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Category:Fictional characters incorrectly presumed dead

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Nominator's rationale: Category is for a largely non-important criteria (Being presumed dead incorrectly). This is a fairly common trope across media and generally not important to a given character, which makes a category superfluous. Magneton Considerer: Pokelego999 (Talk) (Contribs) 21:57, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mass shootings in South America by year

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Nominator's rationale: There is not enough content to necessitate a "by year" category tree. Merge up the "by decade" tree and other relevant categories. –Aidan721 (talk) 21:05, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Natural events

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Nominator's rationale: merge, this tree almost coincides with the Natural disasters tree, and the parent "in the environment" categories aren't well populated either. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:03, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge per nom. I may suggest manually merging the categories not being merged to an "in the environment" category since those articles may already be present deeper in that tree. –Aidan721 (talk) 21:11, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mass shootings in New Zealand by decade

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Nominator's rationale: Very few mass shootings make it unnecessary to diffuse by decade or century. Merge to Category:Mass shootings in New Zealand and Oceania category (if necessary). –Aidan721 (talk) 20:28, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mass shootings in Australia by decade

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Nominator's rationale: 1-3 articles per decade. Merge to century-level and Decade in Oceania (if necessary). Optionally merge the 2 century categories to Category:Mass shootings in Australia since diffusing by 2 centuries is not necessarily super useful. If the consensus is to merge the century categories, then re-target the decades to the main category as well. –Aidan721 (talk) 19:36, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Númenor

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Nominator's rationale: Only one article in here. There is a very low probability of this being filled with meaningful articles. All the other inclusions here are redirects all to the same article, which are already categorized at category:Middle-earth location redirects. Jontesta (talk) 18:56, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:The Chronicles of Narnia countries

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Nominator's rationale: Only threes article here. It is unlikely to be filled with enough articles to justify a category (and flooding it with redirects would be bad form). The root category only has three articles currently and six articles would be better than three. Jontesta (talk) 18:51, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Miami RedHawks football venues

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT User:Namiba 18:05, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:AFC Asian Cup stadiums

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCVENUE. User:Namiba 15:45, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Busseron Township, Indiana

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Nominator's rationale: Category with just one entry. Lost in Quebec (talk) 13:04, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I might write more articles on Shakers from there, but who knows when, so I'm not opposed to this (as the category creator).--3family6 (Talk to me | See what I have done) 13:09, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:1488 establishments in Spain

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Nominator's rationale: There are very few entries in the per-year categories, and not all exists. Consolidate with decade for easier navigation. -- Beland (talk) 08:51, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Extinctions since 1500

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Nominator's rationale: merge, the year 1500 is an arbitrary cutoff. If there is no opposition I will add the subcategories to the nomination for renaming from "since 1500" to "Holocene". Marcocapelle (talk) 08:28, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose 1500 may be arbitrary, but it is the date used by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to track extinct species (they do not include species known to have gone extinct prior to 1500). 1500 is used because it's a round number near the start of the Age of Discovery, when (European) naturalists would have been able document species before they went extinct, and it represents a date after which human influence played a major role in all subsequent extinctions (there are extinctions prior to that date where humans played a major role, and there are likely some extinction after that date where.
I would not be strongly opposed to renaming the category to Category:Recent extinctions, which follows List of recently extinct fishes, List of recently extinct mammals and several other sublists in the entries at Lists of extinct species. However, I do feel that would just obfuscate the fact that 1500 is exactly the date chosen for an extinction to be considered "recent".
Contemporaneous documentation is what distinguishes prehistory from history. There is a whole category tree for Category:Prehistoric life; it is under Category:Extinct taxa, and categorization between the prehistoric/extinct categories is pretty messy (many prehistoric organisms are in extinct categories). But I think "recent extinctions in which humans played a major role" is something that is worthy of categories as is "prehistoric extinctions that occurred before humans evolved" (while recognizing that there is a grey area where humans may have played a role in some prehistoric extinctions once they had evolved (but there are also many extinctions during the Holocene where humans didn't play a major role)). Plantdrew (talk) 21:55, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Latvian Figure Skating Championships

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one article. Bgsu98 (Talk) 04:33, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Czechoslovak Figure Skating Championships

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one article. Bgsu98 (Talk) 04:32, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Spanish Figure Skating Championships

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one article. Bgsu98 (Talk) 04:32, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Puerto Rican Figure Skating Championships

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one article. Bgsu98 (Talk) 04:32, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Israeli Figure Skating Championships

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one article. Bgsu98 (Talk) 04:31, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Romanian Figure Skating Championships

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one article. Bgsu98 (Talk) 04:31, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Mexican Figure Skating Championships

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one article. Bgsu98 (Talk) 04:30, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Finnish Figure Skating Championships

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one article. Bgsu98 (Talk) 04:30, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:America's Classics winners that have closed

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Nominator's rationale: Per Category:Defunct restaurants and subcategories. --Another Believer (Talk) 03:30, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I'm totally fine with that. Jjazz76 (talk) 03:33, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks! Then hoping for a speedy rename here. ---Another Believer (Talk) 03:40, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Merge? I am not seeing objection to renaming if kept.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 04:25, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:House Committees of the National Assembly"

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Nominator's rationale: Request to remove quotation marks from category name GoingBatty (talk) 04:01, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:South African Figure Skating Championships templates

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one template. Bgsu98 (Talk) 03:20, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Nordic Figure Skating Championships templates

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one template. Bgsu98 (Talk) 03:20, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:New Zealand Figure Skating Championships templates

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one template. Bgsu98 (Talk) 03:20, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Nebelhorn Trophy templates

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one template. Bgsu98 (Talk) 03:19, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Latvian Figure Skating Championships templates

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one template. Bgsu98 (Talk) 03:19, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Karl Schäfer Memorial templates

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one template. Bgsu98 (Talk) 03:19, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Golden Spin of Zagreb templates

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one template. Bgsu98 (Talk) 03:18, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Finlandia Trophy templates

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one template. Bgsu98 (Talk) 03:18, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Figure skating at the European Youth Olympic Festival templates

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one template. Bgsu98 (Talk) 03:17, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Danish Figure Skating Championships templates

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one template. Bgsu98 (Talk) 03:16, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Belgian Figure Skating Championships templates

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one template. Bgsu98 (Talk) 03:16, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Australian Figure Skating Championships templates

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Nominator's rationale: This category contains only one template. Bgsu98 (Talk) 03:15, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Vanderpuije family of Ghana

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Nominator's rationale: All articles of people with this surname are in this family category, so it doesn't need the country disambiguator. Mike Selinker (talk) 00:40, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:1889 in Argentine sport

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Nominator's rationale: underpopulated isolated category, with several red links when the template is used. I urge the category creator to actually see if there's a need for categories like this before they create them SMasonGarrison 00:01, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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