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Discussion for Today

This page is transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025_February_16

February 16

Category:Combat occupations of the early modern period

• Propose merging Category:Combat occupations of the early modern period to Category:Combat occupations

Nominator's rationale: Vague and nondefining ^SMason_Garrison 04:53, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

Category:18th-century Welsh slave traders

• Propose splitting Category:18th-century Welsh slave traders to Category:Welsh slave traders and Category:18th-century Welsh businesspeople

Nominator's rationale: Upmerge for now. isolated category ^SMason_Garrison 04:38, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

Category:Naval battles of the Thirty Years' War involving Portugal

• Propose splitting Category:Naval battles of the Thirty Years' War involving Portugal to Category:Naval battles involving Portugal and Category:Naval battles of the Thirty Years' War

Nominator's rationale: Underpopulated uomerge for now ^SMason_Garrison 03:22, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

Category:Naval battles of the French Revolutionary Wars involving Portugal

• Propose splitting Category:Naval battles of the French Revolutionary Wars involving Portugal to Category:Naval battles of the French Revolutionary Wars and Category:Naval battles involving Portugal

Nominator's rationale: Duel upmerge this underpopulated category ^SMason_Garrison 03:20, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

Category:19th-century Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy admirals

• Propose merging Category:19th-century Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy admirals to Category:19th-century Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy officers and Category:Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy admirals
• Propose merging Category:16th-century Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy admirals to Category:16th-century Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy officers and Category:Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy admirals
• Propose merging Category:18th-century Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy admirals to Category:18th-century Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy officers and Category:Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy admirals
• Propose merging Category:17th-century Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy admirals to Category:17th-century Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy admirals and Category:Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy admirals
• Propose merging Category:20th-century Royal Norwegian Navy admirals to Category:20th-century Royal Norwegian Navy admirals
• Propose merging Category:19th-century Royal Norwegian Navy admirals to Category:Royal Norwegian Navy admirals
• Propose merging Category:21st-century Royal Norwegian Navy admirals to Category:Royal Norwegian Navy admirals

Nominator's rationale: There's no need to diffuse this category by century. Notably, there's not a Navy admirals by century tree ^SMason_Garrison 03:11, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

Category:Naval battles of the Napoleonic Wars involving Portugal

• Propose splitting Category:Naval battles of the Napoleonic Wars involving Portugal to Category:Naval battles of the Napoleonic Wars and Category:Naval battles involving Portugal

Nominator's rationale: Only one page in this category which isn't helpful for navigation ^SMason_Garrison 03:13, 16 February 2025 (UTC)

Category:Ibrahim Rugova

• Propose deleting Category:Ibrahim Rugova (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

Nominator's rationale: This category only has two pages in it that are already interlinked. Delete for now as this doesn't help navigaiton ^SMason_Garrison 02:47, 16 February 2025 (UTC)