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Category:People's Republic of China subdivision templates

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Category:Bantu-language given

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The result of the discussion was: Rename to Category:Bantu-language given names - jc37 08:15, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Standard titling. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 21:42, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy rename to Category:Bantu-language given names per C2A and C2C. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:39, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Just noticed a typo (I wrote "name" instead of "names" for the target category) thanks to your comment. Now fixed above. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 11:50, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Palestinian terrorism

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Category:Wikipedians interested in Scouting memorabilia

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The result of the discussion was: Rename for now; no prejudice against a merger nomination Timrollpickering (talk) 19:26, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Rename to match the name of the article in question (Scouting memorabilia collecting). This could have been a C2D, but I figured more discussion might be warranted. * Pppery * it has begun... 17:08, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Books about art

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Books about visual art. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:25, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The three articles in "Books about art" could be categorized in "Books about the arts" without much disruption; Also, as far as I am concerned, "The Arts" is a better means of categorizing than "Art" KConWiki (talk) 18:37, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Merge to Category:Books about visual art per above. QuietHere (talk | contributions) 19:33, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:World Champions in 5.5 Metre

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The result of the discussion was: merge Category:World Champions in 5.5 Metre to Category:5.5 Metre class world champions‎, and the rest to Category:Soling class sailors. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:29, 6 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Following Category:Sailors (sport) by class. See also Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 28#Category:World champions in the 420. Kaffet i halsen (talk) 14:25, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Please do not delete or merge. The Soling is somewhat different then classes that never been Olympic like the RS Feva. Dragon Genoa (talk) 13:24, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
What does the difference mean in this discussion? Kaffet i halsen (talk) 07:23, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Professional wrestling in X Florida

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:40, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: All articles in the categories are about shows, not professional wrestling more broadly. User:Namiba 15:11, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
There are dozens of these categories, this seems pretty consistent Category:Professional wrestling in the United States by city. - Galatz גאליץשיחה Talk 16:14, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
One more thing, there also is Category:Professional wrestling in the United States by state. I have been inactive for a while so I cannot remember the name of the rule, but isn't there one where if its part of a chain, the subcategories are included? So since there are a bunch of other "Category:Professional wrestling in...", these should maintain the same structure, even with only shows included. - Galatz גאליץשיחה Talk 18:25, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
So the choice is whether to create another category for shows and keep these or to simply rename these. If another category is created, then these would be emptied. Why is needed to keep empty categories? How does that aid navigation?--User:Namiba 13:30, 16 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Galatz: You're probably thinking of WP:C2C, "consistency with established category tree names". - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:02, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete all WP:PERFCAT — places where one performance in a series was held. We don't track where any circus performs. We don't track where any sport team plays during each season. We don't track which place holds a playoff. We do often track where a world championship or olympics is held. In any case, these are more akin to a traveling circus or a small sports team.
    William Allen Simpson (talk) 06:40, 22 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
PERFCAT does not apply here.--User:Namiba 15:15, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Certainly it does. These are entertainers. Targets are shows.
William Allen Simpson (talk) 04:58, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Mound Builders

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The result of the discussion was: merge to Category:Mound Builders. Some particpants suggested that neither category be kept, but all of them supported merging the two categories as duplicates, and it was noted that the main article is titled Mound Builders. Any proposal to delete the combined category should be proposed at a follow-up CfD. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:44, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: This category appears to have been created to store people who researched the Mound Builders, so they should be have been added to the existing category about those people. GiovanniSidwell (talk) 18:57, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Great idea, wish I’d looked at the categories the cultures were in. Doug Weller talk 19:03, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support, tentatively. Although, I'd prefer supporting deleting both categories. Archaeological sites and the cultures that constructed them should be categorized that way, and not with a depecated term leftover from 19th century racist misunderstandings of who built the mounds. There was no overarching "mound builders" people, there were a lot of different cultures that constructed them, over a time span of thousands of years, and not all of whom were related to one another. Keeping this categorization in either form helps perpetuate a flawed understanding of Native American cultures and archaeology. Heiro 19:55, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Heironymous Rowe: That’s a good point but are you suggesting these articles shouldn’t be in the same category or that we need a better name?
@Doug Weller: The one category deals mostly with sites and cultures. Plenty of categories and sub-categories already exist about those subjects. Ones not already in those can be slotted into the proper ones, or if a few new ones need to be created they can be. More accurate ones than "mound builders". The other category seems to deal with 18th-19th antiquarians, anthropologists, early archaeologists or writers. They probably belong in those categories and not in a category about the "mound builders" anyway. Heiro 20:11, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Finnish politicians with disabilities

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The result of the discussion was: No Consensus - jc37 08:19, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT. This category has only 1 entry. Estopedist1 (talk) 13:07, 15 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Keep. The category has more people in it now. I'm going to take a look to see if I can find any more that should be in this category. (Oftentimes folks just don't get categorized...) Mason (talk) 22:51, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Groups claiming Jewish descent

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The result of the discussion was: No Consensus - Several options, but no clear consensus. And the many verification tags on Groups claiming affiliation with Israelites, would make me hesitant to implement that as a target per C2D, even if this discussion hadn't happened. - jc37 08:30, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The overlap is extremely heavy, the Jews are descended from the Israelites anyway, and there don't seem to be any groups specifically claiming to be Israelite but not Jewish. An anonymous username, not my real name 22:30, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Anti-white racism

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The result of the discussion was: Purge "of all content that is related to black and African nationalism" - Please feel free to do so at editorial discretion. There was No Consensus on rename. - jc37 08:42, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Bringing this here for centralized discussion after a sub-category was contested at Talk:Racism in Zimbabwe, this category currently seems like an exercise in WP:OR. Academic RS generally do not refer to anti-white sentiment or discrimination as racism, intentionally using more precise terminology, and exclusively using "racism" to refer to the racial hierarchies established by European colonialism and its associated ideologies of scientific racism and white supremacy. We should use terminology that reflects top-quality RS, and thus "Anti-white sentiment" or "Anti-white discrimination" are more appropriate. I chose "sentiment" over "discrimination" to mirror Category:Anti-Christian sentiment, Category:Anti-LGBT sentiment, among others. Beyond the name, the inclusion criteria need to be revisited, as it's currently a mixed bag of anti-colonial slogans and movements, political parties, heads of state, fringe figures and crimes. signed, Rosguill talk 20:15, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Would you consider the use of the "Anti-White Racism" sections and categories in the Economic Freedom Fighters page proper usage? 2603:8080:F600:14E7:609A:2A4D:FF05:48A6 (talk) 20:25, 23 March 2023 (UTC) Sockpuppet of June Parker (talk · contribs). Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 00:53, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
All of those instances appear to be cited to news sources, not peer-reviewed articles. I haven't reviewed them closely, but whether or not it's valid to use the term within the context of a single article, it shouldn't be applied so broadly as a category. signed, Rosguill talk 20:29, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose: It's difficult to see value in a renaming proposal based on such a vague justification as: "Academic RS generally do not refer to anti-white sentiment or discrimination as racism". How does one quantify what 'Academic RS generally do' exactly, do we just start throwing RS at one another or is there something deeper we do? Furthermore, while it is true that academia will refer to the establishment of colonialism and racial hierarchies as manifestations of racism, it will also term discrimination, negative sentiment towards individual racial groups, and individual acts as racism too. Therefore I'm not sure the assertion that RS draws the distinction as strictly as the nominator suggests. Alssa1 (talk) 20:47, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The fact that "racism" has multiple meanings is itself reason to rename the categories, in order to avoid subjective and/or vague inclusion criteria. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 22:24, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Currently the community consensus-defined definition of racism says: "Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race over another. It may also mean prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against other people because they are of a different race or ethnicity." But if there is a case on renaming in this case on the grounds of WP:SUBJECTIVECAT, would it be worth bringing some consistency to all categories in: Category:Racism? Alssa1 (talk) 23:33, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The two definitions given ("belief" and "prejudice, discrimination or antagonism") show why "racism" is too vague a descriptor. I'm not opposed on principle to renaming other categories containing the word "racism", but this specific renaming should go ahead regardless, given the consensus of academics that "anti-white racism" is a nonentity. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 03:21, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry, there has certainly been an assertion that "...the consensus of academics is that "anti-white racism" is a nonentity.", but there hasn't been a demonstration of that; it just seems to be a belief asserted by some axiomatically. Alssa1 (talk) 08:39, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    See below. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 22:23, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I'd like to point out that the reason this vote is happening in the first place is because you pushed the "Anti-White racism" category into the "Racism in Zimbabewe" page. Not neccesarily wrong, but you've went to multiple pages to do with South African politics either erasing any sourced reference to white supremacist ideologies or slapping "Anti-White" on any political subject to do with black people. Including many of my own edits from months ago. All over this website, and it caught two different people's attention.
    You have removed longstanding mentions of white supremacy that are sourced and demanded a rationalization from other users as to why it should stay, but at the same time you add mention of anti-white racism into a page without any source or backing and demand a rationalization as to why anyone is quesitoning it. Then you accused me of shadowing you. Twice. 2603:8080:F600:14E7:609A:2A4D:FF05:48A6 (talk) 04:51, 24 March 2023 (UTC) Sockpuppet of June Parker (talk · contribs). Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 00:53, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support: I would be very happy to have a discussion open for this category as it appears to be misused all over this website. To boot the name itself feels loaded with accusations that may or may not be accurate, even if sources agree an anti-white sentiment exists, it creates false equivilance to incidents of racism (Systemic or otherwise) perpetuated by or not involving white people. Even if people disagree I feel it's an important issue to raise. I am changing my arguement because I have realized this is in fact the discussion to change it or not. I've noticed users have a habit of dubbing black nationalist ideas as "Anti-white" via these categories even if these black nationalist ideals show ethnic hatred to other "Black" ethnicities as well as Asians, Indians, Middle Easterners, Native Americans, other indigenous populations, etc. It is heavily misused as per two other users pointed out and also suggests systematic structures which simply do not exist in the Western World. 2603:8080:F600:14E7:609A:2A4D:FF05:48A6 (talk) 20:51, 23 March 2023 (UTC) — 2603:8080:F600:14E7:609A:2A4D:FF05:48A6 (talk) has made few or no other edits outside this topic. Sockpuppet of June Parker (talk · contribs). Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 08:49, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per Alssa1. The idea that racism against a particular ethnic group isn't "real racism" is itself racist. Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 22:15, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Our articles on Racism and Reverse racism suggest that assertion is a fringe position. signed, Rosguill talk 22:24, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    As I've said to another editor, the current definition of Racism would apply to all manifestations of racial prejudice. But if there is a case on renaming in this category on the grounds of WP:SUBJECTIVECAT, would it be worth bringing some consistency to all categories in: Category:Racism, would be happy to support the bringing of consistency to all of those categories. Alssa1 (talk) 23:36, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support all per WP:SUBJECTIVECAT and WP:NONDEF. The top Google Scholar results for "anti-white racism" present the concept as a perceived phenomenon and politically charged accusation rather than a real thing. It's difficult to see how an imaginary phenomenon can be a defining characteristic of anything. (There's no Wikipedia article on anti-white racism either.) "Anti-white sentiment" is more neutrally descriptive and avoids the vagueness of the term "racism", which often (in academic usage) means a system of social advantage/disadvantage as opposed to mere prejudice. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 22:36, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment, much of this rather belongs in Category:African and Black nationalism. Marcocapelle (talk) 22:53, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support as, although I do not entirely agree with your argument, I do agree that "anti-white racism" sounds rather forced and unencyclopedic. Regardless of what group is being viewed negatively, saying "anti-[group] racism" does not come across anywhere near as neutral and natural as "anti-[group] sentiment". An anonymous username, not my real name 22:58, 23 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose per User:Alssa1. For my second choice, support and also rename Category:Anti-black racism to Category:Anti-black sentiment and Category:Anti-indigenous racism to Category:Anti-indigenous sentiment. "Sentiment" refers to racist thoughts or speech (all the dictionaries I checked defined it this way), which is only a subset of racism against any particular group. Neither discrimination nor violence is an example of sentiment, even if it is motivated by racist sentiment. —Lights and freedom (talk ~ contribs) 03:09, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    We already have Category:Discrimination based on skin color and Category:Racially motivated violence against white people, neither of which is synonymous with anti-white "racism". The comparison to anti-black racism and anti-indigenous racism is an obvious false equivalence. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 03:39, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    How is it a false equivalence? Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 04:04, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Racism refers to systematic social costoms that disadvantage a group of people.
    To my knowledge there are no systemic structures in the west or in any African country that disavantages white people. Many that are accused of such (Such as the Economic Freedom Fighters) often target other "Black" ethnic groups and non black/white ethnic groups alongside whites, and are made often without thought of any white person.
    Sentiment just refers to plain ethnic hatred. 2603:8080:F600:14E7:609A:2A4D:FF05:48A6 (talk) 04:59, 24 March 2023 (UTC) Sockpuppet of June Parker (talk · contribs). Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 00:53, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Using the logic that the existence of Category:Discrimination based on skin color and Category:Racially motivated violence against white people precludes the existence of a specific Category:Anti-white racism, seems flawed in my view. We have a category called: Category:Racially motivated violence against black people, does that mean we remove the Category:Anti-black racism? I too struggle to see the supposed false equivalence between anti-white racism, anti-black racism, and anti-indigenous racism. Alssa1 (talk) 08:50, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Have a look at some of the sources cited at Reverse racism, especially the United States overview section. This should help resolve any confusion. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 09:26, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Unfortunately it doesn't. In the first paragraph it states: "The concept of reverse racism in the United States is commonly associated with conservative opposition to color-conscious policies aimed at addressing racial inequality, such as affirmative action. Amy E. Ansell of Emerson College identifies three main claims about reverse racism: (1) that government programs to redress racial inequality create "invisible victims" in white men; (2) that racial preferences violate the individual right of equal protection before the law; and (3) that color consciousness itself prevents moving beyond the legacy of racism." (1), (2) and (3), are not relevant to the topic at hand and do not demonstrate that there is a false equivalence. In that same section it also talks about: "According to sociologist Rutledge Dennis, individual members of minority groups in the United States "may be racists" toward white people, but cannot wield institutional power or shape the opportunities available to the majority as the white majority does in relation to minorities. Sociologists Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer distinguish between institutional racism and interpersonal racism, arguing that while "members of all racial groups can harbor negative attitudes toward members of other groups", there is no "black institutional racism" or "reverse institutional racism" since people of color have not created a socially ingrained system of racial domination over white people." Now it may be true in the US that there is no black institutional racism, but the sources don't say that interpersonal racism doesn't constitute racism. Furthermore, while I realise that English Wikipedia seems to be US-centric, you cannot extrapolate views expressed in a US cultural-climate and apply it globally. Alssa1 (talk) 10:14, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Here are some sources you left out:
    • Yee (2008): "Scholars argue that a critical component of racism is the broad exercise of authority and power and that isolated instances of favoring the disadvantaged over the privileged cannot be seen as constituting racism."
    • Cashmore (2004): "One big difference is that white racism is a legacy of imperialism, whereas the black version is a reaction to the experience of racism. This qualitative difference is disguised by the term 'reverse racism' ... which implies too simple a comparison with its white counterparts."
    • McKinney (2005): "most claims that whites are victimized as whites rely on false parallels, as they ignore the power differences between whites and people of color at the group level. Schwalbe and others argue that while people of color can be prejudiced, just as whites can, they are not socially positioned as a group to be racist ..."
    One doesn't need to extrapolate to realize that "anti-white racism" is a loaded and imprecise term. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 11:29, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Sorry but you explicitly said earlier that: "...the consensus of academics is that "anti-white racism" is a nonentity.", you're now citing sources that say (among other things) "Scholars argue...". And as McKinney says about Daniel Tatum's work (which you left out when you cited it) Page 146.: "[W]hen I am asked 'Can people of colour be racist?' I reply, 'The answer depends on your definition of racism.' If one defines racism as racial prejudice, the answer is yes...". The sources are indicative of a debate in academia, not the categorical decision that you (and a few others) are asserting without explicit evidence. Furthermore, the sources you're using to make this judgement seemed to be based entirely within a US-centric cultural climate, and therefore attempting to shoe-horn that viewpoint onto what would be a global phenomena; in the sense that the American cultural understandings of race and racism are not necessarily relevant to every country on the planet. Alssa1 (talk) 18:21, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Without explicit evidence that other cultural understandings of race and racism differ significantly from the US, this is an argument from ignorance. It's enough that reliable sources like McKinney define "racism" as ambiguous to show that it runs afoul of SUBJECTIVECAT. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 22:56, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The "debate" is not within academia, but between academia and the general public. What the general public believes should not dictate what we do. McKinney quotes Beverly Daniel Tatum to support the idea of an academic consensus about anti-white racism. In McKinney's words, "theorists argue that only whites can be racist" (p. 147). Tatum continues (my bolding):

    "People of color can and do have racial prejudices. However, if one defines racism as a system of advantage based on race, the answer is no. People of color are not racist because they do not systematically benefit from racism. And equally important, there is no systematic cultural and institutional support or sanction for the racial bigotry of people of color."

    —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 23:59, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Without deliberately turning this into a forum-esque discussion, I didn't realise it was a matter of dispute that the US has its own history, its own culture and its own experience of race and race relations. The suggestion that the opinions expressed in the sources apply as a default to the experiences of the whole world unless there is a source that explicitly says otherwise, is silly. Particularly when (for example) the reviews on the back of McKinney's book (page 300), and the statements made by her, explicitly state that the discussion sits within an American context (hint being in phrases like: "McKinney captures the racial obliviousness that shapes the world of white youth in America").
    As for the specific section from McKinney's book (seeing as that's the part we're discussing now) it doesn't say the general public at all, that's your reading of the situation. It poses the question/challenge/suggestion: "...if one defines racism as a system of advantage based on race...", it doesn't say (as you falsely claimed): "...the consensus of academics is that "anti-white racism" is a nonentity." It seems to me that unless you can find a source that says that using the the phrase: anti-White racism is false or referring to "non-entity", your reasons for supporting a change seems flawed. Alssa1 (talk) 12:03, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    No one is disputing that the US has its own history, its own culture and its own experience of race and race relations. My point is that the consensus of US academics is that "racism" implies a system of advantage rather than mere individual prejudice. Therefore the term "(anti-white) racism" is an inappropriate name for a category encompassing topics relating mainly to individual prejudice. Unless you are claiming that the views of US academics don't matter at all, the term is inherently vague and subjective.
    Tatum's hypothetical definitions of racism do not occur in a vacuum; McKinney specifically cites Tatum to support her statement that "people of color can be prejudiced, but not 'racist'" (p. 147). This is all presented as a counterpoint to "white complaints of cultural victimization" (p. 145) from her research subjects and students, i.e. members of the general public. I already quoted two other academic sources saying reverse or "anti-white" racism is not really racism. Here's another (my bolding):

    "Reverse racism, which would indicate that Whites are now on the bottom of the racial hierarchy, is not real ... In almost all postcolonial societies, including and perhaps especially the United States, Whites are at the top of the racial hierarchy ... the system of power that is racism only works in one direction, from the top of the racial hierarchy toward the bottom. In other words, members of the dominant race are never the recipients of institutionally-derived racial discrimination ..."

    — Austin, Duke W.; Bowser, Benjamin P., eds. (2021). "Introduction". Impacts of Racism on White Americans In the Age of Trump. Springer Nature. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-75232-3. ISBN 978-3-030-75232-3.
    —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 13:29, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    The consensus of academics is that "anti-white racism" is a nonentity is my personal summary based on the multiple sources cited at Reverse racism. Needing a published source to use those exact words sets an impossible standard. We can infer an academic consensus from statements like "Scholars argue that a critical component of racism is the broad exercise of authority and power" and "theorists argue that only whites can be racist". —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 22:47, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment, "Someone Who's Wrong on the internet" has notified Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Europe of this discussion. I am new here, and I don't want to be a certain kind of guy but IDK if this is appropriate, this would be considered summoning a personal army in other websites [1] Can I have an opinion on that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:8080:F600:14E7:609A:2A4D:FF05:48A6 (talk) 05:03, 24 March 2023 (UTC) Sockpuppet of June Parker (talk · contribs). Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 00:53, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    How is that "summoning a personal army"? Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 05:16, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    Can I ask why you chose to notify them then? Like I said I am new and I am not sure if it was the appropriate thing to do 2603:8080:F600:14E7:609A:2A4D:FF05:48A6 (talk) 05:50, 24 March 2023 (UTC) Sockpuppet of June Parker (talk · contribs). Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 00:53, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    There is nothing wrong with a neutral notification as such, but it is pretty odd to post it on Wikiproject Europe, while most of the content of the category is about black nationalism in the US and in Africa. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:02, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    If wider input is needed, the logical place to post notifications would be at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Discrimination, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sociology, and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups, so I've done just that. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 09:07, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Purge all content that is related to black and African nationalism, that is a different topic than anti-white discrimination or sentiment. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:15, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strongest possible oppose To dispute that racism against white people does not or has never existed is in itself utterly racist.★Trekker (talk) 15:46, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Can you cite any laws or practices that are "racist" against white people? Catboy69 (talk) 15:59, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Or more properly, peer-reviewed RS in such quantity that they establish support for your position above and beyond the many sources cited at Reverse racism, some of which have already been quoted above at length. signed, Rosguill talk 17:19, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
But none of the sources quoted support your particular edit position though... Alssa1 (talk) 18:22, 24 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
They do, actually. 2603:8080:F600:14E7:B5A2:AB44:ABA5:983C (talk) 00:14, 28 March 2023 (UTC) Sockpuppet of June Parker (talk · contribs). Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 00:53, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Baseless assertion. Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 05:04, 1 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Can you provide an RS to back your statements up? 2603:8080:F600:14E7:D455:3218:9F68:BC74 (talk) 20:02, 3 April 2023 (UTC) Sockpuppet of June Parker (talk · contribs). Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 00:53, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I reccomend you read the case instead of just reacting 2603:8080:F600:14E7:B5A2:AB44:ABA5:983C (talk) 00:15, 28 March 2023 (UTC) Sockpuppet of June Parker (talk · contribs). Someone who's wrong on the internet (talk) 00:53, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Alternative (changing my !vote from "Oppose" above): I've taken another look at the category trees and related articles, and I'm seeing some things nobody has said yet, namely (indirect) speedy criteria:
There's nothing in the page logs saying Anti-white racism was ever moved to Reverse racism, so I'm not sure where that idea is coming from. Several redirects including "Anti-white racism" were deleted after a discussion a few months ago. Several users there proposed creating a separate article about anti-white racism, which has yet to happen. Given the academic consensus that "reverse racism" is nonentity (being an epithet specifically used to denigrate affirmative action policies), using it as a category name seems to make even less sense than the current name. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 12:23, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Technically it was retargeted rather than moved+redirected (on your own request, actually), but that's not my point. My point is WP:C2D. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 22:23, 26 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
This is a circular argument. The page was not renamed "Reverse racism". WP:C2D applies only to speedy renaming, and only when the name of the topic page is unambiguous and uncontroversial. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 03:46, 27 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Whatever. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 01:53, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Purge all content that is related to black and African nationalism, that is a different topic than anti-white discrimination or sentiment (per Marco). Laurel Lodged (talk) 15:24, 25 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Purge, then Rename all (without redirect) as nominated WP:C2C siblings, and Remove parent categories Category:Anti-European sentiment and Category:European diaspora — per Laurel Lodged, Marcocapelle, Nederlandse Leeuw, et alia. Not all "whites" are European. Not all Europeans are "white". It has already been decided that the current name is not even appropriate as a redirect per Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 November 1#Anti-white racism. Nuke it.
    William Allen Simpson (talk) 07:17, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support nom. It's clear that many editors don't understand systemic racism. I think what several of you are actually referring to is "bias", not "racism". Liz Read! Talk! 20:33, 29 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    No, its more than many oppose the idea that systemic racism is the only form of racism that exists. The idea that biases don't count as racism may be popular in some academic circles but academics don't decide how words are used in general.★Trekker (talk) 15:35, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    These are pretty bold statements. An explicit racist system like the Apartheid regime that takes active measures to discriminate against a specific group is in no way comparable to legacy economic differences among social groups in a society based on legal equality (which would qualify as systemic bias), so none are the only form of racism that exists. Also, resistance to oppression is not racist in itself by principle, even if that oppression is itself based on racism. Mandela and the ANC, Ghandi, MLK raised against very different oppressive systems but where not racist. However, anti-white racism and/or prejudice does of course exist, and can overlap with liberation movements. The problem of these categories is that they entertain the confusion between the different kinds of oppressions, and also entertain confusion between the different kinds of resistance against oppression. Place Clichy (talk) 17:42, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    One doesn't have to believe systemic racism is the only form of racism to see that "racism" is too vague to be a useful descriptor here. Indeed, that statement implicitly acknowledges that different things can be called "racism", which supports the rationale for renaming. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 12:04, 2 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Purge content related to e.g. Black or African nationalism or liberation movements that would not qualify as explicit racism or prejudice + Rename as nom per siblings + Remove all parent and children categories about "Europe[an]". White and European and not synonymous, far from it, and there are many arguments that the somewhat artificial black/white divide is in itself a product of out-of-Europe colonial societies, pre-colonial Europeans would probably have found very strange to be qualified as white or black rather than along their hometown, nation, social group or language. Place Clichy (talk) 17:42, 31 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Wrong Venue/Close for Now CFD is great for helping to group existing articles to aid reader navigation but, with a content dispute like this one, I would normally open an WP:RM on the main article's talk page. There is neither an Anti-white racism nor an Anti-white sentiment article though. Once that main article gets created with the reliable sources quoted above and then stabilizes, it would ground both the category naming and the inclusion criteria. - RevelationDirect (talk) 14:26, 2 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Monarchs of Bohemia

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The result of the discussion was: keep. bibliomaniac15 19:22, 13 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: The category duplicates the content of Category:Bohemian monarchs. Created without discussion on CfD, on the principle of emptying the above category. There is no justification for the existence of two categories with the same scope. The same applies to the other categories. Marcelus (talk) 11:12, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
They remain untagged as of this time stamp. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:06, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Fixed as of this time stamp. - RevelationDirect (talk) 10:25, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Keep Disclosure: I created the above categories. I have tried to explain to @Marcelus: the difference between a tree structure that is "by state / country" one that is "by nationality". He doesn't seem to understand or more likely has stopped listening. Once again, many monarchs of Bohemia were not Bohemian nationals. For example, the Habsburgs were Austrians / Germans. There have been many Category:Chinese monarchs, but not all were monarchs of the whole of China; some were only monarchs of small states such as Lu (state) or Wei (state). See the parent category (Category:Monarchs by country) which has 47 children. Laurel Lodged (talk) 20:20, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    1. No, you started emptying the category without getting a consensus, based on your own assessment, not WP:RS. You ignored my requests to undo the changes, and instead impertinently shared the "good news" with me.
    2. Categories such as Category:Bohemian monarchs or Category:Chinese monarchs are not based on ethnicity/nationality. This is your own assumption unsupported by anything. I don't know if you know, but many Chinese dynasties were not of Chinese (Huaxia/Han) origin. Many were Manchu, Turkic, Tibetan, etc.
    3. Dividing Bohemia's rulers on the basis of "ethnicity" makes as much sense. First of all, what is "Bohemian" ethnicity anyway? Can you define it? What makes you think that Habsburgs weren't Bohemians? They ruled the country.
    4. Category:Monarchs by country was created by you, in order to make even more mess and duplicating existing, perfectly fine category tree. For what purpose? I have zero idea. Marcelus (talk) 22:27, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reply I'm inclined to agree. Laurel Lodged (talk) 13:18, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Croatian monarchs" category shouldn't be about ethnicity, because it's just not something we can apply to the premodern aristocracy. And I really don't feel like measuring their skulls or examing their genealogical tree in order to determine if they are more Croatian, German or Irish.
  • In my opinion, the category "Monarchs of Croatia" should include all monarchs who bore the title "X of Croatia" (so kings, dukes as well as bans). And "Croatian monarchs" should be its parent category, gathering all monarchs within Croatia (e.g., Dukes of Slavonia, etc.). In principle, a good rule of thumb would be if the title "X of Y" referred to a specific title. And "Y-ian X" to an area. Marcelus (talk) 22:36, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Reply If a man was just a Duke of Slavonia, then was he really a monarch? If he was part of a larger sovereign entity (the Kingdom of Croatia), then he was not really the head of a sovereign state himself. So that contorted logic will not work I'm afraid. Laurel Lodged (talk) 13:18, 5 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Category:Croatian monarchs > Category:Croatian nobility > Category:Croatian people > Category:People by nationality
Category:Monarchs of Croatia > Category:Monarchs by country > Category:Heads of state by country > Category:Political office-holders by country > Category:Political people by nationality > Category:People by occupation and nationality > Category:People by nationality
So the question is: what is the difference, really? Marcelus' claim that Categories such as Category:Bohemian monarchs or Category:Chinese monarchs are not based on ethnicity/nationality appears to be incorrect; they, too, are in the Category:People by nationality tree. But Laurel's claim that there is a difference between a tree structure that is "by state / country" (to) one that is "by nationality" also appears to be at least partially incorrect, because although "by country" shows up 3 times between Category:Monarchs of Croatia and Category:People by nationality, it's ultimately still part of the Category:People by nationality tree.
Suggestion A Perhaps that means either "monarchs of foo" or "fooian monarchs", or both, should be somehow taken out of the Category:People by nationality tree? I've argued elsewhere that pre-modern monarchs often cannot really be defined by "nationality" (nor by "ethnicity" btw, as Marcelus correctly points out: "Croatian monarchs" category shouldn't be about ethnicity, because it's just not something we can apply to the premodern aristocracy), and that by becoming/being the monarch of a certain area, they often defined the state rather than the other way around (which is a modern idea). I haven't yet found a way to solve this problem.
Suggestion B If we cannot determine what the difference is, this gives credence to Marcocapelle's suggestion to rename/rescope all "fooian monarchs" to "monarchs of foo".
I haven't decided yet, but I think these are questions we need to answer first. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 13:48, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps there is an error in the category tree at Category:Political office-holders by country > Category:Political people by nationality? In certain countries it's possible to hold certain political offices in country A without being a national of country A (but country B). For example, as of 2017 in the Netherlands, mayors / burgemeesters need to be Dutch nationals, but deputy mayors / locoburgemeesters (which are in the Category:Political office-holders tree) can be foreign nationals. If this analogy holds true, this would mean that monarch C can become the queen of A while being a B "national". (However, if we presume that monarchs define the state (L'État, c'est moi), then becoming queen of A automatically makes C an A "national" as well). Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 14:02, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe we should just rename Category:People by nationality to People by nationality or ethnicity? It would save a great deal of time. I'm not talking about this category in particular, but many related discussions. Marcelus (talk) 14:47, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Suggestion B is my preference. Laurel Lodged (talk) 17:02, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    @Marcelus That wouldn't be a good idea, they are completely different category trees.
    To everyone: Would you agree Category:Political office-holders by country should be taken out of Category:Political people by nationality, because many political offices can be held by foreign nationals (and monarchs might be an example of that, but Dutch deputy mayors certainly are, and there are probably thousands of other examples)? If we agree on that, we might be able to solve the question what the difference between "fooian monarchs" and "monarchs of foo" is. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 21:53, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    PS: It's also possible to do both: rename/rescope all "fooian monarchs" to "monarchs of foo" AND take Category:Political office-holders by country out of Category:Political people by nationality. Especially if we agree that either monarchs define the state and its nationality, or that "nationality" is irrelevant to monarchs, fooian monarchs becomes an irrelevant category tree, and there is a strong rationale to take monarchs of foo out of the "people by nationality" category tree. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 21:59, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    "Nationality" in the sense of belonging to a particular state (citizenship) is essentially a modern invention, and it is arguable whether it should be referred to pre-modern times at all. In this sense, if someone was a ruler of a state or held a position in it, he or she might be referred to as a "fooian office holder".
    In my opinion, the 'monarch of foo' categories should refer to specific titles that were borne by rulers of different ranks, e.g. the monarchs of Poland bore the titles of princes and kings, the monarchs of Austria the titles of margraves, dukes, archdukes and emperors, and so on. On the other hand, "fooian monarchs" should refer to monarchs whose rulerships belonged to a particular state, e.g. the categories of dukes of Silesia, Mazovia, Poznań, etc. should be included in the category "Polish monarchs". Marcelus (talk) 09:51, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree with you about preferably not using "nationality" for pre-modern people in general, and for rulers/monarchs etc. in particular.
    On the other hand, I think 'monarch of Austria' is a legitimate parent category of margraves, dukes, archdukes and emperors of Austria.
    I'm very hesitant with your claim that "fooian monarchs" should refer to monarchs whose rulerships belonged to a particular state, e.g. the categories of dukes of Silesia, Mazovia, Poznań, etc. should be included in the category "Polish monarchs". Because this has the potential of nationalistic claiming of certain territories "belong[ing] to a particular state. Polish nationalists could lay claim to Lithuania by putting Grand Dukes of Lithuania in the Category:Polish monarchs while pointing to the Commonwealth era. Czech nationalists could lay claim to Silesia by putting Dukes of Silesia in Category:Bohemian monarchs while pointing to Lands of the Bohemian Crown. Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nationalists could lay claim to Kievan Rus'... etc.
    I should note that "Category:Belarusian rulers" was recently deleted precisely for this reason of being "anachronistic": the modern state didn't yet exist at the time for which it tries to lay claim to various local rulers. This is also precisely why I think we should not assign "nationality" for pre-modern people in general, and for rulers/monarchs etc. in particular, which is exactly what "Category:Belarusian rulers" did. We found that "Belarusian princes" was probably a modern nationalistic concept that had no place in Wikipedia categories. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 13:59, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    There is nothing wrong about having categories broad, overlapping categories, it's basically inevitable. Right now the tree is like that (going up to bottom): Dukes of Mazovia -> Dukes of Poland -> Polish monarchs. Which I think is overall good. Marcelus (talk) 14:07, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
    I don't, for the reasons given. I presume you would find something wrong with Dukes of Silesia being categorised as "Bohemian/Czech" monarchs, or even "Saxon/German" monarchs, for various contestable reasons? Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 20:35, 18 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I took my time to carefully look at all the arguments, and I'm now confident to take stance. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 12:42, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I think it's a good soultion. We do not need two categories that can be interpreted as simply containing all the people who have exercised monarchical authority in a country. I am absolutely against classifying the rulers of Bohemia in terms of ethnicity and separating the "Czech" ones from the rest. Marcelus (talk) 13:28, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:1793 establishments in the Dutch Empire

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The result of the discussion was: merge. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 10:48, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT. The total number of actual pages in this category jungle is... 8. Every cat has only 1 or 2 items, or 1 subcat. Let's just make it a decade cat, because this splitting doesn't aid navigation at all. Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 18:27, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Cross-reference: see other 1790s mergers at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2023_March_20#Category:1795_disestablishments_in_the_Batavian_Republic. – Fayenatic London 16:00, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Academics of the University of Birmingham

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The result of the discussion was: keep. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:30, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 January 3. UndercoverClassicist (talk) 09:35, 20 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Category:Racing drivers' wives and girlfriends

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:30, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:NOTDEFINING. There is a notice on the category page to include only those where this is a defining characteristic but that criteria seems to be being ignored and I fail to see how this could ever be a defining characteristic. See also other WAG categories listed for deletion as well, same reason applies. Anyone with an article is notable for individual accomplishments, not their relationship to someone else. I also find it jarring to categorize women this way. Geraldo Perez (talk) 01:14, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Baseball players' wives and girlfriends

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:30, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: WP:NOTDEFINING for any of the members. See also other WAG categories listed for deletion as well, same reason applies. Anyone with an article is notable for individual accomplishments, not their relationship to someone else. Geraldo Perez (talk) 00:59, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:American Football players' wives and girlfriends

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:30, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Not a defining characteristic. An equivalent category was deleted per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 December 27#Category:American footballers' wives and girlfriends. Arguably CSD G4 could apply, but the different name does address some (not all) of the deletion rationale. Word on the street is that "wives and girlfriends" is a real thing in the UK, but I doubt there's anyone for whom association with an American football player is a defining characteristic. The presence of people like Simone Biles, Ciara, and Hope Solo in the category makes it kind of ridiculous. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 00:39, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - we were simultaneously working on proposing this one, it looks like (I was quite slow about it.) My argument was The reason is mostly "really?? We're categorizing women by who they dated?!?" There are reasons to have categories such as First Spouses, I suppose, but this category is limited to female folks who have dated (or married without dating, I suppose) the players from one American football league (out of the several professional leagues that have played here, such as the USFL and the XFL) and only if it's to male players (all these limitations come from the category description, not the title.) It claims WAGs as the main article for the category, but that's a much broader subject linked to professional athletes in general. --Nat Gertler (talk) 17:22, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete. People are not notable on the basis of who they date per se, so it's not a defining characteristic. Category:Footballers' wives and girlfriends is a different matter, since that's actually a tabloid classification that really exists in British media — that is, it's a genuine concept that some women have actually surfed to the point of passing WP:GNG for it, but it has no equivalent in other sports and thus doesn't justify the creation of "Every other sports' wives and girlfriends" siblings alongside it. Bearcat (talk) 23:09, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete I clicked on the articles to see if they were known for more than this association. The ones that I clicked on all were so, in addition to being sexist, it's also WP:NONDEFINING. - RevelationDirect (talk) 01:16, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete per WP:G4. Place Clichy (talk) 10:45, 4 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  • Delete - WP:NOTDEFINING and WP:TRIVIALCAT. HumanBodyPiloter5 (talk) 12:57, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Basketball players' wives and girlfriends

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:29, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Questionable-at-best categorization per my rationale for the similar hockey category below. This should also be deleted. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 00:26, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Hockey players' wives and girlfriends

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:29, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nominator's rationale: Categorizing people by their relationships to athletes doesn't feel appropriate per WP:Overcategorization#Non-defining characteristics. They're definitely known for more than such affiliations. SNUGGUMS (talk / edits) 00:25, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:NCSSS schools

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:29, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:22, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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Category:Association of European Airlines members

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The result of the discussion was: delete. (non-admin closure) –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:29, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:22, 3 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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