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The result of the discussion was: manual merge. (non-admin closure) Queen of Hearts ^talk 05:07, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

• Propose merging Category:Military regiments raised in Nova Scotia to Category:Military units and formations of Nova Scotia

Nominator's rationale: Overlapping category, no parent category:Military regiments exists. Mason (talk) 23:08, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

• Support in principle, but this will require purging too. For example, North Nova Scotia Highlanders is a military unit of Canada, not of Nova Scotia. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:09, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

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The result of the discussion was: merge (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:34, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

• Propose merging Category:Mexican engineer stubs to Category:Engineer stubs and Category:Mexican scientist stubs

Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated stub category with no evidence of approval by Category:WikiProject Stub sorting. As always, stub categories are not free for just anybody to create on a whim, and require a minimum of 60 articles for entry -- but even after deep-scanning the Category:Mexican people stubs parent for any missed engineers, this still only has 17 articles in it.
The stub template is fine, since it can always just sort articles into the target categories, but there would have to be at least 43 more articles before a dedicated category was warranted. Bearcat (talk) 19:54, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

• Merge per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:11, 14 June 2024 (UTC)

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The result of the discussion was: delete (non-admin closure) Queen of Hearts ^talk 05:10, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

• Propose deleting

• Category:Muwahhid Muslims
• Category:British Muwahhid Muslims
• Category:Egyptian Muwahhid Muslims

Nominator's rationale: I propose the deletion of these categories because they make no sense. Muwahiddism isn't a separate branch (like Sunni, Shia, Ibadi, Ahmadi, Quranism), it's not a fiqh school (like Hanafi/Shafii/Maliki/Hanbali divide among Sunnis), it's not an aqeeda school (like Athari/Maturidi/Ashari divide among Sunnis or Usuli/Akhbari divide among Twelver Shia) or anything.

Anyone who considers himself a Muslim (no matter what school he follows) considers himself a muwahhid (موحِّد) which means "a monotheist" in Arabic, literally a follower of tawhid (توحيد), monotheism, the central concept of Islam. It's just a term which is more often used as a self-description by Sunni Salafis to highlight their purism in contrast to anyone else (for example, Sufis have a practice of visiting graves of their sheikhs, Salafis see this act as a departure from the concept of tawhid in Islam. Although Sufis don't consider it as a violation of tawhid, they still see themselves as muwahhideen (monotheists). But anyone who claims to follow Islam, he by definition considers himself a muwahhid regardless). That's it. It's not a separate branch of Islam. It's just a "label" or a "trademark", so to speak. These categories are excessive and absolutely uncalled for. Sorry for bad formatting, by the way (I'm editing off my phone). Fixmaster (talk) 19:24, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

• Delete, both articles in the tree are about Salafis and already categorized as such. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:49, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

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• Propose deleting Category:Socialist film directors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: delete, intersection of unrelated characteristics. A few of these articles may be moved to a Category:Victims of McCarthyism, but that would be a very different discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:42, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Support per nom Mason (talk) 23:09, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

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• Propose merging Category:Australian bigamists to Category:Bigamists

Nominator's rationale: There's no need to diffuse this category by nationality. Mason (talk) 02:54, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

• Merge by nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:59, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply

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The result of the discussion was: rename (non-admin closure) Queen of Hearts ^talk 05:11, 21 June 2024 (UTC)reply

• Propose renaming Category:Australian event managers to Category:Australian event planners

Nominator's rationale: I'm on the fence about speedying this category, however, I'm not 100% sure that I've correctly mapped this category to the right parent of event planning. Mason (talk) 02:50, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply

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• Propose renaming Category:Australian metal workers to Category:Australian metalworkers

Nominator's rationale: There are three ways this category can be handled. Either rename this to match the parent category of Metalworkers, merge to Australian metalsmiths‎ or rename to reflect that the intent of this category Metal manufacturing companies of Australia‎. Mason (talk) 02:48, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply

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• Propose deleting Category:Artesian people (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: Non-defining for the only person in the category Maximilien Robespierre Mason (talk) 02:40, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply

• Delete per nom. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:01, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply
• Delete Who were the Artesian people? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:02, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply

• Just for info, they are people from Artois (but I am not certain if Artesian is correct English). Marcocapelle (talk) 17:18, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply

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The result of the discussion was: manual merge. (non-admin closure) Qwerfjkltalk 17:13, 24 June 2024 (UTC)reply

• Propose merging Category:Australian leather merchants to Category:Australian merchants

Nominator's rationale: Do we really need to diffuse merchants by whether they sell leather? Mason (talk) 01:24, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply

Keep Like steel merchants, corn merchants, ship merchants, drapers and stockbrokers, it's a specialized trade. Doug butler (talk) 02:13, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply

Merge to both the proposed target and appropriate subcategories of Category:Leather manufacturers or Category:Tanners. An odd category without a nonexistent main article and no others like it. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:15, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply

@Doug butler Please make sure to have non-Australian parent categories, when you create similar categories. Mason (talk) 02:43, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply

I try. Doug butler (talk) 04:03, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply

• Merge to Category:LaundryPizza03. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:12, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply

  @Marcocapelle: Is this a mistake? What category did you intend? –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 11:03, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply

  • A pretty big mistake indeed. Merge per LaundryPizza03, is what was intended. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:13, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply

    😂😂😂😂 Mason (talk) 23:10, 13 June 2024 (UTC)reply

    LOL didn't know LaundryPizza's activities included being an Australian leather merchant! NLeeuw (talk) 19:16, 14 June 2024 (UTC)reply

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