| Category |
Decision |
Discussion_log
|
| Category:'Great Landowners' |
delete as non-defining and also empty |
May 25
|
| Category:-importance articles |
delete |
May 7
|
| Category:1. FC Nürnberg players |
rename, kept as a redirect. Bots will move the names over in due course |
May 23
|
| Category:2012 Summer Paralympics |
Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close |
May 29
|
| Category:24 articles consisting mainly of plot information |
Rename categories: |
May 1
|
| Category:9/11 images |
rename |
May 11
|
| Category:A.J. Raffles |
delete |
May 11
|
| Category:Acadian |
merge Category:Acadian to Category:Acadian people |
May 21
|
| Category:Activewear |
delete |
May 23
|
| Category:African Americans |
no consensus |
May 1
|
| African-American categories |
rename all to match general lack of a hyphen for this on WP |
May 16
|
| Category:AIDS reappraisal |
delete |
May 9
|
| Category:AIDS-related LGBT deaths |
merge both |
May 25
|
| Category:Al Khalifa |
rename to Category:House of Khalifa |
May 12
|
| Category:Albert Edelfelt |
copy the images to commons and delete the empty categories |
May 19
|
| Category:Albums in the 33⅓ series |
Close. No consensus. Clearly neither main position was to keep as is. Consider relisting for new discussion, and make it clear up front what is being proposed |
May 12
|
| Category:Albums produced by Bryan Adams |
delete. Per the discussion, "songs produced by foo" would be a better fit for the song or two that he has produced; "albums produced by" is misleading. On another note, categories are not used to give someone their due, nor should we be concerned with blows to anyone's self-esteem because there is no category about part of their life/career. And finally, the problem with the scheme pointed out by otto and seconded by roundhouse regarding multiple "album produced by" categories on a single album |
May 5
|
| Category:Albums produced by James Stroud |
delete per consensus below, regardless of the pre-emptive emptying of the category before the discussion was closed |
May 25
|
| Category:Albums produced by Kyle Lehning |
delete, and empty anyway |
May 26
|
| Category:Albums produced by Robert Ellis Orrall |
delete per consensus below, pre-emptive emptying of the category notwithstanding |
May 29
|
| Category:Alien (franchise) lists |
Withdrawn with consensus to keep. Non-admin closure |
May 26
|
| All sub-categories of Category:Concert tours |
rename all |
May 19
|
| Category:Alpinists |
merge. – |
May 21
|
| Category:Alumni and faculty of Saint Petersburg Technological Institute |
rename. Feel free to split apart the faculty articles at your leisure |
May 4
|
| Category:Alumni of South Ural State University |
rename |
May 4
|
| Category:Alumni of St. Petersburg Polytechnical University |
rename to Category:Saint Petersburg Polytechnical University alumni |
May 4
|
| Category:Alumni of St. Petersburg State University |
rename to Category:Saint Petersburg State University alumni |
May 4
|
| Category:Alumni of the University of Vienna |
Merge |
May 17
|
| Category:Ambassadors to China |
keep |
May 6
|
| Category:American noise rock groups |
merge |
May 8
|
| Category:American Pie films |
delete |
May 3
|
| Category:American propaganda films |
keep |
May 2
|
| Category:American-Irish people |
delete |
May 18
|
| Category:Americans in Germany |
Merge per nom. I am taking no position on the delete, but it is clear that there is no consensus to keep two categories. If anyone wants to propose a deletion of the remaining category after the merge, feel free to do so. My close is in no way an objection to deletion if there is consensus for that which is not present in this discussion |
May 17
|
| Category:Americans of German-Irish ethnicity |
Delete |
May 17
|
| Category:Amorites |
Keep |
May 22
|
| Category:An American Tail |
delete |
May 3
|
| Category:Anarchists by nationality |
amusing keep |
May 1
|
| Category:Ancient temples |
delete, having recategorized the remaining article |
May 19
|
| Category:Angry Black Man |
Speedy delete as vandalism |
May 13
|
| Category:Anti-car organizations |
delete |
May 6
|
| Category:Anti-racists |
rename |
May 2
|
| Category:Anti-submarine missiles of Australia |
No consensus |
May 13
|
| Category:Antique albums |
rename both |
May 19
|
| Category:Appeared on "Later with Jools Holland" |
listify to List of performers on Later with Jools Holland. – |
May 20
|
| Category:Arab Citizens of Israel |
Merge Category:Arab Citizens of Israel and Category:Arab Israelis to Category:Arab citizens of Israel. This discussion was open for 17 days and it appears that at the end, the consensus was moving to this result. Clearly there was a strong consensus to merge with some issues as to which way to go. Also there was discussion on the problems with the name of one of these. After this merge is completed, if there are strong feelings about the name, then a less complicated rename proposal can be made without all of the side issues, it should be simply a choice between the two. The fact that we had a main article swayed how I looked at this |
May 7
|
| Category:Argentina record labels |
rename. – |
May 14
|
| Category:Argentine emigrants to Brazil |
Rename |
May 13
|
| Category:Armed Forces in Hawaii |
merge. – |
May 24
|
| Category:Articles needing coordinates from November 2007 |
Speedy delete as an empty maintenance category |
May 3
|
| Category:Arts Boarding School |
delete |
May 23
|
| Category:Ashanti (singer) |
delete per precedent and absence of growth |
May 23
|
| Category:Assault on Precinct 13 |
delete |
May 1
|
| Category:Attractions in Hartford County, Connecticut |
rename |
May 1
|
| Category:Attractions in Indianapolis |
rename |
May 4
|
| Category:Australian cinema lists |
merge |
May 23
|
| Category:Australian drug lords |
merge |
May 12
|
| Category:Australian mobsters |
merge to Category:Australian criminals |
May 9
|
| Category:Auto racing competitions in Mexico |
Merge |
May 16
|
| Category:Avant-garde metal |
rename |
May 7
|
| Category:Bábí individuals |
rename |
May 4
|
| Category:Back to the Future locations |
upmerge |
May 3
|
| Category:Bad images |
Rename |
May 13
|
| Category:Bahá'í individuals |
rename all |
May 4
|
| Category:Balochi musician |
rename. — |
May 5
|
| Category:Banjax Studios |
delete, empty |
May 4
|
| Category:Barbarians |
delete |
May 6
|
| Category:BBC Young Musician of the Year |
delete |
May 1
|
| Category:Bear Island |
delete |
May 20
|
| Category:Beverly Cleary book characters |
rename |
May 27
|
| Category:Beverly Cleary |
delete |
May 27
|
| Category:Big Fish Studios |
delete |
May 23
|
| Category:Bill Clinton appeals-court nominees who were never confirmed |
delete |
May 25
|
| Category:Bionicle characters |
delete |
May 6
|
| Category:BKN |
delete |
May 10
|
| Category:Black Canadians |
no consensus |
May 1
|
| Category:Black Catholics |
Delete |
May 22
|
| Category:Black Nova Scotians |
no consensus |
May 1
|
| Category:Blacks and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
rename |
May 2
|
| Category:Blockbuster novels |
delete |
May 23
|
| Category:Blue October UK songs |
delete, empty |
May 26
|
| Category:Branches of Han People |
rename |
May 2
|
| Category:Breeders' Cup Distaff winners |
Rename |
May 17
|
| Category:Brest Province |
merge |
May 9
|
| Category:British military personnel of the Transvaal War |
rename |
May 9
|
| Category:Canada's Sports Hall of Fame |
rename to Category:Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductees. – |
May 14
|
| Canadian Soccer Leagues |
rename to the suggested title. One seems as good as the other |
May 22
|
| Category:Canadian songs by artist |
rename to Category:Songs by Canadian artists. Otto's arguments are very persuasive. If these are songs by Canadian artists, and even Bearcat says that "a work by a Canadian artist is released in the United States doesn't make it an American work ... it makes it a Canadian work", then in order to keep the information intact and keep the size of Category:Songs by artist lower, it should be named as such |
May 7
|
| Category:CanWest Global Communications |
rename |
May 11
|
| Category:Carly Smithson albums |
keep. "Yes it is", in this situation |
May 26
|
| Cat:Anglo-Indians, etc. |
rename Category:Anglo-Africans to Category:African people of British descent and Category:South African people of British descent to Category:Anglo-South African people, leave Category:Anglo-Indians alone but needs cleanup |
May 6
|
| Categories for Canadian soccer |
rename all |
May 4
|
| Categories: Protected areas, National Forests, National Monuments, bird sanctuaries, wildlife sanctuaries of/in the United States |
No change per this concurrent debate on the subject |
May 9
|
| Categories:(Defunct) United States soccer clubs |
Rename |
May 16
|
| Categories:Brazilians by ethnicity/national origin |
Rename. If someone feels strongly about deleting, bring that up in a new nomination. I changed one target from 'Austrialian descent' to 'Australian descent' |
May 21
|
| Categories:Fooian-Germans to Germans of Fooian descent |
rename all. I've changed "Germans of Bosnian descent" to "Germans of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent" per Darwinek (and Category:People of Bosnian descent). – |
May 18
|
| Categories:Santa Catarina |
rename all to use Santa Catarina (state). – |
May 19
|
| Category:Category maintenance templates |
merge both into Category:Category namespace templates |
May 12
|
| Cats:Fooian(-)Booians to Cats:Booians of Fooian descent for Angola, Belgium, Brunei, Bulgaria, Cambodia, China, Costa Rica, Colombia, Croatia, and Cuba |
rename all except Category:Iraqi Cubans, which will be deleted. I made one change: "Lithunian descent" → "Lithuanian descent". – |
May 24
|
| Category:Caucasian languages |
rename |
May 1
|
| Category:Central midfielders |
upmerge |
May 12
|
| Category:Chicago GSB alumni |
rename. – |
May 20
|
| Category:Chieftains of the Dúnedain |
no consensus |
May 4
|
| Category:Child actors |
Keep |
May 17
|
| Category:Child characters in written fiction |
keep |
May 27
|
| Category:Chizu Express |
Keep per consensus |
May 24
|
| Category:Churches and Spiritual Centers by denomination |
delete |
May 24
|
| Category:Cities and towns in |
delete |
May 10
|
| Category:Cities named after London, England |
delete |
May 23
|
| Cities named after X in the United States |
delete all |
May 23
|
| Category:Cities named Apamea |
delete |
May 23
|
| Category:Closed railway stations in Ireland |
merge. – |
May 24
|
| Category:Clubs and societies in Canada |
No consensus |
May 13
|
| Category:Coastal cities in Israel |
keep. Since a number of comments referenced the fact that this category is part of a larger sub-categorisation scheme, this 'keep' closure does not preclude a nomination of the entire Coastal cities category tree. – |
May 20
|
| Category:College radio stations in Georgia |
upmerge to Category:College radio stations in the United States |
May 25
|
| Commonwealth Games medalists |
keep, aka oppose renaming |
May 10
|
| Category:Commonwealth of Independent States Cup winners |
delete |
May 5
|
| Category:Companies based in Henderson |
rename |
May 8
|
| Category:Companies based in Las Vegas |
rename |
May 8
|
| Category:Constitution Party |
rename all |
May 27
|
| Category:Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame inductees |
Delete |
May 18
|
| Category:Conway Public Schools |
delete |
May 14
|
| Category:Country tours |
rename |
May 4
|
| Category:CPSL players |
merge to the n dash title |
May 24
|
| Category:Darkwave groups |
Rename |
May 19
|
| Category:Deathgrind groups |
rename. – |
May 20
|
| Category:Defunct AFL teams |
rename |
May 13
|
| Category:Descendants of Queen Victoria |
delete |
May 5
|
| Category:Disambig-Class XXX articles |
procedural close; 1) a change this major needs more than the nom and one comment. 2) what categories, exactly, are being nominated here? I'm not about to go check everything that starts with "Category:Disambig-Class" and ends in "articles". And from the lack of discussion, neither is anyone else. If relisting is desired, please list all of the categories you want renamed. If you don't know how, ask me. 3) Due to #2, I can't tell if any of the categories have been tagged. |
May 9
|
| Category:Disambig-Class XXX pages |
keep. The current consensus here is to use "pages", not "articles", so this CFD can be closed. I don't want to do a 357-category rename with no other input, however (you'd be very surprised as to what people think is "controversial" around here (or maybe you wouldn't be surprised, how long have you been around?)). Either way, please nominate the "articles" categories for renaming. Check the CFD bot-list for help with the tagging (my bot isn't designed for that, but I know at least one other is) |
May 1
|
| Category:Ditchley Foundation |
delete |
May 10
|
| Category:Don't you believe it! |
delete |
May 2
|
| Category:Eastern Orthodox churches |
split as suggested by Johnbod |
May 12
|
| Category:Economic simulation games |
rename |
May 23
|
| Category:Economy of Arizona |
keep |
May 6
|
| Category:Ecotaxes |
delete |
May 7
|
| Category:Educational institution disambiguation |
relisted on may 16 |
May 2
|
| Category:Elfen Lied songs |
delete |
May 29
|
| Category:Elmbrook School District |
delete |
May 7
|
| Category:English debaters |
delete |
May 3
|
| Category:English Regency |
relist to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 May 30 to determine which of the proposed names is better. – |
May 24
|
| Category:English-Sierra Sierra Leonean people |
rename |
May 7
|
| Category:Ents |
no consensus |
May 4
|
| Category:Establishments by United States executive order |
no consensus. Wow, a true category for discussion. Unfortunately, there wasn't much discussion. I'm not sure what a no consensus decision would be here, as the question posed was "is it worthwhile?" I guess we'll go with the safe route and keep it for now. Maybe it can be populated and made less vague-like, and if not, it can always be re-nominated in the future |
May 5
|
| Category:Evolution by organism |
Rename |
May 17
|
| Category:Executive orders of George W. Bush |
keep all |
May 22
|
| Fair use → Non-free |
rename all |
May 19
|
| Category:Fathers rights activists |
rename |
May 3
|
| Category:FBI Wanted Fugitives |
merge with Category:Fugitives wanted by the United States |
May 9
|
| Category:FC Luzern players |
Rename |
May 15
|
| Category:Female golfers |
Keep |
May 14
|
| Category:Fictional characters by name |
delete |
May 27
|
| Category:Fictional child molestation victims |
Delete. It's 5-to-4 to delete, but CfD is not a vote. Delete based on strength of arguments. Deletion arguments are more clearly based on policy and precedent |
May 13
|
| Category:Fictional children |
keep |
May 13
|
| Category:Fictional professions |
rename to Category:Fictional occupations |
May 3
|
| Category:Fictional quarantine zones |
delete |
May 3
|
| Category:Fictional species |
Rename to Category:Fictional life forms |
May 17
|
| Category:Fiji Islander swimmers |
rename |
May 18
|
| Category:Films made before the MPAA Production Code |
no consensus |
May 7
|
| Final Fantasy character categories |
delete both. – |
May 14
|
| Category:Finnish GLBT celebrities |
Delete. This should have been speedied |
May 21
|
| Category:FIU Golden Panthers football players |
rename. – |
May 19
|
| Category:Foorian people to Cat:Fooian peoples |
rename all |
May 2
|
| Category:Formerly stateless persons |
merge to Category:Stateless persons |
May 6
|
| French by ethnicity or national origin |
rename all. – |
May 13
|
| Category:Fugitives wanted on sexual assault charges |
rename |
May 9
|
| Category:Game show card games |
delete |
May 9
|
| Category:Game show card games |
not tagged until today, relisted on may 9th |
May 2
|
| Category:Gaming operating systems |
delete. With one exception (Category:Game console operating systems), there is no need to upmerge. – |
May 19
|
| Category:George W. Bush administration controversies |
Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close |
May 25
|
| Category:George W. Bush Administration scandals |
merge |
May 7
|
| Category:Georgia actors |
rename and redirect |
May 10
|
| Georgia again |
rename all |
May 3
|
| Category:German Christian Democrat politicians |
Split per nom |
May 17
|
| Category:Gil Grand songs |
delete |
May 7
|
| Category:Government of India Ministries and Departments |
Rename |
May 13
|
| Category:Grandchildren of Paul I of Russia |
Listify |
May 15
|
| Category:Grandchildren of Victoria and Albert |
Listify |
May 15
|
| Category:Heavy industry companies of Norway |
Delete |
May 21
|
| Heavy metal categories |
rename all |
May 8
|
| Category:Hemostatic agents |
rename |
May 23
|
| Category:High School Sports |
merge, redirect |
May 10
|
| Category:History of Tampa |
rename |
May 25
|
| Category:Hollywood's Rock Walk inductees. |
delete |
May 5
|
| Hospitals |
rename all |
May 9
|
| Category:Image galleries |
no consensus |
May 4
|
| Category:Images by User |
Delete |
May 22
|
| Category:Images of rappers |
keep |
May 31
|
| Category:Images uploaded by userFugitivedread |
delete |
May 9
|
| Category:Images with fair use claims |
Delete |
May 17
|
| Category:Indian-Irish |
rename |
May 9
|
| Category:Irish (Gaeilge) language speakers |
delete |
May 12
|
| Category:Irish of Iraqi descent |
merge both to Category:Irish people of Iraqi descent |
May 9
|
| Category:Israeli revolutionaries |
delete |
May 11
|
| Category:Italian-Irish people |
rename after removing all miscategorised articles. – |
May 19
|
| Category:Jat people tribes |
merge both to Category:Jat clans to match article (Jat People does not exist) |
May 2
|
| Category:Jewish astronauts |
no consensus |
May 9
|
| Category:Jewish fundamentalism |
delete |
May 8
|
| Category:Jews and Judaism by country |
no change |
May 16
|
| Category:Kings of Dale |
no consensus |
May 4
|
| Category:Knitting Machine companies who make Automobiles |
delete |
May 11
|
| Landforms of Achill Island |
merge |
May 5
|
| Category:Latin American and Iberian Britons |
no consensus. This seems to be a very large mess, which will require much manual work before a solution can be found. Regardless of which way this should go, deletion or renaming, or splitting, some people need to be removed based upon what descent they are from. I recommend doing this prior to a re-nomination |
May 9
|
| Category:Lead actors in Paul Verhoeven films |
Delete. Consensus is clearcut |
May 18
|
| Category:Left wing activists by nationality |
delete |
May 9
|
| Category:Left wing activists |
delete |
May 9
|
| Category:Liberals |
keep, though keeping this as a high-level category seems like a good compromise |
May 13
|
| Category:Liechtensteinian princesses |
Rename |
May 13
|
| Category:Lilongwe |
Keep |
May 16
|
| Category:Limerick Vikings football |
delete |
May 5
|
| Category:List of fish on stamps of Afghanistan |
Delete |
May 17
|
| Category:List of people with Erdős-Bacon numbers |
Delete without listifying because list already exists |
May 17
|
| Category:Lists of ambiguous human names |
no consensus |
May 2
|
| Category:Lists of laojiaos in the People's Republic of China |
keep |
May 27
|
| Category:Live Phish |
speedied as duplicate |
May 14
|
| Category:Location map templates Netherlands |
rename. – |
May 19
|
| Category:Logic_articles_with_limited_philosophical_content |
delete |
May 8
|
| Category:Lutherans by profession |
rename, without prejudice to renomination to consider deletion (or, more precisely, upmerging to the parent category for the religion – in this case, Category:Lutherans) of this and similar categories. – |
May 15
|
| Category:Luxembourgian football players |
rename |
May 12
|
| Category:Mamballikalam Family |
delete |
May 11
|
| Category:Managerliness |
speedy delete as nonsense (CSD G1), a test page (CSD G2), or vandalism (CSD G3). At least one of the three criteria applies. – |
May 22
|
| Category:Manifestations of Yahweh |
Delete |
May 22
|
| Category:Massacres by country |
no consensus |
May 2
|
| Category:Massacres committed by the United States |
no consensus |
May 2
|
| Category:Mathematics-centric |
delete |
May 8
|
| Category:Mayhem (band) albums |
rename |
May 27
|
| Category:Mayors of Las Vegas |
rename all |
May 27
|
| Category:Medieval sites in Irael |
Speedy Delete per C1; Empty Category |
May 7
|
| Category:Members of the ETH Zurich |
merge. – |
May 20
|
| Category:Members of the United States armed forces |
merge |
May 25
|
| Category:Middle-earth food and drink |
no consensus (although feel free to move this to Category:Middle-earth redirects, which is just categorizing a category, and doesn't need CFD to do |
May 3
|
| Category:Middle-earth horses |
no consensus |
May 4
|
| Category:Middle-earth materials |
no consensus |
May 4
|
| Category:Middle-earth Orcs |
no consensus |
May 4
|
| Category:MILF Actress |
delete. — |
May 4
|
| Category:Military bases |
no consensus to merge |
May 23
|
| Category:Military facilities of the United States in Puerto Rico |
merge. – |
May 24
|
| Military facilities of the United States |
rename all. – |
May 24
|
| Category:Military facilities |
Keep, (also withdrawn by nominator) |
May 23
|
| Category:Military installations in New Jersey |
rename. – |
May 24
|
| Category:Military installations in Rockaway, Queens |
upmerge to Category:Rockaway, Queens. An upmerge to Category:Military in New York is not needed, since all three articles are already in the category or one of its subcategories. – |
May 24
|
| Category:Military of Puerto Rico |
rename. – |
May 24
|
| Category:Military Pay |
rename |
May 1
|
| Category:Mind sports |
Delete, but seriously, do not empty a category before CfD is complete |
May 19
|
| Category:Missing Children |
Delete. |
May 23
|
| Category:Monrovia |
no rename, in particular because the current category name matches the name of the main article |
May 22
|
| more cat pages for people by ethnicity |
keep (Foo people sounds good to me, personally. It keeps people from doing things like calling Peterkingiron a Britisher. Great Britainer? United Kingdomer of Northern Irelandisher and Great British? Whatever, you've all spoken.) |
May 2
|
| more ethnicity Cat pages for people |
no consensus |
May 1
|
| More personal image categories |
delete |
May 31
|
| Category:Muhajir |
no consensus |
May 1
|
| Musical groups |
rename all |
May 7
|
| Category:Musicians discovered on MySpace |
delete. For anyone who thinks that a list is viable and wants to create such a list, here is the list of articles that appeared in the category. – |
May 24
|
| Category:Muslim atheists |
no consensus. At first, knowing the definition of "Muslim" and "Atheist", I figured there was no reason for this category. But reading the keep comments, and the Cultural Muslim article, I've determined that there are in fact people who follow the practices not out of religious beliefs, but for other reasons, and therefore can in fact, be atheists as well. Neither side had particularly strong reasons for keeping or deleting, hence the no consensus. The strongest arguments from what I can see are the ones who wanted to rename it, but those opinions were few |
May 12
|
| Category:My Gym Partner's a Monkey |
Delete |
May 19
|
| Category:My Normal characters |
'Speedy Deleted as a hoax (non-admin closure). |
May 14
|
| Category:Name - Round 2 |
already taken care of |
May 3
|
| Category:Name |
Withdrawn |
May 3
|
| Category:Names of God |
Keep |
May 16
|
| Category:Names of gods |
Delete |
May 17
|
| Category:NASL teams |
Rename |
May 16
|
| Category:National field hockey teams |
no consensus |
May 4
|
| Category:Nationalists by nationality |
delete |
May 5
|
| Category:Natural Descendants of Louis XIV |
listify |
May 18
|
| Category:Naza |
delete |
May 10
|
| Category:Neighborhoods in Mexico City |
no consensus, default to keep |
May 14
|
| Category:New Grass Revival |
prune and rename. – |
May 24
|
| Category:Non Practicing Latter Day Saints |
delete. – |
May 24
|
| Category:Notorious B.I.G. albums |
rename |
May 31
|
| Category:Number 99 |
delete |
May 10
|
| NZ mass murderers |
keep |
May 1
|
| Category:Online music stores selling in Canada |
delete |
May 29
|
| Category:Parent categories |
keep |
May 13
|
| Category:Pascal, Blaise |
rename |
May 8
|
| Category:People assassinated by the Romanian Communist regime |
delete and drawingboardify per the discussion |
May 5
|
| Category:People from Chicago |
rename |
May 8
|
| Category:People from Dominica |
relisted on may 16 |
May 9
|
| Category:People from Dominica |
Rename to Category:Category:Dominica people |
May 16
|
| Category:People from Dublin |
rename |
May 8
|
| Category:People from Estevan, Saskatchewan |
Rename |
May 6
|
| Category:People from Lilongwe, Malawi |
keep. "No reason" isn't a great reason to change this and make it more difficult to understand. Are we trying to make this encyclopedia easy to use right out of the gate, or is clarity only something that is gained by prior knowledge or jumping through hoops? Only two of the four articles mention Lilongwe outside of this category, so Bearcat is wrong when he states that getting to the category from one of its articles has already clarified the context. And Good Olfactory is correct when he states that we should not take the worse of two options (true that if you don't know where Malawai is, "People from Lilongwe, Malawi" isn't going to help you, but that isn't a reason to screw the people who know where Malawi is but not Lilongwe) |
May 10
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| Category:People from São Carlos (city) |
rename Category:People from São Carlos (city) to Category:People from São Carlos. Unless São Carlos is somehow in need of disambiguation, there's no need to disambiguate the category |
May 19
|
| Category:People murdered in Mexico |
no consensus. – |
May 20
|
| Category:People of former countries |
no consensus |
May 23
|
| Category:People on British stamps |
delete |
May 9
|
| Category:People with spasmodic dysphonia |
delete |
May 13
|
| Category:Perodua |
delete |
May 10
|
| Personal image categories |
result. No need for these categories |
May 23
|
| Category:Philosophy of history |
reverse merge |
May 8
|
| Category:Playboy Cyber Girls |
Delete and salt |
May 19
|
| Category:Players who have played for Boca Juniors and River Plate |
delete |
May 23
|
| Category:Polish borders |
rename to match all others. — |
May 4
|
| Category:Political philosophies |
rename |
May 8
|
| Category:Polytheists |
delete |
May 6
|
| Category:Post-funk albums |
delete |
May 2
|
| Category:Presidents of the Italian Republic |
rename |
May 8
|
| Category:Presidents of the Russian Federation |
no consensus |
May 8
|
| Category:Proton (carmaker) |
delete |
May 10
|
| Category:Punk filmmakers |
Listify and Delete. Consensus is to delete. However it is reasonable to allow |
May 17
|
| Category:Punk houses |
delete |
May 17
|
| Category:Qazis |
rename to Category:Sharia judges |
May 1
|
| Category:Queensland Parliamentarians |
keep |
May 27
|
| Category:Queer studies |
Keep per consensus |
May 19
|
| Radio and television station categories |
delete |
May 10
|
| Category:Radio stations in Dickinson, North Dakota |
Close - no consensus. If no discussion, no consensus |
May 18
|
| Category:Radio stations in Medford |
Rename to Category:Radio stations in Medford, Oregon |
May 18
|
| Category:Radio stations in Minot, North Dakota |
Keep |
May 18
|
| Category:Railway stations in Canada by compnay |
rename |
May 2
|
| Category:Railway stations on Spikkestadlinjen |
Rename |
May 13
|
| Category:Regional Airline Association |
rename |
May 2
|
| Regional councils of Israel per WP:HE |
rename all |
May 8
|
| Renames of categories for National Parks, Protected Areas, related categories world-wide |
Keep - no change. There's too much opposition to this excessively complicated and confusing nomination |
May 13
|
| Category:Rhett Akins songs |
keep |
May 29
|
| Category:Rhythmic Oldies Stations |
Rename |
May 15
|
| Category:Robin Hood figures |
delete |
May 12
|
| Category:Roy Orbison |
delete as overcategorization by name per multiple precedents |
May 14
|
| Category:Royal Norwegian Navy ships captured by Nazi Germany during World War II |
Consensus to rename - but not directly to what the target should be. Indirectly, however, there were some key points that had distinct consensus |
May 17
|
| Category:Russian and Soviet film directors |
rename |
May 1
|
| Category:Russian White Emigration |
rename to Category:White Russian emigration |
May 2
|
| Category:Russian-South Koreans |
Rename Category:South Koreans of Russian descent per consensus |
May 14
|
| Category:Salt pans |
No Consensus to merge - I've done some "on-wiki" research concerning this. There seems to be, at least, a slight semantic difference between the two terms. (Further confusing the issue is Open pan salt making, which also uses the word "salt pan", but to describe a tool of sorts.) Salt flat currently redirects to playa. (Which was done back in 2004 by |
May 17
|
| Category:Saudi Arabian Heavy Industry |
delete. Category's empty anyway |
May 14
|
| Category:Saudi record labels |
no consensus to rename |
May 14
|
| Category:Saurothera |
delete (empty). – |
May 20
|
| Category:Scarlett Johansson albums |
keep |
May 11
|
| Category:Scottish Cubans |
Delete |
May 15
|
| Category:Screenshots of software with missing fair-use rationale |
delete |
May 11
|
| Category:Sexually transmitted infections |
Merge both to Category:Sexually transmitted diseases and infections. This addresses the fluid nature of the changing common usage of the subject. It avoids any confusion on what should or should not be in each category. This also addresses the concerns of the oppose comments that the two are not the same so the proposed merge would have been misleading by th category name. This rename also standardizes the naming, or grouping, in the template which appears to have consensus |
May 6
|
| Category:Shimizu Commercial High School footballers |
delete. The contents of the category are already listified at Shimuzu Commerical High School. – |
May 14
|
| Category:Ship disambiguation |
keep |
May 2
|
| Category:Signatories of "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism" |
delete. The main argument here is whether or not the category is a defining characteristic. Many of the keep reasons were refuted by stronger arguments. For example, the statements that the signatory is willing to add their name to a list of evolution denialists (Guettarda) and This is truly a list of importance to determine who is or is not an Evolution denialist. (Orangemarlin) were refuted by Not all signatories to this document are evolution-deniers. (Powers). The statement signing the petition is indicative of a general rejection of Methodological naturalism and thus the scientific method (Hrafn) is answered by Deciding that the signing of this document means something beyond the signing of this document is original research which cannot be used to justify the category. (Otto4711). The fact that anyone is willing to sign it is a defining characteristic of any petition (Odd Nature) may be true, but that is speaking of the petition itself, not why the category is defining for the articles that are in it, A petition may or may not be defined by its signers but signers are not defined by petition (Otto4711). There were a few keeps which did not give reasons for wanting to keep other than "it's defining", and several more keeps which didn't address the nomination at all, such as Filll's assertion that deletion is viewed as a black mark, and Paul McDonald's argument to keep because the category is more than a list, it's a category. Couple these refuted and tangential arguments with the few "per so-and-so", and it points strongly to deletion of this category. This is not to say that the information cannot exist at all. As was pointed out, a list does exist, and in fact is easier to maintain because the list can be watchlisted to see who is added or removed whereas a category cannot. It can also provide contextualization, for example, to show who asked to have their name stricken; again, a category cannot do this. A list is also a way to see all of the people, notable or not, who have signed a common document (Mareino) (which according to A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism, there are over 700 signatories, but there are currently only 29 people in the category). |
May 5
|
| Category:Signature songs |
Delete |
May 15
|
| Category:Sole survivors of aviation accidents or incidents |
delete |
May 25
|
| Category:Solomon Islander painters |
renamed by category creator. – |
May 24
|
| some category pages for British people by ethnic or national origin |
rename/merge all |
May 9
|
| Category:Songs by Tony Hatch |
rename |
May 25
|
| Category:Songs written by Gary Burr |
keep. Nominator withdrew his nomination |
May 18
|
| Category:Specific citation templates |
Merge |
May 15
|
| Category:St. Petersburg State University |
rename |
May 4
|
| Category:Star Wars languages |
delete. I've upmerged the one entry |
May 24
|
| Category:Story |
Delete both without merging text as article has been deleted |
May 18
|
| Category:Stradivarii |
rename to Category:Stradivari violins, feel free to create the cello cats whenever |
May 2
|
| Subcategories of Category:Non-governmental organizations by country |
no consensus, defaulting to keep as is. There does need to be consistency and some cleanup though |
May 7
|
| Category:Sugarland (band) members |
Rename all |
May 18
|
| Category:Superheroes without aliases |
delete |
May 9
|
| Category:Supervillains without aliases |
delete |
May 16
|
| Category:Supreme Court clerks |
rename to Category:Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States. – |
May 11
|
| Category:Swiss-Americans |
Merge to Category:Americans of Swiss descent. Clearly this seems to be the option with the most support and probably consensus. While this raises some concerns as pointed out by the discussion, I don't believe that it is sufficient to prevent a consensus move. I was going to nominate Category:Swiss Americans, to also be merged. But since that category is simply empty I'll change the cat redirect there |
May 13
|
| Swiss-German diaspora |
delete diaspora cat, no consensus on the rest |
May 4
|
| Category:Television networks by country |
close. There is support for this, as far as three people can be called consensus, which some people will question. Regardless, even though the three people here are ok with the mass rename, I know there are others who prefer "Fooish everything" (as opposed to "everything of foo"), and considering the severe lack of notification (one talk page notification and this cfd, which isn't exactly clear on what is going to happen), we should probably go through a proper CFD for the subcats (tag, nominate, etc). There is at least one bot (not mine) who can do a mass tagging, but I don't remember which one it is |
May 12
|
| Category:Television shows running 10 or more seasons |
delete |
May 5
|
| Category:Television stations in Bend |
Rename all per nom |
May 18
|
| Category:Templates for Railway Lines of Japan |
rename |
May 24
|
| Category:The Chronicles of Narnia creatures |
delete |
May 3
|
| Category:The Fast and the Furious films |
delete |
May 3
|
| Category:The Judds |
delete |
May 1
|
| Category:The Westfield Group |
merge |
May 7
|
| Category:Tower series |
delete |
May 23
|
| Category:Turkish communities |
delete per WP:SNOW and WP:BAN. This may be a little on the WP:IAR side, but seeing as how the sole comment supporting keeping this category comes from an indefinitely blocked sock of an indefinitely blocked/banned user, I am going ahead and deleting this category and closing this CfD |
May 28
|
| Category:Turkish footballers in The Netherlands |
multiple actions: upmerge Category:Turkish footballers in The Netherlands to Category:Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands, Category:Turkish expatriate footballers, and Category:Turkish expatriates in the Netherlands; relist Category:Turkish footballers in United Kingdom to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 May 30, since the category was not tagged; no action on Category:English-born footballers who played for Turkey. – |
May 24
|
| Category:U.S. Libertarian Party |
rename |
May 27
|
| Category:Ugartic kings |
Speedy delete per author request |
May 7
|
| Category:UK clothing and textile companies |
rename |
May 1
|
| Category:UK railway maps |
rename to Railway maps of the United Kingdom; no obivous consensus here but there seems no point in leaving it where it is |
May 24
|
| Category:United Kingdom shipbuilders |
rename |
May 9
|
| Category:United States executive orders |
rename subcats, keep parent |
May 5
|
| Category:United States federal commerce legislation |
no consensus |
May 4
|
| Category:United States government corporations |
Upmerge |
May 18
|
| Category:United States Marine Corps people |
rename |
May 25
|
| Category:United States National Film Registry |
rename |
May 8
|
| Category:Universities in Multan |
merge |
May 10
|
| Category:University of Maryland, College Park affiliates |
Delete - but how many times and how many different ways do we have to tell people not to empty categories before CfD is complete? |
May 19
|
| Category:University of Wisconsin alumni |
Keep |
May 19
|
| Category:US city buildings categories |
rename all. Whether this means "in the foo city limits" or "in and around foo", adding the state doesn't change it from one to the other. It simply means, "the city foo that is in state bar, not in any other state". |
May 6
|
| US city company categories |
rename all |
May 8
|
| Category:US City school categories |
rename all |
May 6
|
| Category:US clothing and textile companies |
rename |
May 1
|
| Useless plant cats created by Bot, Episode VI |
delete |
May 2
|
| Category:User:Thisisbossi/DYK |
delete |
May 11
|
| Category:Vampire superheroes |
delete |
May 11
|
| Category:Vegetarians by nationality |
keep |
May 6
|
| Category:Vehicle manufacturers |
close; not much to do. The only subcategory of "Vehicle manufacturers" is Category:Plug-in hybrid vehicle makers, containing only one article, Aptera Motors, which does in fact, make cars. Not saying this can't be recreated for "Lorry makers" or "Motorcycle makers", etc, but right now, it doesn't bear holding one subcat |
May 10
|
| Category:Victims of genocide |
rename |
May 7
|
| Category:Visitor attractions |
keep |
May 8
|
| Category:Wake me for Wikifun |
Delete - Note: The page has been marked historical, and (at the time of this closure) the userbox looks like it'll be joining the page |
May 7
|
| Category:Webzines |
Rename |
May 16
|
| Category:Welsh Labour |
rename to match article |
May 3
|
| Category:Westchester County New York, legislators |
speedy move. — |
May 2
|
| Category:Wikipedia WikiProjects |
no consensus for anything to be done at the present. Dividing into sub-categories doesn't require CfD anyway |
May 14
|
| Category:Wikipedia WikiProjects |
relisted on Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 May 14 |
May 8
|
| Category:WikiProject PlayStation articles |
rename |
May 2
|
| Category:Worcester |
that so long as the article is called Worcester (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) the category needs to match it. So that means WP:RM first, WP:CFD second |
May 16
|
| Category:Words considered as untranslatable |
delete. I am only partially merging the articles to Category:Language comparison. Category:Language comparison is intended for articles dealing primarily with comparison of languages or dialects. However, the article gerrymandering, for instance, is primarily about the concept and phenomenon of gerrymandering. Those articles which more directly include comparison of languages or information about translation issues I have recategorised. – |
May 24
|
| Category:Worker rights |
rename all |
May 3
|
| Category:WP Pakistan AoA |
delete |
May 2
|
| Category:Yugoslav Air Force airports |
rename |
May 27
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