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Category:Candidate lists for the 2006 Dutch general election

Nominator's rationale: Merged into List of candidates in the 2006 Dutch general election Dajasj (talk) 15:26, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Candidate lists for the 2003 Dutch general election

Nominator's rationale: Merged into List of candidates in the 2003 Dutch general election Dajasj (talk) 15:25, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Candidate lists for the 2012 Dutch general election

Nominator's rationale: Merged into List of candidates in the 2012 Dutch general election Dajasj (talk) 15:23, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Candidate lists for the 2017 Dutch general election

Nominator's rationale: Merged them all into List of candidates in the 2017 Dutch general election Dajasj (talk) 15:04, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Candidate lists for the 2021 Dutch general election

Nominator's rationale: Merged them all in List of candidates in the 2021 Dutch general election, too much similar lists in other countries Dajasj (talk) 15:02, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Candidate lists for the 2023 Dutch general election

Nominator's rationale: Merged them into List of candidates in the 2023 Dutch general election, so not category needed anymore Dajasj (talk) 14:58, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Candidate lists for the 2010 Dutch general election

Nominator's rationale: I have merged all pages into List of candidates in the 2010 Dutch general election Dajasj (talk) 14:49, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]


Category:Video games by narrative genre

Nominator's rationale: AHI-3000 has largely mucked up this category by subcategorizing by "narrative genre" which appears to be purely subjective, as I can think of many mystery, romance, etc. games where that theme influences their gameplay. They were already fine being sorted under theme without this unnecessary category layer and things should be returned to how they were before they disruptively did this massive reorganization without asking for any consensus. That will probably require a manual merge back. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 13:24, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Feni SC

Nominator's rationale: Its the club's official name 1, 2, 3. FNH004 (talk) 11:51, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Turing machine

Nominator's rationale: Should be plural per similar categories. Ixfd64 (talk) 06:50, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
oppose. It contains not only machines, but things related to them. Instead, it makes sense to create a subcategory specifically for machines. --Altenmann >talk 06:54, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:NASCAR by year

Nominator's rationale: As Category:NASCAR seasons is described as 'This category contains articles on individual years in NASCAR.' I suggest to merge these categories accordingly. Robby (talk) 05:27, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Abbots from the British Isles

Nominator's rationale: Rename (probably speedy). Perhaps I'm missing something really obvious, but I don't see why this category isn't called British abbots. (Obviously, we'd need to remove Irish abbots; I couldn't find an Abbots from Northern Ireland category) Mason (talk) 00:44, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename, reparent and purge per nom. It is very unusual to group biographies by region instead of by nationality and there does not seem to be any particular reason for it. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:45, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. These will probably mostly be medieval figures, particularly after the Irish ones are removed, and describing them as "British" will be anachronistic. The subcategories for English, Scottish and Welsh abbots are sufficient. Ham II (talk) 11:37, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikipedia utility templates

Nominator's rationale: I propose to upmerge to Category:Wikipedia templates by task, because the word "utility" doesn't mean anything specific. The description doesn't help either:

Templates in this category are used in articles, portals, templates, and other pages to help create and format those pages.

If you do not immediately find what you are looking for in here, try the subcategories.

Dumping everything into Category:Wikipedia templates by task will help subcategorizing the templates and the subcategories, once more of them are visible in the same category. —⁠andrybak (talk) 13:48, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Do we have any history to suggest that templates being put directly into the by task category will get subcategorized through regular maintenance instead of just removing the by task category? Does the description at Category:Wikipedia templates by task need to be updated to indicate that templates should only be subcategorized instead of removed from that category before making this move? VanIsaac, GHTV contWpWS 18:41, 10 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For example, Category:Sidebar templates by topic (9) together with Category:Sidebar templates (7) around four years ago used to have hundreds of templates directly in them. Partly, because of the weird naming until Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 April 27#Category:"Part of a series on" sidebar templates. The subcategorization by me started around the time of this discussion. A couple hundreds of subcategories were created, e.g. approximately 168 in these 500 edits.
Similarly, several thousand templates used to be in Category:Userboxes (835). There, several participants of the WikiProject Userboxes worked on it after the invitation (see also one, two, three, four, five). It was brought down to just the meta-templates (like {{Userbox}}), but then started climbing again. Nowadays, only Catfurball is working on it, as far as I know, so the counter is back up to eight hundred. —⁠andrybak (talk) 09:21, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Plus, I've already started subcategorizing Category:Wikipedia utility templates (283), starting with Repetition templates and HTML single tag templates/Wikipedia XHTML tag-replacing templates. —⁠andrybak (talk) 10:01, 12 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Queen of Hearts (talk) 00:29, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Category:18th-century Carniolan painters

Nominator's rationale: Dual merge for now. This is an isolated underpopulated category, with limited diffusion value given the size of Category:Carniolan painters (5) category. Mason (talk) 00:11, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]


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