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==== Category:People from the Kingdom of Ireland ====
====Category:People from the Kingdom of Ireland====
:* '''Propose renaming''' [[:Category:People from the Kingdom of Ireland]] to [[:Category:People from Ireland (pre-1801)]]
[[File:Symbol move vote.svg|16px|link=|alt=]] '''Relisted''', see [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 July 20%23Category:People from the Kingdom of Ireland]]<!-- Template:Cfd relisted -->
:'''Nominator's rationale:''' The present title is allegedly a 'piece of nonsense'. The suggested title fits in with [[:Category:Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)]] which I am surprised to find was my suggestion at [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 January 2#Category:Members of the pre-1801 Parliament of Ireland |cfd]], endorsed by an impeccable authority. It also fits in nicely with [[:Category:People from Ireland (1801–1923)]]. There are 2 subcats which can be speedied if this passes. [[User:Oculi|Oculi]] ([[User talk:Oculi|talk]]) 14:54, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
* Just curious, would this not need a starting year? Or is meant to contain Irish people ever since prehistory? [[User:Marcocapelle|Marcocapelle]] ([[User talk:Marcocapelle|talk]]) 16:20, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
** See the linked cfd: [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 January 2#Category:Members of the pre-1801 Parliament of Ireland|2011 January 2#Category:Members of the pre-1801 Parliament of Ireland]]. Rationale is given 'per BHG' (not sure why BHG got the credit). There is discussion about a start date. Another (sub)subcat is [[:Category:Lord chancellors of Ireland]] which goes back to 1186. Why are there no kings in this category? I find [[:Category:High Kings of Ireland]], elsewhere. [[User:Oculi|Oculi]] ([[User talk:Oculi|talk]])
* Agreed. I think that it needs a start date like [[:Category:Polish people by period]]. [[User:Laurel Lodged|Laurel Lodged]] ([[User talk:Laurel Lodged|talk]]) 08:29, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
*'''Delete'''. A wholly un-needed grouping, regardless of how it is named. There is no navigational benefit in splitting [[:Category:Irish people]] (adn its hundreds of subcats) in this way.<br />The nominator's to use [[WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 January 2#Category:Members of the pre-1801 Parliament of Ireland]] as precedent is absurd. That debate was about the use of a disambiguator for a set which did end in 1801, but "Irish people" had the same scope before and after 1801, so no split is needed. --[[User:BrownHairedGirl|<span style="font-variant:small-caps"><span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl</span>]] <small>[[User talk:BrownHairedGirl|(talk)]] • ([[Special:Contributions/BrownHairedGirl|contribs]])</small> 14:34, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
:* I might have said the same if there wouldn't have been Kingdom of Ireland and pre-1801 subcategories. Presumably that should all be dissolved together. [[User:Marcocapelle|Marcocapelle]] ([[User talk:Marcocapelle|talk]]) 16:23, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
:::Or keep all. Per the Polish example. [[User:Laurel Lodged|Laurel Lodged]] ([[User talk:Laurel Lodged|talk]]) 16:39, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
::::That is a daft comparison.
::::"Irish people" has had the same scope for centuries, and it is ridiculous to chop it up.
::::The comparison with Poland is absurd: Poland did not exist as a nation from 1795 to 1918, or 1939-45, and post-1945 Poland had radically different boundaries to the the 1918-39 incarnation; post-1945 Poland was about 100 miles further west, and had been subject to two huge bouts of ethnic cleansing.
::::None of that applies to "Irish people", because none of that happened in Ireland: the boundaries of the [[island of Ireland]] have been unchanged since the melting of the ice bridge to Britain in 12,000 BC. The big ethnic cleaning from ireland happened in the mid-19th century, during and after [[An Gorta Mor]].
::::The 1922 creation of Northern Ireland is handled by the simple, stable solution of having [[:Category:People from Northern Ireland]] as a subcat of both [[:Category:Irish people]] and [[:Category:British people]]. [[User:BrownHairedGirl|<span style="font-variant:small-caps"><span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl</span>]] <small>[[User talk:BrownHairedGirl|(talk)]] • ([[Special:Contributions/BrownHairedGirl|contribs]])</small> 02:39, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
* '''ALT1''', to address @{{u|Marcocapelle}}'s concerns about the subcats. Note that no merges are needed.
:'''Propose deleting''':
:* [[:Category:People from the Kingdom of Ireland]]
:** [[:Category:Emigrants from the Kingdom of Ireland]]
:** [[:Category:Painters from the Kingdom of Ireland‎]]
: I have tagged the extra two categories. --[[User:BrownHairedGirl|<span style="font-variant:small-caps"><span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl</span>]] <small>[[User talk:BrownHairedGirl|(talk)]] • ([[Special:Contributions/BrownHairedGirl|contribs]])</small> 02:56, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
* '''Delete all three''', these are simply Irish people who can be categorized by century. [[User:Marcocapelle|Marcocapelle]] ([[User talk:Marcocapelle|talk]]) 05:46, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
*'''Query''' And do you intend to also tag [[:Category:People from the Kingdom of Great Britain]]? After all, these could, with more justice, be said to be within a "by century" category already. Why stop there? Why not tag all members of [[:Category:People by former country]]? {{Ping|:BrownHairedGirl|Marcocapelle|Oculi}} [[User:Laurel Lodged|Laurel Lodged]] ([[User talk:Laurel Lodged|talk]]) 13:08, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
*:@[[User:Laurel Lodged|Laurel Lodged]]: No. As I have explained several times in these discussions, Ireland is an unusual case.
*:LL seems to be fixated on the label of "former state", as if all cases were the same.
*:In reality, the cases vary wildly. For example, in the cases of the Soviet Union and Ottoman Empire, the territory was fragmented on dissolution: the terms "Soviet people" and "Ottoman people" lost their meaning. That did not happen in 1801.
*:Some comments here seem to assume that "Kingdom of Ireland" is synonymous with "Ireland 1542&ndash;1800". But that is not so: the Kingdom started out as a rebranding of the [[Lordship of Ireland]], in control of only a small (and shrinking) part of the island of Ireland; but that was followed by half-a-century of on-off major wars, by 1603 it controlled all of the island. Then from December 1653 to 25 May 1659, the Kingdom did Ireland did not exist: it was part of [[The Protectorate]].
*:In 1800 (the Kingdom's last year) it was a puppet state ruling all of the island with a largely toothless parliament, and actually ruled on behalf of King George III by the [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] ([[Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis|Charles Cornwallis]]) and his [[Chief Secretary of Ireland]] ([[Charles Abbot, 1st Baron Colchester|Charles Abbot]]). In January 1801, after the Union, the same territory was ruled on behalf of the same Georgie by the same pair of Charlies, but the toothless parliament was gone. There is a good case to be made that both the Kingdom's 1542 establishment ''and'' its abolition in the 1801 Union were less significant changes than the upheavals in the 16th and 17th centuries.
*:And nobody has even tried to make the case that chopping up [[:Category:Irish people]] by regime will improve navigation, which per [[WP:CAT]] is the main purpose of categories. [[User:BrownHairedGirl|<span style="font-variant:small-caps"><span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl</span>]] <small>[[User talk:BrownHairedGirl|(talk)]] • ([[Special:Contributions/BrownHairedGirl|contribs]])</small> 14:01, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
*::The history lesson above amounts to one thing: the [[de jure]] claims did not always reflect the [[de facto]] territorial claims. But officially, "Kingdom of Ireland" is synonymous with "Ireland 1542–1800"; it's wishful thinking to say otherwise. By the way BHG, a lot of what you write is not so much "explaining" as you setting forth your interpretation. A contrary opinion does not mean that got it wrong. It just means that we differ. If I wrote in the way way that you wrote above (and elsewhere), I would rightly be condemned as engaging in "mansplaining". [[User:Laurel Lodged|Laurel Lodged]] ([[User talk:Laurel Lodged|talk]]) 16:16, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
*:::LL writes {{tq|officially, "Kingdom of Ireland" is synonymous with "Ireland 1542–1800"; it's wishful thinking to say otherwise|q=y}}.
*:::But whose {{tq|official|q=y}}?
*:::Not [[Oliver Cromwell]]'s. Nor [[Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone|Hugh O'Neill]]'s. Nor The [[Confederate Ireland|Confederates]]. Nor [[Second Desmond Rebellion|James]]'s. Nor [[Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare|Donal]]'s.
*:::You seem to be saying that a certain Anglo-Norman Whiggish monarchist view of Irish history and Irish constitutional legitimacy is the {{tq|official|q=y}} one. That's a highly-partisan view of history, under which for example the [[First Dáil]] did not exist and the 14th-century collapse of the [[Lordship of Ireland]] never happened.
*:::You are of course quite entitled to take whatever view you like, but not to present a partisan view as if it was [[WP:NPOV]]. The reality is much more complex than the simplistic Whiggish version of history, and legitimacy is highly contested. [[User:BrownHairedGirl|<span style="font-variant:small-caps"><span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl</span>]] <small>[[User talk:BrownHairedGirl|(talk)]] • ([[Special:Contributions/BrownHairedGirl|contribs]])</small> 20:13, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
*'''What's happened''' to [[:Category:People from Ireland (1801–1923)]]? How / where did it disappear? [[User:Laurel Lodged|Laurel Lodged]] ([[User talk:Laurel Lodged|talk]]) 16:51, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
*:Deleted per [[WP:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_June_18#Category:People_from_Ireland_(1801–1923)]]. [[User:BrownHairedGirl|<span style="font-variant:small-caps"><span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl</span>]] <small>[[User talk:BrownHairedGirl|(talk)]] • ([[Special:Contributions/BrownHairedGirl|contribs]])</small> 20:14, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
* [[:Category:People from the Kingdom of Great Britain]] should be nominated too. [[User:Marcocapelle|Marcocapelle]] ([[User talk:Marcocapelle|talk]]) 20:47, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
*:@[[User:Marcocapelle|Marcocapelle]], the issues there are very different. That would be a separate and v different discussion. [[User:BrownHairedGirl|<span style="font-variant:small-caps"><span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl</span>]] <small>[[User talk:BrownHairedGirl|(talk)]] • ([[Special:Contributions/BrownHairedGirl|contribs]])</small> 20:58, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
*:* Surely separate, not very different though. [[User:Marcocapelle|Marcocapelle]] ([[User talk:Marcocapelle|talk]]) 21:06, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
*:*:On the contrary, @[[User:Marcocapelle|Marcocapelle]], it would be radically different. "British people" had no legal basis before 1707, and after 1800 its meaning broadened to include Ireland (all of it util 1922, thereafter a part of Ireland). Hence the use of the phrase "People from the Kingdom of Great Britain" to describe that particular period and scope,
*:*:By contrast the meaning of "Irish people" has remained unchanged.
*:*:It is a great pity that some editors seem to be fixated on the term "Kingdom of", rather than looking at the actual scope of the categories. [[User:BrownHairedGirl|<span style="font-variant:small-caps"><span style="color:#663200;">Brown</span>HairedGirl</span>]] <small>[[User talk:BrownHairedGirl|(talk)]] • ([[Special:Contributions/BrownHairedGirl|contribs]])</small> 21:17, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
* '''Alt delete''' per BrownHairedGirl, since the only argument against that deletion seems to be treating fundamentally unlike cases as like. [[User:Pppery|* Pppery *]] [[User talk:Pppery|<sub style="color:#800000">it has begun...</sub>]] 17:31, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
*:Actually no rationale was offered for the alt deletion proposal. I'd like to see one. [[User:Laurel Lodged|Laurel Lodged]] ([[User talk:Laurel Lodged|talk]]) 11:43, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
*'''Oppose''' as nominated. Also oppose Alt per BHG. I note that [[:Category:People from the Republic of Ireland]] exists but is not part of the alt plan. An Irish man born in 1900 is the same as an Irish man born in 1950. No? Has changing states changed their nationality? If not, then why the omission? [[User:Laurel Lodged|Laurel Lodged]] ([[User talk:Laurel Lodged|talk]]) 13:25, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
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==== Category:7th-millennium BC people ====
==== Category:7th-millennium BC people ====

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July 11

Category:Imperials during the end of the Han dynasty

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Category:Malayala Manorama

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:25, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Appears to be the same intended scope. I prefer this direction for the merge although the reverse merge might be preferable given the absence of an article about the Malayala Manorama group. Pichpich (talk) 20:46, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Template:2023-single-stub

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 16:36, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: While {{2010s-single-stub}} was broken down by year due to overpopulation of Category:2010s single stubs, that same treatment is not necessary for this decade yet. Created without going through WP:WPSS/P. StarcheerspeaksnewslostwarsTalk to me 20:36, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Irish trade unionists

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The result of the discussion was: Withdrawn by nominator; see Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Now_what. Oculi (talk) 17:52, 13 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Carlow‎ (1) to Category:Activists from County Carlow‎ (2) and Category:Irish trade unionists (19)
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Clare‎ (1) to Category:Activists from County Clare‎ (1) and Category:Irish trade unionists
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Kildare‎ (1) to Category:Activists from County Kildare‎ (1) and Category:Irish trade unionists
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Laois‎ (1) to Category:Activists from County Laois‎ (1) and Category:Irish trade unionists
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Mayo‎ (1) to Category:Activists from County Mayo‎ (2) and Category:Irish trade unionists
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Armagh‎ (2) to Category:Activists from County Armagh‎ (2) and Category:Irish trade unionists and Category:Trade unionists from Northern Ireland (3)
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Monaghan‎ (2) to Category:Activists from County Monaghan‎ (1) and Category:Irish trade unionists
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Roscommon‎ (2) to Category:Activists from County Roscommon‎ (1) and Category:Irish trade unionists
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Tyrone‎ (2) to Category:Activists from County Tyrone‎ (2) and Category:Irish trade unionists and Category:Trade unionists from Northern Ireland
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Londonderry‎ (3) to Category:Activists from County Londonderry‎ (2) and Category:Irish trade unionists and Category:Trade unionists from Northern Ireland
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Waterford‎ (3) to Category:Activists from County Waterford‎ (1) and Category:Irish trade unionists
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Wexford‎ (3) to Category:Activists from County Wexford‎ (1) and Category:Irish trade unionists
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Wicklow‎ (3) to Category:Activists from County Wicklow‎ (1) and Category:Irish trade unionists
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Down‎ (4) to Category:Activists from County Down‎ (3) and Category:Irish trade unionists and Category:Trade unionists from Northern Ireland
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Kerry‎ (4) to Category:Activists from County Kerry‎ (2) and Category:Irish trade unionists - I have withdrawn and detagged the ones with 4
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Limerick‎ (5) to Category:Activists from County Limerick‎ (1) and Category:Irish trade unionists
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Meath‎ (4) to Category:Activists from County Meath‎ (1) and Category:Irish trade unionists
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Sligo‎ (4) to Category:Activists from County Sligo‎ (1) and Category:Irish trade unionists
Merge Category:Trade unionists from County Tipperary‎ (5) to Category:Activists from County Tipperary‎ (1) and Category:Irish trade unionists
Rationale: There are 218 members in all in Category:Irish trade unionists and 32 counties, ie around 7 per county. Moreover County Dublin has 74, County Antrim (Belfast) has 36 and County Cork has 22, leaving around 66 to be distributed amongst 29 counties. Clearly any attempt to split up trade unionists much further by county is doomed (indeed not one other passes user:William Allen Simpson’s stated minimum requirement of 10, Galway leading the way with 9). In addition to the small numbers, Patricia Ryan (politician), say, is being categorised by place of birth (unsourced), contrary to WP:COP-PLACE. Indeed most of the articles if properly scrutinised do not support the addition of the 'by county' category at all. Oculi (talk) 21:44, 24 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge All for Now with no objection to recreating any that reach 5+ articles for people who were labor unionists in that county. (While WP:SMALLCAT does not give a number, 5 articles has been a more common rule of thumb in CFD than 10.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:01, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:43, 25 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose for now. This category series is only 9 days old. Ten of the 19 nominated categories have either 3 or 4 pages, meaning that only one more would be needed to reach 5. There is much uncaegorisation of Irish trade unionists, so I expect many more articles to be added to the set in coming weeks and months. Furthermore, I have not yet populated the activist-by-county categories, which will be much bigger, and it will be unhelpful to lose the TU ppl in those larger sets.
    Please note that the nominator Oculi has been reminded many times recently that WP:SMALLCAT is for categories which are "Small with no potential for growth", and tat as with many other nominations by Oculi, he makes no attempt to assess the potential for growth, beyond noting the current ally of articles in in Category:Irish trade unionists. There is no consideration of undercategorisation of TU ppl, or of the rate of new articles. This is yet another blatantly bad faith nomination by a highly-experienced editor w persistently refuses to apply te actual guideline WP:SUBCAT, and who is par of a tag team overtly targeting my work i revenge for my opposing some of his nominations. I would be open to a review of these categories, but this is wildly premature.--BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 17:50, 29 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Request Please let's focus on the categories rather than other editors, flawed though they may be. - RevelationDirect (talk) 05:03, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
RD & BHG side conversation
  • @RevelationDirect: when editors tag-team to abuse the CFD process by systematically misrepresenting guidelines and vindictively targeting the work of other editors, then it is important that this info is presented to the CFD discussion.
    In 17 years at CFD, I have never before seen anything remotely like this. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 08:34, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@BrownHairedGirl: This is a difference of opinion over the WP:SMALLCAT guideline; it's not worth throwing out WP:5P4 with the bath water. And I'm also trying to do better here; I struck a part of my comment in another nomination that was about you and not the category. (Sorry about that, btw.) Why don't we both lower the temperature? - RevelationDirect (talk) 10:20, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No it is not a difference of opinion. There has been a systematic efforts by a tag team (in which Oculi is one of the two main players) to radically misrepresent WP:SMALLCAT and to use that misrepresented guideline vindictively. WP:SMALLCAT is unambiguously restricted (inter alia) to cats which are "Small with no potential for growth", and it is being systematically abused by editors (including you) who wholly ignore the "no potential for growth" part.
The way to lower the temperature is to stop tag-teaming, and to withdraw the vindictive nominations. I welcome your striking of one of your comments[1], but I note that on that page you have not even struck your bogus allegation in that discussion that I had threatened the closer (an allegation which you also made elsewhere) or you appalling !vote to merge on the grounds that one editor would not commit to populating the nominated categories, or your false allegations of WP:POINT disruption. If you really want to lower the temperature then stop pouring petrol on fires and stop enabling the tag team and stop being an attack dog for the tag team. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 10:47, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Suggestion @BrownHairedGirl: This is feeling more like a User talk page conversation between two editors so I'll move this conversation there. I don't want issues between us to inadvertently distract from discusison of the categories. (And that goes for both of us.) How about we collapse this whole exchange and the 2nd half of your iVote and leave other editors with a clean CFD discussion?- RevelationDirect (talk) 12:01, 30 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Cannibals

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Category:Battles involving the Austrian Netherlands

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:40, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: rename, "battles involving" is not the right phrase, because the Austrian Netherlands was part of the Habsburg monarchy and thus was not a war party in its own right. "Military history" suits better. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:17, 23 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Workplace bullying

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Category:XFL (2001) venues

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Category:Infobox road instances in Victoria

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:50, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not linked from anywhere and does not have any description to what it is for. Unclear if even used anywhere still. Gonnym (talk) 22:30, 9 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I thought the name was pretty self-explanatory, but I've been surprised by less. It's a tracking category, for instances {{Infobox road}}, for articles whose subject is located in Victoria. Sure it's empty now, but that doesn't mean it will always be empty. –Fredddie 00:49, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Tracking category of what exactly? What maintaince do entries in the category require? Again, the category isn't even linked from anywhere, so how do editors know there is something that needs fixing? Gonnym (talk) 12:39, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
If it's just to see what pages are from Victoria, hastemplate:"Infobox road" insource:/state[ ]*=[ ]*<value>/ or something similar can be used to find usages. Gonnym (talk) 12:42, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Beauty pageants for married contestants

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The result of the discussion was: upmerge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:54, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT (2 P, 1 C about one of the 2 Ps). WP:NONDEFINING. Ever since Miss Universe started allowing married contestants, this is not a defining difference between it and rival pageants anymore. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 23:00, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Germanic folklore

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The result of the discussion was: split and purge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 13:43, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:CROSSCAT between language family and the Category:Folklore by country tree. I think I won't have to explain anymore why we shouldn't mix up country and language family, will I? Anyway, the by-country children of Category:Germanic folklore should be merged to Category:European folklore by country (where they already are), the not-by-country children of Category:Germanic folklore should be upmerged, because they are evidently European, but not necessarily "Germanic". Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 23:57, 22 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Diasporas by destination country

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Category:Diasporas by origin country

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:58, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This may have been created as a counterpart to Diasporas by destination country, but "by country of origin" is more natural in English, following Category:Country of origin. – Fayenatic London 13:45, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Diasporas by continent

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The result of the discussion was: rename. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:58, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This is to specify the direction of travel of the contents. – Fayenatic London 14:03, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Dual internationalists (football)

Nominator's rationale: These categories should have a consistent naming scheme, though I am unsure of what the best titles would be. Note that there is no article titled Dual internationalists (football) or Dual internationals (football), which makes using the disambiguation format seem somewhat strange (though maybe it is the clearest option). The article on the topic is located at List of association footballers who have been capped for two senior national teams. As this is not a country-specific category, the renamed categories should contain "association football" to follow the naming scheme of the Association football players category tree. Also note that "internationalists" is used nowhere else in the footballer category tree, nor does any football article use it in the title. S.A. Julio (talk) 07:45, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Some possible options for the parent category:
  1. Category:Dual internationalists (association football)
  2. Category:Dual international association football players
  3. Category:Dual association football internationalists
  4. Category:Dual internationalists in association football
  5. Category:Dual international players in association football

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  • Option 2 and 5 of nominator are both fine (with "international players"). Later suggestions are not concise enough. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:19, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Drive-by comment, general Oppose "Dual internationalist" is the actual, and commonly recognised, term (IDK, google it) and should be preserved. I strongly oppose any proposal that does not include it. I have heard "men's football dual internationalist" a lot and would perhaps support any rename based on such phrasing. I also fiercely oppose any proposal that basically invokes a descriptive sentence, they are generally poor and should only be reserved for categories that really need it, and this really doesn't. Kingsif (talk) 23:34, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Drive-by clarification note: yes, most players for national teams are "internationals" - Harry Kane could be called an England international men's footballer. I don't know why it becomes "(dual) internationalists" when it's more than one nation, perhaps there's something related to the history there, but it is AFAIK. Kingsif (talk) 23:38, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Question to User:Kingsif: in which variant of English is the term "dual internationalists" commonly used, apart from Scots which has been mentioned earlier? Marcocapelle (talk) 17:37, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    All? British, at least, and when Gio Reyna was discussed as a potential England player so I imagine American, too. I can't say I've ever spoken about the subject with Scottish people. Perhaps that's where it came from - Scots playing for England and vice versa was common in the early days - but it's now become the actual term on the whole. Kingsif (talk) 02:46, 12 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Option 2, second choice option 5. Internationalist seems more unclear to me, even if it is the actual term. — Qwerfjkltalk 13:51, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Royal houses of the Netherlands

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The result of the discussion was: manual upmerge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 13:52, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Category description: The Royal houses, of which members ruled the Kingdom of the Netherlands and/or its constituent parts. Well, there has been only one: Category:House of Orange-Nassau. All other children are neither "royal" nor "the Kingdom of the Netherlands and/or its constituent parts". The Kingdom was founded in 1815, longer after these counties and duchies had been abolished in 1795. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 00:30, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale (Belgium): Added "Belgian royal houses", because same problem. Either you count Category:House of Belgium as a sibling or as a child of Category:House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Belgium) (currently it is both; one is a continuation of the other). That makes a WP:SMALLCAT of 1 or 2 items, because the other 3 children are neither "royal" nor "the Kingdom of Belgium and/or its constituent parts." Because Belgium was established in 1830, when the County of Flanders and Duchy of Limburg were long gone. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 00:38, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • NB WP:SMALLCAT refers to articles, not subcats. All articles in the subcats are also in their parents via WP:SUBCAT. There are plenty of valid categories with only 2 subcats, eg those split into male/female such as Category:Actors from Brussels. Oculi (talk) 11:03, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Purge until one subcategory is left, then merge to parent categories, per nom's rationale. Marcocapelle (talk) 18:55, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep in each case. For the (northern) Netherlands before 1795, the House of Orange-Nassau held a position, something like a hereditary president. However post-1830 Netherlands and pre-1795 United Provinces have much the same extent, so that a good solution is to ignore the complications of the intervening period, with the Batavian Republic and then United Netherlands. Similarly, post-1830 Belgium is much the same territory as pre-1795 Austrian Netherlands, previously Spanish, though the Bishopric of Liege was added. We do not like anachronism but in this case it provides a good solution. We commonly use the current name as parent for categories that include the same place under a previous name, e.g. DRC/Zaire; Burkino Faso/Upper Volta. This solution is not all that different. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:20, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Veo cómo cantas

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Category:French presidency

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:59, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nominator's rationale: Duplicate categories. The proper category in the proper category tree is the one in plural form, so merge the singular category "French presidency" created in 2022 into the plural category "Presidencies of France" created in 2017 -- 67.70.25.80 (talk) 11:45, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Belgium)

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 14:39, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:OVERLAPCAT. Alt proposal: Rename in order to better distinguish the pre-1920 and post-1920 period. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 18:15, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
PS: Neither category appears to know what its "main article" is. Category:House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Belgium) points to:
Category:House of Belgium points to:
These are all related but different topics. It's a bit of a mess. What exactly are we trying to categorise here? Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 18:19, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm prepared to Withdraw if nobody else thinks this is a good idea. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 10:59, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Regional WikiProject user templates

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 14:40, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: For clarity and consistency with e.g. Category:Country WikiProjects. If not split, it should be renamed to Category:Geographical WikiProject user templates. – Fayenatic London 12:31, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Rename or split per nom. If the latter, we may also need a continent subcategory. Marcocapelle (talk) 13:33, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep: I see no need to split up this category. I chose the term "Regional" because it is all encompassing. A region need not be a national subdivision. Most of these templates invoke Template:User in region. While well intentioned, I feel these changes will only add confusion. Yours aye,  Buaidh  talk e-mail

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Category:Regional interest user templates

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 14:41, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Clarification. The contents include countries and continents as well as the sub-national and sub-continental areas that we call regions. – Fayenatic London 12:37, 4 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Political websites by continent

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 14:42, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: merge, even if fully populated (which it isn't currently), it is easier to navigate when each continent is directly in the parent. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:10, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep as is. This merge would remove these from Category:Politics by continent. Fram (talk) 07:30, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Alcohol and health

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The result of the discussion was: no consensus. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 14:43, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The two categories cover the same topic. TadejM my talk 14:01, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Marcocapelle. These two categories overlap substantially. As you have pointed out that some articles don't fit Category:Health effects of alcohol and there is no need to have almost duplicate categories, my alternative proposal would be to move the content to Category:Alcohol and health, which can then be a subcategory of Category:Health effects by subject. Such naming is common in that category, so this should not be an issue. --TadejM my talk 05:10, 1 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed, this seems the best way to go. --TadejM my talk 11:38, 9 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Rulers of Bamburgh

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The result of the discussion was: rename to Category:Kings and earls of Bamburgh. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 14:47, 20 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:C2C parents Category:Anglo-Saxon earls and Category:Earls of Northumbria. I've boldly renamed the main article to Earls of Bamburgh already. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 09:50, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Alt compromise rationale: It's a bit difficult to say what their actual titles were, and Category:Monarchs in the British Isles is better for the early "rulers" of Bamburgh, while Category:Anglo-Saxon earls and Category:Earls of Northumbria are better for the later "rulers" of Bamburgh. Adding an extra parent may be a better idea than renaming the category (supported by Deacon of Pndapetzim and Marcocapelle). Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 21:07, 27 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I would oppose this. They are not 'earls' until relatively late, in the tenth century they go by the titles 'king' 'prince' and 'high reeve' depending on the source, the use of the title 'earl' emerges late when they more or less accept their status as part of a larger English kingdom (the title 'earl' itself isn't used in that conventional sense in England until about c.1000 anyway). There is something about this in their various articles, but that's why the main article title is not 'Earls of Bamburgh' either. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 10:08, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Fair enough. Would it be a better idea, then, to rename the main article and this category to Monarchs of Bamburgh? Since they can be kings, princes and (semi-)independent earls, and "rulers" is too vague? And are parents Category:Anglo-Saxon earls and Category:Earls of Northumbria even correct if the earliest "rulers" of Bamburgh weren't "earls"? Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 10:21, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Those parents aren't incorrect, since some of them are given the title 'earl', at least by modern historians. To be honest the ambiguity of the word 'ruler' seems to be perfect for the article's topic, I don't see any advantage in 'monarch', esp. as there is a suggestion that rulership of the polity may have been shared c.920 when 'the sons of Eadwulf' are among the rulers who meet Edward the Elder at Bakewell and since the later rulers, say post-Uhtred d. c.1018, definitely don't seem to be sovereign 'monarchs' in the late medieval sense, they are likely subject to the king of England (an Edward the Confessor) and possibly also the ealdorman of Northumbria (e.g. a Siward or Tostig). Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 12:40, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Hmmmm ok, that's good to know. Then perhaps rather than looking for an overarching parent category, we should put this category (and the main article) into several categories which may only partially apply? E.g. Category:Monarchs in the British Isles for the early "rulers" of Bamburgh, and Category:Anglo-Saxon earls and Category:Earls of Northumbria for the later "rulers" of Bamburgh? (We do not have to take the "mon-" in "monarch" too literally in cases of power-sharing between, say, two kings, or a king and a queen regnant; that would make categorisation overcomplicated.) This seems to be a good compromise to me. How about you @Deacon of Pndapetzim and @Marcocapelle? Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 12:55, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm don't think I'm all that fussed what categories get put at the bottom of this article, but I should point out that we don't really know when they stopped being 'kings' and started being 'earls', as you'll know the evidence doesn't always allow the kind of clear and decisive EITHER/OR interpretation well suited for, say, Wikipedia categories. Also, maybe it's just me, 'monarch' sounds a bit high for these types of early medieval rulers, would any modern writer ever use such a grand term for kings of Brega or kings of the Rhinns? I'm a bit puzzled why the word 'ruler' is allegedly problematic by comparison. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 13:09, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
As a historian, I agree with what you say about the uncertainty of what to call something or someone when the sources are ambiguous, and not trying to put historical persons into boxes in which they do not fit.
As a Wikipedian, I must insist on WP:CATSPECIFIC, and that clarifying which kinds of persons this category is grouping should be unambiguous enough, as part of the Category:Rulers process.
My compromise suggestion seeks to strike a balance between these two considerations. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 13:34, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:People from the Kingdom of Ireland

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Category:7th-millennium BC people

Nominator's rationale: Redundant layers. The 4 March 2023 "Rulers by millennium" already found that all such "by millennium" categories were already in "by century" categories. The "by period" categories Category:Ancient people and Category:Medieval people are, however, commonly accepted umbrellas. Although technically ancient history conventionally only starts at 3000 BC(E), the Egyptian pharaohs in Category:4th-millennium BC people may already be considered part of recorded history, so they wouldn't fit in a category like Category:Prehistoric people. The remaining two pre-3000 BC cats are both WP:SMALLCATs, and the 3rd- to 1st-millennium BC cats may fairly be called "Ancient people". So all of these can be Upmerged to Category:Ancient people. We can look at the AD/CE millennium cats later, let's just sort these out first. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 09:08, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
3rd, 2nd and 1st millennium BC withdrawn for now for procedural reasons, to simplify our decision-making. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 20:52, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
PS: For the BC children of Category:Deaths by millennium we could of course create Category:Ancient deaths. We've already got Category:Executed ancient people, Category:Ancient murder victims, and Category:Ancient people who committed suicide (currently in CfR, could end up as simply "Ancient suicides"). There seems to be no reason for a "by millennium" tree here either. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 09:25, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
And looking at the other examples above inspires me to move her to Barum Woman for consistency. PamD 10:02, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Sooo... Barum Woman ("died 7010–6540 BCE") could also have died in the 8th millennium BC, and never even seen the dawn of the 7th millennium BC? So we have a margin of error of 470 years (almost half a millennium), yet it "remains appropriate" to create a "by millennium" category just for her alone, even if it's a WP:SMALLCAT, and even if she may have never lived in it? So much for "precision". This is just WP:OR. She should be in Category:Date of death unknown at the most (unless we want to create a Category:1st-mega-annum BC people/deaths to make absolutely sure she is "precisely"/"appropriately" categorised). This is bordering on the ridiculous.
Lastly, the "30th-century BC women rulers" CfM already confirmed that we don't need to have "by century" categories just for their own sake. If they are SMALLCATs, they can and should be upmerged. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 13:04, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
OK, a new suggstion:
Merge the 7th-4th categories into Category:Pre-3000 BC people. If "technically ancient history conventionally only starts at 3000 BC(E)" (fascinating, I never knew that), then it makes sense to have a single category for those people who are more ancient than ancient history. It then fits into the hierarchy along with the categories for 3rd, 2nd, 1st millennia BC, which should be almost entirely parent categories but will possibly have the occasional "can't be more precise" entry. And we need to sort out what to do with the earliest Pharaohs: the problem seems to be that "ancient (recorded) history" in Egypt goes back further than the conventional definition. I think we do need a category in which the identified individuals from the very distant past can be grouped together and not just bundled in with everyone else born BCE. I am not an ancient historian, but created Barum Woman as part of Women in Red's Women in the Ancient World editathon PamD 19:03, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@PamD That sounds like a great idea!! Incidentally, I am a historian (although antiquity is not my specialisation), and I've also written about women's history. Barum Woman is a fascinating article, and I thank you for creating it. (Any snarky jokes I made in my previous comment were not aimed at you, just at the current categorisation scheme as a whole). The millennia categories are just not very practical in this domain of time so long ago with very imprecise dates. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 19:26, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
PS: I'm leaning more towards the archaeology alternative now. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 20:47, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Two questions: should Category:Human remains (archaeological) be a child category of Category:Ancient people?, and would identifiably female such remains go into Category:Ancient women (which has only 2 entries not in subcategories), or somewhere else. It feels important to have a categorisation which identifies women in prehistory. PamD 16:26, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]
According to the current proposal, no. We will be keeping archaeological and historical categories separate. Whether the archaeological tree could benefit from a subcategorisation by gender (or perhaps 'sex' is a better term in this context) is a valid question. Although some remains cannot be identified, and some have been misidentified, those that are may probably be categorised as such. Personally I am in favour of it. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 17:18, 2 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:19th-century rulers in North America

Nominator's rationale: Factually what the contents are: they are all presidents of Mexico during the 19th century. We just need to re-parent it from Category:19th-century rulers to Category:19th-century national presidents and Category:Presidents of Mexico. And we need to re-parent child Category:19th-century monarchs in North America to Category:19th-century North American people. See also ongoing Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 July 11#Category:11th-century rulers in North America. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 09:33, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Category:11th-century rulers in North America

Nominator's rationale: All categories only have 1 child: Xth-century BC monarchs in North America. The only exception is Category:17th-century rulers in North America, which has only 1 item: Chief Kairouane. Indirect follow-up to:

Category:5th-century rulers in Asia

Nominator's rationale: All categories* only have 1 child: Xth-century BC monarchs in Asia. Indirect follow-up to:
* The only exception is Muhammad in Category:7th-century rulers in Asia, which might be contentious.
Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 08:32, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Category:25th-century BC rulers

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The result of the discussion was: upmerge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 18:00, 19 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: All categories only have 1 child: Xth-century BC monarchs. Follow-up to the CfR/CfM 32nd-century BC rulers (Renamed), the 31st-century BC rulers CfR (Renamed), 4th-century rulers in Europe CfM (Upmerged), 1st- to 19th-century rulers in Africa CfM (Upmerged). Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 06:26, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Update: Added 12th to 7th century BC: The 12th and 11th cats have 1 and 2 other children respectively, but can still better be Upmerged. The 10th to 7th cats already got a "by occupation" tree that is to be preferred as a target. I'll stop adding cats for now to keep it simple. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 06:56, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Han dynasty generals by modern province

Nominator's rationale: merge, anachronistic and trivial intersections. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:38, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Recipients of the Order of Saint Ignatius of Antioch

Nominator's rationale: WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:OCAWARD, WP:NONDEFINING and, for the parent cat, WP:SMALLCAT
The Order of Saint Ignatius of Antioch is an award by the Syriac Catholic Church. The Patriarch of Antioch is automatically the Grand Master nearly all of this category consists of those patriarchs who are already well categorized uner Category:Syriac Catholic Patriarchs of Antioch. The only exception is billionaire and Deputy Prime Minister Issam Fares whose article does not even mention this award. (No conceptual objection to the parent category but it only contains this subcategory and the main article.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:35, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Recipients of the Centenary Medal

Nominator's rationale: WP:ARBITRARYCAT, WP:OCAWARD, and WP:DNWAUC
Australia's centennial was in 2001 and, to celebrate, the Centenary Medal was automatically given to every living Australian who was 100 years old. (If you were born on or before 31 December 1901, you go the award; if you were born on 1 January 1902, you were out of luck.) 14,000 additional medals were widely handed out to others that year but the only thing these articles have in common is that they do not treat this award as defining. This creates a comingled grouping including actor Russell Crowe, organic winemaker Gil Wahlquist, prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, rabbi John Levi, Olympian Bill Roycroft, and zookeeper Steve Irwin. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:35, 11 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]