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Category:Buildings and structures in the Middle East

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  Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 December 1#Category:Buildings and structures in the Middle East

Category:Pseudonymous actors

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 23:47, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not a defining characteristic and the category is to a large extent filled with musicians with stage names who've made acting appearances (André 3000 and Sting (musician)), nicknames, Westernised names, and names changed after immigration. There are several categories in Category:Pseudonymous entertainers with limited definingness but I think they need to be evaluated individually. See also Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 November 9#Category:Pseudonymous musicians. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 22:25, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Women's handball players

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Nominator's rationale: From my perspective this category is simply a duplicate of Category:Female handball players Robby (talk) 16:55, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reverse merge Most such categories use "women's" not "female". This is in part because these are by league played in, not actually by anything about the person per se. This category is for people who participanted in Women's handball leagues, so I think that is what the category should be named.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:36, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

College wrestling coaches in the United States letter A

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Category:Penn State Nittany Lions and Lady Lions basketball venues

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Nominator's rationale: Not enough articles to justify a separate category. User:Namiba 15:37, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yale Bulldogs coaches

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College Squash coaches in the United States

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Category:Goodreads Choice Awards winners

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The following is an archived discussion concerning one or more categories. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on an appropriate discussion page (such as the category's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this section.
The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 12:32, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The Goodreads Choice Awards is a popularity contest voted on by users of the social media platform Goodreads, property of Amazon Inc., and is based on the millions of books added, rated, and reviewed on Goodreads each year. 15 books are awarded each year in 15 different genre categories. The first category groups authors who wrote the winning books. However, their biography articles do not treat this award as a defining characteristic of their careers or longterm significance, generally listing it with other honours. It is not a defining trait for the large majority of its notable recipients (WP:OCAWARD), as evidenced by reliable sources discussing each. The second category groups books that won a Goodreads Choice Award, which is similarly WP:NONDEFINING because being selected as one of their 15 different "readers' favorites" each year is not a major part of the literary significance of a given work. The contents of both categories are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. Οἶδα (talk) 09:09, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom: As the creator of the categories I compared it to similar awards collections in literature, and with it being voted on by users compared similar to "popularity" based awards in other fields. But i can understand why the lists work better for this case. HighlandFacts (talk) 20:58, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Clay Higgins

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) GothicGolem29 (Talk) 17:56, 1 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: I believe the editor who created this has things 'backwards'. The "2016 US House of Representatives election in Louisiana" isn't a subcategory of "Clay Higgins", Clay Higgens was named in the article specified - and the same for all the other categories. Haven't found specific guidance on this, but generally it seems that only particularly notable people have subcategories, such as Nancy Pelosi, Mike Johnson, etc. With 400+ members of the house in any given cycle, it seems unnecessary that each one should be a category unto themselves. Please correct me if I'm in error. cheers. anastrophe, an editor he is. 05:46, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Delete You can delete it. I created the category because I was expecting a lot more people would do a lot more detail on him post Epstein vote. VLWABC (talk) 00:44, 28 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Armenian healthcare managers

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 05:07, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Serbian haematologist

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Nominator's rationale: Only 1 entry. LibStar (talk) 04:07, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Emperors of Central Africa

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Nominator's rationale: Merge all three into one. (I suspect that I used the wrong template for this, but I've never before proposed a three-way merger.) I want to see a single category holding what's now in all three of these categories.

Because the Central African Empire had only one emperor, and because it never had any other monarchy in its history, these three essentially have the same scope — Emperor Bokassa I was a member of the House of Bokassa, and his house comprises all royalty in the country's history. If we have any articles on tribal kings, they're not here, and we probably should have a separate category that distinguishes them from the monarch of the entire country; also, the parent for "CA royalty" shows that it means royalty from what's now the CAR, not royalty from all countries in the central region of Africa. Obviously the House includes people other than the Emperor, but we can simply put him into Category:Emperors in Africa; I don't think there's a need to have a distinct category for him, when we're absolutely certain that nobody will write any other articles that belong in this category, and it's almost 100% certain that no other emperors will exist in the future. Sometimes it makes sense to have tiny categories when a parent is 100% subdivided, but Kanta Kotal is already in "Emperors in Africa" rather than in a subcategory, so we wouldn't be breaking an existing 100%-subdivided status. Nyttend (talk) 02:52, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

PS, we typically would expect to have every head of state in his country's heads-of-state category, but since Bokassa was President of Central Africa before he named himself emperor, he's already in Category:Heads of state of the Central African Republic regardless of the imperial categories. Nyttend (talk) 02:57, 24 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  • Johnpacklambert, are you changing your first vote, or are you supplementing it? It would help if you'd either strike your first vote or integrate the second one into it. If you do the latter, feel free to delete this comment. WP:TPG says you can edit others' comments with their permission; presumably deleting a comment entirely is included. Nyttend (talk) 10:00, 26 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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