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Category Decision Discussion_log
Category:1775 in the United States rename April 19
Category:2007/08 in Israeli football rename April 21
Category:3Es Schools delete April 1
Category:Actors who have studied Ballet delete April 26
Category:Al-Ansar Players of Past and Present rename to Category:Al-Ansar (Lebanon) players April 15
Category:Alabama albums rename April 22
Category:Albums containing at least one cover version delete. April 12
Category:Albums produced by Steve Lillywhite keep April 25
Category:Albums with Cover Version on delete April 4
Category:Alien and Predator series Delete all April 5
Category:All Articles with sections needing rewrite rename April 9
All Sub-Cats of Category:Polish surnames no consensus April 28
Category:Alumni of the Medical University of South Carolina rename April 17
Category:American convicted child molesters rename to Category:Convicted American child molesters April 9
Category:American draughts players rename (I thought it was about beer) April 14
Category:American evangelical Christians merge April 2
Category:American women Senators do nothing. I'm probably the last person on earth that would use the term "slap with a large wet trout" but I may need to add it to my repertoire, as way too many people are emptying categories while these discussions are ongoing. I'm really tempted to undo any future moves and close the discussion as "wet trout slap". I understand where Bearcat was coming from, with only one article, but dammit, you're not a newbie; you should know better April 24
Category:Americans with Huguenot ancestry delete. Not every intersection deserves a category, and the nomination does a good job of explaining why this should be deleted, esp. "does the Lincoln family members have much in common ... or is there something innate about these one-drop of Huguenot blood folks that makes these folks do things differently?" The first keep says this is defining, but does not explain why (and then goes on to attack the nominator, instead of sticking to the category), the second keep states that yes, this is trivial and then invokes WP:ALLORNOTHING. A quick look through the category shows that only one of the articles listed under A even mentions "Huguenot" (outside of this category), and the one that does makes no mention of how or through whom, and lacks references to indicate Huguenot ancestry April 18
Category:Antique instruments Rename to Category:Antique musical instruments. I have also moved all Stradivarius articles into a new Category:Stradivarii. There were several other suggestions that were made as well, but none of them had clear consensus, while some form of the above two moves did. Additional subdivision by Stradivarius instrument or age of antique can be done editorially. (Non-admin closure.) April 18
Category:Arab Air Carriers Organization rename April 27
Category:Argentine footballers in Turkey delete April 14
Category:Argentine ministers merge April 26
Category:Argentinian bobsledders rename April 30
Category:Articles with permission confirmed delete April 23
Category:Articles with permission confirmed rename for consistency, per consensus April 8
Category:Artificial Life researchers rename to Category:Researchers of artificial life April 10
Category:Asper family delete April 15
Category:Attractions in Fairfield County, Connecticut rename to match parent and other "visitor attraction" categories. If a rename of all visitor attraction to tourist attraction categories is wanted, please nominate them April 14
Category:Australian people by states and territories relisted on april 29 April 23
Category:Australian people by states and territories rename April 29
Category:Australian rules coaches close discussion; Category:Australian rules coaches does not exist April 28
Category:Australian Walkley Award winners no consensus as to keep or delete; rename per nom, feel free to renominate it to deal with the OCAT issues April 10
Balkan collaborators rename all April 14
Category:Bands with female lead singers delete April 27
Category:Banking technology solutions rename April 1
Category:Bellamy Brothers songs rename April 13
Category:Birmingham, England keep April 22
Category:Black autobiographies rename Category:Black autobiographies to Category:African American autobiographies April 8
Category:Blogs critical of Judaism delete April 8
Category:Bonesmen delete. While not exactly like the Masons, it is similar. This is, for all intents and purposes, a Yale student society, and precedence calls for the deletion of such. There is also a well-annotated list which does a good, if not better job, of listing the members April 2
Category:Books about Jesus delete April 9
Category:Books by Arthur Koestler no consensus April 7
Category:Brazilian footballers in Turkey delete April 14
Category:British Australians delete April 29
Category:British people in China no consensus. Remember, when you take this to DRV, that consensus is not vote counting. Carlossuarez brings up a very valid point about this being a "current" category. Per the definition at Expatriate, this would include Brits in China temporarily, and does not further define what "temporary" means. So yes, this could include Gordon Brown when he goes to the Olympics. And yes, I know almost all of the subcats of Category:British expatriates are in the form of "British expatriates in foo", and yes, I'm all for consistency, but there is no point in consistency if everything is consistently wrong (or ambiguous, or subjective, etc). Am I saying all of the expat categories need to be renamed? No, of course not. But a firmer definition of expatriate would be helpful for the renaming of this category April 7
Category:British Rail Class 37 delete April 26
Category:British Rail Class 57 delete April 26
Category:British Rail Class 66 upmerge, doesn't look like the articles will be deleted April 26
Category:Brown v. board rename to Category:United States school desegregation case law April 16
Category:Burials at Fair Haven Union Cemetery upmerge to save information until wider discussion can be held April 26
Category:BY Dra variables merge April 11
Category:California Speedway delete April 2
Category:Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the United States no consensus. A little bird (or more accurately, a big English bloke) said that category intersects are being tested now, and it seems that they could be here really quite soon. No need for stuff like this then April 8
Category:Canadian football club statistics rename April 30
Category:Carrie Underwood delete April 26
Category:Cases involving Justice Cardozo keep April 12
Categories:People by race or ethnicity rename all April 20
Category:Category:Nebraska Cornhuskers centers upmerge April 10
Category:CCCP Fedeli alla linea no consensus. See "Musician cats - A" above April 11
Category:CCTV speedy delete per creator's comment below April 6
Category:Cedar Hill noteables rename April 22
Category:Ch'an rename all April 13
Category:Characters in Dark-Hunters Series delete, move the two articles to Category:Fictional characters until a better subcat is found dur, move into Category:Dark-Hunter series and Category:Characters in written fantasy April 3
Category:Children's museums in New England upmerge to Category:Children's museums in the United States. Categories for specific states can be created as needed, and I note that at least a few have been created since this nomination. April 13
Category:Children's museums in New York City keep/repopulate April 8
Category:Christian Restorationists and Christian Zionists rename to Category:Christian Zionists April 7
Category:Cinema of Georgia merge April 21
Category:Civilian police agencies delete. "Just because people get confused is surely not a reason to not do something." Incorrect. If by creating this category, we create confusion, we should either fix it, or get rid of it. Per the definition found here, Civilian police are non-military police. In viewing Category:Military police, there are 4 subcats and 37 articles. So by definition, one can assume that by creating what is essentially a non-military police category, it will encompass everything in Category:Law enforcement agencies by country less those 4 subcats and 37 articles. That would seem to lend credence to the argument that this is mainly duplicative of the law enforcement category April 9
Category:Clockwise Figure Skaters delete April 29
Category:Cloverfield delete April 6
Category:Coastal settlements in Massachusetts keep April 3
Category:Collaborationists delete Category:Stalinist collaborators, rename Category:Collaborationists to Category:Collaborators during World War II occupations April 23
Category:Collaborationists relisted on apr 23 April 15
Collaborators relisted on apr 23 April 15
Collaborators rename April 23
Category:College Station-Bryan metropolitan area rename April 24
Category:Communist Romania keep, unless a common solution is obtained for all of the soviet states as mentioned in the discussion April 24
Category:Comparison of delete April 24
Category:Computer game user templates rename April 4
Category:Court cases litigated by the American Civil Liberties Union delete April 12
Category:Creepy Speedily deleted via CSD C1 - category empty - as well as WP:SNOW. No point keeping this pseudocategory hanging around April 1
Crime by city in the US rename all April 27
Category:Crime Mob delete April 27
Category:Crush 40 delete April 9
Cue sports celebrity amateur players delete April 10
Category:DADT rename to Category:Sexual orientation and military service April 2
Category:Dance Dance Revolution series rename April 2
Category:Dead wrestling superstars Delete April 7
Category:Demographics of Georgia rename all April 21
Category:Demon-based superheroes delete April 24
Category:Denial of Armenian Genocide Documents rename April 3
Category:Dharmic religions rename April 6
Category:Diesel Locomotives of Ireland rename to fix capitalization for now, as there seems to be a desire to rename the others to "diesel locomotives of foo". Another nomination of the others is probably in order April 26
Category:Discrete chips board re-delete, as the category is empty and I have no idea what was in it. If the original merge target, Category:Discrete video arcade games, needs renaming, nominate and tag it April 24
Category:Diss songs delete April 17
Dominican categories rename all April 24
Category:Don Imus delete April 21
Category:Don Schlitz songs delete April 22
Category:Dropouts delete. Has been listified at List of dropouts. Grab it before it gets AFD'ed April 29
Category:Dykes rename April 15
Category:EA Sports soundtracks delete, empty April 10
Category:Earthworm Jim characters delete April 16
Category:Eco-terrorism no consensus April 4
Category:Emergency medical responder levels delete, many of these are already listed at Template:Emergency medicine, the rest can be added April 15
Category:Emergency services of the United Kingdom speedy deleted by April 3
Category:English nobility delete April 6
Category:English-born footballers who played for other national teams no consensus April 9
Category:Environment of the United States by state rename to Category:Environment of the United States by state or territory April 8
Category:European Route of Industrial Heritage Anchor Points keep, although can someone check on the capitalization? It doesn't seem right, but I don't know enough about the subject to say if it's right or not April 24
Category:Evolution controversies delete April 10
Category:Expatriate footballers in England no consensus April 11
Category:Falkland Islands Christian missionaries delete April 23
Category:Family Guy episodes no consensus, and cats still not tagged April 30
Category:Fauna of Timor-Leste renamed already April 10
Category:Featured dinosaurs delete April 9
Category:Female pool players no consensus April 10
Category:Female pool players relisted on april 10 April 4
Category:Fictional atheists delete April 6
Category:Fictional kiwis rename April 12
Category:Fictional portrayals of Satan delete April 20
Category:Fictional single parents delete per consensus April 5
Category:Fighting game mechanics delete April 1
Category:Films about torture Delete April 16
Category:Final Fantasy: Unlimited images upmerge April 15
Category:Final Fantasy: Unlimited Delete April 15
Category:Flora and fauna in the Canary Islands rename April 14
Category:Florida street railroads keep April 23
Category:Fluid dynamicists keep April 23
Category:Football in Ireland rename April 10
Category:Football in Northern Ireland rename to Category:Association football in Northern Ireland April 10
Category:Football in the Republic of Ireland rename to Category:Association football in the Republic of Ireland April 10
Category:Footballers who served in the British Army delete April 4
Category:Fraudsters no consensus April 15
Category:French Muslims keep April 18
Category:G'$ Up delete April 27
Category:G-Unit Records articles with comments delete April 27
Category:Gaeltacht places in Canada delete April 29
Category:Gambrinus liga no consensus, main article at Gambrinus liga April 26
Category:Georgia (U.S. state) hurricanes keep April 4
Category:Gilmore Girls characters delete April 6
Category:Girls Sport Victoria (GSV) rename April 11
Category:Gospel music radio stations in the United States delete April 9
Category:Gymnorhina delete April 5
Category:Handball in Korea Republic rename April 14
Category:Hebrew Bible cities and countries upmerge April 10
Category:Helicopter manufacturers in Britain rename April 15
Category:Herbert Hoover High School (San Diego, California) alumni delete, how this is defining was not explained, nor are WP:OTHERSTUFF or WP:ALLORNOTHING particularly strong arguments April 14
Category:High Priority Free Software Projects rename to Category:High priority free software projects to remove capitalization (note: I guessed at what it should be, because as roundhouse noted, the nomination doesn't say what the rename to should be. Let me know if it's incorrect and I'll fix it) April 24
High school alumni (United States) delete, fails WP:V. Of the over 50 test articles I viewed, only one was sourced. Several of the articles did not even mention that the subject had gone to the school in question. If loss of information is a concern, the few that are sourced could be added to the school article April 21
Category:Hip hop albums featuring skits or interludes recorded through telephones or telephone answering machines rename per April 10
Category:History of The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonites) Nomination withdrawn'; creator created article and requested category be speedily deleted April 15
Category:Holocaust perpetrators Keep. April 15
Category:Homophobia in Jamaican music delete April 25
Category:Honorary British knighthoods relisted on april 29 April 22
Category:Honorary British knighthoods rename to Category:Recipients of Honorary British Knighthoods April 29
Category:Horticulture and Gardening project merge to Category:WikiProject Horticulture and gardening April 18
Category:Hudson Valley politicians remove the subcats as they are already in Category:New York politicians by County merge the articles per nom April 16
Category:Human trafficking nomination withdrawn and keep per consensus April 4
Category:Ideas delete April 1
Category:Images made obsolete by an SVG version rename April 1
Category:Images with permission confirmed delete April 16
Category:Immigrants by nationality rename April 4
Category:Indian Cinematographers' Society ( ICS ) This was speedy deleted at 21:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC) by April 2
Category:Indoor soccer players no consensus April 30
Category:Indy Pro Series drivers merge April 20
Category:Internet Radio (Westbury H.S) delete April 14
Category:Interurbans rename April 24
Category:Israeli footballers currently playing abroad rename April 13
Category:Israeli immigrants rename April 4
Category:Italian football logos no consensus. Incidentally, I have initiated a discussion about the 39 templates in Category:Italian football club logos at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football, since all of the template seem to be unused. April 7
Category:Jack Neo films rename April 19
Category:Japanese expatriate footballers merge both April 27
Category:Japanese style of gardening keep April 23
Category:Japanese voiced video games delete April 16
Category:Jazz samba musicians rename all April 19
Category:Joint venture G-Unit Records artists upmerge April 27
Category:Jubaeopsis upmerge to Category:Palms. April 6
Category:Kennedy Center Honors recipients rename with lowercase honorees April 1
Category:Killer cops delete as duplicate of Category:Police officers convicted of murder. — April 14
Kiribatian rename April 16
Category:Korean astronauts rename April 26
Category:Land-grant universities and colleges keep April 1
Category:Languages of Science delete April 29
Category:Law enforcement agencies of New South Wales in Australia close, already moved April 4
Category:Legal defence organizations no consensus on keep/delete, or even what to rename it to if kept. Rename per nom only to clear up british/american english inconsistency April 8
Category:Leisure activities keep while cleanup is performed, to be renominated at that time if necessary April 11
Category:LGBT state legislators rename April 29
Category:Libertarian science fiction writers delete April 30
Category:Life coaching keep April 2
Category:Lists of Victoria Cross recipients by name keep April 30
Category:Live-action/animated films no consensus April 7
Category:Local Government Areas of Darwin delete April 26
Category:LS-Studio's Shut Down speedy delete G7 as below April 11
Category:M.O.P. delete April 27
Category:Major British cities delete April 27
Category:Mallorca rename all April 14
Category:Marc Chagall keep for now until a navigational hub like a template is created April 26
Category:Marine corps rename April 2
Category:Mario Bros. locations merge April 22
Category:Massacres by Americans delete April 27
Category:Medicines delete April 1
merging Category:African American baseball players keep April 8
Category:Meta analysis rename April 30
Category:Metro Delete as a test creation two similar categories were created April 11
Category:Midwest rename for consistency with main article, per consensus April 9
Category:Military in the Bahamas merge for consistency, per consensus and extensive precedent April 9
Category:Mitsubishi Motors timeline templates delete April 18
Category:Monarchs of Canada Delete April 3
Monegasque keep, although Peterkingiron's idea of "foo of Monaco" has some weight April 11
Category:Mormon War rename April 21
Category:MR layout vehicles merge both to Category:Rear mid-engine, rear-wheel drive vehicles April 16
Category:MR layout vehicles relisted on apr 16 April 8
Category:MTG Delete as a test creation two similar categories were created.}} April 11
Category:Musical groups with siblings delete April 16
Category:Musical movements delete as empty. Yah, I know, I participated in this discussion, but as noted, it wasn't being closed. If anyone has a problem with my closing of this, let me know and I'll open it back up for another admin to close. April 4
Musician categories - A no consensus. There is a lot of precedent, but there are a lot of keeps here. (drive-by CFD'ing? Let's please assume good faith) Consensus can change, I recommend revisiting this issue on an larger scale April 11
Musicians X-Y no consensus. See "Musician categories - A" below April 11
Category:Mystic philosophy delete April 17
Category:NASL coaches rename to Category:North American Soccer League coaches April 30
Category:NASL players rename April 19
Category:National Lacrosse League templates speedily deleted by April 14
Naturalization in Australia categories keep the remaining four that are left. I'm removing the already-deleted to reduce confusion (check the history if you really want to know what they are) April 21
Category:Needed-Class articles keep April 14
Category:Neo-bop musicians delete April 18
Category:Neo-Creationism delete April 20
Category:Nepal artists rename for consistency, per consensus and extensive precedent April 7
Category:Never-electrified interurbans merge to Category:Interurban railways per the rename above April 24
Category:No Turning Back delete April 2
Category:Nolan Batman film series delete April 18
Category:Noosphere Delete April 20
Category:Norwegian artists who have sold 1 million+ records delete. April 11
Category:NPSL I rename all April 30
Category:Numbers in pop culture delete April 25
Category:One Man Army and the Undead Quartet albums keep. April 13
Category:Online Social Networks speedy delete per author request below April 9
Category:Orthodox martyrs rename all April 6
Category:Otsego County, New York people merge. — April 13
Category:OutKast songs rename all April 2
Category:People convicted of sex crimes relisted on apr 7 April 1
Category:People convicted of sex crimes upmerge to Category:Sex crimes and Category:Criminals. There are only two subcats in this, Category:Rapists and Category:Sex offenders by nationality. Many of the keeps seemed to be more concerned with the subcat of Category:Sex offenders by nationality, and the fact that this should remain as a super-cat. While Category:Sex offenders by nationality may have issues that need fixing, that falls outside of the scope of this CFD. In other words, both here and in the CFD that renamed this category people suggested fixing it, but it has not been CFDed. Waiting for someone to nominate it for fixing should not cause this to be postponed. As for the "fixing up" of this category into a super-cat, it's been two weeks since this was nominated, and the only fixing up has been the removal of I believe two articles. Nothing has been added to give value to the "super cat" argument. Keeping this around as is does nothing to help the problem, it just postpones the solving of it. No prejudice to recreation if/when this larger problem gets solved, and articles/subcats are found/written to support it April 7
Category:People from Denver already renamed/merged April 10
Category:People from Greenwich Village, New York delete, extreme overcategorization, subjective. Per nom, the article and the neighborhood, may be notable, but that doesn't mean that everyone who ever lived there is also (notable for living there) April 30
Category:People from Kano, Lagos rename Lagos, merge Kano to Category:People from Kano State April 22
Category:People from Manhattan keep April 2
Category:People from Mission rename April 27
Category:People from Riverdale, New York merge those with sources, remove the rest. There are two issues here, notability and verifiability. The articles without sources are simple, remove them. There are many that are in this category without a source, and many where the article itself makes no reference of Riverdale (and many that were added to the category while this was ongoing, also without sources). There is a bigger issue, IMO, about notability. Are people notable for where they lived? A very few yes, most no. Alansohn's suggestion of By this logic, merge them all to Category:People from Earth. is quite faulty. Where does it end? Can we categorize by what street someone lived on? How about what house? Which apartment (flat for you Brits)? And how much time must one have spent somewhere to be "from" there? The only answers are subjective, and none of them prove notability. Yes, that is a problem with all "People from" categories, I fully admit that. But that doesn't mean we can't deal with this one now. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. Otto brings up a good point, that categorizing by neighborhood adds more category clutter than is desired. Not every fact about a person needs to be a category April 30
Category:People from Rome (city) keep April 22
Category:Personal Autobiographies Speedy delete per CSD:G7 April 6
Category:Personal name puns delete April 20
Category:Petersfield Bookshop Delete April 16
Category:Philosophical Theology delete. April 13
Category:Photos by Somebody in the WWW delete April 21
Category:Police officer biographies delete April 9
Category:Political repression in Czechoslovakia rename to Category:Political repression in communist Czechoslovakia April 19
Category:Portuguese-Galician rename to Category:Galician-Portuguese language April 9
Category:Prehospital care rename April 3
Category:Presidents of the ABA rename per Vegas (which, incidently, is what I was going to do anyway :) April 10
Category:Princes of Belgium rename to Category:Belgian royal princes. The split to Category:Belgian royal princesses can be done as needed April 16
Category:Prisoners of the Taliban keep April 6
Category:Professional Sports Busts delete April 15
Category:Progressive jazz musicians delete April 18
radio personalities by city/state no consensus April 21
Category:Recipients of the Copley Medal no consensus April 30
Category:Registry cleaner software delete April 19
Category:Religion in Canada by provinice or territory speedy delete (author request) April 22
Category:Restricted law enforcement agencies rename April 9
Category:Rick Astley No consensus → Keep April 7
Category:River cities keep April 9
Category:Roman Catholic dioceses in Haïti rename April 17
Category:Rumiko Takahashi manga delete April 15
Category:Rumiko Takahashi delete April 15
Category:San Jose and Silicon Valley attractions delete April 19
Category:School massacres no consensus April 28
Category:Scientific theories delete April 1
Seasonal cuisine delete April 12
Category:Secondary operating systems delete. None of these are operating systems. The windows articles are already in Category:Discontinued versions of Microsoft Windows. And DOSBox is an emulator, already categorized April 18
Category:Sega Mega Mouse delete. April 13
Category:Seni Gayung Fatani merge April 2
Category:Shania Twain keep April 21
Ships by navy rename all April 14
Category:Shuttle-Derived Launch Vehicle rename to Category:Shuttle-derived launch vehicles April 9
Category:Silpathorn Award delete April 10
Category:Slovenian people keep April 2
Category:Special territories delete. No reason to keep outside of "good collection of articles", but does not explain why a category is needed. Would it be difficult to pull them together just be reading articles? Sure. But looking through the category, there is no definition of "special territories" to explain why you would want to pull these together, nor what even goes in this. Extremely subjective, and most likely OR April 18
Sports teams by city in the US rename all April 27
Category:Sportspeople who have served prison sentences Delete April 6
Category:St Mirren F.C. rename April 19
Category:Sterling research fellow delete. April 13
Category:Suicidal fictional characters delete per WP:SNOW and consensus April 4
Category:Suspected murderers Delete April 7
Category:Taiwanese Mandopop singer-songwriters no consensus, either here or at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Modern Chinese music, where a category discussion is underway April 15
Category:Tertiary Education Institute in New Zealand delete. Per the discussion, it is unclear if these should or even can be merged into Category:Universities and colleges in New Zealand. I'll leave that question for the pending(?) CFD on that category April 3
Category:The World's Most Dangerous Band members keep April 4
Category:Theatres in Québec already renamed and redirected April 3
Category:Things delete April 1
Category:To do, by priority delete April 4
Category:Tokyopop titles keep April 22
Category:Tower Mint 'delete April 30
Category:Toy Story voice actors delete April 19
Category:Tribal societies that have practiced cannibalism no consensus April 16
Category:Triumphal arches in Romania keep as part of a wider scheme, unless Romania has only one triumphal arch, in which case the issue ought to be revisited. April 12
Category:Turkish footballers in Germany merge April 23
Category:Turkish Genocide during World War I rename April 2
Category:United Nations Intelligence Taskforce no consensus April 27
Category:United States Navy air stations rename April 2
Unremarkable aircraft features keep April 6
Useless plant cats created by Bot merge all April 19
Useless plant cats created by Bot, Episode IV delete April 20
Useless plant cats created by Bot, Episode V per nom April 22
Userbox categories per nom April 6
Category:Utada Hikaru songs rename April 19
Category:Web games merge April 5
Category:Western Australian Football League rename April 29
Category:Western India Cinematographers' Association ( WICA ) This was speedy deleted at 21:54, 6 April 2008 (UTC) by April 2
Category:What do Monks Eat for Breakfast? delete April 9
Category:Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? delete April 5
Category:WikiProject Literature articles delete. Good call on figuring out the template April 17
Category:WikiProject PlayStation articles relisted on may 2 April 26
Category:WikiProject politics of the United Kingdom delete April 30
Category:Woodstock Era record Labels empty and delete. — April 14
Category:WWE Kings of The Ring delete April 20
Category:WWF albums merge both to Category:World Wrestling Entertainment albums April 12
Category:Xena: Warrior Princess Locations merge to Category:Fictional cities and towns, single article already in Category:Xena: Warrior Princess April 19
Category:Yacht rock delete April 5
Category:You Can't Do That on Television delete April 5
Category:Z Fighters merge April 26