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category A, B, and C, should generally be avoided. Shortcut WP:OCMISCWP:OCMISC Examples: People of the Moravian Church miscellaneous, Brass bands of other...

Delete per nom, it is a kind of WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:12, 18 March 2022 (UTC) Delete as overly broad, OCMISC.--Mvqr (talk) 12:48, 21 March 2022...

22:38, 1 January 2023 (UTC) Delete: "Non-Muslim" is a clear violation of WP:OCMISC. –Aidan721 (talk) 23:53, 1 January 2023 (UTC) Rename to Category:Western...

what LaundryPizza03 said before in the merge request: "By analogy to WP:OCMISC for categories, we shouldn't spin out lists of entries that don't fit into...

Category:Critics of Islam Nominator's rationale: merge, this is simply a case of WP:OCMISC, containing all left-over critics of Islam after diffusing by religion as...

07:57, 3 January 2022 (UTC) Support per nom, it looks like a case of WP:OCMISC. In addition it is questionable whether "listed as a Russian foreign agent"...

against its retention in comparison to those in favor of its retention. WP:OCMISC directly does not allow these types of "other" categories as they are treated...

redirects. While this is a maintenance and tracking category, I think WP:OCMISC applies here. Anything in this category should just be in the parent category...

2015 (UTC) Keep Carlstadt & Northfield/Delete All Others The spirit of WP:OCMISC really applies here: "It is not necessary to completely empty every parent...

(talk) 21:15, 27 August 2019 (UTC) Support per nom. It is also kind of WP:OCMISC because it contains all leftover articles which couldn't be categorized...

few other types. So non-profit organizations is essentially a kind of WP:OCMISC - "all other organizations". Something specific needs to be said about the...

talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Violates WP:OCMISC. –Aidan721 (talk) 15:35, 26 May 2022 (UTC) Oppose. The history of baseball...

Upmerge to Category:Members of the Romanian Academy Per WP:DEFINING and WP:OCMISC. The Category:Posthumous recognitions tree contains honors that are inherently...

Category:Television shows set in New York City, effectively making the category a WP:OCMISC. The fundamental difference is that these works are set in different fictional...

| talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCMISC: Wikipedia:Overcategorization#Miscellaneous categories; merge subcategories...

quite OCMISC, but a specific distinction between player and non-player roles, which is sensible in a sport context. If you're certain it is an OCMISC case...

crater. Depressions of unknown origin fail as a category by WP:SMALLCAT/WP:OCMISC but should go under Category:Depressions (geology), and would not be called...

having the rank of soldier, the category functions in fact as a case of WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 16:55, 6 December 2019 (UTC) The above is preserved...

disorders Category:Mental and behavioural disorders as a prime example of WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:30, 14 September 2021 (UTC) They're not quite miscellaneous...

| talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCMISC, Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 October 13#Category:Miscellaneous...

General to Category:Symptoms and signs Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:OCMISC, "general" is in this context just another word for "other. Marcocapelle...

of economics to other disciplines‎ Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:OCMISC, both of them are clearly a category for grouping miscellaneous things together...

Category:Unexplained deaths in London Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:NONDEF and WP:OCMISC, the articles have merely in common that the cause of death has not been...

seems like WP:OCMISC. If kept, by all means rename. - RevelationDirect (talk) 17:52, 6 January 2021 (UTC) Delete/Rename if Kept WP:OCMISC does not aid...

Animation231 (talk • contribs) 22:22, 5 July 2022 (UTC) Support per WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 04:58, 6 July 2022 (UTC) Comment Category:Animated...

Nominator's rationale: delete per precedent in this discussion and per WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:34, 5 February 2023 (UTC) Delete per nom. –LaundryPizza03...

SMasonGarrison 04:20, 15 April 2025 (UTC) Merge, this feels like a case of WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:03, 15 April 2025 (UTC) Merge, ill-defined intersection...

category. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:08, 22 April 2015 (UTC) Delete Per WP:OCMISC. This really seems to be a miscellaneous category for ones don't fit into...

Category:Errors reported by category header templates Nominator's rationale: WP:OCMISC JsfasdF252 (talk) 19:27, 8 January 2021 (UTC) Support, but we had better...

suggestion to upmerge received no opposition, and it is supported by WP:OCMISC. (non-admin closure) ~ RobTalk 17:46, 2 June 2016 (UTC) Propose renaming...

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NARROWCAT, WP:SMALLCAT and the spirit of WP:OCMISC. The categories with 1 article aren't really categorizing anything and all...

matters in English. --Paul_012 (talk) 23:53, 29 June 2025 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:47, 29 June 2025 (UTC) Delete per nom. -- Just N...

(UTC) There is also Category:People by status. It feels as a case of WP:OCMISC but not sure whether merging all of it is the best solution. Marcocapelle...

discussion. An alternative is to merge this to the parent category per WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:56, 10 March 2022 (UTC) Support per previous discussions...

links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:NONDEF and WP:OCMISC. Except for one article Frederic S. Lee, the term "heterodox" is not defining...

places in films are defining, while fictional places is a matter of WP:OCMISC unless multiple films are set in the same fictional location. In the end...

nationality. Good Ol’factory (talk) 22:44, 11 February 2021 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCMISC. The parent category is Category:Muslims by branch but this category is...

watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: To me this looks like a case of WP:OCMISC. I'm happy to be corrected if being from an unknown gens is defining for...

Misuse of the category namespace (categories are not ordered like lists); WP:OCMISC; attempts to avoid necessary diffusion of Category:Water rides. The Water...

entities (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCMISC. The two current country data templates should be moved to a new category...

but at the same time I wonder if the target should exist at all, per WP:OCMISC, as the target category mostly means that companies in the category are...

and local politicians" is a case of WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:29, 30 May 2023 (UTC) I don't think WP:OCMISC is relevant here. It precisely states...

derivation elm cultivar to Category:Elm cultivars Nominator's rationale: WP:OCMISC * Pppery * it has begun... 23:29, 13 December 2021 (UTC) Merge manually...

ֆօʍɛɮօɖʏǟռʏɮօɖʏ05 (talk) 15:35, 21 October 2020 (UTC) Delete as a case of WP:OCMISC, this is a collection of films not set in a real location, the films have...

Teachers and parents would be okay but third parties would be a case of WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:30, 6 December 2021 (UTC) Relisted to generate a...

Category:Schools of economic thought Nominator's rationale: upmerge per WP:OCMISC - Heterodox economics is everything outside mainstream economics. Marcocapelle...

with nom for 95%, but "outside Scandinavia" is an unnecessary case of WP:OCMISC. Besides, once renamed, a few articles should be manually moved to Category:Vikings...

design for. There may be a category in there somewhere (or not) but this WP:OCMISC grab bag doesn't aid navigation. RevelationDirect (talk) 01:28, 28 July...

• (contribs) 04:58, 16 September 2020 (UTC) Convert to Admin Cat Per WP:OCMISC can't be a content category.RevelationDirect (talk) The above is preserved...

Jewish texts to Category:Jewish texts Nominator's rationale: upmerge per WP:OCMISC, we usually don't classify things by what they are not. Marcocapelle (talk)...

Category:Hebrew Bible Nominator's rationale: upmerge, the category is used as a WP:OCMISC category. There are at least three types of articles in it: articles about...

Category:Monuments and memorials to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCMISC This is a textbook case of a miscellaneous category. Don't know what else...

concepts" categories currently in en wp and that looks very much like WP:OCMISC. I'd support phasing out most/all of Category:Concepts by field, but not...

of America Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SMALLCAT and WP:OCMISC) WP:SCOUTSTYLE emphasizes how unlikely it is that local scouting groups...

SnowFire (talk) 02:29, 23 April 2022 (UTC) Delete, clear example of WP:OCMISC in the context of categorization by location. Being set in a real location...

(UTC) Yar, that is the plan. Though I would avoid a "pet" subcat, per WP:OCMISC, since it's just the default/"other" pile (i.e., dogs kept for no particular...

buidhe 04:26, 13 May 2021 (UTC) Support nomination in principle, per WP:OCMISC, but merging is not needed since all articles are already in a private primary...

Marcocapelle (talk) 10:47, 19 July 2015 (UTC) Support The spirit of WP:OCMISC really applies here: "It is not necessary to completely empty every parent...

much like a "remainders" or "not otherwise applicable" category per WP:OCMISC. Not every article needs to be subdivided into some category of a given...

game characters added 22 June Nominator's rationale: merge, a case of WP:OCMISC, the subcategories have nothing specifically in common with each other apart...

than once a year and more frequently than weekly are plain cases of WP:OCMISC though. And creating a new category for more than 4 times a year is a case...

to be merged. kwan-in (talk) 00:19, 11 July 2018 (UTC) Merge OVERLAPCAT OCMISC  — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs)  18:00, 11 July 2018 (UTC) The above is preserved...

TheDeviantPro (talk) 04:28, 2 May 2020 (UTC) Support per nom, this is a case of WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 03:36, 2 May 2020 (UTC) Question: @UnitedStatesian:...

images (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:OCMISC. As per this previous CfD, the parent category has uncategorized images...

discourage. Peterkingiron (talk) 21:24, 23 September 2015 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCMISC. These all appear to be grouped elsewhere in the Category:Engineering universities...

Category:Hebrew Bible Nominator's rationale: upmerge, the category is used as a WP:OCMISC category. There are at least three types of articles in it: articles about...

4 April 2026 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 23:35, 4 April 2026 (UTC) Delete textbook WP:OCMISC. It doesn't aid navigation to group...

18 February 2019 (UTC) Upmerge To Category:Ohio State University per WP:OCMISC. No issue with any of these topics, but this is essentially a grab bag miscellaneous...

We categorise by what things are, not by what they are not. This is a WP:OCMISC category. – Fayenatic London 10:55, 7 April 2021 (UTC) Upmerge per Animalparty...

a different namespace) as the miscellaneous categories mentioned at WP:OCMISC. Nyttend (talk) 03:48, 5 February 2017 (UTC) Delete as confusing --Lenticel...

these seem to overlap. I also have broader concerns though that this is WP:OCMISC since this is under Category:Muslims by branch but seems to be for Muslims...

redirects to lists St3095 (?) 04:31, 23 October 2020 (UTC) Support per WP:OCMISC and per precedent. Marcocapelle (talk) 11:36, 23 October 2020 (UTC) Support...

links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Feels very much like a WP:OCMISC to me. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:25, 2 May 2024 (UTC) Delete per nom...

| history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:OCMISC. Besides, the main article of this category is Organizations which is obviously...

Western genre"? --Altenmann >talk 04:14, 6 February 2025 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCMISC and/or WP:OCSUBJECTIVE. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:45, 6 February 2025 (UTC)...

Upmerge per nom. Bearcat (talk) 19:59, 18 January 2015 (UTC) Merge per WP:OCMISC and Bearcat's analysis. RevelationDirect (talk) 04:39, 19 January 2015 (UTC)...

greater treatment and research funding. In this interpretation it fails WP:OCMISC. Diseases considered by Wikipedia editors to be neglected. In that interpretation...

categorise on that basis would be a misapplication of the principle behind WP:OCMISC. I'm not familiar enough with Ottoman terminology to suggest an alternative...

create subcategories when people also perfectly fit in a parent category. WP:OCMISC is the most extreme case of that principle. There are Romanian Catholic...

March 2012 (UTC) Comment since this isn't an article category, does that OCMISC apply? It would be useful to categorize non-article content by using misc...

rather vague. PopePompus (talk) 22:02, 16 February 2023 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCMISC. - jc37 00:51, 17 February 2023 (UTC) Delete per WP:SMALLCAT. Marcocapelle...

behavioural disorders Nominator's rationale: upmerge as an obvious case of WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:06, 29 September 2021 (UTC) Upmerge per nom. Definitely...

what LaundryPizza03 said before in the merge request: "By analogy to WP:OCMISC for categories, we shouldn't spin out lists of entries that don't fit into...

Category:Persecution of Greeks in the Ottoman Empire Nominator's rationale: merge per WP:OCMISC, this is an "all-other" category (other than the 20th century). Marcocapelle...

confusing. Estopedist1 (talk) 09:13, 10 March 2023 (UTC) Merge per WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 14:18, 10 March 2023 (UTC) Merge per Marcocapelle....

categories Mason (talk) 02:23, 6 April 2024 (UTC) Support in the spirit of WP:OCMISC, most films about real intelligence agencies are already in the subcategories...

Category:Fictional characters from the future Nominator's rationale: WP:OCMISC. We should not have a remainder category. We should create categories for...

locomotives. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 18:26, 3 March 2023 (UTC) That sounds like WP:OCMISC though. - RevelationDirect (talk) 21:25, 4 March 2023 (UTC) Delete Too common...

Fashion tree. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:28, 19 May 2026 (UTC) Merge as WP:OCMISC. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 00:53, 26 May 2026 (UTC) The above is preserved as...

(talk) 23:19, 27 October 2025 (UTC) Agree that it seems to be a case of WP:OCMISC but it is a huge tree that needs to be nominated. Marcocapelle (talk) Relisted...

Andy's edits 12:01, 13 March 2025 (UTC) An arbitrary limit would violate WP:OCMISC. –Aidan721 (talk) 14:30, 13 March 2025 (UTC) It would not. Andy Mabbett...

obvious fact that they are about ISIL, very disparate events, a sort of WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:07, 3 May 2026 (UTC) Agree with @Marcocapelle on...

history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Clearly violates WP:OCMISC. We should not just group together all years before 1750. There is no significance...

February 2025 (UTC) @Nederlandse Leeuw: "general" sounds a bit too much WP:OCMISC to me. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:50, 19 February 2025 (UTC) @Marcocapelle It...

extinct species, which makes this category redundant if true. Fits into WP:OCMISC / (borderline) WP:ARBITRARYCAT. –Aidan721 (talk) 17:46, 15 January 2025...

parent category. – numbermaniac 07:59, 30 June 2025 (UTC) Delete per WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:34, 1 July 2025 (UTC) Delete per nom. UsernamesArePublic...

history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: Obvious example of WP:OCMISC. –Aidan721 (talk) 01:42, 9 February 2024 (UTC) Alt rename to Category:Medieval...

| history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:OCMISC. No need to merge, the articles are already in other subcategories of Category:Shinto...

men) need specific "civilians" subcategories. To me it seems a case of WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:14, 27 May 2025 (UTC) Generally speaking men are...

Category:National League standings templates Nominator's rationale: WP:OCMISC. –Aidan721 (talk) 02:30, 27 April 2023 (UTC) The above is preserved as an...

of Australia Nominator's rationale: As named, the category violates WP:OCMISC for an arbitrary cut-off. The vast majority of the articles are related...

22:26, 12 October 2024 (UTC) Merge "music of unknown origin" is a clear WP:OCMISC. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:57, 18 October 2024 (UTC) I don't agree,...

miscellaneous woodwind instruments to Category:Modern musical instruments per WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:33, 23 September 2024 (UTC) Support: Saw this earlier...

Category:American military personnel, similarly its sibling categories, per WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 05:36, 14 November 2023 (UTC) I'd support the upmerge...

Nominator's rationale: Manually populated maintenance category that fails WP:OCMISC. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 20:41, 5 January 2026 (UTC) Relisted to generate...

subcats? SMasonGarrison 05:44, 5 January 2026 (UTC) Merge in the spirit of WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:26, 5 January 2026 (UTC) Keep Yes it's needed because...

non-binary gender. And purge articles with characters with unknown gender per WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:42, 27 May 2023 (UTC) P.S. The article 343 Guilty...

there.John Pack Lambert (talk) 02:21, 17 December 2025 (UTC) Rename Per WP:OCMISC, it is not helpful to categorize articles by what they are not. –LaundryPizza03...

Category:Foreign units of the Waffen-SS Nominator's rationale: According to WP:OCMISC, categories should not be called "non-..." (can't define something by something...

| history | links | watch | logs) Nominator's rationale: delete per WP:OCMISC. The articles are already somewhere else in the shrines tree too. Marcocapelle...

2023 (UTC) Merge per nom. An unnecessary subcategory layer that fails WP:OCMISC. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 14:31, 13 November 2023 (UTC) Merge, we normally...

Category:University of Oxford Nominator's rationale: manually merge per WP:OCMISC, these are not articles about terminology, they rather are articles about...

logs) Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT, per its own description it is WP:OCMISC (non-Christian mystics) - car chasm (talk) 01:56, 1 February 2023 (UTC)...

Cbl62 (talk) 20:28, 14 January 2024 (UTC) This would still violate WP:OCMISC in my opinion. –Aidan721 (talk) 22:12, 16 January 2024 (UTC) Merge Since...

Category:Swedish nobility Nominator's rationale: delete/merge/split per WP:OCMISC. Marcocapelle (talk) 07:23, 29 October 2023 (UTC) Support per nom. –Aidan721...

per nom. The lack of direct articles shows we have an issue akin to WP:OCMISC, not that these are de facto container categories. - RevelationDirect (talk)...

dietary restrictions while Kosher style do not . This category feels like WP:OCMISC since it nearly empties Category:Jewish restaurants parent category and...

you'll agree that that criteria isn't very clear. It almost borders on WP:OCMISC - i.e. what's leftover when we define the rest of those. This really sounds...

Marcocapelle (talk) 05:44, 13 May 2026 (UTC) Merge per Marcocapelle as WP:OCMISC. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 23:57, 13 May 2026 (UTC) The above is preserved as...

January 2025 (UTC) Is there a purpose to the NA categories? They seem like WP:OCMISC. So instead of doing these piecemeal, is there a reason that they all are...

Whether these were German or not, these are still clear violations of WP:OCMISC. Categories should be defined by what they are, not what they are not. -...

against its retention in comparison to those in favor of its retention. WP:OCMISC directly does not allow these types of "other" categories as they are treated...

is an WP:ARBITRARYCAT or WP:OCMISC catch-all. (Incidentally, I'm afraid Category:Celtic topics will also be an WP:OCMISC catch-all). Category:Ancient...

be in this tree if we followed that logic. In other words, this is an WP:OCMISC/WP:SHAREDNAME/WP:ARBITRARYCAT cat. But I would recommend trying to manually...

1951 to Category:20th century in spaceflight Nominator's rationale: WP:OCMISC. Manually merge as some articles are/should be in Category:1940s in spaceflight...

this category as it might be a case of WP:OCASSOC, WP:ARBITRARYCAT or WP:OCMISC. Ippantekina (talk) 12:14, 25 February 2023 (UTC) Delete: this is a loose...

Marcocapelle (talk) 01:50, 15 November 2025 (UTC) Merge Seems like an WP:OCMISC example. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 05:02, 15 November 2025 (UTC) Merge per nom and others...