Commons:Categories for discussion/2025/11

Category:Crowns in heraldry by country

Queried by User:Kontributor 2K Lobsterthermidor (talk) 20:06, 1 November 2025 (UTC) Anonymous comment added by User:Kontributor 2K: Comment added by see discussion

Anonymous comment added by User:Kontributor 2K: "see discussion"
This category has been queried by User:Kontributor 2K, firstly by removing all the contents and nominating it for rapid deletion. I changed that to Categories for discussion, which is a more usual and collaborative way of having discussions. I therefore await User:Kontributor 2K commenting here, in the proper place, about what he disagrees with about the category. Lobsterthermidor (talk) 21:15, 1 November 2025 (UTC)
Note to Kontributor 2K: please do not edit other people's comments and please do not leave anonymous comments, please sign you comments, thanksLobsterthermidor (talk) 21:15, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Ehor Kartushov

I doubt that this category is a duplicate of Category:Yehor Kartushov, so I suggest to merge these 2 categories. But as I'm no expert in transcription I do not knwo which of the two spellings is more correct. Robby (talk) 07:42, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

Merge to Category:Yehor Kartushov, since his Wikipedia article uses this spelling: en:Yehor Kartushov. Deltaspace42 (talk) 19:58, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Category:Magazine nameplates

are they different from logos? Rathfelder (talk) 18:05, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Yes, they are different and similar to newspaper nameplates.
Quote from: Category:Newspaper nameplates - "In American English, a Newspaper nameplate is a publication's designed title as it appears on the front page or cover. In the United Kingdom and many other Commonwealth nations, this is known as masthead..." (emphasis added)
See also, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/logotype Quote: "A symbol or emblem that acts as a trademark or a means of identification of an institution or other entity, usually referred to as a logo." (emphasis added) -- Ooligan (talk) 19:27, 9 November 2025 (UTC)
They dont look at all different from the logos, and the logos are used in just the same way. Rathfelder (talk) 19:34, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:King, Ingelheim

Duplicate with Category:Kultur- und Kongresshalle Ingelheim und longer name is IMO a better representation of the infrastructure. ManuelB701 (talk) 19:25, 3 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Tramway locomotives of Germany

Request to rename it to "Steam tram locomotives of Germany" since the page was originally intended to list out steam locomotives for tramways rather than any locomotive for tramways, not to mention that doing this also standardises the name with the parent company. ManuelB701 (talk) 12:05, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

1) In my opinion, the name “Steam tram locomotives of Germany” makes sense for this category. 2) But which category do other tram locomotives belong to? 3) What does “this also standardizes the name with the parent company” mean? Urmelbeauftragter (talk) 13:11, 4 November 2025 (UTC)
Ok, I've now seen the new category structure with the category Category:Tram locomotives over the categories Category:Diesel tram locomotives, Category:Electric tram locomotives and Category:Steam tram locomotives. That makes sense to me. It can stay that way. Urmelbeauftragter (talk) 13:18, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:CBS station logos

The category is empty, needs to be deleted. OWaunTon (talk) 20:23, 5 November 2025 (UTC)

  •  Comment this is a redirect to Category:Logos of CBS News local affiliates. The name of that category may not be obvious to casual users. Why does the redirect "need" to be deleted? --User:Infrogmation 21:16, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:带小型饮食柜台开放式二等座车/守车合造车

Why is it in Chinese? 192.176.230.1 08:27, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Should be moved to English category title which is more understandable. See also W214: Add machine translated category titles on WMC. Prototyperspective (talk) 17:59, 6 November 2025 (UTC)
Move; suggest the title used on en:w "Brake Standard Open (Micro-Buffet)". (I have no objection to Chinese names for Chinese specific subjects without common Western names, but as this is a type of British Rail carriage I too see no reason why this should be in Chinese.) -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 21:18, 15 November 2025 (UTC)
 Move and redirect to English name per others above. Thanks. Tvpuppy (talk) 14:56, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Fridianus churches

the cat. by country is without merit, since Fr. is venerated almost exclusively in Italy, and locations are stated in the name of each cat anyway. If there were more than a dozen churches ded. to S. Fr. I would be surprised. MenkinAlRire (talk) 19:30, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

The tree structure should be pruned leaving a single category with content. This in turn should be renamed to Category:Saint Fridianus churches. Laurel Lodged (talk) 08:23, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Conservation-restoration

Rename category to "Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage objects" to help clarify from environmental and architectural conservation-restoration Myotus (talk) 21:23, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

Wouldn't "cultural heritage" be too specific? Prototyperspective (talk) 14:24, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
That would be the point. Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage objects would then go under the Conservation-restoration category with others like Category:Architectural conservation-restoration, and Category:Wildlife conservation, Category:Ecological restoration.
As I mentioned in the other discussion, If there are photos other than cultural heritage objects, additional, more specific, subcategories can be created for them. Examples: Natural history specimens, Archaeological materials, (if deemed not cultural heritage objects) Myotus (talk) 20:21, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
? So you are suggesting a subcategory is created. You could simply create a subcategory yourself directly right away, move relevant subcats and files, and leave this category as is. Prototyperspective (talk) 22:15, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
That is what I would likely wind up doing. However, since 'Conservation-restoration' is a fairly top level category and has been been around since 2011 it is important reach out and get feedback before moving things around and changing the context of the category. While I have explained my issues and idea to change/fix them, others may have better ideas and good feed back. Myotus (talk) 01:54, 8 November 2025 (UTC)
Just to be clearer to readers:  Keep the category and don't rename it but fine with (or  Support) creating subcategories. I thought I'd oppose the name of subcat "Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage objects" because it's too specific but Category:Conservation-restoration itself has Cultural heritage set as a cat (and it's in the wikidata definition) and it could be the case that conservation-restoration is only done for cultural heritage objects instead of also other cultural objects more broadly (?). Prototyperspective (talk) 11:13, 8 November 2025 (UTC)
The whole point of categories and subcategories is ‘windowing’, or narrowing definitions, so that appropriate images are directed to the correct folder. It is intentional to make "Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage objects" specific and narrow down the photos that can be placed in it.
It may not seem like it now, but "Conservation-restoration” has become a catch-all and a jumble of images and categories. I had spent a good deal of time cleaning it up, and my reason for renaming the category is to prevent it from reverting to that condition. Myotus (talk) 13:46, 9 November 2025 (UTC)
What would be less complicated and disruptive? Renaming the folder/category “Conservation-restoration” to “Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage objects” or creating a new folder/category “Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage objects” and recreating “Conservation-restoration” as a parent folder/category that would hold “Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage objects” as well as other possible folders/categories “Architectural conservation-restoration” that would need to be moved out or created.
It seemed to me that renaming the folder would be a better approach. Myotus (talk) 14:11, 9 November 2025 (UTC)
creating a new folder/category “Conservation-restoration of cultural heritage objects” Prototyperspective (talk) 21:21, 9 November 2025 (UTC)
Sounds good. It certainly makes dealing with wikidata easier. Myotus (talk) 21:37, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Restoration

Rename category to "Restoration of cultural heritage objects" to help clarify from environmental and architectural restoration Myotus (talk) 21:32, 6 November 2025 (UTC)

  • Support per nom.
Laurel Lodged (talk) 08:25, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
Rethinking this a bit after drilling down and looking at all of Restoration’s sub-categories. It might be easier to rename it Architectural Restoration as most of the sub categories deal with the restoration of buildings, structures, and archaeological ruins. A new category Restoration of cultural heritage objects would then be created and appropriate categories and images moved into it. Myotus (talk) 13:18, 9 November 2025 (UTC)
Rethinking again... This is a quagmire. feh. Under "Restoration" is "Restoration of objects (22 C)"
"Architectural restoration (3 C, 1 F)" and "Restorers (24 C, 54 F)". Many of these are then repeated in subcategories like Category:Restoration in France. It may be better to rename "Restoration" to "Restoration (Cultural heritage)" or create it as a new category under "Restoration" and move all the qualifying files to it. 16:21, 11 November 2025 (UTC) Myotus (talk) 16:21, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
 Strong support for rename into "Restoration of cultural heritage" or similar. Taylor 49 (talk) 14:06, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Entertainment by object

what's the best/correct name for this? I thought about 'Entertainment by object or subject' but that's not good enough either. Prototyperspective (talk) 12:01, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

But also: what is the intended scope of this? How are "nudity" and "whitewashing" objects? (The latter, Category:Whitewashing (entertainment), may not even be a coherent category in its own right.) - Jmabel ! talk 7 November 2025 (UTC)
One could say 'by topic' but this isn't really about topics but about things in entertainment. I don't know what the best way to phrase this is. Objects in the abstract sense but the name should probably be changed. 'Entertainment by phenomena' also wouldn't be good. By the way, whatever you did to your signature, it breaks the Reply tool so one can't click reply. --Prototyperspective (talk) 23:02, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Audio files of the United States

separate from US & about the US? Prototyperspective (talk) 12:48, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Museum storage

Is this category redunant and vague? What is its usage? Myotus (talk) 14:14, 7 November 2025 (UTC)

 Keep see the description in the Wikidata infobox location where items from a museum's collection are kept when not on display. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:24, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
It appears to have become a vague slush pile. I have created the categories Collection storage by museum and Storage of cultural heritage objects. The first focuses on the collection storage at specific museum institutions (ideally, this should only include subcategories or at least photos with the institution identified), and the second focuses on the storage of 'cultural heritage objects' and then breaks down the ways cultural heritage objects are stored. The focus on cultural heritage objects means that non-museum institutions (such as libraries, universities, and governmental departments) that collect cultural heritage objects but do not operate a museum can have their collection storage photos added as well. Myotus (talk) 14:29, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
'Museum storage' may be better as a redirect to Storage of cultural heritage objects. Myotus (talk) 14:31, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
Cultural heritage refers to physical artifact or intangible attribute of a society inherited from past generations but museums aren't just about / don't just contain such objects but also other objects. The current categorization is false. Collection storage by museum seems like it would be a space-sorted subcategory of this one or not? Prototyperspective (talk) 15:08, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
Not every museum has a collection. For instance, many children’s museums or commercial museums, like the Museum of Ice Cream, focus on interactive or educational experiences instead of maintaining collections. On the other hand, many other institutions—like archives, libraries, cultural centers, and private collections—protect and preserve cultural heritage materials even though they are not museums.
Because of these differences, the current way of categorizing collection storage seems intentional rather than incorrect. It aims to shift the focus from museums as organizations to the collections themselves as the main part of cultural heritage work.Myotus (talk) 18:32, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
The Collection storage by museum category is similar to other Wikimedia Commons location based categories such as Chinese sculptures by museum, Mexican sculptures by museum,
Italian etchings by museum, etc...
If there are photos of storage at museums showing other than cultural heritage objects, additional, more specific, storage subcategories can be created for them. Examples: Archival items, Administrative supplies, Research materials Equipment and even Natural history specimens, Archaeological materials, if deemed not cultural heritage objects Myotus (talk) 20:00, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
This isn't the subject of this cat and also one may not know. I don't see why that not every museum has a collection is relevant here. This cat is simply about museum storage such as how it looks like, techniques etc and subcategories could be created as adequate. Prototyperspective (talk) 22:19, 7 November 2025 (UTC)
@Prototyperspectivey: If I understand you, you are saying the category, "Collection storage by museum" is not relevant to the category, "Museum storage."
The importance here is two-fold, first "Museum storage" is treated as a top level catch-all for all storage. "Storage of cultural heritage objects" was a parent category. The category Museum storage and Archives storage were just about the only subcategories listed until I created the following subcategories:
  • Clothing racks of cultural heritage objects
  • Cold storage of cultural heritage objects
  • Collection storage work space
  • Compact shelving storage of cultural heritage objects
  • Enclosed shelving storage of cultural heritage objects
  • File cabinet storage of cultural heritage objects
  • Four Post (static) shelving storage of cultural heritage objects
  • Heavy duty shelving storage of cultural heritage objects
  • Open storage of cultural heritage objects
  • Rolled storage of cultural heritage objects
  • Steel wire shelving storage of cultural heritage objects
  • Vertical storage of cultural heritage objects
  • Visible storage of cultural heritage objects
  • Workers and visitors in collections storage (6 F)
This lead to Museum storage being a dumping ground with little to no organization of the photos added.
Second, by adding the previous subcategory it made the "Storage of cultural heritage objects" subcategory "Museum storage" if not irrelevant, definitely out of place and addition of "of cultural heritage objects" on the subcategories helps keep the focus on cultural heritage institutions and not grouped in with storage photos from, say, fast food restaurants or photos of hoarder's houses.
If I understand both our positions this is how the hierarchy of the categories would playout for both of us:

USER: Myotus
Storage of cultural heritage objects
↓
  • Cold storage of cultural heritage objects
  • Clothing racks of cultural heritage objects
  • etc...

  • Collection storage by museum
  • Collection storage by library
  • Collection storage by university or college

USER: Prototyperspective
Storage of cultural heritage objects
↓
Museum storage
↓
  • Cold storage
  • Clothing racks
  • etc...
Library storage
↓
  • Cold storage
  • Clothing racks
  • etc...
University or college storage
↓
  • Cold storage
  • Clothing racks
  • etc...
Myotus (talk) 03:01, 8 November 2025 (UTC)
  • No, I didn't say that. I meant it would do for a good subcategory.
  • "Storage of cultural heritage objects" is again too narrow as it's only about "cultural heritage". The subcats you suggested such as libraries don't even fit there in full.
  • What you wrote underneath "USER: Prototyperspective" makes this whole discussion much more clearer imo than your previous comments. Maybe one could start with "Storage of cultural objects"->"Museum storage" and you could create additional subcategories of these two categories as you see fit without needing a CfD.
Prototyperspective (talk) 11:08, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

@Prototyperspectivey: I do not see evidence to support the need for that classification. There are no examples of museum storage other than 3D Collections and Archives. On the other hand, there appears to be overwhelming evidence to build the classification on 3D Collections and Archives rather than Institutions. I understand that “Museum storage” works well in the common vernacular, but that is precisely the issue. “Museum storage” had become a dumping ground for photos for those who did not care about or understand the importance of metadata.

The category “Museum storage” is helpful to keep around, as it will be easily recognizable as a category to those searching and looking to add photos of collection storage with no intention to look for more detailed and nuanced categories. The only issue is that the photos in “Museum storage” would need to be added to other, more specific categories from time to time. Myotus (talk) 16:57, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Here is a suggestion for the category hierarchy:
Storage
↓
Storage of cultural heritage objects
↓
Storage by institution
↓
Museum storage

  • Collection storage by museum
  • Archival storage by museum


Library storage

  • Collection storage by library
  • Archival storage by library


University or college storage

  • Collection storage by university or college
  • Archival storage by university or college

Myotus (talk) 17:12, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Museum storage is underneath Storage of cultural heritage objects but
  1. Not all cultural objects in museum may be cultural heritage
  2. Not all museums store just cultural objects – many also store fossils, meteoroids, etc
The current structure thus makes more sense so far. Prototyperspective (talk) 21:28, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Roman Catholic bishops of England

Category:Law gazettes

How are gazettes different from Law journals? Rathfelder (talk) 13:59, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Dagupan Street corner Mercado Street, Jose Basa Street, Gabriela Street, Fullon Street, Cabesas Street, Bucaneg Street and Arqueros Street, Tondo, Manila

Empty cat since 2016. Can't see the point in having it. Added by a banned sock. Nominate for deletion. Acabashi (talk) 15:34, 8 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Birds by year

I don't understand the background of the entire category branch. What distinguishes a bird from 2012 from a bird from 2025? And then further divided by months? I would strongly advocate for emptying and deleting these categories. Lukas Beck (talk) 10:45, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

 Support deletion, per nom. No use whatsoever. — Yerpo Eh? 18:44, 22 November 2025 (UTC)
 Strong support Delete it and and all similar categories (e.g. sunrises, trees, food etc). They are useless, superfluous and a waste of time and space. --Joanbanjo (talk) 02:01, 5 January 2026 (UTC)
 Support. Delete similar categories as well. Deltaspace42 (talk) 20:07, 8 January 2026 (UTC)
 Delete not useful. Prototyperspective (talk) 17:05, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Category:Anomaly

Is a parent of, but duplicates, Category:Anomalies. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:23, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

 Keep Maximum redirect to Category:Anomaly (disambiguation) but I think the category is currently useful for many categories like

and else. Wikidata infox links to many Wikipedia pages in several languages. This is an important concept. -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:30, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

This does not address the redundancy with the plural category. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:05, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
Well, it is like Photography / Photographs or Language / Languages. -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:56, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
It is not. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:21, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
🙈 :-) Basile Morin (talk) 22:47, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
I have no idea what that miniscule collection of pixels is supposed to mean. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:08, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
🙈 :-) Basile Morin (talk) 23:02, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Anomaly is the concept that contains adjectives or notions like Exceeding or Abnormal psychology. While Anomalies contains elements that are themselves anomalies. Same as Photography = concept, and Photographs = materials.

Pigsonthewing, I think you should not empty the categories before starting a discussion. I kindly remind you that the template you've added says "Please do not make major changes to this category (or to categories and pages related to this discussion), or remove this notice until the discussion has been closed". Otherwise it's so easy to make everyone adopt your point of view, just because the subcategories have been moved or deleted. Example: Abnormal psychology you move from Anomaly to Anomalies at 16:27 on November 9, 2025, just 4 minutes after you start this discussion at 16:23. Hmm :-) Basile Morin (talk) 02:17, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

The template does indeed say "Please do not make major changes". It does not say "Please do not make any changes".
Correctly recategorising a single member category, such as I did with Category:Abnormal psychology, is not a "major" change. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:05, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
Not "correctly", very incorrectly, and not "a single member category". You're certainly aware of the mass changes you've done here with so many categories moved or deleted or nominated for discussion. And you're certainly aware that Abnormal psychology or Pathology belong to Category:Anomaly, as part of this discussion (before the result) more than Category:Anomalies. Like Photorealism belongs to Painting more than Paintings, unless you completely empty Painting and then nominate it for discussion pretending "it is a parent of, but duplicates" of Paintings.
Well, at this point, just go ahead and use {{Empty category}}. Faster like that :-) Basile Morin (talk) 23:02, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
"And you're certainly aware..." Please do not attempt to speak for me; you appear woefully incapable of doing so correctly. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:52, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
Health psychology is part of Health, more than Health problems.
Family therapy is part of Family, more than Families.
Motivation is part of Emotion, more than Emotions. -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:29, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Norm

Duplicates, and is a parent of Category:Norms (also Category:Normality) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:29, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

 Keep We have Category:Norm (disambiguation) but Norm is useful for

The Wikidata infobox links to 9 Wikipedia articles. -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:56, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

That appears to be a random collection of unconnected things. But even if not, how are they "Norm", but not "Norms"?
How is "Norm" useful for "Anomaly", etc?
If "Normality" belongs in either category (which is highly questionable), why does it belong in "Norm" and not "Norms"? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:25, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
Why does Photojournalism belong to Photography and not Photographs? Why Vocabulary belong to Language and not Languages? Conformity or Normality certainly belong to Norm more than Norms. -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:49, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Unusual fonts

Utterly subjective Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:40, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

 Delete/ Merge needs to be merged/moved/replaced/deleted in place of cat(s) that are more specific/descriptive. Prototyperspective (talk) 17:07, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

 Comment "Utterly subjective" as the Category:Unusually shaped vegetables you created. Or like Unusual dates, Unusual numbers, or Lists of things considered unusual :-) Basile Morin (talk) 03:39, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

 Info "A display typeface is a typeface that is intended for use in display type (display copy) at large sizes for titles, headings, pull quotes, and other eye-catching elements, rather than for extended passages of body text." -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:38, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Snippets

1. unclear what this is about 2. contains almost no files (2 files and 1 subcat which has quite some images but with unclear relation) 3. paper products cat seems dubious Prototyperspective (talk) 20:53, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

1. What this is about?
A snippet is literally a small piece of paper torn out of a document, similar to newspaper clippings, magazine clippings or press cuttings.
The German Wikipedia describes the metaphorical use of the word in the Snippet article:
  • Snippet (music), a compilation of song excerpts in hip-hop
  • a short piece of source code
  • A short text excerpt from a website, displayed in the results list of a search engine (e.g. the “snippet view” in Google Books).
2. Contains almost no files
Further files and subcategories can easily be added.
de:Schnipsel
3. Paper products cat seems dubious
This allegedly dubious category is related to the literal sense of the German word de:Schnipsel
4. Disambiguition or redirect
Snippets are generally torn by hand, while clippings are cut with a pair of scissors. A category redirect from Category:Snippets to Category:Clippings might be an acceptable solution, if requested by a third party. However, please note that Wikidata (Q357274) shows five interwiki links to snippet.
NearEMPTiness (talk) 01:40, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanations; I think a cat by that name should be a disambig page. Prototyperspective (talk) 01:22, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
Yes, this makes sense, but I do not know, how to do this. Anyone may go ahead with creating either a disambig page or a redirect, unless this new category is populated with a lot of files, which do not fit other categories. So far, there is no need for urgency, from my point of view. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 04:13, 12 November 2025 (UTC)
Completed: I have added {{disambig}}, and close the discussion. NearEMPTiness (talk) 03:42, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
Thanks! Disambig cats should not contain subcategories or files so these also need to be disambiguated before this is done. I agree that this can be closed when this is done. Prototyperspective (talk) 10:50, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Videos from Sun

these cats should be called of the Sun Prototyperspective (talk) 21:46, 9 November 2025 (UTC)

Seems like the categories have been added automatically to the files by OptimusPrimeBot at the upload stage. @Don-vip: could you take a brief look at this? ReneeWrites (talk) 21:14, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
It's because I use Template:Taken on with location=Sun. The template was created with countries in mind, although it works pretty well with ISS for astronaut pictures and Mars for rover pictures. I don't know what would be the best way to deal with Sun categories. vip (talk) 21:25, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for the explanation. It's good that this has been taken of via a workaround. Nevertheless, this should at some point and maybe at low priority be changed to make the category be "Videos of the Sun". Probably it needs a template edit and maybe this should be requested at Commons:Template requests. Prototyperspective (talk) 22:44, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Unusually shaped fruits

Category created by User:Pigsonthewing along with Category:Unusually shaped vegetables but Pigsonthewing finds the category:Unusual fonts "utterly subjective" (here). Please explain what's the difference? The current parent category is Category:fruits by shape, ok but please explain what is special in this shape? Is it for example rare or unusual ? Basile Morin (talk) 04:19, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

This is—very obviously—a parent for the pre-existing Category:Unusually shaped tomatoes and Category:Unusually shaped strawberries.
There doesn't seem to be any action proposed here. I suggest this discussion be closed or, if the OP is still confused, moved to the category talk page. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 10:57, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
You created the category, then please wait for other opinions.
Unusually shaped fruits is as "subjective" as Unusual fonts or Unusual shaped glasses, right? -- Basile Morin (talk) 01:03, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
I have no need to "wait for other opinions"; I am entitled as anyone to comment here. Indeed, I note that you left a message about (and linking to) this discussion on my talk page, in which you said "We would appreciate it if you could go to voice your opinion about this at its entry."
Unusually shaped fruits is no more subjective than "Unusually shaped tomatoes" or "Unusually shaped strawberries.", with which, I note, you have not taken issue. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:16, 1 December 2025 (UTC)
As a photographer of unusually shaped fruits, such as bananas uploaded here by myself in 2017, this category concerns me. However, given that other, very similar categories are considered "utterly subjective", I would like to receive other opinions, to be sure that the choice of title is good. -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:35, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

 Question Is this category appropriate for Category:Conjoined fruits, for example? -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:35, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

 Info Wikipedia article Unusually shaped fruits and vegetables exists in 5 languages. Would it be useful to follow the same name, so as to include a consistent wikidata infobox in the larger category? -- Basile Morin (talk) 02:41, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Category:Grüngürtel-Promenade (Mainz-Oberstadt)

Renaming Grüngürtel-Promenade to Wallgrünanlagen under the reason that this is how the city's website calls it ManuelB701 (talk) 04:48, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Oddities

Synonymous with and redundant to Category:Curiosities (of which it is a parent) and or Category:Novelties. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:03, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

 Comment All three of these categories are poorly defined; their current usage seems to amount to things that an editor thought were subjectively strange or amusing. I'm not sure if there's any objective way these can be defined. Omphalographer (talk) 04:18, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Exiting

Close synonym of and redundant to Category:Exits, of which it is currently a parent category. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:11, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. I think, Category:Exiting is "motion (moment) of people, animals, machines", Category:Exits is the "place". --Benzoyl (talk) 21:13, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
Why is your former example not also categorised as "Walking". Or "Wearing coats"? "Breathing"? "Existing"? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:12, 11 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Masies in els Guiamets

This category should be deleted because it already exists with a slightly different name Masquer11 (talk) 21:42, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Night photography

should this maybe be renamed or the whole Night cat be added to it or something else? A.Savin removed this cat from Category:Nature at night saying in Special:Diff/1114321113 --not limited to photography. However, at the same time this cat has Category:Night cityscapes which I mentioned and which isn't removed. It even has the Category:Videos of night as a subcat. What should be done? Maybe it needs a broader discussion about photography by genre subcategories at some other place? Prototyperspective (talk) 23:17, 12 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:1580s maps of Franche-Comté

This one, and all other decade-categories of France-Comté are at the current stage/amount of available maps: Excessive. There was no reason to atomize the century-collection by decade, especially given how many maps from the 16th and 17th century were reprints of earlier maps, often created decades ago.

The split results in single-file categories which makes handling the maps impossible. Best regards, Enyavar (talk) 14:22, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

I agree with Enyavar. - Jmabel ! talk 18:59, 13 November 2025 (UTC)
I'm going to add some other examples: 1800s maps of Tyrol (state), 1760s maps of Innsbruck, 1920s maps of Bourgogne, 1840s maps of Yonne, 1870s maps of Haute-Saône, 1780s maps of Landkreis Heilbronn...
I do love some order in the maps categories, but could we first try to find enough maps per century, before we subdivide into decades and years? Best, --Enyavar (talk) 11:32, 14 November 2025 (UTC)
Agree- the creator has a pattern of such atomosation. Someone needs to have a quiet word with him. Laurel Lodged (talk) 11:28, 21 February 2026 (UTC)

Category:Magazines of the United Kingdom by year

Can we take Great Britain out of the template after 1801? Rathfelder (talk) 14:30, 13 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Family

Duplicates Category:Families, to which it is also a parent. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:42, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

 Keep It seems clear to me that Family is the notion, the concept, while Families focuses on the families themselves, their names, their classifications, etc. -- Basile Morin (talk) 13:27, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

The application of the two categories appears to be completely arbitrary, and does not support this hypothesis. For example, "Family graves" is in "Family", but "Family restaurants" is in "Families". "Family portraits" is in "Family", but "Family albums" is in "Families". "Godchildren" is in "Family", but an image of an anonymous baptism, File:Baptism Day.jpg, is in "Families". Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:02, 14 November 2025 (UTC)
Very logical like that, and not "arbitrary". The vast majority of these subcategories are correctly classified. A few ones could be improved, as always, but the distinction has been remarkably managed by the participants, in my opinion. Childhood, Family by religion, Family by country, Categories by family, Adoption, Family in art, Cohabitation, Family-owned companies, Divorce, Domestic violence, Family economics, Fiction about family, Genealogy, etc. It really makes sense in this box, and more than in Families. -- Basile Morin (talk) 16:03, 15 November 2025 (UTC)
 Keep per Basile Morin. Deltaspace42 (talk) 15:51, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Category:Guilt

Duplicates Category:Guilt (emotion) (note that it is categorised under Category:Emotions), to which it is also a parent. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:46, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Joyama Kofun Group

Move to proper spelling "Jōyama Kofun Group " Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 17:01, 14 November 2025 (UTC)

  •  SupportI agree with the proposal.--Halowand (talk) 15:37, 15 November 2025 (UTC)
 Oppose I don't see any compelling reason to move. Joyama and Jōyama are both correct spelling, and we don't have the basis to decide whichever is more "proper". Yasu (talk) 14:58, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Humor

I think the "Emotion" category should not be set on this whole large cat but a more specific cat, such as e.g. "Humor in psychology" or "Humor and emotions" (the cat may need to be created). Special:Diff/1115657373 Prototyperspective (talk) 20:16, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:High school marching bands in the United States

More specifically the various subcategores - once again a matter of confusion/misuse of the simple English words like "in" "from" "of". High school marching bands very commonly travel to perform at events away from their home school. (For example File:Thoth Parade 2005 New Orleans - School Marching Band on Magazine Street.jpg shows a high school band from Chicago, in New Orleans.) The subcategories were "in" only, although a a large number, probably a majority, of the photos were actually placed relevant to "from". So made what I thought was a good start at cleanup, creating a series of "in" categories and cleaning up where many of the images were placed. I posted an explanation at the category talk page Category talk:High school marching bands in the United States. User @Spatms: unilaterally merged back and tagged the categories created for deletion once emptied. I asked on their talk page what was going on, and got no response for a week. As can be seen on the category talk page linked, Spatms not only disagreed with my work but expressed some negative opinions of me (I was previously unaware that we were not on cordial terms). The most useful categorization seems to me to be accurate use of clear simple English words, but apparently there is disagreement about my perspective so I request feedback from others. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 20:31, 15 November 2025 (UTC)

To me, "in" and "from" both seem potentially useful. - Jmabel ! talk 23:15, 15 November 2025 (UTC)
Agree, and that's what I was trying to set up. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 23:51, 15 November 2025 (UTC)
I haven't take a photo of a high school band in a state besides there they're from. Wish there was a way to categorize a photo of band from a state that's in their own state at the same time without having two categories. But, I'm all for having "in" and "from". Mjrmtg (talk) 21:09, 16 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Looks like the discussion is currently stale, but the 2 other regulars who commented agree with me that "in" and "from" (which do not mean the same thing) categories can both be useful. @Spatms: do you still object, and if so, can you please explain why? Thanks. -- Infrogmation of New Orleans (talk) 21:53, 7 February 2026 (UTC)

Category:Fungus diagrams

I believe this category should either be merged into or placed as a subcategory of Category:Fungal morphology and anatomy as both categories have a really similar scope and images. It's moon (talk) 23:00, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

 Oppose There can be diagrams of fungi that are neither about their morphology nor anatomy. Haven't checked the cat so far whether there are (m)any of these but the mentioned cat should just be a subcat of this category and all files and subcats that belong into it be bulk moved into it.
For example, there can be a diagram explaining how fungi is turned into a meat substitute or clothing. Prototyperspective (talk) 23:08, 17 November 2025 (UTC)
Thanks for the comment. Just to be clear, which one of the two do you believe should become a subcat of the other? It's moon (talk) 03:01, 19 November 2025 (UTC)
Fungal morphology and anatomy to be a subcategory of Fungus diagrams. However, I think this should only be done if that category only contains diagrams (1 exception file at most) and otherwise would need a subcategory like Category:Fungal morphology and anatomy diagrams. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:42, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Deaths by gunshot by country

"Deaths by firearm" seems like a more accurate name Trade (talk) 22:36, 18 November 2025 (UTC)

 Move per nom. Prototyperspective (talk) 17:09, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

Category:Polandball

Should this category be a redirect to category:Countryballs (Poland) (since the character is called Polandball) or category:Countryballs (which as a work is frequently just called “Polandball”)? Dronebogus (talk) 02:41, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Crimes against women

the cat misses most files and also 'Female genital mutilation' is a subcat here but doing this is not a crime in many countries while it certainly should be so – I think the cat probably creates more challenges and problems than iits usefulness but this is a discussion where these things could be solved. Alternatively, the cat could be deleted for now. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:48, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Neutral for now. Maybe there is a better (and better-defined) term for what the category means to cover, possibly one used by the UN or some other international organization? I understand the general intent, but not at all the boundaries of the category. - Jmabel ! talk 22:14, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Deaths by country

either rename to human deaths by country and match the subcats or remove category Category:People by country but not keep both Prototyperspective (talk) 01:03, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

Disagree. I can't imagine anyone failing to understand what the category is about. It's not dead flowers, it's not dead insects, it's not dead dreams. - Jmabel ! talk 21:58, 20 November 2025 (UTC)
It's factually false. It is a matter of fact that deaths of nonhuman animals in countries are Deaths by country. If this is specific to humans, it needs to be in the title. And that's all that needs to be said about your comment really. And categories generally do not / must not use metaphorical terms but the scientifically accurate ones so this is about biological death, not about metaphorical deaths of dreams. Simply see Death – Death is the end of life, the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.. Prototyperspective (talk) 14:41, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
Should have mentioned that for example Category:Animal deaths by year cats are long part of these cats. The only reason for why People by country etc cats are set at the high-level cats is because the people files and subcats have not been subcategorized and because so many files are about people the cat should be included in the People by country cat even if not accurate. Prototyperspective (talk) 23:17, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
 Comment Does this even make sense as a Commons category? The vast majority of subcategories aren't actually of or about deaths; they're people who have since died, and usually don't contain any media related to that event. Omphalographer (talk) 20:45, 21 November 2025 (UTC)
I very much think it does. It's a fair question though and an important one. It would make sense to separate the branch about people by year of death from the Death category where new subcategories are created that contain things like File:Top causes of early deaths globally by number in 2019, Our World in Data treemap.png and File:Share-deaths-air-pollution (OWID 0935).png in between photos of people who died at a certain time. Having these people by year of deaths cats is useful, one could explore who died during a certain period or use it for filtering and searching and for various applications and purposes that one can't even all anticipate/know.
This is similar to how the birth-related cats are now with people by year of birth separated from the categories about parturition, birthday celebration, birth complications, etc. Basically, it would be useful if, if one viewed a deepcategory viewmode of the category, in the Death category there are only files about the subject of death like statistics of deaths, funerals, graveyards, etc. Prototyperspective (talk) 23:22, 21 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Marina Aleksandrova smiling

Presumably an earlier form of the issue at revert: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27_noticeboard/User_problems#User%3A%7E2025-32925-15. Almost certainly one user with lots of socks micro-categorizing images of young women of a certain "type" by body parts, facial expressions, etc. Jmabel ! talk 00:09, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

 Comment - Category:Smiling women by name is an established category, so this category isn't entirely without precedent. Omphalographer (talk) 20:55, 23 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Église de Serre-Eyraud

Erreur de désignation (Bad name) : chapelle et non église Fr.Latreille (talk) 17:47, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

L'intitulé correct devrait être Chapelle de Serre-Eyraud, ou Chapelle Saint-Martin de Serre-Eyraud (nom figurant au répertoire Mérimée). Désolé, c'est moi qui ai fait l'erreur. Fr.Latreille (talk) 17:50, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:College of The Bahamas

in 2016 this institution reformed as the University of The Bahamas. Move to Category:University of The Bahamas. Top level citation for this is University of The Bahamas Act, 2016 (Q136957421), also verified at https://www.ub.edu.bs/about-ub/ub-act-charter-statutes/ and https://www.ub.edu.bs/about-us-2/history/ . There were remnants of the old name on English Wikipedia and Wikidata which I changed today, and I am trying to correct this through the wiki platform. Bluerasberry (talk) 21:16, 24 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Daedalea quercina

Daedalea quercina was the official binomial name for the mushroom species until 2024. This name is now obsolete, and this mushroom is now identified as Fomitopsis quercina. We have a new category, Fomitopsis quercina, but they are the same taxon. This needs to be merged and corrected, and the old category should be left as a redirect category only. George Chernilevsky talk 10:22, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

 Support per nomination. Deltaspace42 (talk) 21:38, 8 January 2026 (UTC)

Category:Flour massacre

terrible name: undescriptive and misleading/ambiguous – please either implement the category title that got consensus in the prior CfD or combine both into for example Category:Flour massacre on Al-Rashid Street, Gaza Strip. Also I don't think the outcome of a CfD should be overruled like this – instead better to require a new CfD for a deviation from it, not the other way around. Also note that many of the WP articles have another title like ga:Sléacht Al-Rashid and pt:Massacre de Al-Rashid and we're at Commons under no obligation to redo any flawed/suboptimal choices Wikipedia did. Prototyperspective (talk) 17:00, 25 November 2025 (UTC)

Pinging all participants of the prior CfD: @ReneeWrites, The Squirrel Conspiracy, Stemoc, Laurel Lodged, Abzeronow, RoyZuo, and Yacàwotçã: Prototyperspective (talk) 17:02, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
The name "Flour Massacre" is well-supported by English-speaking sources, which is why I decided to keep this name rather than change it back to Category:Al-Rashid massacre; it wasn't based on personal preference, nor on simply following enWiki, but the fact that, if Commons is using primarily English names, this appears to be the commonly used English name for the event (one adopted by English-speaking media, but coined by the Palestinians).
I don't find the argument that it is "undescriptive, misleading, or ambiguous" very persuasive, given that historical or political events can be known by names that are metaphorical or symbolic (such as Kristallnacht, the Salt March or the Orange Revolution). The use of an abstraction in a name is not unusual.
So my vote is to  Keep the current category name per established English usage (although it should be "Flour Massacre" with an uppercase M). That being said, if a clear consensus emerges to move it to "Al-Rashid massacre", I wouldn't strongly oppose that either. ReneeWrites (talk) 18:17, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
The name "Flour Massacre" is well-supported by English-speaking sources Doesn't overrule a CfD outcome and also doesn't mean that this needs to be the cat title and doesn't address the issues addressed here plus as explained that could become part of the title. Prototyperspective (talk) 20:01, 25 November 2025 (UTC)
I still prefer "Al-Rashid massacre", Flour massacre is not a good name for the event. I also believe we shouldn't center what English sources say, but rather what the Arabic-speaking sources would call it and localize that for English. I will also note that Reichspogramnacht is more of a preferred term for the event that many still call in English Kristallnacht. Abzeronow (talk) 01:02, 26 November 2025 (UTC)
  • Hilariously the Hebrew wiki calls it the "humanitarian aid disaster", refuse to acknowledge the word massacre and i find the term "Flour Massacre" insulting...arabic wiki calls it a massacre, so does the farsi one, all other wiki some variation of the term massacre as enwiki's renaming has forced a few others to rebrand with "Flour" as a title, I personally would continue with the "Al-Rashid massacre" as well cause the Palestinian people there were seeking food aid, and not just flour so to assert it to a certain food only is insulting cause they were also seeking other food and water..lets not follow what enwiki does, they are very biased, no one there requested a name move to "Massacre" early on, they used the weaker term "killing" thus why this name was not passed, but we aren't biased, i'd stick with "Al-Rashid Massacre" too cause after a few months of investigation, and multiple reports after that of IDF soldiers intentionally firing and killing people seeking aid for months afterwards proves to be just that...--Stemoc 04:39, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Junkyard tornado

This category contains only a public statue of a person, and no content related to this topic. --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:02, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

 Delete I see no need for this as a Commons category. - Jmabel ! talk 04:30, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

Category:Tropical Depression Eighteen-E (2025)

Delete this empty category as TD-18-E became Tropical Storm Sonia. Drdpw (talk) 18:30, 26 November 2025 (UTC)

Withdrawn due to inaction; I will simply redirect the category. Drdpw (talk) 21:17, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Category:Dahlta Total Station

Zeiss Dahlta is not a total station, images are now in the correct category Zeiss Dahlta 020. Please delete this empty category. Gampe (talk) 10:30, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Percy John Smith

I'd prefer that this category was moved to Percy John Delf Smith or Percy Delf Smith. (He took his wife's surname after marrying his wife, botanist Marion Delf, see e.g. his signature bottom left.) My feeling is that most sources mention him under this name and his books were published under this name. It's also more distinguishable as there are a lot of people named Percy Smith. Blythwood (talk) 15:04, 27 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Coats of arms of Huyn van Amstenrade family

should be merged with Category:Coat of arms of Huyn family GerritR (talk) 20:31, 28 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Photographs of human feet by Lupus in Saxonia

Yet another vanity category by User:Lupus in Saxonia Dronebogus (talk) 01:55, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Art pictures by street photographers in Berlin

Unnecessary vanity category for User:Lupus in Saxonia Dronebogus (talk) 01:58, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Master (BDSM)

This is a valid category concept but as it stands it’s yet another vanity/exhibitionist category by User:Lupus in Saxonia; it and all its subcategories are entirely populated by their low-quality COM:PORN/“art” photography. The category, subcats, and most of the images need to go and if a substantial number of valid images can be found the base cat can be recreated Dronebogus (talk) 02:03, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

 Support Lukas Beck (talk) 09:19, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Category:Art pictures by street photographers in Dresden

Useless category almost entirely populated by one user’s work Dronebogus (talk) 02:21, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Ali (Toki Pona)

I genuinely do not know if this one actually warrants its own category. Might be best to just upmerge Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (please tag me) 09:55, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

Category:Fascism in India

The category currently only has a single entry, and it really doesn't seem like it is going to be expanded anytime soon. It'd be better to move its sole subcategory to the broader Fascism category. — EarthDude (wanna talk?) 20:20, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

 Comment — Unfortunately, only Hindutva is considered "fascism" in India by non-right media, and I can't find any other example of fascism in India. Also, Category:Hindutva can be merged with Category:Hindu nationalism as redundant. Sbb1413 (he) (talk • contribs • uploads) 07:54, 5 December 2025 (UTC)
Yes, I agree with the deletion of this category. However, I think it would be reductive to merge Category:Hindutva with Category:Hindu nationalism. Hindu nationalism is far broader and includes a lot of movements and figures which have nothing to do with Hindutva, which is a very specific political ideology. — EarthDude (wanna talk?) 07:15, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
I disagree with @Sbb1413 here. Modern day Hindutva is just a political ideology. Hindu nationalism is much broader. There are some overlaps bcoz of some common issues. That's it. Shaan SenguptaTalk 07:26, 14 December 2025 (UTC)
true, merging Category:Hindutva and Category:Hindu nationalism make no sense to me. As long as this category serves a purpose (and doesn't go empty), I'd disagree with deletion. signed, Aafi (talk) 17:54, 9 March 2026 (UTC)