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Planned CFD Award Nominations[edit]

Category:S.E.A. Write Award

Category:Recipients of the Nachingwea Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING
The Nachingwea Medal is an award from Mozambique with stated purpose of recognizing those who defend human rights, fight poverty, or combat natural disasters. In contrast, all 3 of the articles are artists which mention the award in passing: sculptor Alberto Chissano, painter Malangatana Valente Ngwenya, and poet José Craveirinha. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Texas Legislative Medal of Honor (Not Ready)[edit]

  • Propose Deleting [[:Category:Recipients of the Texas Legislative Medal of HonorSuperscript text]]
Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and likely WP:PERFCAT)
The Nachingwea Medal is an award from Mozambique with stated purpose of recognizing those who defend human rights, fight poverty, or combat natural disasters. In contrast, all 3 of the articles are artists which mention the award in passing: sculptor Alberto Chissano, painter Malangatana Valente Ngwenya, and poet José Craveirinha. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING
The Sport Australia Hall of Fame Awards recognizes Australian athletes for their performance much earlier in their lives. This category groups athletes from different sports and different eras in one large category while the articles are already well grouped under their respective sports which better aid navigation. This award tends to get mentioned in a list with other awards, although there are exceptions where it's in the lede or omitted entirely, so it doesn't seem generally defining. The contents of the category are already listified at here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We previously deleted similar national All Sports halls of fame for Canada here, Germany here, Scotland here, and New Zealand here. -

Category:CIA (Not Ready)[edit]

Distinguished Intelligence Cross 1st

Intelligence Medal of Merit 4th Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal 5th [[Career Intelligence Medal] 6th Career Commendation Medal 7th

Exceptional Service Medallion 9th Hostile Action Service Medal 10th Agency Seal Medal 11th Gold Retirement Medallion 12th Silver Retirement Medallion 13th Bronze Retirement Medallion 14th

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal is the 3rd highest award issued by the United States Intelligence Community after the National Intelligence Medal for Valor (2nd highest) and National Intelligence Cross (1st highest) (Source, Page 12). This award is primarily for a long career of "sustained, selfless service" (same source) and the recipients--at least the ones we know about--are high ranking career employees. These people seem more defined by categories like Category:U.S. Secretaries of Defense, Category:U.S. Directors of National Intelligence and Category:Directors of Naval Intelligence. If we decide to delete this category, the known winners are already listed here. -
Note: Notified OberRanks as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Espionage. –

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Category:Medals (Not Ready)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME and WP:OVERLAPCAT
When this category was created a year ago, I think the intent was to group articles about the parts of the actual physical medals (clasps, ribbons) and the technical term for that hardware is "devices". We don't have a main article yet but that meaning is listed in the Device disambiguation page. Since it was created, the vague category name has meant that this is accidentally being used instead of Category:Orders, decorations, and medals, mostly the Category:International orders, decorations, and medals subcategory, so I'll also purge the category if this nomination passes. - (maybe not ready, just create and delete this. Figure out exact definition (accessory or component parts), see also Category:United States military award devices.

Category:Canada Soccer Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Canada Soccer Hall of Fame was created in 1997 and started inducting members in 2000 to recognize the lifetime achievement of association football/soccer people. The award doesn't aid navigation because it focuses on the earlier career success of winners we already have more specific categories for under Category:Soccer people in Canada like Category:Pan American Games competitors for Canada and Category:Ottawa Intrepid players. Most of the articles mention the award in passing with other awards, although a few mention it in the lede, so it doesn't seem generally defining. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Queen's Scholars (British Malaya and Singapore) (Not Ready)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Colombo Plan is a regional intergovernmental organization representing countries in the Asia-Pacific region which encourages economic development. One of their programs provides scholarships for Asian students to study at a university abroad, and the articles are already in the alumni category for that school. I'm sure the award was defining for those promising young people but Wikipedia doesn't have articles on promising young people. By the time these people are notable, the award is no longer defining and only gets a passing mention usually in the education, or awards sections in articles like J. Soedjati Djiwandono, Seah Kian Peng or any others you want to click on. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Categorgy:Parade High School All-Americans (Not Ready)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:TOPTEN)
Parade (magazine) is an insert in American Sunday newspapers known for puzzles, advice columns, comics and celebrity interviews. They created an annual award/front-page article called the "Parade High School All-American" that started with boys basketball in 1957 and expanded to other sports and picks dozens winners in each sport each year. These were undoubtedly promising players but, if you look at the only list article we have, Parade All-America Boys Basketball Team, most of the winners don't have articles and if they do, it's because of their post-high school athletic career. And we can't just create articles for athletes that peaked in high school for whom this award might be defining: even the very inclusive WP:NSPORTS draws a hard line for the WP:NOTABILITY of high school players in the WP:NHSPHSATH section which requires "prolonged coverage" beyond a one-week issue of a magazine. WP:OCAWARD is clear: "A category of award recipients should exist only if receiving the award is a defining characteristic for the large majority of its notable recipients." We already have a list for boy's basketball and I copied the other contents here so no work is lost if anyone wants to start other additional list articles. -
  • Background This category came before CFD in 2013 here and ended in no consensus prior to the stricter wording of WP:OCAWARD. This year, we deleted similar American high school athletic award categories here and here. -

The entire "Eisner Award winners" tree[edit]

15 more subcategories
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING
The Eisner Awards are given each year at San Diego Comic-Con for excellence with comic books as part of the convention circuit. There are only 20 Wikipedia subcategories but currently 37 awards are each year (source). Within the articles, the award is typically mentioned in passing with may of the other comic honors so it doesn't seem defining. All of the category contents are listed in List of Eisner Award winners for any reader interested in the topic.-

Category:Clio Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC but not WP:OCAWARD and, for the parent category, WP:NARROWCAT
The Clio Awards are a prominent advertising award and might be defining for articles actually about specific TV commercials or other ads. The problem is that this category is a jumble of different types of articles with varying associations to the topic including major companies that sponsor commercials (Volkswagen & Quaker Oats Company), a product that the commercials advertise (Alka-Seltzer), various people in a variety of professions involved with creating commercials (director Meiert Avis, voice over artist Alan Bleviss, actress Rosemary Rice, graphic designer Georg Olden, agency executive Stan Freberg), an advertising agency (FCB), and just three actual commercials (Little Mikey, Aaron Burr advertisment, Cat Herders). No objection to recreating a more narrow category for that last group after a clear list is created in the main article.
If this subcategory is deleted, the parent category will only have 2 articles with little growth potential. -

Open CFD Award Nominations[edit]

Category:Recipients of the Civil Administration Medal (Sarawak)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and the spirit of WP:C1, an unpopulated category
The Civil Administration Medal is a minor award from the Sarawak state of Malaysia but the only article in the category is George Chan Hong Nam which doesn't even mention the award. I don't know if I can say the category is "listified" since there is only the 1 article but it is now linked right here in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Military Merit Cross (Mecklenburg-Schwerin)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD & WP:NONDEFINING
The Military Merit Cross (Mecklenburg-Schwerin) was given out by the Mecklenburg-Schwerin division of the German Empire from 1848 to 1918, although the vast majority of recipients here are royalty or military leaders from other areas of Germany. The biography articles, like Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen and Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, generally mention this award in passing with other honours so it doesn't seem defining. There was only a partial list in the article so I expanded it for any reader interested in the topic. -

Successful CFD Award Nominations[edit]

Category:Prix Sainte-Beuve winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: For the subcategory per WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING; for the parent category per WP:C2F: one eponymous page
The Sainte-Beuvee Prize is a French literary award that has two categories: "novels" (or "poetry") and "essays" (or "critics"). I went through about half the biography articles and most don't mention the award at all and the rest mention it in passing so it doesn't seem remotely defining. The contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. (No conceptual objection to the parent category, but the only direct content is the main article.) -

Category:Recipients of the Ananda Purashkar[edit]

Nominator's rationale: For the subcategory per WP:OCAWARD, WP:NONDEFINING and maybe WP:NOTPROMO
The Ananda Puraskar is an Indian literary award for Bengali literature given by the ABP (Ananda Bazar Patrika) Media Group. A significant number of the recipients are long-term employees of ABP but it's not clear if this is an in-house promotional award or is issued more broadly. The articles don't treat this award as defining, generally mentioning it in a list with other honours. The contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Massey Lectures[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC and the spirit of WP:C2F, one eponymous page
The Massey Lectures are given at Massey College which are typically published into books, so there is a well populated Category:Massey Lectures books subcategory. The only thing directly in this category are the main article and a movie, based on a book, based on a lecture. If that association doesn't sound defining the editors who wrote Payback (2012 film) didn't think so either because the article doesn't even mention the Massey Lectures. (The only real growth potential is to add the speakers, but we've consistently found that categorizing people by individual lecture is WP:PERFCAT.) -

Category:Holloway brooch recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:PERFCAT, WP:OCAWARD, & WP:OVERLAPCAT
Suffragettes who were arrested in London were often detained at HM Prison Holloway. The WSPU gave out the Holloway brooch to recognize core members who had sentences there as part of suffrage jewellery. While these women are not defined by an automatic award, they are defined for being suffragette activists and are all already somewhere under the Category:Suffragettes tree. I previously added any category contents that were not already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. (Alternatively, if we think the underlying imprisonment stay is defining, we could rename and broaden the category to Category:Inmates of HM Prison Holloway.) -

Category:KOICA's fellowship program[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per the spirit of WP:C2F, one eponymous page, and potentially WP:OVERLAPCAT
The Yonsei-KOICA Master's Degree Program is a Korean scholarship that help students from other countries study at Yonsei University. That is the only article in this category and, if you populated it with recipients, that would overlap with Category:Yonsei University alumni. -

Category:Prix Emmanuel Roblès recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING
The Emmanuel Roblès Prize is a French literary award for an author's first novel. The award might be initially defining for these young authors but, by the time they are notable enough for a Wikipedia article, this award is usually mentioned in passing with other honours. This is one of many French literary award categories created in late 2016/early 2017 by a banned editor. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Ulloor Award[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME, WP:OCAWARD, and WP:NONDEFINING
There are 3 different "Ulloor Awards" issued by 2 different organisations that are all named after renowned Malayalam poet Ulloor S. Parameswara Iyer. In practice the 2 articles in this category don't treat the award as defining, (1) mentioning it in passing with other honours or (2) not mentioning it at all. The recipients are already listified here, here and here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Gödel Lecturers[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT, WP:OCAWARD & WP:NONDEFINING
The Association for Symbolic Logic hosts an annual lecture series called the Gödel Lecture and this category groups mathematicians who gave it. These speakers also receive an award for coming but this performance isn't treated as defining in the biography articles, generally getting mentioned in passing with other honours. The category contents are already listed right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Prix Roger Caillois recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING
The Roger Caillois Prize is a French literary award that has three categories: French-speaking authors, Latin American authors, and Essayists. A majority of the biography articles make no reference to the award at all so it doesn't seem remotely defining. This is one of many French literary award categories created in late 2016/early 2017. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Jibanananda Das Award[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD, WP:NONDEFINING
The Jibanananda Das Award is an award for translating poetry from a native Indian languages to English and this award is for the people who received it. The award must not be very defining since a majority of these articles don't so much as mention it. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of Mazharul Islam Poetry Award[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING and WP:OCAWARD
The Mazharul Islam Poetry Award is a Bangladeshi award named after Mazharul Islam (poet). Of the 10 biographies in the category, Belal Chowdhury and the other 9 don't mention it at all so it's not treated as defining. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Ark Prize of the Free Word winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and maybe a slow-motion WP:TOPTEN
Each year, New Flemish Magazine issues a "symbolic award" recognizing a controversial Flemish writer by running an annual article titled the Ark Prize of the Free Word. This awards is mentioned in passing with other honours in these biography articles so it's not treated as defining. The recipients are already listified here within the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Saint Ignatius of Antioch[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:OCAWARD, WP:NONDEFINING and, for the parent cat, WP:SMALLCAT
The Order of Saint Ignatius of Antioch is an award by the Syriac Catholic Church. The Patriarch of Antioch is automatically the Grand Master nearly all of this category consists of those patriarchs who are already well categorized uner Category:Syriac Catholic Patriarchs of Antioch. The only exception is billionaire and Deputy Prime Minister Issam Fares whose article does not even mention this award. (No conceptual objection to the parent category but it only contains this subcategory and the main article.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic.

Category:Recipients of the Centenary Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:ARBITRARYCAT, WP:OCAWARD, and WP:DNWAUC
Australia's centennial was in 2001 and, to celebrate, the Centenary Medal was automatically given to every living Australian who was 100 years old. (If you were born on or before 31 December 1901, you go the award; if you were born on 1 January 1902, you were out of luck.) 14,000 additional medals were widely handed out to others that year but the only thing these articles have in common is that they do not treat this award as defining including actor Russell Crowe, organic winemaker Gil Wahlquist, prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, rabbi John Levi, Olympian Bill Roycroft, and zookeeper Steve Irwin. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We've previously deleted categories for similar anniversary awards here, here, and here. -
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Extended content

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Grand Warrior[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING
We don't have a main article for the Order of the Grand Warrior but it's a Kenyan award for giving/risking your life to save another. The only article in this category is Salah Farah, who died fighting off a terrorist attack, and is definitely defined by that event but not the award. There wasn't a list (if you can call 1 article a "list") so I added his name to the Orders, decorations, and medals of Kenya article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Categories for recipients of Polish civil awards with no main article[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:DNWAUC, WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING
There's no requirement that all categories have a main article but, in these cases, it would really help to understand the importance of the awards and--for the last 2 of them--what they're for. The biography articles generally mention these awards in a list with other honours so they're not treated as defining regardless. I do suspect that all of these awards are notable enough for an article which will need a list of recipients. To make sure no work is lost, I copied all the current contents right here. -
Extended content
Current articles in the nomination for "Categories for recipients of Polish civil awards with no main article"[edit]

Category:Recipients of the Gaudeamus International Interpreters Award[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING
The Dutch Gaudeamus Foundation hosts an international music festival that includes the Gaudeamus International Interpreters Award which is a competition for interpretation of contemporary music. The recipients of this award generally mention it in passing with other honours so it doesn't seem defining. The recipient are already listed right here in main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Epigram Books Fiction Prize[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NOTPROMO, WP:OCAWARD, WP:NONDEFINING
The Epigram Books Fiction Prize is a literary award from Singapore without a main article--although we do have one for Epigram Books--and this category groups two authors who won it. Every single book listed in those biography articles was published through Epigram (see here & here) and a publisher giving their own authors awards doesn't seem defining. The category contents are already listified right here in the company article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Prix Valery Larbaud winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD, WP:NONDEFINING
As a memorial to French writer Valery Larbaud, each year the Valery Larbaud Prize is given to a book "that Larbaud would have loved". It's sort of a sweet tribute. This category groups authors who wrote the winning books but those biography articles don't treat this award as defining, generally listing it with other honours. This is one of many French literary award categories created in late 2016/early 2017. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Gifford Lectures[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT, WP:OCAWARD, and WP:NONDEFINING
The Gifford Lectures is an annual lectures series that rotates between four Scottish universities and this category groups people who gave the talk. It's considered an honour to be invited but this performance isn't treated as defining in the biography articles, generally getting mentioned in passing. If you look at the speakers who also won the Nobel Prize, it becomes crystal clear which award is defining and which is not: Albert Schweitzer, Henri Bergson, Roger Penrose, Werner Heisenberg. The category contents are already listed right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Georges Matheron Lectureship recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT, WP:OCAWARD & WP:NONDEFINING
The International Association for Mathematical Geosciences hosts several lecture series including the Distinguished Lecture, the Bullerwell Lecture, and this one, the Georges Matheron Lecture. It's considered an honour to be invited but this performance isn't treated as defining in the biography articles, generally getting mentioned in a list with other honours. The category contents are already listed right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Nigerian film award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING
Typically at CFD we review categories for recipients of specific awards and discuss whether they are defining. In contrast, this category groups 93 loose articles of actors and actress who won any award for acting. There are sibling categories for Italy, the Czech Republic and India, but those are all to group subcategories for specific awards not individual biographies. I don't see a navigational value for this category that you can't get from the Category:Nigerian actors tree. -
  • Note I'm the one that added the container cat header to the 3 sibling categories. -

Category:United States Distinguished Marksman[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING
Typically at CFD we review a category for recipients of a specific award and discuss whether it is defining. In contrast, this category groups 126 loose articles of soldiers, people in the firearm industry, or athletes who won any award for marksmanship including those from the US Military, from the Civilian Marksmanship Program, and from USA Shooting, the Olympic recognized body for shooting sports. This creates a non-defining grouping that comingles General Pershing, self-defense instructor Massad Ayoob, and Olympic medalist Tommy Pool. -

Category:The Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies Award[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:NONDEFINING
We don't have a main article on either award but we do have two redirects that both point to the Hellenic Society for Systemic Studies, a Greek scientific organization. These biography articles don't treat the award as defining, mentioning it in passing with other honors (except for one the category creator added to the intro). The contents are already listified right here in the organization article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Fraternity Award[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD, WP:PERFCAT, and WP:NONDEFINING
The Fraternity Award is given to artists by the B'nai B'rith of Uruguay and consists of a trip to Israel and Europe so the winner can perform a concert, exhibition, play, or lecture. It sounds like a neat cross-cultural exchange but the biography articles don't treat the performance as defining, generally mentioning it in passing. The contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Pingat Bakti Setia[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD, WP:ARBITRARYCAT, & WP:NONDEFINING
The Pingat Bakti Setia (English: Long Service Award) is an award from Singapore that is automatically given to teachers and other government employees that have completed 25 years of service. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD, WP:PERFCAT, WP:NONDEFINING
The American University in Cairo has an annual project where they pick a worthy book in Arabic, translate it into English, and then publish it through their University Press. The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature definitely fits the school's cross-cultural mission. This category groups authors who wrote the winning books but those biography articles don't treat this award as defining, generally listing it with other honours. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We deleted another university award/publishing deal category right here. -

Category:Recipients of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD, WP:PERFCAT, WP:NONDEFINING
The American University in Cairo has an annual project where they pick a worthy book in Arabic, translate it into English, and then publish it through their University Press. The Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature definitely fits the school's cross-cultural mission. This category groups authors who wrote the winning books but those biography articles don't treat this award as defining, generally listing it with other honours. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We deleted another university award/publishing deal category right here. -

Category:Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar Puraskar[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:C1, an empty category, WP:V, and presumably WP:OCAWARD
Based on the parent category, I'm assuming that the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar Puraskar is an Indian literary award. (I Googled this and it's related to Sahitya Akademi but I'm not sure past that.) The only article in the category is Eli Ahmed which doesn't even mention thhe award--or Sahitya Akademi--so it should not be in the category. Indian topics are under-represented on English Wikipedia so this award may very well be notable, but the right place to add that content is with a list article. -

Category:Prix Louis Guilloux winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD, WP:NONDEFINING
The Louis-Guilloux Prize is a literary award from France given to individual books that reflect "the humane qualities of generous thought, refusing all dualism and all sacrifice of individuality in favour of ideological abstractions". This category groups authors who wrote the winning books but those biography articles don't treat this award as defining, generally listing it with other honours. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Fellows of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING generally
The Society of Scribes & Illuminators is a professional society. Fellows means a lot of different things but here it seems to be a cross between a fraternal lodge induction and an interview: you have to be nominated and seconded and submit work samples. (The process is outlined here. This seems like a legitimate credential but the 6 articles don't treat it as defining, generally mentioning it in passing. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Knights of the Order of Merit of Savoy[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD & WP:NONDEFINING
We don't have a main article on the Order of Merit of Savoy but there is a redirect that points to the Order of the Crown of Italy, a related award. There are only 2 articles in this category and they are Cardinal Giovanni Cheli (whose article makes no mention of the award) and New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Neither seem defined by an award from a former royal family. The category contents are listified right here for any reader interested in this topic. -
  • Background We previously deleted another award from the former royal family of Savoy right here. -

Category:National Heroes of Turkey[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Probably per WP:SHAREDNAME maybe WP:V or WP:SUBJECTIVECAT
There is no main article for National Hero of Turkey nor is it mentioned anywhere in the Orders, decorations, and medals of Turkey main article and a Google search in English points to this category in Wikipedia. Reading through the articles, they all use the word "hero" (or "heroin") somewhere in the body like (e.g. "folk hero", "war hero", "remembered as a hero"). Maybe this is a good faith misunderstanding that categories are not for key words or maybe there is an obscure award without a main article. In any case, this category doesn't seem defining. -

Category:Stevie Awards[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD approaching WP:TRIVIALCAT)
The Stevie Awards are a vanity award that businesses pay to enter and the article contains this little nugget:
According to the organization, awards are given in hundreds of categories, and 30-40% of entrants receive an award.
What else can I add? -

Category:Crimean Tatar heroes[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:V and WP:OCAWARD
There are no main articles for either award and none of the articles I looked at mentioned either. When I searched for these terms online, I came across these Wikipedia articles. None of which is to say that these awards don't exist, just that I'm having trouble finding them online in English. If and when main articles are created on Crimean Tatar heroes and Tatar heroes, we can of always re-evaluate but they sure seem non-defining based on what we know now. -
  • Background Several other "Tatar" categories without main articles were recently deleted here, [Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 December 14[#Category:Tatar peace activists|here]], and here -

Category:Heroes of the Mongolian People's Republic[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Mongolian People's Republic gave out the Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic primarilly to high ranking Soviet officials and Soviet cosmmonauts like Joseph Stalin and Pavel Belyayev. The articles usually mention the award in passing within a long list of honors. If you want to see the clutter this type of category creates at the article level, take a look the train wreck at the bottom of this article. The recipients are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Medal of the Centenary of Regained Independence[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:V and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
We don't have main articles for Medal of the Centenary of Regained Independence, Medal of the National Education Commission, or Pro Bono Poloniae Medal. The biographies within these categories are about split evenly between those that make a passing reference to these Polish medals within a list of honours and those that don't mention them at all, so the categories don't seem generally defining. I normally favor listifying awards and definitely favor more Polish content so I copied the current contents of all three right here so no work is lost if anyone wants to start main/list articles. -

Category:World Peace Prize laureates[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The World Peace Prize is a well-intentioned but obscure American peace award. How obscure? The Mahatma Gandhi article discusses why he did *not* win the Nobel Peace Price but doesn't mention actually winning this award. When Vice President Annette Lu accepted the award, she had to formally deny the award was a hoax (source). The award is not remotely defining for Pablo Picasso, Ronald Reagan or Jane Goodall and the recipients are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Right Livelihood Award laureates[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
When an award consistently appears in the ledes of articles it's usually a good sign it's defining but, in this case, that is due to a single purpose IP editor (128.114.255.122) who added the award to the intros of every article despite concern expressed by User:Swliv. The Right Livelihood Award is a peace award that self identifies as an alternative to the Nobel but, tellingly, the Nobel Peace Prize article makes no mention of this award. This award is non-defining and here's how you can tell: Greta Thunberg, the only Good Article here, demotes the award to a passing mention with other honours and Nasrin Sotoudeh, who won after 128.114.255.122's editing rampage, mentions representing others who won the Nobel Peace Prize than actually winning this award. The recipients are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We recently deleted similar American and Indian peace prizes right here and here. -

Category:Recipients of the Indira Gandhi Peace Prize[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Indira Gandhi Prize is meant to promote world peace which is certainly a worthy cause but the award does not seem defining for Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan, Doctors Without Borders, Parliamentarians for Global Action or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation whose articles mention the award in passing with other honours, if at all. Most tellingly, the Václav Havel article discusses not winning the Nobel Peace Prize more prominently than actually winning this award. The recipients are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We recently deleted an American peace prize right here. -

Category:Recipients of the Hero of Labor (Vietnam)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The stated purpose of the Hero of Labor (Vietnam) is to honor outstanding achievements in production and work. It is confusing then that the category consists mostly of Soviet cosmonauts who are already well categorized under Category:Soviet cosmonauts. (There are also two Vietnamese biographies in the category—1 & 2—where one mentions it in the lede and the other not at all so it not consistently defining to them either.) There wasn't a list so I created one here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Altruism[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Altruism is an Iranian award honoring philanthropy, material sacrifice, or dedication during the revolution. The category currently has two articles, Marzieh Hadidchi & Morad Ali Shirani, one of which mentions the award in passing and one which doesn't mention it at all, so it doesn't seem defining. The category contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Justice (Iran)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:SMALLCAT)
The only biography in this category is Iranian Chief Justice Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani and his article doesn't even mention the award. Doesn't get much clearer than that! The Order of Justice (Iran) is an Iranian award for establishing law and justice. The one article and a bunch of redlinks already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Nasr[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:SMALLCAT)
The Order of Nasr is an Iranian award that is given out for military logistics. All but one (1) of the articles lists the award in the infobox but nowhwere in the body so the award does not seem generally defining. (I was contemplating creating a sibling to Category:Logistics personnel of the United States military but only 2 of these articles even mention logistics (2, 3) so the original intent of the award may differ from the actual usage.) The recipients are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OCAWARD)
According to the main article, the first time the imperial Russian Order of Saint Alexander Nevsky was issued was to 12 guests at the wedding of Grand Duchess Anna Petrovna of Russia and Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp which beats the wrist watch I got for being in a wedding party. Promises were made to take the award more seriously but it increasingly became a souvenir for diplomatic visits: George V, Haakon VII of Norway, Albert I of Belgium, Abbas II of Egypt and Charles X are not remotely defined by this award. Even among the many Russian recipients, the award does not seem defining and generally get a passing reference along with other honours. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Star of Anjouan[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
These 3 categories have 3 articles total and I'm not sure why any of the recepients actually received the Order of the Star of Anjouan, a French colonial award for the Comoros. Raoul Magrin-Vernerey and Marie-Pierre Kœnig were both life-long military officers so maybe they were stationed in the Comoros? Pakubuwono X was royalty from what was then the Dutch East Indies so maybe he visited the Comoros? Beyond the award, none of the 3 articles even mention the Comoros so whatever this was for doesn't seem defining. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Honorary Order of the Palm[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Suriname became independent from The Netherlands in 1975 and the Honorary Order of the Palm was created as a post-independence award. And yet, without exception, every person in this category is a politician from The Netherlands. For the vast majority of these biography articles, there is no mention of Suriname beyond this award, so whatever it was awarded for doesn't seem defining. A few of these politicians do have some tie to Suriname: Barryl Biekman is ethnically Surinamese and we have a few who held the title of "Minister for Suriname and Netherlands Antilles Affairs" but, even amongst this subgroup, the award gets a passing reference at most. There is already a list here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Military decorations and medals of South Africa in order of precedence[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SORTKEY, WP:OVERLAPCAT but maybe WP:IDONTLIKEIT
We have a standard category for military decorations and medals of South Africa named Category:Military decorations and medals of South Africa which sorts the contents alphabetically so the Van Riebeeck Decoration is near the end because it starts with "V". (With me so far?) But those same articles are also in Category:Military decorations and medals of South Africa in order of precedence but this time the Van Riebeeck Decoration is near the beginning because it's an important award. I don't think this is something we do with categories, but maybe I'm being narrow minded. -

Category:Freemen of the City of Canterbury[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Freedom of the City of Canterbury is a very local municipal award to a key to the city or honorary citizen. Here is an article where the local paper covers a furniture maker and puppeteer winning which gives the very local flavor of the award. Within the articles, the award typically gets a passing reference and doesn't seem defining. There isn't a main article but I copied the current category contents right here so no work is lost if anyone wants to create an article. -

Category:Freemen of the City of Kimberley[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD) and WP:V (WP:RS)
The Freedom of the City of Kimberley is an award from Kimberley, South Africa that is obscure: "Freemen of the City of Kimberley" in Google gets 18 results, all of which are Wikipedia related, and the closest thing I found searching for "Freedom of the City of Kimberley" was an article about someone who received a different city's award which was reported in the Kimberley newspaper. The same editor who created this category also wrote two biography articles (1 and 2) and they do mention the award prominently, citing an offline newsletter of a local historical society. The rest of the articles mention the award in passing or not at all so it doesn't seem to be generally defining though. I copied the current category contents right here so no work is lost if anyone wants to find reliable sources to establish notability to create a main article. -

Category:Honorary citizens of Baikonur[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
Baikonur or "Star City" was the center of the Soviet space programs (and now the Russian space program) and the city gave out a the Honorary Citizen of Baikonur award to Soviet cosmonauts (and now Russian cosmonauts). These biography articles are already well grouped under Category:Soviet cosmonauts (and Category:Russian cosmonauts). The creator of the category add an External Link to all the articles (see this edit history) but they otherwise make no mention of the award. These municipal "honory citizen" awards are too common to be defining which is why there are no sister categories. In fact, Valeri Kubasov's article lists 11 of them (not counting this one). I copied the current category contents right here so no work is lost if anyone wants to find reliable sources to establish notability to create a main article. -

Category:Recipients of Geuzenpenning[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Geuzen Resistance 1940–1945 Foundation is an organization based in the Vlaardingen, Netherlands that gives out the Geuzenpenning award each year for fighting for "democracy and against dictatorship, racism and discrimination" in memory of the WWII resistance. The articles in the category are about evenly split between those that mention the award in passing and those that don't mention it at all so it doesn't seem defining for Václav Havel, Noel Pearson or Harry Wu. Organizational winners like Amnesty International, the Anne Frank Foundation and Doctors Without Borders also don't seem defined by it. The contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Handel Medallion recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Handel Medallion is a municipal award from New York City for contribution to culture, in a city with a lot of prominent cultural industries.The articles in the category are about evenly split between those that mention the award in passing and those that don't mention it at all so it doesn't seem defining. If the category was fully populated with all the other winners it would be even more lopsided since this isn't remotely defining for John Lennon, Duke Ellington or Neil Simon, none of whose articles mention it. The contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Through Art – to Peace and Understanding[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OCAWARD)
Each year Belarus hosts Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk "Slavic Bazaar", a prominent eastern European music festival. That festival has song contests for up and coming young singers and also brings an already prominent musical group to receive the Through Art – to Peace and Understanding during the opening ceremonies. The award is typically mentioned in passing in the articles so it doesn't seem defining and the category contents are already lsitified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Prime Minister's Medal of Appreciation[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Prime Minister's Medal of Appreciation is an award that given by the Prime Minister of Jamaica that falls outside of the Jamaican Honours System. The PMs must be big fans of boxing since 3 of the 4 recipients here are professional boxers who are already under Category:Jamaican boxers. Within the articles, 1 mentions this award in passing while 3 don't mention it at all so it doesn't seem defining. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Royal Order of the Intare[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V (WP:RS) and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
This category is a bit of a rabbit hole: we don't have a main article for this Rwandan order and Orders, decorations, and medals of Rwanda makes no mention of it. It appears to be an award given by the deposed king of Rwanda, Kigeli V Ndahindurwa, to foreign leaders like Donald Rumsfeld and James Carlisle. Of the 13 articles in this category, 4 mention similar sounding (but not identical) awards and 9 don't mention it at all so it doesn't seem defining or even really verifiable. I copied the current category contents right here so no work is lost if anyone wants to find reliable sources to start an article. -

Category:Recipients of the Labor Order[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The stated purpose of the Labor Order is to award those "that have recorded outstanding achievements in labor, creativity or national construction." There are two articles in the category, neither of which seem defined by the award:
1: Mirosław Żuławski, a Polish writer whose article makes no mention of the award (or Vietnam).
2: Dominic Scriven, an English businessperson who leads an investment fund specializing in Vietnam whose article mentions the award in passing.
There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We recently deleted a similar sounding but different Vietnamese award right here. -

Category:Order of Mapungubwe[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT and the spirit of WP:C2F, one eponymous article
The only thing in this category is the main article, Order of Mapungubwe, and an image that is already in the infobox of that same article so this doesn't aid navigation. A separate list of winners would theoretically create a 2nd article but I can't imagine a 3rd, 4th or 5th article so the growth potential here is limited. I already added categories to the two items so no upmerge is needed. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Christ (Brazil)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:OCAWARD and WP:SUBJECTIVECAT)
The Order of Christ (Brazil) was an award originally from the Brazilian monarchy and later, after they were deposed, became an award for the pretenders to the throne. 15 of the 18 biographies are already categorized somewhere under Category:Brazilian nobility, the other three articles (1, 2, 3) are already well categorized under other Brazilian topics. The vast majority of these articles mention the award in passing as part of a list of other honors so it doesn't seem defining. Finally, there was a schism in the non-ruling family which has lead to competing entities issuing the same award causing disagreements about who is a true recipient. I expanded this section of the main article so all contents are now listified. -

Category:Recipients of the Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Gottlieb Duttweiler Prize has a broad criteria for "outstanding contributions to the well-being of the wider community" by the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute think tank in Switzerland. The award doesn't seem especially defining for Kofi Annan, Václav Havel, our own Jimmy Wales or others who tend to mention the award in passing along with other honours. The contents are already listified right here for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Animals in War & Peace Medal of Bravery[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Animals in War & Peace Medal of Bravery is an award for American military animals that was created last year (2019) and retroactively inducted mostly historical figures like Cher Ami (WWI), G.I. Joe (pigeon) (WWII), and Sergeant Reckless (Korean War). They have a few weeks left but, so far, none have been issued for 2020. The award doesn't seem defining and the contents are already listified right here for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Heroes of Kosovo[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD & WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Hero of Kosovo is a contemporary award and about half of the contents are retroactively inducted historical figures like Isa Boletini, Shaban Polluzha and Idriz Seferi. The rest are more recent members of the Kosovo Liberation Army who are already well categorized under Category:Kosovo Liberation Army soldiers. The award doesn't seem defining to either group where the award consistently gets mentioned in passing. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Piepenbrock Prize for Sculpture recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Piepenbrock Prize for Sculpture was a private award given to sculptors in the "German-speaking world" from 1998 to 2008. Of the 8 biographies in this category 6 mention the award in passing, 2 don't mention it at all, and none mention it in the lede so it doesn't seem defining. The recipients are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:CTBUH Tall Building Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Chicago based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat gives out annual CTBUH Skyscraper Award. Buildings like Taipei 101, Cayan Tower, One World Trade Center and Burj Khalifa tend to mention the organization, especially in the citations, but not the award so it doesn't seem defining. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the SLIA Gold Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
According to the header of the article, "This category lists Recipients of the SLIA Gold Medal from the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects." It's telling that both of those are redlinks and, within all three articles, the award is mentioned with passing and does not seem defining. Normally I suggest listifying these awards but, since no main article exists, I copied the current contents here so no work is lost if anyone wants to start one. -

Category:Awards and prizes of the Royal College, Colombo[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:RCAT
No conceptual problem with this category but we don't have any actual articles on this topic. What we do have are 4 redirects all pointing to Royal College, Colombo#Awards. WP:RCAT does allow for multiple reasons to categorize redirects, but this is not one of them. No objection to recreating later if we ever get up to 5 or so actual articles. -

Category:Order of Prohibited Legitimacy[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD, WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:SUBJECTIVECAT
There was a disagreement about the line of succession in the for the Spanish throne starting in the 1830. This award is given to people that would have been king ("pretenders") or their supporters ("Carlists"). The recipients are generally already well categorized under Category:Carlist pretenders to the Spanish throne or Category:Carlists. Finally, there was a schism in 2003 for the non-ruling family which has lead to competing entities issuing the same award causing disagreements about who is a true recipient of the award. The recipients are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Mkhitar Gosh Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD, potentially WP:OPINIONCAT and--for the parent category--WP:C1
We don't have a main article on the Mkhitar Gosh Medal but the category consists of Armenian ambassadors and other diplomats that are already well categorized under Category:Armenian diplomats. The award is also given out to various foreign officials who raise awareness of the Armenian Genocide, for example here and here. About half the articles don't mention the award at all and the others only in passing so it doesn't seem defining. (The only thing under Category:Recipients of Armenian civil awards and decorations is this subcategory.) I copied the current category contents here on the creator's talk page so no work is lost. -

Recipients of the Cuban Friendship Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEF (WP:OCAWARD)
The Friendship Medal (Cuba) is given to non-Cubans for solidarity with the Cuban revolution. The vast majority of people who won the award have no Wikipedia page but we have three that do: American actor/activist Danny Glover, South African anti-Apartheid priest Michael Lapsley and Zambian Prime Minister Elijah Mudenda. All three articles do mention the award in the body but neither it nor their relations with Cuba generally seem defining. The contents plus all the redlinks are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. (Alternatively, if kept, rename to Category:Recipients of the Friendship Medal (Cuba) to match the main article.) -

Category:Recipients of the Order of José Marti[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders and diplomats visit Cuba, or vice versa, the Order of José Marti is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are not remotely defined by this award. (I found one person in this category who is Cuban, ballet dancer Alicia Alonso, but her article is already well categorized and mentions this award only in passing.) The winners of this award are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background In the past, we've deleted dozens of similar categories for high ranking visitors and those nominations are listed right here. -

Category:Merited Coaches of Belarus[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per the spirit of WP:C1, an unpopulated category and likely WP:OCAWARD
We don't have an article on Merited Coaches of Belarus. The only thing in this category is Aleksandr Sevidov whose article doesn't even mention this award so it should be removed. I can't definitively say that this award is non-defining, but there is nothing in English Wikipedia that even hints it might be. There's nothing here to listify. -

Category:Merited Coaches of Belarus[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per the spirit of WP:C1, an unpopulated category and likely WP:OCAWARD
We don't have an article on Merited Coaches of Belarus and the only thing in this category is Aleksandr Sevidov whose article doesn't even mention this award. I can't definitively say that this award is non-defining, but there is nothing in English Wikipedia that even hints it might be. Normally I suggest listifying awards but there's only one. -

Category:Recipients of the Honorary Award of the President of Ukraine[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEF (WP:OCAWARD)
We have a brief description of this short lived award at Order of Merit (Ukraine)#The Honorary Award of the President of Ukraine but it gives no hint of why this award was issued. The only thing we have in this category is Vitaliy Boiko whose article doesn't even mention this award. I can't definitively say that this award is non-defining but there is nothing in English Wikipedia that even hints it might be. -

Category:Recipients of the Shevchenko Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
I had to do a little off Wikipedia sleuthing to figure this one out since there is no main article but this is an award to prominent Ukrainian Canadians issued by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) organisation. The articles are about evenly split between those that mention this award in passing and those that don't mention it at all, so it's clearly not defining. I'm doubtful the award is individually notable so created a redirect and pointed it to a new section in the UCC article where I listified the current category contents for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Saemaeul Service Merit[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEF (WP:OCAWARD & WP:SMALLCAT)
The Order of Saemaeul Service Merit was given out for supporting the New Community Movement, a 1970s rural development program in South Korea. The only article in the category is Kim Yong-ki which mentions the award in passing so it doesn't seem defining and the growth potential is limited. I don't know if I can say the category is "listified" since there is only 1 article but it is now linked here in the main article. -

Category:Meridiano de Oro Awards[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEF (WP:OCAWARD and likely WP:SMALLCAT)
The Meridiano de Oro is a Venezuelan award given by the Dearmas Block that recognizes "excellence of professionals in the World of Spectacle" and the only article in this category, Daniela Alvarado, doesn't even mention the award. Doesn't get much clearer than that. I don't know if I can say the category is "listified" since there is only 1 article but it is now linked here in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Royal Order of the Engabu[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEF (WP:OCAWARD & WP:SMALLCAT)
The Royal Order of the Engabu was established in 2010 by the Bunyoro kingdom within Uganda. The only article in the category, Muedzul Lail Tan Kiram, is a local royal from the Philippines with no clear connection to Uganda or Africa in general so I'm not sure why he received it. I don't know if I can say the category is "listified" since there is only 1 article but it is now linked here in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Timor-Leste Solidarity Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Timor-Leste Solidarity Medal is a campaign medal for all foreign soldiers who participated in the Australian led Operation Astute during the 2006 East Timorese crisis. While a large number of soldiers must have received the award, right now the category has three articles all of whom are also under Category:Australian military personnel of the International Force for East Timor. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Dooranee Empire[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of the Durrani Empire is an Afghan campaign medal award to British field officers and above during the First Afghan War by Shuja Shah Durrani of Afghanistan in gratitude for his restoration to the thrown. The articles tend to mention the award in passing or not at all so the award doesn't seem defining. In contrast, these officers participation in the overall war is prominently mentioned so they need to stay in that tree. The contents of this category are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD & WP:OVERLAPCAT)
Over a nine million of these awards were given out according to the main article, Order of the Patriotic War. The award was a Soviet medal for World War II (aka "the Patriotic War") that eventually became a campaign medal for every participant. Usually I suggest listifying non-notable awards, but this is too large and the contents would largely overlap with Category:Soviet military personnel of World War II anyway. -

Category:Recipients of the Warsaw Cross of the Uprising[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
We normally don't categorize military people by individual battles because the combatants are already in a military category. Category:Warsaw Uprising insurgents is an exception though since most of the local combatants in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising were not in a formal military and their participation was clearly defining. What is not defining is also getting this campaign medal decades later for that same participation. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Homeland War Memorial Medal recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
According to the main article, over 400,000 of the Homeland War Memorial Medal have been issued which is remarkable since Croatia has just over 4 million total residents. The medal is a campaign medal for all Croatian participants in the Croatian War of Independence, a kind of award we've consistently found non-defining. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article although, given the potential size, that list may become unwieldy. -

Category:Recipients of the Gold Medal of the City of Milan (France)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V and WP:NONDEF (WP:OCAWARD)
In 1859, French regiments were involved in the Second Italian War of Independence centering around Milan. 50 years later, the Gold Medal of the City of Milan was created as an anniversary campaign medal for those regiments. The only articles in the category are 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment and 9th Hussar Regiment (France) neither one of which even mentions this campaign (although the medal is mentioned in passing) so this doesn't seem defining. I just listed those 2 articles here in the main article for any readers interested in the topic. -
*RFC There is an open request for comments on proposed changes to WP:OCAWARD. Your input (pro/con/other) is always welcome here. -RD

Category:Recipients of the Order of Zayed[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign leaders or even diplomats visit Jordan, or vice versa, one of these awards is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan and Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar are not defined by this award. If you want to see the clutter these categories create at the article level, just look at the train wreck at the bottom of this article. The recipients are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Order of Mubarak the Great[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign leaders or royalty visit Kuwait, or vice versa, one of these awards is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Hassan II of Morocco, President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan, President Bill Clinton of the U.S. and Salman of Saudi Arabia are not defined by this award. If you want to see the clutter these categories create at the article level, just look at the train wreck at the bottom of this article. The recipients are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Klement Gottwald[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign leaders visit communist Czechoslovakia, or vice versa, the Order of Klement Gottwald is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Kim Il-sung and Phạm Văn Đồng are not remotely defined by this award. (There are also a few high ranking members of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic included but, of those, 2 mention the award in passing—1, 2—and six not at all—3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8—so it's not defining for them either.) The recipients are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Muhammad[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders or royalty visit Morocco, or vice versa, the Order of Muhammad is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Albert II of Belgium, Emperor Akihito and Jefri Bolkiah of Brunei are not remotely defined by this award. (There is also one Moroccan in the category, Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco who is already well categorized under Category:Moroccan princesses.) There wasn't a list so I created one here in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Three Stars[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders or diplomats visit Latvia, or vice versa, the Order of the Three Stars is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. President-elect Joe Biden, Premier Zhang Qun and King Willem-Alexander are not remotely defined by this award. (There are also three Latvian biographies in the category—1, 2, 3—but they just mention the award in passing so it doesn't seem defining to them either.) There is already a separate list article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Star of Italy[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
This category for receiving the Order of the Star of Italy only contains Ankie Broekers-Knol, a Dutch politician who is not remotely defined by the award. Future recipients are also likely to be foreign officials since the stated purpose of the award is the "promotion of national prestige abroad, promoting friendly relations and co-operation with other countries and ties with Italy". I don't know if I can say I "listified" the recipients of the award since there is only 1 article but it is now linked in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders and celebrities visited Italy, or vice versa, the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity was given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Boyko Borisov, Frank Sinatra and Shim Hwa-jin are not remotely defined by this award. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Dostlug Order[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When Soviet, Russian and other foreign leaders or performers visit Azerbaijan, the Dostlug Order is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. In the category, 4 of the article mention the award in passing and 15 don't even mention the award so it's clearly not defining. There wasn't a list so I created one here in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Solomon[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
When foreign leaders visited imperial Ethiopia, or vice versa, the Order of Solomon was given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Emperor Hirohito and George V are not remotely defined by this award. (The only Ethiopians in this category are members of the royal family who are already well categorized under Category:Ethiopian Royal Family.) The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Ismoili Somoni[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders or diplomats visit Tajikistan, or vice versa, the Order of Ismoili Somoni is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Vladimir Putin, Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and Ban Ki-moon are not remotely defined by this award. (There are also three biographies of high ranking Tajikistanis in the category—1, 2, 3—but most don't even mention the award so it doesn't seem defining to them either.) I expanded the existing list in the main article to include all of the category contents. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Friendship (China)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visit China, or vice versa, the Order of Friendship (China) is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Vladimir Putin, Raúl Castro and Princess Sirindhorn are not remotely defined by this award. (There is one person in this category who is defined by their association with China, Isabel Crook, but her article only mentions the awared in passing.) The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Equatorial Star[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visit Gabon, or vice versa, the Order of the Equatorial Star is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Golda Meir, Lula and Ferdinand Marcos are not remotely defined by this award. (There is one person in this category who is Gabonese, Virginie Ambougou, but her article only mentions the award in passing and it's already well categorized.) There wasn't a list so I created one here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Medal of Gratitude[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders or celebrities visit Albania, or vice versa, the Medal of Gratitude (Albania) is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Richard Gere, Admiral James G. Stavridis and Pietro Mennea are not remotely defined by this award. (There is one person in this category who is well known as an Albanian translator, Robert Elsie, but his article is already well categorized under Category:Albanian translators.) The winners of this award are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Knights Grand Band of the Order of the Star of Africa[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visit Liberia, or vice versa, the Order of the Star of Africa is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Tzvi Tzur, Juliana of the Netherlands and Gustaf Adolf Boltenstern Jr. are not remotely defined by this award. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Mono[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visit Togo, or vice versa, the Order of Mono is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Kim Il-sung, Levi Eshkol and Josip Broz Tito are not remotely defined by this award. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the National Order of Chad[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders or other officials visit Chad, or vice versa, the National Order of Chad is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. French Admiral Bernard Rogel's article includes the award with list of other honours while none of the other articles even mention it so it's clearly not defining. There wasn't a list so I created one here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Charity (Ottoman Empire)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When prominent female leaders visited the Ottoman Empire, the Order of Charity (Ottoman Empire) was given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Alexandra of Denmark and Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia are not remotely defined by this award. There wasn't a list so I created one here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the National Order of Benin[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visit Benin, or vice versa, the National Order of Benin is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Charles de Gaulle, Levi Eshkol and Al-Waleed bin Talal are not remotely defined by this award. (The only Beninese person in this category is President Thomas Boni Yayi, whose article doesn't even mention this award.) There wasn't a list so I created one here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Grand Cordons of the Order of Merit (Cameroon)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders and other guests visit Cameroon, or vice versa, the Order of Merit (Cameroon) is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Henri Romans-Petit, Josip Broz Tito and Princess Margriet of the Netherlands are not remotely defined by this award. (The only Cameroonian person in this category is Françoise Foning, whose article mentions the award in passing.) There wasn't a list so I created one here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Cloud and Banner[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visit the Republic of China/Taiwan, or vice versa, the Order of the Cloud and Banner is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Timofey Khryukin, and Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, are not remotely defined by this award. (The award has also been given to Chinese generals, all of whom are already well categorized somewhere under Category:Chinese generals.) This award doesn't seem defining to either group and the recipients are now all listified here in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Liberator[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visit Venezuela, or vice versa, the Order of the Liberator is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Albert I of Belgium, Chiang Kai-shek, and Vladimir Putin are not remotely defined by this award. (There are also a few Venezuelan people in the cateogry and, of those, four mention the award in passing 1, 2, 3, 4, one in the lede 5, and one not at all 6, so it's not generally defining for them either.) The contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Grand Crosses of the National Order of the Ivory Coast[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visit the Ivory Coast, or vice versa, the National Order of the Ivory Coast is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Emperor Akihito, Princess Margriet of the Netherlands, and Arthur Young (police officer) are not remotely defined by this award. (There are also a couple of Ivorian politicians in the category—1 & 2—but their articles just mention the award in passing, so it's not generally defining for them either,.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of Thiri Thudhamma Thingaha[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visit the Myanmar (formerly Burma), or vice versa, the Thiri Thudhamma Thingaha is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Marshall Josip Broz Tito, Emperor Haile Selassie, and Premier Zhou Enlai are not remotely defined by this award. (The only Burmese/Myanma people in this category are the Presidents of Myanmar who are already well categorized under Category:Presidents of Myanmar) There is already a list right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visit Panama, or vice versa, the Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry Radhakishun and Fredrick Chien are not remotely defined by this award. When the U.S. controlled the Canal, there were also many of these given to visiting U.S. Navy Admirals, but their articles generally don't even mention Panama. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Two Rivers[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visit Iraq, or vice versa, the Order of the Two Rivers is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. King George VI, Marshal Josip Broz Tito and Chairman Henryk Jabłoński are not remotely defined by this award. There are no Iraqi people in the category. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of the Queen of Sheba[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When prominent leaders visited imperial Ethiopia, or vice versa, the Order of the Queen of Sheba was given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ingrid of Sweden and Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia are not remotely defined by this award. (The only Ethiopians in this category are members of the royal family who are already well categorized under Category:Ethiopian Royal Family.) There wasn't already a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of the Seal of Solomon[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When prominent leaders visited imperial Ethiopia, or vice versa, the Order of the Seal of Solomon was given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Queen Victoria, Juliana of the Netherlands and Nicholas II of Russia are not remotely defined by this award. (The only Ethiopians in this category are members of the royal family who are already well categorized under Category:Ethiopian Royal Family.) There wasn't already a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of the Two Niles[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign officials visit Sudan, or vice versa, the Order of the Two Niles is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. José Graziano da Silva, Koča Popović and Arthur Young (police officer) are not remotely defined by this award. I copied the current category contents right here so no work is lost if anyone wants to start a main article. -

Category:Honorary Members of Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visit Malta, or vice versa, the Honorary version of the Xirka Ġieħ ir-Repubblika is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. First Lady Maria Cavaco Silva, Queen Elizabeth II and General Harald Kujat are not remotely defined by this award. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Grand Order of King Tomislav recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visit Croatia, or vice versa, the Grand Order of King Tomislav is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. King Harald V of Norway, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and President Konstantinos Stephanopoulos are not remotely defined by this award. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the National Order of Madagascar[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visit Madagascar, or vice versa, the National Order of Madagascar is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Mohammed VI of Morocco, Levi Eshkol and Anne Princess Royal are not remotely defined by this award. (There is one person in this category who is defined by their association with Madagascar, Romain Bruno Légaré, but his article only mentions the award in passing and is already well categorized.) The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Royal Order of Cambodia[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign leaders visit the royal family of Cambodia, or vice versa, the Royal Order of Cambodia is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Leopold II of Belgium, Hamengkubuwono VIII and Charles de Gaulle are not remotely defined by this award. (Per the article, there was intent to also issue this award locally but the only Cambodian people we have are a few royals and high ranking officials and, of those, 8 mention the award in passing—1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8—and 2 not at all—9, 10—so it's not defining for them either.) The recipients are already listified here in the main article. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of the White Double Cross[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign leaders visit Slovakia, or vice versa, the Order of the White Double Cross is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Harald V of Norway, Margrethe II of Denmark, and Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, are not remotely defined by this award. (There are a handful of Slovak winners—1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6—but all of their articles mention the award in passing with other honours so it's not defining for them either.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Boyaca[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visit Colombia, or vice versa, the Order of Boyaca is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Chiang Kai-shek, Albert I of Belgium, and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld are not remotely defined by this award. (The award is not exclusively for foreigners though with about a fourth of category consisting of Colombians and, of those, 7 mention the award in passing—1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7—and 3 not at all—8, 9, 10—so it's not defining for them either.) The recipients are already listified here in the main article. -
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Category:Honorary degree recipients from Kerala[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:OCLOCATION
This category groups people from the Indian state of Kerala who have received an honorary degree from any university or college. In the articles, this is not treated as defining and the "degrees" (it is usually plural) are listed with other honors. There is a subset of articles here that do mention the award in the intro, which usually suggests it's defining, but all the ones I checked are recent edits from the creator of this category (for instance here and here). The earlier honor degree categories we deleted were all by awarding institution and I'm also not clear on why we would group them by a geographic area. -
  • Background We've deleted all the other categories for honorary degree recipients, most recently here and here. -

Category:Honorary graduates of Keele University[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:SMALLCAT)
The only article in this category is Neil Baldwin (Keele University), a person with learning disabilities who was "adopted by the student body over the last 50 years as something of a mascot for Keele". Mr. Baldwin is definitely defined by his association with the school and received other awards like an honorary membership into the student body and a testimonial match, but these honours don't seem individually defining. There is no 2nd person with learning disabilities who became a Keele school mascot so this category has no growth potential, unless we add people who received honorary degrees for donating money which we've consistently found non-defining. -
  • Background We've consistently deleted the other categories for honorary degree recipients, including here, here and here but this category was created just last month. -

Category:Righteous Among the Nations from Vienna[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCLOCATION)
The Righteous Among the Nations is an Israeli award for those who risked their lives to save Jewish people from the Holocaust and is defining for the recipients, so there's no WP:OCAWARD here. We've broken down the winners by country but this is the only city subcategory. While this is not a small cat, the Austrian category is not so large it needs diffusion and I don't think the city category is meaningful or helpful to navigation on this topic. If there is something unique about the Holocaust in Vienna that justifies treating it differently, by all means enlighten me and I'll withdraw this nomination. -

Category:Genesis Prize laureates[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD & WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Genesis Prize is an Israeli award given to "Jews who have attained excellence which they attribute to Jewish values". The articles for winners like Mayor Michael Bloomberg, actor Michael Douglas, Kraft Foods CEO Robert Kraft, and musician Itzhak Perlman mention the award in passing with other honours so it doesn't seem generally defining. Most of the award's coverage is around the large purse (US $1 million) which is typically re-donated by the winner. The contents of the category are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:PERFCAT
Articles like Caterina Fake Edward Ruscha do indeed mention in passing that Rhode Island School of Design gave them this honorary degree but they curiously don't ever seem to say why outside of footnotes. It's because she gave a commencement address source and he had an art exhibit [1] at the school, respectively. Maybe they volunteered their time and the school felt appreciative, maybe they were paid and agreed to reduce their honorium by 10 or 15 dollars in exchange for the honorary degree, who knows. Either way, this is a non-defining award based on an (unmentioned) individual performance. -

Every single honorary degree subcategory[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:PERFCAT
The header for the parent category warns that "Individual recipients of honorary degrees should not be categorized here." And yet, that what this nomination is all about. Most of these articles I clicked on didn't even mention the award. And where it is mentioned, the background that these "degrees" are usually given as part of an honorarium for giving a speech is omitted. We might as well categorize people who received cab fare (or Uber reimbursement) to speak at a Ted talk. (For the last category, if not getting a real degree isn't defining, I can't see how no longer not getting one is any more defining but I can pull that one out as a separate nomination if needed.) -
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Category:ISAF Sailing Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The ISAF Sailing Hall of Fame was created by the World Sailing Federation, the Olympic body recognizing for sailing. Being in the Olypmics for sailing is definitelhy defining, which is why we have Category:Olympic sailors. Getting this award later for the same earlier effort is not defining. We already have the winners listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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the Olympic Games here, here, here, here, here and here. -

Category:America's Cup Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The America's Cup Hall of Fame is an award started by the Herreshoff Marine Museum in 1992, often for people who participated much earlier. Most the articles do mention the America's Cup right in the intros but this Hall of Fame is mentioned later in the articles so it doesn't seem defining. All of the people I clicked on were already in Category:America's Cup sailors or other America's Cup categories based on their role, so this commingled category seems less useful for navigation. We already have the winners listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Military Merit (Dominican Republic)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT, and WP:OCAWARD)
During the Banana Wars, American troops were routinely stationed in Latin America including during the occupation of the Dominican Republic. US troops in that conflict automatically received Dominican Campaign Medal, an American campaign medal, and they also generally received the Order of Military Merit (Dominican Republic) after the war, ostensibly as a local thank you. The stated purpose of the award was broader, but all 6 of the articles in this category are high ranking US military officials who are already under Category:People of the Banana Wars. The articles generally mention this award in passing with other honours so it doesn't seem defining. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Order of Stjepan Radić recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Stjepan Radić is given by the president of Croatia "for services and sacrifices for the national and social rights". This category has 3 articles (a President of Croatia, another prominent politician, and a war hero) who are already well categorized. Within the articles, this award gets mentioned in passing and seems to reflect their pre-existing fame rather than be defining. There wasn't a list so I cretated one right here within the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Australian Operational Service Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:FILECAT, the spirit of WP:C2F and potentially WP:OCAWARD
I'm not quite sure what the intent of this category is: it contains one eponymous article (Australian Operational Service Medal) and 4 image files that are already in that same article so it doesn't aid navigation. I added those image files to both Category:Images of awards and Category:Images of Australia though. If populated, this category would be WP:OCAWARD because it's an automatic campaign medal issued to all military participants. -

Category:Order of Saint John in Sweden[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT, the spirit of WP:C2F, one eponymous article
The Order of Saint John in Sweden is a Swedish order that is automatically headed by the King of Sweden. The only things in this category is that main article and the current King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, who is not defined by the award. (Unlike my other nomination, there are not recipients in this category nor are they listed within the article.) I don't foresee any growth potential here. -

Category:Recipients of Dannebrogordenens Hæderstegn[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of the Dannebrog is a Danish award and we can discuss Category:Order of the Dannebrog in a future nomination. At issue here is the Dannebrogordenens Hæderstegn ("Cross of Honour of the Order of the Dannebrog") which is now a supplemental award for people who have already won the Order of the Dannebrog and are already categorized by it. It used to be a separate award though but we only have two articles from that earlier version (Henning Jakob Henrik Lund and Daniel Larsen Schevig) and neither seems defined by the award. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Voltaire Lectures[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT, WP:SMALLCAT, & WP:DNWAUC
There's not much here: there's no main article but a redirect that points to Humanists UK#Lecture series. Once you follow that link, it only has one sentence listing the many lectures that organisation hosts. Bonya Ahmed gave a lecture one year, which her article mentions in passing, but that's WP:PERFCAT. The only other article is a book based on this lecture which is defining but that leaves us with a 1 article category, which is a WP:SMALLCAT. (I copied all the current category contents right here so no work is lost if anyone wants find reliable source and create a list article.) -
current category contents
Current contents of Category:Voltaire Lectures[edit]

Category:Faraday Lecturers[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT, WP:OCAWARD & WP:NONDEFINING
The Royal Society of Chemistry hosts the Faraday Lectureship Prize and this category groups people who gave the talk. Speakers receive £5000, a medal and a certificate. This performance sure isn't treated as defining in the articles, generally getting a passing reference with other honours. The category contents are already listed right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Tarski lecturers[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT, WP:OCAWARD & WP:NONDEFINING
Since 1989, the University of California Berkeley hosts the annual Tarski Lecture on mathematical logic and this category groups people who gave the talk. I suppose it's considered an honor to be invited but the performance sure isn't treated as defining in the articles: about a third mention it in passing while about two thirds don't mention it at all. The category contents are already listed right here in the main article. -
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Category:Nancy L. Schwartz Memorial Lecture speakers[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT)
Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management hosts an annual lecture on economics and this category groups economists who gave the talk. This performance isn't treated as defining in the articles, which are generally already categorized somewhere under Category:Economists. The category contents are already listed right here in the main article. -
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Category:Rankine Lecturers[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT & WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The British Geotechnical Association hosts an annual Rankine Lecture and invites a speaker who is already a prominent geotechnical engineer. This performance isn't treated as defining in the articles, which are already in Category:Geotechnical engineers or other engineer cats. The category contents are already listed right here in the main article. -

Category:Bruce Jesson Memorial lecturers[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT approaching WP:TRIVIALCAT)
We don't have a main article on the "Bruce Jesson Memorial Lecture" and we won't because the topic is non-notable: of the first 10 hits on Google, 1 is this category, 8 are primary sources from a foundation, and 1 is this link] from the Scoop (website), which automatically reprints press releases in their entirety, so it's effectively a primary source. Bruce Jesson was a prominent journalist from New Zeeland and this is annual lecture in his honour but none of the 10 articles in this category even mention this performance. The category contents are already listified right here in the biography article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of North Carolina[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SMALLCAT)
I have no conceptual objection to either category as the equivalent ones for Texas and Hawaii are well populated. Right now NC has two cross referenced awards (Order of the Long Leaf Pine & North Carolina Award) while Utah has just one (Utah Governor's Medal for Science and Technology). I did find some state-wide high school awards from each state but I don't think they're notable so there's little growth potential here. But, if I'm wrong and either ever gets up to 5+ articles, no objection to recreating them later. -

Category:National prizes[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SUBJECTIVECAT and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
We have "Category:International awards" and "Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of country subdivisions" so I can almost see where this is going. The problem is that the vast majority of Wikipedia award articles are national in some sense and the inclusion criteria would not be clear cut:
We already have a very well developed non-subjective Category:Awards by country tree with thousands of award articles while this has just 15, all of which are now in the standard country categories. Category:National prizes was created in 2005 by an editor banned for disruptive behavior and, in the past 16 years, there has not been editor interest in using this approach. -


Category:Fellows of the University of Madras[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
We don't have a main article on Fellows of the University of Madras and the University of Madras article makes no mention of fellows. Most tellingly, none of the 3 biography articles in this category (1, 2, 3) even mention being a fellow (or the university at all) so whatever this was must not be very defining. -

Category:Fellows of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Edinburgh Obstetrical Society is a local medical society in Scotland that gives out an "honorary fellowship" as a type of award. The articles generally mention the award in passing like with Charles Bell and Gustavus Murray. I listifed the category contents right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Fellows of the Academy of Experts[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSSOC and WP:SMALLCAT)
The Academy of Experts (TAE) is a British professional association for paid expert witnesses but that that organisation's article makes no mention of having fellows. Conversely William Marslen-Wilson, the only article in this category, lists this title in the infobox (without citation) but makes no other mention of being an expert witness. -

Category:Fellows of the Soil Science Society of America[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC and WP:OCAWARD) and, for the parent category, WP:C2F
The Soil Science Society of America is an organization that gives out several awards including this SSSA Fellowship, the Emil Truog Award and the SSSA Early Career Award. The 3 articles in this category are very prominent people already under Category:Soil scientists whose articles mention this fellowship in a list of other honours they received, so it doesn't seem defining. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. (If this subcategory is deleted, the parent category will only have the one eponymous article left.) -

Category:John B. Pickett fellows[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:PERFCAT)
The John B. Pickett fellowship is scholarship program for mid-career police officers to attend Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Jerome Holmes received a masters through the program which is defining but he is already categorized under Category:John F. Kennedy School of Government alumni for that same degree. The other 4 articles in this category attended a 3-week program at the school which doesn't seem remotely defining. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Alexander von Humboldt Fellows (Nominated by another editor)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation gives out 700 scholarships per year to international researchers to come to Germany and for domestic scientists. The vast majority of 24,000 winners don't have an article on English Wikipedia yet and the few that do just mention this award in passing and it doesn't seem defining. We have a Catch-22 where, when the award is defining enough for a category, the winners aren't notable enough for an article and, when they're notable enough for an article, the category is no longer defining. There wasn't a list so I created a collapsible one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Fellows of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:PERFCAT)
The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry is a group of scientists that attempts to debunk paranormal claims and the fellowship recognizes skeptical scientists or activists. The vast majority of these people are scientists known for their research in their respective field and, while they may have once debunked something on the side at some point, the articles don't tend to mention this award at all. (Susan Gerbic is a rare exception and is known as a professional skeptic.) The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Knights of the Order of Parfaite Amitié[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD) and, for the parent category, WP:C2F
Being a member of the Bavarian Royal House of Thurn und Taxis is absolutely defining which is why we have have Category:Thurn and Taxis. According to the Order of Parfaite Amitié article, members of Thurn and Taxis are awardedwith Knighthood when they turn 18. This is a redundant category since all but two of the recipients are already under that family category. (The two exceptions are Alexander, Count of Schönburg-Glauchau whose sister married into the family and King Maximilian II of Bavaria who is, well, the King of Bavaria.)
There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. If the knight subcategory is deleted, the parent category will only have the one eponymous article left. -
  • Related Nom I requested a move of the main article to "Thurn and Taxis". Your input (pro/con/other) is always welcome right here. -

Category:Members of the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD) and, for the parent category, WP:C2F
The Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art is an award from the German state of Bavaria for prominent scientists and artists (broadly defined to include musicians, actors, etc.) who are already very prominent before receiving this award. There's almost 500 articles in the category so I only clicked on 50 of them and 49 didn't mention the award at all while just 1 article mentioned it in passing, so it's not treated as remotely defining unless there was sampling error on my part. There is already a separate list article for any reader interested in the topic.

Category:Order of Saint Elizabeth[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Saint Elizabeth was female order from the Kingdom of Bavaria, although none of the 3 articles in this category are Bavarian women. 1 article mentions this award in passing and 2 dont' mention it at all so it doesn't seem defining. (There are more articles we could add but they aren't defined by the award either.) The recipients are already listed right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:University of California, Davis fellows[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCMISC and WP:SMALLCAT)
In 2005, UC Davis appointed Wayne Rosing as a "fellow" which was an unpaid consulting role for a specific telescope project (citation). There are no other articles in the category and the other "fellowships" I found for UC Davis were basically scholarships for graduate students (citation) who would already be in the alumni cat. Right now, the only thing this category does is prevent any loose articles from being in the parent category. -

Category:Alumni awards[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME and a loose reading of WP:C2C
Just about every established university has a scholarship or other awards from alumni. In contrast, this category is for awards given to alumni. This rename is just meant to clarify the inclusion criteria by following the format of some of the other subcategories of Category:Awards by type of recipient. -

Category:United Daughters of the Confederacy awards[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SMALLCAT)
I have no conceptual objection to this category grouping awards by an organization but the only article in it is the Southern Cross of Honor. The United Daughters of the Confederacy article does not mention any other awards so I don't think there is any room for growth. No objection to recreating this later if I'm wrong and it ever gets up to 5+ articles though. -

Category:Henry Hope Reed Award Laureates[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Henry Hope Reed Award is an interesting award for architecture that is given to non-architects which creates a diverse list including a poet, historian, preservationist, government official, philanthropist and landscape designer. The thing about an architectural award for non-architects is that it's non-defining: 1 article mentions this award in passing, 1 in the lede, and 7 not at all. The recipients are already listified here within the main article for any reader interested in the topic. --

Category:Sapir Prize recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Sapir Prize is a literary award issued by the Israeli lottery. Per the article, the award has been criticized for picking best selling authors rather than based on literary merit which matters to us because the award is just reflecting pre-existing fame: 9 of the 10 articles mention the award in passing while 1 mentions it in the lede. David Grossman also won the more prestigious Israel Prize for Literature and the very different treatment of the two awards in that article is telling. The recipients are already listified here within the main article for any reader interested in the topic. --

Category:Recipients of the Belarusian Democratic Republic 100th Jubilee Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Belarusian Democratic Republic 100th Jubilee Medal was given out in 2018 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the republic in 1918. The articles tend to mention the award in passing so it doesn't seem generally defining for, say, President Stanislav Shushkevich, Ambassador Stefan Eriksson, or Nobel Prize winning writer Svetlana Alexievich. There is already a list right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:NCR Book Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The NCR Book Award was a very prominent British literary award that was rocked by scandal when it was learned that judges were picking winners based on synopses rather than reading the whole book. (The bar for what qualifies as a "scandal" in literary circles seems much lower than, say, the music or construction industries!) But the award was cancelled and whatever cultural prominence it once had evaporated. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo claims to be "most important literary awards in Uruguay" which sure sounds defining ... until you actually click on the category and look at the articles. Fifty Shades of Grey, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and The Fault in Our Stars are not remotely defined by this award. Even among Uruguayan writers like Fernando Butazzoni and Susana Olaondo, the articles are about evenly split between those that mention the award in passing and those that don't mention it at all, so it's not defining for them either. There wasn't a list so I created on right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:ASA Architectural Conservation Award recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Association of Siamese Architects gives out a ASA Architectural Conservation Award award each year for conservation or renovations of historic buildings in Thailand. Buildings that win this award are already very prominent prior to renovation and most articles do not mention the award at all like Assumption Cathedral, Bangkok, Phaya Thai Palace, Bangkok railway station, or any others you want to click on. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Czechoslovak Military Order for Liberty[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
I had trouble finding information on the Czechoslovak Military Order for Liberty in English but this Czech site describes it as a post-war award for WWII resistance members and those (Soviet?) soldiers that liberated the country. 1 of the 4 members of this category fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War and is multiple categories for that service. The other 3 are already in Category:Czech resistance members and, unfortunately, also in Category:Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany. Being a member of the Nazi resistance is absolutely defining which is why we categorize by it; also receiving this award after the war for that same service is redundant and non-defining. -
  • Note I copied the current contents right here so no work is lost if anyone can find reliable sources in order to establish notability for a list article. -

Category:Recipients of the Egypt Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Egypt Medal is a British campaign medal that was automatically issued to all British participants in both the Anglo-Egyptian War and the following Mahdist War. While participation in those conflicts may be defining, we already categorize those same people under Category:British military personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War and Category:British military personnel of the Mahdist War. This award category seems redundant and non-defining. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Sniper's Badge[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (Likely WP:OVERLAPCAT and definitely WP:OCAWARD)
We have 4 articles total under Category:German military snipers and all 4 are from the Nazi period and all 4 had more than 20 kills. The Sniper's Badge is a Nazi award for snipers who had more than 20 kills, although only 2 articles currently list the award. (I assume all 4 probably won the award per WP:SYNTH but, when I tried to confirm that theory, I got search results from Storm Front and similar sites I'm not going to click on.) Both the articles treat the Iron Cross as prominent but give only passing reference to this award so it doesn't seem defining. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Royal Guelphic Order[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The German Kingdom of Hanover issued the Royal Guelphic Order as house order. Because Hanover and Great Britain were in personal union and shared a monarch for almost 200 years, the vast majority of recipients are British with no connection to Hanover or Germany. Commander of Australian Forces Robert Nickle, Scottish surgeon Charles Bell, and English linguist Graves Haughton are not remotely defined by this award. (Even amongst the small minority of recipients associated with Hanover, the award just gets a passing mention: 1, 2, 3.) Two of the classes were already in separate list articles and I created a collapsible list for the third right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Hanoverian Waterloo Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The German Kingdom of Hanover issued the Hanoverian Waterloo Medal to all Hanoverian military personnel who participated in the Battle of Waterloo, although the category only has 1 article so far. We typically don't categorize by campaign medals because career officers serve in a variety of locations and conflicts and, accordingly, that one article mentions the award only in passing. I don't know if I can say I "listified" the recipients of the award since there is only 1 article but it is now linked right here in the main article. -
If I renominate the category for the British Waterloo Medal we're going to have a great discussion, but this is about a different award that we can judge separately. You are quite correct that many of the officers in the Hanoverian Army were British and the 1 article in this category, James Frederick Lyon, is also under the British Category:Recipients of the Waterloo Medal because he won the British medal as well. -

Category:Recipients of the Spanish Cross[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Spanish Cross was a Nazi campaign medal that was issued to all German soldiers participating on the Francoist side in the Spanish Civil War. Because of the unique situation in Spain and because that war served as a testing ground for new tactics later used in WWII, the Spanish Civil War is absolutely defining for the German military perssonnel which is why we already have Category:German military personnel of the Spanish Civil War. Automatically winning this award for that same participation is redundant and non-defining. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
Note: If this nomination passes, some articles will need to be manually defused to Category: Condor Legion personnel which I will handle post close. –

Category:Recipients of the Blood Order[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (initially WP:OVERLAPCAT and later WP:OCAWARD)
The Blood Order was originally a Nazi campaign medal that was issued to participants in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch coup attempt in Munich. That participation is absolutely defining which is why we already have Category:Nazis who participated in the Beer Hall Putsch.
The reasons for recieving the medal were extensively expanded to include those who:
(a) served time in prison for Nazi activities before 1933,
(b) received a death sentence which was later commuted to life imprisonment for Nazi activities before 1933, or
(c) been severely wounded in the service of the Party before 1933;
Later, the possible reasons for the award were expanded still further to include:
(d) members of the Austrian Nazi Party who had participated in the 1934 February Uprising or July Putsch,
(e) or who had received significant prison time or injuries for Nazi activities.
(f) It could also be bestowed on certain other individuals at the discretion of Adolf Hitler.
That diversity of reasons for winning the medal means there's not a clear common thread in the recipients, although all of them are already somewhere under either Category:Nazis and/or Category:German military personnel of World War II. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Order of Danica Hrvatska recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (initially WP:OVERLAPCAT and later WP:OCAWARD)
According to the main article, the Order of Danica Hrvatska is the 14th most important medal in Croatia and the articles treat it like the 14th most important award, mentioning it only in passing. The award is given out for many reasons and the 4 articles consist of a war hero, a sculptor, an entrepreneur, and a theologian, so there is no common thread that could aid navigation. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Hungarian Heritage Award[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Hungarian Heritage Award is issued by the Hungarian Heritage and European Association for a broad range of reasons. The only 2 biographies in this category are novelist and alleged war criminal Albert Wass and poultry disease expert József Marek. (I doubt many readers would want a direct navigational path between those 2 articles?) WP:SMALLCAT is not an issue here since there are some other recipients (1, 2, 3), none of whose articles mention this award so it doesn't seem defining. All the category contents are now listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Creu de Sant Jordi[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Creu de Sant Jordi was established in 1981 an is the 2nd highest award issued by Catalonia in Spain. The awards generally mention this in passing so it doesn't seem defining. The wide variety of recipients--historian, teacher, writer, politician, philosopher, etc--means there is no common thread that could aid navigation. There is already a separate list article, List of recipients of the Creus de Sant Jordi, for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Neshan-e Aqdas[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Neshan-e Aqdas was an award from the Qajar dynasty of Iran given to both domestic and foreign recipients. 4 of the 6 articles here were given to themselves and are already somewhere under Category:Qajar dynasty. The other 2 articles are Khazʽal Ibn Jabir and Amanullah Khan, one of which mentions the award in the lede and the other not at all, so it doesn't seem generally defining. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Order of Danica Hrvatska recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Danica Hrvatska is the 14th most important medal in Croatia and the articles treat it like the 14th most important award, mentioning it only in passing. The award is given out for many reasons and the 4 articles consist of a war hero, a sculptor, an entrepreneur, and a theologian, so there is no common thread that could aid navigation. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of Hilal-e-Kashmir[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SMALLCAT and likely WP:OCAWARD)
The Hilal-e-Kashmir is an award issued by Pakistani-administered section of the disputed Kashmir area. There is only 1 article in this category, Saif Ali Janjua, which could use some further editor attention. I can't really say the category contents are "listified" but that 1 biography is already linked in right here in the main article. For what's it's worth, that 1 article does mention the award in the lede but since the two articles already link to each other, this category doesn't serve a navigational function and I can't find any other articles to add. -

Category:Recipients of Tamgha-i-Jurat[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:C1, an unpopulated category, and likely WP:OCAWARD
The Tamgha-i-Jurat is a military award from Pakistan and the recipients are already listified right here in the main article. The problem is that none of those people have a Wikipedia article. None. (Not sure if it is eligible for speedy though since the award article is in the cat so it's not technically empty.)-

Category:Khwarizmi International Award recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Khwarizmi International Award is an Iranian award for science and technology. Each year 20 winners are announced: 10 are senior researchers who may be domestic or international and 10 young researchers from Iran. We only have 4 articles so far and they don't treat the award as defining: 3 mention it in passing and 1 in the lede. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Service[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT) and WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Service is an Iranian award for either "accomplishing responsibility and servitude" or aiding the oppressed. In practice, this award is given to high ranking Iranian politicians who already very prominent: 14 of the 17 articles are somewhere under Category:Iranian politicians. The 3 exceptions are high ranking goverment employees: nuclear negotiator Abdolrasoul Dorri-Esfahani, nuclear program official Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, and ambassador Gholamhossein Mohammadnia who are already well categorized and don't seem defined by the award. The category contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Service Merit[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and likely WP:PERFCAT)
South Korea issues the Order of Service Merit to postal workers, private school teachers, and public servants to thank them for their service and the award is likely defining for those non-notable recipients. The 5 articles in this category look very different though: American General Wallace M. Greene, American Lt. General Victor H. Krulak, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Thanat Khoman, Korean infectious disease expert Dr. Park Seung-cheol, and Korean Secretary-General of the UN Ban Ki-moon are not remotely defined by this award. The category contents are now all listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Cross of Merit of the Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:OCAWARD)
The Cross of Merit of the Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic with the stated purpose of recognizing heroism and other support to Czech defence. In practice, the award is often given to visiting American military officials (General David Petraeus, General Wesley Clark, Lt. General Karl Eikenberry, Under Secretary Marshall Billingslea, & General Gregory S. Martin) and visiting Romanian royalty (Michael I of Romania & Margareta of Romania). The only 4 Czech people in the category consist of two diplomats (1 & 2) and two Czech generals (3 & 4) who are already well categorized under Category:Czech generals. This doesn't seem defining to any of them them and the category contents are now all listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Members of the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT, and WP:OCAWARD)
When high ranking international people meet with the government of South Korea, the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit is given out as a souvenir. U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman, King Gyanendra of Nepal, and Russian Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin are not remotely defined by this award. Ambassadors to Korea Lee Khoon Choy and Zoila Martínez are defined by their role which is why they are already under Category:Ambassadors to Korea. (None of the people in this category are Korean.) All the category contents are now listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background In the past, we've deleted dozens of similar categories for high ranking visitors and those nominations are listed right here. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Aztec Eagle[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT, and WP:OCAWARD)
When American and other officials and businesspeople meet with the Mexican government, the Order of the Aztec Eagle is given out as a souvenir. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bill Gates, Jared Kushner, Nelson Rockefeller, and Nelson Mandela are not remotely defined by this award. (I clicked on over half the articles and none of those were Mexican people.) All the category contents are now listified right here in a collapsible list within the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background In the past, we've deleted dozens of similar categories for high ranking visitors and those nominations are listed right here. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Aeronautical Merit (Brazil)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT, and WP:OCAWARD)
When high military officials from other countries meet with or have training exercises with the Brazilian air force, the Order of Aeronautical Merit (Brazil) is given out as a souvenir. Swedish Air Force Micael Bydén, Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, and American General Dwight D. Eisenhower are not remotely defined by this award. (The only Brazilian in this category is President Lula who has no aeronatics background.) All the category contents are now listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background In the past, we've deleted dozens of similar categories for high ranking visitors and those nominations are listed right here. -

Category:Recipients of the Royal Order of Monisaraphon[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and likely WP:PERFCAT)
The Royal Order of Monisaraphon is a general purpose award from Cambodia with the stated purpose of honoring "literature and the fine arts, education, justice, administration, and science". The 7 articles in this category look very different though: three were given as diplomatic souvenirs to foreign visitors (1, 2, 3), three were given to Cambodian royalty who are already under Category:Cambodian royalty (4, 5, 6), and one was a foreign minister of Cambodia who is already under Category:Foreign ministers of Cambodia (7). None seem even remotely defined by this award. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Mila Dimitrijević Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD approaching WP:TRIVIALCAT)
English Wikipedia doesn't have a main article on Mila Dimitrijević Award. I looked at the first 5 articles and, while none even mention the award in the text, it's a Croatian award for performing artists. The off Wikipedia coverage is pretty sparse as the top 2 Google search results are Wikipedia. I copied the category contents right here so no work is lost if anyone wants to find reliable sources to create a main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Merit and Management[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Merit and Management is an Iranian award for management expertise. Most of the people we have articles on are very high ranking government officials who, indeed manage people as part of their roles, but this award just reflects those other positions which we already have categories for. The articles in the category are about evenly split between those that mention the award in passing (usually in the infobox) and those that don't mention it at all so it doesn't seem defining. There is already a list of the winners, most of which are redlinks, right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Construction[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Order of Construction is an Iranian award for building construction, economic development and civil engineering projects. If the articles in this category were full of construction company owners, building project managers and architects, this would likely be defining. However, 6 of the 7 articles were high ranking officials who backed construction projects as part of their political position and are all already under either Category:Government ministers of Iran or Category:Iranian governors. (The only exception is Abolghasem Mozaffari, a military leader whose article gives no hint as to why he won the award.) The articles in the category are about evenly split between those that mention the award in passing and those that don't mention it at all so it doesn't seem defining. There is already a list of the winners, most of which are redlinks, right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Order of Saint George and Reunion[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Saint George and Reunion was an award from the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. The recipients were already very prominent before winning the award and the 6 articles are evenly split between those that mention the award in passing with other honours and those that don't mention it at all. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD) and WP:V
The Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George is issued by the Royal House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies to practicing Catholics. Recipients tend to fall into the following groupings:
None of these groups seem especially defined by the award, which is generally mentioned in passing. Finally, there have been multiple schisms in the royal family each which gives out rival versions of the award so there is no agreed upon list of the true recipients. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Royal Order of Francis I (not ready)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD) and WP:V
The Royal Order of Francis I was originally an award from the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies but only a few recipients from the 1800s have articles including botanist Vincenzo Tineo, manufacturer Edward Thomason and lithography Marcellin Jobard. One of the claimants to the kingdom's royal family reactivated the award but this time to honor interfaith dialogue so it was given to Desmond Tutu, George Carey and Nasser Khalili. King George Tupou V, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher also received the award for more obscure reasons. Despite the diversity of recipients, one things the articles have in common is that they consistently treat the award as non-defining. After my edits, all the category contents are now listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Commanders of the Royal Order of the Two-Sicilies[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and likely WP:SMALLCAT)
The Royal Order of the Two-Sicilies was a short-lived award from the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and there is only 1 article in this category, Léonard Jean Aubry Huard de Saint-Aubin, which doesn't even mention the award. Doesn't get much clearer than that. I "listified" that one recipient right here in the award article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Colombo Plan Scholars[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Colombo Plan is a regional intergovernmental organization representing countries in the Asia-Pacific region which encourages economic development. One of their programs provides scholarships for Asian students to study at a university abroad, and the articles are already in the alumni category for that school. I'm sure the award was defining for those promising young people but Wikipedia doesn't have articles on promising young people. By the time these people are notable, the award is no longer defining and only gets a passing mention usually in the education, or awards sections in articles like J. Soedjati Djiwandono, Seah Kian Peng or any others you want to click on. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Olmsted Scholars[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Olmsted Scholar Program is an American scholarship for young military personnel to attend foreign language and other studies at colleges abroad, and the articles are already in the alumni category for that school. I'm sure the award was defining for those promising young people but Wikipedia doesn't have articles on promising young people. By the time these people are notable, the award is no longer defining and only gets a passing mention usually in the education, awards or early career section in articles like John Abizaid, Carlisle Trost or any others you want to click on. The current contents are now fully listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Galician Literature Day[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:OCAWARD)
Galician Literature Day is an annual festival celebrating Galician culture since 1963. Each year a different deceased Galician-language writer is picked and public readings are made of their work. This category contains those deceased authors and, if these headliners were living writers, this would clearly be a performance category. Since English Wikipedia doesn't have a ton of Galician-language writers, this category significantly overlaps with Category:Galician-language writers. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Order of the Republic (Sierra Leone)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Order of the Republic (Sierra Leone) is a Sierra Leonean award and, refreshingly, most of the recipients are associated with Sierra Leone. The 5 articles consists of 3 domestic politicians, 1 UN official stationed in the country, and the King of Saudi Arabia. The award is generally mentioned in passing with other honours and doesn't seem defining. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Rokel[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Order of the Rokel is a general purpose Sierra Leonean award "in the areas of to the public service, arts and sciences, and philanthropy". The recipients are as diverse as those reasons: a British General, a Mauritian mining executive, and, from Sierra Leone, a footballer, a Catholic biship, and a chief justice so there's no common thread. The articles generally mention the award in passing with other honours. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Black Star[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD approaching WP:TRIVIALCAT)
The Order of the Black Star was ostensibly a French award for the colony of Dahomey (now Benin). Of the 30 articles in this category, not a single one so much as mentions Dahomey (or Benin) outside of the award so maybe Michael Scott (golfer) played a round there but I'm having trouble figuring out specifically why individual people received the award. There are no Dahomean recipients in these categories and both the French recipients (like President Jacques Chirac and General Michel Arnaud) and foreign recipients (like Sultan Hamengkubuwono VIII and General John H. Hughes) tend to mention the award in passing with other honours. There wasn't a list so we created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the African Star[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of the African Star was intended as a colonial award for service in the Belgian Congo. However 6 of the articles are for ruling monarchs who are already under Category:Belgian monarchs and automatically received the award like Albert II of Belgium, Baudouin of Belgium, and Leopold III of Belgium. Just 3 of the articles are for soldiers who served in the Congo but they just mention the award in passing and don't treat it as defining: Kristian Løken, Armand Huyghé, and Paul Costermans. (Inexplicably, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin also received this medal.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown was intended for "civil servants, non-nobles, and foreigners" and includes the following:
With all three groups, the award is generally mentioned in passing so it doesn't seem defining and the diverse reasons for issuing the award creates a mish-mash of articles unlikely to aid navigation. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any readers interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the National Order of the Leopard[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT, and WP:OCAWARD)
When high ranking foreign people meet with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (previously Zaire), the National Order of the Leopard is given out as a souvenir. Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il, Emperor Akihito, and Lord Mayor of London Robin Gillett are not remotely defined by this award. (About a third of the articles are Congolese people but they are overwhelmingly high ranking politicians already under Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo politicians.) All the category contents are now listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Grand Order of Queen Jelena recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT, and WP:OCAWARD)
When high ranking foreign people meet with the Croatia, the Grand Order of Queen Jelena is given out as a souvenir. Mother Teresa, Helmut Kohl, and Madeleine Albright are not remotely defined by this award. (There are a handful of Croatian recipients but most are Prime Ministers who are already well categorized under Category:Prime ministers of Croatia.) All the category contents are now listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Civil Order of Savoy[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
Civil Order of Savoy was a House of Savoy house order from the Italian Kingdom of Sardinia. We have 3 articles in this category: The 1st and 2nd are princes of the House of Savoy so they are already categorized under Category:Princes of Savoy while the 3rd is a physician with no clear connection either to the House of Savoy or to Sadinia. All 3 mention the award in passing with other honours. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Zvane Črnja Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Zvane Črnja Award is a Croatian literary award established in 2007 that is given out each year at the Pula Days of Essays festival. The vast majority of winners don't have an article on English Wikipedia yet and the few that do just mention this award in passing and it doesn't seem defining. We have a Catch-22 where, when the award is defining enough for a category, the winners aren't notable enough for an article and, when they're notable enough for an article, the category is no longer defining. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Medal of the Crown of King Zvonimir[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:SMALLCAT)
During World War II, the Nazi puppet state issued the Medal of the Crown of King Zvonimir based on loosely defined criteria "for merits done, in peace or in war, for Croatian people." We only have one article, Kurt Waldheim, who is definitely defined for being a Nazi (and is categorized as such) but not for receiving this award. I can't say I "listified" the category contents but that one article is now linked right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:John Fisher Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
There is really not much here: we don't have a main article on this award, the redirect points to the American Society for Aesthetics which list 3 different awards they issue without much detail, and the category only contains 1 biography article (Rachel Zuckert), and that article only mentions this award in passing so it doesn't seem defining. Normally I suggest listification with awards but there's not much listify and nowhere to put it. -

Category:Monograph Prize winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
We don't have a main article on this award and the redirect points to the American Society for Aesthetics which list 3 different awards they issue without much detail. The 5 articles in this category are about split between those that mention the award in passing and those that don't mention it at all. I copied the category contents here and here so no information is lost if anyone wants to find reliable sources to establish notablity for a list article. -

Category:Willis Barnstone Translation Prize winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Willis Barnstone Translation Prize is a university prize whose final winner is selected by translator Willis Barnstone. Part of the award includes $1,000 and getting a poem published in the Evansville Review, a University of Evansville publication. The articles in the category generally list the award in passing with other honours so it doesn't seem defining. The recipients are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested the topic. -
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Category:Holman Prize[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
There is really not much here: we don't have a main article on this award, the redirect points to a section in LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired which issued the award, and the category only contains 1 biography article (Penny Melville-Brown). The recipients are already listified right here in the organization article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Philosopher's Annual Prize winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TOPTEN and WP:OCAWARD)
The Philosopher's Annual picks the top 10 best philosophy papers of that year according to the editors. Usually we associate such end-of-the-year Top 10 lists with popular culture (best movies, best dance songs, etc.) but this announcement has the same vibe and the articles generally mention this award in passing. There wasn't a list, so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:TOFIL Awardees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The TOFIL Award an award from the Junior Chamber International for business people in the Philippines. The articles are for people that are already notable and they generally don't even mention the award so it's clearly not defining. The current contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:People of the Year Awards[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SMALLCAT)
The People of the Year Awards was an Irish TV awards show that was discontinued in 2018. The only contents are People of the Year Awards and a list of winners with no real growth potential. -

Category:Lamdan Prize recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:SMALLCAT
The Lamdan Prize was a municipal award given by Ramat Gan, Israel to children's book authors from 1954-1983. Within the articles, the award is generally mentioned in passing as part of a list of other honours so it doesn't seem defining for S. Yizhar, Amos Bar or any other article you want to click on. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Companions of the Star of Melanesia[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
We don't have a main article on the Star of Melanesia but Papua New Guinea honours system#Star of Melanesia described it as as a Long Service Medal for 15 years of service. It must also be issued a diplomatic souvenir because two British royals and the Prime Minister of Fiji also received it. The 4 articles with people defined by Papua New Guinea (1, 2, 3, 4) are evenly split between those that mention the award in passing and those that don't mention it at all. I expanded the exisint list so all the category contents are now listified right here for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Medal of St. Hallvard[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Medal of St. Hallvard is a local municipal award given by the city of Oslo, Norway. Within the articles, the award is generally mentioned in passing as part of a list of other honours so it doesn't seem defining for Arnstein Arneberg, Arild Sandvold, Per Aabel or any other article you want to click on. A number of these people were retired mayors of Oslo (1, 2, 3, 4) who are already well categorized under Category:Mayors of Oslo. I expanded the main article so all the category contents are now listified right here for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We deleted categories for similar awards from New York City and Krakow here and here. -

Category:Recipients of the War Medal (Norway)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
There have been exactly 4 ways to earn the War Medal (Norway):
  • 1: Automatically issued to everyone killed in action in World War II
  • 2: Automatically issued to everyone who served on Norwegian naval or civilian ships for 18 months in WWII
  • 3: Selectively issued for meritous service in WWII
  • 4: Selectively issued for meritous service since 2012 (often against ISIL/ISIS)
3 and 4 had a shot at being defining but the most the articles are from 1 and 2. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Medal for Outstanding Civic Service[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Medal for Outstanding Civic Service is a former Norwegian award given near retirement to Norwegian politicians but the articles are already well categorized under Category:Norwegian politicians. (The only exceptions are Olav V of Norway and Haakon VII of Norway, who are already well categorized under Category:Norwegian monarchs.) The award typically gets a passing reference in the body of the articles and seems non-defining. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Royal Norwegian Order of Merit[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT & WP:OCAWARD) and WP:C2F
When high ranking foreign visitors come to Norway or vice versa, the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit is given out as souvenir. Prince Ali bin Hussein of Jordan, Princess Claire of Belgium, and Brian Bell (businessman) of Australia are not remotely defined by this award. Norwegian diplomats like Kjell H. Halvorsen, Haakon Baardsøn Hjelde, and Ingvard Havnen also receive the award but are already somewhere under Category:Ambassadors of Norway. Neither group seems especially defined by the award, which the articles tend to mention in passing. (The parent category only contains the main article.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Sukhbaatar[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT & WP:OCAWARD)
When high ranking foreign visitors met with the People's Republic of Mongolia, the Order of Sukhbaatar is given out as souvenir. Joseph Stalin, Kim Il-sung, and Ho Chi Minh are not remotely defined by this award. There are also a lot of Soviet cosmonauts in the category like Vladimir Lyakhov, Valentina Tereshkova, Vladimir Dzhanibekov but they are already under Category:Soviet cosmonauts. I expanded the main article so all category contents are now listified right here for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of the Flag of the Hungarian Republic[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT & WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign heads of states, military leaders or performing artists visited the Hungarian People's Republic, the Order of the Flag of the Republic of Hungary was given out as souvenir. Leonid Brezhnev of the Soviet Union, Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal of Mongolia, and Henryk Jabłoński of Poland are not remotely defined by this award. There are also a lot of Soviet cosmonauts in the category like Yuri Gagarin, Boris Volynov, Vladimir Dzhanibekov but they are already under Category:Soviet cosmonauts. (The only Hungarian in this category is Rabi László Salgó who is not remotely defined by the award.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar (not ready)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT & WP:OCAWARD)
When high ranking foreign visitors met with representative of the Sultan of Zanzibar, the Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar was given out as souvenir. Otto von Bismarck, Aga Khan IV, and Isma'il Pasha of Egypt are not remotely defined by this award. There are also several British personnel defined by their time stationed in the Sultanate of Zanzibar protectorate but they tend to mention the award in passing and are all now somewhere under Category:Sultanate of Zanzibar people like John Houston Sinclair, Lloyd Mathews and Arthur Raikes. I expanded the exsit list so all category contents are now listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Nansen medal for Outstanding Research[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Fridtjof Nansen Prize for Outstanding Research is a Norwegian research award founded in 1896. It's well respected but not especially defining to recipients who are already very well respected so there's no Wikipedia category. Starting in 2003, all Fridtjof Nansen Prize are automatically awarded a "Nansen Medal for Outstanding Research" as part of the same award. (All living prior winners were also retroactively given the medal.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article although we may eventually want to merge the articles. -

Category:Members of the Orange Order[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING
The Orange Order is an Irish Protestant/Unionist fraternal organization. While this organization is absolutely defining for some leaders, simply being a member of a lodge generally is not. My proposal would shrink the article count from 212 to 16 articles which I can handle for the closing admin if this nomination is successful.
Note: Notified Ardfern as the apparent category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Organizations. –

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Category:Honorary Members of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME and WP:SUBJECTIVECAT
The People's Party for Freedom and Democracy is a Dutch political party and all of the biography articles in this category were active politicians not just members, which is why this is a subcategory of Category:People's Party for Freedom and Democracy politicians. It's not clear what makes these politicians "honorary" since they appear to be full members so maybe it's a translation issue. The other Dutch political parties don't seem to have this subcategory. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Education and Pedagogy[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Education and Pedagogy is an Iranian award for educators. All 4 of the articles in this category are high ranking national education officials but most don't even mention this award so it doesn't seem defining. The recipients are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Work and Production[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:SMALLCAT)
The Order of Work and Production is an Iranian award for supporting industrial production. This award might be defining to the winners but all but one are redlinks who are likely non-notable. (The one exception is Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar who received the award for missile construction as the Defence Minister of Iran and is already well categorized under Category:Defence ministers of Iran.) We have a Catch-22 where, when the award is defining enough for a category, they aren't notable enough for an article and, when they're notable enough for an article, the category is no longer defining. The recipient(s) are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Heroes of Labour (GDR)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:SMALLCAT)
The Hero of Labour (GDR) is an East German award usually given for for economic output, like with this list of recipients from a watch factory. Despite the Communist era effort to elevate the status of workers, the vast majority of the 3,688 total recipients are non-notable and won't ever have a Wikipedia article and the only exception in this categroy is Ernst Wulf, who might actually be defined by the award. The other 12 articles in this category are all very high ranking national officials who without exception are already under Category:Members of the Volkskammer (the GDR Parliament) and mention this award in passing with other honours. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Heroes of the Republic of Cuba[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Hero of the Republic of Cuba was conceptually inspired by other communist "hero" awards but, in practice, was given out much more sparingly to 40 some recipients accordigng to the main article. (In contrast, the equivalent East German award has thousands of factory worker and farmer recipients.) The category currently consists of the following articles: Five high ranking Cuban officials (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), one high ranking Soviet official (6), three Soviet cosmonauts (7, 8, 9), one Cuban cosmonaut (10), two pre-revolutionary Cubans (11, 12) plus a group article on five cuban intelligence officers arrested in Miami (11-15). The one thing these articles all have in common is they mention this award in passing with other honours so it doesn't seem defining. I expanded the existing list of recipients located right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Chechen national heroes[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and either WP:SUBJECTIVECAT or WP:OCAWARD)
We don't have an article on Chechen national heroes to define what the inclusion criteria would be for this category. Every article is already under Category:Chechen nationalists and this appears to be a subjective judgment by editors. (Alternatively, it's possible this is a non-defining award without a main article.) Either way, the articles treat it as non-defining: 3 of 4 articles make no mention of being a "hero" and the 4th one has this unsourced passage:
He is considered by many Chechens to be a national hero.
That's not a strong basis for a category. -

Category:National Heroes of Honduras[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (Either WP:SUBJECTIVECAT or WP:OCAWARD)
We don't have an article on National Heroes of Honduras to define what the inclusion criteria would be for this category. The 5 articles do use the word "hero" (with a lowercase "h") but only 1 of them has a citation for it. Since the articles do objectively include the word "hero", maybe the category is not subjective per se but it's definitely grouping articles based on the subjective editorial word choice of various Wikipedia editors. (Alternatively, it's possible this is a non-defining award without a main article.) Either way, it's non-defining. -

Category:Recipients of the Excellent Order of Independence[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:SMALLCAT, WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Independence (Iran) is an award that has only ever been issued 3 times but that rarity doesn't seem to translate to defining-ness: the articles list the award in the infobox but otherwise make no mention of it. These are all very high ranking Iranian officials (a Prime Minister, a First Vice President, and military Chief of Staff) who are already well categorized under Category:Prime ministers of Iran, Category:First vice presidents of Iran and Category:Military chiefs of staff. The recipients are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the 18 May 1811 Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The 18 May 1811 Medal is a military award from Uruguay,although it seems to be given mostly to high ranking foreign soldiers. It must not be a very defining awarad because, of the 3 articles in this category, not a single one even mentions it. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Wen-Hu[edit]

Lowest one still above the sash
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Wen-Hu was a military award from the Republic of China awarded to foreign recipients. The high ranking British, U.S. and Japanese officials in the category are about evenly split between those that mention the award in passing and those that don't mention it at all, so it doesn't seem defining. (British Missionary William Edward Soothill is the sole exception here since he was not high ranking and the article discusses the reason for winning the award.) Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi can be seen here with the award. All of the category contents are now listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Roman Eagle[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of the Roman Eagle was a short-lived general purpose award from Fascist Italy from 1942-45. The only articles in the category is King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and 3 German Nazi officials, all of which just mention this award in passing with other honours. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Menelik II[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:PERFCAT, and WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Menelik II was a house order from Ethiopia and, without exception, all the Ethiopians in this category are members of the Ethiopian Royal Family who are already categorized under Category:Ethiopian Royal Family. Most of the foreign recipients don't mention Ethiopia at all beyond the award so it may have been a diplomatic souvenir. (There are a a couple exceptions with ambassadors and military advisors to the county but they are already well categorized.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Winners of the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service is given to charities in the United Kingdom like the British Red Cross, Talyllyn Heritage Railway, and Seagull Trust and the articles are a mix of those that mention the award in passing, in the lede or not at all. In the more developed articles, the award tends to be much less prominent so it doesn't seem defining, especially considering over 1,500 organisations have received it. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Krishnan Medal recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Krishnan Medal is is an Indian geology award. The recipients tend to mention the award in passing with other honours so it doesn't seem defining like with Krishan Lal Kaila, Vinod Kumar Gaur, and Sampat Kumar Tandon. There category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Members of the Royal Red Cross and Bar[edit]

South Africa Medal with 5 "bars".
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT but not WP:OCAWARD)
The Royal Red Cross is a British award for military nurses and this category groups people who have won that same award twice. In the UK, recipients receive a medal bar when they earn an award more than once rather than receiving separate physical medals. (A different British award with bars is show to the right.) I'm not asserting that winning the underlying award is undefining under WP:OCAWARD though. We don't categorize governors who were elected twice differently than those who were elected once or singers with 3 albums differently than singers with 4 albums so this double winner category seems non-defining. -
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Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross and two Bars (United Kingdom)[edit]

South Africa Medal with 5 "bars".
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT but not WP:OCAWARD)
The Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom) is a British and this category groups people who have won that same award twice or thrice. In the UK, recipients receive a medal bar when they earn an award more than once rather than receiving separate physical medals. (A different British award with bars is show to the right.) I have not formed an opinion yet whether the underlying award is defining or not but we don't categorize governors who were elected twice differently than those who were elected once or singers with 3 albums differently than singers with 4 albums so this double winner category seems non-defining. -
  • Background We already merged a bunch of British "bar" categories right here and another here but I missed these ones. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Antonio José de Irisarri[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
These 2 categories have 2 articles total and I'm not sure why either of the recipients actually received the Order of Antonio José de Irisarri, a Guatemalan award. The two articles are very different (Fredrick Chien is a Chinese politician and Federico Urruela was a Guatemalan diplomat) but both mention this award in passing so, whatever it was for, it doesn't seem defining. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Freemen of the City of London[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Freedom of the City of London was originally like a medieval business license that allowed members of livery companies to enter the City of London on business and pay no taxes or toll on London Bridge. (Here is an adorable video of a shepherd taking sheep across London Bridge in a re-enactment.) Later it could be purchased by individuals and then it morphed into a diplomatic souvenir for foreign visitors to London. Today, it is a combination local Key to the City and nostalgia award.
That long history and different usages leads to a strange mish mash of a category and I'm trying to imagine the Wikipedia reader who would want a direct navigational path from Princess Diana to President Ulysses S. Grant and then to funky mixmaster Smurfie Syco. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article where they are grouped so it's easier to navigate than this category. -
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Category:Freemen of Wolverhampton[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Freedom of the City of Wolverhampton was originally like a medieval business license for members of livery companies but later it became like an individual business licnese. Later, though, it becaem a local award like a key to the city given out to already prominent people. Locals tend to mention this award in passing with other honours while national officials seem to go from town to town collecting freedoms: Field Marshal Douglas Haig has 7 while Prime Minister David Lloyd George has a whopping 20, and is certainly not defined by this 1! I created a shortcut for categorization and the contents are already listified right here in a section of the Wolverhampton city article. -
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Category:Sokolov Prize recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The city government of Tel Aviv, Isral gives out a journalism award called the Sokolov Award. That article makes clear that the Israel Prize in Communications is the top career award for journalists in Israel, not this award. The contrast could not be clearer with the Nahum Barnea article: the Israel Prize in Communications is right in the lede while this award gets a passing reference with other honours. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. . -
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Category:Dizengoff Prize recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The city government of Tel Aviv, Israel gives a sculpting and painting award called the Dizengoff Prize and often there is one winner per year in sculpting and several in painting, although it varies a lot over time. (The top Isreali award for sculpting and painting is the Israel Prize which is why we also have Category:Israel Prize in sculpture and painting recipients.) This award is typically listed in passing with other honours so it doesn't seem defining in articles like Michal Na'aman and Pinchas Cohen Gan. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Bialik Prize recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The city government of Tel Aviv, Israel gives out a pair of award each year Bialik Prize, one for Hebrew literature an one for Jewish thought. (The top career award for both specialties is likely the national Israel Prize, which has specific categories for both Hebrew literature and Jewish thought.) This local award is typically listed in passing with other honours so it doesn't seem defining in articles like Moshe Shamir, Moshe Idel or any others you want to click on. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Freemen of the City of Gloucester[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC) and, for the parent category, WP:C1
The Freedom of the City of Gloucester was originally automatically given to members of livery companies to conduct business while later it could be purchased by individuals like a business license. While most other cities converted these into awards for outsiders, Gloucester's current "Freemen and Women" seem more like a civic booster club. (Their web site is down but here is their Twitter feed to get the vibe.) All three of these phases seem non-defining because the Wikipedia articles we have are notable for other reasons and this status just seems to reflect that pre-existing prominence. The category contents are already listified right here in the list article for any reader interested in the topic. (If this nomination passes, it will empty the parent category.) -
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Category:Order of Naval Merit Admiral Padilla[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:PERFCAT)
When high ranking foreign military leaders have an exercise or joint mission with the Colombian military, the Order of Naval Merit Admiral Padilla is given out as souvenir. US General Peter Pace, Indian diplomat Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, and US Admiral Elmo Zumwalt are not remotely defined by this award. (The stated purpose of the award was to recognize Colomonbian naval personnal but the only Colombian in this category is Fernando Tapias Stahelin who is well categorized under Category:Colombian generals.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Royal Order of Kamehameha I[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT)
When the Kingdom of Hawaii sent emissaries to other countries, the Royal Order of Kamehameha I was given out as souvenir. Queen Victoria, Guangxu Emperor, and Alexander III of Russia are not remotely defined by this award. (A subgroup of this category is from Hawaii but most of them are Hawaiian royalty who are already well categorized under Category:Hawaiian royalty.) All of the category contents are now listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Bahamas[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Merit of the Bahamas was established in 1996 and seems to be award to people who are already very prominent. So far, we only have 2 articles: 1 Prime Minister and 1 Olympic athlete who are already well categorized under Category:Prime ministers of the Bahamas and Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the Bahamas, respectively. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the National Order of the Lion[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:PERFCAT)
When heads of state and other officials visit Senegal or vice versa, the National Order of the Lion is given out as souvenir. General François Lecointre of France, Kim Jong-il of North Korea, UNICEF Chairman Torild Skard of Norway, and Princess Margriet of the Netherlands are not remotely defined by this award. (4 of the 37 articles are Senegalese—1, 2, 3, 4—but they don't generally treat it as defining either.) There wasn't a list but there also is not a main article so I shoehorned the current category contents into a collapsible list right here in the Orders, decorations, and medals of Senegal article. -
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Category:Recipients of the Royal Order of the Crown of Hawaii[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Royal Order of the Crown of Hawaii was given by the Hawaiian royal family, and half of these articles are themselves Hawaiian royalty who are already well categorized somewhere under Category:Hawaiian royalty. A large majority of the articles don't even mention the award including all four "Good Articles": 1, 2, 3, 4. There's not a current list but there's also not a main article so I shoehorned the current category contents into a collapsible list right here in the Orders, decorations, and medals of Hawaii article. -

Category:Recipients of the Special Operations Command Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:PERFCAT)
The United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) gives out the Special Operations Command Medal mostly to allied special forces soldiers involved with US joint operations, although US soldiers occasionally receive it as well. With both foreign and domestic recipients, the articles are already well categorized and tend to mention the award in passing with other honours. There is not a main article but the category contents are already listified right here in the SOCOM article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Wason Medalists[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
We don't have a main article on the Wason Medal but it's an engineering research award from the American Concrete Institute (ACI). The articles for recipients don't treat it as defining and generally mention the award in passing like with W. Gene Corley, Fazlur Rahman Khan, and Nathan M. Newmark. (The only 1 of the 7 articles to mention it in the lede is Abraham Burton Cohen.) All the category contents are now listified right here in the ACI article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Wright Brothers Medal recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Society of Automotive Engineers branched out a little by issuing the Wright Brothers Medal, an American award for research into aerospace engineering and other improvements to aircraft. The biography articles are absolutely defined by their aerospace involvement but they're already well categorized, usually under Category:American aerospace engineers. Many of these articles are just one paragraph long and hard to assess but the longer ones don't treat the award as defining and tend to mention the it in passing like with Clinton H. Havill, Myron Tribus, and Theodore Paul Wright, no relation. (There are some exceptions that mention it the lede though.) The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic.

Category:XBIZ Awards[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:SMALLCAT and the spirit of WP:C2F, a category with one eponymous article
The XBIZ Awards honor people in the American pornograhic film industry. In a prior CFD nomination, we deleted the Category:XBIZ Award winners subcategory and this a follow up nom. All that was left behind in this category was the main article and Category:XBIZ Awards templates, which is already well categorized. I don't seem much growth potential here but, if I'm wrong and there are ever 5+ direct articles, no objection to recreating later. -
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Category:Recipients of King Abdulaziz Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OVERLAPCAT for the subcategory and the spirit of WP:C1, an empty category, for the parent
We don't have a main article on the King Abdulaziz Medal so the parent category is empty. The recipient subcategory has 4 articles for foreign leaders, all of whom earned the Order of King Abdulaziz. I'm like 90% sure this is just an alternate translation of the same award but there are many things named after King Abdulaziz so it's possible there is another non-defining award. (We can discuss the defining-ness of the target category in a future CFD nomination.) -

Category:Recipients of the Medal of Aeronautical Merit[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:PERFCAT)
When foreign military leaders have a training with Uruguay, the Medal of Aeronautical Merit is given out as souvenir. The category contains 2 air force generals (1 from Spain and 1 from the United States) and neither mentions Uruguay outside of this award. There wasn't a list but there also is not a main article so I shoehorned the current category contents into a collapsible list right here in the Orders, decorations, and medals of Uruguay article. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of the Lion and the Sun[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:PERFCAT)
During the Qajar Dynasty, Iran gave out the Order of the Lion and the Sun to foreign people. Some of these people received the award as a diplomatic souvenir, like Carol I of Romania, Otto von Bismarck, and Leopold II of Belgium. Other recipients do have ties to Iran: Gore Ouseley, was a key player in the Russo-Persian Wars, Eric Hermelin translated works from Persian, and Edward Granville Browne was a prominent Iranologist but that's why those articles are already in Category:People of the Russo-Persian Wars, Category:Translators from Persian and Category:Iranologists, respectively. While some of the recipients are defined by their association with Iran, none seem defined by the award which generally gets a passing mention in the articles. I expanded the main articles so all the category contents are now right here for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Glory (Ottoman Empire)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:PERFCAT)
When VIP guests visited the Ottoman Empire or vice versa, the Order of Glory (Ottoman Empire) was given out as souvenir. German Emperor Wilhelm II, American inventor Samuel Morse, and Norwegian landscape artist Frits Thaulow are not remotely defined by this award. (There are not any Turkish recipients in these categories but there are three more or less loyal local Ottoman leaders: 1, 2, 3.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Henry the Lion[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
When royalty and other officials from other states visited the German Duchy of Brunswick, the Order of Henry the Lion was given out as souvenir. Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg, Frederick Augustus II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg are not remotely defined by the award and just mention it in passing. (There are also a few officials from Brunswick like Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick and William, Duke of Brunswick but it doesn't seem defining to them either.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the House and Merit Order of Peter Frederick Louis[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign officials visited the German Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, the House and Merit Order of Peter Frederick Louis was given out as souvenir. Edward VII, Ludwig I of Bavaria, Abbas II of Egypt, and Alexander II of Russia are not remotely defined by the award and just mention it in passing. (About a 10th of this category consists of royals and other people from Oldenburg, who don't seem defined by the award either.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT, and WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau is given out both by Luxembourg and the royal family of the Netherlands, as both country's royal families are in branches of the the House of Nassau. The recipients tend to fall into three categories:
  • 1 Diplomatic Souvenirs: Emperor Akihito of Japan, Marshal Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, and President Heinz Fischer of Austria are not remotely defined by having a formal diplomatic visit with either country.
  • 2 House of Nassau members: The King of the Netherlands and the Grand Duke of Luxembourg are automatically the Grand Masters of the order and other members of their families automatically receive other grades.
  • 3 Some Combination of the Above: It's not clear if Edward VII, Alexander II of Russia, or Napoleon III received the award as part of diplomacy or due to being a distant relative, since the royal families were intermarried.
Regardless of the reason, the award generally is mentioned in passing with other honours and doesn't seem defining. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Civil Merit (Syria)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT, and WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Civil Merit (Syria) is a general purpose award and the recipients tend to fall into three categories:
Regardless of the reason, the articles generally list the award in passing with other honours, if at all. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Red Eagle[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of the Red Eagle served as a general purpose award from Prussia. The recipients generally fall into three categories:
I created a collapsible list with all the category contents right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Guadalupe[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT, and WP:OCAWARD)
When high ranking foreign visitors met with representatives from Imperial Mexico, the Order of Guadalupe was given out as souvenir. Queen Victoria, Kamehameha V, and Leopold I of Belgium are not remotely defined by this award. There are a few Mexican people in this category but all except 1 are members of the royal family-1, 2, 3, 4-who are already somewhere under Category:Mexican monarchy. (The 1 exception is President Vicente Guerrero who is not defined by the award.) There isn't a main article so I shoehorned a collapsible list with all the category contents right here in the Mexican Imperial Orders article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of the Griffon (Mecklenburg)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin issued the Order of the Griffon (Mecklenburg) to local nobility like Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Duke Paul Frederick of Mecklenburg and Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin who are already well categorized somewhere under Category:Mecklenburgian nobility.
There are also a few foreign leaders like Leopold II of Belgium, Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovich of Russia and Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia but I'm not sure if they received it as a diplomatic souvenir or based on distant family relations, since the royal houses were intermarried. Either way, all the articles generally mention this award in passing with other honours so it doesn't seem defining. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the House Order of the Wendish Crown[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin issued the House Order of the Wendish Crown to three groups:
There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the House Order of Hohenzollern[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The House Order of Hohenzollern was general purpose award from Prussia and the reasons for issuing include being a member of the Hohenzollern, being a prominent teacher, and George V for some reason. The overwhelming majority receiving it as soldiers in WWI either because they were prominent during that war like the Red Baron or young soldiers who didn't become prominent until WWII like Hermann Dahlmann. Across all the types of recipients, the award is usually mentioned in passing and doesn't seem defining. I created a collapsible list right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Crown (Iran)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:PERFCAT)
When royalty and other officials visited Iran, the Order of the Crown (Iran) was given out as souvenir. Olav V of Norway, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, and Fuad I of Egypt are not remotely defined by the award. (There are also a few high ranking people from Iran like the Shah, Prime Minister Hossein Ala', and Imam Aga Khan IV but they tend to mention the award in passing with other honours.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT)
When foreign royalty and other important guests visited any of the various Saxon/Ernestine duchies or vice versa, the Saxe-Ernestine House Order was given out as souvenir. Alexander II of Russia, Luitpold of Bavaria, and Abbas II of Egypt are not remotely defined by this award and list it with other honours. Relations between the inter-married royal houses of Europe was likely also a factor.
The award was also automatically given to local members of the fractured ruling family, House of Wettin, who are already somewhere under the equally fractured Category:House of Wettin tree. There wasn't a list so I created a collapsible one at the bottom of the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Ludwig Order[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD & WP:OVERLAPCAT) and, for the parent category, WP:C2F
The German Grand Duchy of Hesse established the Ludwig Order (German: Ludwigsorden) and intended it to be for "meritorious soldiers and civilians". Either the award wasn't used that way or such recipients aren't notable because these categories consist almost entirely of foreign officials like Nicholas I of Russia, Prince George of Prussia, and Napoleon III who tend to mention the award in passing with other honours. (I'm not sure if this served as a diplomatic award or dynastic order though since the recipients were often distantly related.)
Some Hessian nobility also received the award but those articles tend not to even mention the award, like with Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Frederick William, Elector of Hesse, and Prince William of Hesse-Philippsthal-Barchfeld, and these articles are already somewhere under Category:House of Hesse anyway. There wasn't a list so I created a collapsible one at the bottom of the main article for any reader interested in the topic. (The parent category contains only the eponymous main article with no growth potential.) -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Philip the Magnanimous[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:PERFCAT & WP:OVERLAPCAT)
When foreign royalty and other important guests visited the German Grand Duchy of Hesse or vice versa, the Order of Philip the Magnanimous was given out as souvenir. Alexander II of Russia, Kamehameha V of Hawaii, and Edward VII are not remotely defined by this award. Relations between the inter-married royal houses of Europe was likely also a factor.
Some Hessian nobility also received the award like Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel, and Georg Donatus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Hesse but those articles are already somewhere under Category:House of Hesse. Both groups tend to mention this award in passing with other honours. There wasn't a list so I created a one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the National Order of San Lorenzo[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:PERFCAT)
The National Order of San Lorenzo is an Ecuadorian award that has had multiple uses:
1: During the unsuccessful 1809 revolt against Spain, it was automatically given to all members of the Revolutionary Council.
2: Later it became an award for diplomatic visits like with Albert II of Belgium and Queen Sofía of Spain
3: The President of Ecuador is automatically given "Grand Collar" class of the award as the head of the order.
None of these three groups seem especially defined by the award. Currently the categories only have 2 articles total but there's not a WP:SMALLCAT concern since other recipients are already listified right here in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Military Order of St. Henry[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:OCAWARD)
The German Kingdom of Saxony gave out the Military Order of St. Henry. The recipients fall into three categories:
There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Southern Cross[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:OCAWARD)
Brazil gives out a the Order of the Southern Cross as a general purpose award. The recipients fall into three categories:
I created a collapsible list with all the category contents right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Rio Branco[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:OCAWARD)
When high ranking visitors come to Brazil or vice versa, the Order of Rio Branco is given out as souvenir. Secretary Ban Ki-moon, Princess Madeleine, and Vladimir Vasiliev (dancer) are not remotely defined by this award. (There are also some already prominent Brazilians in these categories like Cafu, Luiz Bevilacqua, and Silvio Barbato.) With both groups, the award tends to get mentioned in passing with other Honours so it doesn't seem defining. All the category contents are now listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Red Cross Medal (Prussia)[edit]

Prussia issued the Red Cross Medal (Prussia) for special achievement in the service of the German Red Cross and assisting the sick either in peace or at war. The category starts out promisingly with Jakob Weis, a priest with the German Red Cross who voluntarily was interned as a POW to provide pastoral care. From there, the other 5 articles aren't remotely defined by the award: a prince of Bavaria, a future Nazi war criminal, an Austrian General, and 2 Austrian physicians who mention the award in passing with other honours. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Banner of Gold[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Banner of Gold is issued by the Chamber of Senators (Bolivia). The category is not likely to aid navigation because there is no common thread among the 5 recipients listed: a former senator, the country of Venezuela, a Japanese religious movement, a folk music group, and the country of Cuba. Most of the articles don't even mention the award so it doesn't seem defining. The recipients are already in the text of the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Silver Crosses of the Order of Honour (Greece)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and likely WP:PERFCAT)
The only article in this Greek award category is Marcin Wilczek, a Polish diplomat whose article makes no mention of the award (or of Greece for that matter). Presumably he received the award as a souvenir for a diplomatic visit which we've consistently found non-defining. I don't know if I can say I "listified" the recipients of the award since there is only 1 article but it is now linked right here. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Double Dragon[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visited imperial China, or vice versa, the Order of the Double Dragon was given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Rudolf Prince of Liechtenstein, Albert I of Belgium and Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia are not remotely defined by this award. (The only Chinese recipients are royalty and Li Hongzhang.) The category contents are already listed right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of the White Falcon[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT-1, WP:OVERLAPCAT-2 and WP:OCAWARD-3 & 4)
The Order of the White Falcon was an award that was given out by the German Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 4 classes.
1: Foreign Leaders: When high ranking visitors came to the Grand Duchy, or vice versa, this was given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. King George V, Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Tsar Alexander II of Russia are not remotely defined by this award. The vast majority of the 200+ articles in this category were given for this reason.
2: Local Royals: There are about 10 articles on local royalty, which is already well categorized under Category:House of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. (Examples: 1, 2, 3, 4.)
3: German Military Leaders: Around 15 prominent generals and admirals who have no shortage of medals and mention this award in passing. (Examples: 1, 2, 3, 4.)
4: Civilians: There are only 3 of these I would have guessed the award would have been defining to them, but the articles don't treat it that way. (All 3, not just examples: 1, 2, 3.)
There wasn't a list so I created a collapsible one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Supreme Order of the Renaissance[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT-1, WP:OVERLAPCAT-2 and WP:OCAWARD-3)
The Supreme Order of the Renaissance is an award that given out in 6 classes but I identified 3 groups of recipients:
1: Foreign Leaders: When high ranking visitors came to Jordan, or vice versa, this was given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. About half the category contents are to foreign officials like Sarah Crown Princess of Brunei and Prince Joachim of Denmark who are not remotely defined by this award.
2: Local Royals and Prime Ministers: About half the category are local royals and Jordanian prime ministers who are well categorized under Category:House of Hashim or Category:Prime ministers of Jordan.
4: Other Jordanians: I would have thought this group might be defined by the award but the articles sure don't treat it that way and mention it in passing: Ali Ghandour, Tareq Suheimat, Amer Khammash, Daoud Hanania
There wasn't a list so I created a collapsible one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Humane Order of African Redemption[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD approaching WP:OCASSOC)
The Liberian Humane Order of African Redemption is a medal given out for three stated reasons, where I've shown the current article breakdown:
1: Performing humanitarian work in Liberia: Anna E. Cooper, Mary Lee Mills, Dougbeh Chris Nyan, A. Doris Banks Henries
2: Assisting the Liberian nation: Jacques Paul Klein, Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, Ellen Margrethe Løj, Edward Wilmot Blyden
3: Advancing civil rights for African Americans in the US: Marian Anderson, Asa Grant Hilliard III
Despite the broadness of the award, it was also given for other reasons:
4: High ranking Liberian officials: Cletus Wotorson, George T. Washington (Liberia), Alex J. Tyler, Marjon Kamara
5: Other: Two high ranking FIFA officials (Arsène Wenger & Sepp Blatter) and American evangelist Billy Graham
What all these disparate articles have in common is that they do not treat this award as defining and mention it either in passing or not at all. The category is so heterogeneous that it is unlikely to aid navigation but all the category contents are now listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Francisco de Miranda[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Francisco de Miranda is a Venezuelan award that has been given out to a wide variety of domestic recipients including business leader Martín Marciales Moncada, musician José Antonio Abreu, agricultural engineer Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa, and sculptor Harry Abend. The foreign recipients have also been diverse: a Japanese auto executive, a Polish Nobel Peace Prize laureate, a ruling Emir from Qatar, and a visiting Soviet cellist. The one thing these articles all have in common is they generally mention the award only in passing and the there is no common thread here to aid navigation. All the category contents are now listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Charity (Ottoman Empire)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When prominent female leaders visited the Ottoman Empire, the Order of Charity (Ottoman Empire) was given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Alexandra of Denmark and Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia are not remotely defined by this award. There wasn't a list so I created one here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Mehr[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Mehr is an award to "to honor the status and the position of women in the Islamic Republic of Iran". The category only contains one article on Monireh Gorji, who was the only women elected to Assembly of Experts for Constitution right after the 1979 revolution, which is remarkable accomplishment. Getting this award decades later just reflects that prominence though and the article doesn't even mention winning it. (I'm not going to argue WP:SMALLCAT here though since there are other winners who hopefully won't stay redlinks.) There is already a list right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the José Reis Award of Scientific Divulgation[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Prêmio José Reis de Divulgação Científica is a Brazilian award for science communication. All of these biographies are now under some combination of Category:Brazilian science writers, Category:Science communicators and/or a subcategory of Category:Brazilian scientists. This award seems to just reflect recipients' pre-exisinting notability of very publicly prominent people and the articles treat it as non-defining: 7 mention it in passing, 1 in the lede and 1 not at all. There is already a list right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Grand Order of King Petar Krešimir IV recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Grand Order of King Petar Krešimir IV is a Croation award and "only highly ranked state officials, foreign officials, and senior military officials are eligible for this order." In other words, this award reflects the recipients' pre-exisinting notability and the articles treat it as non-defining: about half the category contents mention it in passing with other honours while about half don't mention it at all. There is already a list right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Duke Branimir[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Duke Branimir is a Croation award for international relations. There are definitely a wide range of people in this category: Sir Fitzroy Maclean had a close relationship with the country and might be defined by the award while US Senator Orrin Hatch seems to have received it because he was friends with a Croatian basketball player in college (official press release). In between those extremes, it's often given to foreign ambassadors of friendly nations who are already somewhere under Category:Ambassadors to Croatia. The award was also given to the entire 2018 Croatian FIFA World Cup team while the reasons for other domestic recipients are obscure. The articles generally mention the award in passing with other honours. The category contents are now listed right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Order of May[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders and diplomats visit Argentina, or vice versa, the Order of May is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. US Admiral Vern Clark, Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Bohuslav Chňoupek and European Economic Community President Walter Hallstein are not remotely defined by this award. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Brilliant Jade[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders and diplomats visit the Republic of China, or vice versa, the Order of Brilliant Jade is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, President Juan Orlando Hernández of Honduras and King Leopold III of Belgium are not remotely defined by this award. In the articles, this award normally gets a passing reference with other honours and most articles don't even mention China. (Other than Chiang Kai-shek, the only person here defined by their association with China is Frederick Maze who is already well categorized.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Carol I[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visited the Kingdom of Romania, or vice versa, the Order of Carol I was given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Farouk of Egypt, Leopold II of Belgium and Edward VIII are not remotely defined by this award. The only Romanian recipients are royalty and a few high ranking officials. The category contents are located right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders or business investors visit the Morocco, or vice versa, the Order of Ouissam Alaouite is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, CEO Xavier Rolet and Emperor Bảo Đại are not remotely defined by this award. The award seems to have been intended for other uses as well but there are no Moroccans in these categories and only Inès de Bourgoing seems defined by her time in the country. The category contents are now all listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the National Order of Honour and Merit[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OCAWARD)
When prominent leaders visited Haiti, or vice versa, the National Order of Honour and Merit was given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. President Bill Clinton, CNN Anchor Anderson Cooper and President Tsai Ing-wen are not remotely defined by this award. (The article indicates this award could technically be awarded to Haitians but there are no domestic recipients in any of these categories.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Paderewski Prize recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Ignacy Jan Paderewski created two Paderewski Prizes for composers that gave out cash awards every three years from 1901-1948. None of the articles in the European subcat even mention the award while those in the American parent category are split between those that mention it in passing and those that omit it entirely. Perhaps this award was more prominent at the time, but it doesn't seem defining to aid navigation today. For any reader interested in the topic, the contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -
*RFC There is an open request for comments on proposed changes to WP:OCAWARD. Your input (pro/con/other) is always welcome here. -RD

Category:Silver Clef Awards winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Nordoff–Robbins Foundation hosts an annual fundraising gala and charity auction for music therapy that the Daily Mail describes well here (if you can get past the popup ads). There is a nominal prize given called the Silver Clef Award but that doesn't come within a country mile of being defining for, say, Elton John, Ed Sheeran or other A-list singers donating their time. For any reader interested in the topic, the contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -
*RFC There is an open request for comments on proposed changes to WP:OCAWARD. Your input (pro/con/other) is always welcome here. -RD

Category:Grand Order of Water Rats members[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC and WP:PERFCAT
The Grand Order of Water Rats is a charity organization of actors and performers that put on shows to raise money for their good works. A reader of the articles about Charlie Chaplin, Engelbert Humperdinck, Prince Philip and Bob Hope just has to wonder what this weird sounding category is doing at the bottom of the page since the text never even mentions it. The category contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Guggenheim Fellows[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
This humongous category contains 7,729 biographies even though many of the winners don't have a Wikipedia article. The Guggenheim Fellowship is given to mid-career academics to take a sabbatical and a couple hundred are given out every year. The award is very competitive, would definitely be on their CV and most articles here mention it in passing in a list with other honors. However, it doesn't seem defining because it reflects the pre-existing prominence of these people in their field more than it amplifies their notability. We already have the winners listified here by year. -

Category:Guggenheim Fellowships[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:CATNAME#Special conventions
In an earlier CFD nomination, we agreed not to categorize individual people as Guggenheim Fellows. However, in that nom I neglected to include a rename for the parent category, Category:Guggenheim Fellowships, and in good faith editors are already adding biography articles due to the vague title. The intent of that category is to hold annual lists like List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1976 so this new name will avoid confusion, especially in WP:HOTCAT. -

Category:Joseph Levenson Book Prize recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Association for Asian Studies annually gives out the Joseph Levenson Book Prize to two scholarly English language books on China and this category groups the authors of those books. The AAS consistently gives out these awards to tenured professors at prominent colleges who publish through a university press and are already the recognized expert in their specialty and are already well categorized under Category:East Asian studies scholars.. This articles usually mention this award in passing, although a few mention it in the intro or not at all, so it doesn't seem defining. We already have the winners listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Herblock Prize winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Herblock Prize is an American award for editorial cartoonist. The 15 articles in the category mostly list the award in passing with other honors while a few mention it in the lede and a couple not at all so it doesn't seem defining. More importantly, for editorial cartoonist in the US the recognized career capstone is Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and, for those who have won both, is consistently mentioned more prominently. We already have the winners listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Conscience-in-Media Award recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The American Society of Journalists and Authors issues the Conscience-in-Media Award to journalists who have sacrificed for the profession. The 10 people are all prominent journalists whose article mention this award in passing but don't seem defined by it. We already have the winners listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:SAARC Literary Award Recipants[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation promotes economic cooperation and peace in its region and, as part of that mission, has cultural programs with a variety of awards. The biography articles in these dueling categories generally mention this honour in a list with other awards in the infobox or in the text so it doesn't seem defining even though that list is often tacked onto the intro (examples: 1, 2). We already have the winners listified in SAARC Literary Award for any reader interested in the topic. (Alternatively, if kept, merge all to Category:SAARC Literary Award recipients to help out with spelling/capitalization and since all but one of the nationality subcats have less than 5 articles.) - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:32, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
*RFC There is an open request for comments on proposed changes to WP:OCAWARD. Your input (pro/con/other) is always welcome here. -RD

Category:Astrid Lindgren Prize winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Astrid Lindgren Prize is an award for children's authors writing in Swedish named after Astrid Lindgren. There is another, similar award also named after her called the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award which is more prominent while this award seems relatively obscure. Within the articles, this Astrid Lindgren award seems non-defining and is generally mentioned in passing or not at all, although a few have it in the intro. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Charles S. Roberts Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Charles S. Roberts Award is an award named after Charles S. Roberts and is given to wargames. The games in this category do mention this award in passing with other honors but it doesn't seem defining to, say, Nuclear War (card game) or A House Divided (board game) but click around the category to pick your own examples. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. (Alternatively, if kept, purge the biographies of game designers who received a related but different award.) -

Category:Recipients of the Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The city of Zwickau, Germany is justifiably proud of native son Robert Schumann so they have the Robert Schumann Prize of the City of Zwickau prize to those who honor the composer's legacy. There are a few actual Schumann scholars here, like Bernhard R. Appel, who are defined by Schumann if not this award, but most of the articles don't even mention this award or Zwickau so it doesn't seem generally defining. We already have the winners listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
In 1988, the city of Fukuoka, Japan held a celebration of their centennial called "Yokatopia". As a follow up, the city began award called the Fukuoka Prize. Most the articles mention this municipal award in passing or not at all, although a few mention it in the lede, so it doesn't seem defining. We already have the winners listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. (Alternatively, if kept, rename to Category:Fukuoka Prize winners to match the main article.) -

Category:City of Kraków Award laureates[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The city of Kraków, Poland gives out an award for cultural arts and, refreshingly, they give give to locals not just someone blowing through town to give a concert. These articles are already categorized by being form Kraków and whatever their occupation (music, literature, etc.) The categories tend to mention the municipal award in passing and it doesn't seem defining. I just listified the winners here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:European Initiative Prize recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The European Union mission/office in Paris has an annual symposium where they also give out the European Initiative Prize for journalism covering European topics. This Wikipedia category is a blend of articles on publications and on journalists but, either way, the award seems non-defining: of the 14 entries in the category 1 mentions it in passing, 1 in the lede, and 12 not at all. It's hardly surprising that respected European based publications and journalists would be covering European topics. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:IIFA Utsavam winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The IIFA Utsavam is a an award founded in 2016 for the south Indian film industry. While the award certainly aspires to be prominent it's not there yet and the only article in this category doesn't even mention this award so it doesn't seem defining. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:San Diego Film Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The San Diego Film Awards main article was deleted here in AFD due to lack of WP:NOTABILITY and concern that banned editors were spamming to promote an event. The standard with this category is WP:DEFINING and, of the 5 articles in the category, 4 don't mention the award at all and 1 ("Shotgun" Tom Kelly) mentions it in passing. This doesn't seem like it would aid navigation and the creator is also blocked. I saved the current category contents here for reference. -
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Category:Recipients of the Kasper Salin Prize[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Kasper Salin Prize is a Swedish award for architecture established in 1962 and run by the Swedish Association of Architects to honor architect Kasper Salin. Of the 19 buildings in this category, 14 don't mention the award at all and 5 mention it in passing. Given the need for more work on the Swedish articles, I can't say for sure whether this award is defining, there's nothing in English Wikipedia that makes that seem likely. There wasn't a list already so I created one here in the main article so no information is lost. -

Category:NZIA Gold Medal-winning buildings[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The New Zealand Institute of Architects gives out a NZIA Gold Medal award each year that in practice goes to major government or non-profit building projects. The buildings generally list the award in the infobox or in passing so it doesn't seem defining. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Tang Prize laureates[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Tang Prizes are a Taiwanese/ROC set of awards started in 2014 to recognize the world's most prominent people in Sustainable Development, Biopharmaceutical Science, Sinology, and Rule of Law. That combination of specialties creates an mishmash of people unlikely to aid navigation including energy efficiency expert Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Nobel winning cancer researcher James P. Allison, Columbia University Asian Studies professor Wm. Theodore de Bary, and Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. The articles tend to mention the award in passing with many other honors so it seems nondefining. There is already a list of the winners here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Nicolau Lobato Order[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
We don't have an article on the Nicolau Lobato Order but all three of the articles in this category are politicians from East Timor who are already well categorized somewhere under Category:East Timorese politicians. The articles mention the award in passing and it doesn't seem defining. I listed the current category contents right here so no work is lost if anyone wants to create a main article. -
Just saw your question. I certainly don't think the Nobel Prize or Order of Australia categories are non-defining. We also have many categories like the ones we deleted for the Order of the Smile and Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame that make navigation difficult. If I look at the 35 award recipient categories creating clutter at the bottom of the Emperor Akihito article, I see more Orders of the Smile than Orders of Australia. Based on WP:OCAWARD I've been working to move some award recipient information out of the category space and into the article space so that no information is lost. Since there's not a main article in this case, that's tougher. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Roraima of Guyana[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Roraima of Guyana is a general purpose award from Guyana that, in practice, is given to people who are already very prominent government officials. Of the 10 articles in this category, 4 are in Category:Guyanese politicians while 3 are in Category:Guyanese judges. (Edward Luckhoo is in both.) There are also 3 foreign government officials not remotely defined by the award: Mia Mottley and Freundel Stuart, both of Barbados, and Kim Jong-il of North Korea. The only person who is not a government official is poet Martin Carter, whose article mentions the award only in passing. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Carl Nielsen Prize winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
We don't have an article on the Carl Nielsen Prize but, based on the contents, it must be a Danish composing award named after Carl Nielsen. Most of the articles don't mention the award at all but some mention it in passing or in the lede so, while I can't say for sure whether this award is defining, there's nothing in English Wikipedia that even hints that it might be. I listed the current category contents here so no work is lost if anyone wants to create a main article. -

Category:Round cities[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per either WP:TRIVIALCAT or WP:V/WP:OR
We don't have a main article on a round city but the header of the category itself offers the following explanation:
"Cities that were designed as circle, notably those of Mesopotamia and Persia. This does not include cities like Ctesiphon, the round-ness of which was due to natural growth of the city rather than deliberate design from the beginning."
The Round city of Baghdad is a promising start but from there the "round"-ness of articles in this category quickly become less defining: Moscow mentions transport "ring" roads, Darab had earthworks arranged in a "circle", while Erbil has a citadel shaped in an "oval". Maybe there was a trend with "roundness" in urban planning at some point but we need more verifiable content before start a category. -

Category:Smallpox survivors[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TRIVIALCAT and maybe WP:PERFCAT
We have a category for Category:Deaths from smallpox so this is for people that survived smallpox. The very prominent biographies in this category tend to be well written and detailed and mention that they had smallpox as a child and to say to what extent it scarred their faces. Mary, Queen of Scots still had a good complexion, George Washington was so so, and Joseph Stalin had his photos retouched to hide the scarring. (I swear I'm not making this up.) A few others mention more serious health impacts but, even if smallpox was the most serious, this had to be one of many diseases each person typically had prior to vaccines. -

Category:Nintendo locations[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:DEFINING generally
The 3 articles in this category are defined by Nintendo but I'm not sure if the "locations" subcategory is viable given the diversity of contents:
1- Nintendo New York: Flagship retail store
2- Shigureden: A poetry museum financially support by Nintendo that uses some Nintendo technology.
3- Super Nintendo World: A licensed section of theme parks planned by Universal Studios.
Note that I already removed Montreal Aquarium, which Nintendo bought temporary naming rights to, from the category due to WP:SHAREDNAME. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign leaders or even diplomats visit Chile, or vice versa, one of these awards is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. First Lady Maria Cavaco Silva of Portugal and Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende of the Netherlands are not defined by this award. If you want to see the clutter these categories create at the article level, just look at the train wreck at the bottom of this article. I listified the contents of the category here in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Ismail[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign leaders or even diplomats visit Egypt, or vice versa, before 1953 one of these awards is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Kigeli V of Rwanda and Quintin Brand of South Africa are not defined by this award and such foreign recipients are most of the category. If you want to see the clutter these categories create at the article level, just look at the train wreck at the bottom of this article. I listified the contents of the category here in the main article. -

Category:Hungarian Heritage Award Winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Hungarian Heritage Award article is a pretty vague, there's only one article in the category, and that article makes no mention of the award. For what it's worth, I "listified" that one person in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Belize[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign leaders visit Belize, or vice versa, one of these awards is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Presidents Ma Ying-jeou of the Republic of China, Vicente Fox of Mexico, and Fidel Castro of Cuba are not defined by this award. If you want to see the clutter this type of category creates at the article level, take a look the train wreck at the bottom of this article. The only Belizian in the category also received higher ranking medals from Belize and I listified the contents of the category here in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Abdon Calderón[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The stated purpose of the Order of Abdon Calderón from Ecuador is to recognize extraordinary military service. In practice, it was given to high-ranking US military officials with little to no mention of Ecuador in their Wikipedia articles, like US Secretary of Defense George Marshall and US Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. The articles usually mention the award in passing within a long list of honors. If you want to see the clutter this type of category creates at the article level, take a look the train wreck at the bottom of this article. The recipients are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Pride of Britain Awards[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT
The Pride of Britain Awards is an annual award ceremony started in 2000. I have no conceptual problem with the category but it consists only of the main article and three redirects for individual years that all point back to that same article so it doesn't aid navigation. If we don't have individual articles about each ceremony after 20 years, I don't think growth is likely but--if I'm wrong--no objection to recreating this category later. (Alternativley we could convert this to a hidden redirect category if any editors find that useful.) -

Category:Fort Charlotte, Mobile[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT
Fort Charlotte, Mobile was a French fort in the Lousiana territory that is now a museum in Alabama. No conceptual objection the category but it only has that main article and I can't think of a potential second article, let alone a fifth. -

Category:Theatre museums in Alabama[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT
The Alabama subcategory only has 1 article with limited room for growth, there are no other state-level subcategories, and the target national category only has 5 loose articles. Breaking up those 6 articles by state won't aid navigation. (The one article, Alabama Stage and Screen Hall of Fame, is already well-categorized in other Alabama museum categories so no dual upmerge is needed.) -

Category:ASEMUS museums[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC
The Asia-Europe Museum Network is an interesting musuem assocation that promotes cross-cultural exhibits and visits between Europe and Asia and it is composed of major institutions like the British Museum and Asian Civilisations Museum. Not a single one of the current articles even mentions the organization so it doesn't seem defining. There was no list so I created one here so no information is lost. (Alternatively, if kept, rename to Category:Asia-Europe Museum Network member institutions to match the main article.) -

Category:Research museums[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SUBJECTIVECAT and WP:OVERLAPCAT
Just about every museum is driven by a combination of education, entertainment and economic goals, in different ratios which vary over time. The Getty Museum has two institutes publishing peer reviewed research, the University of Arizona Mineral Museum has undergraduates learning how to do research, and the Karshner Museum has elementary students doing their first research project. Since there's no main article on a Research museum, it's impossible to know what the inclusion criteria would be and, even if that article were created, it would be subjective if a museum was enough research focused to qualify. The majority of these articles are already under Category:University museums (and all are under some museum cats) so no merge is needed. -

Category:Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Rajiv Gandhi National Quality Award is given out by the Bureau of Indian Standards to companies for success implementing Total Quality Management (TQM). I'm sure the award is well deserved but it doesn't seem defining to the 4 major Indian companies in this category: the Steel Authority of India mentions it in passing with other awards while Bharat, Tata Steel, and Wipro don't mention it at all. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Raja Rao Award[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC, WP:OCAWARD)
The Raja Rao Award was a short lived Indian literary award from 2000 to 2009. The contents of this category are unusual: those who judged submissions, those who received the award, those who oversaw the organization, and the person the award was named after (Raja Rao) are all commingled. With a couple exceptions, the award is mentioned in passing in the articles across those groups and doesn't seem defining to any of them. The winners are already listified here in the main article and Template:Raja Rao Award groups all these people for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Pravasi Bharatiya Community Service Award[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The main article, Pravasi Bharatiya Community Service Award, was deleted here in AFD back in 2013 because of lack of sourcing and concern that it was a fraudulent award designed to sound similar to the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award. This is one of the exceptions to WP:OCAWARD, where listification is not warranted. -

Category:Category:Recipients of Pravasi Bharatiya Samman from Bahrain[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCLOCATION)
The Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award is given by the Indian government for prominent expats living in other countries around the world. Both of these categories are by the same author and aim to break up the Indian expats by what country they moved to. We certainly could do that but we already have the Category:Indian diaspora by country tree serving that function. -

Category:Prix des romancières recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:DNWAUC, WP:OCAWARD, and WP:NONDEFINING
There's not much here. There's no Prix des romancières main article (and no Novelist Award) but, based on the parent cat, it's from France. That makes this one of many French literary award categories created in late 2016/early 2017. There are only two biography articles both of which list this award among other honours so it's not treated as defining. (I copied all the current category contents right here so no work is lost if anyone wants find reliable source and create a list article.) -

Category:Prix Jean Freustié winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD, WP:NONDEFINING
The Jean Freustié Prize is a literary award from France given to French-language authors of "prose work: a novel, short story, autobiography, biography or essay". The author articles don't treat this award as defining, generally listing it with other honours. This is one of many French literary award categories created in late 2016/early 2017. The category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Prix d'Europe winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Each year, the Prix d'Europe scholarship sends 1 or 2 students from Quebec to study music in Europe. Given the later prominence of many of these musicians, this investment appears to be money well spent for the province! Within the articles though, it doesn't seem defining and usually gets a passing reference in the education section. And these articles are generally already in the alumni category for whichever conservatory/college this scholarship paid for. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Chevening Scholarship[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Each year, the British Foreign Office issues scholarships for foreign students to study in the UK and, according to the Chevening Scholarship article, the programme started in 1983 and has given funds to over 50,000 students. Within the articles, the award doesn't seem defining and usually gets a passing reference in the education section. And these articles are already in the alumni category for whichever university this scholarship paid for. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We previously deleted other categories for college scholarship recipients here, here, here and here. -

Category:Kennedy scholars[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
After the assasination of John F. Kennedy, the Kennedy Scholarship was established to send British students to Harvard or MIT, both of which are near the president's home town. Within the articles, the award doesn't seem defining and usually gets a passing reference in the education section. The contents are already grouped under either the Harvard or MIT alumni category and the category is already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellows[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Hertz Foundation (of rental car fame) gives out graduate scholarships to attend prominent research universities. Within the articles, the award doesn't seem defining and usually gets a passing reference in the education section and they are already in the alumni category for whichever school the scholarship paid for. (The biographies in the parent article are there because they won $5,000 for having a promising thesis in another non-defining award from the same organization.) The contents of both categories are already listified here and here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We previously deleted other categories for college scholarship recipients here, here, here, here, here and here. -

Category:Kennedy scholars[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
After the assasination of John F. Kennedy, the Kennedy Scholarship was established to send British students to Harvard or MIT, both of which are near the president's home town. Within the articles, the award doesn't seem defining and usually gets a passing reference in the education section. The contents are already grouped under either the Harvard or MIT alumni category and the category is already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Stuart Scholars[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:OVERLAPCAT) and WP:V
According to the header of this category, "This page lists recipients of the Edward Crosland Stuart Jr scholarship to Davidson College." We don't have articles on the Stuart Scholarship, Edward Crosland Stuart Jr., and the Davidson College article makes no mention of it. 2 of the 3 articles mention the award in passing and are already categorized under Category:Davidson College alumni; the 3rd appears to be miscategorized. There's nothing remotely defining about receiving financial aid with a school's named scholarship. I don't think the award is notable enough for an article but, if anyone wants to try, I listed the current contents here so no work is lost. -

Category:Recipients of the Bledisloe Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Bledisloe Medal is award given to alumni and faculty of Lincoln University (New Zealand), a small agricultural school. The award generally gets a passing mention in the biography articles so it doesn't seem defining and, by definition, all the articles should be under either Category:Lincoln University (New Zealand) alumni or Category:Lincoln University (New Zealand) faculty. The current category is really a draft list article in the wrong namespace that just needs some citations to establish notability so I copied the header and listed the contents here and here so no work is lost. -

Category:Basselin Fellows[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Basselin Fellowship is a named scholarship for students attending Catholic University of America's Theological College, which mentions the award in passing. The 6 articles for recipients also mention the award in passing so it doesn't seem defining and all of them are already under Category:Catholic University of America alumni. The one person the award does seem defining for is the namesake benefactor, Theodore B. Basselin, that article lists the winners right here for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Boettcher Scholars‎[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Boettcher Foundation gives Boettcher Scholarships to high school student from Colorado to go to college. These articles are already in the alumni category for whichever college they attended and mention the award in passing in the early life/education section. Undoubtedly, these are promising high school seniors who were defined by the award for that year, but Wikipedia doesn't generally have articles on promising high school seniors per WP:NACADEMIC. What we actually have in this category are people who went to college with this scholarship and then later became notable for other things later in their lives. We have a Catch-22 where, when the award is defining enough for a category, they aren't notable enough for an article and, when they're notable enough for an article, the category is no longer defining. There wasn't a list so I created one here in the main article so no information is lost. -

Category:Westinghouse Science Talent Search winners‎[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
What is now known as the Regeneron Science Talent Search is an annual American science competition and, undoubtedly, these are promising young students who were defined by this award in high school. But Wikipedia doesn't generally have articles on promising young students per WP:NACADEMIC and these articles exist because these students grew up and went on to do other things in their lives that made them notable. We have a Catch-22 where, when the award is defining enough for a category, they aren't notable enough for an article and, when they're notable enough for an article, this high school category is no longer defining. The winners are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Morgan Prize winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Morgan Prize is a US$1,200 prize for an undergraduate students doing research in mathematics and I'm sure the award is defining for those promising young students. But Wikipedia doesn't have articles on promising young students. By the time these people are notable, the award is no longer defining and only gets mentioned in passing in the education or honours section, for example with Manjul Bhargava, Ciprian Manolescu or any other article you want to click on. The recipients are already in whichever college the scholarship helped pay for and the category contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Truman Scholars[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship is an American scholarship for undergraduate college students interested in public service, usually at least one from each of the 50 states per year. I'm sure the award was defining for those promising young people but Wikipedia doesn't have articles on promising young people. By the time these people are notable, the award is no longer defining and only gets a passing mention in the education or awards section of articles like Susan Rice, George Stephanopoulos or any others you want to click on. The current contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We recently deleted a similar category for a Kennedy scholarship right here. -

Category:Young Achievers Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Young Achievers Award is an Ugandan competition which "provides an opportunity for people to work together to address national developmental challenges" and there are about 12 winning categories per year, some of which are individuals and others are teams. I'm sure winning it was defining for these promising young people but Wikipedia doesn't have articles on promising young people. By the time these people are notable, the award is no longer defining and only gets a passing mention in the education or awards section of articles for TV host Flavia Tumusiime, chess player Phiona Mutesi or any others you want to click on. The current contents are already listified here in a separate list article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World an award from the Junior Chamber International for promising young people. But Wikipedia doesn't have articles on promising young people. By the time these people accomplish something else and have a Wikipedia article created, this award usually gets a passing reference. I'm not even sure if this was the intent of the category though because it only has the award article, a list and one winner. The current contents are already listified here in a separate list article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Young Victorians of the Year[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia has an annual Victoria Day celebration and the festival includes a Victorian of the Year award ceremony, including a version to young people. Most recipients aren't notable and don't have Wikipedia articles and, for the 4 that became notable later in life, this early award is reduced to a passing reference. We have a Catch-22 where, when the award is defining enough for a category, the winners aren't notable enough for an article and, when they're notable enough for an article, the category is no longer defining. The current contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Prix Amerigo Vespucci recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Prix Amerigo Vespucci was founded in 1990 a the International Festival of Geography and is given at a book fair to award books focused on adventure and travel. While it is named after an Italian, this is a French award and, while it is given to specific books, this Wikipedia category groups the authors of those books. About two thirds of the articles mention the award in passing and the rest not at all so it doesn't seem remotely defining. This is one of many French literary award categories created in late 2016/early 2017. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Prix de l'essai laureates[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Prix de l'essai is a fairly obscure French award for essays, and this category contains the authors of those essays. The issuer of the award, Académie Française, is very prominent but they give out a lot of awards per Category:Académie française awards. In the article space, the award is not treated as defining: 4 of the articles in the category mention the award in passing while 12 articles don't mention it all. This is one of many French literary award categories created in late 2016/early 2017. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Prix de Flore winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Café de Flore coffeehouse in Paris gives out an annual Prix de Flore award to upcoming writers. The winner receives a wine glass etched with their name which is good for a free glass of wine a day for the next year. (I'll take this award over a Grammy!) No matter how charming, in the article space, the award is not treated as defining: 9 of the stub/start articles that could be in the category mention the award in passing, while 4 mention it in the lede and 5 don't mention it at all. That's a far cry from WP:OCAWARD's editing guideline that "A category of award recipients should exist only if receiving the award is a defining characteristic for the large majority of its notable recipients." This is one of many French literary award categories created in late 2016/early 2017. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We deleted another literary award by a Parisian restaurant here. -

Category:Prix Cazes winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:SMALLCAT
The Brasserie Lipp restaurant in Paris gives an annual Prix Cazes award, "a literary prize awarded each year to an author who has won no other literary prize." I would have suspected this would have been defining to these relatively obscure writers but that does not appear to be the case: the articles in the category are about evenly split between those that mention the award in passing and those that don't mention it at all. Jean Prasteau's article is the only one that shows any gratitude and mentions the award in the lede. This is one of many French literary award categories created in late 2016/early 2017 and the contents are already listified here in the restaurant article for any reader interested in the topic. (The parent category contains only one redirect with no growth potential.) -

Category:Jawaharlal Nehru Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD
The Jawaharlal Nehru Award is an Indian award given internationally for "contribution to the promotion of international understanding, goodwill and friendship among people of the world." I suspect the reason the category has never really been populated is because it doesn't come close to being defining for Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Yasser Arafat, or Angela Merkel. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Patterson Distinguished Service Medal recipients‎[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Patterson Medal is Canadian meteorological award named after John Patterson. We have a Catch-22 where, when the award is defining to people, they aren't notable enough for an article and, when they're notable enough for an article, the category is no longer defining. Accordingly, most of the winners don't have an article and, for the ones that do, this award is generally listed in passing and isn't defining. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:T.A.G. Hungerford Award winners‎[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The City of Fremantle's T.A.G. Hungerford Award is given to an unpublished manuscript by an unpublished Western Australian author. We have a Catch-22 where, when the award is defining to people, they aren't notable enough for an article and, when they're notable enough for an article, the category is no longer defining. Accordingly, most of the winners don't have an article and, for the ones that do, this award is generally listed in passing with other awards they won later. (The only book in this category, The Fur, is likely defined by the award but would leave a WP:SMALLCAT.) The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Villa Romana prize winners‎[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Villa Romana Prize is a German art award that consists of a year residency in a villa in Florence. If you think "villa" is just hyperbole for an artist's cabin, you could not be more wrong. Check out the the exterior architecture (stunning), the view of Tuscan countryside (gorgeous), and the hand-laid mosaic floors (um, okay). Most of the contents mention this award in passing as part of a list with other honors but Käthe Kollwitz's article actually mentions what art she created during the villa year: not a damned thing! I wouldn't get any work done either in this swanky pad . The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award‎[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management is a two-year business college in New Delhi that gives out a Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award to Indian businesspeople. Most of the winners don't have a Wikipedia article and, for those that do, the award is mentioned in passing with other honors because it's not defining. We have a Catch-22 where, when the award is defining enough for a category, they aren't notable enough for an article and, when they're notable enough for an article, the category is no longer defining. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Joseph Jefferson Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Jeff Award is a local Chicago award for theatre stars. The main probably is that only 5 of the articles are about Chicagoland based people--1, 2, 3, 4, 5--for which the award might be defining. (It's hard to tell though; those articles could use some editor attention.) The rest of the awards were given to Broadway, Hollywood, West End or other actors who are already stars that came to Chicago to do one particular show which is definitely not defining. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. (Alternatively, if kept, rename to Catgeory:Jeff Award winners to match the main article.) -

Category:Laureates of the prix du Brigadier[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Prix du Brigadier is given out by the Association de la Régie théâtrale (Theatre Board Association) as a French theater award that seems fairly obscure since much of the online coverage is Wikipedia and blogs. The editors of these biography articles don't seem to think it is very defining either: of the 37 articles in the category, 5 mention the award in passing (1, 2, 3, 4, and 5) and 32 omit it entirely from the text. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Richard Wilbur Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The University of Evansville in Indiana has a joint prize/publishing deal where an author submits poetry and, without knowing the author, a winner of the Richard Wilbur Award is selected and then automatically has a book published by the [[University of Evansville Press]. So, it is a real award but it's also a marketing vehicle for the book. The award does seem defining to those books (since they likely would exist without it) but this category groups the authors whose articles tend to mention the award in passing. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Wick Poetry Prize winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Wick Poetry Prize at Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University for poetry. This isn't a traditional prize giving in passing, rather it coincides publishing a book at Kent State University Press and a week-long residence on campus to teach poetry. This award/book promotion doesn't seem defining: half the articles mention it in passing and the other half not at all. (One that was written by the creator of this category does mention it in the lede.) The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Charles Ives Prize winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Charles Ives Prize is scholarship for young composers from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. (Sometimes the same award has also been used for stipends for sabbaticals for people later in their career.) I can't find too much non-Wikipedia coverage and, within the biography articles, it doesn't seem defining and usually gets a passing reference in the education section. And these articles are generally already in the alumni category for whichever conservatory/college this scholarship paid for. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We deleted a similar scholarship award recipient category here. -

Category:Grand Prix du Roman winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Prix de Rome was a long running French scholarship to send students to Rome to study the arts. Since the program ran from 1663 to 1968, the exact form varied from stipends to apprentice with great artists to more formal college tuition payments. While the articles tend to mention the award in the early life sections, the people in this category are notable for what they did later in life so it doesn't seem defining. The winners (many of them redlinks) are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
Moved to On Hold section RevelationDirect (talk) 13:00, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Category:Giro d'Italia and Tour de France winners in the same years[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT)
This category is for world class cyclists who won both the Giro d'Italia and the much more prominent Tour de France in the same year. In a different sport, winning the Triple Crown collectively is defining. I don't think this particular combination is a "thing" though. RevelationDirect (talk) 22:59, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Category:Liberty Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
English Wikipedia doesn't have a main article on this journalism award but German Wikipedia does here and it doesn't have a category. (Liberty Award is a redirect to a different Dutch award.) There's only one article (Andreas Landwehr) so there's nothing to listify. I can't definitively say that this award is non-defining but there is nothing in English Wikipedia that even hints it might be. -

Category:ICT Awards[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT
This category is for the actual award articles (not recipients) given for the Information and communications technology approach to computing. The problem is that only 1 of the 3 articles (Beacon of ICT Awards) is actually an ICT award and there's limited growth potential. Alternatively, if kept, rename to Category: Information and communications technology awards. -

Category:Category:Israel Prize in literature recipients who were poets[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING and WP:SUBJECTIVECAT
The Israel Prize is the country's top cultural award so even I think it's defining. This award is given out in various categories including "Poetry" and "Literature" and we have subcategories for each. This category groups people that won the prize in Literature but also write poetry even though they never won the prize in Poetry. Artistic and cultural people often do more than on thing though so the intersection doesn't seem defining. -

Categories for nominees that did NOT win an award[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:TRIVIALCAT and WP:OCASSOC)
Winning these awards may or may not be defining, but we'll argue about that in future nominations. This category is about categorizing people who did NOT win an award, sometimes by themselves and sometimes comingled with actual winners. This topic fine for lists or within the actual award articles, but doesn't belong in the category space. It might be an honor just to be nominated but it's not even remotely defining. -
  • Background We deleted a very similar category for a very different award here. - (After these noms, also deleted this.

Category:Prix de Flore winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
This award is pretty cool: you get a party at Café de Flore and are awarded with a glass etched with your name which gets you a free glass of wine every day there for the next year! The Prix de Flore doesn't seem especially defining to the young authors who receive it though: the articles are split between those that don't mention the award at all, those that mention it in passing, and those in the lede, but that last group . (Only 2 of the 14 recipients who were awarded the the article are actually in the cat.) The winners are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:European Museum of the Year Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The European Museum Forum is a worthwhile organization and I'm sure the European Museum of the Year Award is well deserved. It doesn't seem to be especially defining for the overall museums though. The V&A is a very museum founded in 1852 while the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia is a more modest affair founded in 1984 but neither article even mentions this award. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Pfizer Award recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Pfizer Award is award annually to a book about the history of science. This category groups the authors of those works, most of whom are already very prominent academic historians who write on a variety of topics. The vast majority of the articles mention this award in passing (although a few mention it in the lede or not at all) and it seems to reflect their pre-existing prominence rather than be defining. The contents are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
*RFC There is an open request for comments on proposed changes to WP:OCAWARD. Your input (pro/con/other) is always welcome here. -

Category:Calor Village of the Year[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Calor Gas sells propane canisters in the United Kingdom at caravan dealerships and hardware stores. Each year, four villages (one each for England, Scotland, Whales and NI) received the Calor Village of the Year to recognize quality of life. Sutton-in-the-Isle, for instance, is first mentioned in the Domesday Book and doesn't seem defined by the award. I listified the contents [[here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Grand prix des lectrices de Elle winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Grand prix des lectrices de Elle is a book award by the readers of Elle fashion magazine and this category groups the authors of those books. The award is definitely notable as ongoing feature in the magazine "aimed at giving a voice to women who love to read", as the article puts it. The award doesn't seem defining to the biography articles though: they tend to mention the award in passing with other honors, although a few have it in the lede or don't mention it at all. This is one of many French literary award categories created in late 2016/early 2017. The winners are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Stoner/stonette of the year awards[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
High Times magazine gives out these awards. For a minority of the biographies in this category, they're association with marijuana is defining like with Seth Rogan, Snoop Dogg and Bill Maher but they are already well categorized under Category:Canadian cannabis activists, Category:Businesspeople in the cannabis industry and Category:Drug policy reform activists, respectively. In contrast, this award is either mentioned in passing or not at all in the articles so it doesn't seem defining. The winners are already listified in the Stony Awards article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Waterstones Book of the Year[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The "Waterstones Book of the Year" is a book award established in 2012 by Waterstones, a British chain of bookstores. This is partly an actual award with a judging panel that selects a winner from a shortlist, and partly a marketing device for promoting the sales of books (see here and here). The award doesn't seem particularly defining to the articles in this category: most mention the award in passing with other honors, although one mentions it in the lede and one not at all. The winners are already listified here in a section within the company article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Stardust Awards winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Stardust is an Indian film and celebrity gossip magazine that used to have annual Stardust Awards for Bollywood films. A large majority of the articles in this category don't even mention this award so it doesn't seem defining. The winners are already listified here in individual list articles for any reader interested in this former award. -
  • Background We deleted similar British film magazine awards here. -

Category:Best of Nollywood Awards winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Best of Nollywood Magazine is a Nigerian film and celebrity magazine that began hosting an annual award in 2009 called the Best of Nollywood Awards. The articles in this category generally list this award in passing with other honors so it doesn't seem defining. (In contrast, the Africa Movie Academy Awards is treated as a career capstone that is clearly defining.) The winners are already listified here in individual list articles for any reader interested in this former award. -
  • Background We deleted similar British and Indian film magazine awards here and here. -


The entire "Empire Award winners" tree[edit]

15 more subcategories
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Empire is a British film magazine founded in in 1989 that used to to have a readers' choice awards called the the Empire Awards. Despite being a British award, the winners skew toward Americans. The Tom Hanks and Uma Thurman articles both mention the BAFTA and Academy Awards right in the intro. In contrast, these awards tend to be mentioned in passing if at all in both the actor and film articles so it doesn't seem defining. The winners are already listified here in individual list articles. -

The entire "Locus Award-winning works" tree[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD) and the spirit of WP:CRYSTALBALL
The Hugo Award is the recognized prize for Science Fiction and is one of the few awards defining enough for a category. Prior to each year's Hugo Award ceremony, Locus magazine has a reader's choice survey called the Locus Awards to predict/suggest who they think should win the Hugo Award. What works might win a Hugo Award doesn't come within a country mile of being defining. All these "winners" are already listified in individual list articles in Category:Locus Awards. (That category is proposed for renaming so that editors using WP:HOTCAT don't inadvertently add individual winners to a list category.) -

Category:Greek Pop Corn Music Awards winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Pop Corn ("popcorn"?) is a Greek magazine that used to have a readers' choice awards called the Pop Corn Music Awards from 1995-2002 which had about a dozen categories for winners each year. This category potentially groups different types of winners together and, of the 6 articles, 1 mentions it in the lede, 2 in passing, and 3 not at all so it doesn't seem defining. The winners are already listified here in individual articles by year. -

Category:Evening Standard Awards[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Evening Standard is a London newspaper whose critics give out awards for film and theater. In the biography articles, these awards get a passing mention (if any). In contrast the BAFTA Awards and Laurence Olivier Award do seem defining for British film and theatre actors, respectively, and are typically in the lede. All of these winners are already listified under either Evening Standard British Film Awards or Evening Standard Theatre Awards. -
  • Background We previously deleted similar film awards from Empire magazine here and an award from this newspaper for the best pubs in London here. -

Category:Prometheus Award-winning works[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Prometheus Award is for libertarian science fiction and I can certainly see how libertarians would be inspired by resistance to government overreach in Fahrenheit 451 and It Can't Happen Here but neither work presents libertarianism as the alternative. And neither conservative Ray Bradbury nor progressive Sinclair Lewis are even remotely defined by this libertarian award. The authors are already well categorized but the minority of these books that are explicitly libertarian should stay in the category tree. The contents are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Literaturpreis der Reichshauptstadt Berlin Award-winning works[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V and WP:NONDEF (WP:OCAWARD)
In lieu of Literaturpreis der Reichshauptstadt Berlin Award main article, this category has an introduction that explains this German award was issued from 1935-40. I can't definitively say that this award is non-defining but there is nothing in English Wikipedia that even hints it might be. There's only one article here so there's really nothing to listify. -

Category:Symposium Book Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy is a Canadian journal published twice a year that covers continental philosophy. They issue this award to a book in that specialty and this category contains the authors of those works. 4 of the 5 articles don't mention the award at all while 1 mentions it in the lede so it doesn't typically seem defining. All of these biography articles are already well categorized under the Category:Philosophers tree and I listified the contents right here. -

Category:Kitschies Red Tentacle-winning works[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD) and, for the parent category, WP:C2F
The "Red Tentacle" is an award for the top novel of the Kitschies, a British fantasy/sci fi award. Of the 3 articles in this category, 2 mention it in passing with other awards and 1 mentions it in the intro so it doesn't seem defining. In contrast, BSFA Award seems to be much more prominent for such novels. The contents are already listified here in the main article. The parent category only contains the main article. -

Category:Oregon Book Award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
It looks like about 15 Oregon Book Awards are given out every year in different categories to specific books. This category contains the authors of those books who typically live or are from the State of Oregon. Those articles place this award is in a list with other awards, if it's mentioned at all, so it doesn't seem defining. All of the winners, many of whom don't have a Wikipedia article, are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Restaurants of the year in Finland[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Finnish Gastronomical Society gives an annual Finnish Restaurant of the Year. I can't say for sure whether this award is defining but there's nothing in English Wikipedia that demonstrates that it is. I listed the current category contents here so no work is lost if anyone wants to create a main article. -

Category:Evening Standard Pub of the Year winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD) and, for the parent category, the spirit of WP:C2F
The Evening Standard newspaper in London recognizes one pub each year. The articles generally do mention the award but near the end of the article, not in the lede, and this doesn't seem defining since these are already well established businesses. The contents are already listified here. The parent category only contains an eponymous redirect. -

Category:FPRA Awards[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per the spirit of WP:C1, an unpopulated category
The Fiji Performing Rights Association is a copyright collective which hosts the FPRA Music Awards. We don't have a separate article on the awards and the only thing in this category is that same organisation article, Fiji Performing Rights Association, which doesn't belong. There's nothing here to categorize! The contents are already listified here. -

Category:Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SUBJECTIVECAT, WP:NPOV, and WP:OCAWARD
The Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame can refer to three separate organizations:
  • A. Original Pre-Revolution: 1939-1961 in Havana, inducted a mix of [[All Cubans], minor, major, Negro league players
  • B. Exile in United States: 1962-1986, 1997-1998 in Miami, focused on Major League players.
  • C. Official Revival: 2014 in Havana, focused on Cuba national baseball team players. Having trouble finding later years.
The Exile and Revival ones both recognize inductees by the Original, but they definitely don't recognize each other. While all the inducted players have great athletic skills, perceived political allegience and emigration decisions also appear to be factors for admission. This Wikipedia category covers the Original and the Official Revival (but not the Exile one) which effectivley is taking a political position. One possible solution would be to split this into three categories but none of the three awards seem particularly defining in the articles. These competing claims by rival organizations are better handled in the article space. The contents of the current category are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Living Legends of the American Academy of Nursing[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Living Legends of the American Academy of Nursing is an award given by the American Academy of Nursing and doesn't have any corresponding physical museum. Some of the articles do mention the award in the lede but that appears to be the work of a single editor who also created this category. Clicking through the other articles though, this award doesn't seem defining. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:American Bladesmith Society Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The American Bladesmith Society works to bring back the craft of artisanal knife making and created this award in 1995. William F. Moran founded this organization and is undoubtedly defined by it but there are only two other people in this category (who died in 1872 and 1963) and only mention the award in passing and do not seeem defined by it. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT
We don't have an article on the Adelaide Football Club Hall of Fame, the Adelaide Football Club makes no mention of it, and none of the 7 articles in the category even mention it either so it's clearly not defining. (In contrast, the Australian Football Hall of Fame is clearly defining to careers.) If anyone wants to create a main article, I listed the current category contents here so no work is lost. -
  • Background We deleted similar team/club specific halls of fame here and here. -

Category:Sturt Football Club Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT
We don't have an article on the Sturt Football Club Hall of Fame , the Sturt Football Club makes no mention of it, and only 8 of the 25 articles in the category even mention it so it's clearly not defining. (In contrast, the Australian Football Hall of Fame, if received, is clearly defining to those players.) If anyone wants to create a main article, I listed the current category contents here so no work is lost. -
  • Background We deleted similar team/club specific halls of fame here, here and here. -

Category:Leeds Rhinos Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT
The Leeds Rhinos are a professional rugby team/club in England and this award was started in 2017, although the players are from much earlier. Typically, specific team HOFs have a display case or wall somewhere in the home stadium but I wasn't able to confirm that in this case. While all the articles mention playing for the Rhinos (and are categorized as such) most don't mention this award at all and none in the lede. Garry Schofield is an instructive example of how these lead to category clutter because he was also inducted into another club hall of fame (West Tigers) during his career. Conversely, these team-specific award have become nearly universal in many leagues: the first two Super League club articles I clicked on included Warrington Wolves#Hall of Fame inductees and Halifax R.L.F.C.#Halifax RLFC Hall of Fame. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -
  • Background We deleted similar team/club specific halls of fame in CFD here. -

Category:National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The National Lacrosse League Hall of Fame is an award given by the National Lacrosse League during their All Start game and, so far, it's a virtual only museum. Most of the recipient articles mention the award in passing so it doesn't seem defining, although handfule have it in the lede. There is a lot of overlap both the other NLL award categories as well as the two other Lacross HOF categories. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -
  • Background We deleted another NLL award category in CFD here. -

Category:National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame is given to college level Lacrosse players in the United States usually many years after graduation. These recipients fall into three groupings:
1 No Article: A large majority of the winners likely don't have the notability to ever have a Wikipedia article.
2 Happened to Play in College: Many of the people who do have articles have them for reasons unrelated to Lacrosse, like General Robert E. Kelley or football player Jim Brown.
3 Actually Defined by Lacrosse but Not This Award: Some of the recipients are known for college Lacrosse like coach Gene Corrigan and player Stan Cockerton. Even with this group, the award tends to get a passing mention and doesn't seem defining.
All these articles are already well categorized under Category:College lacrosse players in the United States or the like. The contents of the category are already listified here in a separate list article. -

Category:Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame is given to recognize Canadian Lacrosse players for accomplishments earlier in their career. I believe everyone in this category is also in more specific subcategories of Category:Lacrosse people in Canada so this doesn't aid navigation and it seems to merely reflect earlier fame so it doesn't seem defining. The articles are about split between those that mention the award in passing (often with other halls of fame) and those that have it in the lede, but that second group is due largely due to edits by single enthusiastic editor. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We previously deleted the American lacrosse hall of fame categories here and here. -

Category:Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame was established in 2002 to recognize Australian rugby league people for accomplishments earlier in their career. I believe everyone in this category is also in more specific subcategories of Category:Rugby league people in Australia so this doesn't aid navigation and it seems to merely reflect earlier fame so it doesn't seem defining. I'm used to seeing "legends" categories for Halls of Fame to induct historical players but I've never seen a HOF where most of the members were inducted after they were deceased (19/36). In the articles, 29 mention the award in passing while 7 mention it in the lede, but that latter group is usually in a block with other awards: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -


Category:Motorcycle Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Motorcycle Hall of Fame inducts people who are already very prominent in motorcycling and are well organized in categories like Category:Motorcycle racers, Category:Motorcycle racing team owners, and Category:Motorcycling media people. The vast majority of articles mentioen the award in passing, although some do mention it in the lede or not at all. The award seems to reflect rather than contribute to fame and doesn't seem defining. The American Motorcyclist Association maintains the museum for the hall of fame in Ohio. The contents of the category are already listified here in a separate list article. -

Category:National Museum of Dance Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The National Museum of Dance Hall of Fame is part of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center complex in upstate New York.

inducts people who are already very prominent in motorcycling and are well organized in categories like Category:Motorcycle racers, Category:Motorcycle racing team owners, and Category:Motorcycling media people. The vast majority of articles mentioen the award in passing, although some do mention it in the lede or not at all. The award seems to reflect rather than contribute to fame and doesn't seem defining. The contents of the category are already listified here in a separate list article. -

Category:International Cricket Council Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The ICC Cricket Hall of Fame is an award based in Dubai and appears to be internet only at this point. Of the 70+ inductess, the article indicated all but 5 were retired by the time this award started in 2009. The editors in the cricket space do an awesome job so we have 5 of high quality starred/Featured Articles to look at: one mentions the award in passing (1), one mentions it in the lede (2), and three don't mention it at all outside the cat/template (3), (4) & (5). This award doesn't seem defining. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article and each article contains this template. -

Category:Badminton Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
According to Badminton Hall of Fame article, this is one of several Badminton halls of fame and this one is in Colorado and part of the Badminton World Federation. The award is a little obscure: the top hits in a Google search point to Wikipedia, the External link in the article is dead, and the current home page is pretty succinct. In the article space, most make passing references to the award although there are some exceptions that don't mention it at all or include it in the led. This category doesnt' seem defining. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
We don't have a main article for the Bowls New Zealand Hall of Fame but they appear to be an internet only museum at this web site for the sport I know as "Lawn bowling". Most of the articles mention it in passing but it doesn't seem defining. The articles are already well-categorized in the Category:New Zealand bowls players tree. (I saved the current category contents here and here so no work is lost when someone goes to create the main article.) -

Category:Professional Darts Corporation Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Each year, the Professional Darts Corporation holds an annual PDC Awards Dinner and this is 1 of 9 awards given out that night. The Hall of Fame is internet only and was established in 2005. Most of the articles don't mention the award although a few mention it in passing or in the lede. The award does not seem defining. We don't have a main article so I created this redirect and the contents of the category are listified here. -

Category:Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame is a web site and annual awards show in Florida that started in 2013. The vast majority of articles in this category don't mention the award at all, although it should be added with the other honours. Instead, the Latin Grammy Award is often mentioned (including in the intro) and seems defining. The contents of the category are already listified here in a separate list article. -

Category:Songwriters Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
According to the Songwriters Hall of Fame article, "the Hall does not have a permanent place and the awards are not televised" but the 461 inductees are sure prominent. I looked at maybe 50 articles and ones like Woody Guthrie and W. C. Handy mention the award in passing, others like Jerry Garcia and David Bowie don't mention the award at all, and none mentioned it the lede. This award did not seem defining but the heavilly overlapping and more prominent Grammy Hall of Fame seemed more like a career capstone. The contents of the category are already listified here in a separate list article. -
  • Background In the past, we've deleted similar songwriter hall of fame category here. -

Category:Decibel Magazine Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:DEFINING
Decibel (magazine) is based in Philadelphia and covers heavy metal music while Rock Sound magazine is based in London and covers rock. Neither of categories are a traditional hall of fame so they don't represent a museum or a formal award ceremony. Rather, both publications have a re-occuring throwback article called "Hall of Fame" which discusses the influence of a classic album in their respective genre. When I clicked through these articles, I didn't see any other categories about having articles written about the albums which is probably a good thing since that would lead to immense category clutter. Music magazines write a lot of articles about music; it's what they do. These categories just don't seem defining. (The contents of the Rock Sound HOF are already listified here in the main article while the Decibel HOF list was deleted as WP:LISTCRUFT in this edit after this discussion.) -

Category:Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OVERLAPCAT
Williams was a major manufacturer of classic physical pinball machines in the 1970s and 1980s and all of those models are categorized in Category:Williams pinball machines. In 2011, an electronic video game came out that allowed you to play simulations of those old time pinball machines on the Wii and PlayStation game consoles. This is not a museum or an award. The pinball machine models that appeared in Pinball Hall of Fame: The Williams Collection are what make up this category which doesn't seem defining. The contents of this category are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:American Hockey League Hall of Fame members[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Despite it's name, the American Hockey League is in both Canada and the United States and serves as the NHL's minor league. The AHL Hall of Fame was founded in 2006 and is online only so far. Clicking through the articles, some mention the awared in passing but most don't mention it at all. These hockey players are generally known for their time with the NHL teams rather than the time they spent in the AHL so this award doesn't seem defining. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Slovenian Hockey Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OCASSOC)
A large majority of the biography articles in this category don't mention the Slovenian Hockey Hall of Fame at all, the rest mention it in passing with other awards. While this is not officially an Olympic hall of fame, it sure looks like on in practice: 28 of the 33 articles are in some combination of Category:Olympic ice hockey players of Yugoslavia, Category:Olympic ice hockey players of Slovenia and Category:Olympic officials. (The other 5 are in Category:HDD Olimpija Ljubljana players.) While being in the Olympics is certainly defining for athletes, getting an award later for that same participation is not. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We previously deleted other Olympic-focused hall of fame categories here and here. -

Category:German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OCASSOC)
The German Ice Hockey Hall of Fame was founded in 1988 and mentions to in on the web are mostly Wikipedia and mirror sites. The biography articles in this category generally are split between not mentioning the the award at all or mentioning it in passing with other halls of fame so it doesn't seem defining. (A few do mention it in intro but that appears to be due to one enthusiastic editor.) The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
*RFC There is an open request for comments on proposed changes to WP:OCAWARD. Your input (pro/con/other) is always welcome here. -RD

Category:International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OCASSOC)
The International Ice Hockey Federation is based in Switzerland and is actually quite prominent as the world governing body for ice hockey. Their IIHF Hall of Fame is more obscure though and was established in 1997. The inductees are are announced in a ceremony at the Ice Hockey World Championships (although article makes no mention of it) and the Hall of Fame given space for a an exhibit within The Hockey Hall of Fame (that article does discuss it). The biography articles in this category overwhelmingly mention the honor in passing with other awards, so it doesn't seem defining. The contents of the category are already listified at List of members of the IIHF Hall of Fame for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:AAA Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OCASSOC)
The AAA Hall of Fame was founded in 2007 and recognizes professional wrestlers in Mexico, where there is a distinct style. The biography articles in this category generally mention the award in passing, often with other awards, so it doesn't seem defining. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
*RFC There is an open request for comments on proposed changes to WP:OCAWARD. Your input (pro/con/other) is always welcome here. -RD

Category:Impact Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OCASSOC)
The Impact Wrestling promotion has a segment on Impact! (TV series) and Slammiversary pay-per-view where they induct wrestlers into the Impact Hall of Fame. The challenge with league specific HOFs is that they are usually more promotional than a bona fide award. In the articles, the induction is typically mentioned along with other halls of fame so it doesn't seem defining. (A lot of these articles have overly long intros which include that block of awards like here and here.) The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
*RFC There is an open request for comments on proposed changes to WP:OCAWARD. Your input (pro/con/other) is always welcome here. -RD

Category:Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:TOPTEN)
Dave Meltzer is a respected journalist that covers the wrestling industry in his Wrestling Observer Newsletter from a critical standpoint, rather than as a fan magazine. According to Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame article, "Meltzer began the Hall of Fame by choosing a list of 122 inaugural inductees in 1996" and added additional people from there. In the articles, the induction is typically mentioned in passing along with other halls of fame so it doesn't seem defining. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:WCW Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:PERFCAT)
The WCW Hall of Fame existed from 1993-1995 to recognize players from World Championship Wrestling and it's predecessors. The award was a televised segment within the annual pay-per-view event, Slamboree. In the articles, this is typically listed among other honors and doesn't seem defining. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in this former award. -

Category:Hungarian Ice Hockey Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:OCAWARD and WP:OCASSOC)
A large majority of the biography articles in this category don't even mention the Hungarian Ice Hockey Hall of Fame, so it doesn't seem defining. While this is not officially an Olympic hall of fame, it sure looks like on in practice: 10 of the 12 articles are in Category:Olympic ice hockey players of Hungary or other Olympic categories. (The other two—1, 2—are already well categorized.) While being in the Olympics is certainly defining for athletes, getting an award later for that same participation is not. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We previously deleted other Olympic-focused hall of fame categories here, here and here -

Category:Paralympic Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Paralympic Hall of Fame celebrates the earlier success of athletes at the Paralympic Games. Without exception, all of these articles are already in that category tree in more specific country, sport, year, and, usually, medal subcategories that better aid navigation. The articles are a mix of ones that mention the award in passing, that don't mention it at all, or that mention it in the lede, but that last group is almost entirely due to a single enthusiastic editor so this award doesn't seem defining. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We've consistently deleted Halls of Fame that celebrate the earlier success of athlets at the Olympic Games here, here, here, here, here and here. -

Category:Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame is typically mentioned in these articles but they tend to be so short there's no distinction between the intro and the body. Seppo Ahokainen and Ilkka Mesikämmen are representative examples but feel free to click around on your own. Within the few articles that are longer, this award gets a passing reference and doesn't seem defining. All of the articles are already well categorized under Category:Finnish ice hockey players or related categories. For any reader interested in the topic, the contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:International Rugby Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:OCAWARD)
The International Rugby Hall of Fame was a New Zealand award for rugby union players that existed from 1997 to 2007. In 2014, the International Rugby Board Hall of Fame changed it's name to the World Rugby Hall of Fame and automatically inducted all of these earlier winners. (Got all that?) We generally keep separate alumni subcategories for merged schools, example, but in this case I don't think the distinction is defining and it's better to handle this in lists rather than have multiple award categories/subcategories. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in this former award. -

Category:International Gymnastics Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:OCAWARD)
The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame isn't officially an Olympic hall of fame but it sure looks like one in practice: 75 of the 80 articles in this category are already somewhere under Category:Olympic gymnasts. The remaining 5 articles (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) are already well categorized and even most of those have other Olympic connections. Being in the Olypmics for gymnastics is definitely defining but getting this award later for the same earlier effort is not remotely defining for Natalia Yurchenko, Mary Lou Retton, or Nadia Comăneci. We already have the winners listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We've consistently deleted Halls of Fame that celebrate the earlier success of athlets at the Olympic Games here, here, here, here, here and here. -

Category:World Figure Skating Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:OCAWARD)
The World Figure Skating Hall of Fame isn't officially an Olympic hall of fame but it sure looks like one in practice: 70 of the 93 articles in this category are already somewhere under Category:Olympic figure skaters and another 7 have other Olympic connections, mostly coaches: A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H. (The remaining 16 articles are already well categorized: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16). Being in the Olypmics for figure skating is definitely defining but getting this award later for the same earlier effort is not remotely defining for Robin Cousins, Lyudmila Pakhomova, or Kurt Browning. We already have the winners listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We've consistently deleted Halls of Fame that celebrate the earlier success of athlets at the Olympic Games here, here, here, here, here, here and here. -

Category:WCF Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The World Curling Federation is based in Scotland and is actually quite prominent as the world governing body for curling. Their WCF Hall of Fame is more obscure though and was established in 2012, although they automatically added some earlier winners of a different award. Like most halls of fame, it reflects rather than amplifies their fame so it doesn't seem defining and all of these people are in more specific curling categories to aid navigation. The articles are pretty evenly balanced between those that mention the award in passing, those that don't mention it at all, and those with it in the lede, but that last category was largely due to a single enthusiastic editor over two days. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We recently deleted Canadian, American and Scandinavian curling halls of fame categories with similar issues here, here and here. -

Category:Canadian Curling Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Canadian Curling Hall of Fame recognizes the lifetime achievement of athletes. Like most halls of fame, it reflects rather than amplifies their fame so it doesn't seem defining and the articles generally mention it in passing. All of the articles are already in Category:Canadian curling champions, Category:Brier champions, Category:Canadian curling coaches and other more specific Canadian curling categories that better aid navigation. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We recently deleted a American and Scandinavian curling halls of fame category with similar issues here and here. -

Category:United States Curling Association Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:OCAWARD and WP:OCASSOC)
Most of the United States Curling Association Hall of Fame information I found online was within Wikipedia or on the organization site so this doesn't seem prominent. We already have Category:Olympic curlers of the United States and Category:American curling champions which closely overlap with the articles which generally mention the award in passing. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We recently deleted a Scandinavian curling hall of fame category with similar issues here. -

Category:Swedish Curling Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:OCAWARD and WP:OCASSOC)
My web translator calls this award "Big Curlers" but Swedish Curling Hall of Fame is probably a reasonable translation. There's not much info available about this award. The official web site in Swedish doesn't give much information but, in practice, these seem to be awarded within a year or two of becoming a Swedish curling champ. We already have Category:Swedish curling champions which closely overlaps. A number of these articles mention the award in the intro but they're consistently from the same enthusiastic editor who created this category. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:DeMolay International Hall of Fame members[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OCASSOC)
DeMolay International is a Masonic youth organization for boys/men aged 12-21. This award is given to men who, decades later, become politicians, astronauts, celebrities or are otherwise prominent. The success of people like Paul Harvey, John Steinbeck and Bill Clinton seems to have little direct connection to this group or Free Masons generally though. The contents of the category are already listified here for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Jack Kirby Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Jack Kirby Hall of Fame was an award from 1989 to 2001 named after Jack Kirby that recognized long careers as comic book artists. Like most halls of fame, this award reflects the fame of people that are already prominent in their profession and isn't defining. That's reflected in the articles where this award is generally listed in passing with other hall of fame inductions (although, over the course of a weekend, one enthusiastic editor moved that awards paragraph to the intro for about half of these articles). The contents of the category are already listified here for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Ultimate Fighting Championship Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The UFC Hall of Fame was founded in 2003 and celebrates fighers who competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship earlier in their career. Except for a couple execs and an announcer, these articles are in Category:Ultimate Fighting Championship male fighters and many are also in Category:Ultimate Fighting Championship champions. Getting this award later for that earlier effort is non-defining. That's reflected in the articles where this award is generally listed in passing with other accomplishments although one enthusiastic editor moved this award into the intro for many articles. The contents of the category are already listified here for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:National High School Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OCASSOC)
The American National High School Hall of Fame primarily recognizes high school athletes, but also high school coaches. Not a single one of these people have a Wikipedia article because of their high school career; rather these athletes became notable later because of success in college, Olympic or professional sports. Since their high school athletic career was not defining, it's hard to imagine an award they received for it is. (The high school coaches generally are notable as high school coaches but are already well categorized under Category:High school athletic coaches in the United States.) The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Gatorade National Basketball Player of the Year‎[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Gatorade sports drinks gives out the Gatorade Player of the Year awards to American high school athletes in 8 sports and we have categories for 2 of them. This award is definitely defining when the high school athletes receive them but Wikipedia doesn't generally have articles on athletes that peaked in high school. (Even the very inclusive WP:NSPORTS draws a hard line for the WP:NOTABILITY of high school players in the WP:NHSPHSATH section which requires "prolonged coverage" beyond a one-time award.) What we actually have in this category are college and pro athletes who, in their early life/high school section, makes a passing reference to this award. We have a Catch-22 where, when the award is defining enough for a category, they aren't notable enough for an article and, when they're notable enough for an article, the category is no longer defining. The recipients are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:United States Bicycling Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The United States Bicycling Hall of Fame is a museum in Davis, California. The award is usually mentioned in passing in the articles with other honours in the body of the articles and, if an award is in the intro, it's usually an Olympic medal. Many of the recipients were active long before the organization existed. This award doesn't seem defining. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -
  • Background We deleted another cycling hall of fame here. -

Category:British Cycling Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The British Cycling Hall of Fame was founded in 2009 and has wall plaques in the Manchester Velodrome (see here). The vast majority of these articles mention the award in passing with others, maybe a fourth don't mention it at all and 3 mention it in the lede so it doesn't seem defining. (In contrast, the Tour de France and Olympics are universally in the intro, if applicable.) We already have the winners listified here in the main article. -
  • Background We deleted similar American cycling halls of fame categories here and here. -

Category:Newfoundland and Labrador Hockey Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OCASSOC)
Wikipedia does not have an article on the Newfoundland and Labrador Hockey Hall of Fame which appears to be an internet only affair with a simple web site located here. The three biography articles in this category all just mention this award in passing with other honors so it doesn't seem defining. I listed the current category contents here to save time if anyone wants to use that as a starting point to write a main article. -

Category:Pinball Hall of Fame: The Gottlieb Collection[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Pinball Hall of Fame: The Gottlieb Collection and Microsoft Pinball Arcade are video games that portray classic real-world/physical pinball machines made by Gottlieb. (They are not awards or museums.) This category groups those pinball machines portrayed in those video games. Every single one of these articles is already in Category:Gottlieb pinball machines so these categories seems redundant and non-defining. The contents of the categories are already listified here and here. -
  • Background We deleted an almost identical category for pinball machines represented in a video game here. -

Category:Inter Dominion Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:OCAWARD, WP:OCASSOC)
The Inter Dominion Hall of Fame recognizes horses, drivers and long time officials of the Inter Dominion horse racing competition. Rather than using a subjective selection committee, the official selection criteria automatically admits the following: horses who win 2 times, drivers who win 3 times and those getting a gold medal life time achievement award 1 time. For the first two categories, we have Category:Inter Dominion winners for winning just 1 time so all of these articles are automatically in that overlapping category. (The only exception is their gold medal winning long-time announcer, Bruce Skeggs, who doesn't seem defined by this.) The contents are already listified here in the main article. -
  • Background We previously deleted other categories for winning the same thing more than once here, here, here and here. -
Let's focus on my "claim" of overlap. There are three routes to get into this hall of fame:
So 13 of 14 current articles―or 2 of the 3 routes—for induction are automatically included in a different Wikipedia category. (Thanks for adding 2 of these to the HOF category during the nomination; I also add those to the winners cat.) Within that Category:Inter Dominion winners tree, some articles are in a subcategory and others are loose in the parent cat. -

Category:Asian Football Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and WP:OCASSOC)
The Asian Football Hall of Fame recognizes professional association football/soccer players from Asia and Australia whose article are already well categorized. Those articles usually mention the award in passing in the articles in a list with other awards, although some don't mention it at all. There is not a lot of information on this award, at least online in English, and I don't think it's still active. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Football Federation Australia Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Football Federation Australia Hall of Fame was created in 1999 and recognizes the lifetime achievement of association football/soccer people (as opposed to Australian rules football). Winners are required to be retired so this award is inherently reflecting earlier accomplishments. I went through half the articles and but most of them don't even mention the award in the text, although a healthy minority mention it in passing and a few even in the lede, so it doesn't seem generally defining. (All of them had Template:Football Federation Australia Hall of Fame though.) The articles are under more specific subcategories of the Category:Soccer people in Australia tree that better aid navigation. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Caddie Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:OCASSOC, and WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The Caddie Hall of Fame recognizes professional golf caddies. This Wikipedia category is mostly professional golfers and others who caddied in their youth; look at Max Elbin, Old Tom Morris, Willie Park Sr., John Shippen to see what I mean. Within the actual caddie articles, this award is generally mentioned in passing and doesn't seem defining. (There's also an overlap issue: of the 8 articles here actually about professional caddies, 7 are in Category:American caddies, and, conversely, 7 of the 9 article in that category are in this one.) The winners of this award, most of whom don't have a Wikipedia article, are already listified here in the list article. -

Category:World Snooker Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V and WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:OCASSOC)
Wikipedia doesn't have an article on the World Snooker Hall of Fame and I'm having trouble finding an official web site. There is an article about it (or a similar award) here and here so it exists or existed and celebrated snooker players. Of the 29 articles in this category, 4 mention it in passing while 25 don't mention it at all. I listified the current contents here so no work is lost if anyone thinks they can establish notability to create a main article. -

Category:Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC, WP:OCAWARD)
Magic: The Gathering is a popular collectible card game now owned by Hasbro which coordinates formal competitions with cash prizes. The Magic: The Gathering Hall of Fame feels more like a gold-level frequent-flyer program from an airline than a traditional hall of fame. You have to be competing for at least 10 years (although admission is not automatic and criteria ahve varied over the years) and then you get perqs including waived fees and special invites. Indeed, per the article "If a Hall of Fame player is a current Platinum level member of the Pro Players Club, the higher reward will apply to them." This doesn't seem any more defining than listing people with platinum membership in American Airlines AAdvantage. We already have the winners listified here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic.

Category:International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame is is a riverfront museum on the Ohio River in Kentucky. The articles aren't consistent with how the award is handled: sometimes it's mentioned in the body, sometimes in the lede and sometimes not at all. Grammies and other hall of fames are often mentioned as well and most of the recipients of this award were prominent long before the Hall of Fame started. This award doesn't seem defining. (One exception is Pete Kuykendall who helped found the organization but that's not a good basis for a category.) The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -
  • Background We deleted similar halls of fame by musical genre here, here and here. -

Category:Texas Gospel Music Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame has a display in the Dollywood amusement park, the Gospel Music Hall of Fame has a traveling exhibit and, as far as I can tell Texas Gospel Music Hall of Fame is internet only for right now. There a lot of overlap between the categories: Lee Roy Abernathy, Jake Hess, Doris Akers are in both the national and Southern one while Gary McSpadden, Kurt Kaiser and Les Beasley are in the National and Southern cats. Regardless of which ones they're in, the ledes of the article mostly don't mention any award at all and, when they do, it's usally a Grammy so none of these seem defining. The contents of the categories are already listified here, here and here. -
  • Background We deleted similar halls of fame by musical genre here, here and here. -

Every single state sub-category under Category:National museums of the United States[edit]

25 more categories
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
A National museum is a concept that varies by country but they are generally are federally funded major museums in national capitals. In the United States, that role is served by the Smithsonian Institution and it's in the parent category. The National Corvette Museum, National Construction Equipment Museum and National Ornamental Metal Museum all have "national" in their name but they are private foundations that don't match the main article. (Conversly, federal museums outside the capital that might fit an expansive definition like the Air Mobility Command Museum and Old Faithful Museum are not in this category tree.) I can't imagine what editor would want to navigate between these museums with no common thread other than their names. -
Note: This discussion has been included in WikiProject Museums and WikiProject Smithsonian Institution. –

Category:Blues Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Blues Hall of Fame is is a small museum in Nashville. The award is usually mentioned in passing in the articles with other honours in the body of the articles and, if an award is in the intro, it's generally a Grammy. Most of the recipients of this award were prominent long before the Hall of Fame started in 1980. This award doesn't seem defining. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -
  • Background We deleted similar halls of fame by musical genre here and here. -

Category:Union Cycliste Internationale Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TOPTEN and WP:OCAWARD
The UCI Hall of Fame was a one-time list from 2002 of the all-time greatest people who "contributed to the glory and development of cycling sport throughout the world". This list was part of the grand-opening celebration of the World Cycling Centre by Union Cycliste Internationale. This Hall of Fame is not an ongoing award which inducts new people each year. The articles I looked at didn't mention the award except they all had Template:UCI Hall of Fame so this doesn't seem defining. The recipients are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:United States Show Jumping Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
It's honestly hard to infer too much about the defining-ness of United States Show Jumping Hall of Fame since the vast majority of winning horses don't have an article. Of the 4 horses in the category, 3 mention the award in passing and 1 does mention it in the intro. The defining feature for 3 of the 4 horses was their participation in the Olympics which is why those three articles are already in Category:Horses in the Olympics. All 4 horses are also in the Category:Show jumping horses. This award just doesn't seem defining. -

Category:Norwegian Nobel Committee[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCASSOC)
The Nobel Peace Prize is so prominent I certainly could imagine just being on the selection committee as defining but that doesn't appear to be the case with the actual articles which tend to mention it in passing near the end. (Feel free to click around.) This is becuase the Norwegian Nobel Committee is selected by the Norwegian parliament and tends to be retired high-ranking politicians who would already have a Wikipedia article. (In contrast, the chairpersons of the committee are defined by the association so I just created the subcategory.) The contents of this category are already listified in a separate list article. -
  • Background We previously deleted a very different award selection committee here. -

Category:Nobel laureates absent at the ceremony[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (The opposite of WP:PERFCAT)
The BAFTA and Academy Awards have a lot of red carpet coverage of who is wearing what designer outfit but I'm not sure the actual awards ceremony for the Nobel Prize gets similar coverage and, according to the Nobel Committee, recipients still win the award even if they don't attend (source).
The reasons for missing the ceremony are all over the map and don't form a cohesive category:
If we don't categorize people by performance they attended, I don't think it's defining to categorize them by performances they missed. -

Category:Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:NONDEFINING
If you take a look at the official biographies of the 18 people] who serve as the Hockey Hall of Fame Selection Committee, many were famous players in their youth, they generally spent decades working in the sport in some prominent capacity, and most are now late in their careers. Their Wikipedia articles usually mention the 3-year term on the Selection Committee in passing so it doesn't seem defining and all are already well-categorized in multiple subcategoreis of the Category:Hockey tree. The current Selection Committee is already listified here in the main article but I copied all the category contents here to the creators talk page in case they want to create a separate list article, which I would welcome. -
  • Background We deleted similar Novia Scotia and South Dakota halls of fame here and here. -

Category:Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame is a city government supported hall of fame to promote sports in Ottawa and recognized both athletes from Ottawa who perform elsewhere and athletes from elsewhere who play in local teams (or both obviously). The museum has moved around to different civic buildings but I think this is the current display. I clicked through quite a few articles and none of the ones I read even mentioned this award so it doesn't seem defiing. The contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -
  • Background We deleted similar Novia Scotia and South Dakota halls of fame here and here. -

Category:AVCA Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Each year, the American Volleyball Coaches Association gives out 7 diffrent awards for school coaches and this is one of them. As far as I can tell, there is no associated brick and mortar museum. A few of the articles don't mention the award at all, one does mention it in the intro, but the large majority just make a passing reference in a list of honours. All of these articles are already well categorized in the specific school subcategories of the Category:College volleyball coaches in the United States tree. This award just doesn't seem defining. There was no main article so I created this redirect and listified the contents here within the organization article. -

Category:National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Each year, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association Hall of Fame gives out 8 diffrent awards and this is one of them. As far as I can tell, there is no associated brick and mortar museum. The large majority of articles just make a passing reference in a list of honours in the body or the infobox. (A handful mention it in the lede but mostly from a single editor.) All of these articles are already well categorized in the specific school subcategories of the Category:College softball coaches in the United States tree. This award just doesn't seem defining. The contents of this category are already listified both here within the mainarticle and in this template. -
  • Background We deleted a similar college volleyball coaches hall of fame here. -

Category:Recipients of the Garland Clay Award[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Each year, the American Academy of Optometry gives out 12 awards and this one is for the authors of the most cited article in their journal. There was no article so I created a short description and listified the contents here. 2 of the 3 articles mention this in passing in a long list of awards and one does mention it in the intro but it's a stub article. This award might be defining for the articles themselves but seems undefining to the prominent authors. -

Category:Smith-Wintemberg Award recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
It's honestly hard to infer too much about the defining-ness of this Canadian archaeology award from Wikipedia since the vast majority of winners don't have an article and, of the 4 that do, all are pretty short stub articles. For what's it's worth, 3 of those biography articles mention this award in passing with a list of other honors although 1 mentions it in the intro. All 4 articles are already well categorized in 44-article Category:Canadian archaeologists and the winners are listified here.

Category:Recipients of the Leopold-Kunschak-Prize[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Leopold Kunschak Prize is issued by the Austrian People's Party to foreign leaders including Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Benedict XVI and Jean-Claude Juncker as well as domestic activists for issues the party cares about. The recipients tend to mention the award in passing, if at all, so it's not defining. I just listified the contents of the category here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Carlsberg Architectural Prize[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
This was a short-lived Danish architectural award given out 3 times between 1992-1998. All three of the non-Danish recipients (Tadao Ando, Juha Leiviskä, Peter Zumthor) were already prominent before receiving the award so it's mentioned only in passing in each article along with other honors. Since the award is discontinued, there is no room for growth nor any likelihood that its prestige will increase with time. The recipients are already listified here within the main article. --

Category:Shakespeare Prize recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
This award certainly sounds defining. It is given by a Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S., Germany each year to a British performer or writer in order to promote better relations between Germany and the U.K. Some of the biography articles mention the award in passing with other honours but many articles don't mention it at all. The winners are already listed here. -

Category:Pro Football Hall of Fame Game[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCVENUE, WP:SMALLCAT and the spirit of WP:C2F, one eponymous article.
I would have no conceptual problem with this category if it contained articles on each year's Pro Football Hall of Fame Game. It doesn't though, since those articles don't exist yet. The only thing here other than the main article is Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium where the game is played, but that venue is already under Category:National Football League venues and hosts a number of other events so it doesn't seem defined by being the venue. Both articles are defined by the association with the Pro Football Hall of Fame though so they should stay in the category tree. -

Category:National Heroes of Barbados[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:TOPTEN and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
In 1998, Barbados celebrated a centenary and created a top ten list (there's literally 10) of influential figures from Barbados' history. Other than sainthood, awards given out decades after a person's death are rarely defining and this category is already lsitified here. RevelationDirect (talk) 00:36, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
Note: Notified Ser Amantio di Nicolao as the category creator. –

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Category:Recipients of the Zimbabwean Independence Medal, 1980[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:ARBITRARYCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
According to the introduction of the Zimbabwean Independence Medal, 1980 article, this award was given to those who were "involved in the Zimbabwean independence commemorations in some way". While this award was presumably given to a lot of people, the only recipients in the category is an Australian military officer and a South African pilot who both served in many other locations and received this award as a de facto campaign medal . We typically don't categorize by campaign medals because career officers serve in a variety of locations and conflicts. –
  • Background We've deleted similar broad-based independence medals for other countries here and here. -

Category:National Heroes[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
This groups awards together based on whether the name of the award has "National Heroes" in the title when translated into English. National Heroines and Heroes of Nicaragua, Category:Ancient Greek heroes, and National Heroes of Sri Lanka all have different inclusion criteria, different cultural contexts and different native languages. The proper place for similar names is in this disambiguation page. (There are several communist era awards related to Hero of the Soviet Union so no objection if someone wants to work on a more narrow main article and category.) -
  • Background We deleted a similar category for awards with "Gold Medal" in the title here. -

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Category:Battle honours of the Sovereign's Bodyguard[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT and the spirit of WP:C1, an empty category
A battle honour is an award to a military unit for a specific victory and the Sovereign's Bodyguard is a military unit that protects the English monarch. So far, so good. But the only article in this category is Sieges of Boulogne (1544–46) which neither mentions a battle honour nor the Sovereign's Bodyguard. -

Category:Sons of Confederate Veterans awards[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT
No conceptual objection to an award by organization category but there is only one article here: Confederate Medal of Honor (Sons of Confederate Veterans). The Sons of Confederate Veterans article doesn't mention any other awards so I don't think there's any growth potential. -

Category:Charlemagne Prize[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT
This category only contains two articles and I'm not sure they belong together:
1: Charlemagne Prize: Prize for European integration issued by Aachen, Germany starting in 1950.
2: European Charlemagne Youth Prize: Youth prize for European integration issued by the European Parliament starting in 2008, but named after and coordinated with the earlier prize.
The two articles already cross-linked and I can't imagine a potential 3rd, 4th or 5th article so the growth potential is limited. -

Category:Homeland's Gratitude Medal recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:ARBITRARYCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Homeland's Gratitude Medal comes in different grades for 20, 15, 10 and 5 years of service in the Croatian armed forces. Serving in the military is defining but receiving an award for serving an arbitrary number of years is not. I listed the recipients of the award here.-
Note: Notified Asalrifai as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Croatia. –
  • Background We deleted similar military years of service awards from other countries here, here, here,here and here. -

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Category:Recipients of the Order of Al-Said[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign leaders visit Oman, or vice versa, one of these awards is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Japanese Emeperor Akihito, Malaysian Sultan Perak, and Queen Elizabeth all have received two of these awards while none of the recipients are from Oman. If you want to see the clutter this type of category creates at the article level, take a look the train wreck at the bottom of this article. -
Note: I notified Mimich as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Oman. –

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Category:Robot Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:DEFINING)
The Robot Hall of Fame was an award given out between 2003 and 2012 by the Computer Science department of Carnegie-Mellon University. The category includes both fictional robots (Terminator, C-3PO) and real life ones (Roomba, Lego Mindstorms) and none of those four articles even mention this award. There used to be a display on the award at the Carnegie Science Center's RoboWorld exhibit according to this old link but the current RoboWorld link doesn't mention it anymore. The contents of the cateogry are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Volleyball Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:DEFINING)
The Volleyball Hall of Fame article lists 140 recipients only a minority of which are redlinks but the category currently just has 2 of them. Clicking through the articles, the award is typically mentioned in a list with other awards and doesn't seem defining. -

Category:New Zealand Business Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:DEFINING)
Wikipedia doesn't have a main article for the New Zealand Business Hall of Fame but their web site is here. It's an annual dinner that gives awards to 8 or so people a year. Several of the articles in the category mentione the award in the lede but without exception that was added by the creator of this category. This event doesn't seem defining and this would work better as a list. Normally I list the winners in the main article but I put them here on the creator's talk page so no work is lost. -

Category:Danish Sports Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:DEFINING)
Wikipedia doesn't have a main article for the Danish Sports Hall of Fame. The awkward Google translation of their web site describes itself as a "gallery" but I'm not sure if that means a physical museum or a web gallery. I clicked through many of the articles and didn't see any that even mention the award. This award doesn't seem defining and but it could work as a list. Normally I listify the winners in the main article but, since there isn't one, I put them here on the creator's talk page so no work is lost. -

1 article/1 subcategory Halls of Fame parent categories[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT
This nomination is for the museum/organization parent categories, not for the inductees subcategories: Category:Arena Football Hall of Fame inductees, Category:Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductees, Category:English Football Hall of Fame inductees & Category:World Golf Hall of Fame respectively. Each nominated category contains only that subcategory plus the main article (Arena Football Hall of Fame, Canadian Music Hall of Fame, English Football Hall of Fame, World Golf Hall of Fame) and I see little to no room for future growth. -

Category:Canadian Football Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT (WP:NONDEFINING)
No conceptual objection to a museum/organisational category but this category contains nothing but the the main article (Canadian Football Hall of Fame) and the inductees subcategory (Category:Canadian Football Hall of Fame inductees). I can't think of another potential article so growth potential seems limited but no objection to recreating if we ever get up to 5 or so articles. (Note that this nomination does not impact the biography articles in the "inductees" subcategory.) -
  • Background We deleted similar underpopulated hall of fame parent categories here. -

Category:Scottish Football Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT (WP:NONDEFINING)
No conceptual objection to a museum/organisational category but this category contains nothing but the the main article (Scottish Football Hall of Fame) and the inductees subcategory (Category:Scottish Football Hall of Fame). I can't think of another potential article so growth potential seems limited but no objection to recreating if we ever get up to 5 or so articles. (Note that this nomination does not impact the biography articles in the "inductees" subcategory.) -
  • Background We deleted several similar underpopulated hall of fame parent categories here. -

Category:Recipients of the Philippine Defense Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Philippine Defense Medal is a WWII medal issued across-the-board to every Filipino and American soldiers present during the Japanese invasion in 1941-2. We traditionally haven't kept categories for campaign medals because career soldiers, like Douglas MacArthur receive many of these automatic participation awards. I just listified the contents of the category here. -
  • Background We've deleted similar categories for campaign medals from other countries here, here, here, here and here. -

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Category:People who were rejected for the Victoria Cross[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per some through-the-looking-glass version of WP:OCAWARD
The Victoria Cross is the top medal from the United Kingdom so receiving it is obviously defining. This category asks the opposite question: Is not receiving it also defining? The biography articles in this category offer sad stories of British dying in battle, who were submitted for this award, but it was determined there wasn't enough documented valour so they received a different medal instead. I suspect a great deal of applicants were denied though and it's just not mentioned in their Wikipedia articles. Imagine all the other anti-categories we could create! -

Category:Conspicuous Service Cross (New York) recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Conspicuous Service Cross (New York) is automatically given to any New York residents who receive the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States) and 20 other federal medals. It is also automatically awarded to all New York residents involved in Pearl Harbor, the D Day landing, or who were declared missing in action, or were killed in action. These underlying reasons may be defining; automatically receiving this award as a thank you fron New York is not. -

Category:Dames of the Order of Louise[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
This category has all our favorite Prussian princesses including Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1803–1892), Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1842–1906) and Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1915–1980). Being a Prussian princess is absolutely defining which is why we have Category:Prussian princesses but automatically getting this award for the same status (or being a more distant female relative in other royal houses) is non-defining. The current category contents are already listified right here in the main article for any readers interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Albert the Bear[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Order of Albert the Bear is a house order of the German Duchy of Anhalt given to local royalty and their relatives. Local articles like Leopold IV, Duke of Anhalt, and Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt, mention the award in passing so it doesn't seem defining and those articles are already somewhere under Category:Rulers of Anhalt. (It was also given as a diplomatic souvenir and is not remotely defining for Tewodros II of Ethiopia, Oscar II of Sweden and Albert I of Belgium). There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any readers interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Military Karl-Friedrich Merit Order[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD-All, WP:OVERLAPCAT-2, WP:TRIVIALCAT-3, WP:PERFCAT-4)
The Military Karl-Friedrich Merit Order was ostensibly a military award of the German Grand Duchy of Baden although its actual usage was broader:
1: Soldiers from Baden: I could imagine this group being defined by the award but, in practice, it get's mentioned in passing and the Iron Cross is more prominent (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).
2: Local Royals: These are already under either Category:Princes of Baden or Category:Grand Dukes of Baden and are not defined by the award (8, 9, 10, 11).
3: Foreign Male Royals who Married into the Baden Royal Family: Not even close to being defining (12, 13, 14, 15).
4: De Facto Campaign Medal: Some foreign career soldiers fought briefly in Baden (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21).
5: No Clear Connection to Baden: This isn't an outlier, the almost half of the articles mention the award but given no other mention of Baden. Maybe it was a diplomatic award, maybe it was given to allies, but whatever the reasons it's not defining because it doesn't even come up. (22-39)
There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any readers interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Friedrich Order[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Friedrich Order was a general purpose award from the German Kingdom of Württemberg although most of the recipients in these categories were from other German states. This award is generally mentioned in passing in articles for non-local recipients like Karl von Bülow, Wilhelm Heye and Alfred von Tirpitz. Interestly, people actually from Württemberg seem to be a mix of mentioning the award in passing or not at all like with Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, Otto von Moser, Eberhard von Hofacker, and Friedrich von Gerok (officer). Neither group seems defined by this award. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any readers interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Pleiades (Iran)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT)
When female foreign leaders other high ranking guests visited Imperial Iran or vice versa, the Order of the Pleiades (Iran) was given out as souvenir. Margrethe II of Denmark, U.S. First Lady Betty Ford, and Princess Irene of the Netherlands are not remotely defined by this award. (There are also several domestic female royals who already in cats like Category:Pahlavi princesses.) All the category contents are now listed right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Dames of the Order of Theresa[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT)
When female foreign royalty visited the Kingdom of Bavaria or vice versa, the Order of Theresa was given out as souvenir. Isabella II of Spain, Empress Shōken, Princess Louise of Prussia, and Princess Daisy of Pless are not remotely defined by this award. (Local members of the ruling Wittelsbach royal family also received the award but they're already somewhere under Category:House of Wittelsbach.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD and maybe WP:PERFCAT)
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art gives out the Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli Artist, often coinciding with a photographer's exhibit. The 4 biographies in this category tend to mention the award in passing so it's not not defining to them. Normally I always listify these award recipients but I don't have a place to do that because, in addition to not having a main article, the museum article makes no reference to the award so I'm not sure if the topic is notable. I copied the current category contents right here so no work is lost if anyone else wants to find reliable sources in order to create that list article. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Star of Ethiopia[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT)
When foreign leaders and diplomats visited imperial Ethiopia or vice versa, the Order of the Star of Ethiopia is given out as souvenir. George VI, Abbas II of Egypt, and Mary of Teck are not remotely defined by this award. (Without exception, the Ethiopian recipients are already under Category:Ethiopian Royal Family and, while there are several British diplomats defined by their association with the country, they are already under Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Ethiopia.) There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background In the past, we've deleted dozens of similar categories for high ranking visitors and those nominations are listed right here. -

Category:Recipients of the Bronze Cross of Zimbabwe[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT)
There is only 1 article in this category for winning the Bronze Cross of Zimbabwe: Government Minister Giles Mutsekwa, who is already well categorized under Category:Government ministers of Zimbabwe. I can't really say the category contents are "listified" but I linked that 1 biography right here in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Crown (Württemberg)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT)
When high ranking foreign leaders from visited the German Kingdom of Württemberg or vice versa, the Order of the Crown (Württemberg) is given out as souvenir. Alexander II of Russia, Ludwig III of Bavaria, George V, and Prince Charles of Prussia are not remotely defined by this award. (There are also a small percentage of local people like Prince August of Württemberg and William II of Württemberg but they are already well categorized under Category:Political office-holders in Württemberg, Category:House of Württemberg, etc.) There wasn't a list so I created a collapsible right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Military Merit Order (Württemberg)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD, WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT)
The German Kingdom of Württemberg gave out the Military Merit Order (Württemberg). The recipients fall into three categories:
There wasn't a list so I created a collapsible one at the bottom of the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Rose[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT, WP:PERFCAT, WP:OCAWARD) and WP:V
The Order of the Rose was a Brazilian award that continues to be issued by the former Braganza royal family and the recipients fall into three categories:
Finally, the former royal family had a schism and both give rival versions of this award so there's is not a single agreed upon list of recipients. All the category contents are now listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Empress of India Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD approaching WP:TRIVIALCAT)
Queen Victoria was pronounced "Empress of India" in 1877 and the Empress of India Medal was created as a one-time award as part of the celebration. According to that main article, "the medal was awarded in gold to Indian princes and senior officials, and in silver to selected British and Indian officers and civilians, as well as a selected soldier from each British and Indian regiment serving in India at the time". There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
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Category:Recipients of the Albert Order[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Albert Order was a general purpose award from the German Kingdom of Saxony for serving "the state well, for civil virtue, science and art". The recipients, many of whom were from neighboring states, generally mention this award in passing with other honours like with Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Friedrich Sixt von Armin, Konstantin of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, or any other article you want to click on. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any readers interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Saxon Merit Cross[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
Even though the Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony is a state-wide award for Saxon Germany, it feels very local: recipients include a children's dance instructor, the leader of a multiple sclerosis support group, the president of a garden club, and an entrepreneur who created a thousand jobs in the auto parts industry (official list). Those all sound like great people but they don't have Wikipedia articles to categorize because they are non-notable.
The only article in the category is Czech Prime Minister Václav Klaus who is not remotely defined by the award. There is a list of some other notable recipients right here in the main article but most of those biographies don't even mention the award. -
  • Background We deleted similar awards from Kentucky and North Carolina here and here.

Category:Recipients of the Banga Bibhushan[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Banga Bibhushan is a state-level award from West Bengal, India that was established in 2011. The recipients skew heavily toward actors and other performers like Rudraprasad Sengupta, Mithun Chakraborty, Goutam Ghose, and Amala Shankar. The recipients don't seem defined by the award and are about evenly split between those that mention the award in passing and those that don't mention it at all. The recipients are already listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -
  • Background We deleted state level awards from Kentucky, United States and Saxony, Germany here and here. -

Category:Recipients of the Bavarian Order of Merit[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Bavarian Order of Merit is a state-wide award for Bavaria Germany but it feels very local: recipients include a sister who retired from running a children's home (source), a long-term volunteer for senior citizens, a politician who supported the Red Cross, a bishop who provides excellent pastoral care (source), and dozens of professors from the Technical University of Munich (source).
Those all sound like great people but most don't have Wikipedia articles to categorize because they are likely non-notable so, of the 5,000+ recipients, we only have 364 articles in this category. Those articles don't treat the awared as defining like with footballer Thomas Müller, politician Maria Probst and Princess Christa of Thurn and Taxis. All the category recipients are now in a collapsible list right here in the main article but most of those biographies don't even mention the award. -
  • Background We deleted similar statewide awards from Saxony and Kentucy here and here.

Category:Henry Hope Reed Award Laureates[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Henry Hope Reed Award is an interesting award for architecture that is given to non-architects which creates a diverse list including a poet, historian, preservationist, government official, philanthropist and landscape designer. The thing about an architectural award for non-architects is that it's non-defining: 1 article mentions this award in passing, 1 in the lede, and 7 not at all. The recipients are already listified here within the main article for any reader interested in the topic. - RevelationDirect (talk) 00:06, 3 March 2021 (UTC)

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Zähringer Lion[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT-1, WP:OVERLAPCAT-2 and WP:OCAWARD-3)
The Order of the Zähringer Lion was an award of the German Grand Duchy of Baden that served several purposes:
1: Foreign Leaders: When high ranking visitors came to the Grand Duchy, or vice versa, this was given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Alexander III of Russia, Edward VII and Frederick William IV of Prussia] are not remotely defined by this award. The vast majority of the articles in this category were given for this reason.
2: Local Royals: There are several local royals like Prince William of Baden and Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden who are already categorized under Category:Princes of Baden and Category:Grand Dukes of Baden, respectively.
3: Civilians: Hans Gude was a prominent painter and Gustav Berdel veterinarian. I'm guessing there were a lot of such recipients but only a handful are notable enough for Wikipeida articles.
I added a collapsible list here in the main article for any readers interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Philip the Magnanimous[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Philip the Magnanimous is an award from the German Grand Duchy of Hesse that served two purposes:
1 Diplomatic Award: When foreign leaders visited Hesse, or vice versa, the order was given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Foreign recipients include Alexander II of Russia, Edward VII and Maharaja Ganga Singh.
2 House Order: Members of the royal House of Hesse also received the award but they are all already somewhere under Category:House of Hesse. Domestic royal recipients include Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, Louis III, Grand Duke of Hesse and Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
Neither group seems especially defined by the award which the articles mention in passing with other honours. All of the category contents are now listed here in the main article for any readers interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Friedrich Cross[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Frederickscross or "Friedrich Cross" was issued by Duke Friedrich II of the German Duchy of Anhalt starting in 1914 until the monarchy was abolished in 1918. The recipients are generally non-Anhalt German people who mention the award in passing like with Paul von Hindenburg, Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, or any other article you want to click on. The Duke also gave the award to himself (see picture). There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any readers interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Kulm Cross[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Kulm Cross was a Prussian medal, although none of the category contents were Prussian or German. Instead of me telling you why this award is non-defining, I'm just gonna give you a line from the introduction to the main article:
"It was not awarded for any special act of courage or merit."
Ouch! There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Merit Order of the Bavarian Crown[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown was intended for "civil servants, non-nobles, and foreigners" and includes the following:
With all three groups, the award is generally mentioned in passing so it doesn't seem defining and the diverse reasons for issuing the award creates a mish-mash of articles unlikely to aid navigation. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any readers interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Wilhelm Ernst War Cross[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Iron Cross was the top military award of Germany and is among a handful of awards that might actually be defining. On the other hand, the Wilhelm Ernst War Cross was awarded by the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach to people who had already won the Iron Cross. This award is so non-defining that almost none of the articles in the category even mention it. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any readers interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the National Service Medal (Norway)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The National Service Medal (Norway) main article said that everyone who served 18 months national services automatically recieves this award. It also says that such 18 months of service was mandatory. Of all the non-defing award categories I've nominated over the years, this is hands down the most ludicrous! -

Category:Recipients of the Aceh Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
"According to the Aceh Medal article, "All soldiers participating in the First Aceh Expedition and/or the first six months of the Second Aceh Expedition were entitled award of the medal." We generally avoid categorizing by campaign medals because it creates clutter for career officers. While a lot of soldiers must have received this award, the category only contains one article which I added ("listified"?) here in the main article. -
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Category:Recipients of the Malaysian Service Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Malaysian Service Medal is automatically given to all soldiers who served 6 months or longer in one of three military campaigns. We generally avoid categorizing by campaign medals because it creates clutter for career officers. While a lot of soldiers must have received this award, the category only contains eight articles of which five actually mention the medal so I listified those here in the main article. -

Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Ukrainian)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
I'm having trouble confirming that this award exists. There is no main article and the redirect in the category points to a different Russian award. I can find similarly named awards for Poland and Austria online but not Ukraine and I have the same problem at Order of Saint Stanislaus (disambiguation). None of the three biographies in the category even mention the award, let alone have a citation. Let's assume good faith here and say this is an obscure award automatically given to Ukrainian prime ministers: that would hardly be defining. -

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Category:Recipients of the Medal of the Armed Forces in the Service of the Fatherland[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:ARBITRARYCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Medal of the Armed Forces in the Service of the Fatherland comes in three grades: Gold, Silver and Bronze awarded, respectively, for 25, 15 and 5 years of service in the Polish armed forces. Serving in the military is defining; receiving an award for serving an arbitrary number of years is not. I listed the recipients of the award here.-
Note: Notified Folks at 137 as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Poland. –
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Category:Recipients of the Order of Excellence (Jamaica)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign leaders visit Jamaica, or vice versa, the Order of Excellence (Jamaica) is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Recipients like President Mbeki of South Africa and King Carlos I of Spain just don't seem defined by this award. If you want to see the clutter this type of category creates at the article level, take a look the train wreck at the bottom of this article. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note: I notified Alifazal as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Jamaica. –

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Category:Recipients of the Nigerian Independence Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:ARBITRARYCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Nigerian Independence Medal was automatically given to every member of the military, police forces or land forces who was employed on 1 October 1960 (Nigerian Independence Day). If you retired on September 30th or started on October 2nd, you would not receive this award. The recipients of this award are already listed here. –
Note: Notified notified Asalrifai as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Nigeria. –
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35 Grand Masters categories given to monarchs[edit]

  • Cameroon
  • Monaco
31 more awards from 11 countries
  • Austro-Hungarian Empire
  • France
  • German States, Pre-Unification
  • Italy and Pre-Unification Italian States
  • Luxembourg
  • Malaysia and Malaysian States (Malaysia currently has both state-level monarchs and federal one)
  • Netherlands
  • Portugal
  • Spain
  • Tonga
  • Yuugoslavia
Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Normally I avoid these large international nominations because my friends over at the medals WikiProject like to make sure that the local context is considered. But these awards all have 2 things in common:
  • 1: They are automatically given to the ruling monarch.
  • 2: They are given to no one else.
All of these people are already in the appropriate monarch category for their country which what defines them and largely overlap with these categories. "Grand Master" categories with different criteria are not included in this nomination. -
Note: I notified Mimich as the primary category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Orders, decorations, and medals. –
  • Background We deleted similar automatic "Grand Master" categories with the Netherlands, Malaysia and Austria here, here and here. -

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Category:Recipients of Austrian military awards and decorations[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per the spirit of WP:C1, an empty category.
This is really just a cleanup nomination following the CFD deletion of all the subcategories. This category is not empty but it should be because it only contains loose biography articles for people who won any military award from Austria. (These national categories are meant to hold subcategories for earning specific/defining awards.) If any new subcategories appear, no objection to recreating the category. -
Note: Notified Afil as the category creator and this discussion has been included in the WikiProject Austria. –

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Category:Recipients of the Order of al-Hussein bin Ali[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign leaders visit Jordan, or vice versa, the Order of al-Hussein bin Ali is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Recipients like Harald V of Norway and Mohammed VI of Morocco just don't seem to defined by this award. If you want to see the clutter this type of category creates at the article level, take a look the train wreck at the bottom of this article. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note:Notified Xactnoreg as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Jordan. –
  • Background We recently deleted other medals given to foreign officials and royalty here, here, here, here and here.

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Category:Order of the State of Republic of Turkey[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign leaders visit Turkey, or vice versa, the Order of the State of Republic of Turkey is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Recipients like Harald V of Norway and Lech Wałęsa just don't seem to defined by this award. If you want to see the clutter this type of category creates at the article level, take a look the train wreck at the bottom of this article. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note: Notified Maurice Flesier as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Turkey. –
  • Background We recently deleted other medals given to foreign officials and royalty here, here, here, here and here.

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Category:Order of Good Hope[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign leaders visit South Africa, or vice versa, the Order of Good Hope is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Recipients like Bill Clinton and Fidel Castro just don't seem to defined by this award. If you want to see the clutter this type of category creates at the article level, take a look the train wreck at the bottom of this article. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note: The notified Mimich as the apparent category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject South Africa. –
  • Background We recently deleted other medals given to foreign officials and royalty here, here, here, here and here.

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Category:Order of Saint Charles (Mexico)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When Mexican diplomatic delegations visited European countries, they gave the Order of Saint Charles (Mexico) to the local queen or princess as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Recipients like Isabel II of Spain and Empress Elisabeth of Austria just don't seem to defined by this award. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note: The notified Mimich as the apparent category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Mexico. –
  • Background We recently deleted other medals given to foreign officials and royalty here, here, here, here and here.

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Category:Knights of Grace of the Order of Saint Stephen[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Saint Stephen is a dynastic order from Tuscany, whose royal family was closely related wth the Hapsburgs in Austria. The exact nature of why the order gives this award is obscure but 10 of the 13 articles are already in Category:Austrian princes. Two of the articles mention the award in passing (1, 2) and the rest don't mention it at all so it doesn't seem remotely defining. There wasn't a list so I created one here in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Friedrich-August-Kreuz[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Friedrich-August-Kreuz was an award from the German Grand Duchy of Oldenburg to both military and civilian contributions made in WWI, few of whom were actually from Oldenburg. It's unclear if this was an automatic campaign medal or had other criteria. Either way, the articles treat it as non-defining and generally don't mention the award at all, although a few list it with other honours. There wasn't a list so I created one here in the main article. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Petrovic Njegos (Pending)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Petrović Njegoš is a dynastic order from Montenegro, given to Montenegrin Princes and other more distantly related European Princes. Being a prince is defining which is why, without exception, everyone in this category is already in Category:Princes of Montenegro or elsewhere in Category:Princes by country, but this category is redundant. There is already a list here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -


Category:Order of Pedro I[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Being a member of Brazil's royal family (House of Orléans-Braganza) is absolutely defining which is why we already have Category:House of Orléans-Braganza but automatically receiving the this award as a result is not. The rest of recipients of this Brazilian award are all royalty from other countries, like Alexander III of Russia. In either case, this is non-defining. -
Note: The notified West Virginian as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Brazil. –
  • Background We deleted automatic awards to monarch categories for Malaysia and Netherlands here and here. -

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Category:Recipients of the Order of the Throne[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
Being Moroccan royalty is absolutely defining for Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco and Princess Lalla Malika of Morocco which is why we have Category:Moroccan royalty. Being awarded the Order of the Throne for being a Moroccan royal or courtesan is redundant. (The original intent of the award was broader and there are also a few prominent non-Royal Moroccan and foreign royal recipients—1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6—but they just mention the award in passing so it doesn't seem defining to them either.) There wasn't a list so I created one here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Order of the Crown (Monaco)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The stated purpose of this medal is to award "people who have done something exceptional or by their exceptional conduct." In practice, 3 of the 4 people in this category are Monegasque royalty already categorized under Category:House of Grimaldi and the 4th person is Princess Benedikte of Denmark who is not defined by award from Monaco. If and when this award gets issued to all those exceptional people with exceptional powers, we can reconsider this category. If we decide to delete these categories, the recipients are already listed here. -
Note: Notified Mimich as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Monaco. –

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Category:Grand Crosses with Collar of the Order of the Falcon[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Being the President of Iceland is absolutely defining so we have Category:Presidents of Iceland but automatically getting this award as a result is not and it's redundant. The rest of recipients of this Icelandic award are all royalty or officials from other countries, like Olav V of Norway. I saved the current category contents here in case anyone wants to make a list article. (I'm not convinced the other subcategories of this award are defining either and but we'll save that for another time. RevelationDirect (talk) 22:06, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
Note: The notified Folks at 137 as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Iceland. –
  • Background We deleted automatic awards to monarch categories for Malaysia and Netherlands here and here. -

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Category:Recipients of King Christian X's Liberty Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The King Christian X's Liberty Medals were issued in 1946 and were equivalent to a sort of campaign medal for the people outside of Denmark that helped during World War II. Recipients include Winston Churchill and Nils Swedlund and, while most article do mention the award in passing, a campaign medal from a foreign country does not seem defining. If we decide to delete this cateogry, the recipients are already listed here. -
Note: Notified AusTerrapin as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Denmark. –

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Category:Recipients of the Commemorative Medal for Advancing Latvia's Membership to NATO[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Commemorative Medal for Advancing Latvia's Membership to NATO is a sort of campaign medal for the diplomats who helped secure Latvia's admission to NATO. We don't typically categorize people by single even awards like this and Commemorative Medal for Participants of the Barricades of 1991 because it's not usually defining to the overall career and is a performance category. The current members of this category are listed here. -
Note: Notified Asalrifai as the primary category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Latvia. –

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Category:Order of the Colonial Empire[edit]

Nominator's rationale:WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Order of the Colonial Empire was an award for residents of Portugal's colonial empire. The three articles we have listed are Mozambique Company (which makes sense although it's already well categorized), George V, and Prince George, Duke of Kent. I haven't found a source that says why two British royals received the award but neither is defined by Portugal's colonies. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note: The notified Mimich as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Portugal. –

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Category:Recipients of the Golden Party Badge[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Golden Party Badge was given to the first 100,000 who joined the Nazi Party in Germany. That's not very unique or defining and everyone, by definition, can be categorized under the Category:Nazis. Being a Nazi is defining, automatically getting this award for signing up early is not. -
Note: The notified Folks at 137 as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Germany. –

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Category:Recipients of the Cross for the Four Day Marches[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Cross for the Four Day Marches is a participation award for every time someone completes the International Four Days Marches Nijmegen. According to the article, "612,500 first year crosses have been awarded ... with over 960,000 further awards" so this award too common to possibly be defining. -
Note: The notified Barliner as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Netherlands. –

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Category:Order of the Virtues (Egypt)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Order of the Virtues (Egypt) article says this award is given to women for individual merit but all the actual articles showed merit by being born or marrying into a royal family and most of them are already well categorized under Category:Egyptian royalty. It's also given to foreign female royalty like Diana, Princess of Wales and Queen Sofía of Spain. If we decide to delete these categories, the recipients are listed here. -
Note: The notified SarekOfVulcan as the apparent category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Egypt. – RevelationDirect (talk) 23:48, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

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Category:Nepal Pratap Bhaskara[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Nepal Pratap Bhaskara is given to members of the royal family who are already well categorized under Category:Nepalese royalty. The other two awards are given both domestic royalty and also to foreign royalty and officials like Henrik, Prince of Denmark and Emperor Akihito. In both cases the award is secondary to the underlying reason for notability. If you want to see the clutter these type of awards create at the article level, just look at the train wreck at the bottom of this article. If we decide to delete these categories, I listed the recipients in each main article. -
Note: Notified Mimich as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Nepal. –

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Category:Recipients of the Order of Saint Peter of Cetinje[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Order of Saint Peter of Cetinje is given to members of the Petrović-Njegoš dynasty and other royalty by Montenegro. Being in this family is absolutely defining which is why we already have this Category:House of Petrovic-Njegoš. The members of the category are already listified here in the main article. -

- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 January 8#Category:Order of the Crown (Monaco). -

Category:Order of the Royal House of Chakri[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Order of the Royal House of Chakri is given to members of the royal family who are already well categorized under Category:Chakri dynasty. In some cases, it's given to foreign heads of state like George VI and Dwight D. Eisenhower. In both cases the award is secondary to the underlying reason for notability. If we decide to delete these categories, the foreign recipients are listed here. -
Note: The notified AusTerrapin as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Thailand. – RevelationDirect (talk) 23:36, 5 January 2017 (UTC)

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Category:Recipients of the Order of the Golden Eagle[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign heads of state visit Kazakhstan or vice versa, they receive the Order of the Golden Eagle as a souvenir from the government as part of the official welcome. The presidents of Turkey, Russia, Finland and Ukraine are not defined by a Kazakh award. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note: Notified Asalrifai as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Kazakhstan. –
  • Background We deleted medals given to foreign officials by Venezuela and Afghanistan here and here. -

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Category:Recipients of the Order of the Yugoslav Star[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign heads of state visited Yugoslavia or vice versa, they received the Order of the Yugoslav Star as a souvenir from the government as part of the official welcome. If you're wondering just how much category clutter these categories could possibly create for heads of state, just take a look at the train wreck at the bottom of this article. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note: Notified Folks at 137 as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Yugoslavia. – RevelationDirect (talk) 23:34, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
  • Background We deleted medals given to foreign officials by Venezuela and Afghanistan here and here. -

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Category:Order of Umayyad[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign heads of state visited Syria, they receive Order of Umayyad as a souvenir from the government as part of the official welcome. If you're wondering just how much category clutter these categories could possibly create for heads of state, just take a look at the train wreck at the bottom of this article. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note: The notified Mimich as the apparent category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Syria. – RevelationDirect (talk) 04:44, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
  • Background We deleted medals given to foreign officials by Venezuela and Afghanistan here and here. -

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Category:Recipients of the Langley Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Langley Gold Medal is given out sporadically by the Smithsonian Museum to recognize leaders in flight and space. They pick winners that are already so prominent (Wright brothers, Robert H. Goddard, Charles Lindbergh, Neil Armstrong) that this award is not defining. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note: The notified Teapeat as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Smithsonian Institution. –

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Category:Recipients of the Nishan-e-Pakistan[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign heads of state visit Pakistan, they receive the Nishan-e-Pakistan as a souvenir from the government as part of the official welcome. For instance, Dwight D. Eisenhower is defined by being Category:Presidents of the United States, that position is how he got this award, and there are plenty of other non-defining foreign awards at the bottom of his article. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note: The notified Folks at 137 as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Pakistan. –
  • Background We deleted medals given to foreign officials by Venezuela and Afghanistan here and here. -

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Category:Recipients of the Order of Pahlevi[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign heads of state visited Iran, they would receive Order of Pahlevi as a souvenir from the government as part of the official welcome. For instance, George VI is in Category:Monarchs of the United Kingdom, which is how he got this award, and there are not shortage of other non-defining foreign awards at the bottom of the article. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note: The notified Folks at 137 as the apparent category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Iran. – RevelationDirect (talk) 04:44, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
  • Background We deleted medals given to foreign officials by Venezuela and Afghanistan here and here. -

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Category:Recipients of the Grand Order of Mugunghwa[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign heads of state visit the South Korea, they receive Grand Order of Mugunghwa as a souvenir from the government as part of the official welcome. For instance, Mohammed Zahir Shah is in Category:Kings of Afghanistan, which is how he got this award, and there are not shortage of other non-defining foreign awards at the bottom of the article. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. - RevelationDirect (talk) 04:44, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
Note: The notified Asalrifai as the apparent category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Korea. – RevelationDirect (talk) 04:44, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
  • Background We deleted medals given to foreign officials by Venezuela and Afghanistan here and here. - RevelationDirect (talk) 04:44, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

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Category:Recipients of the Star of the Solomon Islands[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign heads of state visit the Solomon Islands, they receive one of these souvenirs from the government as part of the official welcome. I don't see how prime ministers of Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea are defined by an award from this country. Of the 4 people in this ccategory, zero are from the Solomon Islands. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note: The notified AusTerrapin as the apparent category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Solomon Islands. –
  • Background We deleted medals given to foreign officials by Venezuela and Afghanistan here and here. -

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Category:Recipients of Indonesian civil awards and decorations[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per the spirit of WP:C1, an empty category.
This is really just a cleanup nomination. These categories only contain one article in total and it's miscategorized. (The recipients by type categories are for subcategories of specific awards or list articles, not individual biography articles.) If and when actual content appears, no objection to recreating either category. -
Note: Notified Xdamr as the category creator and this discussion has been included in the WikiProject Indonesia. –

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Category:Order of Merit of the Principality of Liechtenstein[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The "Grand Stars" subcategory is only given to members of the royal family who are already well categorized under Category:House of Liechtenstein. The "Grand Crosses" subcategory are souvenirs for visiting officials who are already categorized by the office from their own country (for instance, Category:Vice-Chancellors of Austria). In both cases the award is secondary to the underlying reason for notability. If we decide to delete these categories, the recipients are listed here. -
Note: The notified Mimich as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Liechtenstein. –

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Category:Recipients of the Order of Tahiti Nui[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Of the 12 biography articles in this whole tree, 4 mention this award in passing and 8 don't mention it at all. Depending on the subcategory, these awards are either automatically given to elected officials, are souvenirs for visiting foreign officials, or are too common to be defining. If we decide to delete these categories, the recipients are already listed here. -
Note: The notified Asalrifai as the category creator and I added this discussion to the French Polynesia work group. –

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Category:Recipients of the Philippine Independence Medall[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
According to the articles, the Philippine Independence Medal and Philippine Liberation Medal, both of these awards were given out to any Filippino, American or other Allied troops that fought there during World War II. We don't typically categorize people by campaign medals because it ends up creating category clutter for career soldiers who participate in multiple campaigns. The current members of this category are listed here and here. -
Note: The notified Asalrifai as the primary category creator and I added this discussion to Task force Philippine History. –

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Category:Recipients of the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal was given out to 3,632 people in 1990 to celebrate the anniversary of New Zealand, which is more than 1 award per every 1,000 residents for the entire country. According to the article, recipients "were selected in recognition of the contribution they have made to some aspect of New Zealand life" and I haven't found a more specific criteria. None of these people had anything to do with establishing New Zealand so the medal doesn't seem defining and these people have very little in common with each other, except being residents of New Zealand in 1990. -
Note: Notified Asalrifai as the category creator and this discussion has been included in the New Zealand Notice Board. –
  • Background We deleted a nearly identical Canadian anniversary medal here. -

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Category:Pingat Hassanal Bolkiah Sultan - Darjah Pertama medal recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Being a member of the Brunei's royal family is absolutely defining which why we already have Category:Bruneian royalty. Very little information is available on this award but the only two articles in the category are members of the royal family who are already in that royalty category. If we decide to delete this category, the recipients are already listed here. -
Note: The notified Mimich as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Brunei. –
  • Background We deleted automatic awards to monarch categories for Malaysia and Netherlands here and here. -

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Category:Recipients of the Centenary Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
According to the articles, the Philippine Independence Medal and Philippine Liberation Medal, both of these awards were given out to any Filippino, American or other Allied troops that fought there during World War II. We don't typically categorize people by campaign medals because it ends up creating category clutter for career soldiers who participate in multiple campaigns. The current members of this category are listed here and here. -
Note: The notified Asalrifai as the primary category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Yugoslavia. –

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Category:Grand Crosses of the Order of Good Hope[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign heads of state visit South Africa, they receive one of these souvenirs from the government as part of the official welcome. I don't see how Fidel Castro, Bill Clinton, Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Muammar Gaddafi are defined by a South African award. Of the 30 people in this category, zero are from South Africa. To see the category clutter created by awards for visiting dignitaries, look at the mess on the bottom of this page. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note: The notified Mimich as the primary category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject South Africa. –

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Category:Order of Sultan Qaboos[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Order of Sultan Qaboos is the 4th highest civil award of Oman and these two categories only have two articles total: the main article and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. I don't see how a Dutch monarch is defined by a souvenir she received while on an official visit to Oman. That one recipient is already "listed" here. –
Note: Notified notified Mimich as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Oman. –

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Category:Recipients of the Fiji Independence Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:ARBITRARYCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Fiji Independence Medal was automatically given to any prison guard, forest ranger, soldier, police officer or fire fighter who was employed by Fiji on 10 October 1970 (Fijian Independence Day). If you retired on October 9th or started on October 11th, you would not receive this award. The recipients of this award are currently listed here. –
Note: Notified notified Asalrifai as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Fiji. –
  • Background We recently deleted a category for a similar Canadian anniversary award here. -

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Category:Recipients of the Haakon VII 70th Anniversary Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:ARBITRARYCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Haakon VII 70th Anniversary Medal was given to every soldier who served in the Free Norwegian forces on the 70th birthday of Haakon VII of Norway (3 August 1942). If you stopped serving on August 2nd or started on August 4th, you wouldn't receive the award. If anyone wants to create a list article, I saved the members of the category here. –
  • Background We deleted similar anniversary categories for other countries here and here. -

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Category:Recipients of the Order of Gabriela Silang[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When the wife of a foreign head of state visits the Philippines, they receive the Order of Gabriela Silang as part of the official welcome. (The First Lady of the Philippines also automatically receives the award.) I don't see how Elena Ceaușescu, Laura Bush, and Imelda Marcos are defined by this cursory award. These articles are already better grouped in categories like Category:First Ladies of Romania and the recipients are already listified here. -

Category:Recipients of the Collar of the Order of the National Coat of Arms[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Collar of the Order of the National Coat of Arms is automatically given to the President of Estonia and to no one else. The correct category here is Category:Presidents of Estonia and--look at that--everyone single person in the nominated category is already in that one! -
Note: I notified Quibik as the category creator and added this discussion to WikiProject Estonia. –
  • Background We recently deleted similar automatic awards to monarchs or heads of state here, here, here, here, here and here. -

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Category:Order of the Liberator[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign heads of state visit Venezuela, they receive one of these souvenirs from the government as part of the official welcome. I don't see how Albert I of Belgium, Queen Sofía of Spain, and American Vice Admiral Alfred Johnson are defined by a Venezuelan award. Of the 14 people in this four subcategories, zero are from Venezuela. (I don't think the remaining category is defining either but I'll nominate it later since it contains some actual Venezuelans.) To see the category clutter created by awards for visiting dignitaries, look at this mess. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note: The notified Asalrifai as the primary category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Venezuela. –

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Category:Pilot-Cosmonauts of the USSR[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT, WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
According to the main articles, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Russian Federation, every Soviet or Russian cosmonaut automatically receive this award when they first go into space. What categories are next: singers who sing, doctors that treat patients, runners who run? The recipient in this category are curently listed here and here. -
Note: The notified Folks at 137 as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Spaceflight. –
  • Background We recently deleted an identical American/NASA award here. -

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Category:Arena Football Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Arena Football League existed from 1987-2019 (with some gaps) while the Arena Football Hall of Fame inducted members from 1998-2014 (with more gaps). Of the 55 articles in the category, 34 mention in in passing, 1 doesn't mention it at all, and 12 mention the award in the lede, but that last group was mostly due to the enthusiasm of a single editor who also created this category. Playing arena football is definitely defining for these players and they are well categorized for that, whereas this award tends to just reflect that earlier fame. For any reader interested in the topic, the contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -
*RFC There is an open request for comments on proposed changes to WP:OCAWARD. Your input (pro/con/other) is always welcome here. -RD

Category:International League Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING) and WP:OVERLAPCAT
The International League is a minor league baseball league in the U.S. I think specific sports leagues Halls of Fame are rarely defining because we already have the same athletes in the league's team player categories and Halls of Fame by their nature recognize people who already have achieved "fame". This one is especially non-defining though because the players are often getting this award for how they performed once they were called up in the major leagues, not how they did in this league. (Contrast this with the IL MVP Award which is for performance in this league.) The winners of this award are already grouped in four templates. -
Note: Notified Rklear as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Ohio. –

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Category:Cape Cod Baseball League hall of fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Cape Cod Baseball League is a summer league played by college students. This Hall of Fame is really recognizing these student players for accomplishments much later in their baseball career, as the league's motto makes clear: "Where the Stars of Tomorrow Shine Tonight". These articles tend to mention playing for the league in passing and this award not at all so it's not defining. For any reader interested in the topic, the winners are already listed here. -

Category:Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame is given out during the Caribbean Series, a post season series in Latin America. This award is usually recognizing accomplishments much later in their baseball careers however. Specifically, most of these awards are for players who started out in the Caribbean Series, were called into the Major Leagues in the US/Canada, retired, and then came back to receive this award as a sort of homecoming. Within the articles, while being from the Caribbean and playing in the majors are consistently in the intro, this award tends to get a passing reference and doesn't seem defining. For any reader interested in the topic, the contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Venezuelan Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was established in 2002. Of the 55 articles in the category, 2 mention the award in the lede (1, 2), 3 don't mention it at all (3, 4, 5), and 50 mention it in passing, usually along with other halls of fame so this doesn't seem defining. In fact, the Ernesto Aparicio (baseball) and Luis Aparicio Sr. articles both being with them related to someone inducted into The Baseball Hall of Fame while actually getting this award gets a passing mention. For any reader interested in the topic, the contents of the category are already listified here in the main article. -
*RFC There is an open request for comments on proposed changes to WP:OCAWARD. Your input (pro/con/other) is always welcome here. -RD

Category:Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame requires players to either be of Mexican heritage and active in the American major/minor leagues for 15 years or be active for that same amount of time in one of the Mexican leagues. The award is definitely not defining for those who played in the US. For the players of the domestic LMB and LMP leagues, many of the winners are redlinks and the articles are so short so it's hard to infer too much from them as far as defingness of this award. For any reader interested in the topic, the winners are already listified in List of members of the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame, which could also serve as a to-do list in the article space. -

Category:Internet Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Leonard Kleinrock designed packet switching in 1964, Bob Kahn co-invented TCI/IP in 1974, and ping|Jimbo Wales launched an online encyclopedia in 2000. Do we really think any of these 3 people are defined by an award established in 2012 that recognizes their (much) earlier accomplishments? Like with most halls of fame, this award just reflects the pre-existing fame of the recipients. The winners are currently listed here. -
Note: Notified Green Cardamom as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Internet. –

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Category:Recipients of the Albanian Commemorative Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
According to the article, the Albanian Commemorative Medal was automatically awarded to "all Serbian military personnel and civilians who retreated through Albania in the winter of 1915/16 during World War I." We don't typically categorize people by campaign medals because it ends up creating category clutter for career soldiers who participate in multiple campaigns. The one problem this category does not have is WP:SMALLCAT: 142,148 of these medals were given out in 1920. The current members of this category are listed here. -
Note: The notified Asalrifai as the primary category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Yugoslavia. –

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Category:Recipients of the Order of the Supreme Sun[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign heads of state visited Afghanistan, they receive one of these souvenirs from the Afghan government as part of the official welcome. I don't see how George VI, King of the UK, Fuad I, King of Egypt, an Ali Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran or Iskander Mirza, President of Pakistan are defined by an Afghan award. Of the 12 people in this category, 11 are foreign officials. (The only Afghan in the category, Humaira Begum, was the Queen Consort of Afghanistan and certainly didn't win the award from individual merit.) To see the category clutter that awards for visiting dignitaries creates at the article level, look at this mess. If we delete this category, the recipients will still be listed here. -
Note: The notified Folks at 137 as the primary category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Afghanistan. –

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Category:Recipients of the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal is the 3rd highest award issued by the United States Intelligence Community after the National Intelligence Medal for Valor (2nd highest) and National Intelligence Cross (1st highest) (Source, Page 12). This award is primarily for a long career of "sustained, selfless service" (same source) and the recipients--at least the ones we know about--are high ranking career employees. These people seem more defined by categories like Category:U.S. Secretaries of Defense, Category:U.S. Directors of National Intelligence and Category:Directors of Naval Intelligence. If we decide to delete this category, the known winners are already listed here. -
Note: Notified OberRanks as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Espionage. –

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Category:College Football Hall of Fame balloting[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per my non-literal reading of WP:SMALLCAT and WP:OC generally
The only article in this category, 2007 College Football Hall of Fame ballot, is about the Hall of Fame inductees from that year. We have a lot of annual award subcategories, like the Category:Academy Awards ceremonies, so I don't have a conceptual problem with this category but in practice only 1 article has appeared since 2007 so the subcategory doesn't aid navigation in the near term. No objection to recreating it later if the article count grows to 5 or so, although I would prefer a alernate name. -
Note: Notified Jweiss11 as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject American football. –

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Category:Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING) and WP:OVERLAPCAT
Today the category only has one article, Bill O'Donnell, but it certainly could be populated to avoid WP:SMALLCAT. Rather, the problem is that Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame is a relatively obscure award for people who have achieved fame more broadly. Generally these articles are already more precisely categorized within the Category:Sportspeople from Nova Scotia tree. I listified the one article plus a bunch of others I found here in the main article. -
  • Background In the past, we've deleted similar US state-level sports halls of fame categories here and here. -

Category:Texas Sports Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per either WP:OCAWARD or WP:SMALLCAT
It's not clear if this category intends to be an organization/museum category an awards category. The Texas Sports Hall of Fame in Waco is certainly bigger than my local Delaware equivalent, but so are the 352 athletes] they've inducted. The articles for Shaquille O'Neal, Roger Clemens and Mike Modano all mention other Halls of Fame they were inducted into but make no mention of this one so it doesn't seem defining. If this is a category about the organization, the main article is the only one that belongs in it with limited growth potential. -

Category:Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame shares space with the Northwest Louisiana History Museum in Natchitoches, Lousiana. Most of the articles I looked at don't even mention the award while a significant minority mention it in passing. Overall this award doesn't seem defining. The contents of the category are already listified here within the main article- -
  • Background This category was overlooked in earlier nominations because it's not anywhere under the Category:Halls of fame tree. In the past, we've deleted similar US state-level sports halls of fame categories here, here and here and, unless there are any more hiding out there, this is the last one. -

Category:New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame was created in 1990 as part of the celebration for New Zealand being founded 150 years previously in 1840. Accordingly, the vast majority of inductees were active long before the organization existed. The challenge with anything under Category:All-sports halls of fame, is that different sports have different career routes (Olympics, professional teams, college coaching) so it's hard for a single award to be defining. The articles I clicked through were about evenly split between those that mentioned the award in passing and those that didn't mention it at all. Since the sesquicentennial, the phsyical displays for the hall of fame have been moved to Dunedin railway station. The contents of the category are already listified here within the main article. -
  • Background We previosly deleted every single All Sports halls of fame in the United States, most recently here and here. -

Category:Alberta Sports Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame was created in 1990 as part of the celebration for New Zealand being founded 150 years previously in 1840. Accordingly, the vast majority of inductees were active long before the organization existed. The challenge with anything under Category:All-sports halls of fame, is that different sports have different career routes (Olympics, professional teams, college coaching) so it's hard for a single award to be defining. The articles I clicked through were about evenly split between those that mentioned the award in passing and those that didn't mention it at all. Since the sesquicentennial, the phsyical displays for the hall of fame have been moved to Dunedin railway station. The contents of the category are already listified here within the main article. -

Category:Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Canada's Sports Hall of Fame recognizes Canadian athletes for their performance much earlier in their lives. This category groups athletes from different sports and different eras in one large category while the articles are already well grouped under their respective sports which better aid navigation: Gordie Howe is in 16 hockey categories, Barbara Wagner is in 13 skating & Olympic cats, and Ferguson Jenkins is in 29 baseball cats. This award tends to get mentioned in a list with other awards, although there are exceptions where it's in the lede or omitted entirely, so it doesn't seem generally defining. The contents of the category are already listified at List of members of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame. -
  • Background We previously deleted similar national All Sports halls of fame for Germany here, Scotland here, and New Zealand here. -

Category:Germany's Sports Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Germany's Sports Hall of Fame was founded in 2006 and received a lot of press for inducting a few Nazis. A large majority of these winners participated in the Olympics way before 2006 and are already well categorized under Category:Olympic competitors for Germany. There are a few non-Olympic athletes here but they all seem well categorized: Joachim Löw under the FIFA World Cup, Emanuel Lasker under Chess, and Wolfgang von Trips under Formula One. A large majority of these article don't even mention the award so it's clearly non-defining. The contents of the category are already listified here within the main article. -
  • Background We previosly deleted similar All Sports halls of fame here and here. -

Category:Scottish Sports Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Scottish Sports Hall of Fame was founded in 2002 and recognizes Scottish athletes for their performance much earlier in their lives. The articles are already well grouped under their respective sports: Tommy Armour under multiple golfing categories, Alister Allan under multiple Olympic cats, Louise Aitken-Walker under multiple auto racing cats, and Phil Macpherson under multiple rugby union cats. In the articles, this award is either mentioned in passing or not at all so it doesn't seem defining. The contents of the category are already listified here within the main article. -
  • Background We previously deleted similar sports halls of fame for other countries here and here. -

Category:New England Auto Racers Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The New England Antique Racers vintage car club has about 350-400 members and created the New England Auto Racers Hall of Fame in 1998. The inductees have a variety of racing experiences (demolition derby, NASCAR, Formula One, Indy 500) but all are from New England. In the articles, the award is generally mentioned in passing (often with other halls of fame) so it doesn't seem defining. The contents of the category are already listified here within the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCAWARD)
The Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame was established in 1993 to honor Canadians active in auto racing. The organization seems fairly obscure and the articles are already Most of these articles mention the award in passing with other awards, with some exceptions that mention it in the lede or not at all. (Most the articles are so short there's no difference between the body and the intro though.) The contents of the category are already listified here within the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:DEFINING)
The Queensland Business Leaders Hall of Fame is a joint effort of the State Library of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology started in 2009. The focus is on an annual dinner and web site rather than a physical museum so far. The biography articles generally mention it in passing so it doesn't seem defining. The award is also issued to companies and they don't tend to be small corner stores; Qantas Airlines, Domino's Pizza Enterprises and The Courier-Mail are not even remotely definined by this award. The contents of the category are already listified here within the main article-

Category:United States Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and possibly WP:NARROWCAT
We don't have a main article for the United States Marine Corps Sports Hall of Fame to establish notability but, according to their web site, it was established in 2011 although the vast majority of inductees were active decades earlier. The main problem is that this is an award primarilly for U.S. Marines who were also major athletes outside the Marines. For instance, Jack Lummus was a major football player and Greg Burgess was an Olympic swimmer and then enlisted while Elroy Hirsch and Tom Seaver served and then played played professional football and baseball, respectively. The Olypic shooter athletes in this category (Ken Norton & William McMillan (sport shooter)) have meaningful interaction between their sporting and military careers but they are outliers. All of them are also categorized in both Category:United States Marines and their respective sports categories. I copied the curent contents of the category here and here so no work is lost of anyone wants to create a main article. -

Category:National Inventors Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The National Inventors Hall of Fame is a museum in Virginia that, according to the intro the main article, has inducted 582 people

all but about 100 of whom are "historic persons from the past three centuries". Eli Whitney is known for the cotton gin, Samuel Morse is known for the telegraph and Ferdinand von Zeppelin is known for, well, the Zeppelins and none are even remotely defined by this award. Even if we just focus on the small subset of people who were alive when they were inducted, for Shuji Nakamura (LED), Arthur Fry (Post-it Notes), and [[Steve Wozniak] (Apple co-founder) this award reflects rather than increases their notability. The contents of this category are already listified here in a separate list article. -

Category:Utah Aviation Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING) and WP:OCLOCATION
The Utah Aviation Hall of Fame was established in 1996 and recognizes noteworthy pilots who served in the US Armed Forces and are from Utah. The winners of this award are already listified here in the main article. Clicking through both the articles in the category plus the ones that could be added, the award is usually mentioned in passing along with other honors but doesn't seem defining. -

Category:Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America is a notable museum next to the Talladega track. The biography articles in this category do tend to mention the award but in passing with a list of other awards so it doesn't seem defining. The recipients are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Museum of Polo and Hall of Fame started giving out this award in 1990 and also gives out two other awards every year. Many of the recipients were active in polo decades earlier as they catch up and the articles are already in the Category:Polo players by nationality tree. The biography articles in this category do tend to mention the award but in passing so it doesn't seem defining. The recipients are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:International Swimming Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT
The Olympic affiliated International Swimming Federation started the International Swimming Hall of Fame during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, although includes a museum in Florida. Competing in swimming at the Olympics and, especially, winning a medal is definitely defining and is how these articles start. Receiving this award later for that same Olympic participation does not seem defining. It's also difficult to navigate this large category when, for example the Ingrid Gulbin, is better categorized in Olympic country, Olympic event, Olympic year, and Olympic medalist categories. (Click on any other article you like to see the same thing.) The recipients are already listified here in a separate list article. -
  • Background We previously deleted another Olympic-focused hall of fame here. -

Category:World Figure Skating Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD and WP:OVERLAPCAT
The Olympic affiliated International Swimming Federation started the International Swimming Hall of Fame during the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, although includes a museum in Florida. Competing in swimming at the Olympics and, especially, winning a medal is definitely defining and is how these articles start. Receiving this award later for that same Olympic participation does not seem defining. It's also difficult to navigate this large category when, for example the Ingrid Gulbin, is better categorized in Olympic country, Olympic event, Olympic year, and Olympic medalist categories. (Click on any other article you like to see the same thing.) The recipients are already listified here in a separate list article. -
  • Background We previously deleted another Olympic-focused hall of fame here. -

Category:Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:OCAWARD)
The Billiard Congress of America Hall of Fame is an annual awards dinner hosted by the BCA and the winners are displayed in the Colorado organization's lobby (see here). Most of the articles mention the award in passing although a significant minority mention it in the lede but that is due largely to a single editor. The recipients are already listified here in the main article. -

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Category:Charles Goodyear Medal recipients[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Charles Goodyear Medal is awarded each year to a scientist for improving rubber technology. The biography articles in this category do tend to mention the award but in passing with other honors. so it doesn't seem defining. Those articles are already well categorized in Category:Tire industry people and/or Category:Polymer scientists and engineers. The recipients are already listified here in the main article. -
  • Background We deleted a similar and partially overlapping Rubber Science Hall of Fame category, here. -

Category:USA Shooting Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Of the six people in this category, three don't mention the award at all, two mention it in passing, and one in the lead so it doesn't seem defining. There is no main article on this award so I created a redirect, pointed it to USA Shooting organization article, and added a section listifing this category. -

Category:Kansas Sports Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Kansas Sports Hall of Fame has inducted 669 people and has an exhibit with a room of the Gaylord-Pickens Museum in Oklahoma City (source). There is a catch 22 with many local awards: either you'r not notable enough to have a Wikipedia article or your famous enough that this award is not defining which is why we don't have any other general state Halls of Fame left. (We deleted the South Dakota one here.) All the inductees are already included in the Oklahoma category tree: T. Boone Pickens is already in the OK buisnesspeople cat, David Boren is in the OK Governors cat and Barry Switzer is in the U of O Football Coaches cat. If we decide to delete this category, the winners are already listed here. -
Note: Notified AMK152 as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Kansas. –
  • Related CFD Nomination There is an open nomination for the "Category:Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame" here. Your input (pro/con/other) is always welcome. -

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Category:International Association of Athletics Federations Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
"Athletes must have won at least two gold medals at the Summer Olympics or World Championships in Athletics" and be retired for 10 years in order to be inducted according the main article, IAAF Hall of Fame#Criteria. In other words, in Wikipedia these articles will already be categorized in multiple more specific articles for their medals. Most of the articles mention the award in passing an an honours section so it doesn't seem defining. All of the winners are already listified here in the main article. -

Category:Alaska Sports Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Alaska Sports Hall of Fame began 2007 and they maintain an exhibit above Baggage Claim No. 5 in the Anchorage Airport. Of the 19 people and events in this category, 16 don't even mention the award, 2 mention it in passing (17, 18), and the creator of the category added it to the introduction of 1 article (19). It's fine to include this honor in a list of awards, but it doesn't seem defining. If we decide to delete this category, the winners are already listed here. - RevelationDirect (talk) 23:36, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
Note: Notified InfoDataMonger as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Alaska. –
  • Background We deleted similar state-level hall of fame categories: here, here, here and here. -

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Category:Recipients of the Papua New Guinea Independence Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:ARBITRARYCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Anyone serving in the local armed forced between 1 December 1973 and 16 September 1976 automatically received the Papua New Guinea Independence Medal to celebrate the country's independence. If you retired the day before or started the day after, you would not receive the award. (Many civilians and foreign soldiers also received the honor.) If we decide to delete this category, the recipients of this award are already listed here. –
Note: Notified notified Asalrifai as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Papua New Guinea. –
  • Background We deleted a nearly identical category from Fiji here. -

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Category:Oklahoma Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Oklahoma Hall of Fame has inducted 669 people and has an exhibit with a room of the Gaylord-Pickens Museum in Oklahoma City (source). There is a catch 22 with many local awards: either you'r not notable enough to have a Wikipedia article or your famous enough that this award is not defining which is why we don't have any other general state Halls of Fame left. (We deleted the South Dakota one here.) All the inductees are already included in the Oklahoma category tree: T. Boone Pickens is already in the OK buisnesspeople cat, David Boren is in the OK Governors cat and Barry Switzer is in the U of O Football Coaches cat. If we decide to delete this category, the winners are already listed here. -
Note: Notified Scanlan as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Oklahoma. –
  • Related CFD Nomination There is an open nomination for the "Category:Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame" here. Your input (pro/con/other) is always welcome. -

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Category:Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Kate Barnard is remarkable because she was elected state-wide by an all-male electorate when women didn't have the vote yet. But that remarkable-ness isn't enhanced by being inducted into online Hall of Fame 50 years after her death. Even for women who lived to be inducted into the Oklahoma Women's Hall of Fame, the nature of a Hall of Fame is that it recognizes people who have already achieved fame. If we decide to delete this category, the winners are already listed here. -
Note: Notified SusunW as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Oklahoma. –
  • Background For a similar nomination in Singapore, see here. -

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Category:Women's Basketball Hall of Fame inductees[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Women's Basketball Hall of Fame was founded in 1999 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The award generally wasn't mentioned at all in the articles in this category until, on Friday Feb 14 and Monday Feb 17, when a single purpose IP editor rapidly added the award to all the intros of the articles (see here). Despite that spurt of enthusiasm in Wikipedia, external sources don't seem to view the award as generally defining even when providing lengthy background on, for instance, the 2008 inductees: Suzie McConnell-Serio's official USA Basketball bio mentions it in passing, as does Debbie Ryan's former employer on the official UVA page, and Michele Timms's hometown newspaper didn't even mention it. The contents of the category are already listified here within the main article. -

Category:Asteroids named as an award[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCASSOC, WP:NONDEFINING and the spirit of WP:SHAREDNAME
A student named Hannah Olivia Cevasco won a national science competition and, in addition to a plaque and a scholarship, part of her prize was having an asteroid named after her (source). This category only contains that one article (31641 Cevasco) but the intent is to group the other asteroids named as part of a prize. I don't see how a middle school science project on the healing power of honey or the like is defining for an actual object in space though. I did add this to existing list article though. -
Note: The notified Fotaun as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Astronomy. –

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Category:Grand Masters of the Order of Independence (Jordan)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Every single one of these awards is given to the King of Jordan and to no one else. We already have a category for those people (Category:Kings of Jordan) and these automatic awards are not defining. -
Note: The notified Mimich as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Jordan. –
  • Background We deleted similar automatic "Grand Master" categories with the Netherlands, Malaysia and Austria here, here and here. -

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Category:Grand Masters of the Order of Saint Charles (Mexico)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SMALLCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Both of these awards were only given to Emperor of the Second Mexican Empire. There was only ever 1 emperor of the 2ME (Maximilian I). So it's not defining and will never grow beyond one article. -
Note: The notified Asalrifai as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Mexico. –
  • Background We deleted similar automatic "Grand Master" categories with the Netherlands, Malaysia and Austria here, here and here. -

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Category:Order of Elizabeth[edit]

Nominator's rationale: WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The Order of Elizabeth was an Austrian award for women created by Franz Joseph I of Austria. During it's 20 years of existence, an average of more than 100 women per year received the award so it doesn't seem defining. Strangely, the current category only contains 1 biography article: Franz Joseph's male son who never received the award and whose article makes no mention of it. -
Note: The notified Mimich as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Austria. –

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Category:NWA Wrestling Legends Hall of Heroes[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Both of these halls of fame recognize wrestlers and other people from the National Wrestling Alliance. Neither one of these seems dominant: they were established in 2007 and 2005. Most of the articles tend to mention these honors in passing, if at all and are only rarely mentioned in the introduction. Rather, these wrestlers were already famous and these awards just reflect that pre-existing fame. If we decide to delete these categories, the winners are already listed here and here. -
Note: Notified Tigerhugger as the category creator and this discussion has been included in WikiProject Professional wrestling. –

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Category:Order of Vasco Núñez de Balboa[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
When foreign heads of state, US military leaders, or Sean Connery visit Panama they receive one of these souvenirs from the Panamanian government as part of the official welcome. Of the 57 people in these categories, 54 are foreign and only three Panamanian (1, 2, 3). I don't see how Emperor Akihito of Japan, General Tito of Yugoslavia, Queen Elizabeth II or President Eisenhower are defined by a Panamanian award. If we decide to delete these categories, the winners are already listed here and here. -
Note: The notified AusTerrapin as the primary category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Panama. –

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Category:Recipients of the NASA Space Flight Medal[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
According to the article, NASA Space Flight Medal, in practice US astronauts automatically receive this award when they first go into space and they receive it again each time they go back into space. All of these people would already be in Category:American astronauts, one of its subcategories, or a similar category for international guests. -
Note: The notified Folks at 137 as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Spaceflight. –

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Category:National Lacrosse League weekly award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING) and WP:PERFCAT
The National Lacrosse League has a weekly spotlight and a monthly profile of players to generate interest from fans. These awards are so non-defining, John Grant has won one of them 24 times and John Tavares has won one 40 times, according to the articles. These honors are too transitory to be defining; more akin to a performance on a short-term advertising campaign. If we decide to delete these categories, the winners are already listed in each article. -
Note: The notified MrBoo as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Lacrosse. –

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Category:National Lacrosse League weekly award winners[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING) and WP:PERFCAT
The National Lacrosse League has a weekly spotlight and a monthly profile of players to generate interest from fans. These awards are so non-defining, John Grant has won one of them 24 times and John Tavares has won one 40 times, according to the articles. These honors are too transitory to be defining; more akin to a performance on a short-term advertising campaign. If we decide to delete these categories, the winners are already listed in each article. -
Note: The notified MrBoo as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Lacrosse. –

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Category:International halls of fame in the United States[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:SHAREDNAME
These categories group Halls of Fame together based on whether they have "International" or "National" in their name. Now those two terms are real words with real meanings but, here, they are usually used as to establish the importance of the museum. For instance, the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame is regional, the International Motorsports Hall of Fame is national and the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum is regional. This is more widespread than can be fixed with a purging: most of these HoFs are focused on a topic area and disregard geography. (In contrast, the state Halls of Fame all stick to their boundaries.) All of these articles are already located in other subcategories of Category:Halls of fame in the United States. -
Note: The notified Eagle4000 as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject United States. –

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Unsuccessful CFD Award Nominations[edit]

Category:Eastern Catholic Righteous Among the Nations (No Consensus)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:NARROWCAT)
The Righteous Among the Nations is an Israeli award for those who risked their lives to save Jewish people from the Holocaust and is defining for the recipients, so there's no WP:OCAWARD here. Also, these monks were motivated by religion so there's not a WP:OCEGRS, per se. But I'm not convinced that practicing the Byzantine Rite versus the Latin Rite led them to resist Nazism and this creates a narrow category with just 2 articles. We put together a variety of denominations under Category:Protestant Righteous Among the Nations and 1 Catholic category here should also be sufficient. -

Category:Recipients of the Air Gallantry Cross (No Consensus)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V and WP:NONDEF (WP:OCAWARD)
The Air Gallantry Cross was issued by South Vietnam and may have been defining for Vietnamese military pilots who received it but sources don't seem to be available, at least online in English, for those Vietnamese recipients. According to the main article, "pilots of the United States Air Force were often awarded the Air Gallantry Cross" as a de facto campaign medal. Those American articles are all we have in this category and are already well categorized under Category:American military personnel of the Vietnam War and I listified the contents of the category here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Russia) (No Consensus)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:PERFCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
When foreign leaders visited the Russian Empire, or vice versa, the Order of the White Eagle (Russian Empire) is given out as souvenir to commemorate the visit. Per the article, since this was one of the few Russian awards not named after a saint, it was the preferred award for non-Christians leaders but it's not treated as defining in the Mohammad Taqi Mirza Rokn ed-Dowleh, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar or Ahmad Shah Qajar articles. It was also given to Christian rulers like Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Leopold II of Belgium and Napoleon III of France who are not remotely defined by this award. (There are also some mostly high ranking Russians in this category like Emperor Alexander III of Russia, Admiral Vasily Zavoyko and Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia.)
There wasn't a list so I created one right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. If you want to see the collective clutter these award categories create, look at the train wreck at the bottom of the Rudolf, Prince of Liechtenstein article. -
  • Background In the past, we've deleted dozens of similar categories for high ranking visitors and those nominations are listed right here. -

Category:Recipients of the Order of Timor-Leste (No Consensus)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD)
The Order of Timor-Leste is a general purpose award from East Timor. The recipients are very diverse and include
Across the board, the articles tend to mention the award in passing and it doesn't seem defining. All the category contents are now listified right here in the main article for any reader interested in the topic. -

Category:Recipients of the Medal of Merit of the GDR (Keep)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:V (and probably WP:OCAWARD)
We don't have a main article on the Medal of Merit of the GDR and I'm having trouble confirming the existence of an award by that exact name. The category consists of two articles both on East German female rowers and both articles rely on the same citation for receiving award but that link is behind a paywall. I don't speak German but, depending on how you translate, there are a large numbers of similary sounding East German awards with "merit" in the name according to this informal list so I'm wondering aloud if this is an alternate translation of another award. If I'm having trouble establishing the mere existence of an award it's unlikley to be defining to the articles. The right path forward here would be to create a (sourced) article on the award and we can go from there. -

Category:World Golf Hall of Fame inductees (No Consensus)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
The World Golf Hall of Fame has a formula for being eligible for this Hall of Fame: you need to be 50 years old and have either 2 career wins in the "Major" competitions or 15 wins in other approved tours. For instance, LPGA golfer Betsy King won 6 majors and 34 tours and was 40 years old when she was inducted. This award seems to echo rather than create the fame and doesn't seem defining. The HOF members are displayed as part of a museum within the massive World Golf Village resort/hotel/convention/residential complex. The articles handle this award in a variety of ways: most mention it in passing while a number have it in the lede although that's largely the work of the editor who created this category. The contents of this category are already listified here within the main article. -

Equestrian halls of fame in Texas (No Consensus)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
A majority of the current horse articles in the NCHA category are also in the AQHA hall of fame while all of the current human articles in the AQHA hall of fame are also in the NCHA hall of fame, which creates an interesting Venn diagram. Horses and humans alike actually are defined by their participation in the prominent AQHA and NCHA organizations but it's their success in competitions and events that make both notable. Receiving this award, often in retirement, is just a reflection of that earlier success and doesn't seem defining. Many of the articles mention the awards in passing; where they are mentioned in the lede it is often due the contributions of the editor who also created all five of these categories and many equestrian articles. AQHA has an equestrian art museum in Amarillo that lists the winners while, as far as I can tell, NCHA is internet only. The contents of the categories are already listified here, here, here, here and here. -
  • Background We deleted similar Kentucky horse racing hall of fame here. -
While the stated purpose of the organizations is quite different, here in Wikipedia these categories apply to some of the same articles so I thought it made sense to discuss them together. You are quite correct though that I failed to provide a specific concern about Category:NCHA Hall of Fame (members) so I'll do so now: the articles are already well categorized in Category:American Quarter Horse owners and breeders, Category:Horse trainers and similar categories and the award seems WP:NONDEFINING.
Clarification: Articles need to meet WP:NOTABILITY for reading while category need to meet WP:DEFINING for navigation. I'm suggesting that the list articles meet their standard and should be kept but the categories do not and should be deleted.
{u|RevelationDirect|RD}}, yes - but with the goal in mind that it will make things as easy, organized and efficient as possible. When I create an article about someone or some horse who was inducted into one or more of the respective HoF, it is much easier to add them to that category than attempt to create a list (or add to a list), most of which contain nothing more than stats (name, event, points and/or monies earned, city, state). It is so much easier to just add the category VS finding the list and duplicating info that is already in the infobox and article. If someone is looking for a list of HoF members, horses, riders, trainers, or whatever, they can go to the category to see if the person/horse they're looking for is there, click on the link, and get all the info they need at the article. Does that make sense? Atsme Talk 📧 19:02, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
It totally makes the sense because I did exactly the same thing with the first Hall of Fame article/category I create! I came to change my mind on that approach though partly because award categories (broadly defined) create so much category clutter. (The train wreck if you scroll to the bottom of this article is an extreme example.) More importantly, I found out lists can be awesome when they're not just a bulleted text and are worth focusing on over categories. The Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame article has a sortable list I created that users have a more interactive experience where they can sort by name, year or sport. (And edtiors can change what columnns are used to fit the hall of fame; maybe a "Species" header with Horse or Human, haha.) While that list is probably a good model to start with, I'm hardly the creator the best lists: List of tallest buildings in Chicago is beautifully laid out. Even though we disagree on this nomination, I really appreciate the work you're doing both with the halls of fame and the biography articles. -
Look, to make it really simple, an athlete receives an award for winning an event like a trophy or some physical form of recognition, prize, and money. With a hall of fame, the athlete is inducted with no activity from them and becomes part of a hall of fame list. The list may be physical or written or online or some combination of those, depending on the organization. Many halls of fame will write up a summary about the inductee as well. The members of the AQHA hall of fame have induction pages on the website that tell a story about their life. You can visit the AQHA Hall of Fame and Museum in person; they have exhibits. dawnleelynn(talk) 21:46, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
  • We both like halls of fame and I understand while you were so alarmed if you thought I was trying to undo all your many hours of hard work in the article space. In Wikpedia, I think the Hall of Fames lists are especially useful as "to do" list for creating articles. (As DexDor pointed out, categories don't include articlest that haven't been written yet.) WikiProject Women in Red in particular does a great job with regularly getting rid of the red links in Women's halls of fame to help improve the encyclopedia.

Category:National Heroes of Azerbaijan (Withdrawn)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD
The National Hero of Azerbaijan name and description certainly sound defining. In practice, the overwhelming majority of people in this category were Azerbaijani soldiers killed in action during the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. These things are absolutely defining which is why we have both Category:Azerbaijani military personnel of the Nagorno-Karabakh War and Category:Azerbaijani military personnel killed in action. Receiving an award that duplicates those categories is not defining, however. The contents of the category are already listified here in a separate article. -

Category:Recipients of Gawad Mabini (No Consensus)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OVERLAPCAT and WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
Being a diplomat or high ranking official for the Philippines is absolutely defining which is why we have Category:Filipino diplomats and similar categories. Also categorizing those same people by this this career award for that service seems redundant. Of the 14 biography articles in this category, 10 don't mention the award at all, 3 only in passing (1, 2, 3) and one in the introduction (1). Should any reader want this information, there is a template here and I already listified the contents here. -
Note: I notified Asalrifai as the category creator and I added this discussion to Tambayan Philippines. –

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Category:Commanders of the Order of the Crown of Tonga (No Consensus)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:OCAWARD (WP:NONDEFINING)
This award is obscure, the most prominent internet search results are all from Wikipedia or mirror sites and the Order of the Crown of Tonga#Commanders article doesn't explain the selection criteria. The vast majority of recipients automatically received the award for being royalty and are nominated above but the two people in this subcategory are an exception: one is an ambassador of Australia who received it on an official visit and the other is a historian of Tonga who is already well categorized. The two articles mention the award only in passing and it doesn't seem defining. -
Note: The notified Mimich as the category creator and I added this discussion to WikiProject Tonga. –

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Category:Roman Catholic Freemasons (No Consensus)[edit]

Nominator's rationale: Per WP:NONDEFINING (WP:OCEGRS)
While the Freemasons welcome Catholics to join, multiple Popes have repeatedly held that Freemasonry is incompatible with Catholicism and could lead to excommunication. I could certainly imagine this combination being defining but it's not in practice because the violation is so widespread and enforcement so lax. Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and President John Kufuor both seem to have been publicly Catholic and Freemasons with no repercussions. The only biographies I found that discussed the combination were two ordained priests (1 and 2) who both created controversy, but no sanction, for publicly supporting Freemasonry. Wikipedia has potentially thousands of biography articles with this technically forbidden but common combination and all the current articles are in separate categories for Catholics and Freemasons so no merges are needed. -
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