is called the Category Tree. Each category is a sub-category, or child, of a more general category, the parent category. The category tree is made up...

North Holland Category:Politicians from Amsterdam Category:Sportspeople from North Holland Category:Sportspeople from Amsterdam Category:Sportspeople from...

case is too weak a criterion to keep the category. Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 16:56, 15 April 2012 (UTC) Category:Women writers (edit · talk · history · links...

the following categories: Category:User es, Category:User es-3, Category:User en, and Category:User en-1. All are subcategories of Category:User languages...

tagged with {{orphan}} it is added to Category:Orphaned articles. When the tag is removed it is removed from this category. The tag only shows up during the...

Another solution: put a colon before word "Category", for example, write [[:Category:Shamanism]] instead of [[Category:Shamanism]]. In this case, it will be...

Category:Asian-British people Category:Asian Americans Category:Australian-Americans Category:Austrian-Americans Category:British-Americans Category:British-Australians...

geography categories (Category:English people is a sub-category of Category:England) as well as what ever other categories apply (Category:English people...

similar category which already exists. Special:CategoryTree may help you to find existing categories. You also need to think about whether your category is...

navboxes) are used to give links to other articles. These templates are in Category:Navigational boxes. For any of these messages, you can include "subst:"...

subcategory of one or both of the following categories: Category:Redirects from non-English-language terms Category:Redirects to non-English-language terms...

Wikipedia:Be bold would be in the Wikipedia mainspace, Category:1990 births would be in Category namespace and Template:reflist would be in the Template...

Only administrators can delete pages, categories, and images. Sometimes, pages may be deleted quickly. At other times, the deletion should be talked about...

This infopage lists categories for the Citation Style 1, with templates related to Help:CS1 errors. There are several categories, and the names have been...

A shortcut on Wikipedia is a quick way of getting to Category:Wikimedia, guidelines and project pages. They are shown in boxes to the right of the pages...

as a Category redirect and pages in this category were moved to Category:Colleges and universities.-BRP ever 02:33, 17 December 2018 (UTC) Category:Universities...

was to  Delete. I have deleted these categories after moving the pages into the main category. The main category can be removed if the page already exists...

You may include one or more Wikipedian categories, such as Category:Wikipedian musicians. Wikipedian categories help Wikipedians with similar interests...

article in the category had been kept, this category would have been kept as well. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:55, 1 August 2021 (UTC) Category:2044 (edit · talk...

close this discussion. The result is categories for deaths, births, and years should be kept, while categories for establishments should be deleted....

Wikipedia does not use categories for individual WikiProjects. There is Category:WikiProjects for the project pages and Category:WikiProject user templates...

Category:Russia. To add the category to other categories, add each on a new line: [[Category:Name of a category]] [[Category:Name of another category]]...

en:Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates This page is a soft redirect....

other category areas and we end up with a whole new category structure there. This request also includes the following categories: Category:Categories named...

containing a given template to a category, without putting the template itself into that category. Note: when you change the categories applied by a template, the...

noticed that in categories of BC decades that are a multiple of 100, (ex., Category:300s BC, Category:200s BC, Category:100s BC, Category:400s BC, etc....

being read aloud. See Category:Spoken articles for articles that have already been recorded. Choose an article, either from Category:Spoken Wikipedia requests...

request for deletion was to  Keep. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:11, 2 June 2022 (UTC) Category:Female scientists (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

Category:Women writers Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2013/Category:American men Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2013/Category:Bisexual...

include articles, templates, and other categories. See Wikipedia:Categories#Is there a need for the new category? for more information. Stubs are managed...

meta:Interwiki bot/Getting started meta:Category:Pywikipedia sourceforge:projects/pywikipediabot sourceforge:projects/dotnetwikibot Category:Wikipedia bots...

Category:English gay men Category:Canadian gay men Category:French gay men Category:German gay men Category:Russian gay men Category:Gay African Americans...

these categories, ignore the traditional requirement of 3 pages in a category. Best regards, Vermont (talk) 22:14, 24 May 2020 (UTC) Category:Schools...

decided a while back not to have separate gender categories for most things. I don't think we need a category for female politicians because there aren't that...

topics such as writers, actors, bio's, etcetera. Only when a particular category has exceeded in maintaining an appropriate level of articles, will new...

such as merging. Comment. I know I created this category, but I only did that to group other categories. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:34, 25 November 2013 (UTC)...

16 June 2019 (UTC) Category:Women composers Category:Women lawyers Category:Women politicians Category:Female rappers Category:Female scientists Auntof6...

wiki doesn't keep categories for individual WikiProjects --Auntof6 (talk) 02:52, 25 April 2022 (UTC) Category:Monthly clean-up category (Articles covered...

if we want such categories at all. One further note: just before creating this category, the creator added a lot of people to Category:People of the Cold...

keep the nominated terrorist categories because a more comprehensive discussion should happen for all terrorist categories. User:Wwikix is requested to...

deletion for the reason: This category is not useful, and is a misuse of the category system. We have long agreed that our category system should be kept more...

them for a long time. They should be categorized (put into) into stub categories. See Wikipedia:Simple Stub Project for more information. The MediaWiki...

non-defining category over the fact that currently, almost none of the Simple English versions of these articles within these categories currently mention...

like this, the Minnesota category would be covered by Category:Governors of Minnesota since it is a sub-category of Category:People from Minnesota. Because...

request for deletion was to  Keep. There is clearly consensus to keep the categories in some form. Further discussion on this topic would be helpful, either...

We recently had several articles created that fall into Category:Centenarians and its subcategories. It appears that many of the new articles, and the...

Category:Journalist (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) fr33kman t - c has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Category...

delete category in current state. There are no similar examples of this category on other projects. Further discussion on a more specific category can be...

requests for Lua-based templates or tasks Category:Lua-based templates – groups of Lua-based templates Category:Lua metamodules Manual:Coding conventions/Lua...

people will be taken out of the existing categories for English men and women, and placed into the category for British bisexual people). Whether to categorise...

expect the plural form. See for example Category:Cities in Kentucky to find a well-filled geographic category. Except for 1-2 user pages, and this deletion...

those categories under nationality/citizenship categories as we have them now. A category like "Category:People from Glasgow" being under "Category:Scottish...

en:Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 July 12#Category:Temporary Wikipedian userpages for the discussion they had). Note that eliminating this category would...

having categories by gender without good reason, I propose removing this category and Category:Male tennis players. The entries in these categories could...

reason: Category currently redirects to Transportation and although it is a valid category we already have specific transportation category so IMHO it's...

merged to resp. other categories; we don't need gendered categories at this level--Eptalon (talk) 12:19, 5 December 2021 (UTC) Category:19th-century male...

June 2022 (UTC) Category:Disestablishments in Brazil (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:Disestablishments...

new article at Simple Wikipedia, select correct categories and create them if needed; see Help:Categories for how to do this. Save it with an edit summary...

from [[Category:Foo]] to [[:Category:Foo]] to stop these pages appearing in the category --Ferien (talk) 15:57, 17 March 2023 (UTC) Category:Foo (edit...

category trees that were category -> only 1 sub category -> only 1 sub category -> only 1 sub category -> single article. So there were 4 categories created...

November 2022 (UTC) Category:21st-century American rappers (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:20th-century American...

as merging.  Keep This is essentially as valid as all the other categories in Category:Former countries by status. Each of the articles here is about a...

especially considering we now have a category called Category:Psychoanalysts from Europe. If I were to delete the category at this stage, we'd have the ones...

 Chenzw  Talk  14:08, 10 November 2013 (UTC) Category:American men (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Category:American women (edit · talk · history...

one army. I don't see any categories like that here on Simple. I moved the entries that were here to the new category Category:Armies. Auntof6 (talk) 04:07...

3 July 2022 (UTC) Category:1990s movies by genre (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:2000s movies by genre...

Redirecting to Category:Kurdish people, moving Kurdistan (state) to Category:Kurdistan. The only delete !votes were based on category being empty, but...

The parent category is not "very empty at all" and only has 7 categories because there's not much that could be actually added in the category. Futhermore...

Merge Category:Human issues into Category:Social issues and delete the former. I notice that Category:Human issues is linked in Wikidata to categories called...

empty, and because there's now Category:Books with circus settings. Osiris (talk) 15:06, 22 June 2013 (UTC) Category:Circus books (edit · talk · history...

consensus closure, stands at a keep. -- Enfcer (talk) 20:23, 31 May 2015 (UTC) Category:Murdered African-American people (edit · talk · history · links · watch...

close as Copy paste in a category, which is an empty category Peterdownunder (talk) 20:30, 18 February 2021 (UTC) Category:Jodhra Rajput (edit · talk...

July 2022 (UTC) Category:American comedy movies by decade (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:1930s American...

 Delete. Per precedent at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2022/Category:American female biochemists. As what Griffinofwales mentioned, if we want...

 Keep. Meets the requirements for a category, no need to delete Peterdownunder (talk) 22:02, 23 April 2022 (UTC) Category:Songs written by Johnny Cash (edit...

especially since Category:LGBT lawyers is the third smallest category in Category:LGBT people by occupation out of 16 total occupations on categories. Meanwhile...

my sandbox history as well) Y The article is filed in the appropriate category. Y It has at least one interwiki link. Y The article is stable with no...

for deletion was to  Keep. There seem to be arguments for keeping these categories for some professions more than for others. Rather than decide that all...

have, but I think the category should be per decade (18060s) if not by century (19th century architecture). Only when the category gets full (as in about...

request for deletion was to  Keep. There are 7 categories in the parent cat, and each of the categories has at least 7 entries. Our guideline requires...

 Delete. Not necessary Peterdownunder (talk) 22:25, 24 April 2022 (UTC) Category:1990s African-American movies (edit · talk · history · links · watch ·...

that has a similar name with another article. Hatnotes help readers find the right article using a link or disambiguation. Category:Hatnote templates...

city" or other category types at the time (or in the foreseeable future). Propose deleting this category, upmerging the "by country" category and moving the...

Discussion also resulted in deletion of Category:Pages with complex sections. Jon@talk:~$ 23:15, 28 December 2011 (UTC) Category:Complex pages (edit · talk · history...

2022 (UTC) Category:Multi-paradigm programming languages (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:Object-oriented...

to parent category, where no other subcategories of Category:Rap musicians were present. To not be sexist, the same was done for Category:Female rappers...

request for deletion was to  Keep. Category now meets guidelines.Peterdownunder (talk) 00:14, 8 March 2021 (UTC) Category:Trombones (edit · talk · history...

actual listing of all categories. That being said, [1] lists all categories nearly up-to-date (may have a few minutes lag with category creations), this list...

up to "Category:<decade> poems", "Category:19th-century British poems" added for now --Auntof6 (talk) 01:27, 5 September 2024 (UTC) Category:1800s British...

deletion was to  Keep. Redirected to Category:Computer file formats. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:11, 27 April 2014 (UTC) Category:File formats (edit · talk · history...

discussion. Closed as rename to Category:Government ministers. --Auntof6 (talk) 04:55, 16 September 2013 (UTC) Category:Government Ministers (edit · talk...

it's nice if you include appropriate categories, not just stub templates. Our categories (including stub categories) are somewhat different from enwiki's...

So,  Keep Category:LGBTIQ and  Keep Category:LGBTQ (so  Redirect Category:LGBTI to Category:LGBTIQ and  Redirect Category:LGBTI to Category:LGBTIQ). OR...

such as merging. Keep. On en, Category:Supernatural horror films is under Category:Horror films by genre and Category:Supernatural films. It's a valid...

reason: Category:Fußball-Bundesliga should probably be renamed to Category:Bundesliga (as it is the common name) and all the pages in this category should...

request includes the nominated category and its subcategories. Not everything needs a category. I see no advantage to this category. If this rfd passes, I plan...

deletion was to  Delete.  Osiris (talk) 07:57, 4 February 2014 (UTC) Category:Categories named after American people (edit · talk · history · links · watch...

if you count as a straight vote 1 keep 2 redirect/rename and 2 delete. Category:Fiction set in the past (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs ·...

to navigate categories rather than articles. We could add it to the linked categories, but I didn't do that because 1) I think Category:Languages of...

February 2023 (UTC) Category:18th-century women (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:19th-century women (edit...

deletion/Requests/2014/Categories showing mixes of national ancestry, it was decided that our project would not have descent categories. I think this category is equivalent...

deletion was to  Keep. Peterdownunder (talk) 12:08, 26 September 2022 (UTC) Category:Modern history of Azerbaijan (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

deletion was to  Delete. Pages in the categories re.classified.--Eptalon (talk) 15:52, 3 July 2022 (UTC) Category:1990s American comedy-drama movies (edit...

been trying to clean up the categories with fewer than three entries. Could we create an edit notice for creating categories that explains the requirement...

reasonable category. Also, three is our minimum number of entries for a category, and this one has four. --Auntof6 (talk) 19:48, 31 March 2014 (UTC) Category:Palaces...

deleting no longer exists --Auntof6 (talk) 03:46, 29 January 2020 (UTC) Category:Rovers (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

this category. It may have been created just because enwiki has it, but we do not need to have the same categories as enwiki. We have Category:Year of...

deletion/Requests/2014/Categories showing mixes of national ancestry, it was decided that our project would not have descent categories. I think this category is equivalent...

Unnecessary category. Category:American actors covers any actors and that pretty much can cover these actors. No need for an extra category. Please discuss...

to  Keep. Consensus is to keep -- Enfcer (talk) 22:12, 3 May 2014 (UTC) Category:Elections in the 2000s (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs ·...

subcategories of this one: Category:Deaths in Colorado Category:Deaths in Connecticut Note also that all three of these categories are underpopulated. --...

moved to: Category:Bisexual broadcasters‎, Category:Gay broadcasters‎ and Category:Lesbian broadcasters‎ would all be upmerged into Category:LGBT broadcasters...

point number 3 of the guideline. --IWI (talk) 01:56, 23 January 2023 (UTC) Category:Female scientists (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

nationality is necessary. However, if this category is kept, we would need the corresponding male category as well. Auntof6 (talk) 05:06, 2 March 2021...

targets, in an armed conflict. In that case, the category is ill-named. I have removed the category from all pages that contained it, and I have deleted...

this category. The parent category is also relatively empty so I think it'd be best for all the pages in this category to be merged back into Category:National...

request for deletion was to  Delete. Chenzw  Talk  05:52, 28 May 2021 (UTC) Category:Bad things (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

request for deletion was to  Keep. A useful category. Peterdownunder (talk) 10:44, 20 March 2021 (UTC) Category:Arctic Highways (edit · talk · history ·...

this category would need to be non-diffusing anyway; very few categories should be non-diffusing. It's also not clear why the creator of this category has...

- FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 17:56, 19 January 2025 (UTC) Category:Roller coasters by name (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs ·...

in this category are not specifically closely related to Mr. Blair. For comparison, see other categories named after people such as Category:Bill Gates...

been, interesting and notable, the category mainly holds people who died at perfectly normal ages. I do think categories like 'septuagenarian' are crackpot...

the subcats as appropriate. --Auntof6 (talk) 01:28, 20 June 2018 (UTC) Category:Establishments in London (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

There was no consensus to delete this category. The community should begin a larger discussion on gender categories through a different process to be consistent...

book). Categories included in this request: Category:18th century European children's novels Category:19th century American children's novels Category:19th...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 20:49, 7 September 2022 (UTC) Category:Cardiovascular disease deaths in Australia (edit · talk · history · links...

Actually I interwiki-linked Category:SI units with the respective enWP category before reading this. It is certainly a useful category. I think SI units should...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 05:45, 1 December 2013 (UTC) Category:Roger Ebert (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Osiris...

see no consensus to delete. So, we keep the category...--Eptalon (talk) 19:15, 14 July 2023 (UTC) Category:Mobsters (edit · talk · history · links · watch...

think this is more specific than we need our categories to be. In addition, all these people are in Category:19th-century American sideshow performers,...

this category is poorly defined. The hat note says "Animals that are rare and hard to find," but the "hard to find" part is subjective. The category name...

several of the users in this category have not edited since last month or before. If this rfd passes, I would want the category removed from the template...

would like to move Category:Proposed to Category:Proposed policies and guidelines. I though we should discuss this before the category is actually moved...

reason: Per our category guidelines "Because categories are a way to group together similar articles, there is no need to create a new category for just one...

for the reason: Per w:Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 January 6#Category:Liberals. A very general category, with definitions that vary globally...

are topics related to this category, we currently don't have pages flagged that way. As to our guideline, any new category needs at least three pages...

moved to category pianists, if you get 3 from the same country, there is a subcategory 'Pianists by nationality'. At the moment, the Category Pianists...

these categories aren't needed. Here is a list of the subcategories: Category:Wikipedia administrators Category:Wikipedia bureaucrats Category:Wikipedia...

(talk) 12:40, 1 March 2024 (UTC) Category:Locations (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Category:Locations in Africa (edit · talk...

three articles in that category. Or Choice Two: One makes a category, and one puts it as a sub-category of only one category. An example of this is:...

Auntof6 has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: This category and Category:Unincorporated communities in Kansas contain exactly the same three...

Category:Conservative Wikipedians (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Either way (talk) has nominated this page for deletion for the...

Keep: Actually, there is such a category on four other Wikis, including English. I just linked them up to our category. The term comes from "period piece"...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 05:40, 1 December 2013 (UTC) Category:Gene Siskel (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Osiris...

The nominated category was kept, while Category:Username link templates was deleted and its contents merged with the nominated category— *Fehufangą ♮...

Template:Category-hurricane (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) –Juliancolton | Talk has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Unused...

why a category for non-fictional lands titled Category:Lands does not exist and doesn't exist on enwiki either. (enwiki has a similar category titled...

for the reason: Category:American people by ethnic or national origin Category:American people of Dominican Republic descent Category:American people...

for deletion was to  Delete.  -- Enfcer (talk) 22:07, 3 May 2014 (UTC) Category:Elie Wiesel (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

request for deletion was to  Keep. Mh7kJ (talk) 00:22, 20 July 2013 (UTC) Category:Obama family (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Auntof6...

for deletion was to  Delete.  --Ferien (talk) 20:02, 20 April 2022 (UTC) Category:Dutch women politicians (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs ·...

category like this. Who's active and who's not changes all the time, and trying to keep a category up to date would be a pain. If kept, the category should...

 Replaced by Category:UK MPs 2017–2019, as suggested, all pages have been merged there--Eptalon (talk) 10:15, 7 January 2020 (UTC) Category:UK MPs 2017–...

like this anymore. Bsadowski1(Talk|Changes) 10:23, 22 November 2009 (UTC) Category:Football seasons (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

appears at this point in time the community consensus is to delete this category. As with all things minds change, and this issue might be readdressed at...

request for deletion was to  Delete. Chenzw  Talk  07:07, 3 May 2018 (UTC) Category:President of India (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

maintenance category and renamed to Category:Disestablishment time missing or unknown. --Ferien (talk) 20:44, 18 August 2023 (UTC) Category:Unknown disestablishments...

Category:LGBT Christians, Category:LGBT dancers, Category:LGBT models and Category:LGBT sportspeople into gender and orientation? We've got Category:Lesbian...

really are diseases to Category:Diseases. Merge the others to other appropriate categories, maybe Category:Health problems or Category:Diseases and disorders...

Category:Female rappers Category:American actresses Category:American female rappers Category:Male athletes Category:American male athletes Category:British...

September 2024 (UTC) Category:16th-century English poems (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:17th-century English...

circular categories on stats.wikimedia.org. I fixed some but I need help for this one: Category:Urban, rural, and regional economics > Category:Regional...

request for deletion was to  Keep. Valid category, with a few articles--Eptalon (talk) 08:11, 17 July 2022 (UTC) Category:Japanese-Meitei culture (edit · talk...

is no longer valid. Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 16:03, 1 April 2011 (UTC) Category:Cleaning tools (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

designed to prevent -- a multi-level branch of the category tree where each category has only one entry. Category:Human diseases and disorders could have been...

category only has very few entries, e end up with smallish categories: Splitting an 8 item category, into male and female will lead to 2 categories of...

Category:Christian Wikipedians Soup Dish (talk) has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: Potentially divisive category that does nothing to...

 Keep. No consensus to delete. Osiris (talk) 01:00, 16 April 2013 (UTC) Category:Supercentenarians (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

for the reason: This is a group request. The categories included are: Category:People from Honshu Category:Musicians from Honshu Honshu is an island of...

easily remove, change, and add categories to Wikipedia pages. It has a suggestions list that will propose existing categories for auto-completion. You go...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 01:16, 21 October 2022 (UTC) Category:Former members of the Senate of the Netherlands (edit · talk · history...

deletion was to  Delete. As C1. --Ferien (talk) 20:18, 3 October 2024 (UTC) Category:Mario platformers (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

for deletion was to  Keep. --Auntof6 (talk) 02:25, 12 January 2022 (UTC) Category:Actors who played in James Bond movies (edit · talk · history · links ·...

gender/region is necessary. However, if this category is kept, we would need the corresponding male category as well. Auntof6 (talk) 05:09, 2 March 2021...

because all the entries are already under Category:Disney. --Auntof6 (talk) 04:29, 3 December 2013 (UTC) Category:Walt Disney (edit · talk · history · links...

VGAs are alphabetically listed on Category:Very good articles, as well. Main page subpages are listed on Category:Selected articles. They are redirected...

enough categories fitting this purpose that it's probably better to just let them appear in the report rather than risk having editors tag categories that...

deletion was to  Delete. Unused category following recent improvements Peterdownunder (talk) 19:29, 15 November 2024 (UTC) Category:Fictional television (edit...

showing the categories, each category will have a "+" and "-" button to change that category, as well as a "+" button to add a new category. The system...

This kind of category is good, but perhaps categories like this one, Category:Wikipedia protected edit requests, and any similar categories would be more...

for deletion was to  Delete. Barras talk 21:39, 4 November 2017 (UTC) Category:Kernow (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

reason: This is a category for Women that are active in sports. Per our recent guideline, we no longer classify by gender. The category currently contains...

this and Category:Sidebar templates, is that these templates include the words "part of a series on" at the top. This should be merged to Category:Sidebar...

2022 (UTC) Category:People in Russia of Ukrainian ancestry (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:People in Germany...

April 2018 (UTC) Category:Cold War leaders (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Note: I'm adding Category:People of the...

2021 (UTC) Hello, our category Category:American rap musicians currently has over 200 entries. I have given some idea on the category tlak page, but new...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 20:08, 28 October 2022 (UTC) Category:Former members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands (edit...

reason: This category is not useful because Category:Sports by country and Category:Sports by continent should just be at the top of Category:Sports. This...

The outcome of this request for deletion was to  Keep. Moved the page to Category:Buildings and structures in Fukui Prefecture per the comments below. My...

deletion was to  Keep. Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 16:42, 24 November 2014 (UTC) Category:White South African people (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

Category:Wikipedians in Thunder Bay, Ontario (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Category:Wikipedians in Ontario (edit · talk · history...

for the exact same reason: Category:Languages of California Category:Languages of Florida Category:Languages of Sydney Category:Languages of West Midlands...

such as merging. keep - This category is for people who are seriously accused of sexual abuse. Compare with Category:People acquitted of sex crimes...

deletion was to  Delete. Category determined to be an example of over-categorisation --Griff (talk) 05:24, 26 April 2022 (UTC) Category:2010s African-American...

guidelines shared in the discussion. Ternera (talk) 15:02, 29 August 2025 (UTC) Category:Jewish judges (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) ·...

resources for help. Category:Pages needing cleanup Category:Articles that need to be wikified Category:All pages in need of copyedit Category:Pages needing...

unnecessary category. It is a category by genre in a category that is already sorted by genre. Yes, it works on enwiki, but we aren't enwiki. Our categories are...

this request for deletion was to  Delete. Categories moved to Category:Racially-motivated violence and Category:Racially-motivated violence in the United...

deletion was to  Keep. Enough people in this category to warrant it. Barras (talk) 11:33, 21 August 2011 (UTC) Category:People from Aberdeen (edit · talk · history...

Changes since nomination have populated the category Peterdownunder (talk) 21:36, 1 November 2024 (UTC) Category:Atari 2600 (edit · talk · history · links...

for deletion was to  Delete.  Osiris (talk) 04:45, 29 March 2013 (UTC) Category:Largest Cities in Louisiana (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

 Keep. Nomination withdrawn. Chenzw  Talk  15:19, 7 October 2012 (UTC) Category:User simple-N (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Reception123...

(UTC) Update: re-categorization completed. Most of the category members were already in categories corresponding to the upper and lower houses (of legislature...

the comments themselves, avoid these problems. Signatures must not have categories inside them. Categorizing talk pages by who has changed them is unhelpful...

be deleted because: Category Indian Occupied Kashmir and all categories inside it are Pakistan's point of view. If these categories are needed then they...

reason: category is essentially the same as Category:Mass media in Israel. The sitelink on enwiki is a soft-redirected category to that same category with...

withdrawn by nom. Reception123/Receptie123 (talk) 07:09, 9 July 2013 (UTC) Category:Broadway musicals (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

discuss a solution on Category talk:All Wikipedia articles in need of updating? --Ferien (talk) 12:02, 14 August 2022 (UTC) Category:All Wikipedia articles...

for deletion was to  Keep. -- Enfcer (talk) 21:57, 6 April 2019 (UTC) Category:Terrorist incidents in Asia in the 2010s (edit · talk · history · links...

by adding a link to the template in the template's code, or by using categories. Substitution increases the size of articles. A substituted template can...

deletion for the reason: As a category that doesn't exist on English Wikipedia (and never did in the first place), this category raises various concerns (at...

for deletion was to  Delete. Chenzw  Talk  16:02, 1 September 2020 (UTC) Category:Male YouTubers (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

was to move. No objections. --Ferien (talk) 12:06, 13 July 2023 (UTC) Category:Aviation disasters (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

templates in specific categories, and then a "miscellaneous" category for all templates that don't fit into any of them. They can go in Category:Wikipedia templates...

deletion was to  Delete.  MathXplore (talk) 01:14, 27 October 2024 (UTC) Category:2009 in comics (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

 Keep. - FusionSub (Talk page) (Contributions) 08:58, 14 April 2025 (UTC) Category:Gaming websites (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

(talk) 18:40, 19 May 2026 (UTC) There are three open requests for unlock at Category:Requests for unblock. Two have been open for a few weeks. All three are...

ones in a separate category just because of what their title happens to be. Maybe there could be a list of these, instead of a category. Auntof6 (talk) 05:38...

userbox, so the category may not be helpful. Since we don't have categories for user rights on this wiki, we shouldn't have categories for user rights...

based}} sorts pages to Category:Articles using content from a different language Wikipedia. We should either delete the unused category or create a new template...

review and direct changes to the article by other users. 5: It is in 8 categories and 18 other articles link to it. 6: The article has not been changed...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 08:04, 28 February 2022 (UTC) Category:Paintings in Lierna (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

category isn't necessary. Noting that the category, at time of deletion, has no entries. Vermont (🐿️—🏳️‍🌈) 05:08, 26 November 2025 (UTC) Category:Cricketers...

deletion was to  Delete. QD empty non needed category -- Enfcer (talk) 23:51, 21 April 2025 (UTC) Category talk:Deleted pages (edit · talk · history ·...

events sidebars category Template:YYYY Summer Olympics events sidebars category/doc Template:YYYY Winter Olympics events sidebars category Template:YYYY...

request for deletion was to  Delete. Chenzw  Talk  06:38, 29 July 2022 (UTC) Category:Wikipedians who use RedWarn (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

(UTC) We need categories for each year (like Category:1992) and each of these should be inside a category for that decade (like Category:1990s) which itself...

for deletion was to  Delete.  Only (talk) 13:48, 22 December 2013 (UTC) Category:Black British footballers (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

for the reason: I am proposing this category and all the entries in it for deletion. These are cases where categories are better than lists. This kind of...

keep the nominated terrorist categories because a more comprehensive discussion should happen for all terrorist categories. User:Wwikix is requested to...

deletion was to  Delete.  Chenzw  Talk  01:50, 13 December 2011 (UTC) Category:Damaging hurricanes (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

"keep" or "delete", such as merging. Merge with both Category:Pornographic actors and Category:African American actors. --George (Talk · Contribs · CentralAuth...

request to your talk page, it is placed in Category:Requests for unblock. Many administrators check this category often. Any of them may read your request...

for the reason: This seems redundant to Category:Geography of Palestine, Category:State of Palestine, and Category:Palestinian territories, but I didn't...

 Delete. Contents will be moved to the other category— *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 08:44, 17 March 2024 (UTC) Category:Plane crashes (edit · talk · history · links...

for deletion was to  Keep. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:36, 24 August 2023 (UTC) Category:Goalkeepers (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

request for deletion was to  Delete. fr33kman 02:15, 11 February 2025 (UTC) Category:American bisexual people (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

I think we shouldn't continue to do this and remove this category. Or maybe only a category LGBT with people who are (also) known because of their LGBT...

No consensus to delete. --Auntof6 (talk) 19:23, 31 October 2024 (UTC) Category:Permadeath games (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

5 February 2023 (UTC) Category:Conservatives (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:American conservatives...

has nominated this page for deletion for the reason: This category is a duplicate of Category:European Union member states Please discuss this request...

inclined to think that this should be merged either into Category:Diseases and disorders or Category:Diseases. Rathfelder (talk) 08:04, 4 May 2023 (UTC) Please...

move the following pages as a result of this RfD: Category:Unmanned aerial vehicles is moved to Category:Drones Drone is moved to Drone (disambiguation)...

May I have the flood tag for a while ? I want to make several container categories like "People from (US city) by occupation". MathXplore (talk) 12:02, 6...

Category:Music and Category:Stubs) and Users could create their own specialised DPL lists on their user page (say Category:Los Angeles and Category:Death...

Hello all, would it make sense to have one (or two) categories for GAs/VGAs that were demoted, and also to keep their history (as of: promoted, demoted)...

see Category:Barnstar award templates. General Barnstars are awarded for work or contributions that do not fall into a specific Wikipedia category, but...

there are enough entries for both categories, I suggest moving them to Category:20th-century Ghanaian actors and Category:21st-century Ghanaian actors respectively...

19:01, 26 June 2023 (UTC) Category:Cancer survivors (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:People with cancer (edit...

deletion was to  Delete.  MathXplore (talk) 06:09, 6 August 2024 (UTC) Category:Checkuser blocked (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

deletion was to  Keep. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:03, 28 September 2017 (UTC) Category:Pornographic actors (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

request for deletion was to  Keep. BRP ever 18:29, 18 June 2025 (UTC) Category:Fictional people (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

"Richmond Bridge" category on Commons, but it doesn't. Thanks. --Auntof6 (talk) 06:32, 24 March 2012 (UTC) Yep, the code {{{1| Category:{{PAGENAME}} }}}...

category helps the encyclopedia. It's one thing to have userboxes about Wikipedians' personal lives and beliefs, but I don't think we need categories...

deletion for the reason: We have Category:United Kingdom nobility and Category:British nobility, both have similar categories in - for example UK has British...

(bug #50196). [2] There was a short site outage on June 28. The automated Category:Pages with broken file links now includes broken file links inserted inside...

separately: Category:Sportsmen and Category:Sportswomen Category:Male athletes and Category:Female athletes Category:Male tennis players and Category:Female...

still often used in popular culture. And the category is linked to religious concepts. We have a Category for the Seven Wonders of the World. This is no...

more. So no reason to delete--Eptalon (talk) 13:23, 25 June 2022 (UTC) Category:2000s Czech movies (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

2025 (UTC) Category:Child actresses in English television (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:Child actresses...

Wikipedia currently does not have a fully-complete category tree for "(YEAR) in video games" (i.g. Category:2012, 2009, 1999 in video games); whereas the parent...

Category:Wikipedians who are Republicans (United States) (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Either way (talk) has nominated this page...

June 2025 (UTC) Category:1200s establishments by continent (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:1190s establishments...

Category:Manitoba (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Gordonrox24 | Talk has asked that this page be deleted because: Per our discussion...

just such as category and I got the idea from there. Oregonian2012 (talk) 20:56, 7 July 2013 (UTC) OK, but do you see a need for the category? We don't create...

this page for deletion for the reason: It is (sort of) a duplicate category of Category:Paramount Pictures movies. I originally wanted to send it for quick...

for deletion was to  Delete. --Eptalon (talk) 07:13, 10 March 2024 (UTC) Category:Geography of Eurasia (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

discussion.  Keep Redirected to Category:American musical theatre actors. --Auntof6 (talk) 18:13, 27 April 2014 (UTC) Category:American musical theater actors...

(UTC)  Comment: - What about categories like Category:Wikipedians in Wisconsin, Category:Wikipedians in England and Category:Wikipedians in the United States...

and "Actors from Country", we even have a double up, Category:Actors from Scotland and Category:Scottish actors personally I perfer the "Actors from Country"...

to  Keep. Moved to Category:Israeli-Arab people with a redirect left behind. Operator873 connect 20:48, 31 March 2023 (UTC) Category:Israeli-Palestinian...

No criteria specified or explanation given for this category; I had to look at enwiki's category to see what it was. Even if explained, however, I think...

guidelines on who can be included in this kind of category. --Auntof6 (talk) 08:57, 24 August 2023 (UTC) Category:British Pakistanis (edit · talk · history ·...

(UTC) There are currently several categories for different ethnic groups... such as Category:European people ...and Category:Maltese people ... and stuff like...

few pages that contained it, and removed the category.--Eptalon (talk) 07:08, 18 March 2023 (UTC) Category:Uncanny valley (edit · talk · history · links...

The outcome of this request for deletion was to  Delete. Duplicate category Category:Wikipedia WikiProjects (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

be made to this discussion. SNOW fr33kman 22:37, 27 August 2010 (UTC) Category:Wikipedia rollbackers (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

 Delete. as requested by the creator of the category— *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 06:14, 15 March 2024 (UTC) Category:Monaco at the Olympics (edit · talk · history...

21:58, 9 February 2024 (UTC) Category:Troms og Finnmark (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Category:Settlements in Troms og Finnmark...

page for deletion for the reason: Both Category:Surgical abortion and Category:Medical abortion are small categories, with surgical only on two entries at...

have Animal communication, so perhaps all pages in this category should be merged to Category:Communication or the other way around. QuantumFoam66 (talk)...

 Delete. Category members moved to parent category 'Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly'--Eptalon (talk) 09:23, 15 March 2023 (UTC) Category:Northern...

categories listed as "People from Jalisco, People from Mexico City, or even Mexican people". Plus, there's no enwiki categories of these categories....

to delete this category and merge with Category:Establishments in the Soviet Union.--Gordonrox24 | Talk 00:51, 19 May 2023 (UTC) Category:Establishments...

 Entries moved to parent category 'Speakers of the House of Commons of the UK'--Eptalon (talk) 19:59, 11 March 2022 (UTC) Category:Former Speakers of the...

creating stub categories does not solve the problem. The category of the stub should be given by the article category, not the stub category. Another problem:...

for deletion was to  Delete. --Eptalon (talk) 22:02, 3 May 2018 (UTC) Category:Wikipedians by adoption status (edit · talk · history · links · watch ·...

sources, you can place a {{unreferenced}} tag on it. This will add it to a category of unreferenced pages that need to be fixed. This is not as helpful, because...

Category:Pakistan-EU relations (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Either way (talk) has nominated this page for deletion for the reason:...

Non-controversial rename per WP:QD#C2. Osiris (talk) 02:01, 15 March 2013 (UTC) Category:US Independent Party politicians (edit · talk · history · links · watch...

deletion was to  Delete.  Chenzw  Talk  09:51, 16 December 2011 (UTC) Category:Proposed (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Osiris...

reason: This category is not useful because it doesn't benefit anybody to remove these from Category:Crime in California. That category is not too full...

actors category and the 21st-century actresses will be moved into the actors category. --Ferien (talk) 19:57, 17 September 2024 (UTC) Category:Ghanaian...

at the other categories for handball players, many don't categorize by gender (as I outlined below). Note, I also deleted the category Spanish female...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 08:23, 23 September 2022 (UTC) Category:20th-century prime ministers of Egypt (edit · talk · history · links ·...

delete them happened. NonvocalScream (talk) 17:46, 18 August 2009 (UTC) Category:Pokémon monsters Goblin 15:00, 10 August 2009 (UTC) I ♥ Chenzw! has asked...

reason: Quite clearly an inappropriate category. The contents would change on a month to month basis and categories are supposed to be defining of the subject...

need to be checked are in the category Category:NPOV disputes. Unlike the English Wikipedia, please do not create categories for each month, as this is unneeded...

from the category by creating MediaWiki:Jsonconfig-use-category with the text "-", if the result of this discussion is to delete the category. 174.160...

this tracking category from Template:AllMovie movie, The 10 odd articles that were in this category aren't in the EN category (en:Category:AllMovie titles...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Ferien (talk) 08:05, 22 February 2023 (UTC) Category:Ethnic minorities (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

have redone the Category system. We now have Category:Members of the British Parliament (in British politicians, with a subcat Category:Members of the...

and this category. Auntof6 (talk) 13:02, 20 December 2017 (UTC) Note: when resolving this rfd, please also check that related category Category:Interlanguage...

06:45, 6 December 2024 (UTC) Category:Military forces by type (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Category:Types of military forces (edit...

any) between Category:Muslims and Category:Islamic people? Is it a question of religion vs. ethnicity? Both categories are under Category:People by religion...

deletion was to  Delete.  MathXplore (talk) 02:58, 30 August 2024 (UTC) Category:Soulcalibur series characters (edit · talk · history · links · watch ·...

Category:Asteroids (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) –Juliancolton | Talk has asked that this page be deleted because: These articles...

abolished country categories for mammals in Europe, see here. We should do the same, and merge the four members of this category up to Category:Mammals of Europe...

should have categories for "Middle East and North Africa". To keep things simple, we should have one category for North Africa and one category for the Middle...

for deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 15:47, 1 May 2022 (UTC) Category:Bangladeshi male singers (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

deletion was to  Delete. QD G7 MathXplore (talk) 00:37, 13 July 2024 (UTC) Category:Video games developed in the Americas (edit · talk · history · links ·...

was to Keep (no consensus). Chenzw  Talk  23:50, 18 November 2023 (UTC) Category:British King's Counsel (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs ·...

reason: This duplicates Category:Pages with too many red links. This category had two pages, but I changed them to the other category. Please discuss this...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 02:07, 14 April 2025 (UTC) Category:Supercell (video game company) (edit · talk · history · links · watch ·...

for deletion was to  Delete.  --Ferien (talk) 17:45, 22 March 2023 (UTC) Category:Former MEPs (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

deletion was to  Delete. --Eurodyne (talk) 01:05, 27 September 2017 (UTC) Category:Lists of Nobel Prize scientists (edit · talk · history · links · watch...

--George (Talk · Contribs · CentralAuth · Log) 17:38, 16 June 2015 (UTC) Category:Non-standard national football team names (edit · talk · history · links...

deletion was to  Keep. Redirected. --Auntof6 (talk) 12:21, 8 March 2024 (UTC) Category:Male centenarians (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

of a chosen topic. What I am suggesting is that we focus on articles in Category:All_articles_with_unsourced_statements, finding suitable references for...

deletion was to  Delete. Ternera (talk) 14:42, 27 December 2025 (UTC) Category:American progressives (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

deletion was to  Keep. Existing articles in Category:United States Congress will also be recategorised to this category (or any other as appropriate). Chenzw  Talk ...

 Clear consensus to delete Peterdownunder (talk) 22:34, 24 April 2022 (UTC) Category:Women diplomats (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

to  Delete. WP:SOFTDELETE --Auntof6 (talk) 04:53, 26 April 2025 (UTC) Category:Id Software (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

there are several categories for handball players that don't subdivide into male/female handball players. Also applied to Category:Spanish male handball...

I think we shouldn't continue to do this and remove this category. Or maybe only categories such as Jewish people by nationality and rabbis, but no subcategories...

deletion for the reason: This category is unnecessary because ALL the contents of Category:Winter Olympics in Europe (both categories and articles about Olympics...

the reason: A category where the parent category is subject to discussion. Please see Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Category:Middle East...

for deletion was to  Delete. Glaisher [talk] 04:29, 24 April 2014 (UTC) Category:Timeline templates (Geology) (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

explanation seems reasonable --Ferien (talk) 14:58, 10 September 2022 (UTC) Category:New Jersey radio market navigational boxes (edit · talk · history · links...

two categories in, I don't see why this needs to be a subcategory of Category:People from Canberra. The contents can just go into that category and it'd...

and dealt with as necessary. Chenzw  Talk  14:36, 8 February 2014 (UTC) Category:The Simpsons Hit & Run (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs ·...

February 2025 (UTC) Category:Actresses in English cinema (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:Actresses in English...

20:00, 29 July 2025 (UTC) Category:Chinese male television actors (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Category:Chinese male film actors...

to  Delete. Appears redundant to Category:Villages in Hiiu County. Osiris (talk) 11:00, 15 August 2012 (UTC) Category:Hiiu County geography stubs (edit...

deletion was to  Delete.  MathXplore (talk) 23:08, 2 August 2024 (UTC) Category:People from Hobart by occupation (edit · talk · history · links · watch...

create categories with "difficult" names like Category:Chemical engineering, Category:Unit operations, Category:Separation processes and Category:Chemical...

be a request for the county category. I will make the request there. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:38, 15 June 2019 (UTC) Category:Unincorporated communities in...

request for deletion was to  Delete.  Osiris (talk) 07:29, 20 May 2013 (UTC) Category:Cities and towns in Russia (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

(UTC) Category:People with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder‎ (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:People...

request for deletion was to  Keep. fr33kman 22:01, 9 August 2011 (UTC) Category:Major United States cities (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

propose a stub category in which the generic stub tag ({{stub}}) falls into only the stub category (which will most likely be named Category:All stubs)....

for deletion was to  Delete. --Eptalon (talk) 22:22, 23 April 2022 (UTC) Category:2020 protests in Asia (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

platform has existed since 1996.[1] It is one of the oldest platform in this category. In the deleted article draft I mentioned the awards received by this platform...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Enfcer (talk) 00:18, 27 December 2018 (UTC) Category:Slaveholders (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) ·...

pointed out before elsewhere, these categories have existed for years here. We also have categories like Category:19th century establishments in Germany...

Delete after moving all entries to Category:Meats. --Auntof6 (talk) 03:47, 12 December 2011 (UTC) Delete: category not needed, and too subjective. Macdonald-ross...

don't think this category is helpful for the following reasons: It's not clear what should go here and not in the parent category Category:Medical terms...

merging. I think it's as relevant as the other categories in Category:Suicides by occupation, except maybe Category:Musicians who committed suicide is more relevant...

you would name it "Car", not "Cars". (This rule is different for making categories, though.) Use English. If you make a new article about the capital of...

request for deletion was to  Keep. --BRP ever 23:09, 30 October 2024 (UTC) Category:Video games about wrongful convictions (edit · talk · history · links ·...

was to  Delete. WP:SOFTDELETE --Auntof6 (talk) 04:30, 3 April 2025 (UTC) Category:Shark Tale (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

For information about putting redirects into categories, please see the guideline on the English Wikipedia....

discussion. The outcome of this request for deletion was to  Delete. The Category and the pages in it, after the content of the pages is merged into the...

Overcategorization, per similar categories such as Category:Former members of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands and Category:Northern Ireland Assembly...

is Category:Syrian Christians. Religious people is really too vague to be a category, and we dont have any other Fooish religious people categories. Rathfelder...

goes under en:Category:American films. I changed that to Category:American movies. When I was creating that cat, though, I ran into Category:United States...

for deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 03:10, 30 June 2018 (UTC) Category:1990s establishments in New York City (edit · talk · history · links ·...

for deletion was to  Delete.  MathXplore (talk) 15:27, 31 May 2024 (UTC) Category:Women in Latin music (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

merging.  Delete This can be covered by more-specific categories such as by-century categories or categories that specify a period such as the Renaissance. --Auntof6...

including infoboxes, images, references, other websites, interwiki, and categories. However, this is not a strict rule. The article must have gone through...

reason: This category is not useful, because for all of the other French regions, the categories for each city are directly in the main category. It's also...

this is that this one category is only a small part of the issue. Changing it would require redoing pretty much the entire category tree for dealing with...

29 May 2023 (UTC) Category:Deaths from natural causes (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:Deaths from natural...

the reason:Currently empty category, which should contain stubs about Japan; while such articles can also be filed in Category:Japan, the notion that an...

by Inkpen2 (talk • contribs) Somebody please move "Category:C-pop" to "Category:C-Pop" Categories can not be moved. C-pop is correct. Popular is not a...

subcategory) moved into Category:Faculty by university or college in the United States. --Ferien (talk) 19:20, 29 July 2023 (UTC) Category:Faculty by university...

was to  Keep. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 03:22, 6 November 2024 (UTC) Category:Pitfall series (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

deletion was to  Delete.  MathXplore (talk) 09:31, 8 October 2024 (UTC) Category:Births in New Spain (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

deletion was to  Delete. empty at fr33kman 16:13, 14 October 2023 (UTC) Category:Noblemen from France (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

research. The only way you can show that your edit does not come under this category is to produce a reliable published source that contains that same material...

(which hopefully the nomination statement makes clear) within the category, and the category itself (which will become empty if this RFD is successful). Instead...

08:49, 9 May 2007 (UTC) Hello! I saw that Langnau im Emmental is in the Category:Cities_in_Switzerland, but it isn't really a city, just a township, because...

person categories within categories that include that person? For example, Category:John Adams is the only president category currently within Category:Presidents...

deletion was to  Delete.  MathXplore (talk) 15:57, 15 November 2024 (UTC) Category:Women in music (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

compelling need), and merge to the relevant city in STATE category. This nomination concerns only the category and its subcats, not pages Purplebackpack89≈≈≈≈ 21:36...

March 2016 (UTC) Category:People with anxiety disorders‎ (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:People with eating...

look at the categories it has also been added to Category:Settlements in Bavaria, of which Category:Municipalities in Bavaria is a sub category. Therefore...

reason: Pointless category, doesn't provide any use not already provided by the standard QD category. No other rationale has separate categories either and I...

was to  Delete.  consensus to delete fr33kman 18:55, 16 April 2012 (UTC) Category:Japanese football club seasons (edit · talk · history · links · watch ·...

CATGENDER, move the three pages to the parent category--Eptalon (talk) 17:12, 17 December 2023 (UTC) Category:American women country singers (edit · talk...

Chapters in the Quran— *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 12:23, 25 June 2023 (UTC) Category:Surah (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request...

12:06, 1 March 2024 (UTC) Category:Municipalities of Viken (county) (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Category:Viken (county) (edit ·...

Seems pretty straightforward. Osiris (talk) 00:20, 25 July 2013 (UTC) Category:Green Party of Germany (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs ·...

deletion was to  Delete. Quickly deleted as empty category. Operator873 connect 17:34, 1 June 2024 (UTC) Category:PBS Kids Sprout (edit · talk · history · links...

request for deletion was to  Keep. Ternera (talk) 16:37, 4 March 2026 (UTC) Category:Former dictators (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

for deletion was to  Delete. --Eptalon (talk) 08:28, 15 April 2023 (UTC) Category:Idol groups (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 21:38, 8 January 2023 (UTC) Category:On & Off antagonists (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

deletion was to  Delete.  MathXplore (talk) 09:23, 8 October 2024 (UTC) Category:Births in Jalisco (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 23:43, 26 October 2022 (UTC) Category:Aldermen of Belgium (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 05:48, 26 April 2016 (UTC) Category:People who were cremated (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

for deletion was to  Delete.  MathXplore (talk) 08:58, 26 May 2025 (UTC) Category:Cricket coaches (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

deletion was to  Delete. WP:SOFTDELETE. Barras talk 13:32, 27 June 2025 (UTC) Category:Video game antagonists (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs ·...

for deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 12:10, 1 March 2024 (UTC) Category:Events spanning the Middle East and North Africa (edit · talk · history...

clear consensus to delete...--Eptalon (talk) 19:17, 14 July 2023 (UTC) Category:Drug traffickers (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

November 2019 (UTC) I don't think it's quite ready for mainspace. It needs categories, for one thing. It also needs copy editing for grammar, clarity, and spelling...

this request for deletion was to  Delete. Category was also cleared. Hiàn (talk) 17:27, 8 May 2020 (UTC) Category:Place of birth missing (living people)...

deletion was to  Delete. There's a category "American country musicians", which covers this. Note however, that the category is a mess, there are several of...

contribs|email 18:07, 4 August 2007 (UTC) There are already a lot of articles and categories about Germany - towns, geography politics. I think a WikiProject:Germany...

29 April 2025 (UTC) Category:Male characters in animated movies (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Category:Male movie characters...

can be handled separately. --Auntof6 (talk) 04:27, 30 July 2024 (UTC) Category:Video games about personifications of death (edit · talk · history · links...

year, see en:42nd Brit Awards --Ferien (talk) 20:03, 16 March 2022 (UTC) Category:American stage actresses (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

deletion was to  Keep. --Ferien (talk) 16:30, 28 September 2021 (UTC) Category:Wikipedians who contribute to Wikivoyage (edit · talk · history · links...

templates (the "Template" section), or by making the category system better (mostly in the "Category" section). Many editors do not support candidates who...

greater than Grade 8 on (most) scores. There should be no red linked categories or red linked templates. Articles nominated for DYK should not be too...

taken it out of Oklahoma categories because this category name doesn't specify that state. I also changed the remaining category so that it isn't a child...

2009 (UTC) Category:Mario series characters Purplebackpack89 (talk) has asked that this page be deleted because: The topics in this category need to be...

keep the nominated terrorist categories because a more comprehensive discussion should happen for all terrorist categories. User:Wwikix is requested to...

The outcome of this request for deletion was to  Delete. I deleted the category, including its two children, the pages have been moved up the hierarchy...

Britain categories from UK categories - especially when we dont seem to have any articles about Northern Ireland. Suggest we merge this into Category:Rail...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 06:40, 27 November 2024 (UTC) Category:Thomas and Friends movies (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

talk/Archive 133#Car vs automobile. --Ferien (talk) 13:48, 10 April 2023 (UTC) Category:Companies by type (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

do with". All categories that are not subject categories but are administrative ones tend to fall under the the Article issues category. -DJSasso (talk)...

request for deletion was to  Delete.  Lauryn☆ 21:27, 20 February 2010 (UTC) Category:List of people by name (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs ·...

Request for deletion: Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2009/Category:Lists of rivers in Romania Hello there. Unlike the asteroid stubs, all of...

Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2023/Category:Former Members of Knesset, Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2023/Category:Former MEPs etc. MathXplore (talk)...

deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 07:53, 28 February 2022 (UTC) Category:Beaches of Lake Como (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

coat of arms can be split out into Category:National emblems. -Djsasso (talk) 17:14, 24 April 2023 (UTC) Category:National coats of arms (edit · talk...

20:09, 3 October 2024 (UTC) Category:July 2024 events in Europe (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) Category:July 2024 events in the United...

Redirect to category page (Category:Politics of Wales) that is not likely to be useful. (Category:Welsh politics already exists as a category redirect;...

request for deletion was to  Delete. Chenzw  Talk  02:10, 9 June 2013 (UTC) Category:Peplum movie actors (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

through Special:UnusedCategories, there are quite a few empty categories whose only content are interwikis to corresponding categories on commons. As I'm...

for deletion was to  Keep. --Auntof6 (talk) 19:19, 31 October 2024 (UTC) Category:Video games about law (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

this page for deletion for the reason: This category is not used or needed as described. Both of the categories in it are also in other places that are appropriate...

puts articles into a category like Category:Articles with unsourced statements since October 2011 if a date is given, and Category:All articles with unsourced...

page, good articles are listed, ordered by the date of their promotion to GA status. GAs are alphabetically listed on Category:Good articles, as well....

closed PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 07:14, 10 July 2022 (UTC) Category:Television episodes about profanity (edit · talk · history · links · watch...

page-three girl? So, in short, I deleted the category...--Eptalon (talk) 16:34, 23 March 2024 (UTC) Category:American male models (edit · talk · history...

No consensus to delete. --Auntof6 (talk) 19:00, 24 October 2024 (UTC) Category:Existentialist video games (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

request for deletion was to  Delete. Hiàn (talk) 15:25, 1 July 2020 (UTC) Category:Pages using “See also” instead of “Related pages” (edit · talk · history...

deletion was to  Delete.  MathXplore (talk) 07:50, 2 November 2024 (UTC) Category:Tune Squad players (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

i did so far was create the categories mentioned above, plus Category:Economic markets, Category:Inflation and Category:Market failure; I also moved...

deletion was to  Delete.  Osiris (talk) 04:24, 19 September 2013 (UTC) Category:Greater Middle East (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

deletion was to  Delete.  MathXplore (talk) 13:14, 8 October 2024 (UTC) Category:Births in Mexico City (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

deletion was to  Delete.  MathXplore (talk) 10:00, 8 October 2024 (UTC) Category:Births in Mexico (state) (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

deletion was to  Delete.  MathXplore (talk) 09:25, 8 October 2024 (UTC) Category:Births in Nuevo León (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

for deletion was to  Delete.  MathXplore (talk) 08:44, 3 May 2025 (UTC) Category:Templates using ParserFunctions (edit · talk · history · links · watch...

others as outlined below.--Eptalon (talk) 12:51, 10 September 2017 (UTC) Category:Lists of scientists by nationality (edit · talk · history · links · watch...

category is currently discussed for deletion (Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2024/Category:Middle East and North Africa), this sub-category...

for deletion was to  Delete.  --Ferien (talk) 12:22, 28 July 2023 (UTC) Category:American companies by location (edit · talk · history · links · watch ·...

No consensus to delete. -Djsasso (talk) 13:49, 27 November 2023 (UTC) Category:Move to Wikimedia Commons (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

contents. Category:User co - Corsican Category:User frp - Franco-Provençal Category:User gd - Scottish Gaelic Category:User ka - Georgian Category:User lad...

(UTC) Simplewiki has Category:Diseases, Category:Disorders, and Category:Illnesses, but on enwiki they are merged to en:Category:Diseases and disorders...

deletion was to  Keep. WP:SNOW-DJSasso (talk) 14:31, 22 March 2019 (UTC) Category:Swiss chocolate companies (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

category seems to have been renamed on the English Wikipedia was to conform with naming conventions for categories, which say that topic categories should...

was to  Delete.  --Ferien (talk | join TBA!) 22:18, 13 August 2025 (UTC) Category:Scottish-language television programs (edit · talk · history · links ·...

 Clear consensus to delete Peterdownunder (talk) 22:08, 23 April 2022 (UTC) Category:Jews who committed suicide (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

highest-level relevant category. For the terrorist categories, that could be Category:Terrorists by nationality, or even Category:Terrorists if you want...

(WP:NOT) Subject-specific notability guidelines, which can be found at Category:Wikipedia notability guidelines B. Carry out these checks Confirm that...

13:25, 23 February 2008 (UTC) Hello all, I have changed Category:Gnosticism. It is only under Category:Christian denominations now. This may be a problem;...

deletion for the reason: This request is for the category and all the templates in it. The category is for templates related to changing usernames. We...

their attention also (see Category:Complex pages, Category:Articles that need to be wikified, Category:Category needed, Category:Cleanup needed, etc) --...

2 July 2022 (UTC) Category:First Ladies of Europe (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:First Ladies of Africa...

websites on Wikipedia navigation pages such as disambiguation, redirect and category pages. Links to websites of organizations mentioned in an article—unless...

José de Acosta. Sometimes an interwiki link is forgotten, or a red-link category left. But it doesn't happen often. You might also want to write larger...

category, an interwiki link, along with your typo fixes. -- Netoholic @ 04:00, 21 May 2005 (UTC) There are three categories (Category:Years, Category:Births...

for deletion was to  Delete. --Eptalon (talk) 07:15, 18 March 2023 (UTC) Category:Former rural districts of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (edit · talk ·...

the reason: Redundant to Category:United States Supreme Court justices. Suggest deletion, and move all pages in cat to Category:United States Supreme Court...

Notices Warnings Description Template Description Template Adding incorrect categories {{subst:uw-badcat}} Creating or changing articles to attack people {{subst:uw-attack}}...

of sub-categories of this exist, but few articles in each category. I'd like to group articles together by merging some of the sub-categories. Please...

keep. The category is essential for the wiki and is not related to the length of articles. Pmlineditor ∞ 17:18, 30 December 2009 (UTC) Category:Basic English...

deletion was to  Delete. The two categories were moved to the parent...--Eptalon (talk) 09:13, 7 May 2023 (UTC) Category:Rural Districts in Regierungsbezirk...

groups: Category:Lipids, Category:Proteins (and their component amino acids), Category:Carbohydrates, and nucleic acids. Enwiki has en:Category:Biomolecules...

deletion was to  Delete.  Osiris (talk) 05:14, 19 November 2013 (UTC) Category:Cities in the United States by county (edit · talk · history · links ·...

(but not all) Chicago-related categories to include ", Illinois" in the names. This raises the question, do we want categories for US settlements to include...

was to  Delete. Not neededPeterdownunder (talk) 11:40, 3 June 2021 (UTC) Category:Notable women in the history of Manipur Kingdom (edit · talk · history...

Sevigne. The move feature is able to move pages in any namespace (except category), and even able to move pages from one namespace to another. Cross-namespace...

request for deletion was to  Delete. BRP ever 02:42, 17 January 2025 (UTC) Category:Filipino actress (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

based on the consensus of this RfD. I'd also hope that people creating a category after an RfD read the discussion before continuing, but I guess we can't...

Has won a well-known award such as an AVN Award. (See Category:Pornographic movie awards or Category:movie awards for other awards which may apply.) Has...

was to  Delete. — *Fehufangą ♮ ✉ Talk page 08:50, 31 March 2024 (UTC) Category:Locked global accounts (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs ·...

request for deletion was to  Delete.  --IWI (talk) 08:30, 7 March 2023 (UTC) Category:Female murder victims (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

tell, a category for a decade (such as Category:1960s television series) is for series that had first-run episodes during the decade. A category for a specific...

this open the full 7 days. --Ferien (talk) 19:08, 30 April 2024 (UTC) Category:Maya Angelou (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) ·...

talk/Archive 133#Car vs automobile. --Ferien (talk) 13:48, 10 April 2023 (UTC) Category:Companies by country and type (edit · talk · history · links · watch ·...

the categories to be added on Category pages, you can use {{category other}}. So format the categorisation like this: {{category other|[[Category:Decades]]|&lt;...

for deletion was to  Delete.  --Ferien (talk) 21:08, 26 June 2023 (UTC) Category:Comics nation sweep (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

December 2023 (UTC) Category:Active Wikipedia bots (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete) · close request Category:Active Wikipedia bots...

for deletion was to  Keep. moved fr33kman 17:26, 9 November 2023 (UTC) Category:Members of the British House of Commons (edit · talk · history · links...

order. Special:Categories: shows an alphabetical list of categories, with numbers of members. Special:CategoryTree: displays categories in a tree structure...

to  Keep. Per discussion below. Grunny (talk) 08:41, 30 July 2011 (UTC) Category:People with foods named after them (edit · talk · history · links · watch...

through Category:Articles needing coordinates. When I add the {{coord}} template, to the pages in that category, the hidden category Category:Articles...

This category was recently created, and I have some misgivings about it. To be brief, no such category exists over on en; as an example, Harrison Ford...

descriptions or one of its sub-categories. The more specific the category the better. If you are uncertain, just apply the general category BSicon and wait for another...

November 2020 (UTC) Category:Pornographic actors → Category:Pornographic movie actors Category:American pornographic actors → Category:American pornographic...

was to  Delete. WP:SOFTDELETE --Auntof6 (talk) 23:21, 13 June 2025 (UTC) Category:White South African people (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

deletion was to  Delete. WP:SOFTDELETE. Barras talk 13:29, 27 June 2025 (UTC) Category:Video game protagonists (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs ·...

Damasus I (91) Pope Siricius (91) Pope Innocent I (91) Pope Gelasius I (91) Categories of New Testament manuscripts (91) Development of the Old Testament canon...

for deletion was to  Delete.  --Auntof6 (talk) 01:00, 17 June 2025 (UTC) Category:Palestinian Jews (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

November 2021 (UTC) Auntof6, the category doesn't actually exist but you can see it as the only red link in Category:Wikipedia backlog --Ferien (talk)...

this I am also nominating: Category:Disney+ defunct on December 31, 2029 Category:Disney+ launched on November 12, 2019 Category:Disney+ re-launched on early...

four days tomorrow, WP:IAR. --IWI (talk) 17:00, 2 February 2023 (UTC) Category:Death controversies (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

User pages WikiProjects Classification guidelines Categories, lists, and navigation templates Categories Template namespace Style conventions Manual of Style...

articles by themselves. Some may think that the articles, templates, or categories they write belong to them. They think their pages should not be changed...

 Delete. w:WP:SOFTDELETE MathXplore (talk) 13:29, 5 February 2025 (UTC) Category:Live-action movies (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs · delete)...

category system: Some categories are almost empty (eg. Category:American novelists, 1 entry) Some categories are full to burst (eg. Category:American writers...

 Delete. QD'd by Fr33kman. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:45, 21 November 2024 (UTC) Category:Movies about candy cruelty (edit · talk · history · links · watch · logs...

first, create the stub category, and second transclude the category to the template, so all stubs will fall into one category. I'd like to do this so...

there some automated way of merging categories? One further wrinkle: the category for California is called Category:Counties of California ("of" instead...

deletion was to  Delete. Delete Operator873 connect 18:54, 18 June 2023 (UTC) Category:Scooby-Doo video game characters (edit · talk · history · links · watch...

perhaps we should also avoid non-defining categories like this one. However, Simplewiki also has a category for the same but with movies. QuantumFoam66...