Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/06

Category:Mining excavators in Australia

The problem with this category is that it is too specific. Excavators are a broad class of vehicle, we can just add Mining in Australia to any images and we get the same thing. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 11:06, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Pavo

Rename the subcats using "peacocks" to use either "peafowls" or "Pavo". The term "peacocks" refers to the male peafowls (Category:Pavo (male)), whose female counterparts are "peahens" (Category:Pavo (female)). Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 13:32, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

Nevermind, I have created Category:Peafowl to cover the two genera Category:Pavo and Category:Afropavo, as Afropavo is also called a peafowl. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 02:41, 3 June 2025 (UTC)
Sbb (he) what are we supposed to discuss? 186.175.76.141 03:23, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Paper documents

This is not a useful category. There are many thousands of documents almost all of them are paper. Categories are supposed to be defining. Rathfelder (talk) 18:23, 1 June 2025 (UTC)

 Support. I don't know that there's been much work done on using structured data for PDF and DjVu files, but the origin of such a document (e.g. print vs. electronic) would be a very sensible thing to put there. On the other hand, representing this data as category membership is not at all useful, especially when only a dozen or so documents are categorized. Omphalographer (talk) 01:01, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support Totally pointless overcategorization. Most, or all, documents are made of paper. Unless your talking about digital documents. But it's a distinction without a purpose as far as Commons is concerned because all documents on here are obviously digital. "Digital paper documents" is oxymoronic though. So the category should just be deleted. --Adamant1 (talk) 03:23, 12 June 2025 (UTC)
 Support per above. Maybe Category:Digitized documents can be used instead of Category:Paper documents for scanned documents. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 17:45, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
Does it make any difference to users whether documents were scanned? Rathfelder (talk) 09:04, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
Actually, it is useful for certain experienced users to distinguish the original digital document from the re-scans of its prints, and it is probably encouraged in Wikisource. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 18:52, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:International schools by country of origin

I was going to rename this since British, Japanese, Etc. Etc. aren't countries. Plus the category leads to the schools being put in parent categories for countries when they aren't located there and have nothing to do with countries anyway. Like Category:British international schools being a sub-cat of Category:Education in the United Kingdom, when the schools aren't actually located in the United Kingdom or have anything to do with it.

I'm not sure what to rename the category to though. "By language of origin" doesn't work because international schools teach more then just the respective language. "By culture of origin" doesn't seem right because the schools don't "originate" in the particular cultures. I guess I could just up-merge the sub-cats somehow and delete this outright but that doesn't seem like a good option either. But all this does is lead to schools being wrongly put in categories for countries that they aren't located in and have nothing to do with. So does anyone have a solution? (@Est. 2021: as someone who was involved in a related discussion). Adamant1 (talk) 05:31, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

@Adamant1: I think the only solution is to use "by nationality" here, and it is one of the very rare cases where we cannot easily replace "by nationality" of ENWP categories with "by country" or something. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 08:13, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
 Oppose As I already noted, an international educational organization could per definition be "based" in its home country and have its schools "located" abroad, while still being subject to the ministry of education of the "country of origin" (as usually happens). Daniele Fisichella 14:35, 9 June 2025 (UTC)
@Daniele Fisichella: I looked through the schools a few weeks ago and couldn't find any that were. Even if a few are "based" in the home country though you can't have a whole category system for schools that aren't based in those countries just because a few of them happen to be since it's obviously wrong and goes against the universality principle. It's not like you couldn't just put the category for those one or two schools in a category for the country without having a whole category system for it anyway though.
No offense, but this just seems like a solution in search of a problem because you didn't think it through before restoring the category. Otherwise what's your proposed way to deal with the issue? We obviously can't just leave a category like Category:Italian international schools in ones for "organizations of Italy" or "by country" when Italian isn't a country and the schools aren't "organization of Italy" because they aren't based there. So what's your solution? --Adamant1 (talk) 16:08, 9 June 2025 (UTC)
Unfortunately enough, you're the only one who didn't think it through here. Each country is represented by its demonym. "Italian" here specifically refers to the "country of Italy", not the language. Did you think that Canadian international schools were such because they spoke "Canadian"? Do the Austrian international schools teach "Austrian"? This is getting ridiculous. Italian international schools are such only because they are subject to the Italian ministry of education, just like the French international schools are such only because they're subject to the French ministry of education, and so on. This category tree has nothing to do with language and culture, it is specifically about the home countries whose ministries of education are responsible for these schools abroad. Daniele Fisichella 00:44, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Italian" here specifically refers to the "country of Italy" @Daniele Fisichella: I'm aware that's what it refers to here. The issue is that's not how things are usually categorized on Commons. Hence why I brought up the Universality Principle. Again, what's your solution to that? Just ignore policy and use "Italian" and the "country of Italy" interchangeably or something? If your going to oppose mine and Sbb1413's solution, cool. But at least provide an alternative that follows the policies and doesn't screw up the current category system.
Italian international schools are such only because they are subject to the Italian ministry of education No. Their "Italian international schools" because they teach the language and culture of Italy. Although if they were subject to the Italian ministry of education that still wouldn't make them "based in Italy." For something to be "based in Italy" it actually needs to have it's headquarters there. Not just be subject to a government body, whatever that means in this case. Can you provide some evidence that Italian international schools are subject to the Italian ministry of education though? From what I understand international schools are subject to the Ministry of Education (or equivalent) in the country where they are located, not the country of origin for whatever cultural tradition they are teaching. --Adamant1 (talk) 03:50, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Workers' houses

Merge with Category:Staff residences, especially as Category:Staff is a dab page and it links to Category:Workers. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 08:42, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:WikiPortraits at 2025 National Women's Soccer League

WikiPortraits at May 2025 National Women's Socccer League 2A00:23C8:89C4:FD01:D9E4:A165:1392:E4 14:24, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

This is a meta category for the WikiPortraits project, and we're fine with putting all the NWSL 2025 season photos in this one 2025 category. ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 14:29, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
Can we put it monthly so it would be much easier for the users? 2A00:23C8:89C4:FD01:D9E4:A165:1392:E4 14:31, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
The images are already categorized within the subcategories under Category:2025 National Women's Soccer League season (in this case, Category:San Diego Wave at Gotham FC, 16 May 2025). The WikiPortraits categories are hidden and mostly just for WikiPortraits to track uploads and metrics, and distinguishing by month feels a bit arbitrary. ~Kevin Payravi (talk) 14:34, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Julien Courbet

je crois avoir bien connue votre père il ya 40 ans... 2A01:CB18:8779:CA00:B58A:3CED:7807:A75C 15:46, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

Ah so? 186.173.79.250 23:47, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:VR Class Sm6 interior

Rename as "... before 2025" to prepare for photos after re-launch TuukkaH (talk) 17:10, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

I would go with a title with a descriptor like ".. in Allegro livery" instead of a date. Taavi (talk!) 22:14, 3 June 2025 (UTC)
That's an option that would be in line with Category:VR Class Sm6 in Allegro livery (which is all exterior photos). The downside: the livery is not directly related to let alone visible in the interior photos.
A compromise might be "Category:Allegro interior" which is practically a synonym of "Category:VR Class Sm6 interior before 2025" but avoids mentioning the date. TuukkaH (talk) 08:24, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Corns

cat for this disease should be renamed so it doesnt get confused with Category:Maize. RoyZuo (talk) 17:36, 2 June 2025 (UTC)

How about Category:Corns (disease) or Category:Corns (skin condition) ? --Túrelio (talk) 20:12, 2 June 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support Clearly ambiguous, the plant is probably more common. Crouch, Swale (talk) 17:20, 3 June 2025 (UTC)
    Although the plant isn't normally countable the plural form redirects to the DAB page and lists several topics that are. Crouch, Swale (talk) 14:56, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Palace Romanit

The name falls between two stools: English words with Romanian grammar. Should be either "Palatul Romanit" or "Romanit Palace". Jmabel ! talk 04:16, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

I'm agree, but lets uniform with the other categories under Category:Palaces in Bucharest.--DnaX (talk) 15:48, 4 June 2025 (UTC)
I hadn't looked before starting this, but they are not uniform with one another. Some are in English (e.g. Category:Cotroceni Palace), some are in Romanian (e.g. Category:Palatul Patriarhiei). I honestly don't think it is important that they are uniform, just that each goes one way or the other. "Palace Romanit" sounds almost as odd in English as "Romanit Palatul" would in Romanian. - Jmabel ! talk 18:34, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Australian culture abroad

I think this is surplus to requirements. It's currently got one category "Australian cuisine by country" but I hardly think this is appropriate... I don't think we need this. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 06:03, 3 June 2025 (UTC)

Looks like it now has several other subcats, and is now justified. - Jmabel ! talk 17:28, 3 June 2025 (UTC)
It's got the wrong name though - it should be Category:Cultural relations of Australia. Would this be acceptable? It would harmonize the existing category scheme. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 17:11, 4 June 2025 (UTC)
This category schema is about cultures, not countries, so "cultural relations" is not accurate. Of course you are welcome to create such a category yourself if you'd like.
With that in mind, do you feel better about the name? It parallels the existing category schema for cultures by context/location (such as French culture abroad and Japanese culture abroad) and fills a need without reporting to the more awkward and needlessly wordy alternative "Australian culture outside Australia". I mean, I guess it could be "Culture of Australia abroad" but I think that's less intuitive, definitely more ambiguous. -- Kreuz und quer (talk) 02:28, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
I’m not entirely averse to the name. I see your point, now I see the broader category structure it’s not entirely unreasonable.I withdraw my objection to the category. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 10:41, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
@Jmabel: I  Support renaming "X-ian culture abroad" to "cultural relations of X" per Chris.sherlock2, as this can avoid ambiguous adjectives like "American", "Congolese", "Dominican", "German", etc. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 17:49, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
I don't like that "Cultural relations of". It suggests that a country is involved, not a culture. It does not work for subcats of, for example, Category:Basque culture or Category:Culture of Roma people, or literally hundreds of others of cultures not associated with nation states. (BTW, Some things that are specifically cultural are currently under Category:Basque diaspora in the United States.) - Jmabel ! talk 23:38, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
So, what should be the main category for "X-ian culture abroad"? Maybe Category:Cultures abroad? Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 03:09, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
Why do we need such a category? But, yes, if we need it, then Category:Cultures abroad is fine. - Jmabel ! talk 18:30, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Documents by country by year

The sorting doesnt work properly. Rathfelder (talk) 17:45, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

So what is your proposal to solve it? JopkeB (talk) 02:13, 5 June 2025 (UTC)
I am asking for help. I dont understand what is happening. DocumentsYearCountry and
DocumentsYearCountry are sorted seperately. Rathfelder (talk) 21:17, 5 June 2025 (UTC)
That is about templates, I am sorry, I cannot help. JopkeB (talk) 06:39, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Animated films

I'm not so sure all these "by film" categories are useful for animated films specifically. Otherwise you just end up with a wall of parent categories for specific films that are just circular and serve no purpose like with Category:Maya the Bee: The Honey Games or Category:Only Yesterday. Although I'm not sure which "by film" categories should be gotten rid of or otherwise cut back either. I just don't think it helps people organize media or find categories for animated films if they are in 15 different "animated films by" parent cats, a lot of which are circular and/or don't contain media themselves. So does anyone have any ideas? Adamant1 (talk) 18:54, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

 Comment "Animated films", in and of itself, seems reasonable. Where the problem arises is all of the cross-cutting metacategories, e.g. animated films by director, country, genre, language, setting, topic, year... Can we whittle this down a bit, ideally all the way down to "by title"? Omphalographer (talk) 23:12, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Kabyle language by country

Kabyle is in the country of Algeria so I don't see how this category can exist. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 20:21, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Kabyle culture by country

Kabyle is in the country of Algeria so I don't see how this category can exist. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 20:22, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Works impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic

Surprise! It's yet another film metacategory. The assertion "this film was impacted/postponed/suspended due to the pandemic" is a statement about the film which belongs on Wikipedia or in Wikidata, not on Commons. Omphalographer (talk) 23:12, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Jan Rambousek (malíř)

No need for the strange parenthesis 186.173.79.250 23:46, 4 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:BreadTalk in the Philippines

moved category: Category:BreadTalk in Philippines YehudaHubert (talk) 08:57, 5 June 2025 (UTC)

 Question, what is the reason for the move? “BreadTalk in the Philippines” is correct, there should be a “the” before “Philippines”. Tvpuppy (talk) 02:59, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:1780s documents of Ukraine

Indexes at 1. not at U Rathfelder (talk) 14:37, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Aboriginal holy site

This is solely talking about Uluru, there is no need for this name - not even as a redirect. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 15:49, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

 Support deletion. There are many places which could be described as an "Aboriginal holy site", especially in a global context, and I don't think it makes sense to try to roll them all up into a single category. Current contents can all be merged to Category:Uluru. Omphalographer (talk) 17:49, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Arrigo Mosca (matrimonio)

What does matrimonio mean? 186.175.161.8 22:01, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

It means "marriage". -- Auntof6 (talk) 23:55, 8 June 2025 (UTC)
matrimonio = wedding. Saluti Albertomos (talk) 10:37, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Education buildings in Metro Cebu

No longer useful category. The remaining occupant, Category:Schools in Mandaue, has been moved to Category:Schools in the Philippines by city, where it is more appropriate. For buildings of those schools themselves, their prospective categories could be categorized under Category:Education buildings in the Philippines by city (like, "Education buildings in Mandaue", "Education buildings in Liloan, Cebu" et cetera), following standards of other countries (like those of Category:Education buildings in Russia by city and Category:Education buildings in Italy by city), in which even rural incorporated places are categorized for as long as those are legitimate municipalities (international definition, not Philippine definition). JWilz12345 (Talk|Contributions) 23:46, 6 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Legacy of Thamewali

Is Category talk:Legacy of Thamewali a personal category or a topical category? Or possibly it would be better as a gallery page? In any case, it should have parent categories. Also, why is a user categorized in this category? (I first asked this on the category talk page, but was ignored, so I am starting a proper Cfd.) Except for the thing about maybe being better as a gallery, all of the same issues apply to Category:Thamewali 2025, Category:Street of Thamewali. Jmabel ! talk 18:58, 7 June 2025 (UTC)

Translating the description suggests that this is simply a collection of images related to Category:Thamewali, and should probably be merged thence. Omphalographer (talk) 23:00, 7 June 2025 (UTC)
SohaibAhmadu, who for some reason has not responded here, has now written on the category page, "This category features recent and unique images from the town of Thamewali and its surroundings. It includes views of the city, lush green fields, rural landscapes, scenic spots, seasonal changes, and everyday village life. These images aim to highlight the cultural, agricultural, and natural beauty of Thamewali. If you have photos taken in or near Thamewali during 2025, please contribute them here to showcase the true essence of this beautiful region." That sounds to me like a gallery, not a category. - Jmabel ! talk 19:29, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:BAT Bantam

Renaming to Category:BAT F.K.24 Bantam to harmonize within Category:B.A.T. aircraft 45.189.151.17 15:12, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Architectural structures by view by country

this is a mistaken category I created - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 15:13, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

@Chris.sherlock2: The category is not empty. Please empty it, then you can put a G7 speedy deletion request on it. -- Auntof6 (talk) 23:59, 8 June 2025 (UTC)
Apologies, it was a long series of errors. Please also remove Category:Historical images of structures in Australia, Category:Views of structures in Australia and Category:Architectural structures by view in Australia. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 05:33, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Islands (Pörtschach am Wörther See)

This category is wrong, for there is only one island in Pörtschach am Wörthersee: Blumeninsel. Kapuzinerinsel next to it is part of municipality of Maria Wörth. (I already removed it from this cat.) So, this category should be deleted. And what about the gallery page Pörtschach Inseln which hence is also wrong? Eweht (talk) 22:42, 8 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:PopCorners

Spicy Cheddar PopCorners Silver Dovelet (talk) 05:28, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

What is the purpose of this discussion? If you feel the item you listed, "Spicy Cheddar PopCorners", needs to be included, that's not worthy of a category discussion. Just create the category and add it to the main. Otherwise, I have no idea what your intent here is. Famartin (talk) 12:02, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
Yes, I will create the category and add it to the main. Thanks. Silver Dovelet (talk) 21:20, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Georgian churches in art

Category:Jacek Kitliński

kategoria zawiera jedno zdjęcie, które przedstawia inną osobę. Wskutek tego WP wyświetla niewłaściwą fotografię Jaburza (talk) 17:14, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Geburtsbrief

Is this not a translation of Category:Birth certificates? Rathfelder (talk) 20:21, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

No. It is specific to the early modern period. --Frank Schulenburg (talk) 20:28, 10 June 2025 (UTC) P.S. See Wikidata
Indeed, it is a letter of legitimate birth. This was required for apprenticeship. The German term is commonly used in scholarly papers written in English (usually with a brief explanation). --AFBorchert (talk) 20:47, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Warner Bros. fandom

"Warner Bros. fandom" is not an actual thing Trade (talk) 21:56, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

It's a thing in the sense that there are fans of Warner Bros. properties. However, one of the two things in the category, Category:Warner Bros. character goods, doesn't show fandom, so that could be removed. -- Auntof6 (talk) 03:26, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Cosplay of Scooby-Doo films

None of the characters in the subcategories are primarily known for their role in a specific film. Pointless category Trade (talk) 22:00, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

 Delete, see also this discussion: Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/06/Category:Cosplay of Scoob!. ReneeWrites (talk) 20:36, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Film score composers by film series

Is this category really necessary? Trade (talk) 22:01, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Well, as it is, no. -- Blackcat 22:20, 10 June 2025 (UTC)
 Delete. No, it isn't. This is yet another IMDb-style "associating people with films" category; I think there's a pretty broad consensus at this point that these aren't appropriate on Commons. Omphalographer (talk) 18:55, 11 June 2025 (UTC)
@Omphalographer: indeed, on the topic of UGC sites, I am rather strict: they shouldn't be used as source , nor adopted as model, nor even linked or used on 'Data, because they contain data which is largely not reliable, not subjected to review, not sourced, and several more "not"s. -- Blackcat 10:10, 12 June 2025 (UTC)
The issue here isn't sourcing, though. Even if this information were fully sourced, it wouldn't be appropriate for Commons because it's simply outside the project's scope. Omphalographer (talk) 14:06, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Tanks of World War II by country

What does "of" a country mean, vs. "in"? Because any reasonable meaning of this is going to raise contradictions for tanks, where an enemy (or even an ally's) tank is in a foreign country. See File:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-174-1154-13, Jugoslawien, französischer Panzer H39.jpg for an example: a French tank, in German service, in Jugoslavia. It is not "of" Jugoslavia. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:11, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Cathedrals in Georgia

Category:Orthodox cathedrals in Russia

Category:People associated with James Bond films

Yet another IMDb-style film category, associating people with films, but not categorizing any actual media.

Omphalographer (talk) 18:58, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Medic Tree Mapping on WED 2025

I don't understand the purpose of this category and its subs? A.Savin 19:50, 11 June 2025 (UTC)

Hello @A.Savin, please visit the campaign page Medic Tree Mapping Campaign where you can find more details. Your valuable suggestions are most welcome. -- Suyash Dwivedi (💬) 06:31, 12 June 2025 (UTC)
@Suyash.dwivedi: How is, for example, this photo from 2012 related to a Wikimedian meeting in 2025? --A.Savin 08:22, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Orthodox metropolitan cathedrals in Greece

Category:Taufzettel

isnt this just a translation of Baptism certificate? Rathfelder (talk) 13:02, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Cultural heritage monuments in Khodzha Sala

удалить как пустую kosun (talk) 14:47, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

 Oppose. The category is not empty. It contains the subcategory Category:Mangup. Omphalographer (talk) 01:55, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Animated cartoon series

An "cartoon" is by it's very definition animated. The correct name for this category would be "animated television series" Trade (talk) 18:48, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

 Oppose. Not all cartoons are animated; for instance, a cartoon in a print newspaper certainly isn't. Omphalographer (talk) 19:25, 12 June 2025 (UTC)
So removee the comic part from the category then Trade (talk) 14:29, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Avenue du Bouteiller.

Unuseful category with only 1 file Mel22 (talk) 19:49, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Coats of arms of Heidenheim zu Klingenberg

Wie sonst üblich, gehört ein "family" ans Ende des Kategorienamens. GerritR (talk) 20:17, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Yes, please rename it. :-) Thanks. Skim (talk) 08:15, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Stock certificates by year

shouldnt these appear in Documents by year and its subcategories? Rathfelder (talk) 20:27, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

They already do.-Karsten11 (talk) 08:46, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:PD Coa China

The templete of this cat is deleted no longer needed cat. See Commons:Deletion requests/Template:PD-Flag-China 獅眠洞 (talk) 20:42, 12 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Cosplay of Daphne & Velma

Daphne & Velma is a film, so this category seems to be for cosplay related to that film. However, the only content is two cosplay subcats, one for each of the film's title characters. Those subcats are not specific to the film, so there will be things in them that aren't related to the film, and maybe nothing related to the film at all. Therefore I propose deleting this category. Auntof6 (talk) 07:46, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Maybe we should just make one deletion request for all the Scooby Doo categories that should be deleted. Would that be okay with you?@Auntof6: --Trade (talk) 13:30, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
@Trade: I only saw the two, and I didn't see the second one until I'd already made the first CFD. I normally would have combined them since the issues are similar -- not identical, but similar enough. -- Auntof6 (talk) 13:53, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
How ddoes Commons:Categories for discussion/2024/05/Overcategorization in Category:Scooby-Doo look?@Auntof6: --Trade (talk) 14:39, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
@Trade: I'll comment there. -- Auntof6 (talk) 21:36, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
FYI: this discussion was named incorrectly and wasn't transcluded anywhere. I've just corrected that. Omphalographer (talk) 19:09, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
 Delete per nom. ReneeWrites (talk) 07:25, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Cosplay of Scoob!

This category seems to be for cosplay related to the film Scoob!. However, the only content is cosplay subcats, each being for one of the film's characters. Those subcats/characters are not specific to the film, so there will be things in them that aren't related to the film, and maybe nothing related to the film at all. Therefore I propose deleting this category. Auntof6 (talk) 07:49, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

 Delete Contained characters that were tagged with the movies the characters appeared in. It's like having cosplay of Batman and tagging it with every Batman movie, that's not how it works. ReneeWrites (talk) 20:37, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Kazakhstan Military History Museum

This category and Category:Astana Museum of Military History depict the same object and should be merged. Zenwort (talk) 21:50, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Lorde in 2021

no pictures included, better deleted Despechi.ro (talk) 07:23, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:The Limeburners, Willisham

This category, created on 2024-03-28 , duplicates Category:The Limeburners, Offton , which was created on 2023-01-03. These should be merged and nominating for discussion seems to be the only way to do this. The pub website identifies itself as being in Offton (village and civil parish) but OSM suggests it's entirely within the civil parish of Willisham (Suffolk, UK), so it would also be useful to discuss what the name should be. Tæppa (talk) 22:43, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Moby Otta (ship, 1976)

Unused category YehudaHubert (talk) 02:35, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

 Question, I don’t understand, the category is currently “in-use” with 19 files in it? Tvpuppy (talk) 03:02, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Saratov State Agrarian University

Переименование организации Виктор Еськов (talk) 06:17, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Unidentified locations in Palmerston North

We dont keep categories open just in case something gets put in them. Rathfelder (talk) 15:27, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

 Delete. Palmerston North is already a reasonably specific location (a city in New Zealand); it's hard to imagine a realistic situation where we would know that an image was of a location in this city, but where the exact location was both unknown and important to know. Omphalographer (talk) 19:03, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Unidentified locations in Hastings, New Zealand

We dont keep categories open just in case something gets put in them. Rathfelder (talk) 15:27, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

 Delete per my reasoning in Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/06/Category:Unidentified locations in Palmerston North. Same situation, different NZ city. Omphalographer (talk) 19:04, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
you removed the photos that were in the category? TheLoyalOrder (talk) 20:32, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
tbf i dont really care if this cat gets deleted TheLoyalOrder (talk) 20:34, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
The only image I can see which Rathfelder removed from the category recently was File:Hastings561.JPG. Which seems appropriate; the photo is of a fire engine, not a location. Omphalographer (talk) 21:23, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Unidentified locations in Napier, New Zealand

We dont keep categories open just in case something gets put in them. Rathfelder (talk) 15:27, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

 Delete per my reasoning in Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/06/Category:Unidentified locations in Palmerston North. Same situation, different NZ city. Omphalographer (talk) 19:04, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Unidentified locations in Dunedin

We dont keep categories open just in case something gets put in them. Rathfelder (talk) 15:28, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

 Delete per my reasoning in Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/06/Category:Unidentified locations in Palmerston North. Same situation, different NZ city. Omphalographer (talk) 19:04, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Unidentified vehicles in New Zealand

We dont keep categories open just in case something gets put in them. Rathfelder (talk) 15:28, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

For categories that are very likely to be reused in the future, we do, actually. - Jmabel ! talk 17:03, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
ill note the user that said there's nothing in them, removed everything in them TheLoyalOrder (talk) 21:16, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
There was one picture of a bus. Its not very clear what is meant by Unidentified vehicles . There are many thousands of pictures with vehicles which are not identified. Why do we want to categorise them? Rathfelder (talk) 09:06, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Unidentified organisms in New Zealand

We dont keep categories open just in case something gets put in them. Rathfelder (talk) 15:29, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Scottish Acts/revised

Request deletion, category has been deprecated in favour of year-based categories for revised acts as part of restructuring (see Category:Scottish Acts 2000/revised). Penguin1737 (talk) 16:01, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Scottish Acts/corrections

Request deletion, category has been deprecated in favour of year-based categories for correction slips as part of restructuring (see Category:Scottish Acts 2001/corrections). Penguin1737 (talk) 16:05, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Academic institutions

Is the distinction between Category:Educational institutions and Category:Academic institutions a valid one? I mean, almost all "academic institutions" provide education, and they may or may not conduct research. On the other hand, the research institutes that don't provide education are generally not called "academic institutions". Even if we restrict "academic institutions" to institutions that are dedicated to both education and research, that can exclude a lot of higher education institutions that don't conduct research. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 17:40, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Overcategorization in Category:Scooby-Doo

Large amount of categories in Category:Scooby-Do which either server no real purpose, can better bee dealt witth already existing Scooby Doo subcats or are MDb-style "associating people with films" category

Please see Special:Contributions/2001:8003:DD56:5500:251A:5F4C:D17E:F4DF for more context

None of the characters located in these categories are primarily or even mainly known for their role in these (out of many) movies. This belong on IMDB, not Commons

This category have no actual files. There is no consensus that every "Cosplay of" category needs an fandom category so this is unecessary

Film score composers by film series is being discussed here

The scope of this category is completely arbitrary and unuseful

A clone of Category:Scooby-Doo characters

There is no consensus for works to be categorized by work by country by city. This is not useful

All of the content of these categories are just categories for different movies with none of the files actually being related to the collections. This belongs once again on IMDB, not Commons.

Categories like "Films by actor" have already been deleted so this one should be too

This is a blatant overlap with Category:Cosplay of Scooby-Doo. There is no reason stated in the category for this having to be seperate

--Trade (talk) 14:37, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

You give three different reasons for deleting various ones of these. I think each category listed in a given CfD should have the same rationale. It's complicated when there are different reasons, because a person giving their opinion might need to comment differently for each of them. It also makes it harder for the closing admin.
Also, you might notice that one of these is now deleted. :) --
Better? @Auntof6: --Trade (talk) 23:29, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
Not if they're all in one CfD. The scope is too wide. -- Auntof6 (talk) 23:31, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
I'm somewhat wary of demanding too much from participanting Commons users by splitting this into 8 different deletion requests Trade (talk) 23:37, 13 June 2025 (UTC)
Maybe if you approach it differently. Propose restructuring the whole category. List how you think the categories should be. List the ones you think aren't needed in the structure and why. That would mean people can focus on the restructuring instead of reasons for deleting individual categories. How does that sound. -- Auntof6 (talk) 03:38, 14 June 2025 (UTC)
There's the same issue with categories related to Mickey Mouse (and I'm sure other cartoon characters). Although I agree this could be laid out better, it would be ridiculous to do 100s of different CfDs for every pointless category created by the same IP at this point. Maybe we could all agree that whatever categories were already created by the same IP and/or are along the same lines as ones that have already been discussed should just deleted without the need for a bunch of ongoing deletion requests. I think that would be an easier and less time consuming way to do it. --Adamant1 (talk) 20:41, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
Even then there have still been a couple of categories which survived deletion. I would not be too worried about the IP. We have already been through the worst of it Trade (talk) 20:53, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
Maybe your right. I guess it doesn't really matter. At least it's being dealt with. --Adamant1 (talk) 00:32, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
I made a start removing some of the more clear/egregious overcats I don't think anyone would object to being removed, in due part also to make the discussion easier about the remaining ones. ReneeWrites (talk) 20:46, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

@Adamant1, JopkeB, Enhancing999, WFinch, Jmabel, ReneeWrites, and Bedivere: --Trade (talk) 20:26, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for the ping! I agree with upmerging/sidemerging and deleting most of these. Category:Scooby-Doo directors should be its own separate CfD however, as I'm not sure I agree with giving it the "Actors of [film]" treatment.
Speaking of overcategorization, check the categories at Category:Scoob! --ReneeWrites (talk) 21:11, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
Regarding Scoob! feel free to nominate them to deletion yourself. I have little interest in doing so @ReneeWrites: --Trade (talk) 04:20, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
I completely get that, it's a whole mess to have to untangle. And the problem there is different from the ones we've discussed before. Probably should be talked about and dealt with entirely separately. ReneeWrites (talk) 20:13, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
Not even that. I just feel meh towards the Scoob! category. It just doesnt bother me the same way as all the other CfD's did Trade (talk) 01:27, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
Support whatever we have to do to have fewer categories in this area. - Jmabel ! talk 23:27, 15 June 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support Whatever the solution is here to have less of these types of categories per ReneeWrites and Jmabel. --Adamant1 (talk) 00:32, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
  •  Support I quite agree with any effort to simplify the structure of this category, per ReneeWrites—yikes on Category:Scoob!—and Jmabel. — WFinch (talk) 01:32, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
  •  Comment Are there objections to me moving the contents of the "Mystery Inc." categories up to the "Scooby-Doo characters" categories and tagging it for deletion? Mystery Inc. refers to the main cast and would technically exclude villains, but there is as of yet no media of the villains, so they're duplicate categories. ReneeWrites (talk) 09:13, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
    No objection from me. -- Auntof6 (talk) 10:08, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
    ✓ Done. Category:Mystery, Inc. and Category:Cosplay of Mystery, Inc. are now empty; the latter has had an open CfD since 2023, so I'm not sure I can tag them for speedy deletion. Content was already properly categorized, so moving things up turned out not to be needed. ReneeWrites (talk) 08:02, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
    @ReneeWrites: I deleted that latter one and closed the other CfD. -- Auntof6 (talk) 08:23, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
    @ReneeWrites: I deleted the other one, too, for being empty.
    Technically, no work should be done on this until this discussion is closed, so I was going to close it. However, I can't close it, because I commented in it. Sort of. Actually, my comments from elsewhere were copied here. But anyway, let's hope an uninvolved admin will close this soon. -- Auntof6 (talk) 08:27, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Norfolk, England

I don't think the parent category is necessarily bad. But the name is problematic for many of the subcategories, where it should be obvious anyway that the English Norfolk is meant. For example, I meant to create Category:Norfolk, England, in the 17th century, but then realized how that (correct, but non-existant) naming scheme clashes with the (incorrect, but existing) Category:Norfolk, England, in the 19th century.

My suggestion is that we should rather work with Category:Norfolk in the 19th century in all cases where the ", England" is not the end of the category name. That also makes the respective categories easier to assign. --Enyavar (talk) 19:11, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

 Oppose removing the "England" part of "Norfolk, England". Category:Norfolk in the 1900s can be confused with Category:Norfolk, England in the 1900s, Category:Norfolk, Virginia in the 1900s, and others. I think the better way is to devise an autocat (short for "automatic categorization") scheme so that a comma gets added after a name like "X, Y". Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 03:17, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
This is just a discussion - any idea how to solve this is okay. So I would also support your idea of a template change. Another idea is to use bracket notation: Category:Norfolk (England), which would prevent the need to change any templates. --Enyavar (talk) 08:09, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Welsh National Assembly Acts/revised

Request deletion, category has been deprecated in favour of year-based categories for revised acts as part of restructuring (see Category:Welsh National Assembly Acts 2019/revised). Penguin1737 (talk) 23:39, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Male people

RESTORE the longstanding commons practice of categorising HUMAN-related media files as Human not simply "People". This was changed recently & after only a VERY LIMITED discussion.

Lacks specificity & out of alignment with wikip, wd, etc. Lx 121 (talk) 02:52, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

the TL,DR would be:

"people" & "human" DO NOT MEAN THE SAME THING. for clarity, specificity, & disambiguation (as per commons goals, scope, etc.) most of the categories of human-related media files should be labelled as "human" not simply as "people" -stuff.

for notable (or otherwise specific) individuals, they could debatably be categorised as both "persons" & (when applicable) "humans". Lx 121 (talk) 03:38, 16 June 2025 (UTC)


i see that Sbb1413 has been busy forum shopping his pet issue until he got a favourable outcome? & this one slipped by with a pretty limited discussion.

  • and now i see that the discussion was "closed" BY THE USER (Sbb1413) WHO CREATED IT* which is grossly inappropriate, especially when there is NOT any clear consensus on the action requested by that user (which the user THEN goes on to implement anyway).

Commons:Categories_for_discussion/2024/08/Category:Male_humans

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Categories_for_discussion/2024/08/Category:Male_humans&action=history

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Commons:Categories_for_discussion/2024/08/Category:Male_humans&oldid=993563871


& HERE is some of what is wrong with conflating 'human' with 'people'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human

VS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person


ALSO SEE, for example, 'WikiData' (which clearly disambiguates the 2 terms):

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5 - human

VS

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215627 - person


https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84048850 - male human (Q84048850)

'versus'

the ASSOCIATED commonscat (recently renamed by sbb1413)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Male_people


To anyone with more than a grade-school level of english this is all rather obvious & category names like:

"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Black_and_white_photographs_of_male_people"

"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_of_standing_female_people"

"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Shadows_of_male_people"

"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Male_people_doing_handstands"

"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_people"

"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_people_by_stage_of_development"

"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Female_people_wearing_toe_nail_polish_by_color"

"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Services_for_female_people"

"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photographs_of_nude_female_people"


sound both dumb & 'painfully' awkward. This is not "simple english" wmc; commons policy is that we operate "centrally" on standard english, & translate for other languages. Lx 121 (talk) 03:05, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

* & just as a REALLY OBVIOUS point of biology:

this category: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Primates_(male)

belongs here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Male_humans

NOT here:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Male_people

any college/university biology (or english) professor would point that out in course level "101", on day 1.

Lx 121 (talk) 03:11, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

@Lx 121: See also: COM:Village pump/Proposals#Separate categories for humans and people. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 05:23, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Scooby-Doo directors

Per the discussion of Category:Films by actor we should consider deleting this one as well given the similar scope Trade (talk) 04:21, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

 Oppose. Not for this category specifically (more on that in a bit) but the broader structure of Category:Films by director, which I believe should be kept.
Part of the problem with categorizing films by actor is the fact that films can have dozens of actors or more, which results in overcategorization, and no distinction can be made between actors with a significant presence and actors with only a few lines of text (or none at all). This bled over into other categories where people started getting categorized for guest roles, guest appearances on talk shows, or having participated in game shows or contests.
On the other hand, the role of a director is clear and significant, and a film typically only has one (sometimes two). So that are three problems categorizing films by actor that categorizing them by director doesn't have.
While Commons isn't Wikipedia and vice-versa, I do sometimes look to how they do things over there to see how discussions have shaken out, and on Enwiki they don't categorize films by actor either, but they do by director.
However, this category specifically should be deleted for violating the universality principle at COM:CATPRI, because this is just not how these things are categorized. I believe the following categories should be emptied and deleted for the same reason: Category:Batman directors, Category:Harry Potter directors. ReneeWrites (talk) 20:04, 16 June 2025 (UTC)
@ReneeWrites: I think you are talking about keeping Category:Films by director (e.g. Category:Films by S. S. Rajamouli) and deleting Category:Directors by film (e.g. Category:RRR directors). Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 15:53, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
Yes, exactly :) ReneeWrites (talk) 19:40, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
 Delete. While there are (typically!) fewer directors involved in a film than actors, the fundamental issue remains that tracking the cast/staff list of films simply isn't what Commons is for. This information should be maintained in Wikidata, not Commons categories, and should be surfaced on Commons by {{Wikidata infobox}}. Omphalographer (talk) 21:28, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Zee Hindustan

Zee Hindustan is change name to Zee Bharat since January 2024 YehudaHubert (talk) 12:11, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

 Support as an uncontroversial move. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 04:52, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Aerial photographs of rivers in India

Deletion request since accidentally created a duplicate Saiphani02 (talk) 14:03, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Febuary 2017 photos by Jim.henderson

I created it by spelling error; please kill Jim.henderson (talk) 15:37, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Unidentified hotels in New Zealand

We dont keep categories open just in case something gets put in them. Rathfelder (talk) 17:15, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

 Keep We do for ones like this about "unidentified" whatever if they seem likely to be reused. - Jmabel ! talk 03:46, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
Why do we think there would be more unidentified hotels appearing than any other sort of building? Wouldnt it be better to just put such files in hotels in New Zealand? Rathfelder (talk) 09:36, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
On the latter question: no. It is better to mark things as needing identification beyond just what sort of thing they are and what country they are in. Categories like this call attention to the fact that further ID would be useful. - Jmabel ! talk 17:35, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
Most categories are full of stuff that could be further identified. Categorisation is a process of successive approximation. Rathfelder (talk) 20:35, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Nail shops

I notice Category:Nail shops and Category:Nail salons. Unless there is some specific distinction, I presume they should be merged. The latter category is 9 years older and more used, so I'd suggest consolidating into "Nail salons" unless there is some reason to do otherwise. I'd suggest then redirecting Category:Nail shops to Category:Nail salons. --Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 20:53, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

What if they sell nails? ;) 186.173.199.95 22:00, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
Neither category is related to metal nails (as in used with hammers). -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 22:22, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
 Support. For what it's worth, I've never heard anyone say "nail shop"; given the contents of Category:Nail shops, I suspect those categories might be the results of non-Anglophone users trying to guess the right category name. Omphalographer (talk) 03:28, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Non-human animals

why does this category exist? what EXACTLY is a "non-biological" definition of the term "animal" supposed to be applied to? Lx 121 (talk) 22:29, 16 June 2025 (UTC)

 Delete as creator, plus the precedent of Commons:Categories for discussion/2024/09/Category:Inanimate objects. I no longer think such categories are needed, as they are found to be redundant to main categories. I have already proposed to have two separate categories on humans at COM:VPP: one covering the biological aspects, and the other covering the individuals. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 05:00, 17 June 2025 (UTC)
  • comment - we already have a system for that. everything about humans gets filed under "human" & individuals get filed under "people by name" (with much more generous rules on notability than @ wp/en), AND we have cats for wikimedia users pics too... :) Lx 121 (talk) 22:59, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Welsh Parliament Acts/revised

Request deletion, category has been deprecated in favour of year-based categories for revised acts as part of restructuring (see Category:Welsh Parliament Acts 2021/revised). Penguin1737 (talk) 00:16, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Welsh Parliament Acts/corrections

Request deletion, category has been deprecated in favour of year-based categories for correction slips as part of restructuring (see Category:Welsh Parliament Acts 2024/corrections). Penguin1737 (talk) 00:38, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Welsh Parliament Acts/Explanatory Notes

Request deletion, category has been deprecated in favour of year-based categories for explanatory notes as part of restructuring (see Category:Welsh Parliament Acts 2024/Explanatory Notes). Penguin1737 (talk) 00:47, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Images from Embassy of Romania to Czech Republic archives

please delete, wrong title Gampe (talk) 04:32, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Scrapyards

Are scrapyards different from junk yards? Rathfelder (talk) 09:31, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

 Comment As far as I'm aware, they're synonymous. It looks as though we currently use both terms concurrently (e.g. Category:Junk yards in the United Kingdom vs. Category:Scrapyards in the United Kingdom); some work will be needed to sort this out. Omphalographer (talk) 21:32, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Unidentified hotels in Panama

Empty and not useful Rathfelder (talk) 09:35, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Great Britain in the 19th century

in the 19th century it was called the United Kingdom Rathfelder (talk) 14:08, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

It was not. Great Britain and the United Kingdom are separate and overlapping entities.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (later The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) was established on 1 January 1801. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:18, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
But the Great Britain category is still redundant to categories like Category:United Kingdom in the 19th century, Category:England in the 19th century and Category:Wales in the 19th century. Also, Category:Great Britain in the 18th century is redundant to the main category Category:Kingdom of Great Britain, as it only existed in the 18th century. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 18:15, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Mosques in Thailand photographed in 20010

Wrong tittle 獅眠洞 (talk) 16:29, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Births in Qu'Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan

Created solely to contain Category:Buffy Sainte-Marie. Since its creation, a number of high-quality sources have asserted that it's not her birthplace. There's no parent "People of..." category (the most obvious warning sign that it shouldn't have been created in the first place, as it bypasses the long-established hierarchy), and from looking over the category tree for the town, there's no real need for any such subcats. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 21:34, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Humanitarian crisis

"Humanitarian crises" would be more appropriate as it's an plural Trade (talk) 21:47, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

 Rename to "huminatarian crises" if the category is about multiple individual crisis. However, if it covers the general theme of humanitarian crisis, it can stay singular. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 18:04, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Mosques in Yangon State

Wrong tittle 獅眠洞 (talk) 12:15, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Wrong name, Yangon State does not exist but Yangon Region does獅眠洞 (talk) 12:17, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
Agree, there is no such thing as Yangon State EmeraldRange (talk) 00:26, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Water buffalo

The term "water buffalo" (mahiṣa) without qualifier refers to Category:Bubalus bubalis, and its wild ancestor Category:Bubalus arnee is always called "wild water buffalo" (vana-mahiṣa). So, this category is redundant to Category:Bubalus arnee or Category:Bubalus bubalis. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 12:24, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Water buffalo is the general English common name for both species, so the current hierarchy is accurate. In any case, since Bubalus arnee arnee is not a subcategory (i.e. subspecies) of Bubalus bubalis, it is impossible for Water buffalo to be redundant either arnee or bubalis; if the common name can be seen as redundant to either one, then it can be used for both, which just reinforces the fact that the current categorization is accurate. -- Kreuz und quer (talk) 12:40, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
Agree, per enwiki article "Water buffalo". Krok6kola (talk) 17:17, 18 June 2025 (UTC)
@Kreuz und quer and Krok6kola: That means many of the subcategories under Category:Bubalus bubalis by country should be either moved to Category:Water buffalo by country or renamed to "Bubalus bubalis in X". Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 18:02, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
An alternative to this category can be a dab page linking to both Category:Bubalus bubalis and Category:Bubalus arnee, as it seems like an unnecessary layer between Category:Bubalus and the two species. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 18:06, 19 June 2025 (UTC)
@Sbb1413: I am not in any way an expert on this, so I am not opposed to your suggestions. Krok6kola (talk) 18:45, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Male Caftan from Morocco

Is caftan a proper noun? 186.173.199.95 21:04, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Male Caftan from Morocco in art

Caftan or caftan? 186.173.199.95 21:54, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

  • What do you think needs discussion? If you have a suggestion or see a problem, please be specific. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 23:03, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Children wearing Moroccan Caftan

"caftan"? 186.173.199.95 21:55, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

@186.173.199.95: What's your problem with the category? Kaftan or Caftan (both spellings are used). If you have a particular recommendation, state it - otherwise I'm unsure what you want discussed. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 23:02, 18 June 2025 (UTC)

moved category: Category:Logos YehudaHubert (talk) 08:35, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

 Comment - what are you recommending be done here? The category is already redirected. Omphalographer (talk) 20:04, 19 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Liminal spaces

POV category without clear scope or criteria. A.Savin 07:16, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

  •  Keep Categories with a subjective scope should also have a right to exist if the topic is sufficiently important. See en:Liminal space (aesthetic). --XRay 💬 07:22, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
  •  Keep Liminal spaces are a legitimate topic. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 12:13, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
  •  Keep Per XRay and Chris.sherlock2. Liminal spaces are very important themes. We have also 20+ articles in various Wikipedias about liminal spaces. "POV" is not a valid deletion reason. Юрий Д.К. 13:40, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
    @Юрий Д.К.: But we are not on Wikipedia here. (If you like a more simple example, the fact that WP has the article Asshole obviously does not mean that on Commons a Category:Assholes with tons of subcats, including Category:Vladimir Putin and many others, would be justified.) Please explain, how would you decide which images are showing "Liminal spaces" and which are not. One of my images was added there for an unknown reason, although it was never intended as a picture of a "liminal space". --A.Savin 19:42, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
    @A.Savin: Personally, I would add "Liminal spaces" almost always to interior images which cause fear/anxiety for me (empty/abandoned malls and rooms, unusually empty places and corridors). Probably some "dead" and "fear" landscapes also good for this category (like File:At Killarney Lake (8324324327).jpg, File:Deadvlei3.jpg and File:Lençóis Maranhenses 928a.jpg). Your image calms me down, not scares ;). I would not to add them to the category. Юрий Д.К. 20:36, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
    Thanks, but that's exactly the description of a purely POV category outside Commons' scope. Just like "Beautiful flowers" or "Cute kittens" or the like. --A.Savin 22:02, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
  •  Keep scope or criteria could also be made more clear without deletion. Prototyperspective (talk) 22:17, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
    Go ahead and make it more clear. As long as it isn't, this remains a POV category. And: CfD is not a poll. --A.Savin 22:23, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
    Could you please link which policy / policy-section you're referring to if any? Prototyperspective (talk) 22:50, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
    Common sense. --A.Savin 23:50, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Documents of the Russian Empire by year

Can the template be amended so that entries appear under R, not before all the other enties for the yeAR? Rathfelder (talk) 17:28, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

✓ Done I've changed sort key --Butko (talk) 18:17, 21 June 2025 (UTC)
Still comes first in the alphabet in, for example Category:1849 documents by country Rathfelder (talk) 21:27, 22 June 2025 (UTC)
Sort order wil be changed after cache update --Butko (talk) 15:18, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Funeral of Alan Simpson at Arlington National Cemetery

Unused category since 14 March 2025 Ooligan (talk) 00:50, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Splendeurs des oasis d'Ouzbékistan

I don't see a reason for this to not be called Category:The splendours of Uzbekistan's oases Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 01:49, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

It's just the official name of the exhibit as it happened in the Louvre Museum. पाटलिपुत्र (talk) 03:52, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Lahov (coat of arms)

Should be renamed: "Coats of arms of Logau family". Silesian nobility does not fit the way polish coats of arms are named. It's more like german nobillity. GerritR (talk) 19:55, 22 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Belbroughton Club

This category depicts the same building & establishment as Category:Belbroughton's Workmen's Club with a trivial difference in name. The building was called "Belbroughton's Workmen's Club" when it was listed (legally protected building) in 1967 and seems to now be the same type of establishment but called "Belbroughton Club". I propose their contents is merged but which category or naming convention to use isn't clear. Tæppa (talk) 13:40, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

Merge to Category:Belbroughton Club as COMMONNAME. Listing names aren't especially robust. Andy Dingley (talk) 19:01, 23 June 2025 (UTC)
  • Use "Belbroughton Club" so delete that category and move Category:Belbroughton's Workmen's Club to it as that's the older category. Today the name on the pub is "Belbroughton Club" and the official website and WhatPub use this name so per above it appears to be the common name. Crouch, Swale (talk) 12:19, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Collections of Józef Piłsudski Institute of America by year

Can these all be in documents of Poland by year, instead of Poland by year? Rathfelder (talk) 19:02, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Internet Archive document notesofsitesof00hunt

Needs a proper title Rathfelder (talk) 21:47, 23 June 2025 (UTC)

 Rename to Category:Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny (Simcoe County) and adjacent parts, per the source. It's a bit wordy, but that's the title. Omphalographer (talk) 16:34, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
I agree with Omphalographer. - Jmabel ! talk 01:02, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Scans

I feel like this is to ambiguous to be useful since most files on here are scans of something and there's already exiting categories for specific types of documents. Like there's Category:Children's books for children's books, obviously. But then there's also Category:Scanned children's books even though essentially everything in other subcategories of the parent are scans of children's books. So the category for "scanned" books is totally pointless.

Also you have categories like Category:Stamps as a child of this even though some are scanned and some aren't depending on the source. It would of course be an impossible waste of time to create separate "scanned images of X" categories for stamps, let alone anything else on here, to fix the issue. So I think the files and subcategories in this should just be removed and/or up-merged depending on the situation. Adamant1 (talk) 01:05, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Hmm. Here's some thoughts:
  • Files definitely shouldn't be categorized directly as Category:Scans. Files should be diffused from there to more appropriate categories - creating them if necessary - and the overall category should be tagged as {{CatCat}}.
  • Category:Scanned images by user and its subcategories probably should not exist. If they do, they should be under Category:User categories, not here, per COM:USERCAT.
  • Category:Scans by source is fine, though. The files in these categories should eventually be categorized further based on their topic, but this is a reasonable first pass for organizing imports from GLAMs.
  • Category:Scans by scanner brand and Category:Scanned with slide scanners, and their subcategories, definitely should not exist. This is pure metadata; if it's going to be collected at all it belongs in SDC, not categories. (We don't generally have categories for what model of camera a photo was taken with, and scanners leave less of an individual touch on their output than cameras do.)
  • Categories for images from individual works should be diffused.
  • I agree that Category:Stamps doesn't belong here at all. Some images of stamps are certainly scanned, but that's not an interesting property of the image.
Omphalographer (talk) 18:47, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
@Omphalographer: What do you think about the templates and/or categories for scans of individual works like Template:Scan from 'Modern Homes', T. Raffles Davison, 1909. They seem kind of pointless with Wikidata Items and categories. Like with that book, I assume Category:Scans from 'Modern Homes', 1909 should just be the name of the book without "scans" in the category name and the template could probably just be gotten rid of because it would have a Wikidata item and infobox. Now that I look at them it's not even clear how the templates are being used anyway. --Adamant1 (talk) 04:37, 26 June 2025 (UTC)
It looks as though those templates are being used to generate {{Information}} templates on file pages. I don't have any strong feelings on that practice, but I agree that the templates shouldn't be categorized in content categories, and especially not at this high of a level. Omphalographer (talk) 18:10, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended

Empty: only 2 files match. Misty Foxhunting (talk) 05:17, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

@Misty Foxhunting: Where are the two files? -- Auntof6 (talk) 05:26, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
@Auntof6: In the parent folder: Books of Isaac Newton https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Books_by_Isaac_Newton Misty Foxhunting (talk) 05:31, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
@Misty Foxhunting: I would say put them back in this category and keep it. As far as I know, we allow categories with only two things in them. -- Auntof6 (talk) 05:49, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
okay Misty Foxhunting (talk) 06:14, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Palaeomaps by year

the new subcategories here make little sense, both in the naming scheme with unexpected capitalizations, as well as in the destructive way that the files are all atomized into single-file categories. Furthermore, the maps are NOT cassified by years, but by million years. Enyavar (talk) 21:08, 24 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:80-cm-Kanone (E)

New cat - split from Category:80 cm K gun (Krupp), but why? Suggest re-merge. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:53, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Stock certificates from the United Kingdom

Stock Certificates should be categorised as documents, not as works. Rathfelder (talk) 11:05, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Stock certificates from Austria by year

Stock Certificates should be categorised as documents, not as works. Rathfelder (talk) 11:07, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Stock certificates from France by year

should be categorised as documents, not as works Rathfelder (talk) 12:59, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:1920 books from Great Britain

Great Britain was not a country after 1800. Should be United Kingdom. Rathfelder (talk) 14:55, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Flickr images uploaded by UploadWizard

This category is not needed. Ooligan (talk) 23:20, 26 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Cap tipping

This category was proposed for moving/merging to "Hat tipping" with the reason "'Hat' and 'cap' are synonymous". Hat and cap are not synonymous, so I bring this here in case there's another reason to merge. If merged, we may also need to merge the Cap/Hat doffing categories.

Pinging Denniscabrams, who made the original move request. --Auntof6 (talk) 00:36, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

How are those two terms different in your mind? Denniscabrams (talk) 00:49, 27 June 2025 (UTC)
@Denniscabrams: Caps and hats are different kinds of headgear. The idea of tipping them isn't different, but the name of the headgear is. Maybe there's some combined term we could use. Headgear tipping? Hat and cap tipping? -- Auntof6 (talk) 04:36, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:World War II memorial in Meghri

Delete, there are two WWII memorials with in Meghri: Category:World War II memorial in Meghri, 1968 and Category:World War II memorial in Meghri, 1982. Kareyac (talk) 06:58, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Alain Bourbonnais

All of the images in this category seems to be downloaded from fabuloserie.com but there seems to be no license on that sites that permits usage on Commons. See here

Geerestein3 (talk) 11:47, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Assassination by country

Assassinations in country would be the correct plural name Trade (talk) 13:18, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

You usually need a "by" in the name for it to be a metacat. Also, the parent cat is Murder by country: would you change that, too? -- Auntof6 (talk) 13:37, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Books by country by year

Why dont we have books by country categories before 1850? Rathfelder (talk) 14:11, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Books from Estonia by year

Could someone fix the template so it goes into books by country by date? Rathfelder (talk) 15:39, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:BMW interiors

Duplicate of Category:BMW automobile interiors. Should be merged into that one. ChrisiPK (Talk|Contribs) 22:11, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Pittosporum alternifolium

This is a non-existant species - none of the main flora authorities recognise it, not even as a synonym, and google has no results for this exact phrase apart from a link to Commons —  Junglenut | talk  23:29, 27 June 2025 (UTC)

Category:Alan Jones (rugby coach)

Subject is most notable as a talkback host/broadcaster. I'd suggest the category be moved to Category:Alan Jones (talkback host) which would also be consistent with the enwiki article. TarnishedPathtalk 12:05, 28 June 2025 (UTC)

  •  Support per nom. Crouch, Swale (talk) 13:11, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
  •  Comment no problem for me, but wouldn't be better, at this point, Alan Jones (broadcaster)? Categories on en.wiki aren't exactly orthodox. -- Blackcat 13:20, 28 June 2025 (UTC)
    PS this is Commons, not en.wiki. Categories do not necessarily have to be consistent with en.wiki's. They have to be consistent with logics and facts. Also, outside of Australia - except that the most famous Alan Jones coming from there is the race driver who won the 1980 F.1 world championship - he's known for having coached the Wallabies at the 1987 World Cup. Thus I have no problems to let it be redirected to "broadcaster" but I can assure you that nobody cares.

Category:Videos of young women of Sweden in 2018

This is way too granular Trade (talk) 13:00, 28 June 2025 (UTC)