| Category |
Decision |
Discussion_log
|
| Category:1971-72 South African cricket season |
Delete |
November 8
|
| Category:2008 hip hop albums |
delete |
November 22
|
| 5th millennium |
delete all. Without prejudice to creation of one of Peter's proposals (also without prejudice to a CfD on the category if it is created |
November 22
|
| Category:Afghan television |
no consensus. If this was meant as a test case and not just an isolated change, the level of participation suggests that this result should not preclude a future nomination |
November 17
|
| Category:AFOL |
delete |
November 14
|
| Category:African born philosophers |
merge |
November 5
|
| Category:Albums produced by Mike Ragogna |
delete |
November 1
|
| Category:Albums produced by Richard Bennett |
delete |
November 21
|
| Category:Albums produced by Richard Landis |
Delete |
November 19
|
| Category:Alleged sacrifice |
delete; without prejudice to the creation of Category:Human sacrifice |
November 5
|
| Category:Allopathic medicine |
delete |
November 15
|
| Category:American people of Muslim descent |
delete |
November 5
|
| Category:American people of Muslim descent |
Discussion closed; use Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 November 5#Category:American people of Muslim descent instead. Apparently this discussion was created by mistake while a previous discussion was still going on |
November 8
|
| Category:Americans of Hungarian descent |
delete, empty |
November 1
|
| Category:Ancient mysteries |
delete. While there is some desire to see this split, there is no direction in what to split to (or to how many). If I were to guess, I would say, based upon Alan's comment and already existing categories, Category:Archaeological artefacts and Category:Mythological places and possibly even Category:Mythological objects (and who knows what else, if any). Problem with that is none of those deal with "mysteries", and further, upon examination of several of the articles, they are already categorized as artifacts or mythological. If someone wants to be bold and recategorize the articles to these or to other new categories, I can provide a list of articles |
November 11
|
| Category:Ann Arbor music |
rename |
November 13
|
| Category:Argentine physicists |
Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close. It's worth noting that Category:Argentine scientists and all of it's sub-cats use "Argentine", not "Argentinian" |
November 27
|
| Category:Articles viewed more than 10,000 times a day |
delete |
November 16
|
| Category:Asian British expatriates in the United States |
merge to Category:British expatriates in the United States |
November 7
|
| Category:Attributes of African vocality |
delete |
November 19
|
| Category:August births |
Speedy delete as reposting of previously deleted material |
November 12
|
| Category:Australian political controversies |
no consensus to change "controversies" to "scandals", but rename to Category:Political controversies in Australia per Otto's suggestion for consistency with the scandals categories. Category:Political scandals in Australia could also be created, as suggested by others |
November 1
|
| Category:Bands named after places |
delete |
November 3
|
| Category:Baptist churches in the Republic of Ireland |
delete per my highly irregular comments below, which I'll try not to repeat (has remained empty) |
November 19
|
| Category:Battleships of Australia |
Speedy delete per CSD C1 |
November 27
|
| Category:Black British expatriates in the United States |
Upmerge to Category:British people of Black African descent and Category:British expatriates in the United States -- ☑ |
November 9
|
| Category:Bohemian F.C. international footballers |
delete as overcategorization (merge done just to be sure) |
November 18
|
| Category:Bohemian F.C. international footballers |
 Relisted at 2008 NOV 18 |
November 9
|
| Category:Books which are set within one day |
keep |
November 15
|
| Category:Bottle episodes |
delete |
November 7
|
| Category:Brazilian documentaries |
merge/rename all |
November 7
|
| Category:Bridges in Ivory Coast |
Ah, more untypeable characters. Gotta love it. Rename |
November 5
|
| Category:British Arabs |
rename |
November 24
|
| Category:British people of Indo-Guyanese descent |
Relisted at 2008 NOV 27 |
November 18
|
| Category:Buildings and structures by country |
keep. Create the other cat and split as desired |
November 4
|
| Category:Burial places for Prime Ministers of Canada |
listify. (Tagged for listification; may be speedily deleted when completed.) |
November 9
|
| Category:Bush (George Herbert Walker) administration |
rename |
November 5
|
| Category:BWF World Junior Championships |
rename |
November 5
|
| Category:Byronic heroes |
delete |
November 4
|
| Category:Canada's Walk of Fame |
delete |
November 13
|
| Category:Canals opened in 1792 |
upmerge |
November 15
|
| Category:CARICOM |
rename to Category:Caribbean Community (organization) |
November 11
|
| Categories:Northern Irish association football clubs and venues |
rename all. There's no "consensus" here, but as far as I can tell nominator is correct about the usage of the term in other articles and categories. If the change results in protests, a re-nomination is permitted |
November 9
|
| Categories:various Halls of Fame |
rename |
November 9
|
| Category:Centuries in Christianity |
rename all |
November 22
|
| Category:Cerberus class battleships |
Speedy delete per CSD C1: the category was empty |
November 27
|
| Category:Charleston-North Charleston metropolitan area |
rename |
November 19
|
| Category:Chinese British actors |
rename to Category:British actors of Chinese descent. Close is without prejudice to future CfD on deletion because of overcategorization concerns |
November 17
|
| Category:Christian groups and movements |
merge nominated category. Obviously, a future CfD would be needed to discuss sub-proposals A–E that were discussed |
November 13
|
| Category:Churches by continent |
rename all |
November 2
|
| Category:Cleopatra |
rename |
November 6
|
| Category:Cold War fashion |
delete |
November 1
|
| Category:College radio stations in Oregon |
no consensus |
November 7
|
| Category:Colleges Affiliated to Calicut University |
rename |
November 6
|
| Category:Columbia metropolitan area |
rename |
November 19
|
| Category:Commandants of the Marine Corps |
SPEEDY DELETE, empty, only author requested deletion |
November 10
|
| Category:Continuation High schools and secondary schools |
Withdrawn as nominator |
November 13
|
| Category:Cookies members |
rename to Category:Cookies (group) members |
November 3
|
| Category:Corinne Bailey Rae concert tours |
delete (empty) |
November 18
|
| Category:Corinne Bailey Rae |
Relisted at 2008 NOV 27 |
November 18
|
| Create subctegories, move most items to these |
none, but this needs closing. Discussion should continue at Category talk:Scientific societies#Continuing and further confusion; a proposal |
November 12
|
| Category:Debut novels |
keep |
November 12
|
| Category:Defunct financial services companies |
rename |
November 11
|
| Category:Defunct sports venues in Louisville |
rename |
November 24
|
| Category:Defunct sports venues in Philadelphia |
rename |
November 24
|
| Category:Diamond |
no consensus. If I could make a recommendation, and feel free to ignore it if it's unworkable. Leave Category:Diamond for the mineral, and create Category:Diamonds, or Category:Diamonds (gemstone) for the stone. Create appropriate hatnotes to explain what each is for to avoid confusion. Alternatively, create Category:Diamonds or Category:Diamonds (gemstone) for the stone (as above), but renominate Category:Diamond to be renamed to Category:Diamond (mineral). We don't have to have just one category here, you people know that |
November 6
|
| Category:Dinosaur Jr albums |
rename |
November 21
|
| Category:Dirty Sexy Money characters |
delete |
November 20
|
| Category:Disused railway stations on Merseyside |
rename |
November 7
|
| Category:Disused railway stations on the Wirral |
Rename |
November 8
|
| Category:Documentaries by country |
rename |
November 7
|
| Category:DRPA |
rename |
November 15
|
| Category:Early scientific cosmologies |
keep |
November 11
|
| Category:East Asian Religions |
SPEEDY DELETE, creator-requested |
November 28
|
| Category:Eastern Cape Province |
rename |
November 4
|
| Category:Eidsvold class battleships |
rename |
November 25
|
| Category:Eldee |
delete. No opposition and many precedents |
November 25
|
| Category:Encycloboxes |
delete |
November 20
|
| Category:Enforcers |
delete. Subjective. As pointed out, there is much disagreement as to what an enforcer is, and who is one. While editor A may find some sources that say an enforcer is x, editor B can find some that say something else. Whose sources are we going to use so as not to violate WP:NPOV and avoid edit wars? |
November 5
|
| Category:English expatriates in the United States |
no consensus |
November 9
|
| Category:Fad technologies |
merge |
November 1
|
| Category:Fair use Vibe magazine covers |
keep as not empty. If you want to re-nominated on other grounds, feel free |
November 16
|
| FC Groningen |
rename |
November 13
|
| Category:Fictional characters in comics who use magic |
no consensus for rename |
November 10
|
| Category:Fictional characters with extra arms |
delete |
November 5
|
| Category:Fictional cyclopses |
delete, has been listified |
November 5
|
| Category:Fictional extraterrestrials |
I. Am. Stunned. SMcCandlish, you really need to go away more often. :) Rename |
November 6
|
| Category:Fictional hybrids |
rename to specify this is for life forms and not cars |
November 15
|
| Category:Fictional immortals |
keep |
November 5
|
| Category:Fictional lords and ladies |
merge |
November 4
|
| Category:Fictional nuclear explosions in film and television |
delete |
November 6
|
| Category:Fictional troublemakers |
delete |
November 23
|
| Category:Fictional wizards |
merge |
November 4
|
| Films critical of... |
delete |
November 20
|
| Category:Films with open endings leaving the audience to draw their own conclusions |
Delete |
November 8
|
| Category:Florida Sun Conference |
rename |
November 19
|
| Category:Foods and beverages with health benefits |
as a member of the game-playing cabal and in the name of said cabal, I hereby arbitrarily say the result was DELETE. (I'm just teasing, |
November 25
|
| Category:Footballers who have played in Fooia |
rename |
November 9
|
| Category:Former conservatives |
delete |
November 18
|
| Category:Former liberals |
delete |
November 5
|
| Category:Former members of the State Duma of the Russian Federation |
merge |
November 24
|
| Category:Free State Province |
rename to "Free State (South African province)" |
November 13
|
| Category:Gator Caucus |
delete |
November 13
|
| Category:Generation X members |
delete |
November 3
|
| Category:Generation Y members |
delete |
November 3
|
| Generations X, Y, Z |
delete |
November 3
|
| Category:Groups |
Relisted at 2008 NOV 27 |
November 16
|
| Category:Gubernatorial titles |
no consensus |
November 3
|
| Category:Half-Life 2 |
upmerge to Category:Half-Life. Category:Half-Life was not nominated, but it could be in a future nomination for renaming to match the main article Half-Life (series) per |
November 20
|
| Hip hop albums by year |
delete (per above discussion) |
November 19
|
| Category:Hip hop albums in 2008 |
delete |
November 19
|
| Category:Historians of Canada re: Category:Canadian historians |
no action: both already exist and are well-populated |
November 5
|
| Category:Historical People from County Kilkenny |
delete, empty |
November 15
|
| Category:Hockey Hall of Fame |
rename |
November 9
|
| Category:Honorary doctors of Anglia Ruskin University |
delete |
November 10
|
| Horror films by year |
upmerge all to both. Will place this in the manual work queue, where any editor can perform the merges and then tag the categories for speedy deletion when they are emptied |
November 20
|
| Category:Imogen Cunningham |
delete |
November 17
|
| Category:James Bond soundtrack music artists |
delete |
November 13
|
| Category:K-Horror |
keep current name |
November 22
|
| Category:Kid Rock |
delete |
November 10
|
| Category:KL-RTS |
delete; no real "consensus" here but seems reasonable since main article doesn't even exist yet |
November 1
|
| Category:Ksysenka |
delete (article was also deleted) |
November 8
|
| Category:Landmarks in Wales |
keep, mainly for reasons of standardisation across categories, though perhaps a deletion/renaming nomination could be had for all of these landmark categories on subjectivity grounds or for the British ones alone if it's thought that the phrasing here is out of whack with UK English |
November 16
|
| Category:LGBT-related television episodes |
KEEP |
November 18
|
| Category:Lights albums |
Withdrawn NAC |
November 25
|
| Category:Lights songs |
Withdrawn NAC |
November 25
|
| Category:Lights |
delete |
November 25
|
| Category:Lists of anime television series episodes |
rename |
November 4
|
| Category:Lists of cities in Italy |
Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close |
November 21
|
| Category:Lists of female actors |
merge to Category:Lists of actors |
November 3
|
| Category:Lists of female movie actors by name |
merge to Category:Lists of film actors |
November 3
|
| Category:Lists of theologists and religious scholars |
rename |
November 23
|
| Category:Los Angeles, California to Category:Los Angeles |
keep current name |
November 17
|
| Category:LSU Hall of Fame members |
listify to pre-existing Louisiana State University Athletic Hall of Fame and delete |
November 24
|
| Category:Magno albums |
delete |
November 6
|
| Category:Marvel Comics witches |
Relisted at 2008 DEC 1. Normally, I would agree with the concerns raised on procedural grounds. However, I closed the previous "fictional witches" discussion and I must say that I had no time frame in mind when I left open the possibility of a renomination, and I don't think the proposal should be prejudiced because it was within some arbitrary time frame. And it was closed as "no consensus", not as a "keep", which tends to significantly dampen the problems involved with a quick renomination, since there really was no consensus that this nomination would attempt to overturn. Also, I explicitly encouraged a future nomination. I also think the nominator was justified because of the intervening results of the "fictional wizards" discussion, which could have very reasonably been interpreted by |
November 13
|
| Merge Category:American opera companies and Category:USA opera companies |
merge to Category:American opera companies |
November 20
|
| Category:Millersville Marauders football players |
SPEEDY DELETE, according to edit history the category did not exist until the nom below created it with the CFD tag...so its only editor is requesting deletion. Come back to CFD if someone else recreates it |
November 12
|
| Modernity |
delete |
November 1
|
| Category:MS objects |
delete (looks like an OCAT by shared name, in any case) |
November 20
|
| Category:Multi network television series |
delete. In case anyone wants to make a list I've dumped the contents on the talk page |
November 2
|
| Category:Musical groups with siblings |
delete |
November 13
|
| Category:My Life as a Teenage Robot |
delete; no opposition and buttloads of precedent |
November 21
|
| Category:Myst novels |
upmerge |
November 15
|
| Category:N*E*R*D songs |
rename |
November 1
|
| Category:Non-Interstate Route numbers in the United States that are freeway in its entirety |
delete |
November 17
|
| Category:Non-printed electronics |
keep, only because rationale wasn't fully explained. Feel free to re-nominate |
November 11
|
| Category:Non-standard holiday infoboxes |
speedy delete, CSD C3 |
November 25
|
| Category:Northern Cape Province |
rename |
November 4
|
| Category:Novels by Eric M. Norcross |
Delete |
November 8
|
| Category:Number-one singles in Bulgaria |
delete |
November 9
|
| Obama Administration categories |
keep both |
November 10
|
| Category:Old Bolsheviks |
keep (a rough definition has already been added by a user, which could be further refined) |
November 9
|
| Category:Operas by Ludwig van Beethoven |
keep |
November 12
|
| Category:Operating Systems with Microkernel |
rename to Category:Microkernal-based operating systems |
November 10
|
| Category:Palestinian terrorism |
no consensus |
November 4
|
| Category:People convicted of murder by Arkansas |
keep current title |
November 10
|
| Category:People convicted of murder by England and Wales |
Withdrawn as nominator |
November 12
|
| Category:People from Champawat, Category:People from Rudraprayag |
delete |
November 11
|
| Category:People in three or more occupations |
delete |
November 19
|
| Category:People who died on their birthdays |
Speedy delete per G4, previously discussed and deleted |
November 8
|
| Category:People Who Lived in Hotels |
delete |
November 5
|
| Category:Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute |
Speedy close: CFD is the wrong forum for proposals dealing with articles. Non-admin close |
November 11
|
| Category:Places in Singapore |
no consensus |
November 13
|
| Category:Planned radio stations in the United States |
delete (empty) |
November 17
|
| Category:Political figures |
delete |
November 19
|
| Category:Political scandals by country |
rename |
November 1
|
| Category:Portland, Oregon suburbs |
result |
November 1
|
| Category:Postmodern fashion |
delete; it appears to me that those ascribable to a specific decade have been so assigned |
November 1
|
| Category:PPE graduates |
delete |
November 17
|
| Category:Preacher (comics) |
delete |
November 12
|
| Category:Prisons in Somerset |
keep, no consensus for rename |
November 10
|
| Category:Proposed sites for the United Nations Headquarters |
delete |
November 9
|
| Category:Queenstown |
rename |
November 13
|
| Category:Quizbowl |
rename to Category:Student quiz competitions |
November 10
|
| Category:Racially motivated violence against African Americans |
keep |
November 8
|
| Category:Raggonix's Stuff |
delete |
November 6
|
| Category:Rainbow Crafts toys |
delete |
November 12
|
| Category:Recursive categories |
speedily deleted |
November 20
|
| Category:Red Army generals |
rename to create soviet and delete red army. If it's desired to move the articles here into a subcat and leave this as a supercat for air force and army generals, anyone can do that |
November 15
|
| Category:Reunited musical groups |
DELETE |
November 18
|
| Category:Rick Astley |
Delete. Consensus can and does change. The previous discussion was closed as no consensus. The keep logic was membership in a category that is a collection point for categories that would not otherwise have a parent category |
November 8
|
| Category:Rudius Media Friends |
delete |
November 1
|
| Category:Rudius Media |
delete, no main article, company not notable |
November 1
|
| Category:Russian dissidents |
rename |
November 9
|
| Category:Sarasota-Bradenton-Venice metropolitan area |
rename |
November 19
|
| Category:Schools offering Cisco networking courses |
delete |
November 1
|
| Category:Scratchcard |
oy vey. There's not really a consensus for any specific action here, except maybe that a rename should occur now that the category is populated. For now, I'll rename to the relatively non-controversial Category:Scratchcard games, but please—future pruning and/or nominations for renaming to work this category tree out are more than encouraged |
November 11
|
| Category:Sean Paul collaborations |
Closed: Duplicate nomination (already listed on November 19). Non-admin close |
November 20
|
| Category:Sean Paul collaborations |
delete |
November 19
|
| Category:Seduction theorists |
delete. Per the discussion, this closure doesn't proscribe re-creation under a different, less ambiguous name. While |
November 8
|
| Category:Sega CD games |
rename |
November 7
|
| Category:Self-identified drug addicts |
delete. This type of thing needs to be in a list, if at all, for proper sources re: BLP concerns |
November 21
|
| Category:SEN presenters |
delete |
November 17
|
| Category:Sennin-G |
delete |
November 20
|
| Category:Serial killers before 1900 |
delete |
November 18
|
| Category:Settlements in British Columbia by regional district |
rename all. I don't see a preference for the formal names over the informal names where two options have been presented, so I'm renaming to the formal names since I assume they were the nominator's preferred form (but correct me if I'm wrong) |
November 20
|
| Category:Singaporeans born outside Singapore |
rename to Category:Immigrants to Singapore. It's true we almost never categorize by birthplace, but I think the discussion has demonstrated that this is really an "immigrants" category masquerading under a different name. Feel free to re-nominate if it is felt that being an immigrant to Singapore is non-defining |
November 25
|
| Category:Songs about the Cold War |
delete |
November 3
|
| Category:Songs written by Boudleaux Bryant |
Forget it No one wants to help me, as usual, so I'll do it myself |
November 22
|
| Category:Sports venues in Atlanta |
rename all |
November 17
|
| Category:Sports venues in Dallas |
rename |
November 12
|
| Category:SRC network shows |
relisted on 13th |
November 3
|
| Category:SRC network shows |
rename, although you certainly didn't make this one easy. There is definite consensus to rename this category, but the target is less clear. Based upon the discussion, people are split evenly between Category:Télévision de Radio-Canada network shows and Category:Radio-Canada network shows. Normally a no consensus close, but seeing as there it's unanimous to rename, I'm going to go out on a limb and pick Category:Radio-Canada network shows, based on the following flimsy criteria: The three people who wanted Category:Télévision de Radio-Canada network shows had differing opinions on the accent, one wanting it, one neutral, and one against. The people who wanted Category:Radio-Canada network shows didn't have such differences. If this causes a problem, I have no issues with relisting it, just let me know |
November 13
|
| Category:St. Louis Walk of Fame members |
delete |
November 13
|
| Category:Star Trek regions of space |
delete |
November 10
|
| Category:Statistical lists and tables |
Rename to Category:Statistics-related lists |
November 16
|
| Category:Stock exchanges of India |
rename |
November 22
|
| Category:Super heavyweight professional wrestlers |
delete, empty |
November 3
|
| Swimmer categories including both demonym and stroke |
upmerge all to "fooian swimmers" |
November 15
|
| Category:Television anchors who ran for election |
delete |
November 21
|
| Category:The Raccoons |
delete |
November 19
|
| Category:Thoracic limb anatomy |
rename. There's no "consensus" here to rename, but there's also not anyone speaking out against the proposed change. So we'll make the change, but these renamed categories can be renominated for discussion by anyone as desired |
November 3
|
| Category:Tibetan films |
rename |
November 7
|
| Category:Toy manufacturers |
merge |
November 12
|
| Category:Trekforce Expeditions leaders |
delete |
November 1
|
| Category:Trios |
rename both. Category:Sibling trios may contain non-musical trios, but since the hatnote claims that the category is specifically for musical trios, they should be removed |
November 11
|
| Category:Tulane Sports Venues |
rename |
November 24
|
| Turkish football clubs players |
rename both. Close is without prejudice to a future CfD re: the special characters |
November 16
|
| Category:Twins (band) members |
delete |
November 3
|
| Category:Two-lane freeways |
close. Category:Two-lane freeways in the United States now exists as a subcat |
November 3
|
| Category:U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Inductees |
rename |
November 9
|
| Category:UFO-related entities |
No consensus to delete. I took the AfD into consideration when closing this. There is consensus that this needs cleanup, at the least. Rename to Category: Alleged UFO-related entities to match existing list. No prejudice against a new nomination to discuss alternate names |
November 12
|
| Category:UFO-related vehicles |
The name is bad. In addition, the related list page was deleted at afd. That said, the arguments of those suggesting "keep/rename" had greater "weight". Since there is no strong consensus as to what the target name should be, and since the associated list was deleted, and since (as noted below) this is intended to be a group of objects (not topics), recategorising as a direct subcat of Category:UFOs, and Rename to Category:Alleged UFOs, to match both the new parent category, and the consensus of the Category:UFO-related entities discussion above |
November 12
|
| Category:Ufological figures |
No consensus to delete - Rename to Category:People associated with ufology |
November 12
|
| Category:Ulster-Scots |
rename |
November 2
|
| Category:United Arab Emirates Public Universities |
rename |
November 5
|
| Category:United States education by state |
rename |
November 21
|
| Category:United States House of Representatives election candidates |
merge, feel free to renominate for renaming at your leisure |
November 14
|
| Category:University of Chicago Graduate School of Business alumni |
rename |
November 7
|
| Category:Unreleased works by medium |
withdrawn by nominator |
November 17
|
| Category:User Barek |
speedy delete via {{db-g7}} |
November 6
|
| Category:Valley girl |
delete |
November 4
|
| Category:Vehicle activated signs |
Delete. All articles have other categories |
November 8
|
| Category:Victim of the Loudness War |
delete |
November 2
|
| Category:Vocal quartets |
Withdrawn now that criteria are established |
November 18
|
| Category:Walk of Fame of Cabaret |
delete |
November 13
|
| Category:West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame |
delete, list exists |
November 13
|
| Category:Wikipedians in Montréal |
Moved to WP:UCFD. NAC |
November 23
|
| Category:WikiProject Betty |
delete (WikiProject was deleted as well) |
November 24
|
| Category:Wire and Cable Industry |
rename |
November 5
|
| Category:World Cup cricketers of Namibia |
no consensus |
November 14
|
| Category:Zoroastrian games |
delete. Peter's suggestion could be created, but it's unclear if it would be appropriate for all the articles in the category and there's a clear consensus at least that the current name is incorrect |
November 25
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