follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus. Shortcuts WP:OVERCATWP:OVERCAT WP:OCATWP:OCAT WP:OCWP:OC...

 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT. Only three articles, unlikely to expand Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw...

The following was originally posted to the discussion page of WP:OCAT as a personal short essay explaining handling the subdividing Category:People from...

in a category instead.--JForget 23:14, 23 August 2007 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCAT - "Non-notable intersections by religion" Corpx 01:36, 24 August 2007 (UTC)...

principle of performer-by-performance OCAT. Otto4711 (talk) 16:52, 1 July 2009 (UTC) There is a place for OCAT, but the persistent abuse of a potentially...

retained, which IMO trumps any race/ethnicity argument. Please read WP:OCAT#SMALL and WP:OCAT#NARROW, which is a more relevant policy than some bogus race vs...

preferred method for these: see WP:OCAT#Award recipients. Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:59, 18 February 2009 (UTC) Delete per nom, OCAT, and many recent precedents...

better suited as a category (which some even in that case may consider as WP:OCAT). MuZemike (talk) 06:10, 24 August 2008 (UTC) This is nonsense, you cannot...

John Vandenberg (chat) 23:00, 30 January 2010 (UTC) Delete. Yet more WP:OCAT by century. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 03:34, 31 January 2010...

be the right term here, this is a pretty good example of why we have WP:OCAT#EGRS. Two entries in this category. Neither seem to apply well (One famous...

logs) Nominator's rationale: Eponymous categories are discouraged per WP:OCAT. So far, only one page has been categorized here, and that is an image. I...

this page.‎ The result was Delete. 1st-AFD is not a vote; 2nd-we have a WP:OCAT that guides us to "Avoid intersections of two traits that are unrelated,...

| history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete. Per WP:OCAT#Award. Another prestigious award to receive that is non-defining, and more...

directly states that these particular ethnicity/politician categories are WP:OCAT and should not exist in their current state. Furthermore, these categories...

article or merge the cast list into the main article for the show. See WP:OCAT for why cast lists should not be done as categories. Dugwiki 16:00, 10 July...

particularly satisfied with the language at the top of WP:OCAT or at WP:OCAT#Award winners; the general OCAT language refers to "existing guidelines and previous...

for a long time (>3 years) with many edits, it remains a mess. It fails WP:OCAT. It lumps together a heterogeneous mix of conditions – from urban myths with...

watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Uneeded eponyomous category, per WP:OCAT. Lugnuts (talk) 08:57, 8 August 2009 (UTC) Delete - small eponymous category...

article or merge the cast list into the main article for the show. See WP:OCAT for why cast lists should not be done as categories. Dugwiki 16:00, 10 July...

how it is that "Cat:Songs covered by Artist Xyz" is OCAT,but "Cat:Songs by Artist Xyz" is not OCAT? I'm having a hard time seeing any real difference....

already deleted: This just seems to be a continuation. WP:NOT, WP:TRIVIA, WP:OCAT#byethnicity all apply. Bulldog123 (talk) 02:12, 13 September 2008 (UTC) Note:...

article or merge the cast list into the main article for the show. See WP:OCAT for why cast lists should not be done as categories. Dugwiki 16:02, 10 July...

CHAMPION (talk) (contributions) (logs) 05:25, 31 March 2017 (UTC) Delete; WP:OCAT by shared name. Bearcat (talk) 03:49, 2 April 2017 (UTC) Delete as a blatant...

2016 (UTC) Delete – I would be in favour of adding something formal to WP:OCAT to discourage these. Oculi (talk) 12:32, 8 July 2016 (UTC) Delete This is...

article or merge the cast list into the main article for the show. See WP:OCAT for why cast lists should not be done as categories. Dugwiki 15:59, 10 July...

Mormons in the DOJ?) Raised by multiple users. (Over) categorization - OCAT is primarily related to categories not articles, however this guideline reflects...

categorize Cast lists should almost never be done as categories. See WP:OCAT for details. Dugwiki 15:57, 10 July 2007 (UTC) Keep. Work on it instead of...

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.205.17.157 (talk) Delete per WP:OCAT. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 07:10, 1 April 2018 (UTC) No need to bother -...

details. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:49, 20 December 2012 (UTC) Delete caste is OCAT; as would be class in Western culture: Category:Land owning people, Category:Rich...

(UTC) Categories are more stringent regarding such intersections; see WP:OCAT, and Muslim actors CFD. And nothing more specific than Category:Indian Muslims...

High Commissioners to each other instead of ambassadors. This is not WP:OCAT. Peterkingiron (talk) 23:23, 23 December 2011 (UTC) Keep This fits as part...

films (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT; Splitting the category "English-language German films‎" into three categories...

Nominator's rationale: Delete. Overcategorization by name characteristic. Per WP:OCAT: "Avoid categorising by a subject's name when it is a non-defining characteristic...

Irrelevant Intersections for Lists or IIFL is the WP:OCAT's Non-notable intersections by ethnicity, religion, or sexual preference applied to lists, with...

talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete. WP:OCAT. This is one of a handful of "American scientists of X descent" cats that...

categories but now believe them to be overcategorisation by award per WP:OCAT. BelovedFreak 20:58, 2 March 2008 (UTC) Delete per nom and a big smile for...

discussed at cfd recently, where it survived despite my own views. It fails WP:OCAT#Eponymous, as can be seen by the random collection of articles that have...

article or merge the cast list into the main article for the show. See WP:OCAT for why cast lists should not be done as categories. Dugwiki 16:01, 10 July...

Wryspy 02:16, 14 August 2007 (UTC) Delete per nom & ample precedent, see WP:OCAT. Carlossuarez46 05:37, 14 August 2007 (UTC) Delete. SilkTork 09:16, 14 August...

page history: to listify some entries in category:Doctor Who which were WP:OCAT (categorisation by performance). In other words, I found these pages categorised...

category would be fine. Stifle (talk) 10:58, 3 February 2009 (UTC) Per WP:OCAT, a category is not fine; radio stations are not categorized by individual...

(UTC) I removed the paragraph from WP:OCAT because I saw no discussion about the addition of the paragraph at WT:OCAT and I have still not seen any evidence...

September 2008 (UTC) Strong delete per WP:OCAT. MuZemike (talk) 07:59, 21 September 2008 (UTC) How is WP:OCAT applicable to a list? Exit2DOS2000•T•C• 10:38...

Ukrainian descent Nominator's rationale: Delete. Standard WP:OCAT by ethnicity. WP:OCAT states: should only be created where that combination is itself...

(UTC) WP:NOT#DIR doesn't, and can't, apply to all lists. There is an WP:OCAT. It's just in an altered form than a category, but still has the exact same...

(UTC) Delete. Duplication of existing category and even if it was not, it is OCAT. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:55, 19 April 2010 (UTC) The above is preserved as...

deletion. Cgingold (talk) 22:56, 20 March 2009 (UTC) Have you heard of WP:OCAT. Please provide a reasoning for why this does not meet those guidelines for...

conflict with WP:CATGRS? Occuli (talk) 20:00, 5 August 2011 (UTC) Delete, WP:OCAT -also, the wording seems strange, is Black African descent in contradistinction...

the list is sufficient. Occuli (talk) 19:01, 23 April 2009 (UTC) Delete OCAT, not defining. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 03:13, 24 April 2009 (UTC) Moderate...

Nominator's rationale: This is the endless subdividing they warn about in WP:OCAT. First of all, being of "___ descent" is almost always not more than a word...

played major roles behind the camera) nor could one reasonably be written; OCAT. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:41, 7 July 2009 (UTC) Keep as is per everything...

purposes. (WP:OCAT) –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 00:50, 5 December 2011 (UTC) Upmerge to Category:Holocaust survivors. Agreed as WP:OCAT. – Fayenatic (talk)...

Category:Hungarian-German film directors Nominator's rationale: Delete. Big WP:OCAT. Nothing distinct about being both Hungarian-American and a film director...

lists from categories in that regard. Categories are even more strict per WP:OCAT, if anything. postdlf (talk) 17:24, 7 August 2020 (UTC) Comment I'm gonna...

are a lot of people citing guidelines WP:TRIVIA WP:IDONTLIKEIT WP:NOT WP:OCAT but there's little real debate here, because no one is really exploring what...

WP:OCAT. Carlossuarez46 22:16, 1 August 2007 (UTC) Merge into Category:People from Savannah, Georgia. Violates WP:OCAT#Intersection by location, WP:OCAT#Non-notable...

covered WP:OCAT#Non-defining_or_trivial_characteristic. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:31, 10 December 2009 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCAT. Debresser...

singer-songwriters (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT by ethnicity. There are few pages in this category, and there's already a...

lenient with such intersections in categories than we are in lists. See WP:OCAT. postdlf (talk) 13:29, 16 July 2014 (UTC) By "dealt with by the category...

Category:American baseball players and Category:African American sportspeople per WP:OCAT --Kbdank71 18:23, 9 August 2007 (UTC) Category:African American baseball...

logs. Otto4711 (talk) 21:31, 29 April 2008 (UTC) Delete as non-defining OCAT trivia. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:53, 29 April 2008 (UTC) Without for a moment...

building (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT. Subjective and loose ended. Unlikely to expand unless you really stretch...

criteria for inclusion, the category fails one or other of WP:OCAT#ARBITRARY and WP:OCAT#SUBJECTIVE. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 11:49, 8 December...

15:38, 29 January 2008 (UTC) Delete as WP:OCAT trivial. Sting au Buzz Me... 00:01, 30 January 2008 (UTC) Delete OCAT, or we'll have 26 cats on each typeface...

Category:American Jews in the military (which itself may or may not pass WP:OCAT, I don't know), but that would also suggest that a list that doesn't just...

Wolves (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 01:59, 10 June 2017 (UTC) Keep...

institution.Chendy (talk) 11:45, 10 May 2008 (UTC) Reply. See WP:OCAT, in particular WP:OCAT#Non-defining_or_trivial_characteristic. --BrownHairedGirl (talk)...

00:22, 15 December 2009 (UTC) Comment. Can you convince me that this is not OCAT or too small of a category and that it should be kept? Vegaswikian (talk)...

seems to be clearly in conflict with a number of past decisions and with WP:OCAT as it stands. Perhaps this indicates a change in consensus in this area:...

21 December 2012 (UTC) Delete as WP:OCAT. – Fayenatic London 11:42, 21 December 2012 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCAT. - Presidentman talk · contribs (Talkback)...

category Corpx 03:55, 12 July 2007 (UTC) I'm not sure but couldn't that be WP:OCAT? Roman Catholic Comedians? Bulldog123 04:00, 12 July 2007 (UTC) Good point...

talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete per WP:OCAT#SMALL. BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:44, 26 November 2007 (UTC)...

for the film. PC78 (talk) 15:22, 6 April 2008 (UTC) Delete - I agree it's OCAT for the film but a couple of the articles need one or more additional categories...

Cyrus XIII (talk) 22:40, 11 April 2008 (UTC) The guideline is Wikipedia:OCAT#Eponymous_categories_for_people. Otto4711 (talk) 22:53, 11 April 2008 (UTC)...

category about people, this should be deleted per eponymous precedent and OCAT. as a category about the company, I agree with DGG and his/her arguments...

"Jones" in the same category. Snocrates 23:40, 9 January 2008 (UTC) Delete OCAT by name, and one would think that there can only be one "most" of anything...

(UTC) Strong Delete Trivial intersection of religion + celebrity status (WP:OCAT) Corpx 04:51, 10 August 2007 (UTC) Not trivial at all, far from it. Scientology...

the place to find your old pals. If this had been more serious, this is OCAT - not every regimental association needs to be the subject of a category...

like the idea of the category, but it's against WP:OCAT and might lead to future violations of WP:OCAT. Practically every New Testament figure communicated...

guideline to justify those comments on intersection categories: WP:OCAT and WP:OCAT, which I cited several numerous times in my reply to you when you asked...

things that categories cannot (read WP:LIST). The co-op list is kind of an OCAT list and can probably be cleaned up and turned into a sortable table. However...

news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) Fails Wikipedia:OCAT#Arbitrary inclusion criterion. What is the difference between a player with...

eponymous category, per WP:OCAT. Karppinen (talk) 10:10, 17 August 2009 (UTC) Keep This is a parent category, and is not OCAT, but is very well needed....

| talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete, OCAT. Categorizing birds by one mountain range in Mexico (with a slight tip in...

do tend to overcategorize and that's why there are limitations to it WP:OCAT. However, we also tend to overlist and destory the purpose of a list WP:OLIST...

Circeus 00:29, 10 September 2007 (UTC) Delete trivial intersection per OCAT. Carlossuarez46 17:05, 10 September 2007 (UTC) The above discussion is preserved...

clients Scott Boras have. See WP:OCAT Delete Jaranda wat's sup 20:16, 25 July 2007 (UTC)) Delete per nom; this is Ocat in the extreme and a terrible precedent...

but it certainly doesn't apply here. That would be like my arguing that WP:OCAT doesn't apply at CfD because the source is not reliable; The statement is...

nom. -- Prove It (talk) 13:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC) Upmerge all trivial OCAT per nom, TewfikTalk 09:22, 7 September 2007 (UTC) The above discussion is...

delete the category. Otto4711 (talk) 21:38, 27 March 2009 (UTC) Query – WP:OCAT has strictures against eponymous categories for people, but does not mention...

of the Jewish jurists aren't religious) is irrelevant and constitutes WP:OCAT#Irrelevant_Intersections_By_Religion_Or_Ethnicity. The systematic categorizing...

August 2007 (UTC) Delete Textbook example of trivial intersection. See WP:OCAT Corpx 03:37, 9 August 2007 (UTC) That's about categories, not lists; the...

Ukrainian descent Nominator's rationale: Delete or Upmerge. Another egregious WP:OCAT by ethnicity issue. There is no documentation linking heritage with architecture...

links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete. Another one for the WP:OCAT "people who happen to have held two unrelated occupations at different times...

ever performed at the Met, making maintenance difficult. Besides which, WP:OCAT explicitly excludes performers by performance venue; it simply isn't a useful...

match. Note that I am not putting in my usual vote to listify and delete as OCAT, because the BAFTA awards are major awards (unlike the MTV ones, also with...

categories? Greg Comlish (talk) 02:12, 16 March 2009 (UTC) WP:CAT and WP:OCAT. Otto4711 (talk) 04:03, 16 March 2009 (UTC) Merge (as needed) per Greg Comlish...

Who (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAT#PERF - "Avoid categories which categorise performers by their portrayal of...

WP:OCAT. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:37, 7 December 2009 (UTC) Delete. Agree with BrownHairedGirl that this should be added to OCAT. Bearcat...

WP:CATFAQ, WP:CLS, and in particular see WP:OCAT -- the top of WP:CAT describes categories as "defining" and WP:OCAT gives a lot of examples of the kinds of...

personally not seeing how that one isn't WP:OCAT still. Bulldog123 19:17, 8 February 2011 (UTC) Referring to WP:OCAT is not enough to counter the evidence that...

Category:People of medieval Scotland Nominator's rationale: delete/merge per WP:OCAT. These categories add very little value since individual biographies are...

distinct genre of film in its own right, but is merely an non-defining WP:OCAT distinction that's being subjectively applied to some films whose core genre...

article or merge the cast list into the main article for the show. See WP:OCAT for why cast lists should not be done as categories. Dugwiki 16:01, 10 July...

Unlike lists, categories can't have arbitrary inclusion criteria, see WP:OCAT. This list also has the merit of giving the actual GI in some cases. Kappa...

Kozina (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT#SMALL. Not expandable, because Kozina wrote only one opera. --Eleassar my...

Ol’factory (talk) 23:32, 19 October 2009 (UTC) Merge all per nom and per OCAT as trivial intersection. Now excuse me while I get back to planning the annual...

rationale: Delete. Another in a long line of eponym categories afoul of WP:OCAT. See here for a long list of precedents. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:32, 29...

largest publishers categorized by every major language on earth (see WP:OCAT). postdlf (talk) 17:13, 10 January 2015 (UTC) Relisted to generate a more...

history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete. Useless WP:OCAT - Dedicated group-subject subcategories should only be created where that...

to Category:Endemic fauna of California Nominator's rationale: Upmerge, OCAT. Category:Endemic fauna of California only has 32 entries and is more than...

Cincinnati are really no different that criminals from anywhere else. Wayyyy WP:OCAT. Carlossuarez46 18:51, 12 August 2007 (UTC) Delete overcategorization per...

repeated place names. BencherliteTalk 16:21, 11 June 2008 (UTC) Delete as WP:OCAT. Bearcat (talk) 20:32, 11 June 2008 (UTC) Keep - I am extremely disappointed...

talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete WP:OCAT by shared surname, with no evidence given that any of these Barlows are actually...

22 October 2012 (UTC) Delete performer by performance in the ivory tower. OCAT. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 01:40, 26 October 2012 (UTC) The above is preserved...

. RevelationDirect (talk) 02:52, 18 November 2015 (UTC) Delete per nom. OCAT by source, but we still insist on keeping crap like Category:Bayer objects...

list of WP articles). As for your categorization suggestion, please read WP:OCAT and WP:BLPCAT. If we are to maintain this information here in such detail...

(UTC) Delete per nom. This a performers-by-performance category (see WP:OCAT), and a very weak one at that. -BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 15:59...

subject's notability. Addressing WP:OCAT, there is nothing that applies to this category negatively. The closest criteria of OCAT would be those regarding trivial...

this is a race/ethnicity category in disguise, it's similarly unnecessary OCAT even if you believe that some race/ethnicity cats are OK, because most Americans...

better-structured category. Alansohn (talk) 05:40, 7 June 2009 (UTC) Delete as OCAT and probably POV inclusion criteria. Since many churches follow this, the...

categorized under region, which is not a defining feature and is just WP:OCAT. Also see past CfDs at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2015_July...

which categories are deleted under the chapter and verse of the Apocrypha of OCAT, I fail to see how lumping these articles into generic categories -- despite...

than this category and are basically issues with WP:OCAT. I suggest you pipe in at Wikipedia talk:OCAT -- I'm sure there are others who have your view of...

WP:OCAT#SMALL. Unnecessary—everything is interlinked; small—unlikely to expand. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:20, 9 March 2009 (UTC) Digression re WP:OCAT &...

| talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete, OCAT. The two included species are widely distributed throughout North America...

"the Liberals" or has "Liberal" in its name, it essentially violates WP:OCAT#SHAREDNAMES. Good Ol’factory (talk) 23:00, 13 September 2009 (UTC) Delete...

POV/shockingly biased exchange between them was as follows: "Delete all OCAT by subjective criteria that is not defining. Race/Ethnicity + Nationality...

For just four articles, there is no need for a category either (see WP:OCAT#SMALL). –Black Falcon (Talk) 05:31, 10 March 2009 (UTC) Delete per above...

Category:Postage stamp images. This is more than sufficient. Also per WP:OCAT. Laurel Lodged (talk) 21:01, 6 June 2012 (UTC) Support A better way to subcategorize...

Otto4711 (talk) 19:21, 5 October 2008 (UTC) What has been foisted upon us at WP:OCAT based on the consensus of three editors is that an award must somehow be...

avoid triple intersection categories for expatriate sportspeople. Per WP:OCAT (and especially WP:OCEGRS), it is unlikely that the specific contributions...

would appear to be OCAT since it creates a series of very small categories. The merge proposed does not really address that OCAT problem but does at...

updated to the new category name. -- 67.70.32.97 (talk) Support per nom. OCAT. Grutness...wha? 10:57, 2 October 2020 (UTC) Propose: Rename main cat and...

as well. Eponymous categories like this are generally frowned upon per WP:OCAT. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP)...

17 December 2011 (UTC) Comment -- We discourage award categories as WP:OCAT, for all but the most major categories such as Nobel Prizes. This is clearly...

regular updates. Lquilter (talk) 21:43, 26 February 2008 (UTC) Delete per nom. OCAT. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 21:50, 26 February 2008 (UTC) The above is preserved...

Nominator's rationale: Eponymous category for a singer; unnecessary per WP:OCAT. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 20:49...

Council to Category:Chicago City Council members Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAT. This is a triple intersection of municipality, sexuality, and political...

the category has very little potential for growth (WP:OCAT), and is a narrow intersection (WP:OCAT)? If someone is born in Nigeria and then moves to England...

individual personality who happens to have worked for the station (violating WP:OCAT as a "performer by performance" category.) The category had also, mysteriously...

logs) Nominator's rationale: {{{3|Delete, too broad of a category, fails WP:OCAT). Jaranda wat's sup Sports! 20:47, 6 September 2007 (UTC) Delete Overcat...

bands, cite them in "normal" music pages. It is proposed for deletion for WP:OCAT Betina 00:19, 17 May 2007 (UTC) Weak Keep There's an encyclopedic article...

producer in the cat did win in 1982. I think the whole mini-tree is borderline OCAT, but if kept, subcats would be ok if someone were to finish sorting the main...

April 2009 (UTC) Delete / Rename if kept As currently worded, Wikipedia:OCAT#Award recipients limits awards to those such as "Category:Nobel laureates...

that's a good sampling.) The previous category was deleted based on the WP:OCAT#AWARD guideline, but I think halls of fame are not truly individual awards;...

already listed in his article, which is all that's necessary here. Textbook WP:OCAT. Bearcat (talk) 02:54, 17 March 2009 (UTC) Delete - overcategorization. --R'n'B...

03:01, 22 April 2009 (UTC) Delete unnecessary religion/race/ethnicity cat - OCAT. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 01:48, 24 April 2009 (UTC) Rename to Category:Jewish...

Category:Supply-Siders to lump them both together? It's various people by opinion, which is OCAT. Carlossuarez46 19:03, 1 December 2007 (UTC) So that's where that policy...

(singer) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT. Singer only has two albums and four notable songs (the rest are just redirects)...

and a category for actors who starred in those series — which violates WP:OCAT as "performer by performance". I thus propose that we rename the category...

Culcheth (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: OCAT, only two members; Culcheth is a neighbourhood of Warrington and apparently...

12 May 2009 (UTC) Delete per nom & precedent; performer by performance OCAT. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:29, 12 May 2009 (UTC) Keep per the Sky rationale...

Trust (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: OCAT and not a defining characteristic for the individuals. It currently has only...

be an intersection of unrelated characteristics, rightly deplored by WP:OCAT. Occuli (talk) 19:06, 25 February 2011 (UTC) Support end to these categories...

around 200 serial killers. We don't need to divide by state. delete per WP:OCAT --Obi-Wan Kenobi (talk) 15:04, 12 June 2013 (UTC) Delete per nom. I hope...

like it. Harrisburg proper only has two malls which means this would be WP:OCAT; extending to a clearly defined MSA would allow it to be more inclusive and...

Delete. Agree with nominator. -Rocket000 01:39, 1 September 2007 (UTC) Delete OCAT per nom, TewfikTalk 08:21, 4 September 2007 (UTC) The above discussion is...

fascinating article but drives a squadron of horses and carriages through WP:OCAT. Oculi (talk) 10:20, 19 January 2012 (UTC) Upmerge as per Black Falcon. Whilst...

October 2008 (UTC) Delete as a non-defining or trivial characteristic. (See WP:OCAT) Original research is better dealt with on an article-by-article basis. -...

nomination - I didn't realize that such categories were exceptions to WP:OCAT. Ten Pound Hammer • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 17:50, 12 September...

resulting categories technically violate WP:OCAT or not, if the undifferentiated parent category is very large. OCAT policy even explicitly states that location...

After reading the lead for Tabloid, I wonder if this is defining of simply OCAT? Vegaswikian (talk) 21:21, 6 January 2008 (UTC) delete not defining; very...

logs) Nominator's rationale: Links only into two articles. Appears to be WP:OCAT. We already have Not everything needs a navbox, maybe I can create a Not...

Everett (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT#SMALL. Everett wrote only two notable songs. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did...

'current' categories. Occuli (talk) 23:44, 16 January 2009 (UTC) Delete OCAT and Current. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:18, 19 January 2009 (UTC) Delete no...

appeared to be a more "delete" mentality for the other categories as WP:OCAT. Thefore, in this nomination Category:African-American actors, Category:Asian...

do not need to be categorised by each of them – indeed, that would be WP:OCAT. Most do not mention gongs in the article, so playing gongs is not WP:DEFINING...

nom and WP:OC. Otto4711 (talk) 19:41, 26 May 2008 (UTC) Delete per nom, OCAT. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:10, 29 May 2008 (UTC) The above is preserved as...

WP:ILIKEIT". Y'know, form a WP:CONSENSUS on it. Maybe develop a guieline like WP:OCAT or WP:NENAN. And as to your howls of "bureaucratic analysis and rule-making"...

articles, and neither do the creators. You also need to understand that WP:OCAT, though not specific to lists, has been applied numerous times, legitimately...

possibly be speedied as re-created category previously deleted. In the WP:OCAT discussion of non-notable intersections, Category:LGBT murderers is given...

only with notable matches, each categorised into 2 team categories - hardly OCAT. (See e.g. 2004 Danish Cup Final.)Occuli (talk) 20:42, 27 October 2008 (UTC)...

Gene93k (talk) 00:01, 22 September 2012 (UTC) This isn't a category, so WP:OCAT does not apply. The rest of your nom is just a bunch of WP:VAGUEWAVEs with...

is it WP:OCAT? Keep unless there's a better deletion rationale than this. Bearcat (talk) 04:55, 26 December 2009 (UTC) Keep per per WP:OCAT#SMALL, as...

bats (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT#SMALL, zero chance of expansion. No other show features a bat prominently...

easily be added to, especially from South America, is already enough - see WP:OCAT. Johnbod 23:38, 9 August 2007 (UTC) This article is Thiruchelvam Nihal Jim...

nor too much more that would be notable enough for its own article (cf. WP:OCAT#Small_with_no_potential_for_growth. That other junk exists is not a good...

talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete per WP:OCAT#OPINION. Creator of the cat agrees at Category_talk:Criticism of Calvinism...

much sub-categorizing. Jrcla2 (talk) 15:59, 8 March 2013 (UTC) Delete as WP:OCAT; upmerge entries to Category:People from Fresno, California and Category:American...

(UTC) Delete as WP:OCAT; the list in the article is more appropriate. – Fayenatic London 21:18, 1 November 2012 (UTC) Delete as WP:OCAT per nominator. Vicars...

its own right." Jonathanwallace (talk) 21:10, 21 February 2011 (UTC) WP:OCAT only applies to categories, not lists in article space. postdlf (talk) 12:48...

others are empty. Allanon already appears in Category:Shannara, so this is WP:OCAT for one article to have 5 categories for itself. -- 70.50.148.122 (talk)...

Marcocapelle (talk) 06:40, 14 October 2018 (UTC) I don't see this as WP:OCAT because of the shared name, but a useful way to diffuse Category:Lists of...

appropriate for inclusion in a given category should be removed. And, as per WP:OCAT, the exception for not categorizing occupations by religion is when there...

awards (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT#SMALL. Also delete subcategory Category:PEN New England awards, which has...

is not only racist as Taprobanus has stated, but should be deleted per WP:OCAT. Also the comparison to the Basque paramilitary fails, because even groups...

the Cavalry 02:11, 9 August 2007 (UTC) Delete per trivial intersection (WP:OCAT Corpx 05:07, 9 August 2007 (UTC) Delete - per above, mostly. -- Anonymous...

attained the stature of a Nobel (which is what we hold awards to). See WP:OCAT#Award. --Lquilter (talk) 17:39, 26 March 2014 (UTC) The Nobel Prize is too...

intersection of journalists with city falls afoul of several principles of WP:OCAT, including both LOCATION and DEFINING. Bearcat (talk) 17:16, 24 July 2015...

appropriate subcategories. DGG (talk) 14:31, 30 June 2009 (UTC) Delete per nom; OCAT by unnecessary race/ethnic categories. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:43, 1 July...

or districts.Shyamsunder (talk) 22:47, 17 July 2015 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCAT. Talukas report into districts and should be classed in that hierarchy which...

to delete this category. Brain Rodeo (talk) 02:30, 19 July 2008 (UTC) Per OCAT, occupational categories on Wikipedia should normally only be subgrouped...

category is a WP:OCAT#Trivial intersection is not correct. The proper issue at hand deals really with location alone, so it would be WP:OCAT#Intersection...

bands". Lugnuts (talk) 17:56, 28 May 2010 (UTC) Delete – this is undoubtedly OCAT. Category:Mike Watt project bands is also dubious - how do we decide if a...

categorized in this way. Mackensen (talk) 11:00, 16 March 2009 (UTC) Delete OCAT by intersection of job, employer, and birth location, like Category:Google...

Do we really need these at all? To my mind, this is just begging for WP:OCAT-happy category bloat without much tangible benefit. Delete sez I, but if...

hundreds of other writers. Lesnail 15:16, 6 April 2007 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCAT. -- Samuel Wantman 06:52, 7 April 2007 (UTC) Delete per nom. No need for...

all Clear OCAT Johnbod 23:52, 2 December 2007 (UTC) Delete all for overcategorization. Doczilla 06:12, 3 December 2007 (UTC) Delete all OCAT. Carlossuarez46...

logs) Per WP:OCAT, this is an irrelevant intersection between race and province. Picaroon 20:33, 21 March 2007 (UTC) Delete per nom (WP:OCAT) TonyTheTiger...

exisitence. The proposed category is simply over-categorization, see WP:OCAT. This also appears to be arbitrary inclusion criteria WP:OC#Arbitrary. Thanks...

nor any policy against them. WP:OCAT is a guideline, not a rule, nor a policy. I fail to see exactly what from WP:OCAT specifically disallows this. Furthermore...

OK the category is partiallly subcategorized but it shouldn't be, per WP:OCAT). Kappa 00:53, 5 September 2007 (UTC) With regard to British Asian being...

(Macedonia is a redirect.) Occuli (talk) 22:32, 29 January 2009 (UTC) Delete OCAT by occupation & race/ethnicity. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:42, 30 January 2009...

Carlossuarez46 16:43, 14 September 2007 (UTC) Delete per nom and per WP:OCAT#Eponymous_categories_for_people. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 18:56...

(talk) 03:29, 27 May 2010 (UTC) Delete, per WP:OCAT. Jayjg (talk) 03:32, 28 May 2010 (UTC) Delete, per WP:OCAT. Plus, it's redundant with List of film producers...

editor, is in WP:CfD and it's got a consensus of delete right now due to WP:OCAT. That's not necessarily a reason to delete the article because I think they...

is the performance? The 'deleters' need to come up with a more relevant 'OCAT' section. (I expect CBC is much the same - there will be plenty who cannot...

watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Only three articles and a redirect. WP:OCAT. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 04:07...

take? This takes the least amount of steps. Therefore I don't consider it OCAT. Research is tedious enough, to simplify it like this, which has been my...

in a "Coast to Coast AM affiliates" category, in obvious violation of WP:OCAT. Even as the "creator" (read that as "dutiful carrier-outer of CFD consensus"...

pretty much the definition of "small with limited potential for growth" in WP:OCAT. Anatrace Membrane Protein Award Avanti Award in Lipids Distinguished Service...

Delete three item category for official products for a particular platform, OCAT. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:23, 5 December 2007 (UTC) Delete per nom. --BrownHairedGirl...

over-cat, emerson7 16:36, 2 September 2009 (UTC) Comment. Exactly why is this OCAT? In reading the main article, I saw at least 5 more articles that could be...

pretty much the definition of "small with limited potential for growth" in WP:OCAT. Anatrace Membrane Protein Award Avanti Award in Lipids Distinguished Service...

Hudson (talk) 00:16, 22 June 2011 (UTC) Listify and delete per WP:OCAT#AWARD and / or WP:OCAT#PERF. Yes, it's an honour of sorts to be invited onto the programme...

main reason for this nomination is that this cat and it's subcats fail WP:OCAT#Intersection by location. Specifically, "avoid subcategorizing subjects by...

two cents. --Vasco Amaral (talk) 17:16, 6 October 2011 (UTC) Delete - WP:OCAT might refer to categories and not articles, but the same principle applies...

guidelines, as are WP:CAT and WP:OCAT. If CfD discussions were to treat guidelines as purely a personal choice, then WP:CAT and WP:OCAT would also be optional....

have spent some time residing in any of those neighborhoods. WP:CAT and WP:OCAT offer a number of means for determining when a list would work better than...

--Mike Selinker (talk) 14:54, 2 April 2008 (UTC) Comment looks rather like WP:OCAT to me, especially if it includes all residents for a period. Johnbod (talk)...

Category:Birds of Ontario to Category:Birds of Canada Nominator's rationale: Upmerge, OCAT. I checked every included article, and none of the included species are even...

Cultic Studies Association or a new article on the award; then delete. WP:OCAT#Award. This is the usual outcome. Peterkingiron (talk) 22:14, 6 May 2013...

(talk) 01:13, 10 April 2013 (UTC) Delete, although just for the record WP:OCAT's proscription against "venues by event" is probably a better encapsulation...

history work?John Pack Lambert (talk) 01:59, 13 May 2012 (UTC) Delete; WP:OCAT by a non-encyclopedic characteristic. It's only a surface similarity between...

per nomination UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:42, 6 May 2009 (UTC) Delete all OCAT by ethnicity per nom. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:07, 8 May 2009 (UTC) Note:...

novelists and Category:Gay poets, and we just don't need that. Delete as WP:OCAT by overly narrow intersection. Bearcat (talk) 17:30, 27 April 2012 (UTC)...

overcategorization. Maralia (talk) 03:44, 16 December 2007 (UTC) Delete ocat for this purpose. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:56, 19 December 2007 (UTC) The...

over (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT by plot point. Wikipedia does not have any scheme of "Episodes of [Show]...

content, for articles, categories and other content. This is where the WP:OCAT guideline is coming from. Therefore arguing that there is "no valid reason...

talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete per WP:OCAT#Award. Okay, I love that this award exists, but C-3PO, Data (Star Trek),...

(pertaining to ABS-CBN). Starczamora (talk) 09:45, 31 July 2008 (UTC) delete per OCAT.--Lenticel (talk) 10:56, 31 July 2008 (UTC) Delete as performer by venue...

films (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT by intersection of characteristics. Apart from these two categories, Wikipedia...

makes them notable. Debresser's use of the term "trivial" is not that of WP:OCAT:"In general, categorize by what may be considered notable in a person's life...

comments above. -- roundhouse0 (talk) 14:54, 4 May 2008 (UTC) Delete - WP:OCAT#small category with little or no growth potential. Even if the redirect were...

need this anyway, isn't it total WP:OCAT?" Bearcat (talk) 02:31, 11 October 2010 (UTC) Which of the sections in WP:OCAT do you think it falls under? --Bsherr...

sites (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT. Only one possible entry, zero chance of expansion. Ten Pound Hammer • (What...

(talk) 05:00, 19 November 2007 (UTC) It is clear from the section of WP:OCAT you quote that the category must be "by performance" - ie the performance...

the subcategory is undesirable, e.g. per one of the reasons stated in WP:OCAT. For example you might nominate Category:State-sponsored Linux distributions...

May 2008 (UTC) Delete - This is categorization by shared name, clear WP:OCAT. Otto4711 (talk) 12:58, 25 May 2008 (UTC) Probably listify, definitely delete...

This category fits both WP:OCAT#Non-defining or trivial characteristic / WP:OCAT#Unrelated subjects with shared names and WP:OCAT#Trivial intersection. (Intersection...

named after them, and if this were this a category it would struggle with WP:OCAT. The subject of the template should be mentioned in every article. They aren't...

nominate this category for deletion in line with this guideline: Wikipedia:OCAT#Venues by event. If you browse that page, you will see that this is consistent...

articles) that is unlikely to grow. TM 14:56, 27 March 2020 (UTC) Keep per OCAT as part of wider scheme (16 state sub-cats in Category:Conservative synagogues...

in politics; which, btw, was established in 2012; sic, among others, WP:OCAT fails. Roland zh (talk) 04:51, 17 September 2016 (UTC) / [edited ] Roland...

reason why we have separated out female Emperors from the main category? OCAT by gender, perhaps? Either way, rename. Resolute 01:10, 28 February 2008...

nom. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 18:26, 12 November 2015 (UTC) Delete WP:OCAT and per nom. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:16, 12 November 2015 (UTC) Merge, not...

(UTC) Keep – categorising a suicide bombing in Morocco as such is hardly OCAT. The alternative would be 'upmerge to Category:Suicide bombing' (which should...

criticism-categories. Stefanomione (talk) 22:34, 30 January 2012 (UTC) Delete per OCAT; not useful in any conceivable imaginings. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 06:41, 31...

literature without needing this category on top. Seems like a classic WP:OCAT to me; while certainly there are writers from Canada who live in the United...

eponymous article. Otto4711 18:20, 16 June 2007 (UTC) Delete per nom and per WP:OCAT#Eponymous_categories_for_people. This is an eponymous category for a father...

Delete categories distinguishing how various images were uploaded seems to be ocat to me - there's only one image here anyway, for which this category is probably...

(UTC) Keep or upmerge to all the parents. I have never quite grasped how 'OCAT' applies to small categories ... I can see that 'category sprawl' can be...

not small categories and the nom is guilty of hyperbole as worse cases of OCAT are legion. I don't myself see much point in laboriously dividing everyone...

Is everyone who could be listed defined by losing? If not, this would be OCAT. Is dropping out of the nomination process before the first primary losing...

which is the better word. LeSnail (talk) 19:09, 21 January 2008 (UTC) Delete OCAT by sex + avocation. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:59, 22 January 2008 (UTC) Delete...

heqs ·:. 10:22, 13 July 2007 (UTC) Delete As per numerous previous cfds and WP:OCAT, most bands do not need an eponymous category solely for albums, songs and...

Afd here. Johnbod (talk) 16:27, 9 November 2008 (UTC) Delete. Definite WP:OCAT, it doesn't matter if the article is deleted or not. Bsimmons666 (talk) Friend...

a sufficient condition. If it were sufficient, all other criteria in WP:OCAT could be striken. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:41, 7 December 2022 (UTC) The above...

was a notable theme but not the central one; categorising them would be WP:OCAT but the list could state the context. - Fayenatic (talk) 21:56, 30 August...

influence, and at least 100 of these 'spots' are handed out every year. Per ocat we should not do cats based on top-100-lists per Wikipedia:OC#TOPTEN. Additionally...

Harvest (talk) 10:56, 6 February 2008 (UTC) No, and if you read WP:CAT and WP:OCAT and WP:CLS, you will see that "categorize" is not a good answer because many...

(UTC) Delete categorizing people by their first language and nationality is OCAT. Just waiting for someone who'll want to categorize various Americans as...

instance, imo. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:23, 25 June 2011 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCAT. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Otters want attention) 01:43...

| talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete, OCAT, as trivial intersection of specific office held and unrelated place. This...

00:34, 15 August 2007 (UTC) Delete an arbitrary list and I think it is WP:OCAT Corpx 00:53, 15 August 2007 (UTC) I don't see any overlistification here...

against each other, most of them won't get selected, either) — but per WP:OCAT#CANDIDATES, we're not supposed to be using categories for that purpose. I'm...

a lake. So what do these have in common? The shared "name" of "Sea" - WP:OCAT. Perhaps something like Category:Subdivisions of the sea and trim out Aral...

(nationality, ethnicity, gender, occupation) which is generally considered WP:OCAT, in particular WP:OCEGRS. But Category:Israeli women singers is a poor target...

rationale: Just having a category for the band itself is unacceptable per WP:OCAT. I suggest removing Category:New Grass Revival albums and New Grass Revival...

for indexing them, and means that the same indexing scheme then passes WP:OCAT as a category Category:Festschrifts. This would then necessarily statisfy...

hierarchy of Category:Eponymous categories is to be put up for deletion as WP:OCAT by shared naming characteristic. As for the names of the contents, the best...

Non-defining characteristic. Otto4711 21:02, 7 October 2007 (UTC) Delete OCAT, non-defining, contrived connection. Carlossuarez46 21:15, 7 October 2007...

arguments to delete cite precedent and (implicitly) WP:OCAT#Small_with_no_potential_for_growth and WP:OCAT#Eponymous_categories_for_people, whereas reasons...

May 2#Law review people.--GrapedApe (talk) 02:42, 2 May 2013 (UTC) Delete OCAT by award. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:50, 2 May 2013 (UTC) Delete This does...

sufficient criterion. Categories can be merged/deleted by any criterion in WP:OCAT, not just by WP:NONDEF. I am disputing the smallcat exception here, first...

pages then, and Category:People by nationality just the one ... is this OCAT? Opposing such ludicrous non-arguments becomes tiresome. Occuli (talk) 17:48...

Only the main article and a subcategory for the battles so may well be ocat. If kept, should probably be renamed to Category:Maryland Campaign to match...

categorization of buildings by office park or development, which is probably OCAT, esp. given that there are only 2 articles here, one of which is already...

WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL) delete as per previous discussion and WP:OCAT#Non-notable_intersections_by_ethnicity.2C_religion.2C_or_sexual_preference...

needs to exist. Zoporific 21:58, 3 February 2008 (UTC) Delete not defining, OCAT by trivial award - must be hundreds of thousands of these people. If this...

history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: I believe this is WP:OCAT; I can't find any other example of a category being used to group cemeteries...

WP:NOTDIRECTORY. Thanks, IZAK (talk) 12:18, 25 October 2010 (UTC) Delete. WP:OCAT. Jayjg (talk) 21:43, 26 October 2010 (UTC) Possible rename to Category:American...

2013 (UTC) Keep We never delete these, even if there is just one film. WP:OCAT expressly does not apply in cases like this. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:51...

"occupation-from-city" rather than renaming; these constitute an unnecessary WP:OCAT intersection. Keep anything that's already in conformance with the "match...

Category:Canadian sportspeople of Scottish descent Nominator's rationale: Delete. WP:OCAT. Ukrainian-Canadian sports, Irish-Canadian sports and English-Canadian sports...

related to Hinduism. Snocrates 12:50, 29 December 2007 (UTC) Delete both as OCAT and trivial intersection. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:53, 1 January 2008 (UTC)...

there are too many possible permutations to avoid anything else being WP:OCAT. - The Bushranger One ping only 08:59, 9 December 2017 (UTC) No, because...

rationale: Delete. I'm nominating this batch as an irrelevant intersection per WP:OCAT. Tina Fey already has three on her article, and yet it would appear all three...

inaccurate and the scheme is an extension of OCAT by shared name.- choster (talk) 17:37, 4 December 2012 (UTC) Delete OCAT per choster. If the articles don't talk...

Vegaswikian (talk) 21:12, 11 January 2010 (UTC) Speedy delete per nom and per WP:OCAT#SHAREDNAMES; has been deleted at least three times before under different...

and on and so forth. If this kind of thing isn't already covered by an WP:OCAT proscription, it probably should be. Bearcat (talk) 02:54, 8 September 2019...

(talk/contribs)~ 02:33, 14 November 2020 (UTC) Upmerge per nom We've always used WP:OCAT and to a lesser extent WP:OCLOCATION when dealing with these, and while we've...

both these award winner categories should be deleted as categories per WP:OCAT#Award, with information retained in lists on the relevant award entries....

Erdos numbers are trivial. If they are trivial, then, by the terms of WP:OCAT, they should not form the basis of categories. (This presumption arises from...

AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 06:54, 14 December 2009 (UTC) Delete per nom, and per WP:OCAT#SMALL. If there an ongoing problem of an editor creating categories which...

instrumental albums he did, neither of which has an article. In short, WP:OCAT#SMALL for a person whose bread-and-butter is not songwriting. Ten Pound Hammer...

award.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:39, 16 April 2013 (UTC) Delete per nom OCAT. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:25, 16 April 2013 (UTC) Listify --NaBUru38 (talk)...

eponymous category for a band, OCAT per numerous precedents. Carlossuarez46 22:01, 6 November 2007 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCAT#Eponymous_categories_for_people...

not parallel.) Carminis (talk) 01:31, 11 February 2008 (UTC) Delete both ocat by award. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 20:20, 12 February 2008 (UTC) Keep both LeRAM...

Propose deleting Category:LGBT directors from Taiwan Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT by triple intersection of sexuality, occupation and nationality. This is...

is "defining" of the included subjects, and I would say no. See CAT, WP:OCAT. --Lquilter (talk) 15:35, 14 February 2008 (UTC) Sorry, didn't realise categories...

16 January 2013 (UTC) Delete we categorize articles not titles (see WP:OCAT) these are articles on various things that have some Greek association in...

Group (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT#SMALL, only four entries, zero chance of expansion Ten Pound Hammer • (What...

category is not "the typical categorization scheme", but is unnecessary WP:OCAT. Bearcat (talk) 00:15, 18 April 2010 (UTC) The existing category is Category:Faculty...

| talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete. OCAT. This structure contains two articles plus the main article which has major...

(UTC) Delete – per nom. Oculi (talk) 13:04, 14 April 2017 (UTC) Delete as WP:OCAT by shared name. Clearly the intention here was for the category to serve...

pattern. Hmains (talk) 03:03, 27 December 2007 (UTC) Keep per Grutness and WP:OCAT#SMALL. Snocrates 12:13, 29 December 2007 (UTC) Keep per Grutness. Carlossuarez46...

something like that? Sting_au Talk 23:28, 7 January 2008 (UTC) Delete as OCAT and non-defining; on a more grammatical note haven't all photographers been...

start categorizing allies in every conflict, it would become a serious WP:OCAT issue. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:54, 17 November 2019 (UTC) Delete per nom and...

just a different term, not a fundamentally different thing. Delete as WP:OCAT. Bearcat (talk) 21:29, 28 February 2014 (UTC) Delete per remarks above. Cgingold...

threshold) and what reliable source tells us that it's at least that much. Pure OCAT and OR and SYNTH. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 06:34, 26 March 2013 (UTC) Delete...

27#Category:LGBT directors from the United States just last week. But this is still WP:OCAT by triple intersection of sexuality, occupation and nationality, which is...

Delete per nom. These are a long way from needing a category. The policy (WP:OCAT I think) say 2 or 3 are needed, but a few more might be better. I wonder...

watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Without any direction this is likely OCAT. Are we talking about production? Consumption? Transportation? This is not...

--Storm Rider (talk) 05:40, 20 June 2007 (UTC) Delete per nom and per WP:OCAT#Non-defining_or_trivial_characteristic. Listify if anyone wants to create...

is unlikely to substantially grow. TM 17:02, 24 March 2020 (UTC) Keep per OCAT as part of wider scheme (38 state sub-cats in Category:Reform synagogues...

gargoyles. As far as I can see, the cartoon is the only TV show about them. WP:OCAT#SMALL to the extreme. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 04:53...

January 2009 (UTC) Delete OCAT by nationality & religion. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:10, 26 January 2009 (UTC) Delete. OCAT. Kittybrewster ☎ 23:07, 29...

the category. VegaDark (talk) 21:18, 22 February 2008 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCAT - categorisation by opinion. I take it we are dealing with the You Ess Ay...

(talk) 12:50, 20 May 2008 (UTC) Listify and delete - as spake Otto4711. It's OCAT:various. -- roundhouse0 (talk) 12:58, 20 May 2008 (UTC) Listify per above...

categories - here as elsewhere Pius's admirers are testing the limits of WP:OCAT. Johnbod (talk) 16:34, 21 September 2009 (UTC) Weakish delete. I've seen...

Titans (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT. Three of the five articles are up for prod but either way I just don't feel...

rationale: Inappropriate self-named category for a singer; not necessary per WP:OCAT. Ten Pound Hammer and his otters • (Broken clamshells•Otter chirps) 20:28...

Category:French-American soul singers, or the such which would be ethnic. WP:OCAT Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:13, 12 November 2015 (UTC) Keep. Ghmyrtle pretty...

| history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete - per WP:OCAT, no different from other cast member categories that are uniformly deleted...

any other XfD? Alansohn (talk) 20:52, 12 April 2009 (UTC) (1) Yes, try WP:OCAT. It sets a bad precedent to keep a category that is clearly overcategorization...

section. The result of the discussion was: Keep as per previous discussion, WP:OCAT#Small_with_no_potential_for_growth will allow for categories which are "part...

logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete and listify as overcategorisation per WP:OCAT#Award_winners. All the people in this category will notable primarily for...

category has left the building eh...Delete as OCAT. Bradjamesbrown (talk) 11:53, 12 February 2010 (UTC) Delete as OCAT and misnamed. Debresser (talk) 20:11, 13...

concern is that even though single-item categories would normally be WP:OCAT, in these particular cases the categorization scheme as a whole would be...

his article. Johnbod 16:49, 26 August 2007 (UTC) Delete As described in WP:OCAT, films-by-actor categories are a bad idea because of the large amount of...

history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Perfect example of WP:OCAT Delete. This is a Secret account 21:45, 11 November 2007 (UTC) As long as...

links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Totally unmanageable; fails WP:OCAT and created by an editor notorious for contentious editing. Chubbles (talk)...

be well populated. However I wonder when that might cross the line into OCAT. How would we deal with shows on BBC America that were first shown on the...

basin out into Regions, Subregions, Accounting Units and Cataloging Units is OCAT and would make navigation significantly more difficult. If anything we should...

listed in the award page. Lquilter (talk) 18:46, 25 January 2008 (UTC) Delete OCAT by award, per nom. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:07, 29 January 2008 (UTC) Listify...

of people that have been notable in their field. The POV word "awfully WP:OCAT" would make sense of, like Decatur, the Cat from Ponce consisted of a listing...

"non-defining" doesn't take matters much further forward. The relevant guideline, WP:OCAT, says that "if something could be easily left out of a biography, it is likely...

2008 (UTC) Delete Confusing. MBisanz talk 08:42, 10 May 2008 (UTC) Delete OCAT. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:08, 13 May 2008 (UTC) The above is preserved as...

much more appropriate. DexDor (talk) 05:36, 5 June 2017 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCAT and VR's point about a lack of clarity on what constitutes funding. Kamalthebest...

Category:Shopping malls in Washington (state) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT#SMALL. Only three articles; the Spokane market does not appear to have had...

"halls of fame" categories. Snocrates 23:22, 27 January 2008 (UTC) Delete OCAT by award, we don't categorize all magazines' best of award winners. Carlossuarez46...

of these people. Dominictimms 13:54, 12 July 2007 (UTC) Delete As per WP:OCAT, most award winner listing should be handled as list articles, not categories...

from Shkodër Nominator's rationale: Upmerge back to the city. This fails WP:OCAT/WP:OCLOCATION, an over-diffusion of player by sport and city. SportingFlyer...

rationale: This is, in essence, Category:Radio stations nicknamed Froggy, and an OCAT by shared name. These stations share nothing except marketing puns; they...

the comment. It wasn't trolling in any way, it was a reference to this: WP:OCAT where it states Dedicated group-subject subcategories, such as Category:LGBT...

memoirists. This category is a triple intersection that is best avoided per WP:OCAT. User:Namiba 21:02, 6 April 2020 (UTC) Oppose : The really has to be women...

Based on what I've seen in Category:Villages in Canada, this does seem to be OCAT: there is but one other eponymous village category, Category:Stirling, Alberta...

[40], [41]. Two guidelines I've recently been involved in writing are WP:OCAT and WP:PNSD; it should be obvious from their respective talk pages that they...

much more strongly by references to Wikipedia guidelines, in particular WP:OCAT. In closing this discussion with a decisive outcome rather than "no consensus"...

example. It's more about what relevance does this category have to pass WP:OCAT if there is no reason to suggest all these people have LGBT issues that affect...

Overcategorization by trivia. Eliyak T·C 06:33, 21 September 2008 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCAT. Lugnuts (talk) 11:56, 21 September 2008 (UTC) Delete per both - only 1 member...

dubious category. Tazmaniacs (talk) 14:33, 25 July 2008 (UTC) Delete per nom. OCAT, even if there were more than 1. Johnbod (talk) 17:52, 25 July 2008 (UTC)...

Canadian? --William Allen Simpson (talk) 15:43, 21 June 2009 (UTC) It isn't OCAT - the underlying categories are such as Category:Vladimir Nabokov characters...

trouble is, it isn't really defining for any of those groups, which under WP:OCAT makes it hard to justify a category. Where you went to school or university...

Talk 22:20, 28 November 2010 (UTC) Comment It is certainly defining, so OCAT is not a worry. Hindu majority districts would not be defining, I think....

people are collectively referred to as the "Beathard family". WP:SYNTH, WP:OCAT. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 04:08, 23 December 2019 (UTC)...

poorly defined inclusion criteria, and lapsing in some respects toward WP:OCAT by shared name. Bearcat (talk) 02:52, 1 September 2016 (UTC) Delete – even...

I don't see a numerical consensus to delete. So on to the arguments. WP:OCAT is strong argument, and the Delete commentors mostly made this argument....

13:31, 20 June 2011 (UTC) I still think Wayne County should be merged per WP:OCAT since, again, Macomb County only has 3 malls. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters...

Delete and up merge Peak coal to Category:Peak fuels. Looks like another OCAT category. I think only one of the members here even belongs in the category...

article or merge the cast list into the main article for the show. See WP:OCAT for why cast lists should not be done as categories. Dugwiki 15:59, 10 July...

English soccer (football) are players rather than non-playing individuals. OCAT. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 03:54, 12 December 2007 (UTC) Merge per both. Johnbod...

There's nothing affirmatively wrong with having the category. None of WP:OCAT seems to apply, no? --Bsherr (talk) 01:48, 27 October 2010 (UTC) And, yes...

background (or lack thereof) and deemed it fitfully irrelevant. This is WP:OCAT#Non-notable in list format. Bulldog123 14:06, 17 July 2007 (UTC) Speedy Close...

September 2011 (UTC) Delete, apparently trivial intersection, shared-name OCAT. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 21:17, 6 September 2011 (UTC) The above is...

Seems unlikely to expand. LeSnail (talk) 21:15, 8 May 2011 (UTC) Delete OCAT. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:10, 10 May 2011 (UTC) The above is preserved as...

biographies to Category:American biographies Nominator's rationale: UpMerge. OCAT, upmerge to parent. Vegaswikian (talk) 22:18, 21 February 2009 (UTC) Merge...

-- Prove It (talk) 12:59, 11 September 2007 (UTC) Merge per nom and WP:OCAT#Trivial intersection or narrow. I do have to say that I was intrigued by...

certainly happening here Alansohn (talk) 18:41, 25 November 2008 (UTC) Per WP:OCAT#EPONYMOUS: In general, avoid creating categories named after individual people...

overcategorization chaos. Ricky81682 (talk) 21:29, 27 July 2016 (UTC) Delete. WP:OCAT. We should only categorize shows by original broadcaster. --Rob Sinden (talk)...

Vegaswikian (talk) 03:32, 21 January 2012 (UTC) Delete per nom, per WP:OCAT#Shared names. Oculi (talk) 16:26, 21 January 2012 (UTC) Delete per nom. Another...

series) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT#SMALL. Only three articles, zero chance of expansion. The media files outside...

Rename - either rename in line with other inductee categories or delete as WP:OCAT by non-defining award. List exists in main article already. Otto4711 (talk)...

January 2010 (UTC) Upmerge all per nominator. Is this a quadrupal interstion? OCAT. While being a head coach can be important, I don't believe that being the...

Category:Native Hawaiian people.- choster (talk) 20:49, 24 October 2012 (UTC) Delete, OCAT, no article Hawaiian players of American football nor Native Hawaiian players...

named in the track listing of its parent album. Per standard Wikipedia WP:OCAT policy about this kind of thing, the band's article itself already serves...

11:49, 5 August 2007 (UTC) Weak Keep, as while I sympathise with SilkTork's OCAT concerns, I can't support deletion as long as we haven't established a clear...

can go either way.--T. Anthony (talk) 03:47, 2 May 2008 (UTC) Delete as OCAT intersection of politics and occupation. Do libertarian SciFi writers write...

Overcategorization; performers should not be categorized by performance. See Wikipedia:OCAT#Performers_by_performance Matchups (talk) 03:59, 17 February 2008 (UTC) Nominator...

WP:DUPCAT violation in addition to all of the ways it falls afoul of WP:OCAT.) Bearcat (talk) 02:14, 15 March 2015 (UTC) Upmerge to Category:Organizations...

Ohio (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT. Small category with little chance of expansion. Delete or upmerge to Category:Columbus...

May 2007 (UTC) Delete per nom as a superfluous eponymous category per WP:OCAT#Eponymous_categories_for_people. (well done Otto for nominating so many of...

Category:Led Zeppelin. -- Prove It (talk) 23:12, 28 March 2007 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCAT#Eponymous categories for people. Doczilla 04:03, 29 March 2007 (UTC) Delete...

completely arbitrary. Postdlf (talk) 00:58, 15 October 2008 (UTC) Delete per nom. Ocat for sure. Johnbod (talk) 02:16, 15 October 2008 (UTC) Delete overcategorisation...

racial identity or gender or sexual orientation. Accordingly, this is an WP:OCAT violation as an intersection of unrelated characteristics — and even if these...

no Cornish marine biologists?!? Cgingold 11:47, 2 October 2007 (UTC) WP:OCAT#Small with no potential for growth says "Avoid categories that will never...

history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: May be a case of WP:OCAT#Unrelated subjects with shared names. In mathematics, the category contains...

every possible sourced attribute which avoids the standard exclusions in WP:OCAT; that would lead to massive category clutter. Some editorial judgement is...

inappropriate performer-by-performance category, per WP:OCAT#Performers by performance (and in particular, WP:OCAT#Performers by venue). May even be a recreation;...

any other division of people by profession" because it falls afoul of WP:OCAT#Non-notable intersections by ethnicity, religion, or sexual preference, which...

predominantly results in subcategories that are too small to be legitimate as per WP:OCAT#SMALL. We only allow the splitout in a few specific cases where a merged...

custody (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAT. It is non-defining for a career criminal to die in prison custody. User:Namiba...

confusing, name. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 11:45, 31 July 2009 (UTC) Delete as WP:OCAT by shared name. We don't need a category for things whose only commonality...

don't take out cues from Italian WP. (2) Categorizing by day is more of an OCAT than by year, for the reason given by Postdlf below. (3) Consensus can change...

Merge all with the appropriate XXth century writers; the "women" part is OCAT. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:00, 27 January 2009 (UTC) Do you object to the...

of E50 gives an illustration of why the current categories result in WP:OCAT. – Fayenatic London 20:33, 3 June 2015 (UTC) Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT...

Delete, posthaste. older ≠ wiser 12:23, 13 November 2010 (UTC) Delete as WP:OCAT by shared naming characteristic. Bearcat (talk) 23:57, 13 November 2010 (UTC)...

Category:'N Sync is an unnecessary eponymous people category as described in WP:OCAT#Eponymous categories for people because the main article for 'N Sync already...

becoming increasingly popular. Rray (talk) 00:16, 5 February 2008 (UTC) Delete OCAT, what about match game? didn't people write their answers on cards? Note...

these characteristics for a number of reasons (WP:V, WP:OR, WP:SYNTH, WP:OCAT, arbitrariness, and yes, WP:BLP). Carlossuarez46 02:23, 6 September 2007...

this category is against them, most notably it is a clear example of WP:OCAT. What is next? "Category:Former towns of Ottoman Empire"? Come on. --No.13...

them and aren't narrow, arbitrary, trivial, etc. I don't see anything in WP:OCAT that specifically rules out triple intersections. - Stepheng3 (talk) 20:22...

boundary. Peterkingiron (talk) 18:29, 31 January 2010 (UTC) Delete as WP:OCAT by non-defining characteristic; seems like the underlying point of this is...

made to this section. The result of the debate was Listify & Delete per WP:OCAT. Per BrownHairedGirl, list already exists at FIFA World Cup awards. --Xdamrtalk...

scheme" (WP:MUSCAT), and thus explicitly an exception to the guideline WP:OCAT#Small with no potential for growth. Probably has potential for growth in...

{{subst:cfd-notify}} Cgingold (talk) 18:59, 4 February 2009 (UTC) Delete OCAT, not defining, should we further define them into Category:Female African-American...

(UTC) Not true. See WP:OCAT and many, many previous cfds for eponymous categories. Dugwiki 15:02, 21 August 2007 (UTC) WP:OCAT is a mere guideline, so...

talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete per WP:OCAT. I may be wrong, but I'm not aware of a practice of categorising academics...

00:36, 28 November 2010 (UTC) Well, I might be completely incorrect but WP:OCAT has been used as a guideline in AfD discussions for years now. Few have objected...

--BelovedFreak 20:35, 12 February 2008 (UTC) Delete for same reason as last time, OCAT intersection: no article Gay Neo-Nazis could be written NPOV & V. This is...

talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete. WP:OCAT#EPONYMOUS violation as an eponymous category for a person who doesn't have...

should be a list rather than a category, as suggested by both WP:CLS and WP:OCAT. I'll reiterate that changing a category to a list is not a loss of information...

restriction. -- 65.92.180.137 (talk) 23:04, 3 February 2013 (UTC) Delete OCAT, per nom. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:51, 6 February 2013 (UTC) The above is...

entire act), I don't think we should categorize performer by performance (WP:OCAT), which is what this would be if we used the argument that Jewish humor (most...

a decent rename option (there isn't) or if it was the only problem. (2) OCAT / unconvincing arguments that this is a defining characteristic of a company...

{{subst:cfd-notify}} (talk) 23:43, 21 July 2008 (UTC) Delete looks like OCAT to me. I'm okay with a list of students as well.--Lenticel (talk) 23:57,...

are trying to implement an overly strict/deletionist interpretation of WP:OCAT that the community has not expressed a consensus for Purplebackpack89≈≈≈≈...

keep or delete; rename per nom, feel free to renominate it to deal with the OCAT issues . Kbdank71 17:02, 16 April 2008 (UTC) Propose renaming Category:Australian...

violation.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:53, 4 September 2013 (UTC) Delete OCAT per shared name. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 07:48, 6 September 2013 (UTC) comment...

performed); The Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb (a stage show they performed). OCAT guidelines are clear. We don't categorize performances on the basis of who...

maybe. But Films? Since when was October Sky about coal-mining? Extreme WP:OCAT Bulldog123 15:58, 5 July 2007 (UTC) Delete - These types of "films about"...

overcategorization. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:56, 20 March 2013 (UTC) Delete, WP:OCAT like births below. – Fayenatic London 19:02, 20 March 2013 (UTC) delete,...

--Highway 231 (talk) 04:57, 22 January 2014 (UTC) Delete Classic example of OCAT by similarity of something about how the name came to be (eponymous cities...

and are therefore something that most editors apparently agree with. WP:OCAT in particular has been in place for quite a while and also has been supported...

good at writing it.--T. Anthony (talk) 15:43, 16 February 2009 (UTC) Delete OCAT by improper intersection. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:04, 18 February 2009 (UTC)...

talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete per WP:OCAT#Eponymous_categories_for_people. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 13:15...

(UTC) In that case, keep. If they wrote the song together, it would be WP:OCAT to have a separate category for each band member. - Presidentman talk · contribs...

main article for the band acts as the central hub for navigation. See WP:OCAT and many, many previous deletions. Dugwiki 15:30, 17 July 2007 (UTC) Keep...

why you're citing the "small with no potential for growth" portion of WP:OCAT because the nomination does not suggest deletion on that basis. The nomination...

enough articles to make a category useful to the reader, making this WP:OCAT. (If in future we do - because the WP community finds some individual incidents...

Carlossuarez46 (talk) 16:53, 7 December 2007 (UTC) Delete per nom and per WP:OCAT#SMALL. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 12:31, 8 December 2007 (UTC)...

IL (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT. Only three articles, unlikely to expand Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw...

be categorized under Category:Snipers, we don't need a subcat for 1, too OCAT. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 00:57, 12 March 2008 (UTC) Delete with option to recreate...

subject is to narrow for it to be anything but a stub. I think it violates WP:OCAT, specifically WP:OCLOCATION, which is among the reasons for deletion. This...

individual parliament that they happen to have served in; it seems quite WP:OCAT to me, frankly, because it leads to extreme category bloat in the case of...

for religous-based occupations. On the other hand, it may qualify as a WP:OCAT#Narrow intersection, as the number of members is so small that a single category...

is important/defining enough to merit treating it as an exception to WP:OCAT#AWARD? That to me seems to be the point of disagreement, and where productive...

the school renaming or not. However, "honorary degree recipients" is WP:OCAT#overcategorization by award. People's connections with the school may be...

Williams (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Delete Upmerge as needed. OCAT on a Hot Tin Roof -- Tennessee Williams wrote poetry? Who knew?? Apparently...

it to this cat. The remaining four comments did want to delete due to WP:OCAT, but I'd hardly say that it qualifies for WP:SNOW. Not quite. I'd suggested...

yes, I'd like to delete them, but I'm willing to relax the standards of WP:OCAT if others are as well. -- ☑ SamuelWantman 03:56, 8 August 2008 (UTC) I'm...

Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 19:16, 24 April 2008 (UTC) Keep per Wikipedia:OCAT#Non-defining_or_trivial_characteristic, per Roundhouse. Detail of high school...

system and the problem of burdening articles with too many categories (see WP:OCAT), but there is no good reason or pragmatic need to apply the same standards...

Marcocapelle (talk) 06:40, 14 October 2018 (UTC) I don't see this as WP:OCAT because of the shared name, but a useful way to diffuse Category:Lists of...

commonality between otherwise unrelated events, but is essentially just WP:OCAT on a superficially shared characteristic. The two-day category, for instance...

 :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 08:08, 20 September 2007 (UTC) Delete OCAT, there may or may not be differences between works by men and by women. Do...

guideline, and has the same status as other guidelines such as WP:CAT and WP:OCAT, which form the basis of discussions here. Why do we keep on having the go...

American actors (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Delete, per WP:OCAT, being Scots-Irish American and being an actor is not a valid intersection...

performer-by-performance.--Mike Selinker 23:36, 28 August 2007 (UTC) Delete as an OCAT, since while I appreciate the relevance of the collaboration, it is better...

Category:Wheelchair sports competitors Nominator's rationale: Only one entry; WP:OCAT#SMALL, unlikely to be expanded. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now...

Overcategorization. Lugnuts (talk) 07:12, 28 April 2008 (UTC) Delete as OCAT based on sex. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 19:17, 28 April 2008 (UTC) Delete per...

BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 01:00, 17 January 2014 (UTC) Delete both WP:OCAT#AWARD; these are described as the 6th most important award of Croatia - is...

categories and the overwhelming majority were blatantly useless and violated WP:OCAT. Flooding CFD with hundreds and hundreds of noms would have been just as...

going to add the US the the third world countries, this category can go as OCAT. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:00, 26 July 2008 (UTC) Delete as redundant cat.--Lenticel...

(UTC) Delete - This is also not a useful form of categorization; see WP:OCAT. Dr. Submillimeter 15:18, 4 January 2007 (UTC) delete Which top 40? If it...

he lived his teenage years in Indonesia How2what4 (talk) Please read WP:OCAT#Defining and tell me if Barack Obama will reasonably be identified as a TCK...

saying[149] I don't really mind. [SNIP] You should take further discussion to WT:OCAT and WP:CFD.. Then when I mentioned that failure at a CFD 6days later,[150]...

invented term that has no actual sourced usage whatsoever. Delete as WP:NOR/WP:OCAT; the head article's been tagged for BLPprod as it contains a list of people...

critics (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT#OPINION discourages categorizing people by their views. In addition, opposition...

journalists (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT by ethnicity. There can be no article written about a specific persons ethnicity...

– Muboshgu (talk) 22:10, 19 June 2013 (UTC) Delete OCAT by AWARD. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 04:36, 21 June 2013 (UTC) "OCAT by AWARD"? What does this mean? Sorry, I...

restate the long history of category discussions which led to things like WP:OCAT, or it's usercat relation which is transcluded to USERCAT. What I was trying...

extreme local level (that may be affiliated with a national group). This is WP:OCAT by a really trivial intersection; in no case does this contribute anything...

based on having the phrase without borders in the article's title. Clearly OCAT. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:21, 13 July 2008 (UTC) Keep - I just fixed up the...

(UTC) The 1st edit to Nadine Coyle after semiprotection expired was yet more OCAT vandalism from IP (who is now edit warring over it). I'm using iPhone, so...

should be made to this section. The result of the debate was merge, per WP:OCAT "However, not every verifiable fact (or the intersection of two or more such...

not needed.John Pack Lambert (talk) 20:10, 14 January 2013 (UTC) Delete OCAT by award. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 17:44, 16 January 2013 (UTC) The above is...

Jewish philosopher category an example of a non-notable intersection on WP:OCAT? These is no indication any of the Jewish American philosophers listed are...

and the other two are also in other relevant stub categories. tl;dr: WP:OCAT#SMALL. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 03:13, 30 May 2022 (UTC)...

parent categories simultaneously. Dugwiki 16:05, 27 August 2007 (UTC) Delete OCAT ethnicity + religion (or lack thereof) what's next Category:Basque Roman...

the parent had: categorization of unrelated subjects with shared names, WP:OCAT, etc. A suggestion was made at the time to kill the subcats, but they were...

of many instances. We finally have a real opportunity to get rid of this OCAT and SYNTH trivia without agenda getting in the way... Bulldog123 11:33, 16...

Carminis (talk) 21:36, 7 February 2008 (UTC) Delete per nom. Appears to be OCAT for many of the recipients as it's non-defining for them. A perfect candidate...

admins in the area of CfD, is to me another indication that this is indeed WP:OCAT. A list, to be sure; a category, no. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 14:32, 5 September...

2009 (UTC) Delete per both. Johnbod (talk) 14:56, 5 April 2009 (UTC) Delete OCAT on one-issue stance. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:35, 6 April 2009 (UTC) The...

category for each conflict could lead to nasty category pileups (and WP:OCAT). As the wars/conflicts/interventions are more or less related under the...

Crosspost --Chaswmsday (talk) 18:46, 1 October 2012 (UTC) God no. See WP:OCAT; we do not categorize articles by every fact they contain, and categorizing...

was not a rationale for deletion. CLN is a guideline, but so is Wikipedia:OCAT#Award recipients. They are not in conflict if interpreted in the way Postdlf...

talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Delete per WP:OCAT#Trivial_intersection: "Avoid intersections of two traits that are unrelated...

for speedy deletion. Otto4711 (talk) 19:39, 15 May 2009 (UTC) Delete as WP:OCAT. The film's article and navbox already serve as sufficient navigational hubs...

13 April 2009 (UTC) Upmerge to parent, distinction by sex is not needed. OCAT. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 20:37, 13 April 2009 (UTC) Reply: Distinction by sex...

links | watch | logs) Delete - This category is the very embodiment of WP:OCAT: extremely narrow in definition and very little prospect of growth. It's...

feces (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT#SMALL, unlikely to be expanded, doesn't seem like a common enough topic....

Pair (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT#SMALL, only five entries, not likely to expand. Ten Pound Hammer • (What...

several). Good Ol’factory (talk) 01:34, 21 March 2013 (UTC) Delete as WP:OCAT; a list in the article would be better. If the category is kept, it will...

read. Dr. Submillimeter 14:36, 13 April 2007 (UTC) Delete As above, see WP:OCAT#Award winners for explanation of why most awards use list articles for their...

category. Greg Grahame 01:00, 5 June 2007 (UTC) Delete per nom and per WP:OCAT#Performers_by_performance. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 19:05, 4...

really no reason a person would look for them that way. This is blatent OCAT pbp 23:45, 2 August 2013 (UTC) Merge per nom; each county in each state can...

singles (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT#SMALL, zero chance for expansion. Label was only in business for a year,...

cats but it does make a lot of sense. Shouldn't it be included in the WP:OCAT guideline? Marcocapelle (talk) 14:44, 6 October 2016 (UTC) I don't think...

series) (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT#SMALL. Only three articles, zero chance of expansion. The media files outside...

List of Rescue Me characters page and a bunch of redirects, which per WP:OCAT is just not enough. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 21:32,...

| talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAT. Contains only main article, character list and episode list. Ten Pound Hammer...

Category:Welsh people by occupation, and there's also no reason (other than OCAT) not to have this with subcategories for Category:Welsh civil servants in...

2008 (UTC) Delete unnecessary intersection by sex and occupation/event. OCAT. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 18:53, 23 January 2008 (UTC) Upmerge all to the equivalently-named...

Category:Descendants of James I of England (her grandfather). Or delete per OCAT:ARBITRARY STARTING POINT. There is Descendants of George I of Great Britain...

listify. I don't know where to begin. The category is obviously ambiguous and OCAT. Winning a $1 is winning the lottery. So being listed is subjective and probably...

2009 (UTC) Delete both - the former is clear-cut performer by performance OCAT and the second is unnecessary. Otto4711 (talk) 22:57, 3 March 2009 (UTC)...