Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2008 December index
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| Category:"Cooking By The Book" A Lil' Bigger Mix images | delete - not contested after five days | December 3 |
| Category:16th century Spanish people | rename | December 21 |
| Category:1994 NCAA Division I FBS football season | Delete per WP:CSD#G7. Original author requested deletion | December 10 |
| Category:1997 NCAA Division I FBS football season | Delete per WP:CSD#G7. Original author requested deletion | December 10 |
| Category:2010s technology | Delete | December 17 |
| Category:2R members | delete | December 29 |
| Category:Accidental killers | Delete | December 14 |
| Category:Acne | rename | December 19 |
| Category:AfD Debates withdrawn by nominator | delete | December 20 |
| African American basketball players | Keep - Please see Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2008 December 2 | December 2 |
| Category:African American figure skaters | Keep | December 16 |
| African American football players | rename both | December 12 |
| African Hockey players | rename to Category:Ice hockey players of Black African descent | December 11 |
| Category:Air Defense | Rename to Category:Anti-aircraft warfare | December 5 |
| Category:Albums produced by Ace Frehley | delete - not contested after five days | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by Adam Selzer | delete - not contested after five days | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by Bernie Andrews | delete | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by Bobby Irwin | Delete - not contested for more than five days | December 1 |
| Category:Albums produced by David Gest | delete - not contested after five days | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by Eddie Van Halen | delete - not contested after five days | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer | delete | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by Harry Maslin | Delete - not contested after five days | December 1 |
| Category:Albums produced by Jeff Bova | delete - not contested after five days | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by Level 42 | Delete - not contested for more than five days | December 1 |
| Category:Albums produced by Mike Curb | delete - not contested after five days | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by Neil Brockbank | Delete - not contested after five days | December 1 |
| Category:Albums produced by Paul DeVilliers | delete - not contested after five days | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by Pete Ritzema | delete - not contested after five days | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by Raimond Lap | delete - not contested after five days | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by Ronald Isley | Both deleted by stifle, NAC | December 8 |
| Category:Albums produced by Sean Delaney | delete - not contested after five days | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by The Balham Alligators | delete - not contested after five days | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by The Isley Brothers | delete - not contested after five days | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by The Sinceros | delete - not contested after five days | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by Tommy Lee | result | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by Van Halen | delete - not contested after five days | December 3 |
| Category:Albums produced by Yes | already deleted by | December 8 |
| Category:Alcoholism | Merge | December 16 |
| Category:Alexandra Burke songs | Keep | December 16 |
| Category:Alexandra Burke | Delete | December 16 |
| Category:Alone in the Dark characters | Delete - not contested after five days | December 10 |
| Category:Ambassadors of England | keep | December 24 |
| Category:Ambiguous place names | rename | December 20 |
| Category:American B-movie actors | Delete. I did consider the suggestion to upmerge, but some of the articles I checked are already listed in appropriate subcategories of the recommended merge target. So a merge would create a mess and might not really be needed except for a handful of articles, but there were none of these in my quick check | December 4 |
| Category:American film dancers | merge | December 11 |
| American football | Rename -- | December 7 |
| Category:American tax evaders | rename to Category:Americans convicted of tax crimes and encourage similar treatment for Category:Tax_evaders and its other subcategories via a follow-up nomination | December 10 |
| Ancient Christianity | Rename to Category:Ancient Christianity -- | December 2 |
| Category:Anime (date of release unknown) | rename. Though not mandated by consensus of this discussion, I'd agree with Peter's recommendation to change these categories to talk-page categories | December 26 |
| Category:Anthropomorphism by media | no consensus | December 15 |
| Category:Anti-Islam activists | no consensus to delete. Feel free to renominate for renaming if someone comes up with a suitable proposal for that | December 11 |
| Category:Arches in Oregon | delete (creator has merged all contents) | December 17 |
| Category:Armageddon | rename Category:Armageddon to Category:World Wrestling Entertainment Armageddon | December 15 |
| Category:Art by subject | no consensus | December 23 |
| Category:Artists by state | Rename | December 14 |
| Category:Association football commentators | rename | December 26 |
| Category:Atlanta, Georgia rappers | no consensus to rename, though I must say that the precedent for keeping the "CITY, STATE" format for U.S. cities in the context of categories has been very solidly established. Further exploration of the "prepositional object vs. compound attributive" issue could be worthwhile, however | December 11 |
| Category:Atlanta, Georgia | keep current name | December 11 |
| Category:Bannered Interstate Highways | rename | December 15 |
| Bayern Munich | rename | December 22 |
| Category:BBC people | keep current name. (Deletion was mentioned but not discussed; it could be in a further nomination.) | December 21 |
| Category:BBC | keep current name | December 21 |
| Category:Best Picture Academy Award Nominees | Delete | December 23 |
| Category:Bhumihars | Delete | December 4 |
| Category:Black Jews | keep, without prejudice to a renomination to rename it | December 20 |
| Border crossings | Rename | December 27 |
| Category:Boxers who have ducked mandatory challengers | no consensus to delete; rename for now to Category:Boxers who declined to defend their title, but this rename should not preclude a future re-nomination for deletion or renaming | December 21 |
| Category:Boxers who have ducked mandatory challengers |  Relisted at 2008 DEC 21. |
December 11 |
| Category:Brazilian Brazilian-Jiu-Jitsu practitioners | keep for now, though there seems to be a consensus for a general rename of all similar nationality categories, which can be done with a new nomination | December 18 |
| Category:Brazilian ice hockey players | delete | December 30 |
| Category:Bridges by continent | Keep | December 8 |
| Category:Bridges by traffic | rename to Category:Bridges by mode of traffic | December 8 |
| Category:Britain's lost houses | no clear consensus here on what exactly to do, though there is consensus for change, but not for a straight rename as proposed. Since category was not tagged throughout the CfD, I suggest we're better off closing this and starting from scratch. Someone please re-nominate with a solid proposal of what to do | December 6 |
| Category:Britannia High | delete | December 30 |
| Category:British war crimes | delete. The arguments of those in favour of deletion were convincing. The primary issue is the POV nature of labelling anything a "war crime" unless a court or tribunal has labelled it as such. The fact that other categories use the word is not a convincing argument to keep; on the contrary, it may be a convincing argument for those to be deleted as well. Add to this the fact that no other war crime category is classed by nationality of the alleged perpetrator, and there is a good case for deletion here | December 7 |
| Category:Brunei ice hockey players | delete | December 30 |
| Category:Business Intelligence,Bioethics | Delete | December 4 |
| Category:Camp Rising Sun Alumni | delete | December 17 |
| Category:Canadian Aces | delete | December 31 |
| Category:Canadian football players | Rename to Category:Players of Canadian football; disambig page created. -- | December 12 |
| Category:Canoers | rename | December 18 |
| Category:Cape Verdean American musicians | keep | December 28 |
| Category:Cape Verdean American sportspeople | keep | December 28 |
| Category:Capital Cities of the World | Delete | December 20 |
| Category:Capital One Citrus Bowl champion seasons | rename | December 22 |
| Category:Caribbean Community (organization) | keep and repopulate. Essentially what happened is someone manually changed Category:Caribbean Community (organization) to Category:Caribbean Community (organisation) out of process, i.e., without bringing it here. Perhaps this change is ultimately the correct thing to do, as discussed below, but we need to have a proper discussion on it if we're going to do it. So this change is without prejudice to a new nomination to propose moving Category:Caribbean Community (organization) to Category:Caribbean Community (organisation) | December 8 |
| Category:Casio digital watch detainees | dele... | December 26 |
| Categories for candidates | convert to an administrative category and include only in the administrative structure. I will move it there, but if users insist on having it as part of the main category structure by moving it back, the consensus here is to delete it as a "main structure" category and it may be speedily deleted by contacting me or another admin and referencing this CfD. Though not discussed, users should consider using the category only on talk pages, like many other administrative categories | December 17 |
| Categories named after companies | no consensus | December 24 |
| Category:Categories named after government agencies | no consensus | December 24 |
| Categories named after psychological traits | delete all but Category:Sadism per discussion. Category:Sadism deleted as empty | December 31 |
| Categories:(Item) in the Northwest Territories | Rename | December 27 |
| Categories:Bosnia and Herzegovin-born footballers who have played for either Croatia or Serbia/Serbia and Montenegro | Delete. However there is an expressed need to make sure that information is not lost so this will be handled as a merge. Category:Serbian footballers from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Category:Serbians of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent and Category:Croatian footballers from Bosnia and Herzegovina to Category:Croatia international footballers and Category:Croatians of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent | December 24 |
| Categories:Canadian Halls of Fame inductees | rename all | December 10 |
| Categories:Fooian-born football (soccer) players who have played for other national teams | delete | December 24 |
| Categories:Foreign-born footballers who have played for Fooia (national team) | delete | December 24 |
| Categories:Foreign-born United States political figures | merge all | December 29 |
| Categories:G.A.A. All Star Awards winners by year (football) | rename all, but expand abbreviation in all. There is a great deal of precedent which supports the expansion of abbreviations in category names, regardless of the resulting length of the category name. This is not even a borderline case because the abbreviation in this case is ambiguous and its meaning is not widely known outside of a particular geographical area. That a category name is "too long" is also an entirely subjective standard on which to base a decision of what name to choose. | December 5 |
| Category:Category:Cape Verdean American politicians | keep | December 28 |
| Category:Celebrities who were victims of aviation accidents | merge | December 22 |
| Category:Celebrity Writers | delete | December 22 |
| Category:CFL's Most Outstanding Canadian Award | rename to Category:Canadian Football League Most Outstanding Canadian Award winners | December 19 |
| Change "D&D" to "Dungeons & Dragons" | Rename | December 20 |
| Chaotic articles categories | Delete all, categories were empty more than 4 days. G8 also applied as they were dependent on a redlink project. NAC | December 8 |
| Category:Charlton Athletic F.C. Reserves Managers | Rename | December 1 |
| Category:Chicano rappers | rename | December 8 |
| Category:Chinese Jeet Kune Do practitioners | keep | December 18 |
| Category:City demographics | delete (no opposition) | December 23 |
| Category:City tours | Already deleted NAC | December 17 |
| Category:Civil Air Patrol Equipment | Delete. — | December 28 |
| Category:Civil Air Patrol Wing Commanders | Delete | December 26 |
| Category:Civil defense organisations based in the United Kingdom | Rename | December 2 |
| Category:Collections of the Getty | no consensus | December 14 |
| Category:Companies listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange | Relisted at 2009 JAN 5 |
December 28 |
| Conquistadors | Multiple actions. The word 'conquistadores' will be changed to 'conquistadors'. The combined categories will be split into two. There is still an issue with Category:German conquistadores which I think may result in a split. However in this close it will be a rename and anyone who wishes is free to create Category:German explorers and populate that. If as a result Category:German conquistadors becomes empty it can be nominated for speedy deleteion without coming back here. I think I covered all of the points raised | December 7 |
| Category:Conservatives | delete (many problems with category have been indicated and those favoring keep do not agree on how to use/define the category) | December 30 |
| Category:Contributors to Bloggingheads.tv | no consensus | December 20 |
| Category:Controversial films | speedy delete (and salted) as re-created material. Has been previously deleted under various names here, here, here, and here | December 14 |
| Category:Coor * templates needing repair | delete all as deprecated | December 27 |
| Category:Cornish footballers | no consensus | December 24 |
| Category:Cornish people | no consensus (sigh) | December 24 |
| Category:Cornish rugby union footballers | no consensus | December 24 |
| Category:Corporate welfare recipients | delete | December 16 |
| Category:Cowon | delete | December 13 |
| Category:Crash Bandicoot characters | delete (list article upmerged) | December 17 |
| Category:CRGS Headmasters | delete. (If anyone's working on listifying, the two articles in it at the time of deleteion were Samuel Parr and Percy Shaw Jeffrey.) | December 23 |
| Category:Cruise missiles by operator | Delete -- | December 12 |
| Category:Culinary Heritage of Switzerland | no consensus | December 21 |
| Category:Culinary Heritage of Switzerland | Relisted at 2008 DEC 21 |
December 12 |
| Category:Culture-related lists | merge | December 21 |
| Category:Dance shoes styles | delete | December 24 |
| Category:Deaths by IDF | rename. While there is consensus to rename, there is no consensus on what to rename to, even after relisting. As such, I'm going to take Vegas's suggestion and just rename to Category:Deaths by the Israel Defense Forces in order to expand the acronym. If it's desired to hash out whether this should contain civilian or military, all people or just non-Palestinians, either renominate this for further renaming or use a hatnote | December 26 |
| Category:Deaths by IDF | relisted' at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 December 26 | December 15 |
| Category:Defunct airlines of East Germany | Keep | December 3 |
| Category:Defunct airlines of West Germany | Keep with no prejudice to the appropriateness of West Germany's being considered a "defunct state". -- | December 3 |
| Category:Delisted S&P/TSX 60 companies | delete | December 20 |
| Category:Dexter's Laboratory characters | delete | December 26 |
| Category:Digital Revolution | Delete | December 1 |
| Category:Disease-related charities | delete; article redirects are harmless. category redirects have their own inherent problems, and Cgingold is correct, this is pretty specific to type in, making it unlikely that someone would do so. If it were to fix a typo, that would be one thing, but it's not | December 14 |
| Category:Diseases | Merge to Category:Diseases and disorders. -- | December 2 |
| Category:Disney landmarks | delete | December 31 |
| Category:Disney Movie Rewards eligible film | Delete | December 6 |
| Disused brands | merge to Category:Defunct brands for now. Feel free to nominate again if a rename of the combined category is desired | December 11 |
| Category:Divisions | rename to Category:Divisions (military units), mainly because the groups discussion was closed by adopting the parenthetical. But as nominator has stated, an additional discussion can take place if someone is unhappy with this name as opposed to some of the other options | December 3 |
| Category:Doctor Who serials on DVD | delete | December 10 |
| Category:Dominican volleyball clubs | Rename | December 16 |
| Category:Dr. Strange Records albums | Merge to Category:Dr. Strange Records albums -- | December 3 |
| Category:Dragon Ball superhuman characters | delete. ··· | December 13 |
| Category:Drawn Together episodes | Delete —Preceding unsigned comment added by Magioladitis (talk • contribs) | December 20 |
| Category:Dungeons & Dragons articles that need to differentiate between fact and fiction | keep/withdrawn | December 18 |
| Category:Earls by courtesy | merge Category:Earls by courtesy to Category:Courtesy earls | December 19 |
| Category:Ek$i Sözlük Contributors | Delete -- | December 10 |
| Category:ELearning 2.0 | Deleted | December 17 |
| Category:English footballers who have played in Northern Ireland | delete | December 20 |
| Category:English footballers who have played in Scotland | delete | December 18 |
| Category:English footballers who played in Ireland (before 1923) | delete | December 20 |
| Category:English people of Cypriot descent | no consensus; broader nomination would seem to be desired for action to be taken on these | December 21 |
| Category:Entertainment cliques | delete | December 23 |
| Category:Entities involved in late 2000s global financial crisis | delete | December 30 |
| Category:Ethnic groups in the history of Romania | rename for now; feel free to nominate for deletion to have a fuller discussion on whether it should exist | December 20 |
| Category:Ethnikos Piraeus players | rename | December 22 |
| Category:Evangelical cathedrals of the United States | Merge | December 9 |
| Category:Excel Saga characters | delete (no objections; only one article in category and it was for a real person, not a character) | December 20 |
| Expatriate footballer triple-intersections | upmerge to "Expatriate footballers in Y" and delete | December 23 |
| Facelifts by year | delete | December 8 |
| Category:Family films | delete | December 28 |
| Category:Featured in the Super Robot Wars Series | no consensus on delete; rename to to Category:Anime featured in the Super Robot Wars series for clarity | December 12 |
| Category:Female boxers | rename (no opposition) | December 23 |
| Category:Fictional rodent species | delete (no opposition) | December 20 |
| Category:Fictional seals and walruses | keep current name | December 20 |
| Category:Fictional tyrants | delete | December 11 |
| Category:Films Produced Through Project Greenlight | delete; already listified | December 14 |
| Category:Folk Heroes | delete | December 28 |
| Category:For Better or For Worse | Delete | December 15 |
| Category:Former LGBT organizations in the United States | keep but renamed to Category:Defunct LGBT organizations in the United States | December 15 |
| Category:Former television stations in Houston, Texas | Upmerge to Category:Defunct terrestrial television stations in the United States. -- | December 6 |
| Category:Fuze | rename to Category:Images of explosives fuses | December 17 |
| Category:Gay directors | no consensus | December 10 |
| Category:Gay porn directors | rename to Category:Directors of gay porn | December 10 |
| Category:Geek holidays | merge to parents; placed in manual work queue which anyone is welcome to perform | December 7 |
| Category:General Magic employees | delete | December 15 |
| Category:German-Speaking Stars and Statesmen abroad | delete | December 29 |
| Category:Getty Museum | Rename to Category:J. Paul Getty Trust -- | December 5 |
| Gibraltarian emigrants | no consensus | December 19 |
| Category:Graduates of Houston ISD | Delete | December 4 |
| Category:Halfricans | Deleted: CSD G10: Attack Page - Non-admin close | December 4 |
| Category:Hatashe | delete | December 9 |
| Category:Heroes' Days | relisted on jan 7 | December 15 |
| Category:Hillsong | rename | December 16 |
| Category:Hong Kong children | keep | December 29 |
| Category:Horrid Henry episodes | Delete | December 6 |
| Category:Horror film directors | Delete | December 21 |
| Category:House of Jayata | delete (empty) | December 22 |
| Category:Hungarian players of American soccer | Upmerge to Category:American soccer players | December 15 |
| Category:IHF Awards | rename | December 16 |
| Category:Independence Day | delete | December 25 |
| Category:Indian adult models | no consensus to delete (few comments) | December 28 |
| Category:Indian district templates | rename; requested by creator and no opposition | December 16 |
| Category:Indian porn stars | no consensus to delete (few comments) | December 28 |
| Category:Indonesian ice hockey players | delete | December 30 |
| Category:Information industries | delete (no opposition) | December 23 |
| Category:Information scientists | delete, per agreement of creator | December 15 |
| Category:Innuendo songs | Delete | December 21 |
| international football (soccer) category pages missing disambiguate '(soccer)' | Rename -- | December 3 |
| Category:Interstate highways concurrent with another numbered highway in its entirety | listify | December 19 |
| Category:Introductions | Speedy close Premature nomination, wait until it's empty if at all. Non-admin closure | December 24 |
| Category:Isley Brothers albums | Rename | December 3 |
| Category:Isley Brothers songs | Rename | December 3 |
| Category:ISP in Indonesia | Merge to Category:Internet service providers of Indonesia -- | December 3 |
| Category:Italian senator ( Kingdom of Italy ) | rename to Category:Senators of the Kingdom of Italy | December 23 |
| Category:Ivor Novello Award winners | withdrawn by nominator. The more I have read up on this award over the past day or so the more inclined I am to think that it's more "prestigious" and notable than I had been suggesting. I'm fine with keeping this as an award category. (I'm a little surprised that the WP article does not better reflect the nature of this award.) | December 3 |
| Category:Japanese occupation money | rename | December 31 |
| Category:Jeet Kune Do practitioners by nationality | keep | December 18 |
| Category:Jewish American musicians | no consensus | December 20 |
| Jin Yong categories | Rename | December 1 |
| Category:Judicial appointment controversies in the United States | rename | December 15 |
| Category:Judicial nomination and appointment in the United States | Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close | December 15 |
| Category:Kanon characters | delete | December 10 |
| Category:Kilinochi District | delete as duplicate | December 28 |
| Category:Knockoff companies | delete. Nominator's assessment of the POV nature of the category appears to be accurate | December 22 |
| Category:Kurdish Turkish people | Renameto category:Turkish people of Kurdish descent. There was consensus to rename, however to what is at issue. Using the normal form of the name here fixes a few problems, but not everything raised in the discussion. I suggest that if this target is not acceptable, that the editors involved take this discussion to a related talk or project page to see if there is a better solution. If in the end one is found, we can renominate. In any case, this closing does not prohibit a renomination the near future | December 30 |
| Kyiv-Mohyla Academy | Rename | December 15 |
| Category:Latino Urban artists | speedy delete, G5 | December 19 |
| Category:LDU Quito footballers | no consensus (perhaps a broader nomination would be in order) | December 19 |
| Category:LGBT actors from individual countries | Upmerge to multiple categories. While there was much discussion, consensus for this redistribution seems to be clear. I think the fact the the Wikiproject has been discussing this and the proposal seems to support the direction that they are moving in | December 15 |
| Category:LGBT Puerto Ricans | merge, removal of incorrectly categorized articles can be done at any time | December 10 |
| Category:LGBT-related lists of films | rename | December 30 |
| Category:LGBT-related lists of television episodes | delete without prejudice to re-creation if more lists are created in the future | December 22 |
| Category:LGBT-related lists | rename all | December 22 |
| Category:Lincoln, England | rename as nominated | December 2 |
| Category:List of media covering a topic | delete | December 21 |
| Category:Locks on the Hertford Union Canal | Delete | December 7 |
| Category:Losing major party presidential nominees | delete. Vegaswikian's rationale is compelling | December 16 |
| Category:Lost settlements | merge/rename to Category:Former settlements and Category:Former settlements in Foo. As requested, recreation of Category:Lost settlements permissible for those settlements that are truly "lost". Recreation of the subcats doesn't seem logical, since if it's "in Egypt", for example, it's not really lost | December 20 |
| Lower Colorado River Valley flora categories | merge all to Category:North American desert flora | December 16 |
| Category:Lymphoid skin diseases | rename (also in-line with other recent consensus changes to category disease names) | December 28 |
| Category:MacGyver | delete | December 19 |
| Category:Machine guns by caliber | keep all (batch close of parent and subcategories listed below) | December 31 |
| Category:Major gay pornographic studios | rename | December 12 |
| Category:Major league baseball players by team | rename all (wikipedia has been around since 1876??) | December 27 |
| Category:Malaysian Artists | SPEEDY DELETE, miscapitalized, already emptied and replaced by properly named category | December 6 |
| Category:Manhattan Transfer albums | Rename | December 1 |
| Marijuana parties (it's not what you think) | rename | December 17 |
| Category:Martial arts practitioners by type by nationality | keep | December 18 |
| Category:Marvel Comics witches | no consensus. Honestly, I can't see much movement on this issue since the last CfD, primarily because no wave of new users participated in a discussion on the merits (and those who have opposed changes to the categories in the past have not modified their positions in any substantive way here, which acts to counterbalance those who support the changes). Just to be clear (and because the meaning of past closes for these categories have apparently been misunderstood), this discussion demonstrates that there is no consensus for renaming, deletion, or retention of the categories in question. Thus, they are kept "as is" by default | December 1 |
| Category:Members of the Anointed Quorum | Delete | December 3 |
| Category:Metrorail (Washington, D.C.) | Rename to match the main article | December 15 |
| Micropolitan area categories | rename all, but all "Kansas" disambiguator to the Manhattan one as suggested | December 17 |
| Category:Military facilities of the Soviet Union and Russia | rename. Bot will move all of these to the Soviet category but someone will have to create and populate Category:Military facilities of Russia manually | December 2 |
| Category:Minnesota Democrats | no consensus | December 24 |
| Category:Minor league baseball players by team in Oregon | upmerge and delete. Neier brings up an excellent point that not everyone knows where a team is based. Personally, if I knew the team name, such as the Peninsula Pilots, I would find it easier to quickly scan through a list of 300 or so rather than have to open up to 50 state subcategories looking for it. The nom is also correct that this is the only state that segregates the players by state | December 18 |
| Category:Misfits | rename (see also immediately above) | December 16 |
| Category:MLB players from Taiwan | rename | December 27 |
| Molluscofcountry | Relisted at 2008 DEC 17 per nominator's request |
December 11 |
| Molluscs of country | no consensus to delete after making lists, but there seems to be some consensus that some restructuring could be justified. Perhaps if those knowledgeable in the areas created some lists and/or a new categorization scheme, a renomination could occur. Once other users have an alternative to compare the current structure with, it might be easier to decide what is preferred | December 17 |
| Category:Monégasque Orchestras | Rename. There was no opposition and the caps need fixing so renaming makes sense. As to the 'é', generally there has been support to avoid the use of these characters so it is reasonable to make this change, again, given the lack of opposition | December 16 |
| Category:Monospace typefaces | Rename to Category:Monospaced typefaces. -- | December 3 |
| Category:Montenegro border crossings | Rename | December 16 |
| Category:Movies based on Tuticorin | delete | December 16 |
| Category:Multilingual World Leaders | delete | December 30 |
| Category:Multiracial actors | Delete | December 26 |
| Category:Multiracial musicians | Delete | December 13 |
| Category:Multiracial people by national origin | delete (no opposition and in line with past deletion of other "multiracial" categories | December 23 |
| Category:Musicians from Dallas | Rename to Category:Dallas, Texas musicians. There is agreement to add Texas, so some type of rename is justified. The form in the nomination seems to be used in all of the places I checked so I'm going with that. If anyone wants to get a rename to the later suggested form, feel free to do so on a broader basis | December 15 |
| Category:Narada albums | Rename NAC | December 2 |
| Category:Narada artists | Rename Non-admin closure | December 2 |
| Category:Narada songs | Delete | December 2 |
| Category:Narada | Delete One article doesn't really need categorisation. | December 2 |
| Category:National Basketball Association expansion draft picks | keep for now, mainly because of the existence of the subcategories. If someone wants to listify these and then nominate them all for deletion, that would be ideal. (They could be nominated prior to listification, but if listification is the result, which seems likely given the comments below, the categories won't be deleted until they are listified.) | December 15 |
| Category:National MPs new in 2008 | Delete | December 15 |
| Category:Nationalist terrorism | Keep at current name, noting a subcat could be created. -- | December 2 |
| Category:Net Navi owner | Delete | December 4 |
| Category:New Wave revival | no consensus. An article of the same name now exists. Whether or not it is a correct term is another issue. Feel free to nominate again if it is still thought that the article and the category are mis-named | December 11 |
| Category:New Year's Eve telecast hosts | Delete | December 2 |
| Category:New Year's on Television | Rename to fix capitalization - I'm not seeing any consensus on the other suggestions. -- | December 2 |
| Category:New Zealand Current Events | Delete | December 2 |
| Category:Nicknamed groups of soccer teams | Delete. — | December 3 |
| Category:Night-Sky Photography | Delete | December 16 |
| Category:No-go theorems | delete for now. Feel free to re-create under a different name for the appropriate purpose | December 22 |
| Category:Nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States of America | rename | December 15 |
| Category:Northern Rock Foundation Writers Award Winners | Delete | December 16 |
| Category:Northwestern artists | Delete | December 14 |
| Category:Norwegian television | rename all | December 10 |
| Category:Nuclear power station owners and operators | merge 3 categories as nominated. Category:Nuclear power companies in the United States can be nominated separately for renaming to "of" standard | December 26 |
| Category:Old Rhodians | rename | December 8 |
| Category:Old Victorians | Withdrawn by nom | December 8 |
| Category:One Piece characters | Delete | December 1 |
| Category:Open formats closed by software patents | no consensus | December 8 |
| Opera companies by country | No consensus to rename -- | December 1 |
| Category:Paraguayan ice hockey players | delete | December 30 |
| Category:Parishes of Cornwall | rename these 4; without prejudice to the outcome of the other CfD started | December 15 |
| Category:Parishes of Europe | do not rename | December 28 |
| Category:Parishes of North America | do not rename | December 28 |
| Category:Parishes of the United Kingdom | no consensus to rename. (There was no support expressed for the proposed renaming and those who did comment expressed only the sense that they saw no need for change.) | December 28 |
| Category:Parishes of Wales | withdrawn by nominator. Close is without prejudice to a future nom for renaming along the lines of the ideas in the discussion | December 28 |
| Category:Parishes | rename ones in England as nominated; no action on rest. (Note: w.r.t. Peterkingiron's comment, please re-nominate Winchester for reversion to the original name if it's determined that this is indeed an inappropriate name for this one.) I'm closing the rest as a purely technical close because of the difficult of discussing them all together. In other words, this close is without any prejudice to future discussions on them. Clearly, these need to be discussed individually on a by-county (or at least by-region) basis, so re-nomination on this basis is encouraged. Rather than me relisting them all, I think things would go smoother if users research the usage in a particular area and then decide whether or not to re-nominate for a name change. Because of the nature of the close, no notation recording this nomination will be placed on the category talk pages | December 16 |
| Category:Patristics | keep; no merge. Feel free to renominate for a name change | December 9 |
| Category:People by alphabet | delete | December 28 |
| Category:People convicted of alcohol-related driving offenses | delete Category:Politicians charged with alcohol-related driving offenses, no consensus on the two convicted categories. Yes, I know what the vote counts are, but as always, CFD isn't a vote count. There, that said, while three people here did want to keep the convicted categories, that is not in my mind enough to overcome the vast consensus of the other linked CFD's, and the fact that these are recreations of deleted content. Plus, the nominator is correct in that a drink driving conviction is not defining for Michael Phelps (or Ditka or Cheney or Ross, etc) | December 28 |
| Category:People from Greece | Delete | December 1 |
| Category:People from Hastings (district) | no consensus on original proposal, though it wasn't exactly the centre of the discussion. There seems to be some support for disambiguating the target category name to Category:Hastings, East Sussex; doing so would certainly be in line with recent precedents at CfD, but I think we need a new CfD specifically proposing that change so that the category can be appropriately tagged, etc. Once that issue is settled, I suggest that this proposal could be revived so we can reach a consensus on it | December 13 |
| Category:People from St Leonards-on-Sea | no consensus (see nomination directly above) | December 13 |
| Category:People of mixed Asian-Black African-European ethnicity | Delete | December 16 |
| Category:People with alcoholism | delete. Articles can be (very carefully) added to the "self-identified" category if there are sources that support the self-identification, but I will not do an automated batch merge since not all of them self-identify as such | December 22 |
| Category:Philadelphia Athletics seasons | rename (no opposition) | December 26 |
| Category:Philosophical comics | delete. (What, no "Marmaduke"?) | December 8 |
| Category:Philosophy Comparisons | relisted on jan 5 | December 29 |
| Category:Pilots That Attacked Pennemunde | delete | December 30 |
| Category:Pius popes | delete | December 28 |
| Category:Players with NFL and CFL careers | Delete -- | December 7 |
| Category:Plymouth | Clear consensus to rename, w/ Category:Plymouth, Devon being preferred. -- | December 2 |
| Category:Points of Interest in the Quad Cities | Rename to Category:Visitor attractions in the Quad Cities -- | December 1 |
| Category:Pokémon video game mechanics | Delete | December 16 |
| Category:Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers (PRTRs) | rename to Category:Pollutant release inventories and registers. I guess alphabetical always works when we have no other guidance | December 7 |
| Category:Popular support for the European Union | Delete -- | December 7 |
| Category:Post-apocalyptic science fiction films | rename | December 16 |
| Category:Prehistoric Romania | merge | December 19 |
| Category:Prehistoric Serbia | merge (as below) | December 19 |
| Category:Presidents of CAF | Rename | December 15 |
| Category:Protest tactics | keep; no merge. Incidentally, category was not tagged for CfD, but since the consensus was keep, no harm done this time | December 8 |
| Category:Public schools sex abuse scandal | rename to Category:School sex abuse scandals | December 24 |
| Category:Quilt museum | rename to plural | December 28 |
| Category:Railway station closings by year navbox templates | already deleted as empty | December 23 |
| Category:Railway stations in Tamilnadu | Speedy delete by Prodego as empty category. NAC | December 3 |
| Category:Ratchet & Clank characters | upmerge; only contents was list | December 10 |
| Category:Reamonn | delete (no opposition) | December 24 |
| Category:Republican culture | Delete | December 11 |
| Category:Richmond, California ships | rename | December 16 |
| Category:Right-wing Populist Parties | Delete | December 23 |
| Category:Rivers of the San Francisco County, California | Rename to Category:Rivers of San Francisco County, California. The case has been made that this is part of a series. All of the rivers in the bay area are grouped by county so there is no reason to make an exception for this one case. I'll also add that at the time of closing the category had 8 articles and one redirect | December 20 |
| Category:Rutgers Law - Newark alumni | Rename to Category:Rutgers School of Law - Newark alumni | December 1 |
| Category:Satu Mare demographics | delete (no opposition) | December 23 |
| Scholars | complicated. Rename Anglo-Saxon, Feminist, Islamic, Middle East, and Religious per DGG. No consensus for Classical scholars, noting an outstanding classics v. classical issue and the subcategories issue. For clarity, this should probably be re-nominated either by itself or with its subcategories. Keep Biblical, Etruscan, Legal, and Pre-Columbian at their current names. -- | December 1 |
| Category:Scottish footballers who have played in England | delete | December 9 |
| Category:Scottish Sports Hall of Fame | Rename to Category:Scottish Sports Hall of Fame inductees -- | December 3 |
| Category:Scouse culture of the early '80s | no consensus, but as a minimum fix name to Category:Scouse culture of the early 1980s for clarity and per standard WP decade reference | December 22 |
| Category:SecuROM protected software | delete (no objections over 5 days+ and appears to be a fairly trivial feature of software) | December 19 |
| Category:Semitic people | Merge to Category:Semitic peoples | December 5 |
| Category:Sex | no consensus to merge. (How is it possible that a category named Category:Sex only generated comments from one other user?) | December 13 |
| Category:Shoals in Oregon | merge Category:Shoals in Oregon to Category:Landforms of Oregon | December 17 |
| Category:Shopping centres in Avon | keep current name. Feel free to nominate again if someone comes up with "a better means of categorising things ... in the former county" | December 14 |
| Category:Showgirls appearing as Ziegfeld Girls | Rename to Category:Ziegfeld Girls. -- | December 11 |
| Category:Skulduggery Pleasant | Delete -- | December 7 |
| Category:Small cars | delete | December 27 |
| Category:Smalll wind turbines | Delete | December 1 |
| Category:Soccer players from Washington (state) | no consensus | December 17 |
| Category:Social and Behavioural Sciences | Delete | December 4 |
| Category:Social movements | keep; no merge. Again, the category was not properly tagged for discussion | December 8 |
| Category:Sociopaths | delete | December 8 |
| Category:Solid Gold Dancers | delete | December 11 |
| Category:Solidarity | rename category:Solidarity to Category:Solidarity (Polish union movement) and Category:Solidarity activists to Category:Solidarity (Polish union movement) activists. A requested move for the Solidarity article is likely in order too | December 9 |
| Category:Songs by Howard Barnes | rename to Category:Songs with lyrics by Howard Barnes and Category:Songs with music by Don Robertson | December 24 |
| Category:Songs covered by Alanis Morissette | Merge | December 6 |
| Category:South African ice hockey players | delete | December 30 |
| Sportspeople by state | rename all as test case, as Mayumashu seems to support this as part of a broader rename | December 24 |
| Category:St Kilda | rename | December 20 |
| State people by occupation | Rename | December 14 |
| Category:Strike | rename to Category:Strikes (protest) as a preliminary means of disambiguating. I acknowledge that there wasn't a clear consensus for this name, but there was consensus that it had to be renamed to something. So if anyone still protests (har-har) this wording, feel free to re-nominate with another suggestion. All can probably agree that this rename is not a perfect solution (perhaps this is a product of the category being a borderline categorization by shared name) | December 8 |
| Category:Strikes | rename to Category:Strikes (martial arts) | December 8 |
| Subcategories of Category:Civil parishes in Cheshire | wait until April 2009 to redistribute articles and then propose deletion of these ones as empty/superceded | December 28 |
| Category:Supreme Commander | delete | December 20 |
| Category:Syracuse neighborhoods | rename | December 24 |
| Category:Syracuse streets and neighborhoods | delete (empty). Follow up nomination here | December 19 |
| T-School | Merge Category:Indian T-school to Category:Indian Institutes of Technology. Delete Category:T-school | December 6 |
| Category:Taiwanese ice hockey players | delete | December 30 |
| Category:Tanakh stubs | Close. This ain't Wikipedia: Stub types for deletion, which is where this proposal should be, per the instructions at the top of WP:CFD. Take it there. | December 2 |
| Category:Tanks of the post-Cold War period | do not rename | December 31 |
| Category:Tanzanian ice hockey players | delete | December 30 |
| Category:Tar sands | rename to Category:Bituminous sands and Category:Bituminous sands of Canada. (I'm interpreting the discussion on this compromise as applying to both categories—the general parent and the "of Canada" one. If I'm wrong about that, someone who was involved in the discussion please let me know) | December 14 |
| Category:Tax fraud | no consensus to delete; rename to Category:Tax evasion for now per discussion below, but the naming could be re-opened if desired b/c there is no strong consensus to rename here | December 19 |
| Technology by decade | delete | December 17 |
| Category:Teen idols | speedy deleted by Gb as recreation of previously deleted content | December 4 |
| Category:Televised sex/chat line | Rename | December 5 |
| Category:Texas State Cemetery burials | rename; can be re-nominated for deletion | December 22 |
| Category:Thailand National Artists | rename (no objections here either) | December 30 |
| Category:The Balham Alligators albums | Never mind, didn't know that | December 3 |
| Category:The Beatles people | delete for now, but if someone objects to the name in the future this discussion should not be used as a "precedent" for rename consensus due to the unusual way the process unfolded. A redirect can be created by any user if desired | December 17 |
| Category:The Emperor's New Groove franchise | delete | December 20 |
| Category:The High Crusade | delete (+ housekeeping: single article The High Crusade added to Category:Films based on science fiction novels) | December 25 |
| Category:The King of Queens characters | keep; but rename to Category:The King of Queens episodes. If articles on characters get consolidated, the characters category may be reconsidered | December 15 |
| Category:The Longest Journey characters | Delete | December 4 |
| Category:The Misfits | rename/merge (see also immediately below) | December 16 |
| Category:Theatres in the United States | no consensus | December 27 |
| Category:Theatrical flops | delete | December 30 |
| Category:Third Level Gaa Teams | rename | December 17 |
| Category:Tomb Raider characters | delete | December 10 |
| Category:Topics in ufology | Merge | December 4 |
| Category:UFO-related phenomena | Keep | December 31 |
| Category:UK Retailers that went bust after the financial crisis of 2007-8 | delete/create list. This is the kind of thing that will be way easier to assess in hindsight with a bit of time passage since the events in question, but for now | December 30 |
| Category:UNO Mavericks football players | Rename | December 1 |
| Category:Uzbek diplomats | Rename | December 15 |
| Category:Vardar Skopje players | rename | December 30 |
| Category:Venezuelan ice hockey players | delete | December 30 |
| Category:Villages in Kollam District | rename | December 18 |
| Category:Villages in Northern Estonia | delete. (Merged to Category:Villages in Estonia, just to be sure.) Category was tagged for 5 days+ | December 20 |
| Category:Villages of Bangladesh | delete | December 20 |
| Category:Vishakapatnam | merge; retain redirect | December 12 |
| Vocal ranges | delete (now empty; this was completely out-of-process, but there have been no objections to the manual rename so far. Because of its nature, this should not be used as a "precedent" of any sort.) | December 19 |
| Category:Walking in the UK | already SPEEDY DELETED | December 2 |
| Category:Washington | rename to Category:Washington (U.S. state) | December 28 |
| Category:Waste power stations | Proposal withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close | December 21 |
| Category:WCSN affiliates | rename (no opposition) | December 30 |
| Category:Wenatchee metropolitan area | rename Category:Wenatchee metropolitan area to Category:Wenatchee-East Wenatchee metropolitan area to match main article naming | December 17 |
| Category:West German footballers | keep | December 10 |
| Category:Weymouth | Rename | December 10 |
| Category:Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway | delete (no opposition) | December 24 |
| Category:WikiProject Ophthalmology articles | administrative close: nothing left to do, as | December 31 |
| Category:WikiProject Ophthalmology | procedural close; already deleted | December 31 |
| Category:WikiProject Prison Break participants | moved to 2009 JAN 2 WP:UCFD. | December 23 |
| Category:WikiProject Prison Break | rename to Category:WikiProject Prison Break task force. Inclusion of "WikiProject" at least is non-negotiable for such categories. I've adopted the standard WP approach to capitalization, but if it's somewhere determined that "Task Force" should be capitalized in such categories, this should be changed | December 23 |
| Category:WikiProject Religion work groups | Keep w/ nominator's approval. -- | December 10 |
| Category:WikiProject Spirit | Speedy deleted as CSD#C2. | December 29 |
| Category:Wildflowers of Texas | Deleted Non-admin closure | December 17 |
| Category:Wine by country | do not merge | December 27 |
| Category:Worcestershire Regiment officers | keep. (But certainly not a "speedy keep" since there is no bad faith and the issues involved are at least debatable and probably subject to differing viewpoints. "Test" nominations happen all the time where single categories out of an extensive category scheme are nominated, so there's nothing improper or "senseless" with what the nominator did here in that respect.) | December 29 |
| Category:Xian Expatriate footballers in Y intersection | delete, this is being emptied as the results of the above CFD are being carried out | December 23 |
| Category:Zoroastrian Dynasties & Rulers | rename to correct caps and ampersand; will leave question of possible deletion for later | December 29 |