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How to use this page

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  1. Know if the category you are looking at needs deleting (or to be created). If it is a "red link" and has no articles or subcategories, then it is already deleted (more likely, it was never really created in the first place), and does not need to be listed here.
  2. Read and understand Wikipedia:Categorization before using this page. Nominate categories that violate policies here, or are misspelled, mis-capitalized, redundant/need to be merged, not NPOV, small without potential for growth, or are generally bad ideas. (See also Wikipedia:Naming conventions and Wikipedia:Manual of Style.)
  3. Please read the Wikipedia:Categorization of people policy if nominating or voting on a people-related category.
  4. Unless the category to be deleted is non-controversial – vandalism or a duplicate, for example – please do not depopulate the category (remove the tags from articles) before the community has made a decision.
  5. Add {{cfd}} to the category page for deletion. (If you are recommending that the category be renamed, you may also add a note giving the suggested new name.) This will add a message to it, and also put the page you are nominating into Category:Categories for deletion. It's important to do this to help alert people who are watching or browsing the category.
    1. Alternately, use the rename template like this: {{cfr|newname}}
    2. If you are concerned with a stub category, make sure to inform the WikiProject Stub sorting
  6. Add new deletion candidates under the appropriate day near the top of this page.
    1. Alternatively, if the category is a candidate for speedy renaming (see Wikipedia:Category renaming), add it to the speedy category at the bottom.
  7. Make sure you add a colon (:) in the link to the category being listed, like [[:Category:Foo]]. This makes the category link a hard link which can be seen on the page (and avoids putting this page into the category you are nominating).
  8. Sign any listing or vote you make by typing ~~~~ after your text.
  9. Link both categories to delete and categories to merge into. Failure to do this will delay consideration of your suggestion.

Special notes

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Some categories may be listed in Category:Categories for deletion but accidently not listed here.

Discussion for Today

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This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_January_31


January 31

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NEW NOMINATIONS

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Category:Ice hockey venues by competition

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Nominator's rationale: An unnecessary level of categorization. User:Namiba 15:13, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Roman Catholic churches in Cuenca, Ecuador

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Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT. The two articles in this category are already in the appropriate other subcategories. User:Namiba 15:06, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Book series until 1900

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more categories nominated
Nominator's rationale: merge, until 1900 these are mostly single-article categories which is not helpful for navigation. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:27, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pit Crew

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Nominator's rationale: Being a member of the pit crew on Drag Race is a clear violation of WP:PERFCAT. --woodensuperman 11:04, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

More family categories needing geographical disambiguation

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Nominator's rationale: We've been renaming all family categories that need geographical disambiguation to put the geographical entity in parentheses after the family name. See these four nominations. The MacCormac category will require a redirect overwrite if we do this. Mike Selinker (talk) 02:54, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

UT Arlington Mavericks football

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Nominator's rationale: Per User:Mes tex's move of UT Arlington Mavericks football in October 2024, this corresponding category and its subcategories should be renamed accordingly. Jweiss11 (talk) 00:35, 31 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]