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==Open CFD Nominations==
==Open CFD Nominations==
==== Category:Opelousas Historic District ====
==== Category:Polling places ====
:* '''Propose Deleting''' [[:Category:Opelousas Historic District]]
:* '''Propose Deleting''' [[:Category:Polling places]]
:'''Nominator's rationale:''' [[WP:NARROWCAT]], [[WP:MFN]], and the spirit of [[WP:C2F]], one eponymous page
:'''Nominator's rationale:''' Per [[WP:OCVENUE]] and [[WP:NONDEFINING]]
:A [[polling place]] is school, firehouse, other public building, or private location that temporarily place to vote on eleciton day then returns to it's normal function the next day. This category was never populated but [[WP:NARROWCAT]] is not a problem: in the 2018 elections there were more than 230,000 polling places in the United States ([https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/polling-places sourcel]). -
:The [[Opelousas Historic District]] article lists plenty of buildings, but the category seems unlikely to ever be viable because only two of them are probably individually notable: [[Old Federal Building (Opelousas, Louisiana)]] and [[Opelousas City Hall]], each of which is individually listed on the National Register of Historical Places. If I'm wrong and enough articles ever appear to make this category well populated, no objection to recreation at that time. -


==== Category:Things named after Charles de Gaulle ====
==== Category:State land commissioners of the United States ====
:* '''Propose Deleting''' [[:Category:Things named after Charles de Gaulle]]
:* '''Propose Renaming''' [[:Category:State land commissioners of the United States]] to [[:Category:State public land commissioners of the United States]]
:'''Nominator's rationale:''' Per [[WP:NONDEFINING]], [[WP:SHAREDNAME]], & [[WP:OCASSOC]]
:'''Nominator's rationale:''' Per [[WP:CATNAME]] and the spirit of [[WP:C2D]]
:What defines these public officials is that they are in charge of administering state [[public lands|''public'' lands]], usually [[State Trust Lands]]. While the official titles within this category vary, the proposed name clearly conveys they are not in charge of [[zoning]] for ''private'' property. -
:The [[:Category:Charles de Gaulle]] is for articles with a [[WP:DEFINING]] association with [[Charles de Gaulle]] while this category seems to be for non-defining associations. All these article are things that would have been built anyway so they're not defined by the specific name they ended up with and the contents are already in [[List of things named after Charles de Gaulle]] for any reader interested in the topic. -
*'''Background''' In the past, we've deleted similar categories [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 November 22#Category:Places named after Cesar Chavez|here]], [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 November 12#Category:Places named for John C. Calhoun|here]], [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 June 19#Category:Places named after Thomas Jefferson|here]], [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 May 9#Category:Things named after Nursultan Nazarbayev|here]], [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 March 16#Streets and roads named after Martin Luther King, Jr.|here]], [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 May 10#Category:Bridges named after Queen Victoria|here]], and [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 May 10#Category:Facilities named after David Attenborough|here]]. -


==Successful CFD Nominations==
==Successful CFD Nominations==

Revision as of 01:34, 1 January 2024

See also: User:RevelationDirect/sandbox/CFDawards

Planned CFD Nominations

The entire "Category:Student societies by country" tree

Category:Railways authorised but not built in the United Kingdom (Not Ready)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SUBJECTIVECAT
The Category:Proposed museums tree contains a range of proposals: vague wishes, groups actively trying to raise money, those actively under construction, and groups that have given up. This category groups the last group. The challenge here is that it often subjective when it fails: rarely a formal announcement is made about giving up but it is far more common that groups just quietly become inactive. We do have Category:Failed assassination attempts but the inclusion criteria are much clearer there. The wording of the category is also challenging because the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society exists but had a failed expansion plan. -

Category:Art competitors at the 1920 Summer Olympics (not ready)

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT, and WP:OCAWARD)
This category is for artists who had a commission at one of the many pavilions at the 1939 New York World's Fair: painter Albert Edward Cloutier made a mural for the Canadian pavilion, garden designer Percy Stephen Cane did the landscaping for the British pavilion, and architect Alvar Aalto designed the Finnish pavilion building. The Pablo Picasso article doesn't mention the fair at all. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:02, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
  • Background We deleted a similar category for artists presenting at a World's Fair right here.

Open CFD Nominations

Category:Polling places

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCVENUE and WP:NONDEFINING
A polling place is school, firehouse, other public building, or private location that temporarily place to vote on eleciton day then returns to it's normal function the next day. This category was never populated but WP:NARROWCAT is not a problem: in the 2018 elections there were more than 230,000 polling places in the United States (sourcel). -

Category:State land commissioners of the United States

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME and the spirit of WP:C2D
What defines these public officials is that they are in charge of administering state public lands, usually State Trust Lands. While the official titles within this category vary, the proposed name clearly conveys they are not in charge of zoning for private property. -

Successful CFD Nominations

Category:Non-traditional rodeo performers

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SUBJECTIVECAT and WP:NONDEFINING
This category groups rodeo performers who had a non-traditional career. Stuart Anderson was restaurateur who may have performed in rodeos, Wayde Preston performed in the rodeo before being discovered as an actor, while Tom Threepersons went into the rodeo after retiring from law enforcement.

I'm not sure why Kelly Sutherland is here though because there's no bright line between traditional and non-traditional. And I'm not sure doing a different job before or after being in the rodeo is defining anyway. -

Category:FIFA World Cup ceremonies performers

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:NONDEFINING
This is textbook Performers by Performance. Imagine the category clutter if we tracked every individual performance by Shakira, J.Lo, or Ricky Martin. -

Category:Musicians by software

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC, WP:PERFCAT, WP:NONDEFINING & WP:RS
Musicians now use digital audio workstations to edit their digital music but the software articles don't generally provide sources for these users, with the exception of FL Studio. On the biography article side, the software is generally not mentioned at all including with Ghost Loft, Afrojack, Oliver Lieb and Max Tundra, with at least one exception in Soulja Boy. Even when sourced, this association doesn't seem defining as musicians may change software packages or, as they become stars, delegate this work to technicians. -
  • Background We deleted a similar cartoon by software category right here. -

Category:The Beatles' musical instruments

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC, WP:PERFCAT, & WP:NONDEFINING
The parent category, Category:Instruments of musicians, is a mix of individual instruments owned by musicians (like Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstrat) and lists of instruments used by musicians (like Stevie Ray Vaughan's musical instruments). In contrast, this subcategory mostly has articles on commercially available instrument models or brands that were used at any point by the The Beatles. The Fab 4 may have used the Les Paul Model Gibson Guitar but so did Keith Richards, Eric Clapton and Slash; that model remains one of Gibson's best selling products. -

Category:Sporting Kansas City broadcasters

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:NONDEFINING
These categories consist almost entirely of general interest TV stations that play sitcoms, drama, news, movies and--yes--at least one season worth of games for a soccer team. Articles like KMYU, WRDQ and KMCI-TV do tend to mention the teams in passing but it would create category clutter if we started categorized TV stations by each show they air. The category contents are already largely listified right here for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Members of the Kit-Kat Club

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC, WP:PERFCAT, & WP:NONDEFINING
The Kit-Kat Club was an 18th century gentlemen's club in London. At the time, it was known for Whig politics but now it's mostly remembered for popularizing a new format for portraits. The membership is not treated as defining since most of the articles don't even mention this, although a minority mention being a member or getting a portrait done there. The only exception is Charles Dartiquenave who has a whole section but it's about how awesome his portrait is, which I've shared here for your admiration. (No conceptual objection to the parent category but this is the last subcategory we haven't already deleted.) -
  • Background We previously deleted membership categories for other London gentlemen's clubs here, here, here, here, and here. -

Category:Members of Chunichi Shimbun

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME and maybe WP:OCASSOC
The only article in this category is Toki Ginjiro who was a deputy editor of the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper which is owned by the Chunichi Shimbun media company. I don't think that Mr. Ginjiro is a "member" of that parent company in any sense and wonder if that is a translation issue. (If other articles can be found, no objection to creating a "people" category later for employees.) -

Category:Members of the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING, WP:OCASSOC and (potentially) WP:OVERLAPCAT
The Fédération Internationale de Philatélie is the international association for stamp collecting and this category is for affiliated national organizations. Philatelic Federation of Pakistan is currently the only article in this category but SMALLCAT isn't an issue since most national bodies are in it, per the official FIP list. But that means this category could move most of the national organisations out from Category:Philatelic organizations to a subcategory many readers would be unfamiliar with. (Alternatively, if the consensus is to keep, I'm happy to populate it though.) -

Category:Members of Royal Agricultural Society

Nominator's rationale: WP:V, WP:C1 an unpopulated category, and (presumably) WP:OCASSOC
There's not much here. The only article in this category, Tha Myat, makes no mention of being a member of this group. It's not even clear which organisation we're talking about here since Royal Agricultural Society is a disambiguation page. -

Category:Xerox Fellows

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V, WP:OVERLAPCAT & (presumably) WP:OCAWARD
There is really not much here: we don't have a main article on Xerox Fellow or anything similar, the Xerox article makes no mention of a "fellow" program, and the only article in the category (James G. Mitchell) has one unsourced sentence in the career section that mentions in passing he was a fellow while at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Mr. Mitchell is already in Category:Scientists at PARC (company) for any reader interested interested in navigating by that topic. Normally I listify recipients of awards and honours before I ever bring them to CFD, but there's not much list here and no obvious place to put it. -

Category:Industry and corporate fellows

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC, WP:OCAWARD, & WP:NONDEFINING
This category is not a parent category like Category:Corporate fellows but instead groups loose biography articles if the person ever received an industry or corporate fellowship. Any industry or corporate fellowship, whether the particular honour was defining or not. This category was created by a single purpose account who spent a total of 21 minutes editing Wikipedia, which makes me a little jealous since I'm still not that efficient with creating cats!

Category:Fellows of the Chartered Institute of Journalists

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING, WP:OCAWARD, and WP:V
Fellow of the Institute of Journalists is a redirect that points to Chartered Institute of Journalists which makes no mention of a "fellow" program. This was my search result on the organisation's web site which didn't help. Two of the 3 articles mention the award in passing (1) (2) and the third doesn't mention it at all (3) so it's not generally treated as defining. I was going to create a list on the main article but I couldn't verify any of the citations (A) (B) so I copied the contents right here so no work is lost if anyone wants to find reliable sources and create a list. (Alternatively, if kept, we should merge to the one with "Chartered" in the title to match the main article.) -
Current contents of Category:Fellows of the Chartered Institute of Journalists

Category:Fellows of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V, WP:NONDEFINING & WP:OCAWARD
The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics article makes no mention of having fellows and the only article in this category, Petr Vaníček, makes only an unsourced mention of this award within a list of other fellowships so it doesn't seem defining. Normally I listify award categories before I ever nominate them, but there wasn't much to work with here. -

Category:Members of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC & WP:NONDEFINING
The Yorkshire Naturalists' Union is an English membership-based organisation founded in 1861. According to their their membership page there are a variety of levels to join at including £25 for individuals, £30 four couples, and £15 for students or people with low income/unwaged. Paying dues online or mailing in a cheque is not defining. There is already a list of prominent members throughout it's long history, right here in the main article. -

Category:Members of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING, WP:OCASSOC and (potentially) WP:OVERLAPCAT
The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals is a mebership-based association in the UK. According to their membership page there are a variety of levels to join at including £160 for librarians/IS professionals, £40-60 for library/IS students, and £80 for non-librarians. Of the 2 articles in this category, Sue Roberts (librarian) is mostly known for her work in other countries, Robert H. Thompson is not known for being a librarian at all, and neither is defined by having paid membership dues. (Alternatively, we could populate the category but that would largely overlap with Category:British librarians.) -

Category:XFL (2001) venues

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCVENUE and WP:NONDEFINING
The XFL (2001), or Extreme Football League, was a short-lived American football company and this category groups stadiums they played in from February 3, 2001 to April 21, 2001. (The 2020 version was even shorter, playing for 5 weeks before COVID19 hit and the league again folded.) All of the stadiums were pre-existing, not purpose built for either league. These seem like a textbook example of WP:OCVENUE. -

Category:Public venues with a theatre organ

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOTDIRECTORY and WP:NONDEFINING
When people book venues for events, they look at a lot of possible amenities: on-site catering, pipe organ, wheelchair accessibility, valet parking, bridal/vip suites, sound systems, dance floors, stages, security, liquor license, adjacent hotel availability, etc. Wikipedia is not a directory to group event venues by each amenity and having an organ is not defining to these articles about historic theatres. -

Category:Monuments and memorials to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk outside Turkey

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCMISC
This is a textbook case of a miscellaneous category. Don't know what else I can add. -

Category:Statutes dealing with Confederate monuments and memorials

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME, WP:C2C and maybe WP:IDONTLIKEIT
This category contains 4 articles legislation forbidding the removal of Confederate statues and there is growth potential. After looking at dozens of articles about "statues" in this category tree, I kept misreading "statutes" in the category's name and I suspect that can happen to other readers. Most but not all of the subcategories of Category:Statutory law by topic already use "legislation" and the proposed naming format. -

Category:Fair trade schools

Nominator's rationale: WP:TRIVIALCAT and WP:NONDEFINING
Fair trade means paying more to suppliers based on ethical considerations and the intersection with that topic and these schools varies quote a bit. Wellsway School makes sure "fair Trade coffee, tea and sugar are used in the staff room and other products sold in the school canteen", Skipton High has "Fair Trade FairAchiever status" which might be some sort of certification, St. Catherine's set the world record for how many fair trade bananas could be eaten in a single day, while St. Cyres has an entire section on the topic that is well sourced. I'm unsure if this intersection is notable enough for an article, but it doesn't seem defining enough for a category. -

Category:Bullfighting schools

Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT
There's 1 one article in this category, California Academy of Tauromaquia, and I could only find 1 other with any secondary coverage: this one in Madrid. There are definitely some others programs out there but I don't think they're notable or even really "schools": someone gives a class in Houston and I can't figure out where this coaching program is based. No objection to recreation if I'm mistaken and 5+ articles ever materialize. -

Category:Conductive education schools

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING or WP:SMALLCAT
Conductive education is a special education approach for people with motor disorders, while this category only has 3 articles, there's no shortage of schools that use it: here's a directory for the US. The issue with this category is that most schools use this approach for small number of students that need it, but that's one of many educational aspects of the school and Cashmere High School is pretty representative. The other 2 articles are Addington School, which is probably defined by the association, and the Conductive Education School, Kuwait, which is definitely defined by this category but that article would have a rough time in AFD. I don't anticipate a category that is both defining and well populated. I added the last two articles to the see also section of the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:T-Mobile US branded venue

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOTPROMO, WP:OCASSOC, WP:NONDEFINING
We have a whole Category:Buildings and structures by company tree, but that's for actual company facilities defined by the assocation. The three articles here are marketing agreements to rent naming rights: T-Mobile Center (formerly Sprint Center), T-Mobile Arena, and T-Mobile Park (formerly Safeco Field). All three are already linked in the market section of the T-Mobile US article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:People included in New York Society's Four Hundred

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TOP10
On February 16, 1892, The New York Times published the official list of the most important people in New York high society circles, as the "The Four Hundred". You probably already know this, but who was on the list and--more importantly--who was left off became the talk of the season, in between eating caviar at the opera. But these socialites made the cut because they were already notable; the NYT article and this category both just reflect that pre-existing fame. There is already a list right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Bonneville 300 MPH Club members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:DNWAUC, WP:N (WP:NLIST, WP:LISTCRUFT), and WP:OC (WP:ARBITRARYCAT, WP:PERFCAT, WP:NONDEFINING).
These categories are meant for people who have gone faster than 300 or 200 miles per hour at least once at the Bonneville Speedway in Utah which isn't defining. But the biggest issue here is that this is really a list article written in the category space: the top of the first cat has paragraphs of narrative explaining the lists complete with citations. None of those citations satisfy WP:NLIST though, so immediate listification isn't an option. (I did copy all the current category contents right here so no work is lost if anyone wants find reliable source and create a list article.) -

Category:Royal Society of Chemistry Local Sections

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT
The Royal Society of Chemistry is a prominent national British group that has 35 local chapters called "Local Sections". I have no conceptual objection to the category but we only have 1 article--South Wales West Local Section--and establishing notability for more will be challenging. (If I'm wrong and 5+ articles emerge, no objection to recreating this category later.) -

Category:Members of British International Studies Association

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC & WP:NONDEFINING for the subcat; WP:SMALLCAT for the parent cat
The British International Studies Association is a membership-based organisation with over 1,500 members. According to their membership page, anyone can add themself to that number for £108 per year, although it's much less if you are a student or retiree. Paying dues online or mailing in a cheque is not defining. (No conceptual objection to the parent category, but it currently contains only this subcat plus the main article.) -

Category:Whiting Ciesar All-Americans

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT approaching WP:C1, an empty category
The Hammond Ciesar All-Americans were an NBA basketball team that played in Hammond, Indiana but, for the first couple years, they played down the street in neighboring Whiting, Indiana. We have other categories for former team locations like Category:Brooklyn Dodgers so this might be conceptually okay but the problem is with the lack of contents. The only article directly in the cat shouldn't be there because the Hammond Civic Center is where they played after they left Whiting. No objection to recreating if we ever gets to 5+ articles. -

Category:The Moscow Times

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT approaching WP:C2F, one eponymous page
The Moscow Times is an English-language newspaper in Russia. The only thing in the category is that main article, an image file already in that same article's infobox, and Category:The Moscow Times people, which I just created. (No objection to recreating this category if we ever get up to 5+ articles.) -
  • Background I originally speedy nominated this category to be renamed to Category:The Moscow Times people since it contained dozens of biography articles and little else. The feedback there was to boldly create the subcategory but that effectively emptied this category. -
Copy of Speedy Nomination

Category:Members of British Ornithologists' Union

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC & WP:NONDEFINING
The British Ornithologists' Union is a membership-based organisation founded in 1858. According to their membership page, standard membership is £45 a year but there are discounts for people in school (£20) and people in developing countries (£10). The sibling category for presidents of the group is definitely defining, but just paying dues is not. -

Category:United Service Organizations entertainers

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT)
The USO is an American charity where celebrities volunteer to entertain troops. According to that main article, during World War II alone, "the USO did 293,738 performances in 208,178 separate visits". The Robin Williams, Lucille Ball and Fred Astaire articles mention this performance in passing while Judy Garland, Zac Brown, and Salma Hayek don't mention it at all. (Bob Hope is the only one I found defined by the association, but his article is already well linked.) -

Category:Radio stations licensed before 1923 and still broadcasting

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:ARBITRARYCAT)
I read 1922 in radio, 1923 in radio, and 1924 in radio in vain trying to understand this seemingly arbitrary cutoff point. If this is deleted, we'll still have List of oldest radio stations. -

Category:Plants used in Ayurveda

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC similar to WP:PERFCAT)
Ayurveda is an alternative medicine system originating in India that recommends diets and herbs for health. Liquorice, Long pepper and Myrrh mention this association in passing while Aloe, Alfalfa and Rose don't mention it at all. The Clove article says that spice is used in pumpkin pies, curries, baked hams and cigarettes but we don't have categories for those uses because it would create clutter at the bottom of the article. -

Category:Sculptures depicting the Last Supper

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT approaching WP:C1, an unpopulated category
Wikipedia doesn't have any article defined by this topic but I have not objection to recreating it if 5+ ever get written. The only things in here now is Miniature altarpiece (WB.232) which includes numerous Biblical scenes; the Last Supper is hard to see but is on the rounded base. (Alternatively, that 1 article could be be upmerged to Category:Last Supper in art.) -

Category:Sculptures depicting the Entombment of Christ

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT approaching WP:C1, an unpopulated category
Wikipedia doesn't have any article defined by this topic but I have not objection to recreating it if 5+ ever get written. The only thing in here now is Veiled Christ which shows Christ prepared for entombment but contains no depiction of an actual tomb nor is there any text in that article indicating that he is already entombed. (That 1 article is already well categorized, so no need for an upmerge.) -

1 & 2 article categories for drawings or prints by museum

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT
These subcategories are helpful for major institutions like the Louvre and Met but are likely to remain tiny forever with most museums. All of these were created by 1 retired editor a couple years ago so they are not "part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme" as described in SMALLCAT. Where appropriate, I added articles to other drawings/prints categories so no dual upmerge is needed. -

Category:Parks and open spaces by year of establishment

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT)
I'm not the least bit convinced we need the original Category:Parks by year of establishment tree since the vast majority of the 61 subcategories only have one article. But creating a duplicate tree with 2 subcats doesn't help matters. -

Category:NCSSS schools

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC)
The school articles in this category generally don't mention being a member of the National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools trade association. Usually I would suggest listification but the main article was deleted in AFD for being non-notable. -

Category:Association of European Airlines members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC)
According to the intro of the main article, the Association of European Airlines "was the voice of the European airline industry for over 60 years. It shut down in the end of 2016." Even when it was active, it was way too ubiquitous to be defining. There is already both a template and a list in the main article for readers interested in navigating this topic. (Alternatively, if kept, we only need the "Former" subcategory.) -

Category:Category:Parks containing Zoos

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:NONDEFINING generally
While the vast majority of parks don't have zoos, most modern zoos are connected to greenspaces and often part of park districts. If a park contains a zoo, we can categorize it under both Parks and Zoos but the intersection doesn't seem defining. No split is needed since the only article is well categorized. -

Category:Wikipedia categories named after insurance companies

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PROJCATS, WP:OVERLAPCAT, and an extension for WP:C2E, author's request
10 years ago when I created this category, I hadn't closely read the editing guidelines and was basing my category work off of what I saw other editors doing. So, when I created Category:State Farm and Category:GEICO I also blindly created this one too. There was no intended purpose I had in mind.
While the real world behavior of insurance companies is quite controversial, I don't recall the Wikipedia categorization of insurance articles being contentious so I can't think of what administrative purpose is served here. And, besides, you can still find all these same categories under Category:Insurance companies.
While we're past the 6 month mark for speedy deletion at the author's request, I'd still like to clean up my mistake. -
  • Background There have been a number of CFD nominations for "Wikipedia categories named after"... tree, most recently just last month. Tagging all participants to that discussion, regardless of iVote: William Allen Simpson|Marcocapelle|Oculi|Aidan721}}

Category:Multi-sailed windmills

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME
When I saw this at the bottom of an article, I was baffled since I believe all intact windmills have more than 1 sail. But the category header explains the intent:
This category is for traditional windmills with more than four sails. It is not for Mediterranean windmills with jib sails.
The current category name just isn't clear enough to aid navigation. -

Category:Burials at Graceland Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (akin to WP:PERFCAT)
The biography articles in this category were buried at the short-lived Graceland Cemetery (Washington, D.C.) in 1879, 1882, 1887, and 1892 but all the remains were relocated by the late 1890s. (A 5th person may or may not have been buried there for about a year.) This seems non-defining since all of these articles are also in the cemetery category for wherever their remains ended up. The category contents are already listified in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Commonwealth War Graves Commission Crosses of Sacrifice

Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT
The Cross of Sacrifice is a type of monument placed in each cemetery of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission so they're quite common. The problem is that, while the cemeteries are individually notable and have Wikipedia articles, the crosses aren't so there's only 1 article. (The Gibraltar Cross of Sacrifice is individually notable because it was relocated from the cemetery to become a stand-alone monument.) No objection to recreating later if 5+ article ever get created. -

Category:Central-passage houses

Nominator's rationale: WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:C2D, consistency with main article's name
A central-passage house is a housing style popular in the southern United States and it's definitely defining. But both of the these category trees describe the same thing and neither follows the main article's naming convention. While the proposed new name sounds more narrow, there is no actual change in scope since every article here is a house (or historic house museum). -

Category:Puerto Rico Economic Development Bank

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT and, for the subcategory, WP:PERFCAT
No conceptual obection to the parent category but we only have the main article, Puerto Rico Economic Development Bank. For the subcategory, there is also just 1 article (Alberto Bacó Bagué) and Mr. Bagué has held a large number of different rotating offices so this one doesn't seem defining. (It also appears from the PREDB article that the top official is "President" not director but that may be a translation issue.) -

Category:Amazon oil

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCLOCATION
This category groups both plant articles are that are indigenous to the Amazon rainforest if they can produce cooking oil and actual cooking oil articles if they are made from plants from the Amazon. (Some of these are endemic and grew naturally only in the Amazon basin while others had a broader distribution in the Americas.) The plant articles are already well categorized under the Category:Flora of Brazil tee and I added the the cooking oil articles to the Category:Crops originating from South America tree. I can't picture a Wikipedia reader that wants to know crops from the Amazon but only if they are cooking oils (or vice versa). -

Category:Muisca art museums

Nominator's rationale: Per the spirit of WP:C1, an unpopulated category.
The Muisca Confederation was a prominent pre-Columbian culture in the Andean highlands of centeral Colombia. I have no conceptual objection to this category but we currently don't have any articles about Muisca art museums. What we do have is 2 Muisca archaeology museums (which include some art) and various general museums that have some Muisca artifacts according to this list article. None of the other museum articles event mention Muisca artifacts except for a passing reference in the Gold Museum, Bogotá article. -

Category:Places of the Euromaidan

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCVENUE
In 2013, Ukraine had widespread protests called Euromaidan and this category lists different places where those protests occurred. These events seem too transitory to be permanently defining to all these prominent locations.
Note: Notified Nickst as the category creator. –

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Category:Festivals named after magazines

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
This category groups together festivals that are run by magazines: CMJ, Essence Music Festival, The New Yorker Festival, & Pitchfork Music Festival. (I was worried that they were just sponsored or licensed by a magazine but that is not the case.) But their "name" is not what's defining. -

Category:Persian named brands or trade marks

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME and WP:V
This is a subcategory of Category:Persian language and it currently only contains two articles:
English Wikipedia could definitely use more articles about the influence of Persian culture but I don't see a category with two automobile articles that are arguably "Persian" aiding navigation. -

Category:Things named after animals

Nominator's rationale: Per my fear of potential WP:SHAREDNAME
This category is not currently needed and, if populated, would lead to category clutter. Currently, the only thing it it is the subcategory Category:Lists of things named after animals, which is the right place to present word etymologies. If individual articles were to be added directly to this category, the only things I can imagine are WP:SHAREDNAME violations like John Deere Gator, Panda Express or the Detroit Tigers. -

Category:Named squadrons of the Royal Navy

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
All of the articles in the parent category obviously have "names" of course but the subcategory is for non-numeric names like Flying Squadron (United Kingdom) and Training Squadron (Royal Navy) while most of the squadron's have numeric names like 4th Frigate Squadron (United Kingdom) or 10th Submarine Squadron (United Kingdom). There is no similar breakdown for either other country's navy squadrons or for other British squadrons so this is not part of a heirarchy. The name format is not a defining a feature of these military units. -

Category:Place names of French origin in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area

Nominator's rationale: WP:SHAREDNAME (WP:NONDEFINING)
When I saw this category, my initial inclination was to rename it and move it under Category:French-American culture by city because I assumed they were French immigrant communities. But there's really nothing French here except for the place names so the category name is correct, but not remotely defining. The only thing actually French here is Fort Duquesne which is already well categorized. -

Category:Place names of German origin in Romania

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:V, and WP:SHAREDNAME)
Two of the these towns were founded by Danube Swabians which is absolutely defining but they are already categorized under Category:Former Danube Swabian communities in Romania. Pătârlagele may have been named by the Teutonic Order. The rest of the article titles aren't even place names of German origin but, rather, had a former German spelling/name that is listed parenthetically in the lede, like with Holbav aka "Holbach". Even though this isn't quite a standard WP:SHAREDNAME category, it sure seems non-defining. (We recently deleted French named suburbs of Pittsburgh right here. -
  • Background This category came up in this open nom; tagging participants regardless of !vote: ping|Good Ol’factory|Carlossuarez46|LevitatePalantir|LevitatePalantir|Marcocapelle|Place Clichy|John Pack Lambert}} -

Category:Taipei Metro stations named from roads

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SHAREDNAME)
Taipei Metro stations are typically named after nearby roads or buildings for easier references, like with many transit systems. These categories group these stations by the type of name they have which is classic WP:SHAREDNAME. We categorize roads, hospitals, temples and schools separately but these are all metro stations -
  • Background We previously deleted Hong Kong metro stations named after roads right here. -

Category:MTR stations named from roads

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
This category groups Mass Transit Railway (MTR) stations in Hong Kong basded on whether the station was named after a nearby road. Stations not named after roads are still next to roads and those named after roads are next to other things so this doesn't seem defining. The naming rabbit hole goes further: Prince Edward station is named for the Prince Edward, Hong Kong neighborhood which is named for Prince Edward Road which was named for, well you know, King Edward VIII before he was king and was a Prince. All of these train stations are also categorized elsewhere in the Category:MTR stations tree so no upmerge is needed. -

Category:Confederate Memorial Day

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT
No conceptual bojection to this category but the only thing in it is the main article, Confederate Memorial Day. I can't think of a potenial 2nd article (let alone a 5th) so growth potential seems limited but no objection to recreating the category later if I'm wrong and we ever get up to 5 or so articles. The one article is already well categorized so no upmerge is needed. -

Category:U.S. Army installations named for Confederate soldiers

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
This category groups U.S. military bases like Fort Bragg and Fort Hood if they were named after Confederate leaders. These articles generally do mention who they were named after in passing and these names have become increasingly controversial. Nonetheless, grouping major military installations by how they were named doesn't seem defining. The contents of this category are already listified in List of U.S. Army installations named for Confederate soldiers for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We recently deleted similar categories for counties named after Confederate leaders here. -

Category:Negro

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
The explicit purpose of this category is to group articles with the word Negro in them according to the header: "Articles relating to the term Negro, a term historically used to denote persons considered to be of Negroid heritage." I can't imagine any reader wanting a direct navigational path between Negro league baseball, Negro Head Road (North Carolina) and N.W.A. There's no need for a merger because those examples are already better categorized in Category:African-American sports history, Category:History of racism in North Carolina, and Category:African-American musical groups, respectively, as all are all the other articles. -

Category:Songs named after people

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
I can't imagine any reader wanting a direct navigational path between Long Live Comrade Mao for Ten Thousand Years, Bette Davis Eyes and Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury. This category groups all songs together regardless of country, artist or genre so long as they are named after someone. The category does not include songs about people when the name isnt' in the title becaue it appears to be based on a shared name rather than anything defining. -

Category:Facilities named after David Attenborough

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
David Attenborough is the prominent host of natural history TV shows on BBC. The only article in this category is a ship, RRS Sir David Attenborough, whose only connection to Sir Attenborough is being named in his honor. This category isn't defining and doesn't aid navigation. -

Category:Places named after Cesar Chavez‎

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SHAREDNAME)
The Queen's category is my favorite grab bag of unrelated articles including Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Power Station, Queen Elizabeth Planetarium and Queen Elizabeth Subplate. Mr. Chavez has a lot of streets named after him while Mr. Vidyasagar‎ has many schools named in his honour. All three of these are classic WP:SHAREDNAME because they are things that would have been built anyway so they're not defined by their name and the contents are already here, here, here. -

Category:Places named for Christopher Columbus‎

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SHAREDNAME) and, arguably, WP:G4
There is a reason this is the last "Places named for Foo" category left on Wikipedia: this is an explicit violation of WP:SHAREDNAME. This category contains mostly small U.S. cities like Columbus, Kentucky, Columbus, Wisconsin, and Columbus, North Dakota, none of which are even remotely defined by a 15th Century, Trans-Atlantic explorer. The contents are already listified here in a separate list article for any reader interested in the topic. -
Copy of Contested WP:G4 Speedy Deletion Nomination

This category may meet Wikipedia's criteria for speedy deletion as a page that was previously deleted via a deletion discussion, is substantially identical to the deleted version, and any changes do not address the reasons for which the material was deleted. See the previous discussion.

This page should not be speedily deleted because... no reason for deletion given except a link to a 2006 discussion of a multi-category nomination regarding only cities. Seems like a reasonable and diversely populated category. --Randy Kryn (talk) 13:05, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

The purpose of a speedy deletion is to be brief but the concern is that a Trans-Atlantic explorer is not WP:DEFINING for Columbus, New Mexico and Columbus, North Dakota by per WP:SHAREDNAME. The earlier CFD discussion considered whether to convert Category:Cities named for Christopher Columbus to Category:Places named for Christopher Columbus but rejected this proposed category in favor of deletion. - RevelationDirect (talk) 17:34, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
That was a brief discussion by what looks like four editors in 2006, three of them suggesting putting the topics in a list. Since Wikipedia guidelines say that lists, templates, and categories are three different ways to group things and are separate and complimentary things, that negates the discussion right there. I don't understand "not defining", as the entries are places or things named after the principal topic (maybe a name change to "Places and things named for...") which is what the category collects. Randy Kryn (talk) 21:22, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
  • Keep Pending Full Discussion User:Geschichte removed the WP:G4 tag with the following edit summary: "the discussion was so long ago, please take to new AFD" - RevelationDirect (talk) 09:49, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

Category:Places named for John C. Calhoun‎

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:DEFINING (WP:SHAREDNAME)
U.S. Vice President and foremost slavery advocate John C. Calhoun had a number of locations named after him, although some have since been renamed due to that slavery part. Calhoun County, West Virginia, Calhoun County, Michigan, Grace Hopper College (formerly Calhoun College) and Bde Maka Ska (formerly Calhoun Lake) have nothing in common other than the name (or former name). The name is not defining and is classic WP:SHAREDNAME. -

Category:Places named after Yasser Arafat‎

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:DEFINING (WP:SHAREDNAME)
This category is for places named after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and currently has 3 articles. They are Martyr Yasser Arafat Governmental Hospital, Yasser Arafat Cup and Yasser Arafat International Airport which have nothing in common other than the name which is classic WP:SHAREDNAME. There wasn't a list so I created one here in the main article with a redirect. -

Category:Places named after Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:DEFINING (WP:SHAREDNAME)
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was a prominent Indian educational advocate who has a number of schools named after him. Vidyasagar Evening College, Vidyasagar Institute of Health, Vidyasagar Teachers' Training College, Midnapore and Vidyasagar Vidyapith Girls' High School are all somewhere under the Category:Educational institutions in India category tree but the name is not defining and this category is classic WP:SHAREDNAME. There wasn't a list so I created one here in the main article and I pointed to it with this redirect. -

Category:Bridges named after Queen Victoria

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:SHAREDNAME
For the vast majority of these bridges, they were namved for either the reigning Queen (or the recently deceased one) with no other connection. At least Queen Victoria was actually at the opening ceremony of the Queen's Bridge in Belfast. Whether articles are in this category because of a shared name or a due to a one-time performance, this category seems non-defining. The main article, Victoria Bridge, is a disambiguation page that could be converted to a more formal list article if anyone is interested. -
  • Background We deleted a nearly identical category for roads named after Martin Luther King Jr at this discussion. -


I can't imagine any reader wanting a direct navigational path between Long Live Comrade Mao for Ten Thousand Years, Bette Davis Eyes and Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury. This category groups all songs together regardless of country, artist or genre so long as they are named after someone. The category does not include songs about people when the name isnt' in the title becaue it appears to be based on a shared name rather than anything defining. -

Category:Minerals named after locations in Western Australia

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
This groups together two mineral articles because they are named after locations in Western Australia which doesn't seem defining. One is a arsenic-tellurium mineral and the other is a sodium nickel one so they aren't chemically similar. Both of the articles, Kalgoorlieite and Kambaldaite, are each alraedy categorized in another Western Australian category. -

Category:Places named after Thomas Jefferson

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
This category consists of places (mostly U.S. counties) with little to do with President Jefferson other than they were named after him. Many U.S. counties are named after early presidents: this category has Jefferson counties from Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio and Pennsylvania but all those states also have counties named after President Washington and President Adams so this approach would lead to category clutter. This category does not seem defining. -

Category:Elements Music Camp alumni

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC and WP:PERFCAT)
The Elements Music Camp is a five-day music camp in the Phillipines for aspiring singers. I'm sure this experince was defining for these promising young people for awhile but Wikipedia doesn't have articles on promising young people. By the time that they hit it big and become eligible for a Wikipedia article, this gets reduced to a sentence or two about their early career so it seems non-defining. The recipient are already listed right here in the intro to the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Cartoons animated with Adobe After Effects

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
Adobe After Effects is a post-production software for cartoons, films and video games and this product dominates the market place: way back in 2006 Macworld wrote that "Adobe After Effects has long been the 300-pound gorilla of compositing and motion-graphics applications" (link) and, in 2019, this software won a freaking Academy Award. The closest comparisons I can find are Category:Black-and-white films or Category:Squigglevision, but both of those are more defining aspects which are visible to consumers, not a back-end technology. -

Category:1939 New York World's Fair artists

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT)
This category is for artists who had a commission at one of the many pavilions at the 1939 New York World's Fair: painter Albert Edward Cloutier made a mural for the Canadian pavilion, garden designer Percy Stephen Cane did the landscaping for the British pavilion, and architect Alvar Aalto designed the Finnish pavilion building. The Pablo Picasso article doesn't mention the fair at all. -

Category:American Motors automobiles

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT) and WP:C2C, consistency with established category names
The only thing in this category is a redirect to AMC Gremlin which is already in Category:AMC vehicles along with dozens of other AMC vehicle articles. The "Foo vehicles" naming format is part of a well established naming convention in the Category:Vehicles by brand tree. I'm open to better ways of categorizing vehicle articles but, if populated, this category seems like it would be a duplicate. -

Category:Geotechnical conferences

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT approaching WP:C1, an unpopulated category
We currently don't have any articles on this topic. Rather, the two articles—Géotechnique Lecture and Rankine Lecture—are both lectures held at the British Geotechnical Association conference. (No objection to recreation if we ever get up to 5+ articles, although the title should be Category:Geotechnical engineering conferences.) -

Category:Edinburgh Festival Fringe media

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SMALLCAT and WP:PERFCAT approaching WP:TRIVIALCAT)
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the world's largest arts festival and we actually have articles on 3 publications entirely or mostly dedicated to the festival but with little growth possiblity. Most of the category contents are general publications though, like The Scotsman, The Guardian and The Herald, which cover the festival amongst countless other stories. (Alternatively, if kept, we could purge to just the 3 articles.) -

Category:Edinburgh Festival Fringe venues

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCVENUE)
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe was established in 1947 and is the world's largest arts festival and is a huge logistical undertaking in Edinburgh. We do have the category tree Category:Festival venues for purpose built facilities but this is different. Old facilities like St Giles' Cathedral (consecrated 1243) and the Quaker Meeting House (built 1866) are not remotely defined by this later usage and even newer facilities like Meadowbank Stadium and Traverse Theatre are not defined by the annual event. There is already a separate list article, List of Edinburgh Festival Fringe venues, for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Grammy Award venues

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCVENUE)
I'm sure venues are very excited when they book the Grammys but Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, Staples Center, and The Beverly Hilton host many prominent events. If the The Recording Academy purpose built theatres, this might be defining, but this is just categorization by rental agreement. There is already a separate list article, List of Grammy Award ceremony locations, for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Hospitals with adolescent clinics (nominated already)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCVENUE)
I'm sure venues are very excited when they book the Grammys but Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, Staples Center, and The Beverly Hilton host many prominent events. If the The Recording Academy purpose built theatres, this might be defining, but this is just categorization by rental agreement. There is already a separate list article, List of Grammy Award ceremony locations, for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Eurovision Song Contest venues

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCVENUE)
Each year's winner of the Eurovision song contests gets to host the next year's contest, so there's generally not time to build a new facility, although they're often spruced up. Instead, countries generally use existing stadiums like Moscow Olympic Stadium (built 1980, hosted 2009), Jerusalem International Convention Center (built 1956, hosted 1979 & 1999) and Royal Albert Hall (built 1871, hosted 1968). Baku Crystal Hall was the only one that I found that was purpose built, but I only went through half the articles. The venues are already listified in a sortable column in List of host cities of the Eurovision Song Contest for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Metropolitan Special Constabulary

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SMALLCAT)
The Metropolitan Special Constabulary is a voluntary auxilary to London's Metropolitan Police and I have no conceptual objection to the category. But the only things in this category are the main article, a national law that authorized special cosntables nationwide including in London, and a well populated subcategory for volunteers with no potential for growth that I can anticipate. (If I'm mistaken and we ever get up to 5+ direct articles, no objection to recreating.) All the contents are already well catgorized under the Metro or Special Constabulary cats so no upmerge is needed. -

Category:Films associated with the Beatles

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:C2D and reducing the risk of later WP:OCASSOC
I assumed this category would be WP:OCASSOC but, after going through the articles, these films do seem defined by dominant cultural references band members, having plots based on songs, etc. The main article is The Beatles in film (and the sister category is Category:The Beatles and television) both of which are less likely to accumulate unrelated articles than the current name. -

Category:Films associated with the Bee Gees

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC and WP:SMALLCAT)
The The Supernaturals (film) is in this category because a former member of the band almost scored the soundtrack, which seems like classic WP:OCASSOC. The other 3 articles consist of two movies staring the band and one fictionalized account, so they belong on this tree but there are not enough articles to justify a subcategory. -

Category:Streets associated with the University of Cambridge

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC)
Many of the streets in Canberra go past government buildings, may of the streets in Detroit go past auto factories, and many of the streets in Cambridge go past university buildings because it's a college town. This is not a workable way of categorizing streets because of the category clutter it would eventually create. -

Category:Old Mills and Granaries in Bydgoszcz

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCLOCATION)
Most of this category contains street articles: Grodzka Street in Bydgoszcz goes past an old mill and granaru, a bank, a church and a Holiday Inn hotel while Stary Port Street in Bydgoszcz goes past an old mill and granary, a post office, theatres, docks, and a sculpture. (The third article, Mill Island in Bydgoszcz, is actually about old mills and granaries in Bydgoszcz but it is now well categorized.) This is not a workable way of categorizing streets because of the category clutter it would eventually create. -
  • Background We deleted a similar categories for roads that go by universities right here. -

Category:People associated with Ostróda

Nominator's rationale: Per the spirit of WP:C1, an empty category, and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC)
Ostróda is a city in Poland and we've had the standard Category:People from Ostróda category although, as we recently discussed, even those "from" cats can be a bit ambiguous. This category takes that free association and embraces it by categorizing two football players (1, 2) neither of whom played for the local team or even mention this city in the articles so they shouldn't be in this category. I'm sure the category could be expanded with people who have various loose associations to the city but that runs smack into WP:OCASSOC. -

Category:Non-nationals associated with the Pitcairn Islands

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC and WP:PERFCAT)
Charles Fremantle is in this category because he stopped by in 1833 and tried to resolve a dispute, no idea why Dea Birkett is listed, Luis Marden went there to take pictures for National Goegraphic, Thomas Staines visited in 1814, no idea why Irving Johnson is listed, and Harry L. Shapiro wrote a book about the H.M.S. Bounty. (I added Henry Evans Maude and Charles Blackie to the parent category because they were temporary residents and an official, respectively.) This is classic WP:OCASSOC. -

Category:Roosevelt Institute

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT & WP:OCASSOC)
The Roosevelt Institute is an American think tank founded in 1987 to carry on the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. In addition to namesake Eleanor Roosevelt, this category consists of prominent people who were on the board of directors. Ben Barnes and Katrina vanden Heuvel do mention that affiliation but only in passing with other roles. The rest of don't even mention the association so it doesn't seem defining. The category contents are already listfied right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Political and economic think tanks based in Karachi

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SMALLCAT and WP:OCLOCATION)
The only thing in the parent category is the subcategory and the only thing in the subcategory is the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs. There might be a bit of growth potential beyond the 1 article but there are only 19 articles total under Category:Think tanks based in Pakistan and no other countries have this by city breakdown for think tanks. -

Category:Niskanen Center

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC)
The Niskanen Center is an American liberal think thank and this category contains every single biography article mentioned anywhere in the main article regardless of how they're associated. Jerry Taylor is definitely defined by being the group's president and Will Wilkinson might arguably be defined by being fired by them. The association with all the rest of the articles is so weak that none even mention this organization. The category contents are already listified in the sense that they are somewhere in the main article. -

Category:ABC journalists associated with the Liberal Party of Australia

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME and WP:C2C
These categories consists of either people who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as young people and became prominent politicians and those that were already prominent politicians and were later part of an ABC opinion show. Most these people seem defined as politicians with passing associations to the ABC. -

Category:Monuments associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME and a loose reading of WP:C2C
These are not just associated with Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki but quite specific to those two events. Most, but not all, of the contents of Category:Monuments and memorials use "monuments and memorials". -

Category:Books associated with Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SMALLCAT)
These are all historic manuscripts in the college's special collection but there's only 3 of them without clear growth potential. No objection to recreating later if it ever reaches 5+ articles, but then the name should be Category:Manuscripts of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge per WP:C2C. -

Category:Templates associated with Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:IDONTLIKEIT and maybe WP:C2C
There's not really a risk here of this category being overapplied, I just dislike non-container categories with the phrase "associated with" in them. But the proposed name is more succinct and follows the format of the few university specific template categories we have like Category:Syracuse University navigational boxes and Category:University of Nevada, Las Vegas navigational boxes. -

Category:Organisms associated with Nepenthes

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SMALLCAT)
Nepenthes is a carnivorous pitcher plant and there are a number of Nepenthes infauna that live nearly exclusively on this plant, so there is a subcategory of this one that is well populated and defining. In contrast, the only article directly in this category is List of Nepenthes endophyte species, which contains species that live many places including this plant. Organisms that live many places are not defined by this association so there's no growth potential past the 1 list article. -

Category:Populated places associated with the Chernobyl disaster

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT & WP:OCASSOC)
All but 3 of these articles are already somewhere under Category:Chernobyl Exclusion Zone‎ and Category:Polesie State Radioecological Reserve‎ so I focused on those 3 exceptions: Ivankiv is this category because it "was not as affected by the Chernobyl disaster compared to other towns" which is clearly not defining. The other two, Slavutych and Vilcha, Kharkiv Oblast, were Chernobyl relocation centers and should be kept under this tree. -

Category:Organisations associated with the Bengal Renaissance

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC) and maybe WP:OR
The association with these organisations must be pretty slight: not a single article in this category even mentions the Bengal Renaissance in the text. (4 of the articles do list have Template:Bengal Renaissance, but the reason for that inclusion of that template is equally unclear.) The child category has content on this topic though and should be kept in the tree. -

Category:Frequent flyer programs associated with credit cards

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC, WP:TRIVIALCAT, & WP:OVERLAPCAT)
I can't claim false advertising here: all of these articles are frequent flyer programs that associated with credit cards but so are all the contemporary contents of Category:Frequent flyer programs. Affinity credit cards are ubiquitous with not only travel programs but alumni associations, sports teams, and charities but having a branded credit card isn't defining. -

Category:Lontar foundation training participants

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME, MOS:PROPER, ^& WP:C2C
Some volunteers with the Lontar Foundation coordinate with Wikimedia Indonesia to create more biography articles in English Wikipieda and this is a user category for those participants. "Lontar Foundation" is a proper name. Subcategories of Category:Wikipedia user space generally start with "Wikipedian" or "Users" and Category:Wikipedian Peace Corps volunteers‎ is the closest naming format I could find. -

Category:Traffic participants

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME and a loose reading of WP:C2C
This category contains 3 articles: Passenger, Pedestrian, & Stowaway. I was looking for a merge target given the small size but these aren't Category:Transport occupations and they should stay somewhere under the Category:Transport tree. (Open to alternative renames or a merge.) -

Category:Australian law support structures

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING generally
No other country has a similar category and, while I'm open to unique English variations or legal structures for Australia, there is no Law support structure article to ground this category. At this point, the category is just adding a layer without navigational benefit. -
  • Background We previously upmerged a similar Christmas Island category right here but it wasn't under this one so I missed it. I dont' think there are any others. -

Category:Locations near Mount Everest

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:SUBJECTIVECAT)
I can't accuse this category of false advertising: all these mountain peaks are indeed near Mount Everest but they're also in Category:Mountains of the Himalayas. But what qualifies as "near" is subjective and we already have overlapping non-subective categories: Category:Mountains of the Province No. 1 for the Nepalese side of the border and Category:Mountains of Tibet for the Chinese controlled side. In the articles space, we already have List of Himalayan peaks and passes for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Early American industrial centers

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SUBJECTIVECAT)
All of these are mill towns that may fit this description but there's no accepted cutoff for what "early" would mean and picking a date would just switch the problem to WP:SUBJECTIVECAT. Other categories under the Industrial Revolution are less subjective including Category:Industrial buildings by heritage register and Category:Cotton mills in the United States. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:57, 14 April 2021 (UTC)

Category:Cities with Free Land in the United States

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING in general
The Homestead Acts gave public lands in the United States that had been cleared of Native Americans in exchange for starting farms on them starting in 1850. This category lists towns mostly in Kansas that were part of this program in the 1800s like Ellsworth, Kansas and Osborne, Kansas. (The offer is no longer open!) It's normal for city articles to mention their history and they can cover homesteading but this category is not defining. -

Category:Web Summit Speaker

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT)
The computing/technology/web industry has dozens of annual conferences in Category:Technology conferences and the Web Summit is one of the more prominent ones but people in the industry would participate in many over time. According to the header of the category, this is for "People who have spoken, presented or been interviewed at the Web Summit" which is a textbook performance category. -

Category:Hepatitis survivors

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT and maybe WP:PERFCAT)
We have a category for Category:Deaths from hepatitis so this is for people that survived hepatitis. There are two articles in this category which both mention the disease in passing:
1. BayWatch star Pamela Anderson contracted Hep C when getting a tattoo with Tommy Lee but was cured with medication
2. Korean American journalist K. W. Lee contracted Hep B and obtained a liver transplant.
I certainly can't argue WP:SMALLCAT here though since there is definitely growth potential: according to the main article the Hep A rate in children approaches 90% in low resource countries, Hep B has over 240 million global carriers, and about 20% of the population of Egypt has Hep C. During the course of lifetime, people will have multiple non-fatal health issues and this seems too common to be defining. -
  • Background We recently deleted another disease survivor category right here. -

Category:Stroke survivors

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT and maybe WP:PERFCAT)
We have a category for Category:Deaths from stroke so this is for people that survived strokes. There are 300+ articles in the category which generally mention having a stroke later in their lives. That could be just the beginning though: according to the main article strokes are the 2nd leading reason for death globally and about 17 million survie them per year. During the course of lifetime, people will have multiple non-fatal health issues and this seems too common to be defining. -
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Category:People with type 2 diabetes

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT and maybe WP:PERFCAT)
I certainly can't argue WP:SMALLCAT here since there is definitely growth potential for what was formerly known as adult-onset diabetes. According to the Type 2 diabetes article there wre 392 million people with the disease in 2005 and the World Health Organization classifies it as a global epidemic. Wikipedia is not a place for medical records for every medical issue encountered in their lives. -
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Category:People with dependent personality disorder

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:RS and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SUBJECTIVECAT)
Dependent personality disorder is a recognized psychiatric diagnosis that is characterized by a pervasive psychological dependence on other people but this category is different than the other ones I've looked at: without a single exception, this category consists of indicted criminal defendants whose legal teams claimed (usually unsuccessfully) that their clients had this disorder. Certainly undiagnosed mental health issues can lead to bad outcomes so maybe some of these defendants had it but but the sources here are problematic because news outlets are repeating legal claims that were disputed at trial but which this category presents as fact. We're really categorizing serial killers and others by legal defense tactic here. -

People who have or had an infectious disease that didn't kill them, at least not yet

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT and maybe WP:PERFCAT)
We have a categories for people who died from all of these diseases so these are the equivalent categories for people that did not die. One problem here is that many of these diseases are chronic or have significan long-term health implications. The bigger problem is that Wikipedia is not a medical history of every diseases or ailment (even serious ones) notable people contract in their lives. -
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The entire Category:Cancer survivors tree

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT and maybe WP:PERFCAT)
We have a categories for people who died from all of these types of cancers so these are the equivalent categories for people that did not die. Part of the problem here is that cancer survivors will eventually die of something, and there's an above average chance that it will be cancer which creates a maintenance issue. While these all might be cancers, they have very different prognoses: prostate cancer has a 99% five year survival rate while pancreatic cancer is 6%. The bigger problem is that Wikipedia is not a medical history of every diseases or ailment (even serious ones) notable people contract in their lives. -
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Category:People with color blindness

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT, WP:COP and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
Howie Mandel, Brian Foster (BMX rider), and Rod Stewart are not remotely defined by this medical condition and Wikipedia is not a medical history of every diseases or ailment of notable people. There's already a separate list article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:People with Guillain–Barré syndrome

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT, WP:COP and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
Deborah McFadden had Guillain–Barré syndrome start as a young adult and she is partly known as a disibility rights activists. That's as defining as this category gets because it otherwise consists of people who were notable for unrelated reasons, had the syndrome in later life, and then died of something else (Examples: 1, 2, 3). There is already a separate list, List of people with Guillain–Barré syndrome, for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:People born with cleft palate

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT, WP:COP and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
I certainly can't argue WP:SMALLCAT here because, according to the Cleft lip and cleft palate article, it occurs "in about 1 to 2 per 1000 births in the developed world" and these biographies are from the developed world. Comedian Cheech Marin, racing executive Charles Jeter, and sing Richard Hawley are not remotely defined by this medical condition and the articles give it a passing mention in the "early life" sections. Wikipedia is not a medical history of every diseases or ailment of notable people. -

Category:People with developmental coordination disorder

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT, WP:COP and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
I certainly can't argue WP:SMALLCAT here because, according to the Developmental coordination disorder article, "this disorder affects 5 to 6 percent of school-aged children". I'm gonna stop right there. -

Category:People with insomnia

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT, WP:COP and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
Chronic insomnia can be a serious medical condition but this tends to come up tangentially in articles. The Button King made buttons when he couldn't sleep, Tallulah Bankhead got hooked on sleeping pills she took for insomnia, while the reason for including Ibn al-Khatib is unclear. These people do not seem defined by this medical condition and Wikipedia is not a medical history of every diseases or ailment of notable people. -

Category:People with Axenfeld syndrome

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SMALLCAT and, for now, WP:OVERLAPCAT)
Axenfeld syndrome is a rare genetic disorder which affects the development of the teeth, eyes, and abdominal region but the only article in this category is Jade Etherington. Ms. Etherington is defined by being a Paralympic athlete with a vision impairment but we already have Category:Paralympic athletes with a vision impairment so this category seems redundant in that particular case. The growth potential here is very limited because of the rareness of this syndrome: except for the namesake Dr. Axenfeld, I didn't see any other biography articles linking to this disorder. No objection to re-evaluating if we ever get up tp 5+ articles. -

Category:People with prosopagnosia

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT, WP:TOPTEN), WP:COP and WP:RS
Prosopagnosia or "face blindness" is a medical condition where the eyes functional normally but the brain has trouble recognizing faces and, according to that main article, 2.5% (1 in 25) of the generally population has it. This condition is clearly integral to portrait artist Chuck Close but the defingness of this category ends right there.
Multiple citations rely on a single source of a Top Ten clickbaity gallery of celebrities, albeit a source that is reliable in other contexts. Other category entries are based on celebrities self identifying as being face blind in interviews, like with Steve Wozniak right here. The category contents are now listified right here for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:People with scoliosis

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT, WP:COP and WP:NONDEFINING
According to the Scoliosis article, the curving of the spine effects between 2-3% of the American population. Of the 17 articles in this category, 12 either don't mention it at all or give 1 sentence in their childhood like with Laura Dern#Early life, Chloë Sevigny#1974–1993: Early life, and James Blake (tennis)#Early life and education. We get 3 sentences for Isabella Rossellini#Early life and also learn she had an appendectomy at age 5. Richard III of England does have a paragraph describing his reputation as a hunchback with the analysis of his recently found remains but that still seems like a stretch. (The only article defined by this condition is Brooke Lyons who wrote a book on it and founded an organization, so I added her to Category:Health activists since we don't have enough content for Category:Scoliosis activists.) I don't feel able to write a list that would pass WP:LISTN but I copied all the category contents right here so no work is lost if another editor is up to the task. -

Category:People with biliary atresia

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT, WP:COP and WP:NONDEFINING
Biliary atresia is a "childhood disease of the liver in which one or more bile ducts are abnormally narrow, blocked, or absent". The only article in the category is Kendall Ciesemier but WP:SMALLCAT is not a concern: according to that main article, the rates vary from 1 in 16,700 in the British Isles to 1 in 5,000 in East Asia. So not so common that you'd hear of it a lot, but not so rare that a large population wouldn't have many cases. People today often have several childhood illnesses and many more in the past and Wikipedia is not a medical record for every illness that notable people experience. -

Category:People with cataracts

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT, WP:COP and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT, WP:PERFCAT)
The header of this category reads as follows:
This category is for people who were afflicted with eye cataracts at any stage of life, whether treated successfully or not.
While there are exceptions, cataracts are a common medical issue later in life. For historical figures, this condition may have dramatically reduced their quality of life but after they already established notability; for contemporary biographies, this is more likely a passing medical condition. Neither seems defined by this category and Wikipedia is not a medical history of every disease or ailment of notable people. -

Category:People with Lyme disease

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT, WP:COP and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT, WP:PERFCAT)
According to the Lyme Disease article, 300,000 people contract the disease in the United States and 65,000 in Europe every year and it's a temporary illness. Justin Bieber had it in 2020, Michael J. Fox had it in 1997, while Debbie Gibson had it in 2013 none of which seems defining. Avril Lavigne is in this category because she did a single charity concern for a pseudo-scientific Chronic Lyme disease group but that's WP:PERFCAT. Wikipedia is not a medical history of every disease or ailment of notable people. -

Category:Perpetual travellers

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:BLPCAT
A Perpetual traveler (PT) is a term for someone who lives intentionally lives in multiple countries. The category only has two articles, none of which mention this term, but there is certainly expansion potential. The problem here is that this term has strong connotations of borderline legal tax avoidance schemes. Indeed, "Prior taxpayer" is an alternate name for the concept. -

Category:South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation people

Nominator's rationale: Per the spirit of WP:C2D, matching the main article, and to avoid WP:PERFCAT
The main article in this category is Secretary General of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation and people who lead the organisation are definitely defined by the association. All but one of the current articles are Secretaries General so this is mostly a truth in advertising but I'm not running it through speedy since the scope will be narrower. -

Category:Category:SAARC user templates

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT
No conceptual objection to this category but the only thing in it is Template:User interest SAARC and I don't anticipate a second template. No objection to recreating if I'm wrong and more content is created. -


Category:Computer olympiads

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT and the spirit of WP:C2F, one eponymous article
No conceptual objection to this category but the only thing in it is the main article, Computer Olympiad, and Template:Computer Olympiads which is already in that same main article. There's no navigational purpose for this category and I don't anticipate future notable articles but, if I'm wrong and we ever get up to 5 articles, no objection to recreating. (Alternatively, if kept, rename to Category:Category:Computer Olympiads to fix the capitalization.) -

Category:Plays which debuted after the writer's death

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
Some of these plays were produced shortly after the playwright's death and others were produced much later when their reputation had grown. The closest this category comes to being defining is that it causes two of the plays to be unfinished, but we have Category:Unfinished plays for that. This category seems pretty trivial but I copied the contents right here so no work is lost if anyone wants to start a list article. -

Category:The Pinball Arcade‎

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT for both and WP:OVERLAPCAT for Stern)
The Pinball Arcade is a video game that simulates a mix of real-world/physical pinball machines while Stern Pinball Arcade only shows simulations of pinball machines manufactured by Stern (game company). We usually think of WP:PERFCAT as being with people but that exactly describes these non-defining categories. (For the Stern game, there's also an overlap issue with Category:Stern pinball machines.) he contents of each category is already listified in each main article. -
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Category:Monuments and memorials to David Garrick

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:Memorials to David Garrick and the spirito of WP:C1, an empty category
No conceptual objection to this category, but it consists of articles with nothing to do with English actor David Garrick except for being named after him like the Garrick Theatre (Stockport), Garrick Theatre (Guildford) and Lichfield Garrick Theatre. No objection to recreating the category if we ever get up to 5 or so articles of actual monuments and memorials and no objection to creating a list article now. -

Category:Memorials to Shyama Prasad Mukherjee

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME and the spirit of WP:C1, an empty category
No conceptual objection to this category, but it consists of 4 articles with nothing to do with the prominent Indian politician Syama Prasad Mukherjee except for being named after him . The power station, stadium, zoo and swimming pool complex would have been built anyway and have little clear connection to Mr. Mukherjee. (No objection to recreating the category if we ever get up to 5 or so articles of actual monuments and memorials and no objection to creating a list article now.) -

Category:Monuments and memorials to William Tryon

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME and the spirit of WP:C1, an empty category
No conceptual objection to this category, but it consists of 3 articles with nothing to do with the prominent British colonial governor William Tryon except for being named after him . The Canadian town, American town and park (which is actually named after a fort named after him) have little clear connection to Mr. Tryon. (No objection to recreating the category if we ever get up to 5 or so articles of actual monuments and memorials and no objection to creating a list article now.) -

Category:Memorials to Fatima Jinnah

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME and the spirit of WP:C1, an empty category
No conceptual objection to this category, but it consists of articles with little to do with Fatima Jinnah except for being named after her like the Fatima Jinnah Dental College, Fatima Jinnah Medical University and Fatima Jinnah Women University. No objection to recreating the category if we ever get up to 5 or so articles of actual monuments and memorials and no objection to creating a list article now. -

Category:Hypericum species named after a person

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
Hypercium (aka "St. John's wort") is a widespread plant with many varieties: Hypericum canariense is named for the Canary Islands, Hypericum perforatum is named because small clear spots give it a perforated appearance, and this category groups varieties named after people, mostly botanists who didn't have any clear connection to the plants. We do have a whole tree of Category:Botanical taxa by author for the botanists who identified the plant but no similar sibling categories for plants named after people. All 4 articles are already in the Category:Hypericum parent category so no upmerge is needed. -

Category:Buildings and structures named after companies

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT and WP:SHAREDNAME
I've created some subcategories of Category:Buildings and structures by company like Category:Coca-Cola buildings and structures to group related articles, in that case mostly bottling plants. But this category groups any building named after any company. While it only has 8 articles now it certainly doesn't suffer from WP:SMALLCAT and could grow dramatically. I'm trying to imagine a reader who would want a direct navigation path between an insurance building in London (Lloyd's building) and hockey stadium hosting a college team in Minnesota that Verizon previously had naming rights to (Mankato Civic Center, formerly Verizon Arena). -

Category:Ships named for Founding Fathers of the United States

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SHAREDNAME)
The Jefferson Memorial and Statue of Ben Franklin were both purpose built for specific people and are both defined by that association. In contrast, the Jefferson Nuclear Submarine and Ben Franklin Aircraft Carrier were both going to be built anyway and were just named in someone's honor, just like Jefferson Street and Ben Franklin High School. (The intros to the ship articles do mostly have a sentence about their namesake being a founding father, but those were usually added by category creator.) -
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Category:People for whom the U.S. Navy named ships

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT and WP:SHAREDNAME
The U.S. Navy names ships after prominent (usually) deceased Americans baving streets, schools and ships named after someone is not defining and creates a category with nothing else in common. I can't imagine a Wikipedia reader who would want a direct navigational path between John F. Kennedy, Sacagawea and the Wright brothers. This might work under Category:Lists of ships of the United States so I copied all the category contents right here so no work is lost if another editors wants to start a list. -
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Category:Ships of North America

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCLOCATION)
This is an unnecessary category layer containing only Category:Great Lakes ships, which is already well parented. Categorizing ships by continent just doesn't make sense since, excepting the Great Lakes, they're generally ocean bound. (The only sibling category is Category:Ships of Australia, but that's part of the ships by country tree.) -

Category:Design 1095 ships of the United States Navy

Nominator's rationale: Per classic WP:SMALLCAT
Only 7 Design 1095 ships were ever built during the 1920s and all were used as civilian merchant ships. Just 1 of those was later bought by the US Navy during WWII. So this is a 1 article category, with no growth potential, and this service branch breakdown is not "part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme" under the parent category tree. -

Category:American criminals by ethnic or national origin

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCEGRS
There is certainly an ethnic component to criminal gangs and crime families, so we have Category:Organized crime in the United States by ethnicity tree. This category tree is different though: it categories individual biography articles by the intersection of ethnicity and criminal conviction. I'm certainly open to categories grouping sociological/criminology articles about ethnicity and crime but assuming these attributes are automatically linked fore each person is unfounded and prone to abuse. -
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Category:Parties that campaigned for leave/remain during the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING and the spirit of WP:OPINIONCAT
Brexit is certainly dominant in UK politics today and has been since 2016. But most the current major parties of the UK were founded long before 2016: Conservative (1834), Labour (1900), Scottish Nationalist (1934), Liberal Democrats (1988), DUP (1971), The Independent Group (2019), Sinn Féin (1905), Plaid (1925), Green Party (1990). Looking through the minor parties, most have one line that they campaigned for or against. This is better for a list article. -

Category:International opponents of apartheid in South Africa

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OPINIONCAT)
Both within South Africa and internationally, there were activists defined by their opposition to Apartheid and we have a category for them: Category:Anti-apartheid activists. This is a separate category that has international leaders who took positions on a wide variety of issues including Apartheid like Mikhail Gorbachev, Muammar Gaddafi, Bernie Sanders, Idi Amin, Neil Kinnock, Ho Chi Minh and Kwame Nkrumah. (The only reference to South Africa in the Bruce Springsteen, Melle Mel and Bonnie Raitt articles is that they all sang in Sun City, an anti-apartheid fundraising song, which is WP:PERFCAT.) This whole category is classic WP:OPINIONCAT. -

If the category gets deleted and a list article is desired, the current articles in each category is listed below:

Thank you. -

Category:Things named after Nursultan Nazarbayev

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
These categories are exactly what they sound like, textbook WP:SHAREDNAME. And most of these were created by a banned sock puppet. -

Category:Places named for Confederate heroes by state

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
These categories are with, few exceptions, U.S. counties that were named after prominent historical figures. We already have a List of U.S. counties named after prominent Confederate historical figures. (The contents of the Louisiana subcategory are more varied and include several towns and a college dormitory.) The source of the name does not seem defining to categorize the county articles here; this is better handled by a list. Alternative, if kept, rename to a more neutral name. -

1 and 2 article Municipal Award subcategories

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT and WP:OCLOCATION
I created the Category:Municipal awards parent category but the whole tree only has 17 articles total so far and about half of those are under the New York City and Tel Aviv subcats. Obviously I have no conceptual objection to categorization by country and city, but I don't think the WP:SMALLCAT exception for "a large overall accepted sub-categrization scheme" applies when the whole tree has been anemic since it was created back in 2011. No objection to recreating any of these categories later if they ever get up to 5 articles. -

1 and 2 article church categories in New York (state))

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCLOCATION, WP:OCINTESECTION, and WP:SMALLCAT
These intersection by denomination/location categories are all 1 or 2 article and tend to hinder navigation since they break up small groups of articles and none of the target/merge categories are overly large. As far as growth potential, there are some other churches we don't have articles on in most of the categoreis but too few are notable to foreseeably get to 5 or so articles. -

1 and 2 article Greek Orthodox church categories

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCLOCATION, WP:NARROWCAT, and WP:SMALLCAT
These intersection by denomination/location categories are all 1 or 2 article and tend to hinder navigation since they break up small groups of articles and none of the target/merge categories are overly large. As far as growth potential, there are some other churches we don't have articles on in most of the categories but too few are notable to foreseeably get to 5 or so articles. With the cathedral categories, there likely is no room for growth outside of Greece. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:58, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

Category:Almighty Vice Lord Nation

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT
The Almighty Vice Lord Nation is actually a rather large gang in Chicago but, per the article, the group has tried to keep a low profile with a conservative or Muslim covers which means it's less likely to create individually notable members so category growth is limited. Right now the only articles are the main one and that of a co-founder. No objection to recreating the category if I'm wrong and 5 or so articles ever materialize. -

Category:Bryn Athyn College

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT
Bryn Athyn College is a small religious school outside Philadelphia and, right now, the category contains the main article and the school seal (which is already in the infobox of that same main article.) I assumed I could populate any college category but I wasn't able to even scrape together an alumni subcategory. The article mentions that the school is surrounded by notable historical religious structures but none of them are part of the college and they are already under Category:General Church of the New Jerusalem and I created Category:Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. -

Category:Textile mills in Saratoga County, New York

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCLOCATION
Much of the Mohawk River is almost lined with former mill sites, including the stretch through Saratoga County, so there may be growth potential here. But we don't categorize any other US mills by county, these mills are defined by river not county, and the expanded category could pull a number of articles from Category:Textile mills in the United States including Globe Woolen Company Mills, Harmony Mills, West Brothers Knitting Company and Wild's Mill Complex. -

Category:Bicycle gangs (Passed Leaving Redirect)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SUBJECTIVECAT and WP:POVNAMING
The gang article and Category:Gangs both refer to criminal organizations and none of the articles here are about organized crime groups. 2 of the 6 articles do use the term but there is no main article on a Bicycle gang to provide context and it's unclear what objective criteria would exist. -

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Category:Lists of fictional gangs

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT and WP:SMALLCAT
We have one list article for fictional gangs unsurprisingly named List of fictional gangs and that's the only thing in this narrow category. That article is already well categorized under Category:Fictional gangs, Category:Lists of fictional organizations and Category:Lists of gangs and the category has limited room for growth. -

Category:People murdered by the Kansas City crime family

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SPECULATION, WP:COP & WP:OVERLAPCAT
The three biography articles in this category are all organized crime figures in the Kansas City area, all three are already under Category:Kansas City crime family, and all three met a violent end. Maybe I'm being naïve here, but none of the murders were ever officially solved and this category appears speculative about who killed them. -

Category:Christmas Island support structures

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OC generally
I assumed this was a Buildings & Structures category but the only thing in it is Category:Courts of Christmas Island which is already well categorized. I didn't see any equivalent categories under Category:Proposed states and territories of Australia and, whatever the intent here, it's not aiding navigation for this territory. -

Category:Gangs in Pittsburgh

Nominator's rationale: No conceptual problem with the category but there is only one article (Pittsburgh crime family) so it doesn't aid navigation right now and there don't seem to be many notable gangs based in Pittsburgh to allow for future growth. (Disclosure: The national Polish-American organized crime article makes only passing references to Pittsburgh and a number of other cities so I removed it from this category.) -

Category:Royal National Theatre Company members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:NONDEFINING
I don't object to employer categories for showbiz people if their employees tend to work there for much of their career. So I looked at the first 5 articles alphabetically and here is what I found: 1 - No Mention, 2 - One play in 2004, 3 - "from time to time" in the 1970s, 4 - No Mention, 5 - One play in 2009. Clicking randomly through some more articles, this seems to be representative. The Royal National Theatre is certainly respected and is a national symbol of the UK but that prestige doesn't make individual performances there any more defining for the actors in this category. The We have a partial List of Royal National Theatre Company actors but I'm reluctant to just add the hundreds of members of this category since so many are unsourced. (I did list the contents on that talk page so no work is lost though.) -
Note: I notified Orbicle as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Theatre. –
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Category:Fictional Detroit Police Department officers

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT and WP:SMALLCAT
I don't have any conceptual problem with these categories since they work fine for New York City, but these categories only contain two articles total: RoboCop and Axel Foley. There is a sub-genre of cop movies set in Detroit but few of the characters would be individually notable so the growth potential is limited. No objection to recreating either category if 5 or so articles ever materialize. -
Note: Notified Soxman07 as the category creator and I added this discussion to the Detroit Task Force. –

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Category:Metropolitan Special Constabulary

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT approaching WP:C2F
The Metropolitan Special Constabulary is a volunteer Special Constabulary with the London Metropolitan Police. I have no conceptual objection to such a category but the only things in it are the main article, a national law that impacted all police that I don't think belongs, and a membership sub-category. I don't think there's growth potential and a merge is not need for a merge because all the contents are already somewhere under both Category:Special Constabulary (which I just created) and Category:Metropolitan Police. -

Category:1990 International League season

16 more categories covering 1994-2009
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT
I don't have any conceptual problem with this granular breakdown since it works fine for the Major Leagues. But every single one of these categories contains just 1 article, such as 1990 International League season, so this approach muddles navigation. (2008 and 2009 also contain a few templates that are better grouped here.) No objection to recreating any of these if 5 or so articles ever materialize. -
Note: Notified Nick22aku as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Baseball. –

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Category:Members of The Planetary Society

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING
According to the article, The Planetary Society, the organization has 40,000 members. This is not a learned society that is invitation only or restricts membership through an application process. If you want to join, just fill out this form, provide a credit card to pay $50/year, and you're immediately in the club. (Note that this includes a T-shirt!) I don't think this category comes within a country mile of being defining. -
Note: The notified Kuralyov as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Organizations. –

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Category:Members of the Yamaneko Group of Comet Observers

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT and perhaps WP:NONDEFINING
According to the article, Yamaneko Group of Comet Observers, this is a group of astronomical observers in Japan. The only article in this category is Akimasa Nakamura so I linked the two articles to each other to maintain a navigational pathway. I'm not finding much information online on this topic (at least in English) so I don't think the growth potential is good. Both articles are very short so it's not clear whether or not the membership is defining. -
Note: The notified Kjmonkey as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Astronomy. –

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Category:Artworks surveyed by Save Outdoor Sculpture! in Oregon

14 more state categories
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT, WP:TRIVIALCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:V
Save Outdoor Sculpture! was a program to encourage local appreciation and preservation of public sculptures in the United States that consists of volunteers filling out a form describing the condition of the sculpture, usually with a photo. It's was so common, there used to be a Girls Scout patch for participating (source) and, as of 2009, over 30,000 American sculptures had been cataloged per the article. This hardly seems defining and I can't find any online site that still lists which sculptures were included so it's no longer verifiable. -
Note: The notified Missvain as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Public Art. –

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Category:Minor planets named for members of The Beatles

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING, WP:SMALLCAT, the spirit of WP:SHAREDNAME, WP:TRIVIALCAT, and the spirit of WP:C1, an empty category
This category groups together asteroids or other minor planets named after the four band members of The Beatles. The category currently consists of 4 redirects that all point to the same list article: List of minor planets: 4001–5000.
There are a lot of issues here: How are objects in space defined by a British rock band just because they share the same name? Why are we creating effectively empty categories based entirely on redirects to the same article? Even if we created stub articles, the maximum number would be 4 so there's no growth potential. This all seems very trivial, along with the rest of Category:Minor planets by source of name, because it groups objects in space together based solely on their name. It's like grouping mountains by how they are named. -
Note: Notified Tom.Reding as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject The Beatles. –
  • Related Nomination There is an open nomination for deleting "Category:Asteroids named as an award" right here. Your input (pro/con/other) is always welcome. -

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The entire Category:Minor planets by source of name tree

15 more mythology subcategories
Nominator's rationale: Per the spirit of WP:SHAREDNAME and WP:NONDEFINING in general
There are no casinos to gamble at on 82332 Las Vegas, no wombats running around on 6827 Wombat, no rivers on 13096 Tigris, no fans of Big Bang Theory on 246247 Sheldoncooper, no eggs on 17627 Humptydumpty and Apollo is the freakin' god of the Sun not some minor planet like 1862 Apollo. Grouping together asteroids or other minor planets after how people on Earth named them isn't defining. This is a large category tree with hundreds of articles and tens of thousands of redirects. All of the 200 or so minor planet articles I clicked on are well categorized elsewhere in the minor planets tree and List of minor planets named after animals and plants and similar lists are already grouped in Category:Lists of meanings of minor planet names. (No objection if anyone wants to convert any of these categories to hidden/admin categories for redirects.) We don't categorize mountains and islands on Earth like this and it doesn't aid navigation to do so in space. -
  • Background We previously deleted some specific subcategories of this tree here and here. -

Category:Christmas tree farming (Renamed With Redirect)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:C2D, facilitating concordance between a particular category's name and a related page's name
Normally I would propose syncing up the category name with the main article name through the speedy process, but there are two rival main articles here neither of which matches the category name: Christmas tree production and Christmas tree cultivation. the latter is an occupation article and most the category deals with production more broadly. -
Note: Notified IvoShandorr as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Forestry. –

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Category:Nineteen Eighty-Four locations

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT and WP:SMALLCAT
I don't have any conceptual problem with this category but it was created 8 years ago and it still only has the one article (plus an unused image file). The growth potential here is limited since the locations in 1984 are probably not individually notable. No objection to recreating if 5 or so articles ever materialize. -
Note: Notified Goustien as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Novels. –

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Category:Operation Grapes of Wrath

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:SMALLCAT and WP:COMMONNAME
Operation Grapes of Wrath was an Israeli offensive against Hezbollah to discourage rocket attacks during the South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000). The only article in this category is that main article and it's not clear what else would go in this subcategory versus staying in the parent category, Category:South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000). Finally, I think the name of this operations (versus the novel of the same name) is too obscure to aid navigation for readers. -
Note: The notified Dimadick as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Lebanon. –

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Category:Movember

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC and WP:SMALLCAT
Movember is an annual event in November to grow mustaches to raise money and awareness for prostate cancer. I have no conceptual objection to this category but, in practice, it is just a loose assortment of people, organizations and companies that have supported the fundraiser. Purging doesn't seem like a good option here because it would leave just two article: the main one and this one with little potential for growth. No objection to recreating this if we ever get up to 5 or so true articles. -
Note: The notified Timpace as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Health and fitness. –

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Category:People associated with Arthritis Research UK

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC, WP:NONDEFINING and WP:SMALLCAT
These two categories contain only two articles combined: the Arthritis Research UK article I just added and a single person with only a passing reference to being a member. The only growth potential I see here is adding other, loosely associated people. -
Note: The notified Stumbling stone as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Medicine. –

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Category:Gluten-free restaurants

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING, WP:PERFCAT and WP:SMALLCAT
These aren't restaurants that are gluten free as an overall concept, all but 1 of them are restaurants that have gluten free options available on the menu. It's like having Category:Restaurants that have Chicken Kiev on their dinner menu. Only one of the articles in the category, Thrive Cafe, is entirely gluten-free but that would leave a 1 article category. -
Note: The notified Epeefleche as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Food and drink. –

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC and WP:COMMONNAME
This category sounds like it might involve taxidermy in Smithsonian exhibits but it actually groups individual animals--mostly pandas--in the National Zoological Park (United States), which is under the Smithsonian. I doubt many zoo goers are aware of the parent company so the category name clear, grouping animals as a "museum collection" doesn't match the rest of that tree, and expanding the scope would allow us to add related articles: 1, 2, 3, 4. (Alternatively, if we really wanted to keep the current scope, Category:Individual animals at the National Zoological Park (United States) would be clearer if a bit wordy.) -
Note: The creator, notified Kumioko, was banned indefinitely but I added this discussion to [[Wikipedia talk:GLAM/Smi

Category:Iranian military personnel promoted posthumously

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V and WP:NONDEFINING generally
The Iranian officers in these categories were generally killed in action like with Ahmad Keshvari, Gholamali Bayandor, and Ali Sayad Shirazi but the articles generally don't mention the promotion. In the US context, police officers killed in the line of duty are often promoted posthumously to increase the pension for the surviving family. I'm not sure if this is also an economic benefit or an informal award to those killed in action and there is no Posthumous military promotions in Iran article to provide cultural context. There are no equivalent categories for other countries under Category:Posthumous recognitions. -

Category:129th Field Artillery Regiment

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT for the subcat and, for the parent category, WP:C2F one eponymous article
We have 47 regiments under Category:Field artillery regiments of the United States Army National Guard and this is the only one with a separate category, which would be fine if it was populated but there are 3 articles total. The 1 article in the parent category is 129th Field Artillery Regiment. The 2 biography articles in the subcat are U.S. President Harry S. Truman and his aid, Harry H. Vaughan. Both were career military officers who serviced with multiple regiments and categorizing by each one would create category clutter. All three articles are well categorized so no mergers are needed. -

Category:Members of the American Legion

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC
I certainly can't claim WP:SMALLCAT here because the American Legion currently has 1.8 million members. Many veterans became politically active through the organization and, where appropriate, can be placed under Category:American veterans' rights activists. But this category consists mostly of politicians who joined the organization including names you'll recognize like George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Harry S. Truman. We already have a stand-alone list, List of members of the American Legion, but the contents differ so I listed the current category contents right here so now work is lost if another editor wants to expand that article. -

Category:Operation Homefront

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT
Operation Homefront is an American veteran organization. An organizational category is fine and so is a subcategory for the national heads of that organization but the only 2 articles here are Operation Homefront and CEO John I. Pray with little growth potential. Those articles are both crosslinked and well categorized so no merge is needed. No objection to recreating (or creating a CEO subcat) if either ever get up to 5+ articles. -

Category:Romanov Family Association members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT
After the royal family was executed in 1918 during the Russian Revolution, the escaped and already overseas members remain defined as being the House of Romanov in exile which is why we already have Category:House of Romanov in exile. In 1979, the Romanov Family Association was created and its membership is limited to legitimate descendants, although there is some controversy over the lineage. Being a member of a family association isn't defining when we already have a category for that same family. -

Category:International Game Developers Association members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC and WP:TRIVIALCAT
International Game Developers Association is a membership based organization you can join right here with a credit card: $60/yr for standard individual membership or $30/yr for students. This category contains companies not people though and, while the IGDA website does list corporate "affiliates", that official list doesn't match this category so I'm not sure if we're categorizing by former members or there is some other IGDA relationship involved. Whatever this association is or was, it doesn't seem defining in the articles. -

Category:Members of the United Confederate Veterans

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT
I certainly can't claim WP:SMALLCAT here because, at its peak, the United Confederate Veterans had 1,555 different "camps" (aka lodges/chapters). The organization represented ex-solders who had fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War so all of these biographies should already be somewhere under Category:Confederate States of America military personnel. Simply joining a membership organization is not defining and would create category clutter.
We already have a separate list article, List of members of the United Confederate Veterans, for any reader interested in this topic but the contents differ so I copied the current contents right here so no work is lost if another editor wants to expand that article. -
  • Background We recently deleted another membership category for another veteran group right here. -

Category:Grand Army of the Republic members (Passed as Redirect)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT
I certainly can't claim WP:SMALLCAT here because, at its peak, the Grand Army of the Republic organization had over 40,000 members. The organization represented ex-solders who had fought for the Union side during the American Civil War so all of these biographies should already be somewhere under Category:Union military personnel. The G.A.R. was very prominent in Republican politics so this category contains multiple U.S. presidents but simply joining a membership organization is not defining and would create category clutter. (I copied the current category contents right here in case another editor wants to start a list article.) -
  • Background We previously deleted another membership category for the equivalent Confederate veteran organization right here. -

Category:Union of Iraqi Writers

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:C2F and WP:SMALLCAT (parent category); WP:V and WP:OCASSOC (subcategory)
The only article in the parent category is Union of Iraqi Writers and there's not obvious growth potential but no objection to recreating if it ever gets to 5+ articles. There are 4 articles in the subcategory (1, 2, 3, 4), none of which even mention this organisation and it's not clear that it would be defining if they did. All the biographies are already somewhere under Category:Iraqi writers so there's no need for a merge. -

Category:Members of the Motion Picture Association

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT & WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Motion Picture Association is an industry trade association for the major American film studios: Netflix Paramount, Sony, Universal, Disney, & Warner Bros. Being an American film studio is absolutely defining which is why we already have Category:American film studios and these are all now global media companies that must belong to a number of different trade associations. The category contents are already listified right in the intro of the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We previously deleted a category for members of industry trade associations here, here, here, and here. -

Category:IATA members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT & WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The International Air Transport Association is an industry trade association representing airlines and it is so dominant that it represents 82% of the world's total available seat miles, with the exceptions typically being domestic carriers. That main article discusses the organization's dominance in the industry and how it has often been accused of anti-competitive price fixing and being a cartel. The "former" subcategory is not for airlines that left the association--that's not really a thing--but for members that went out of business since the IATA was founded in 1945. Normally I suggest listification but the the 500+ articles here significantly overlap with Category:Airlines. -
  • Background We previously deleted a category for members of industry trade associations here, here, here, and here. -

Category:International Stability Operations Association

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT & WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The International Stability Operations Association is an industry trade association representing private military contractors, what we used to call "mercenaries". That's why all of these articles are in Category:Private military contractors, which is under Category:Mercenaries. The type of company is defining; paying dues to a trade association is not. I just listified the category contents right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We previously deleted other categories for corporate members of trade associations here, here, here, here, and here. -

Category:HSA Foundation members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
The HSA Foundation is a combination industry trade association and educational consortium that promotes interoperability of computer hardware through "Heterogeneous System Architecture". Samsung, Texas Instruments, Oracle, Huawei, AMD, LG, Northeastern University and the University of Bristol are not defined by this association and few of the articles even mention the HSA. I just listified the category contents right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We previously deleted other categories for corporate members of trade associations here, here, here, here, and here. -

Category:Members of the Asia Mobility Initiative

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC
The Asia Mobility Initiative is an industry trade association for mobile phone providers in Asia. The only article in this category, Sun Cellular, makes no reference to being a member outside of this category and Template:Asia Mobility Initiative. That template does list several other companies so there's not a WP:SMALLCAT issue here but being a member of of a trade group feels like WP:OCASSOC. In any case, this trade group seems non-notable: the most prominent Google hits are Wikipedia and this primary source. -

Category:Members of the Bridge Alliance

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
The Bridge Alliance is an industry trade association for mobile phone providers in Asia and Africa. Simple membership in an organization is rarely defining and that's the case here: neither of the articles in this category even mention this association beyond this template. The category contents are already lsitified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We previously deleted a category for members of a different Asian trade association of mobile phone providers right here. -

Category:OCLC members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
The OCLC (formerly the Online Computer Library Center) is a combination trade association and subscription service and this category is for library articles, not biographies. Right now the Missoula Public Library is the only article in this category but WP:SMALLCAT is not the problem here: the OCLC maintains the WorldCat database and, according to that article, there are "15,600 libraries in 107 countries that participate in the OCLC global cooperative". The main article discusses criticism that the organization functions as a monopoly in the library industry. This is way too ubiquitous to be defining for libraries. -

Category:COVID Recovery Group members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OPINIONCAT, WP:PERFCAT, and WP:SUBJECTIVECAT)
According to the COVID Recovery Group article, "is an informal group of Conservative MPs in the United Kingdom who opposed the UK government's decision to introduce a second period of lockdown measures". Members of Parliament have opinions on many topics and just about all will have multiple opinions on different aspects to the COVID19 responses. Also this group will presumably be short lived and, since this is an informal group, the inclusion criteria maybe be imprecise. I just listified the category contents right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We deleted similar categories for members of the COVID19 task forces from the US, Canada, and the UK right here. -

Category:Historic Hotels Worldwide

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT
The American National Trust for Historic Preservation is a historic preservation group that lists international hotels they consider to be historically significant. While some package bookings are available, this is not a standard reservation service nor a legal heritage register but more of a third party marketing effort, as described in their website. The closest category I could find was Category:Michelin Guide starred restaurants but the non-US hotels in this category generally don't even mention this endorsement so it's clearly not defining. I copied the current category contents right here so no work is lost of another editor wants to create a list article. -

Category:Members of the Loyal Order of Moose

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC
I certainly can't claim WP:SMALLCAT here because the Loyal Order of Moose currently has 650,000 members and peaked at 1.3 million in 1979. Most of the 6 articles in this categories are American politicians who used to nominally join multiple lodges: Asst. to Attorney General White Burkett Miller was also a member of the Elks and the Knights of Pythias while Alderman Thomas J. McDonald was also in the Knights of Columbus, Irish Federation, and the Royal Arcanum. Even for actual active members like Horace King, being a member of a fraternal lodge does seems like textbook WP:OCASSOC. (James J. Davis was defined by his association as a national leader but is linked prominently in the main article.) In case another editor wants to start a list, I copied the current category contents right here so no work is lost. -

Category:Odd Fellows by nationality

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT (and WP:C2F for the parent cat)
I certainly can't claim WP:SMALLCAT here because the American branch currently has 600,000 members and the British branch was founded in 1798 so there have been many more members total. Maybe King George IV, President Ulysses S. Grant, and Prime Minister Winston Churchill were members but their articles don't even mention it. And, even for articles that do mention, the passing references to multiple organizations seem nondefining for Joseph Braithwaite (mayor), Elijah A. Briggs, and Earl Warren. Simply being a member of a membership organization is not defining.
The parent category only has one eponymous article, Odd Fellows, which is already under Category:Odd Fellowship. In case another editor wants to start a list, I copied the current category contents right here so no work is lost. -
  • Background We deleted similar fraternal club memberships for the Moose, Orange Order, and Knights of Columbus here, here and here. -

Category:Toastmasters members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC
I certainly can't claim WP:SMALLCAT here because the Toastmasters International has served over 4 million people with their program to help improve public speaking skills. The broad reach of this organization creates a category with no common thread; I can't imagine the Wikipedia reader who would want a direct navigational path between actor Leonard Nimoy, Senator Sam Nunn, astronaut John Young, tennis great Billie Jean King, and General Bikram Singh. Critically, none of those articles even mention Toastmasters. (There are a few articles on organizational leaders--1, 2, 3--and that article count might grow to allow for a more narrow category.) I copied all the current categories right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Leadership Institute alumni and associates

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC & WP:PERFCAT)
I certainly can't claim WP:SMALLCAT here because the Leadership Institute has trained over 160,000 people with their classes. The LI is an American conservative organization that trains potential activists in public speaking, running for political office, and online campaigns. According to their official web site, those trainings generally last from a few hours to a couple days and, despite the "alumni" wording, these are not college credit courses. I'm not sure if Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, or Karl Rove were instructors, students, or had some other relationship since none of those articles even mention this organization. -

Category:Members of the Zentrale Dombauverein zu Köln von 1842

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC
The Zentral-Dombauverein zu Köln von 1842 ("Central Cathedral Building Society of 1842") is the fundraising committee for the completion and maintenance of Cologne Cathedral. The association can't be very defining since not a single one of the articles in the category even mention this organization. I copied all the current categories right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Members of the Boston Club

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT
Despite its name, The Boston Club is a private gentlemen's club in New Orleans, Louisiana. It does carry some old money prestige but it tends to admit prominent people who are not defined by it. Of the 10 articles in this category, 7 don't mention this at all and 3 mention it in passing (1, 2, 3) but each of those were officers or founders not just members. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Cosmos Club members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT
The Cosmos Club is a private social club in Washington D.C. and these articles are split between making no mention and a passing mention of the club: no mention of the club is made in the articles for inventor Alexander Graham Bell, Senator Larry Pressler, and Representative Stanton J. Peelle while it gets only a passing mention with architect Mayor Louis Brownlow, Nathan C. Wyeth, and attorney David Carliner. Neither group seems defined by this association. I just listified the category contents right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:The Kennel Club

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC and WP:NONDEFINING and, for the parent category, [[
The only things in this category are The Kennel Club and an image file that's already in the infobox of that same article. So this doesn't currently aid navigation but no objection to recreating if it ever gets to 5+ articles. (No conceptual objection to the parent category but this is the last subcategory that we haven't deleted.) -

Category:Century Association

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT
The Century Association is a private supper club in New York City. The only article in this category, Charles Reid (painter), cites is obituary that he joined the club in 1988 (and has a painting hung up there) but that's a pretty weak basis for a category. WP:SMALLCAT isn't an issue though as the main article lists other members like Dwight D. Eisenhower and Franklin D. Roosevelt; rather the problem is that simple membership in a private club is just not defining and won't aid navigation. -

Category:Members of the Athenaeum Club, London

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT
Athenaeum Club, London is a gentlemen's club in London which has certainly had some prominent members including John Stuart Mill, Charles Dickens, and Charles Darwin. Tellingly, none of those articles even mention the association and nor do the other articles I clicked on so it doesn't seem remotely defining. We already have List of Athenaeum Club members for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We previously deleted membership categories for other gentlemen's clubs here, right here, and here. -

Category:Kit-Kat Club

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCVENUE)
The Kit-Kat Club was a gentlemen's club in London. That group met at the Upper Flask tavern and at Barn Elms park and those 2 venues are the only 2 articles in this category other than the main article. Those locations are already listified in the intro to the main article along with several other locations the club met at different points. This doesn't seem defining and the 3 articles are already crosslinked so it doesn't aid navigation. -

Category:Members of The Club

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
The The Club (dining club) is a gentlemen's supper club in London that is probably most famous for declining Winston Churchill as a member. The association is likely defining for club organizer Joshua Reynolds but things drop off from there. The club generally gets a passing reference for founding members like essayist essayist Samuel Johnson, financier Anthony Chamier, and Oliver Goldsmith. For the many later members, "The Club" is usually not mentioned at all like with lawyer Charles Austin, Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, and painter Charles Lock Eastlake. There is already a chronological list of member right here in the main article but I copied the alphabetical list from the category right here in case another editor wants to start a stand-alone list. -
  • Background We previously deleted membership categories for other Longdon gentlemen's clubs here, here, and here. -

Category:London Sketch Club

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT & WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The London Sketch Club is a gentlemen's club in London, one of the many targeting different occupations, in this case for members in graphic arts. The biography articles tend to mention this association just in passing and are generally already in categories like Category:British illustrators and Category:Punch (magazine) cartoonists. The club has remained a social in nature and doesn't seem to have morphed into a prestigious learned society. I listified the category contents right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We previously deleted membership categories for other Longdon gentlemen's clubs here, here, and here. -

Category:Members of Members of Tots and Quots

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT
Tots and Quots was a private supper club in London during the 1930s and 1940s. The 4 articles in this category are evenly split between those that mention the membership in passing and those that don't mention the organization at all so it doesn't seem generally defining. I listified the current category contents right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We previously deleted a member category for another London private club right here. -

Category:Members of Pratt's club

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT
Pratt's is a gentlemen's club in London and this category contains 4 articles: two don't mention the membership at all (1, 2), one does mention the club but as president not just a member (3), but the 4th article really shows how this approach can lead to category clutter: Prime Minister and Social Butterfly Harold Macmillan's article has a whole section called "London clubs" and that article appears in this category based on this sentence:
He was also a member of Buck's, Pratt's, the Turf Club and Beefsteak Club.
The category contents are now all listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Bohemian Club members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT
Bohemian Club is a gentlemen's club in San Francisco and it certainly has had many famous members including Herbert Hoover, Ronald Reagan, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and Wallace Sterling. Tellingly though, none of the articles even mention this association, while some others make a passing reference. Simple membership in an organization is rarely defining. The category contents are already listified within List of Bohemian Club members for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Members of Unit One

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT
Unit One was a group of Modernist artists that put together a single gallery exhibition in 1933 that went on a tour which concluded in 1935. Artistic schools certainly can be defining but this short lived one event grouping isn't treated that way in the articles: 7 of the biography articles mention it in passing, 1 in the lede, and 3 not at all. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Members of The Archaeology Club

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT
The The Archaeology Club was in New York City in the 1950s and I'm unclear if it was a formal organization or a loose association. 5 of the 7 articles in this category make no mention of the association while the Frances Follin Jones and Frances Follin Jones articles not only mention the organization but list the other members and may be the basis for this category. If this organization is notable, creating a main article with a list would be a better approach than this non-defining category. -

Category:Eno Center for Transportation

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT and WP:OCASSOC
The Eno Center for Transportation is an American think tank focused on transportation and this categories contains people associated with that organization. 4 of the 5 article don't even mention the associatn and the 5th, James H. Burnley IV, makes passing reference to being the chairperson so this isn't generally defining. (I assume footballer Tom Prendergast was added in error.) All the current category contents are already listified in the main article. -

Category:The Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation is an American think tank focused on reducing the national debt and founder Peter G. Peterson is certainly defined by this association. All the other people in this category are already listified right here in the main article as being members of an advisory board. The problem is that not one of those other biographies even mentions this association. Not one. -

Category:Taos Institute

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT
The Taos Institute is a think tank in the United States and this category consists of the 6 co-founders. Even that close of an association gets a passing mention in the body of 4 of those articles. (The other two, Sheila McNamee and Diana Whitney, do mention it in the intros but both those articles could use some editor attention.) The main article was deleted by consensus for being non-notable at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taos Institute. We have different standards for articles versus categories, but I don't see any evidence this is defining. -

Category:Philadelphia Society members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT, WP:OCASSOC, & WP:PERFCAT)
The Philadelphia Society is conservative American think tank focused sponsoring speakers and the annual membership is currently $125 per year, although you're required to attend a meeting first. These biography articles generally mention the organization but it's not usually for mere membership: Mel Bradford was president, Milton Friedman was a trustee, and Stephen Balch was a director. Even those higher positions get only a passing reference so it doesn't seem defining. Others conservative speakers are in this category because they gave a speech, creating a performance category. I created a collapsible list in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Mystical Seven (Missouri)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
The Mystical Seven (Missouri) is one of several not-so-secret societies at University of Missouri, in this case they induct 7 people each year. Mere membership is rarely defining and that's the case here. Of the 6 biography articles, 2 mention the membership in passing (1, 2) and 4 don't mention it at all (3, 4, 5, 6). The category contents are now all listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
The Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade is an Anglican Church youth group formed in 1978 with the merger of some predecessor organizations. None of the 3 articles in this category are defined by mere membership: Francis Grenfell was the head of a predecessor organization, Lawrence of Arabia was a member at his local parish church, while the Noel Mellish article makes no mention of it. WP:SMALLCAT is not an issue here though because, even I couldn't find membership numbers, participation is widespread. The problem is that being dropped off by your parents for a meeting just isn't defining. -

Category:International Young Democrat Union people

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME and WP:OCASSOC
This is really just a truth in advertising rename since 5 of the 6 articles are for people who were chairs of deputy chairs of the International Young Democrat Union, which is a clearly defining role. The IYDU is an international umbrella organization of conservative youth organizations and people who were active in one of those national affiliates should not be in this category. For instance, Zach Howell is already under Category:College Republican National Committee chairs and his article makes no mention of the IYDU. -

Category:Sokol members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
Sokol was founded in 1862 popular Czech gymnastics program, especially amongst youth, which later spread to Poland as "Sokół". For most people this was just an enjoyable physical activity and patriotic group but a few people like Alois Hudec and Miroslav Klinger became prominent gymnasts which is why they are already under Category:Olympic gymnasts of Czechoslovakia. Simple being in a membership organization is rarely defining though. -

Category:People expelled from Freemasonry

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
Being expelled from an organization certainly can be defining like with Category:People expelled from public office and Category:People excommunicated by the Catholic Church. But, none of the 3 articles in this category seemed defined by being thrown out of this fraternal lodge:
WP:SMALLCAT is likely not a problem here since I'm sure there are plenty of other people who were in the Freemasons, Elks, and Odd Fellows who either embezzled from their lodge or or otherwise embarrassed the group so they got their membership revoked. Neither scenario seems defining though. (Mr. Gelli is already in Category:Members of Propaganda Due so he's well categorized.) -

Category:Muslim Students' Association members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING, WP:BLP and WP:FRINGE
Reema Dodin is a high ranking Palestinian American White House official and that's the only article in this category. Her inclusion is based on a citation from the conservative Jewish Press which in turn cites from the conspiracy/fringe WorldNetDaily claiming she is compromised by the Muslim Brotherhood. (Ms. Dodin was indeed in the Muslim Students' Association and, while the early MSA was affiliated with the Brotherhood, the groups were no longer associated when she joined decades later.) The creator of this category has a history of potential WP:BLP violations so the whole point here may be the parent category, which falsely places this person under Category:Muslim Brotherhood members. -

Category:Illuminati members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:COP, WP:OR, and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
There's two issues going on here because, as the Illuminati articles explains that this term can refer to several organizations, both real and fictional. About half the articles I looked at, like Jens Baggesen and Rudolph Zacharias Becker, make no mention to the organization so there may be off Wikipedia sources, rumor, or WP:OR involved. The other half were members of a real Bavarian organization but, like most memberships, it's non-defining like with Jacob Friedrich von Abel and Karl Friedrich Bahrdt. None of these articles seemed defined by this (alleged or actual) membership. -

Category:Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC & WP:TRIVIALCAT)
The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is a bipartisan American think tank founded in 1981 and this category contains biographies of very prominent political people like Senator Bob Packwood, Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan, Congressperson Jim Nussle, and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen. Tellingly, none of those articles even mention this association. According to the main article, the organization is overseen by a 40-member lager board of directors which may account for much of this category but, who knows, there may be other relationships represented here but they don't seem defining. -

Category:Former member states of the European Union

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT
The only article in this category is the United Kingdom and there is no growth potential. We have a whole category tree for Category:Withdrawal from the European Union with a Category:Brexit subcategory to hold articles for readers interested in this topic. Going from the UK article to a category with no other articles does not aid navigation for readers. -

Category:Former Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OC generally
Being a member of the Wikimedia Board appears defining to the articles but we don't typically categorize by current/expired terms of office because the distinction is not defining and it creates a maintenance issue. For instance, we don't have Category:Former mayors of London and there are no other "former" subcategories of Category:Trustees of educational establishments. This tree works best when the leaving/expulsion is defining, not routine expiration of terms of office. -

Category:Former Hello! Project members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OC generally
Hello! Project is a J-pop musical ensemble group selected through a reality TV show and the association seems defining to these young Japanese women. But we don't typically categorize by current/former band membership because the distinction is not defining and it creates a maintenance issue. For instance, we don't have Category:Former Menudo (band) members or Category:The Beatles former members. -

Category:Summiters of Aconcagua

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT
Aconcagua is the tallest mountain in South American an many prominent mountain climbers who want to brag about climbing mountains on each continent to complete the Seven Summits will ascend it. The 3 articles (Domi Trastoy Díaz, Sergey Kofanov, and Monique Richard) all list this mountain in passing among other mountains and are already categorized somewhere under Category:Mountain climbers. I don't even think this topic warrants listifying because, according to the main article, "In mountaineering terms, Aconcagua is technically an easy mountain if approached from the north". -

Category:Western writers about Russia

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME and the spirit of WP:C2C
The entire Category:Writers by geographical subject area category tree has a bit of ambiguity about whether it it includes outsiders writing about an area or locals clearly setting their works in their own area. Only these two subcats add "Western" which adds it's own ambiguity: I don't think it means "Western Europe" since there are many American authors and I don't think it means "Western Civilization" since that would include Russian authors. There might be an alternative rename here based on List of foreign observers of Russia but this nomination favors the most common format in this tree. -

Category:Companies with works councils

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:TRIVIALCAT
A works council is a form of corporate governance to ensure input from labor and and management which is legally required for most large companies in Germany. Not surprisingly, most of the articles here are large German companies like Deutsche Telekom, Volkswagen Group, and ZF Sachs. (Inexplicably, Google and SoundCloud are also in this category but those articles offer no clue as to why.) I don't think this would work as a list becasue, if fully expanded, it would significantly overlap with Category:Companies of Germany. -

Category:Local units of the Boy Scouts of America

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SMALLCAT and WP:OCMISC)
WP:SCOUTSTYLE emphasizes how unlikely it is that local scouting groups are notable, which is likely why this 13-year-old cat still only contains 3 articles with little room for growth. When you put together the miscellaneous articles that don't belong in either the councils or camps categories, it's not a cohesive grouping that would aid navigation: an equestrian troop, a drum and bugle corps, and a dance troupe. -

Category:Treaty of Nanking

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING
The Treaty of Nanking was an unequal treaty where China was forced to allow extraterritorial concessions in major cities where Western citizens would not be subject to Chinese law which lasted from 1842 to 1943. This category consists primarily of major cities that had enclaves like Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Nanjing but these are major world cities that don't seemed defined by this century long period for specific neighborhoods. In any case, it is the concessions themselves that are important to each location not the treaty which is why we already have Category:Concessions in China to categorize by this topic. But it's not quite an issue of WP:OVERLAPCAT because that tree has more specific articles like Shanghai French Concession so readers can find articles defined by this period. -

Category:Explorers of the Atlantic Ocean

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (Either WP:SMALLCAT or WP:OVERLAPCAT)
This category is unlikely to aid navigation because it contains two articles: Christopher Columbus made 4 voyages from Europe to the Americas while Juan de Bermúdez made 11. This doesn't seem defining since both explored the Atlantic only incidentally as a means to an end, not the goal. (Bermúdez did discover Bermuda, albeit by accident on a return trip.) We could overcome WP:SMALLCAT by adding all the other articles already in Category:Explorers of North America and Category:Explorers of South America, but that would just move the problem to WP:OVERLAPCAT. -

Category:World federalists

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OPINIONCAT and WP:OCASSOC)
According to the header on the category, this is for people who favored a democratic world government or people associated with the World Federalist Movement. Maybe musical stage lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, or science fiction author Isaac Asimov held that view/association but their articles make no mention of it and only a single sentence mentions the topic in the articles for physicist Albert Einstein, philosopher Bertrand Russell, and presidential candidate John B. Anderson. But about half of the articles do seem defined by this movement like Joseph E. Schwartzberg, Emery Reves, and Grenville Clark so a more narrow category seems appropriate. -

Category:Category:Metafictional characters

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SUBJECTIVECAT) and maybe WP:OC
According to the header on the category, this " is for fictional characters who display an awareness that they exist in a work of fiction". Bugs Bunny, Deadpool, Frank Underwood routinely break the fourth wall and those articles all use that term, although none use the word "metafictional", which is the norm for articles in this category. Determining self awareness leads to subjectivity: The Brown Hornet knows he's a super hero on a cartoon but does he know that not a real show and is just a segment within Fat Albert? Kermit the Frog knows he's the host of a variety show but does he know he's a puppet and not an actual frog?
(Alternatively, maybe this isn't defining at all and we should delete the category. In that case, I copied the current category contents right here so no work is lost if another editor wants to create an article similar to List of metafictional works.) -

Category:WFUNA Lithograph Program

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT)
The World Federation of United Nations Associations promoted the values of the U.N. and has a program where famous artists create a signed lithography for use as posters and other materials and this category consists of those artists like Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell, and Salvador Dalí. This single performance must not be very defining because not a single one articles even mention this donation or commission. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Insiders (Australian TV program) panelists

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT)
Insiders (Australian TV program) is a Sunday morning talk show that has been on the air for 20 years and each week the format includes an interview of a politician followed by a panel of three commentators, usually journalists. Other than the host, the show has a rotating guests although many people are invited to the show multiple times. This is the performance cat and the articles (click on any ones you like) treat it as such with a passing mention. -

Category:Architects of YMCA buildings

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT)
Homer G. Balcom designed many buildings including the YMCA in Jerusalem, Charles I. Barber designed many buildings including the YMCA in Knoxville, Edwin Thayer Barlow designed many buildings including the YCMA in North Adams, and so on. If we start defining architects by every client they design a building for, we would end up with non-defining category clutter. -

Category:Order of Railway Conductors

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT approaching WP:C2F, one eponymous article
The Order of Railway Conductors was an American trade union that merged with multiple other rail unions in 1969 to form the United Transportation Union. No conceptual objection to this category but the main article is the only article directly in the category with little growth potential. (There is also a subcat for ORC presidents with 3 articles but with growth potential.) No objection to recreating this later if I'm wrong and it ever gets to 5+ direct articles. - RevelationDirect (talk) 22:37, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Category:American Council on Science and Health

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC)
The American Council on Science and Health is a pro-industry science advocacy organization and this category consists of that main article and 5 biographies. Found and president Elizabeth Whelan is absolutely defined by her association but the trail starts to run cold with the other 4 articles: Stephen Barrett was a scientific advisor at some point, Robert J. White has no connection mentioned on Wikipedia, Elissa P. Benedek was a director, while Norman Borlaug has no connection mentioned in Wikipedia. This seems like classic WP:OCASSOC. -

Category:Hospitals that took Katrina evacuees

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT)
In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, patients at local hospitals were transferred to other facilities across the American south. This category consists of major hospitals across the American south, and for some reason their all children's hospitals although I'm sure the category could be expanded. We have Category:Hospitals established for the COVID-19 pandemic but that's for purpose built facilities. When there's a regional hurricane, earthquake, disease outbreak, etc. major hospitals take in patients; that's kind of their thing. -

Category:Children's Oncology Group members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT & WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Children's Oncology Group (COG) is a consortium of hospitals that treat children with cancer in the US and Canada and, according to the main articlce:
Almost all centers that treat children with cancer in the US and Canada are part of the COG.
These COG member facilities are already somewhere under Category:Cancer hospitals, Category:Children's hospitals or elsewhere under the hospitals category tree. (I had to go off Wikipedia to the COG web site to figure out what the subcategory meant but it is the "Pediatric Early Phase-Clinical Trial Network" which is also widespread.) A near universal membership doesn't seem defining. -

Category:Apache Software Foundation members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:COI and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
The Apache Software Foundation was founded by software developer Ken Coar and not coincidentally this category was created by User:Coar, the Wikipedia ID of the same Ken Coar. Whatever the COI origins of this category the bigger problem is that it's not defining: the apache.org homepage says there are 820 members and the articles in this category are known for being computer programmers but not for this association, except for Mr. Coar of course. -

Category:Members of the National Puzzlers' League

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT & WP:OVERLAPCAT) and WP:G4
National Puzzlers' League is a professional association of puzzle designers and game designers. Being a puzzle designer or game designer is absolutely defining which is why we already have Category:Puzzle designers and Category:Game designers and this category overlaps with one other the other. The membership isn't treated as defining in the articles: of the 15 people in this category, 9 mention this membership in passing and 6 not at all. Even for organization president Trip Payne, the association is still buried in the body of the article. I listified the category contents right right here in the main article so no information is lost for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:SEMA members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC, WP:PERFCAT, WP:OCAWARD, & WP:TRIVIALCAT)
The "Specialty, or Speed, Equipment Market Association" (SEMA) is a custom hotrod auto association that hosts a major car show every year in Las Vegas. Jay Leno is a car collector who maybe spoke at the show, Sammy Hagar sings driving songs and maybe sang at the show, George Barris (auto customizer) maybe had a car at the show, Chip Foose maybe filmed an episode of his car TV series at the show, and Brock Yates maybe wrote an article about the show. (I'm just guessing though as none of those articles even mention this organization.) Others articles do mention the SEMA organization though: Boyd Coddington was in their hall of fame, Vic Edelbrock Jr. was the President while Dean Moon is the one and only person described as a "member". -

Category:Knights of Pythias buildings in West Virginia

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SMALLCAT)
No conceptual objection to this category for fraternal lodges of the Knights of Pythias but it only contains 2 articles with little growth potential. This is not "part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme" as there are no other state subcategories and, with only 35 articles in the USA, expanding this state level breakdown would create a whole anemic category tree. Both articles are already under multiple West Virginia categories so only the single merge target is needed. -

Category:Fire departments in Westchester County, New York

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SMALLCAT & WP:OVERLAPCAT, respectively)
There are only 2 articles in the fire department category and grouping them by county is not really meaningful and there are no other county breakdowns anywhere under Category:Fire departments of the United States. The only thing under the Christianity category is Category:Churches in Westchester County, New York which is already well categorized under both the county and Christianity. There are no other county level breakdowns under Category:Christianity in New York (state). Neither is "part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme". -

Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada with military service

  • Propose Purging Of all loose biography articles
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME
It is very common for countries to have military veterans in their national parliaments/assemblies, so much so that it's probably non-defining for individuals. The vast majority of this category contains list articles which seems to be the original intent but individual biographies have gradually been added over time. This nomination intends to clarify that this is a category for lists. -

Category:Members of Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT & WP:SMALLCAT)
Google translate is not very helpful with "Rei Cretariae Romanae Fautores" but it's an organization of scholars of ancient Roman pottery. There is no main article, the only thing in the parent category is the subcategory, and the child cat contains 2 biography articles; 2 categories for 2 articles is just not likely to aid navigation. While the membership is non-defining, these scholars are defined by their specialty though so I created Category:Scholars of ancient Roman pottery and populated it. -

Category:California Yacht Club sailors

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT & WP:SMALLCAT)
The only article in this category is Hal Haenel, an Olympic sailing athlete that competed in the 1988 and 1992 and won medals both times. The infobox for that article has a line that reads:
"Club: California Yacht Club"
That's a pretty thin basis for category. -

Category:Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT & WP:SMALLCAT)
We don't have a main article for Corinthian Yacht Club of Seattle and the only article in this category is William Earl Buchan, an Olympic sailing athlete that competed in 1984 and won the gold medal. The infobox for that article has a line that reads:
"Club: Corinthian Yacht Club"
That's a pretty thin basis for category. -
  • Background: We deleted an identical category from California right here. -

Category:Critics of Planned Parenthood

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT & WP:OVERLAPCAT)
All 3 of the biography articles in this category are American anti-abortion activists who are already categorized under Category:American anti-abortion activists. They're in this category because they entered Planned Parenthood clinics and secretly recorded conversations and then releases them as part of their activism which feels like a performance category. (There is a 4th article, LifeSiteNews, which doesn't mention PP but is already under Category:Anti-abortion organizations in Canada.) Placing these articles for non-PP people under the Category:Planned Parenthood tree seems unlikely to aid navigation. -

Category:DEFCON 2 conflicts

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT) and WP:GLOBAL
DEFCON (defense readiness condition) is an alert state used by the U.S. military where lower numbers are more serious and "1" would be for a nuclear war. These categories rate different world conflicts on that U.S. scale like the Yom Kippur War, Korean axe murder incident, Gulf War, and September 11 attacks. The main problem here is that these were often global conflicts and other countries have their own systems: the UK had BIKINI color codes, France uses the Vigipirate color codes, and South Korea uses the WATCHCON number codes (which do not align to DEFCON).
If we built out this alert state tree beyond the American categories, we'd end up with a whole bunch of color and number category clutter for articles about military conflicts. The current category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:DeKalb County-Fulton County, Georgia (U.S. state) in fiction

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCLOCATION) and WP:V
For background, Atlanta, Georgia (U.S state) is partly in DeKalb County and partly in Fulton County. The only thing in this tree is Category:Fictional characters from Atlanta which is already well parented, albeit it not by county. I don't care how many Star Trek re-runs you watch or how many DC Comics you read, you're never going to figure out which side of the county line Dr. Leonard McCoy or Damage are from, which I guess is the point of the hyphenation. -

Category:Techstars alumni

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT and WP:PERFCAT)
Techstars is a micro financing business incubator based in Colorado Springs, US that gives startups between $6,000 to $18,000. Techstars has supported over 1,600 companies according to that article and this category contains 5 of them. 4 of these mention this funding in passing while just 1 goes into more detail which is a weak basis for a category. The current category contents are already listified right [[Techstars#Notable alumni companieshere in the main article for any reader intersted in the topic. -

Category:Waterways campaigners of the United Kingdom

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME and the spirit of WP:C2C, consistency with established category tree names
These people are definitely defined by their activism preserving British waterways and canals but there doesn't appear to have been a single "campaign" and this follows the more common naming format in Category:British activists. Not every subcategory follows this format though so I wasn't sure if a speedy name was appropriate. -

Category:Broadcast Music, Inc. composers and writers

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
Broadcast Music, Inc. is an American organization that collects license fees on behalf of composers and writers who register with them and these articles generally mention registering with BMI in passing. I certainly can't argue WP:SMALLCAT here since, according to that main article, BMI represents 1.1 million artists and it is so ubiquitous there was a Supreme Court case over whether it was an illegal monopoly. BMI maintains a large searchable database right here which seems like a better platform than Wikipedia for this much data. -

Category:League of American Wheelmen members

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
You can join the organization now known as the "League of American Bicyclists" for $45 at this link. (It costs more if want a T-shirt though!) This category contains 2 articles both of whom were more than just members and were cycling advocates. But that's why they're both already under Category:Cycling advocates. For now I linked the articles right here in the main article. -

Category:International Musicological Society

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME
You can join the International Musicological Society about US $98 at this link so just mere membership is obviously not defining. All of these people were not just members but presidents though so this rename just better describes the current contents, and will require removing the subcat. (Alternatively, even being the president of this group gets only a passing reference so we could just delete this category and rely on this list in the main article.) -

Category:Arab States Broadcasting Union

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
The Arab States Broadcasting Union is affiliated with the Arab League and was originally a development program that became a trade association for Middle Eastern broadcasters. This category consists of those member broadcasters but that association is so non-defining those articles rarely even mention this affiliation. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Non-governmental organizations with consultative status at the United Nations

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
There are currently 5,593 non-governmental organizations that have consultative status to the UN United Nations Economic and Social Council (online database). This category creates a mish-mash of otherwise unrelated organisations with little in common that are unlikely to aid navigation including the Blind Union, Baltic and International Maritime Council, Planned Parenthood, ISO, Greenpeace, Scout Movement, Road Transport Union, YMCA, Fellowship of Buddhists, AARP, and the Celtic League. We already have List of organizations with consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Kansas City Cowboys (Disambiguated)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME and WP:DNWAUC
"Kansas City Cowboys" is a disambiguation page for 6 different sporting teams that all share the same name, which is textbook WP:SHAREDNAME but, based on the category header, I think this was intended as a disambiguation page anyway. I created individual categories for 2 of the teams (1, 2) but the other 4 didn't have enough content yet. -

Unsucccessful CFD Nominations (usually "no consensus")

Category:People with Alzheimer's disease (no consensus)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NOT, WP:COP and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT, WP:PERFCAT)
According to the Alzheimer's disease article, the condition is typically fatal in 3-9 years so we're really categorizing living people who haven't died of Alzheimer's disease yet or people who died in the mean time of something else which the category header makes clear:
"For people who have or who had Alzheimer's disease. If their death is directly related to Alzheimer's, add the person to Category:Deaths from Alzheimer's disease. If a person with Alzheimer's died from something unrelated to Alzheimer's, add them here."
The bigger problem is that this awful disease usually occurs later in life and these biographies are notable because of unrelated accomplishments earlier in life. For instance actor Omar Sharif, footballer Brian Pilkington, and Patriarch of Constantinople Mesrob II Mutafyan have only passing references to the disease. -

Category:Failed museum proposals in the United States (No Consensus)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SUBJECTIVECAT
The Category:Proposed museums tree contains a range of proposals: vague wishes, groups actively trying to raise money, those actively under construction, and groups that have given up. This category groups the last group. The challenge here is that it often subjective when it fails: rarely a formal announcement is made about giving up but it is far more common that groups just quietly become inactive. We do have Category:Failed assassination attempts but the inclusion criteria are much clearer there. The wording of the category is also challenging because the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society exists but had a failed expansion plan. -

Category:Equestrian museums (Keep)

Nominator's rationale: Per the spirit of WP:C2C, Consistency with established category tree names
The vast majority of sister categories for other sports already use this naming format. Until recently, there were very few Hall of Fame articles in the Category:Equestrian museums by country tree though because they were mostly housed in a separate Category:Horse racing museums and halls of fame grouping. I was bold and merged those two category trees into one. I also found a bunch of specific Hall of Fame "Inductees" categories (i.e. these contain the individual people/horse articles) and they weren't in either tree so I moved them all under the combined tree. The results of my edits is that these categories are now chock full of Hall of Fame content and this rename would better describe the actual contents for readers. (I have no suggested change for the horse racing category but it is tagged to allow flexibility with this discussion.) -
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Horse racing, WikiProject Equine and WikiProject Museums –

Category:Kurdish culture in France (Keep)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT and the spirit of WP:C1, an empty category
No conceptual objection to this category but the only article in it is Joyce Blau. While Ms. Blau is world expert in the Kurdish language, we don't normally stick biography articles in culture categories and this category has little room for growth. -

Category:Monuments and memorials to Amelia Earhart (No Consensus)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME and the spirito of WP:C1, an empty category
No conceptual objection to this category, but it consists of articles with nothing to do with Amelia Earhart except for being named after her like the SS Amelia Earhart, Amelia Earhart Peak and Amelia Earhart Dam. (While not exactly a memorial, Amelia Earhart Birthplace is the only article that's defined by Ms. Earhart and it's already in a parent category so no upmerge is needed.) No objection to recreating the category if we ever get up to 5 or so articles of actual monuments and memorials and no objection to creating a list article now. -
This category is for actual monuments and memorials to Amelia Earhart, rather than articles just named after her.

Category:Memorials to Lal Bahadur Shastri

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME and the spirit of WP:C1, an empty category
No conceptual objection to this category, but it consists of 4 articles with nothing to do with the prominent Indian politician Syama Prasad Mukherjee except for being named after him . The power station, stadium, zoo and swimming pool complex would have been built anyway and have little clear connection to Mr. Mukherjee. (No objection to recreating the category if we ever get up to 5 or so articles of actual monuments and memorials and no objection to creating a list article now.) - (removed Sirima–Shastri Pact, Jai Jawaan Jai Kisaan (film), and Jai Jawan Jai Kisan from cat

1 and 2 article categories named after composers (No Consensus)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCEPON (WP:SMALLCAT)
These categories are all underpopulated and the composers are already linked in every article so this isn't aiding navigation. A lot of these nominations have well populated subcategories for the works they created, but WP:OCEPON discourages us from creating eponymous categories on that basis alone. No objection to recreating any of the categories should we ever get up to 5 or so directly related articles. -
Note: I added this discussion to WikiProject Composers. –

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Category:Associates of the Royal College of Organists (No Consensus)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:COP, WP:RS and, potentially, WP:NONDEFINING
The Royal College of Organists promotes organ playing and choral music and the only article in this category is John Dickinson (physician), a doctor of internal medicine. I was really hoping Dr. Dickinson was defined by both types of "organs" but it may be more likely this was just a homonym mix up: the organisational articles makes no mention of Dr. Dickinson and that biography article cites this unreliable obituary which likewise makes no mention of the organisation. Even if we could find other articles, such notable organists would already be in Category:British organists. -

Category:Members of the Lambrakis Democratic Youth (No Consensus)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT & WP:OVERLAPCAT)
English Wikipedia doesn't have an article on the Lambrakis Democratic Youth and Greek Wikipedia only has a stub, but it appears to be a short-lived leftist student group during the 1965 Royal Coup in Athens. For people who were short-term activists this feels like a performance category while those who stayed active in leftist politics are already somewhere under Category:Greek socialists or Category:Greek communists. I copied the current category contents right here so no work is lost if another editor wants to start a main article. -

Category:Masters of foxhounds (Keep But Purge)

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT and WP:PERFCAT
According to the header of this category:
"Masters of foxhounds were originally the owners of the packs of hounds used for fox hunting and the employers of hunt servants. Now they are more often the members of fox hunts with control of the hunt. ..."
With the earlier biographies, this appears to be a traditional responsibility of nobles, which is why there are no less than 10 Dukes of Beaufort in this category. For more recent people that lived in the 1900s like George Bullough and George Bevan Bowen, this appears to be a passing hobby function. (There are a few that mention this role in the lede, like Cecil Aldin and Andrew Allan (shipowner), but they are the exception.) Having owners in sports certainly can be defining, like with Category:Canadian Football League owners, but this doesn't seem as defining. -
  1. ^ Hoban, Sally (2013). "Bunce, John Thackray (1828–1899)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/104428. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ "The B.B.C. Staff". The Radio Times (2): 28. 5 October 1923.
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