonia be nominated? Marcocapelle (talk) 12:44, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Do that yourself, those have no bearing on this category, except for being the only contents. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 15:03, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Fuck it, I just created Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_October_1#Category:German_expatriates_in_Overseas_France. –LaundryPizza03 (d c̄) 15:11, 1 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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September 23

Category:Sexism in the Arab world

Category:LGBT rights in the Arab world

Category:Indian LGBT photographers

Category:8th-century Frankish rabbis

Category:Government of the Ghaznavid Empire

Category:Harvard University Department of Psychology alumni

Category:IMAX venues in the United States

Serbia and Montenegro

Category:Songs written for film

Category:Queer organizations & Category:Queer literature

Category:Wikipedians who like Lu & the Bally Bunch

Greater Republic of Central America

Judaism in the Arab world

Category:Big Sugar albums

Category:Science centers

Category:Sieges by country

Category:Expatriates in Overseas France by nationality