Commons:Categories for discussion/2026/01

Category:Minor planets

Obsolete classification. Since 2006, the IAU classifies these as either dwarf planets or small solar system bodies (SSSB). Paradoctor (talk) 12:00, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Photographs by Parikas brothers

Copyright! Brothers Parikas: Georg Johannes Parikas (1880–1958, Estonia); Peeter Parikas (1889–1972, Sweden) Liilia Moroz (talk) 12:15, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:The Sphere at Ground Zero (World Trade Center)

I don't understand why we have both Category:The Sphere at WTC and Category:The Sphere at Ground Zero (World Trade Center)... Which one gets a wikidata entry? And File:The Sphere (2666744728).jpg seems to be the same sculpture, but it seems to have been relocated to a park, by 2008. If it has been relocated, shouldn't the category name(s) be updated? Geo Swan (talk) 18:03, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, I found The_Sphere#Relocation_to_Battery_Park, and I added Category:The Sphere at Battery Park to the image I just uploaded.
All these categories need hatnotes. The Sphere says it was made by a German, so it is officially Große Kugelkaryatide N.Y.. Geo Swan (talk) 18:18, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Boreal forest of the United States

In this edit this category was changed into a redirect, based on the notion the only Boreal forests in the USA were in Alaska. Then why am I uploading images of Boreal forests from Wisconsin? Geo Swan (talk) 20:23, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

In this image a hiker looks at an NPS sign, on Rasperry Island (Wisconsin), on Lake Superior, that shows the worldwide extent of Boreal Forest. The sign explains that the water of Lake Superior is cold, so cold the shores of the islands on the lake are cold enough for Boreal forests. Geo Swan (talk) 20:39, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Meetei Chanu

I believe this should be moved/merged to Category:Meitei Chanu; the latter is newer and less fleshed out, but I believe it is the one that is correctly spelled. Jmabel ! talk 20:58, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

"Meitei Chanu" is a common noun, while "Meetei Chanu" is a proper noun referring to an event, though inspired from the concept of "Meitei Chanu". Haoreima (talk) 08:42, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Haoreima: so merge in the other direction? - Jmabel ! talk 20:30, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It's a tricky situation. The two are almost separate entities.

Meitei Chanu = Meitei lady (anyone) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meitei_Chanu
Meetei Chanu (though literally meaning "Meetei girl") = about a particular beauty pageant event about Meitei ladies - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meetei_Chanu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanu_(name_suffix) (for referencing only)

Btw, I don't object to merging or segregation. My alternative suggestion is to "move" the category "Meetei Chanu" into "Meetei Chanu (event)" and put the redirected page "Meetei Chanu" targeted at "Meitei Chanu". Haoreima (talk) 08:13, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Haoreima: put the redirected page "Meetei Chanu" targeted at "Meitei Chanu" My apologies, I don't follow that. Could you word it more clearly? Also, the content of Category:Meetei Chanu seems interchangeable with the content of Category:Meitei Chanu; what am I missing? - Jmabel ! talk 21:04, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I mean it's ok to merge the two but by keeping the former contents of "Meetei Chanu" in a separately new category named "Meetei Chanu (event)". Haoreima (talk) 05:00, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Haoreima: I literally do not understand what you are proposing. - Jmabel ! talk 20:49, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Free screenshots

redudant to Category:Screenshots (only free screenshots are allowed on Commons). Merge to there and to Category:Screenshots of free software. Prototyperspective (talk) 23:51, 3 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Support. There was a category "Non-free screenshots", but it no longer exists, therefore there is no reason to have "Free screenshots" category. Deltaspace42 (talk) 19:07, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Many of these files are being placed into the category by {{Free screenshot}}. The template should probably be updated to not autocategorize files - creating a single, extremely broad category like this for all screenshots is not terribly useful. Omphalographer (talk) 21:00, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Support Remove the cat from {{Free screenshot}} and then drop Category:Free screenshots. -- Commons:Categories for discussion/2015/01/Category:Non-free screenshots Taylor 49 (talk) 13:10, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Owen Hart in 1989

Marge into Category:Owen Hart, no need for categories by year when there are so few images. StarTrekker (talk) 04:55, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Owen Hart in 1994

Marge into Category:Owen Hart, no need for categories by year when there are so few images. StarTrekker (talk) 04:55, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Owen Hart in 1995

Marge into Category:Owen Hart, no need for categories by year when there are so few images. StarTrekker (talk) 04:55, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Flags of Mars

Wouldn't flags for Mars or Mars flags be more in line for a topical usage on the pattern of Sports flags versus a geographical (areographical) usage like Flags of Italy? As far as I know, no cloth flags are on Mars; file:Zhurong-with-lander-selfie.png is an example of two spacecraft on Mars with flags marked on them, file:panoramic photo of Mars by Viking I.jpg is another. Arlo James Barnes 04:56, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Owen Hart in 1999

Marge into Category:Owen Hart, no need for categories by year when there are so few images. StarTrekker (talk) 04:57, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Owen Hart in 1997

Marge into Category:Owen Hart, no need for categories by year when there are so few images. StarTrekker (talk) 04:57, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Owen Hart in 1998

Merge into Category:Owen Hart, no need for categories by year when there are so few images. StarTrekker (talk) 04:57, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Auntof6 (talk) 21:23, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Medical organizations

Not a useful subcategory of "Medical and health organizations", I suggest merging into parent category. Because what are organizations which are "Medical and health", but not "Medical"? I think almost all if not all items in "Medical and health organizations" belong to "Medical organizations".And merge "Medical organizations by country" to "Medical and health organizations by country". Deltaspace42 (talk) 17:15, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Actualmente se tiende a hablar de "Ciencias de la salud" y, por tanto, hay multitud de organizaciones (públicas y privadas) relacionadas con la salud. Si las clasificamos por profesiones, serían organizaciones: médicas, de enfermería, farmacéuticas, psicólogos, odontólogos, fisioterapeutas, podólogos, veterinarios, optometristas y terapeutas. A su vez, estas se podrían subdividir por países y por especialidades. Un cordial saludo: Raimundo Pastor (talk) 18:09, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Raimundo Pastor, if I understand you correctly, you listed professions related to health, but aren't they also related to medicine? My point is that medicine and health are so closely related that there is no need in the "Medical organizations" subcategory, because it would essentially include everything from "Medical and health organizations". Deltaspace42 (talk) 19:00, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hay que diferenciar las organizaciones por profesiones sanitarias. No es lo mismo ser médico que, por ejemplo, ser farmacéutico. Ambas profesiones (y por consiguiente sus organizaciones) se dedican al cuidado de la salud de los pacientes, pero lo hacen de forma independiente y autónoma, aportando servicios sanitarios diferentes y complementarios. Decir "Medical and health organizations" es redundante (al menos en español). Todas las organizaciones médicas con organizaciones sanitarias, pero no todas las organizaciones sanitarias tienen porque ser médicas (ahí entran otras profesiones y organizaciones relacionadas con la salud). Un cordial saludo: Raimundo Pastor (talk) 19:08, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wendelstein mountain

This category should be renamed "Wendelstein (mountain)". Reasons:

The mountain's name is simply "Wendelstein" without "mountain" (see the various language versions and Interwiki links under d:Q819671.
"Mountain" as a name component only occurs in German mountains as the suffix "-berg"; otherwise, it is not added in other languages either, compare, for example, Category:Zugspitze.
The addition "(mountain)" is, of course, still necessary, compare Category:Wendelstein.
Template:Mountains Germany does not work with the current name; the name I suggested was also used here.

Buffty (talk) 22:07, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Support for renaming. But why English and wrong, too? In English, it's always "Mount xy". Best wishes for 2026 @all! --Mateus2019 (talk) 13:49, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for your support. Regarding your comments:

"But why English and wrong, too?": Does that mean you're suggesting "Wendelstein (Berg)"? I'm open to both – both exist, and "(Berg)" even seems to be more common, for example, if you look at entries in Category:Mountains of Bavarian Prealps or Category:Mountains of Germany by name. However, I understood that English terms and names should always be used on Commons (which makes me cringe every time I think of my birthplace...).
"In English, it's always "Mount xy".": In English, "mountain" is often part of the proper noun and is then adopted or translated into other languages (see, for example, Mount Rushmore), but apparently not (or at least not always) for mountains in German-speaking regions (see, for example, Matterhorn oder Zugspitze).

Buffty (talk) 14:29, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Support Per both De and En. Crouch, Swale (talk) 14:07, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Group portraits in the United States

right now, this is a subcat of Category:Group photographs in the United States which does not make sense to me. What about group portrait paintings? Shouldn't the be independent of "Group photographs", with subcats for "Group portrait photographs" and for group portraits in other media (painting, sculpture, etc.)? Jmabel ! talk 04:59, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Disappeared police corps of Spain

Does "disappeared" here mean anything other than "former"? If so, would someone please explain; if not, "former" is the more usual wording. Jmabel ! talk 05:12, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Association football matches by score

It might be meaningful to have categories for score as displayed on scoreboards, but it isn't meaningful to categorize games by their score (presumably the final score?). There is only one match in this category tree, and none of the images in it show a scoreboard with 3-0 on it. Therefore I propose deleting both Category:Association football matches by score and Category:Association football matches with score 3-0. Auntof6 (talk) 20:09, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the final score, as also used to identify matches in cats, apparently — see f.i. Category:Nicaragua vs. Haiti: 3-0 (March 2017), which is the single cat mentioned above. I created these back then as a sort of test concept (I myself have a frigid zero intrest in soccer and other religions): I would presume that this kind of cats could converge upwards to reach things like Category:1 and 2, where also subcats such as Category:1 and 2 people, Category:1 and 2 Abbey Square, Chester, or Category:12 (number) could be found. But it was in 2019, when I was still slightly optimist about the future of Human-curated meta data (not the same as metadata!) online. These days it seems that everybody only wants A.I. slop and Commons categories, already under siege before, are the seen as crytically unwelcome. Out of principle, of course, I think this cat should be

kept. Let’s see how fast it will be deleted and how wasteful and uneffective any alternative solution will be — might end up going like this:

«Hi, WikiGrok! Please list for me all soccer games that ended as 3-0.»
«I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that…»

-- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 20:58, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Commons categories are for categorizing media. They are not a database of sports statistics, nor a collection of arbitrary numerical coincidences. Omphalographer (talk) 19:11, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Famous Places in Seoul

Inappropriate category. Famous how? To who? To what degree? Inclusion criteria is subjective. ✗plicit 10:33, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Scheldewacht (ship)

All of the files that were in this category were of the "Scheldewacht" built in 1931. Thus this category serves no purpose. Motacilla (talk) 11:39, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

If you are sure they are the same ship, then sure (could also be changed to a category redirect). However the position and style of the hawsehole (anchor hole) at the bow, and shape of the hull at the bow, looks very different in File:Het motorschip Scheldewacht, asset H1DImgaTHVKQltgPJHDQmkHp.jpg and File:Het schip Scheldewacht, asset L2VoFjTLUN53KUQWMYJx0qCx.jpg as compared to the ship being built in 1931 at File:De bouw van het schip Scheldewacht op een scheepswerf in Rupelmonde, 1931, asset Y1jTDUlPRPWgSo8AuH782wlJ.jpg. The superstructure being built in that latter photo also looks nothing like those other photos. There are also many portholes down the side of the completed ship, but don't see them at all in the one being built. Some details can change after construction but the anchor configuration is rarely one of them. Pretty sure it was that detail which convinced me those were separate ships. Carl Lindberg (talk) 14:44, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Motacilla: Do you still think it's the same ship? Carl Lindberg (talk) 00:27, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thankyou for your messages. In short, no: I think you are correct!

There are differences between the shapes of the hawse holes, and the number of portholes in the hull. Note also the photo File:Het schip Scheldewacht I en het stoomschip Jean Jadot, asset n2HauihJ4sXMcXQaakwC0CE4.jpg. The stem is straight, and the mast is forward of the wheelhouse. In both respects, this contrasts with other Scheldewacht photos. The wheelhouse shape reminds me of that in File:De bouw van het schip Scheldewacht op een scheepswerf in Rupelmonde, 1931, asset Y1jTDUlPRPWgSo8AuH782wlJ.jpg, which shows the ship being built. However, in the latter photo, the stem looks raked, not straight.

In both ships, the bow ends just aft of the wheelhouse. But the curve with which it ends has a different profile. Even if Scheldewacht had been refitted, with a different superstructure, new mast, and more portholes in the hull, would one really bother to change that curve? So I agree with you, we probably have two small ships mixed up here.

Before I moved those images to "Category:Scheldewacht (ship, 1931)", I failed to check whether all of the images already there belonged there! File:Het motorschip Scheldewacht, asset GOJSVMQaTGnlTiZIbl52uJrE.jpg was already there, but that looks like the same Scheldewacht as the one in the photos that I recategorised. User:Mjroots moved that image to "Category:Scheldewacht (ship, 1931)". He may wish to comment on whether he still thinks his recategorisation is correct.

The Scheldewacht name has been re-used, but I don't know how many times. Wrecksite says that one Scheldewacht was sunk in 1944. But Wrecksite includes no details or photo, so that doesn't tell us which Scheldewacht was sunk. See here: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?160749

The undated Scheldewacht looks more modern than the 1931 Scheldewacht. Is she a post-war replacement for the one that Wrecksite thinks was sunk in 1944? I have searched without success for the year in which she was built. There is no Scheldewacht in the Stichting Maritiem-Historische Databank, for example. If you can read other Dutch-language sources, you may succeed where I failed.

By the way, we are not helped by the fact that a few of the MAS's photos have misleading captions. "Het schip Scheldewacht I en het stoomschip Jean Jadot" suggests a photo that includes two ships. But the photo shows only one ship. This is not the only error I have seen in MAS photo captions.

Best wishes, Motacilla (talk) 14:37, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Motacilla: I moved said file in good faith. If we are dealing with two different ships and it turns out to be the other ship, feel free to move it. Mjroots (talk) 18:21, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I had little success finding any information about these ships -- the captions on the photos was the only way to date the 1931 ship even. The mast position is another obvious giveaway. In the File:Het motorschip Scheldewacht, asset GOJSVMQaTGnlTiZIbl52uJrE.jpg image, the ships in the background look to be post-WWII ships, so your theory seems like a good one -- the 1931 ship may have been the patrol boat of this name the Germans confiscated, renamed HR-35, and which was sunk in 1944. Then a replacement was built at some point (or, maybe, it was raised and significantly rebuilt, including a new bow). It seems to be a fairly common ship name and I've found precious little about these in particular, much like you, despite some searching. I do think File:Het schip Scheldewacht I en het stoomschip Jean Jadot, asset n2HauihJ4sXMcXQaakwC0CE4.jpg is the completed 1931 ship.

As for errors in the MAS files, yeah, there have been a number. Some captions flat-out misidentify the ship (copy/paste from another file). Your caption was likely meant for File:Het schip Scheldewacht I en het stoomschip Jean Jadot, asset k2LLOSegWV5gOZul93Symilm.jpg, which does have both ships. That is par for the course on large archives like that -- captions are done by humans and they make mistakes. I'm sure Commons has many errors as well.

I'll move the files back. Carl Lindberg (talk) 00:05, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Alfa Romeo Giulietta at Rétromobile 2014

No longer needed. Confusing because it included photos of two different cars. mr.choppers (talk)^-en- 18:30, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Douglas aircraft of British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines

BCPA Pilot Hat Badges for the Southern Cross Route ~2026-14469-2 (talk) 19:49, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@~2026-14469-2, please clarify, you want to rename this category or what? Deltaspace42 (talk) 16:35, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sitelen Sitelen syllable glyphs

Should be renamed to Category:Sitelen Sitelen sound symbols per Category:SVGs of sitelen sitelen sound symbols Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 02:05, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

this should probably be the other way around, "syllable glyphs" sounds more correct. Juwan 🕊️🌈 03:25, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Juwan I actually think you are right. But this will involve a massive amount of moves to get everything to syllable glyph from sound symbol. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 07:34, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This says that it is syllable glyph and not sound symbol https://sona.pona.la/wiki/sitelen_sitelen Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 07:36, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:De Nieuwe Grond, Suriname

Delete category please: it is a duplicate of category "Nieuwgrond" Ecritures (talk) 11:48, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Why not just leave a redirect? Deltaspace42 (talk) 16:22, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Graphics by theme

All the Graphics of xyz by theme subcats make little sense as they're redundant to Category:Information graphics by subject which is a subcat here. Some other subcats are also better merged, e.g. I merged Category:Graphics of famine into Category:Hunger, famine and food insecurity statistics (which is in information graphics eg due to Category:Food statistics). Prototyperspective (talk) 19:16, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Naastenliefde

Apparently the Dutch word for "charity", to which it should, if so, redirect. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:32, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

That's right, this is the Dutch description, I don't know the English one! Maybe Charity?

Antoine.01_overleg(Antoine) 11:01, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Village in India

duplicate of Category:Villages in India Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:49, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Category:Villages in India. Deltaspace42 (talk) 13:31, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ground

The category is a confusing mix of "the ground" (Category:Earth's surface) and various "grounds" (places). Categories related to "the ground" should go to Category:Earth's surface, whereas the various "grounds" should be grouped into a new Category:Grounds category. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 03:26, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Support move content to Category:Earth's surface and turning this into a disambig. Taylor 49 (talk) 13:16, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Paganist funerals in art

Renaming to "Pagan funerals in art" DNocterum (talk) 04:38, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to Category:Pagan funerals in art per nomination. Deltaspace42 (talk) 20:22, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Paganist funerals

renaming to "Pagan funerals" DNocterum (talk) 04:40, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to Category:Pagan funerals per nomination. Deltaspace42 (talk) 20:23, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:LMS Princess Coronation Class 6229 Duchess of Hamilton (all files)

Empty category with no purpose as there is already another category for the locomotive. TwinBoo (talk) 18:11, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:GWR 4073 Class 5080 Defiant (all files)

Empty category for which the subject already has a separate category. TwinBoo (talk) 18:11, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Dror Lehi headqurter - Jerusalem

Rename to Category:Dror Lehi headquarters. "Headqurter" here is obviously a typo, but it's used on the heritage sign, and I'm not sure if it's official English name for it, or just a description. I think naming this category without a typo would be more useful. Deltaspace42 (talk) 19:36, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Christ Church (Anglican), Papakura

Needs to be deleted because of redundancy. Replaced with appropriately named Category:Selwyn Chapel, Papakura. B. Jankuloski (talk) 00:27, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Feast of the Black Nazarene

Redundant to Category:Feast of Jesus Nazareno. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contributions) 00:41, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, "Black Nazarene" is prone to variants: "Itim na Nazareno" and "Black Nazarene". "Traslacion" may be an alternate term but that only refers to the procession, not the overall feast day. The most stable for this case, IMO, is Jesus Nazareno (the official and recognized name by the church administration). EnWiki can ignore the official name per w:WP:COMMONNAME, but Commons typically uses the most stable name for some specialized subjects; e.g. Category:Igreja de Santo António (Funchal), using the Portuguese name vs. English name as English names can be prone to variants, and Category:Simbahan ng Pateros historical marker (instead of unstable "Church of Pateros historical marker" or "Pateros Church historical marker"). JWilz12345 (Talk|Contributions) 02:04, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Feast of the Black Nazarene and its attendant veneration event as Feast of the Jesus Nazareno has been liturgically recognized, elevating a parochial folk celebration in Manila's Quiapo district into a national devotion. But the day itself (9th of January) is Feast of the Black Nazarene, and remains agnostically described as such, as referred to in the following institutional examples:

Note: As such, Feast of the Black Nazarene is the prevailing description and reference thereof. Any parlance notwithstanding, does not warrant in practice the removal of a technical Identifier, albeit variant names do co-exist in several Filipino dialects. Buszmail (talk) 13:21, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Manny (A Bug's Life)

Only contains one (empty) subcategory Trivialist (talk) 01:27, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Spouses of fictional characters

Absurd category, given that spouses of fictional characters... are themselves fictional characters. Trivialist (talk) 05:51, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. This is not a reasonable use for Commons categories. See my comments on the followup CfD for Commons:Categories for discussion/2026/01/Category:Fictional characters by role in the narrative structure. Omphalographer (talk) 08:13, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. All married fictional characters can belong to this category, because they are spouses of their spouses, but I don't think we need "Married fictional characters" category. Deltaspace42 (talk) 08:14, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. ReneeWrites (talk) 18:37, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fictional characters by role in the narrative structure

More fictional-character-cruft. Analyzing the narrative role of characters in movies and video games is not an appropriate task for Commons. (It's also difficult to do in a general fashion - the narrative roles of characters can be ambiguous, and can change across a series of works.) Omphalographer (talk) 07:36, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This nomination should be understood to include the following subcategories:

Subcategories for individual characters are fine; those should all be adequately categorized in relation to the media they originate from. Omphalographer (talk) 07:44, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Comment I certainly agree that this is mostly cruft. I do think "Disney progagonists" and "Disney villains" are likely to be something someone is looking for, and would keep at least those two. Nothing else here leaps out to me as useful. - Jmabel ! talk 00:16, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Moscow Oblast

Переиздание Официант (talk) 13:30, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Официант, can you please elaborate what you want to do with this category and why you started this discussion? Deltaspace42 (talk) 18:46, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Herriko Plaza (Errenteria)

Errepikatua dago Birasuegi (talk) 20:57, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Himori-jinja

Should be Homori-jinja not Himori Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:41, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Katuraki-shitoriniimasu-amenohaikaduchinomikoto-jinja

Should be Katsuraki-Shitori-ni-Imasu-Ame-no-Ha-Ikazuchi-no-Mikoto-jinja to resolve the nihon shiki issues Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 03:52, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Tesla, Inc.in 2025

not useful random small fraction selection of photos Prototyperspective (talk) 14:07, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Merge to Category:Tesla, Inc. or a more appropriate topical category. While there are a number of photos about the company, they're better split by topic than by year. Omphalographer (talk) 00:24, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Maps related to visa policies

This should be merged with Category:Maps of visa policy, as it's not clear to me what the difference is between a map of visa policy and a map related to visa policy. Justinkunimune (talk) 15:17, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed.

Additionally, I struggle to know the difference between a "Visa map" (i.e. Category:Visa maps of Nepal) and a "Map of visa policy" as we have in the two OP categories. If I have a visa-related map that is also Nepal-related (or whatever other country), I would assign "Visa maps of Nepal". Why would I additionally add "Maps of visa policy" (or a subcat of that, and which?) Best --Enyavar (talk) 06:24, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:1 clothed boy with 1 girl

Merge with Category:1 boy wearing clothing with 1 girl. I can't figure out in any way they are different. StarTrekker (talk) 15:20, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - This is part of a large and rather silly category system under Category:Boys with girls. There's an entire forest of categories for different numbers of boys and girls, and for whether the children are specified as clothed or not, e.g. Category:2 boys with girls, Category:2 boys with 2 girls, Category:2 boys with clothed girls, Category:2 clothed boys with clothed girls, Category:2 clothed boys with 4 clothed girls, etc. (Some of the intermediates are inconsistently omitted, e.g. there is no Category:2 boys with 4 girls.)

Merging to Category:1 boy wearing clothing with 1 girl is not a good solution. As far as I can tell, it and the subcategory Category:1 boy wearing clothing with 1 girl wearing clothing are the only categories on Commons using the phrasing "wearing clothing" - and they're doing so exclusively for photos of children in swimwear, not fully clothed children.

Do we really need to specify the exact state of dress of every child in a photo? I think not. It seems to me that these categories would be dramatically simplified by treating "fully clothed" as a reasonable default and placing photos of people in various states of undress in subcategories. Omphalographer (talk) 22:23, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Merge overspecific – merge to Category:1 boy with 1 girl. Prototyperspective (talk) 16:38, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Akiha-jinja (flat list)

I am quite confused about what this is. I think it belongs as a gallery, not a category. Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 16:18, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This is a hidden maintenance category for managing media in the Akiha-jinja category over the long term.

Since MediaWiki can’t fully scan deep subcategories, it helps us find new files and fix miscategorization efficiently.

Removing it would only mean recreating the same kind of category later, adding unnecessary work and history.

Leaving it as is is the simplest and most practical option for everyone.　--~~ Clusternote (talk) 08:01, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Clusternote can you explain more what the purpose of this category is? Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 18:08, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Immanuelle: This was already discussed in a similar category, so I’ll share the link once I find it.

Just note that this only really makes sense if you’ve actually classified large amounts of media. If you’re willing to sort through thousands of items yourself, feel free to judge. If not, deleting things for aesthetic reasons is also a choice—but it may just means the work won’t get done afterward.Clusternote (talk) 11:30, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. Here’s the link to the previous related discussion

Commons:Categories for discussion/2023/06/Category:Theater organs (flat list)

Due to various circumstances, I’d completely lost motivation and only just realized—belatedly—that I’d forgotten to follow up. Thanks for giving me the nudge. Clusternote (talk) 11:45, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Female choreographers in the United States

"in" seems a very odd choice in this category name. I would expect "of" or "from" (don't care which). Jmabel ! talk 23:31, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Rename to Category:Female choreographers from the United States, other categories use "from" format. Deltaspace42 (talk) 12:30, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pubs in Sole Street

There's 2 places in Kent called "Sole Street" and the 2 pubs categorised here belong in each. These should be disambiguated and then the cat deleted. What naming schema to use to disambiguate places in Kent I don;t know, hence cfd Tæppa (talk) 16:51, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Also Category:Compasses Inn, Sole Street duplicates Category:Compasses Inn, Crundale Tæppa (talk) 16:53, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hmmm, how about converting the cat to a dab page? Sole Street, Cobham and Sole Street, Crundale would seem to be appropriate, with the latter redirecting to the Crundale cat. Mjroots (talk) 17:52, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Sole Street, Ashford and Category:Sole Street, Gravesham as they are settlements so can be disambiguated by district. Crouch, Swale (talk) 14:38, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Delete I have created a category for the other Sole Street and merged the duplicate Crundale pub. As far as I can see each Sole Street only has 1 pub and I can't find any former ones on Lost Pubs. Given each pub has it's own category we probably don't need to keep this category since it will only contain 1 sub category and no images unless there are or were any other pubs in either Sole Street. Crouch, Swale (talk) 15:28, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pubs and hotels in Goole

probably unnecessary cat, should be deleted when categorised into Category:Pubs in Goole and a presently non existent Category:Hotels in Goole. Would also mean Category:Pubs and Hotels in Goole should be deleted. Tæppa (talk) 17:06, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Flags of Tajikistan (1991–1992)

This is a useless category page and is recommended to be deleted. Boston Mayflower (talk) 08:04, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:SVG national flag of Tajikistan (1991–1992)

This is a useless category page and is recommended to be deleted. Boston Mayflower (talk) 08:05, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:SVG flags of Tajikistan (1991–1992)

This is a useless category page and is recommended to be deleted. Boston Mayflower (talk) 08:06, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:National flag of Tajikistan (1991–1992)

This is a useless category page and is recommended to be deleted. Boston Mayflower (talk) 08:06, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:SVG flag of Tajikistan (1991–1992)

This is a useless category page and is recommended to be deleted. Boston Mayflower (talk) 08:06, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Organizations of the United Kingdom

Since Category:Organisations of Australia uses UK spelling, this category should be renamed to Category:Organisations of the United Kingdom and all its subcategories should use the UK spelling. Deltaspace42 (talk) 15:31, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

See also discussion on general use of US/UK spelling: Commons_talk:Categories/Archive_5#New_proposal Deltaspace42 (talk) 18:03, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

In that archived discussion, nobody has explained why the American spelling was chosen over the alternate spelling. What makes that superior? Sbb did not, in any way, explain this and has rammed through his own opinion on the "superior" spelling. That's imperialism and frankly, extreme bias. So he can add myself to opposition, and I assume @Bidgee: as well. @Orderinchaos: also. - Chris.sherlock2 (talk) 12:25, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Support yes, move to 'organisations' - MPF (talk) 16:21, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:AI-generated images of maps

This is somewhat of a weird duplicate. These are maps, not images of maps. Regardless of who created/generated them.

The one exception is File:Conceptual illustration of land surveying and urban planning in Yemen.png, now that one is an image that depicts a map. Enyavar (talk) 11:01, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like this was a recent broad rename of all "AI-generated X" categories to "AI-generated images of X", from Commons:Categories for discussion/2024/06/Category:AI-generated images by subject. I agree in this case it should be moved back. Belbury (talk) 11:07, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Comment maybe it does make sense to distinguish 'image from maps' (or sth equivalent) from actual maps (used for navigation or for geographical info; A map is a symbolic depiction of interrelationships, commonly spatial, between things within a space). Prototyperspective (talk) 13:31, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, we do have a category for that; Photographs of maps (for photos) and Maps in art (for all others). As long as we don't have more than the one above, I don't support a separate category for it; if there are more we should probably create Maps in AI-generated art. --Enyavar (talk) 15:27, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Many of these images should probably be deleted and recreated using actual maps. AI image models are not particularly good at generating maps; they are not geographical databases, and the results tend to be inaccurate when dealing with anything beyond very broad world maps. Omphalographer (talk) 22:37, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Well, in all non-artwork cases, as far as I am aware, the AI part was just translating inscriptions, which doesn't really change the map. That is still extremely wasteful, not just in terms of AI computing power, but also in results. For example, File:GobiTaklamakanMap.jpg (656 kB) was an English map, and a user took it to have AI automate translations towards File:Gobi desert map in Persian.png (6,9 MB), creating a much larger image with considerably lower ground resolution (but you have to zoom in to notice that in detail). A human could have done better job by relabeling the original base map. The user in question just wasn't technically apt to do it, so they tasked an AI, which was certainly faster and less hassle than finding another editor willing and able to do the work. I do have software and abilities to potentially do those things, but I cannot read+input Persian text, and that also prevents me from just doing it. Same case with File:Indian Ocean in Persian.png/File:Indian Ocean - en IHO.png, a file that increased ~500x in size by AI translation. So yes, anyone please recreate those images, ideally overwrite the AI productions and then remove the AI-category.

All that has however no bearing on this CfD. Even without the translations, files would remain. I made up my mind now and would support a reversal to the previous name. --Enyavar (talk) 17:44, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ichinomiya asama-jinja

Should be moved to Category:Ichinomiya Asama Shrine Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 17:34, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Books about Javanese language

duplicate with Category:Books about the Javanese language (I made it in 2015). Please delete this category (I recently made it, I forgot about the other one), and move Category:Books about the Javanese language (superfluous "the") to Category:Books about Javanese language, like

Bennylin (yes?) 10:48, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect Category:Books about the Javanese language to Category:Books about Javanese language. I don't see a reason to delete the latter category before moving the former into it. Deltaspace42 (talk) 15:57, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss cast

Deprecated category type, see Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/01/Category:Cast members. ✗plicit 11:50, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel, Pi.1415926535, Prototyperspective, ReneeWrites, Omphalographer, Enhancing999, WFinch, and Auntof6: --Trade (talk) 16:17, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This category actually contains valid content, which wasn't the case for previous categories of this type. Categories of actors, and photos of actors that are otherwise unrelated to Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss should be removed from it however. If it becomes a problem that this category gets filled with content or actor categories unrelated to these shows (or if we we feel like it could become a problem that's worth addressing pre-emptively), we could think of ways to rename them to make the scope more narrow/specific (like we did with "Actors by role") or add a description on how these categories should and shouldn't be used. ReneeWrites (talk) 16:26, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Perhaps rename to "Cast photos of Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss"? That should make it clear that the topic of the category is specifically photos of the whole cast, not the individual members. Omphalographer (talk) 19:53, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support, I like that suggestion. ReneeWrites (talk) 20:00, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the category, but no entire categories of a person belong categorized in this category, unless it is their only thing for which they are noted. - Jmabel ! talk 19:51, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Keep only for photos of the cast as the cast - categories for individual actors should not be in there - and support renaming. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:20, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Explicit, Prototyperspective, Omphalographer, Enhancing999, WFinch, and Auntof6: anyone have a problem with the current state of this? I think after ReneeWrites's changes, it's fine. - Jmabel ! talk 22:05, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Jmabel: I would also support Omphalographer's new name for the category. But yes, I think we reached a consensus here. ReneeWrites (talk) 22:48, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Renaming is fine with me. ✗plicit 00:30, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done, renamed to Category:Cast photos of Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss --ReneeWrites (talk) 06:43, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Wikidata-driven data visualisations

merge with Category:Wikidata visualizations? Prototyperspective (talk) 12:03, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Merge. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:51, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Robert Jensen (TV personality)

Empty category, as the 3 files that were previously in it, were misidentifications and actually belonged to Category:Rutger Castricum. Pennenetui3000 (talk) 18:00, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Person (Leipzig)

Vorschlag zur Löschung Anana Sanana (talk) 08:37, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Einverstanden. Martin Geisler (talk) 09:43, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Family by country

combine with Category:Families by country, and all "Family in <country>" to "Families of <country>" Bennylin (yes?) 13:18, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose per Basile Morin (see this discussion: Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/11/Category:Family). Deltaspace42 (talk) 15:50, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Galician nobles food

I'm not sure I understand the purpose of this category. Food only eaten by nobility? -- Themightyquill (talk) 14:21, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Trust in God of Islam

Shouldn't this be called "Trust in God in Islam"? All the similar categories are called "...in Islam", not "...of Islam". Marnanel (talk) 17:49, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ihlefeld-Kaserne

Namensgebung der Kategorie "Ihlefeld-Kaserne": Die Kaserne heißt Ihlenfeldkaserne und muss daher umbenannt werden. Besser noch sollten diese Fotografien in die bestehende Kategorie Kulturforum (Offenburg) inkorporiert werden, da es sich zum einen nur noch um einen historischen Namen handelt und die Kaserne zum anderen als militärische Einrichtung nicht mehr besteht. Jimmykreislauf (talk) 22:07, 17 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hallo Jimmykreislauf, ich habe mich bei der Bezeichnung Ihlefeld-Kaserne an der Denkmalliste bei Wikipedia gerichtet. Deinem Korrekturwunsch kann ich mit Blick auf die Homepage der Stadt Offenburg natürlich folgen. Im Regelfall sollte die Benennung einer offiziellen Bezeichnung (z. B. in der Denkmalliste) folgen; es ist davon auszugehen, dass sich die Denkmaleigenschaft nur auf die historischen Kasernenbauten und nicht auf die Neuplanungen (Kulturforum) der Stadt Offenburg bezieht. Eine ebenso mögliche neutrale Namensgebung anhand der Adresse ist in diesem Fall aufgrund der Größe des Komplexes mit mehreren Anschriften m. E. nicht praktikabel. Giorgio Michele (talk) 14:03, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Anbei ein instruktiver Artikel zur Herkunft der Benennung der Ihlenfeld-Kaserne aus der Badischen Zeitung aus dem Jahr 2007: https://www.badische-zeitung.de/ein-offizier-namens-ihlenfeld Jimmykreislauf (talk) 18:40, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Vielen Dank für den Link. Trotz Bezahlschranke klingt an, dass der Name wohl historisch belastet ist. Siehst du irgeneine Chance, an eine offizielle Denkmalliste der Stadt zu kommen? Darin findet sich vielleicht eine zur Bauzeit des Komplexes 1898 verwendete Bezeichnung (z. B. nach Regiment o.ä.), die anstelle von Ihlenfeld-Kaserne verwendet werden kann. Viele Grüße, Giorgio Michele (talk) 22:48, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Viana do Castelo

Rename to Category:People of Viana do Castelo per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Portugal by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 02:14, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Tarapaca, Peru

Rename to Category:People of Tarapaca, Peru per the majority of subcats in Category:People of Portugal by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 02:15, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Cerro de Pasco

Rename to Category:People of Cerro de Pasco per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Portugal by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 02:16, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Slash-circle symbols

Potential duplicate with Category:Circle with slash, categories should probably be merged. ManuelB701 (talk) 11:31, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose There is a difference between these two categories. The Category:Slash-circle symbols contains objects which are behind the circle with slash (e.g. cigarette), whereas Category:Circle with slash is for the circles with slash themselves, without any background objects. That said, I think Category:Slash-circle symbols might need a more precise name. Deltaspace42 (talk) 11:42, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. (And, therefore, I

oppose the o.p.) -- Tuválkin ✉ ✇ 15:19, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

A more precise name is "general prohibition sign" (cf. ISO 7010-P001). Omphalographer (talk) 21:48, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:S.S. Leviathan Orchestra

This is an over-specialised category that serves no purpose. The sole photo in this category could easily and sufficiently be categorised under "Leviathan (ship, 1914) and "Orchestras". Motacilla (talk) 14:56, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. The players in the orchestra are posing for a photo without their instruments and not obviously aboard the Leviathan. This photo would not fit generically into the category of photographs of orchestras or the Leviathan (ship, 1914).4meter4 (talk) 15:27, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:October 1955 in rail transport

This category is empty. Should it exist? Motacilla (talk) 15:59, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Urgench

Rename to Category:People of Urgench per the majority of subcats in Category:People of Uzbekistan by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 16:56, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:December 1955 in rail transport

This category is empty. Should it exist? Motacilla (talk) 20:48, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington

How is this different from Category:Victoria and Albert Museum and Category:Victoria and Albert Museum building? Tæppa (talk) 22:02, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The Victoria and Albert Museum operates as a common collection shared across five, soon to be six, sites of which the Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington is the largest and original location. The other sites all have distinctive titles, so Victoria and Albert Museum building is usually taken to refer to that site. Hope that helps.14GTR (talk) 22:37, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I think this makes sense. This could mean that a non-insignificant amount of interwiki cleaning up is needed, especially as enwiki [1] opens with "The Victoria and Albert Museum (abbreviated V&A) in London", which user Wombat~enwiki (no commons account) hits on at the talk page there [2]. Presumably {{Listed building England|1190187}} ("Victoria and Albert Museum") can be removed in the meantime, and this cfd closed if the issue is raised on some other wikiproject? Tæppa (talk) 23:00, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Tate Britain (building) has a similiar order (museum/gallery network -> museum/gallery site -> museum/gallery building), where the site and building are complicated on wikidata(meaning no infobox for commons, and that's my only reason to bring it up here) Tæppa (talk) 23:12, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The enwiki article is somewhat out of date given the huge changes in the museum over the past two years with the relaunch/rebranding of the Museum of Childhood as Young V&A and the opening of V&A East Storehouse. In terms of Commons, I would suggest that the Infobox that currently appears on the 'Victoria and Albert Museum' page should be moved to the 'Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington' page as it appears to be specific to that building. It might be worth renaming the sub-categories on that Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington page to make it clear they are specific to the original South Kensington location. Any thoughts ? 14GTR (talk) 08:04, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Vegetables used in Galician cooking

Delete. This doesn't make sense as a category. -- Themightyquill (talk) 22:10, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nomination. Deltaspace42 (talk) 05:16, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:The Garden House, Wallington Hall

Is this about " The Garden House "

This is a photo of listed building number 1042862.

or " The Owl House on North Side of Walled Garden "

This is a photo of listed building number 1303845.

or " Conservatory in Walled Garden"

This is a photo of listed building number 1042866.

? Tæppa (talk) 22:35, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Well I intended it for the Garden House, but I'm categorising photographs that others have taken and I can see photos of the same building described as both the garden House and the Owl House. If the Owl house is a different building rather than another name for the same one then at least one of our Geograph photographers misnamed a photograph. I suspect the conservatory could be this building but that also gets described as the orangery and also clutters the foreground of the building that is either the garden house or the owl house. WereSpielChequers (talk) 23:05, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The "ashlar quoins", "24-pane sash in raised surround", "Projecting brick chimney" and of course the tasteful owl sculpture (not listed?), as well as the images NHLE provide confirm to me this is "The Owl House". More info at these links: [3] (requires cookies) [4].

If uploader @ITchiBiTz: is no longer around, do we need any more evidence to scrub the description and request a name change from "The Garden House" to "The Owl House" on [5] and [6]? As there are no images of "The Garden House" this cat will either need deleting or history merging with a rename to Category:The Owl House, Wallington Hall. Tæppa (talk) 23:31, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

National Trust also name the glass building as "Conservatory" [7] (page 3). Category:Conservatory, Wallington Hall might imply it's part of Category:Wallington Hall, would Category:Conservatory, Walled Garden, Wallington Hall be a good name? Tæppa (talk) 23:39, 19 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

We seem to have at least two maybe 3 different greenhouses at Wallington Hall. Presumably one is the conservatory and one the orangery, but I hesitate as at least one photographer has differed as to what they are photographing. File:The Arches - 2025-09-30 22-04-51 001.jpg Looks to me more like a bridge than another photo of File:The Arches, Wallington - geograph.org.uk - 2958431.jpg which makes me distrust the image names chosen by that photographer. As for your suggestions, Category:The Conservatory, Walled Garden, Wallington Hall would be clear for the specific grade II listed building, but maybe as a subcategory of Category:Greenhouses at Wallington Hall? WereSpielChequers (talk) 11:36, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pohorilets

Empty category Deryck Chan (talk) 05:33, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:2020s maps of the world by language

this can be seen via deepcategory:"2020s maps of the world" deepcategory:"English-language maps of the world" for example; there is no use in replicating the Category:Maps of the world by language here and instead it gives users a wrong impression/place regarding which files are available as this is very incomplete (missing lots of files & lots of subcats for all those languages) – a constructive approach would be to e.g. inform the user about this way of filtering at the relevant 2020s maps of the world cat (maybe via a template) Prototyperspective (talk) 12:05, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I see it differently. Since every map should be categorized by language and year, this category is an excellent starting point for achieving that goal. --Iketsi (talk) 13:47, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

There already are Category:Maps of the world by language and Category:Maps of unidentified year etc. This cat would probably just add extra workload, be very incomplete, and miss many of the categories at Category:Maps of the world by language. However, I thought there were more subcats in that latter cat – Category:Maps by language is the one with the many subcats (where the same number of subcats will probably be missing here). Prototyperspective (talk) 15:24, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:United States Geological Survey by state

The current contents of this category are not subcats pertaining to the USGS by state, but rather a random collection of what appears to be USGS units which mention a state in their title, combined with state government equivalents to the USGS. I see nothing in parent category Category:United States Geological Survey which necessitates splitting that category in this manner. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 21:02, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, this as fully an artificial grouping of subcategories that are not related in a direct way to the title.--Kev min § 20:03, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Egyptian mummies of Ibis

I would have expected this to be named Category:Egyptian mummies of ibises (lowercase, plural). Am I missing something? Is "Ibis" for some reason a proper noun here? Jmabel ! talk 05:37, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think you're missing anything. The only things I can find that are called Ibis with upper-case I aren't things that would be mummified, by the Egyptians or anyone else. -- Auntof6 (talk) 07:29, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Social networks

needs cleanup and then the category cycle Category:Social media->Social networks->Social media needs to be fixed by removing cat Social media from cat social networks and adding cat social media to a subcat about instances of social media platforms & software. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:16, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Haslach an der Mühl

Rename to Category:People of Haslach an der Mühl per the majority of subcats in Category:People of Upper Austria by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 19:11, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This would be false, because this cat should be in Category:People of Upper Austria by municipality. Haslach is not a city. ---- K@rl (talk) Diskussion 10:40, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I corrected it now.---- K@rl (talk) Diskussion 10:41, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Tarija

Rename to Category:People of Tarija per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Bolivia by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 19:12, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Roberval, Quebec

Rename to Category:People of Roberval, Quebec per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Quebec by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 19:13, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Citium

Rename to Category:People of Citium per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Cyprus by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 19:14, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Zestaponi

Rename to Category:People of Zestaponi per the majority of subcats in Category:People of Georgia (country) by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 19:17, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Samarra

Rename to Category:People of Samarra per the majority of subcats in Category:People of Iraq by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 19:18, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Umm al-Fahm

Rename to Category:People of Umm al-Fahm per the majority of subcats in Category:People of Israel by locality OpalYosutebito (talk) 19:18, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I support this change.Moataz1997 (talk) 06:27, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Old Wellington Inn and Sinclair's Oyster Bar, Manchester

This is technically and practically two different buildings. If all the files were recategorised into each subject, does this category need to exist? See history at enwiki: [8] Tæppa (talk) 19:20, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I created this category in 2013 to sub-categorize the oyster bar media. At the time, Sinclair’s Oyster Bar was only mentioned on an article Old Wellington Inn within the English Wikipedia, and the relationship between the two venues was unclear, so I tentatively combined their names as new category name. I’m not sure what “history” on en.wikipedia.org refers to, but if the two venues are now clearly independent, please feel free to handle it as you see fit. —~~ Clusternote (talk) 07:35, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The buildings have an interesting history, with Sinclair's apparently being part of an extension to The Old Wellington, then in the 1990s both buildings were dismantled and moved 100m north, so a case could be made for them being a notable grouping. I'll categorise the files and nominate for speedy deletion (C2 empty cat) then resolve here Tæppa (talk) 09:17, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Resolved

categorised into Category:The Old Wellington Inn and Category:Sinclairs Oyster Bar Tæppa (talk) 09:56, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Medical diagrams in Arabic

تحويلة غير ضرورية Mohammed Qays 🗣 17:45, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Medical diagrams Lab-ar

please either rename to Category:Medical diagrams in Arabic or make it a subcat of that cat Prototyperspective (talk) 18:13, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello,

This category is part of Arabic Lab, it should include Lab-ar at the end, see:

Graphic Lab-ar

Chemistry charts and diagrams Lab-ar

Physics charts and diagrams Lab-ar

Biology charts and diagrams Lab-ar

Mathematics charts and diagrams Lab-ar

Astronomy charts and diagrams Lab-ar

and so on, I am open for any suggestion. Michel Bakni (talk) 08:44, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Medical diagrams in Arabic was moved to this cat so it's unclear whether really all files in it belong into it. I don't have an issue with this cat but again think it should be a subcat of the former which is named according to the naming-scheme of all subcats in Category:Medical diagrams by language. Prototyperspective (talk) 11:22, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Paňa

Rename to Category:People of Paňa per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Slovakia by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 21:39, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Bohinj

Rename to Category:People of Bohinj per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Slovenia by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 21:40, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Senec

Rename to Category:People of Senec per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Slovakia by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 21:42, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Veľký Cetín

Rename to Category:People of Veľký Cetín per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Slovakia by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 21:43, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Paraćin

Rename to Category:People of Paraćin per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Serbia by locality OpalYosutebito (talk) 21:44, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Bădăcin

Rename to Category:People of Bădăcin per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Romania by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 21:46, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Cajamarca

Rename to Category:People of Cajamarca per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Peru by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 21:46, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Villarrica, Paraguay

Rename to Category:People of Villarrica, Paraguay per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Paraguay by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 21:47, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Areguá

Rename to Category:People of Areguá per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Paraguay by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 21:50, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Gaza

Rename to Category:People of Gaza City per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Palestine by city and the naming of Category:Gaza City OpalYosutebito (talk) 21:53, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:People from Tulkarm

Rename to Category:People of Tulkarm per consistency with the majority of subcats in Category:People of Palestine by city OpalYosutebito (talk) 21:53, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Paper Baloon Festival of Kamihinokinai

Does the festival have an official translation [into English]? Should the category use romanji, "Sky Lantern Festival of Kamihinokinai", or simply the same name with the misspelled "baloon" fixed? Rotideypoc41352 (talk) 03:58, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Comment The city of Semboku uses "Paper Baloon Festival of Kamihinokinai" on its website [9], and it looks like no machine translation. I therefore think this naming can be deemed official. Yasu (talk) 15:05, 24 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

In that case, I support a move to Category:Paper Balloon Festival of Kamihinokinai to fix the "Baloon" spelling error in the category name per User:Yasu. Rotideypoc41352 (talk) 06:30, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Belarus photographs taken 2016-09-09

Bad name Tess Mattew (talk) 09:49, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Deaths from AIDS

Moving to CfD from a VP comment. The style guidelines for HIV/AIDS-related content and information on English Wikipedia and other Wikis generally do not call for attributing HIV/AIDS-related deaths directly as "from AIDS". Most people with HIV/AIDS who die as a result of their condition die from infections or illnesses that spread more rapidly and intensely because of the person's weakened immune system. The general medical style for this situation is "died from AIDS-related complications/illness", if indeed that is what led to their death. There are a range of other options for this category that are more accurate: "Deaths from AIDS-related illness", "Deaths from AIDS-related complications", "AIDS-related deaths", "HIV/AIDS-related deaths", and probably a few other iterations as well. 19h00s (talk) 14:53, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Comment note that this may be similar or the same for various other causes (not actual causes but causal factors or co-causes) in Category:Deaths by cause/Category:Dead people by manner of death. What you said does make sense. Prototyperspective (talk) 16:15, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Casa natale di Amedeo Modigliani - Interior

Remove from Interiors of museums in Tuscany I believe this category is not appropriate because Modigliani’s birthplace is not a museum in Tuscany in the general sense of this category. However, the files can remain in , which more accurately reflects their content. Thank you for your feedback. WikiOsservatore (talk) 16:19, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Passenger ships facing forward

This category seems to duplicate the pre-existing category "Category:Front views of passenger ships". Motacilla (talk) 16:26, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ships facing forward

This category seems to duplicate the pre-existing "Category:Front views of ships". Motacilla (talk) 16:27, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Not quite. The Front views category is for images taken from outside the ship, ie from the outside looking towards the bow. The facing forward category is for images of the ship facing towards the viewpoint, and can be taken from within the ship, eg from the foredeck looking towards the bridge, or from amidships looking towards the stern. The former category and its sub-categories really should be a sub-category of the latter, and each should have an explanation of what they are for. The same comments apply to each sub-category, eg Passenger ships facing forward and Front views of passenger ships. Bahnfrend (talk) 08:49, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Depictions and social correlates of obesity

The scope of this category is unclear, it might be a union category fit for deletion. Bücherfresser (talk) 17:03, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Passenger ships facing away

This category seems to duplicate the pre-existing "Category:Stern views of passenger ships". Motacilla (talk) 19:57, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Ships facing away

This category seems to duplicate the pre-existing "Category:Stern views of ships". Motacilla (talk) 19:58, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Support merger of content to Category:Stern views of ships (which was created by the same editor 12 years ago and is more precise) Sionk (talk) 13:57, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Baked food

What is the difference between "baked food" and "baked foods"? I tried to find the difference on Wikidata, but I cannot read or understand the one language which has a Wikipedia entry for both. Bücherfresser (talk) 15:26, 24 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Category:Baked foods, and merge Wikidata entities. Deltaspace42 (talk) 12:00, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Photographs by Robert Linsdell

Are there any specific reasons for this subcategory? In my opinion, it's unnecessary, and the files should be moved to Category:Files by Robert Linsdell. Furthermore, Category:Files by Robert Linsdell is also incorrectly named, as not all the images are by Robert Linsdell, but also by his wife?, Christine Linsdell, as can be seen in EXIF datas, for example File:Old State House, Washington St, Boston (493457) (10773321993).jpg. Regards, זיו「Ziv」 • For love letters and other notes 10:46, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The factually appropriate name would probably be Category:Files from Robert Linsdell Flickr stream. But I doubt that the precise title matters for the purpose of the project, and I doubt that this detail is worth a major recategorization just for improving precision by a little. The majority of Flickr categories seem to be named either Files from ... stream or Photographs by ..., with a preference for the latter, whence I find Files by ... not optimal. But for sure, I feel that this would not be a discussion worth engaging, and if you or others have a strong opinion on anything in this Linsdell matter, I'll be glad to leave you the field. -- Gauss (talk) 11:35, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Amateur photos of the Moon

is this about amateur astronomy or about amateur photos (distinguished from high-quality / professional photos) Prototyperspective (talk) 19:21, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Probably the former as it is a member of Category:Amateur astronomy. Ruslik (talk) 19:47, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
That's what prompted me to create the CfD: if so, the title should make that clear...e.g. being moved to Category:Amateur astronomy photos of the Moon. Prototyperspective (talk) 19:51, 25 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Agree. Ruslik (talk) 19:48, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Information graphics of the United States by subject

upmerge to Category:Information graphics of the United States Prototyperspective (talk) 10:01, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Migration statistics

upmerge to Category:Data graphics about human migration? Prototyperspective (talk) 12:05, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Brenta Valley

empty category, not useful, main category to be use is Category:Valsugana CristianNX 15:31, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Athenaeus of Naucratis

All files regarding "Athenaeus of Naucratis" were put in the category simply named "Category:Athenaeus" in the first place. So the two should be merged / that category should be moved here ASAP. I tried making the move myself, but it won't allow me to. PGS 1984 (talk) 19:02, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Baptism by country

should be merged into Category:Baptist Christianity by country Estopedist1 (talk) 20:23, 26 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Compass roses by language

In the interest of making the subcategories under this metacat easier to search for (and making their meaning a little clearer), I'd like to rename them from e.g. Category:English-language compass roses to "Compass roses with English labels". Any objections? Omphalographer (talk) 06:51, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I object because the X-language format is well established and makes "by language" categories consistent and predictable. I did, however, create Compass roses with English labels and similar redirects, so we have the best of both worlds. --Iketsi (talk) 13:09, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Low quality images of the London Borough of Barnet

The files in this category are not particularly "Low quality" which is in this case too subjective a description. Not a subcategory scheme I want to show up all over the category tree, If better categories for these images is desired it would be better to use Category:Unidentified locations in the London Borough of Barnet. Oxyman (talk) 13:07, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

The quality of an image has nothing to do with whether or not the subject of the image could be located. --Xocolatl (talk) 20:23, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I was just trying to guess at the motivation for creating this category as I do not see much Low quality images in it. The images are mainly of suburban streets photographed on a grey or rainy day, dull subject matter maybe but not a quality issue. File names could be improved by renaming as to what is shown in the image but again not really a quality issue. I do not see what this category is trying to achieve Oxyman (talk) 23:47, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:November 2025 in Hrodna Region

Bad name Igor Tkachiov (talk) 23:08, 27 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:West Galicia (Central Europe)

Move to Western Galicia, which seems to be more common for the broad region and avoids confusion with Category:West Galicia (New Galicia). -- Themightyquill (talk) 09:11, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Primates

I just want to question the names of several subcategories here: The subcategories of this category are using both the capitalized word "Primates" (Silhouettes of Primates, Montages of Primates) and the non-capitalized version (Dead primates, Books about primates).

In my understanding, "primates" is an English word akin to "birds" or "mammals", which would not be capitalized except at the start of the category name. It is also the proper Latin name for the order, of course.

A category named "Orders of Mammalia/Aves" (Latin proper name) must be capitalized, a category named "Illustrations of mammals/birds" (English common name) must not. That means in my opinion, that all subcategories of Primates should be evaluated on which meaning is in the category name: "Families/Genera of Primates" are properly capitalized; but "Featured pictures of Primates" should be renamed to "Featured pictures of primates", because one can only photograph individual primates but not the biological concept of the order.

Compare also the respective subcategories here: Silhouettes of birds, Montages of birds, Diseases and disorders of birds, Groups of birds. Yet also Audio files of Aves, Videos of Aves. Enyavar (talk) 09:21, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Indonesian-language surnames

This is misnomer, since most of the surnames come from local languages/ethnicities of Indonesia, such that this category should be renamed something like "Surnames from Indonesia" or "Surnames of ethnicities of Indonesia". I know there are no "Surnames by country" language, but I think Indonesia is an exception (see also en:Indonesian names and en:Surnames_by_country#Indonesia), because in Indonesia there are hundreds of cultures and 700+ languages -- thus hundreds of surnames and naming conventions -- that most of them solely exist in Indonesia. These surnames are not "Indonesian language" other than they use Latin alphabets. The surnames in this category can be further separated into Batak surnames (id: id:Kategori:Marga_Batak 240 surnames), Minahasan surnames, Minang surnames, Maluku surnames, etc.

Bennylin (yes?) 10:20, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. Thank you for raising this issue. -- Iketsi (talk) 12:54, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:New Galicia

Move to Category:Nueva Galicia to avoid confusion with Category:West Galicia (New Galicia). -- Themightyquill (talk) 10:25, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Polish Uplanders (West Galicia)

Is Category:Polish Uplanders (West Galicia) redundant with Category:Walddeutsche (Polish Uplanders)? -- Themightyquill (talk) 10:27, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Software by programming language

I suggest renaming the subcategories to use "programmed in <language>" format instead of "written in <language>" in order to establish consistent naming. Category:Free software by programming language uses "programmed in" format and all categories on Wikipedia (en:Category:Software by programming language) use this format as well. Deltaspace42 (talk) 12:37, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Support makes sense. Prototyperspective (talk) 13:33, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Pubs on the Pennine Way

Overcategorisation? This is the only "x on y trail/route" type cat in Category:Pubs in England (and similiar cats eg hotels or in Scotland). Doing this for every route, where the POI/cat isn't directly relevant to the topic, seems better fitted for Wikivoyage than Commons. I propose to delete but maybe there's a cat structure like "POIs by trail" that I'm not seeing and is in scope. Tæppa (talk) 14:58, 28 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I agree this is probably overcategorisation. Crouch, Swale (talk) 13:58, 29 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Its often that there exist same Genus-Name for Plants, Animals or Fungi. So we have to create different categories for them "Brocchinia (Plant)" and "Brocchinia (Animal)" or something like that. --Botanist in Berlin (talk) 09:40, 1 February 2026 (UTC)--Botanist in Berlin (talk) 09:40, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the tip. There was already a Category:Brocchinia (gastropod), so I created Category:Brocchinia (bromeliad) with the same naming scheme, and moved content accordingly. The remaining category is now a disambig. I hope this solves the issue. --Enyavar (talk) 12:57, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

1. is it really reasonable and useful as a categorization criteria to separate whether files have been posted on YouTube (or just uploaded elsewhere) or not? 2. are the subcats really just containing files posted on YT?
I would suggest o change scope to Category:Videos by state media posted on YouTube. Btw, I wonder whether these are really all "government-owned companies" as suggested by the cats. Prototyperspective (talk) 20:25, 31 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]