Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2008 October index
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| Category:*.South Africans.* | keep | October 3 |
| Category:1988 marriages | delete | October 1 |
| Category:2000s New Wave revival bands | rename | October 19 |
| Category:2006 Richmond, California city elections | delete | October 16 |
| Category:306 Entertainment albums | delete, recreation permissible if/when main article is written and other albums released | October 21 |
| Category:Act of War series | delete | October 2 |
| Category:Action film actors | delete | October 5 |
| Category:Adaptations of Shakespeare | rename both | October 13 |
| Category:ALWEG people movers | no consensus | October 20 |
| Category:ALWEG people movers |  Relisted at 2008 OCT 20. |
October 9 |
| Category:American programs based on foreign programs | rename to Category:American television series based on non-American television series, though the preference for "non-American" over "foreign" doesn't appear to be all that strong. The "based on" vs. "adapted from" issue could be pursued in a new nomination | October 20 |
| Category:American programs based on foreign programs | Relisted at 2008 OCT 20 |
October 10 |
| Category:American TV programs based on Australian TV programs | rename as nominated. If desired, a future nomination could consider "based on" vs. "adapted from" | October 10 |
| Category:American TV series based on telenovelas | rename as nominated. If desired, a future nomination could consider "based on" vs. "adapted from" | October 10 |
| Category:Americans favoring drug legalization | delete | October 21 |
| Category:Americans of German descent | SPEEDY DELETE, recreation | October 21 |
| Category:Anglican churches | rename to Category:Anglican Communion church bodies | October 8 |
| Category:Antiheroes | SPEEDY DELETE, recreation of content deleted by prior CFD | October 16 |
| Category:Antisemitism in France | creation of Category:Anti-Semitism in France supported. Feel free to do so at any point | October 12 |
| Category:Aosdána | rename | October 16 |
| Category:Aquarium of Western Australia | upmerge | October 4 |
| Category:Argentine deputies | rename to Category:Members of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies | October 14 |
| Category:Atlanta music | Rename | October 3 |
| Category:Atomic garden | delete | October 23 |
| Category:Attractions in the Netherlands | merge. If someone wants to then remove the ones that are already subcatted, please feel free | October 23 |
| Category:Babe Ruth Award | delete, list exists in article | October 23 |
| Category:Baldur's Gate characters | merge | October 8 |
| Category:Banks in Illinois | rename all | October 20 |
| Category:Baptist denominations and churches in North America | relisted on oct 8 | October 2 |
| Category:Baptist denominations and churches in North America | rename to Category:Baptist denominations in North America | October 8 |
| Category:Barack Obama controversies | upmerge to Category:Barack Obama and Category:Political controversies. An administration-specific category similar to Category:Clinton administration controversies could be created in the future after more have accumulated during his tenure | October 13 |
| Category:Battletoads characters | merge | October 8 |
| Category:Beauty and the Beast | no consensus | October 20 |
| Category:Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas | delete | October 18 |
| Category:Blues-rock ensembles | merge | October 21 |
| Category:Bo Jackson | delete | October 23 |
| Category:Books by region | consensus to rename, no consensus to what. Suggest renomination | October 7 |
| Category:Books by William Gibson | SPEEDY DELETE, empty and creator supports deletion | October 13 |
| Category:Brand name potato chips, potato crisps, and other potato-based snack foods | relisted on 21st | October 10 |
| Category:Brand name potato chips, potato crisps, and other potato-based snack foods | Rename to Category:Brand name potato-based snack foods, noting that there was concensus to shorten the category name to "Potato-based snack food" but there was no concensus on whether to rename the "Brand name x foods" to "X food brands", defaulting to keep the current format. -- | October 21 |
| Category:Bridges and tunnels that are Registered Historic Places | rename/split per below (my bot will rename to Category:Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places, then I'll poke | October 2 |
| Category:British comedy puppets | no consensus, though no one seems really satisfied with the status quo. I relisted in an attempt to get further input, but no further opinions were forthcoming. (What is it with people today?—nobody cares about puppets anymore ...) This muddle shouldn't be a bar to a future nomination | October 20 |
| Category:British comedy puppets | Relisted at 2008 OCT 20 |
October 9 |
| Category:British supervillains | delete | October 20 |
| Category:C-Class Indian music articles of unknown-importance | delete (currently empty) | October 19 |
| Category:C-Class Korean cinema articles | delete. Empty, and as noted, this category is not populated by either Template:flim or Template:WPKorea. Film doesn't use C classes at all, and WPKorea's C-class articles get added to Category:C-Class Korea-related articles. Recreation permissible if either project begins using this in their templates | October 16 |
| Category:Cable HD channels | merge | October 12 |
| Category:California Cinematographers | delete | October 16 |
| Category:California photographers | delete | October 16 |
| Category:Canadians deported | delete | October 3 |
| Category:Capitals of English regions | Delete | October 3 |
| Category:Central Highland Tasmania | rename | October 2 |
| Category:Characters in the works of Robert E. Howard | rename | October 16 |
| Category:Chilean deputies | rename to Category:Members of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile | October 14 |
| Category:Choice Hotels | rename | October 9 |
| Category:Christian denominations in ''location'' | keep first, rename second | October 17 |
| Category:Christian templates | merge | October 8 |
| Category:Chrono Crusade | delete | October 21 |
| Category:Churches in Tonga | rename | October 20 |
| Category:Churches | rename all | October 17 |
| Category:Cire perdue | Delete.}} | October 26 |
| Class II and III railroad categories | delete | October 15 |
| Category:Coast to Coast AM affiliates | listify | October 23 |
| Category:Comet Hunter | Merge to Category:Comet discoverers. I will leave it to the participants and other interested parties to remove the entries that did not discover a comet | October 3 |
| Category:Comic book alternate universes | rename to plural (Category:Parallel universes (comics)) | October 7 |
| Comics writers and artists from Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania categories | delete/upmerge to appropriate American categories | October 15 |
| Category:Companies that have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy | keep, though problematic application in the future of the kind | October 6 |
| Category:Conan the Barbarian films | relisted on 16th | October 10 |
| Category:Conan the Barbarian films | upmerge | October 16 |
| Category:Conan the Barbarian writers | delete | October 16 |
| Category:Concepts pertaining to strategy | merge | October 3 |
| Category:Contagious diseases | merge to Category:Infectious diseases (not empty as of today) | October 16 |
| Category:Continuing Anglicanism | keep, cleanup may be needed | October 8 |
| Category:Controversial Christian denominations | delete | October 16 |
| Category:Converts from Judaism | Keep | October 18 |
| Category:Corporate categories of Norway | rename | October 2 |
| Category:Country quartets | no consensus, renaming for clarity. As below with Trios, no prejudice against a renom to upmerge to deal with the arbitrariness issues | October 3 |
| Category:Country trios | rename, with no prejudice against a new nom to merge into Category:Country music groups to deal with the arbitrariness of the category | October 3 |
| Category:Cross-platform software | no consensus, but some sort of reorganization or reworking is encouraged. This category could be re-assessed after some further organizational work has been completed | October 12 |
| Category:Crypto-Jews | delete | October 13 |
| Category:Cultural economics | No consensus to rename. | October 21 |
| Category:Current female members of the United States House of Representatives | merge | October 14 |
| Category:Current female United States Senators | merge | October 20 |
| Category:Dark Jedi | delete per 2008 SEP 9 CfD | October 15 |
| Category:Destroyed hotels in the United States | delete | October 17 |
| Category:Destroyed hotels in the United States | relisted on 17th | October 11 |
| Category:Diablo characters | upmerge and delete | October 9 |
| Category:Disambiguition | Deleted' - It actually had one member which the nominator removed. However, it hadn't been created either, and was actually just a typo on a page. The nominator actually created the category page when nominating. Anyway, deleted as C1 or C2, or G6 (or as actually not existing?) take your pick | October 9 |
| Category:Diver training agency | rename | October 18 |
| Category:Drug scandals | delete | October 15 |
| Category:Dune | rename | October 7 |
| Category:Dutch Children's musical groups | delete | October 20 |
| Category:Eastern Orthodox churches | relisted on 23rd | October 17 |
| Category:Eastern Orthodox churches | rename all | October 23 |
| Category:Educational institutions in Mobile, Alabama | RENAME to Category:Education in Mobile, Alabama, which conforms to existing category structure | October 21 |
| Category:Elseworlds titles | no consensus | October 8 |
| Category:English centre-forwards | upmerge | October 8 |
| Category:Executed fictional characters | delete | October 4 |
| Category:Export management companies | upmerge to Category:Management consulting firms and delete | October 9 |
| Category:Falsettos | delete | October 23 |
| Category:Fan translated games | delete, still not a defining characteristic | October 16 |
| Category:FBI agents convicted of racketeering | delete and upmerged to Category:FBI agents with criminal convictions; Category:People convicted of racketeering | October 19 |
| Category:Fictional Americans by ethnicity | no consensus on black irish, keep the rest | October 21 |
| Category:Fictional Americans by state | keep nominated categories. To the "restore" comments, that particular category is already listed at DRV, please comment there | October 21 |
| Category:Fictional amputees | no consensus | October 14 |
| Category:Fictional anarchists | Delete. Those advocating keeping did not refute the claim that this category was not a violation of WP:OC#Opinion about a question or issue. Also this the nomination was not simply based on the existence of a list. Lists and categories can exist when appropriate. WP:CLN does not mandate that we always need both. The need for the category to be 'cross-maintained' further argues against the need for both | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional beggars | no consensus | October 18 |
| Category:Fictional burn victims | delete | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional cannibals | keep | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional centenarians | Delete -- | October 18 |
| Category:Fictional characters who are their own ancestors | delete | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional characters with disabilities | no consensus (<personal opinion>I don't think albinism is a handicap</personal opinion>) | October 14 |
| Category:Fictional characters with dissociative identity disorder | merge | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional characters with heart problems | delete | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional characters with mental illness | delete | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional characters with mental retardation | delete | October 14 |
| Category:Fictional characters with spinal disabilities | delete | October 14 |
| Category:Fictional comedy characters | rename to Category:Fictional characters in comedy | October 7 |
| Category:Fictional communists | DELETE | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional consiglieri | keep; addition of a definition encouraged | October 18 |
| Category:Fictional cryonically preserved characters | No consensus. I don't think that relisting to continue this discussion would arrive at a consensus. So if anyone wants to peruse a change to something, they are free to relist. If anyone chooses to do so, they should consider the concerns raised in this discussion | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional cult leaders | Keep | October 18 |
| Category:Fictional drug users | Already Deleted by | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional duos | keep | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional ecologists | merge to Category:Collective pseudonyms | October 16 |
| Category:Fictional escapees | no consensus | October 18 |
| Category:Fictional explorers | no consensus | October 18 |
| Category:Fictional fascists | delete | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional hermits | keep | October 18 |
| Category:Fictional Holocaust survivors | keep-ish, although the nominator presents some good reasons to at least give listification some serious consideration. As a side note on the lists vs. categories topic, I can't help but think that if the list already existed, it might be a lot easier for those who oppose the merging of a category to a list to compare the advantages of both and to decide if we want to delete the category or keep both. Therefore, I don't think a future discussion on this same category should be proscribed if the re-nomination is made once a corresponding list exists | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional hunchbacks | KEEP | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional lovers | delete | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional misanthropes | SPEEDY DELETE, recreation of previously previously deleted category | October 3 |
| Category:Fictional obsessive-compulsives | delete | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional parents who killed their children | delete | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional refugees | delete | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional security guards | Delete | October 3 |
| Category:Fictional slaves | no consensus | October 14 |
| Category:Fictional socialists | delete | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional socialites | Keep | October 18 |
| Category:Fictional United States independent politicians | no consensus | October 18 |
| Category:Fictional vegans | delete both; I haven't seen any convincing arguments as to why this defining for a fictional character, even in the "Fictional Holocaust survivor" CfD that was referred to. I also don't see a consensus for list creation, but this close certainly does not preclude someone from creating one | October 4 |
| Category:Fictional vigilantes | keep | October 18 |
| Category:Fictional virgins | Delete | October 3 |
| Category:Flora of Comoé National Park | upmerge | October 9 |
| Category:Foo singles | rename all | October 2 |
| Food product brands | no consensus to rename as nominated, but there does seem to be a consensus to begin a clean up to reduce confusion. I do suggest a future nomination will be helpful, though, once the clean up is well under way and we have a proposal of what wording we are going to want consistent across all categories. So this result should not be seen as in any way precluding a future nomination | October 16 |
| Food product brands | relisted on 16th | October 10 |
| Category:Former Bahá'ís | Keep | October 21 |
| Category:Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire | delete | October 20 |
| Category:Froggy | delete | October 22 |
| Category:Gangster Disciples | Delete. | October 13 |
| Category:Georgia Republicans | speedy rename per speedy criterion #6 | October 8 |
| Category:Gifted people | delete | October 19 |
| Category:Giftedness | keep | October 20 |
| Category:GMA Artist Center | delete | October 23 |
| Category:Grand Slam champions | delete, empty. If articles are found/written, feel free to recreate (but please, with a better title) | October 13 |
| Category:Graphs as models of other objects | delete, empty | October 7 |
| Category:Great West Conference | relisted on 28th | October 23 |
| Category:Greatest Nationals | no consensus | October 8 |
| Category:Gubernatorial titles | no consensus | October 9 |
| Category:Gubernatorial titles | relisted on oct 9 | October 3 |
| Category:Hakka Hongkongers | keep. Of course, all editors are welcome to contribute to these discussions about categories, regardless of your previous level of involvement in Wikipedia, so long as you are a unique editor, and not just using a unique Wikipedia account. As | October 21 |
| Category:Halaal food | rename | October 16 |
| Category:Hamlet on screen | Withdrawn (non-admin close) | October 31 |
| Category:Hank Aaron Award | delete as list exists in main article | October 23 |
| Category:Hard rock groups | rename | October 12 |
| Category:Health problems in India | no consensus. "Problems" is POV, but there isn't direction as to a fix. Recommend renomoination | October 20 |
| Category:Health risks | delete as too vague, recreation permissible with new title reflective of narrowing of scope. As pointed out, almost anything can be a health risk, and I'm certain that's not what this category was meant to capture. If someone wants the list of articles and subcats, I can provide | October 15 |
| Category:Heavy rain (meteorology) | Wrong Xfd forum (these are articles, not categories). Non-admin close | October 8 |
| Hebrew centuries | no consensus on changing to en-dash, but I will rename to close the spaces around the hyphens. As a purely cosmetic and proper usage issue, I tend to favor the en-dash. However, I think the issue of difficulty in reproducing it is a legitimate one for all the poor devils that use Windows, since it's relatively tricky in that OS, and the way category redirects work buggers up what is typically an easy redirect solution for articles. Clearly, this is an issue that needs to be discussed and resolved with some sort of policy consensus since we've had discussions go all three ways (use en-dash; use hyphen; no consensus) in the past 2 months or so. Hopefully the discussion started at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style can begin to resolve the issue | October 23 |
| Category:Herzegovinans | rename and leave a category redirect | October 7 |
| Category:Heterosexuals | G4 by TexasAndroid , nac | October 22 |
| Category:Highways with full control of access and no cross traffic | relisted on 23rd | October 17 |
| Category:Highways with full control of access and no cross traffic | rename all to Category:Full access controlled highways. Category:Full access controlled highways by country, and Category:Full access controlled highways in Norway. The by country subcats should retain whatever nomenclature is used in the specific country. | October 23 |
| Category:Hilarious Instruments | SPEEDY DELETE as nonsense, meaningless, vandalism, or WP:SNOW, take your pick | October 29 |
| Category:Historical novelists of whodunnits | rename | October 23 |
| Category:HIV-positive fictional characters | keep | October 4 |
| Category:Humor | keep. The BE/AE question should probably be resolved with a wider audience, and as noted, not at CFD | October 7 |
| Category:Image copyright tags | rename | October 2 |
| Category:Images by 84user | delete. — | October 7 |
| Category:Imperial Grand Admirals | delete, empty | October 15 |
| Category:Indian people in history | merge to Category:Indian people and delete | October 11 |
| Category:Indie comic characters | relisted on 17th | October 9 |
| Category:Indie comic characters | upmerge to Category:Fictional characters in comics | October 17 |
| Category:Indie comic creators | merge to Category:Comics creators | October 17 |
| Category:Indie comic creators | relisted on 17th | October 9 |
| Category:Indie comics | merge to Category:Comics publications | October 17 |
| Category:Indie comics | relisted on 17th | October 9 |
| Category:Infrastructure-related Registered Historic Places | rename both to Category:Infrastructure-related listings on the National Register of Historic Places per here, above, and other related categories (which use "on") | October 8 |
| Category:Innovation Waikato Limited | delete/rename per nom | October 20 |
| Category:Islands of Victoria | rename per september discussion | October 2 |
| Category:Italian communities in the UK | delete | October 16 |
| Category:Jack Graney Award | delete as list already exists | October 23 |
| Category:James Bond music | upmerge as nominated with "see alsos" in album and song subcategories for cross-reference. The only substantive rationale for keeping the category that has been presented is that it could be a subcategory of Category:Film scores and thus allow navigation via that tree, but as Otto outlines well, the category does not properly belong as a subcategory of Category:Film scores. Since that's the case, there is no real justification for the extra layer | October 5 |
| Category:James Bond vehicles | delete | October 23 |
| Category:Jan Matejko | delete | October 23 |
| Category:Jewish organizations based in Israel | keep. Category has begun to be populated, and as | October 6 |
| Category:John McCain controversies | upmerge to Category:Political controversies and Category:John McCain. If he somehow pulls it out of the fire and becomes president, an administration-specific category for controversies could be created once more have accumulated | October 13 |
| Category:Justus League members and affiliates | delete | October 1 |
| Category:Kabbalah Centre followers | delete because its status as a defining characteristic for those included has not been demonstrated. Also note WP:BLP#Categories, which requires that a religious belief be both publicly self-proclaimed and be relevant to the subject's notable activities or public life. Applying these criteria would likely empty the category of living people, except for the Bergs, the family that runs the centre | October 12 |
| Category:King of the Ring winners | delete; no reason to salt unless we find it's being continually re-created after deletion consensus | October 14 |
| Category:Lancashire County League cricket clubs | delete, empty | October 14 |
| Category:Lassie films and television productions | rename | October 4 |
| Category:Laurel & Hardy | rename | October 8 |
| Category:Limited Brands | rename all | October 11 |
| Category:List of current and former Navy JROTC members | delete | October 14 |
| Category:Lists of laojiaos in the People's Republic of China | already deleted as empty | October 17 |
| Category:Lists of Registered Historic Places in Virginia | merge | October 22 |
| Category:Lists of Star Wars characters | already deleted | October 15 |
| Category:Little House on the Prairie places | Listify. Valid arguments and no opposing arguments. Will add to the listifying page. Someone needs to do the work of listifying, or find someone willing to do this work. Please note the extensive material on the category talk page. I also had to come up with a name for the list: List of places in Little House on the Prairie. Please remember to include such suggestions in the nomination. :-) | October 5 |
| Category:Living people | Snowball Keep. | October 20 |
| Category:London West End musicals | rename for consistency, question of inclusion is still outstanding, may need wikiproject help | October 4 |
| Category:London West End plays | delete | October 4 |
| Magallanes y Antártica Chilena Region categories | relisted on 29th | October 21 |
| Category:Man Ray | delete | October 23 |
| Marriages by year | delete all. (As an aside, does anyone else find it weird that from the 1800s onward the majority of the articles in these categories were Mormons? Do only Mormons get married anymore?) | October 1 |
| Category:Marvel Comics serial killers | Delete | October 3 |
| Category:Marvel Comics supporting characters | merge both | October 9 |
| Category:Matsushita | rename | October 11 |
| Category:McCain-Palin controversies | delete; categories specific to McCain and Palin were also deleted in 2008 OCT 13&14 CfDs | October 14 |
| Category:Members of organizations | keep as supercat (it's a bird, it's a plane...) although it may be necessary to renominate it as a rename to fix the title | October 12 |
| Category:Members of Thames Ditton Lawn Tennis Club | delete | October 16 |
| Category:Members of the Detection Club | no consensus | October 7 |
| Category:Merlin episodes | rename to match article | October 10 |
| Category:Military academies | rename the subcats of Category:Military academies to Category:Military academies of Foo | October 16 |
| Category:Military occupations | No consensus. Relisting did not seem to find a solution. At this point taking the discussion to the wiki project or another talk page to try and figure this out is the best alternative. If a solution surfaces there, or someone figures out the right solution, then feel free to renominate | October 6 |
| Category:Military personnel of Switzerland | rename per consistency; no prejudice against renaming back as part of a mass nomination | October 7 |
| Category:Military Schools | rename | October 11 |
| Category:Monaco Grand Prix drivers | delete per discussion here and at the wikiproject | October 16 |
| Category:Monaco Grand Prix winners | keep. Would be better as an annotated list, but hey CLN says we can have a less useful category, so wait a sec, CLN is just a guideline. Hmmm... | October 16 |
| Category:Most Holy Church of God in Christ Jesus | delete | October 17 |
| Category:Moviecal | merge to Category:Musical films | October 22 |
| Category:Multiple planetary systems | delete. And so I don't get accused of "ignoring" the arguments for "keep/rename" by issuing a one-word closing result: for any given topic, WP:CLN is fairly open to the existence of a category, a list, or both. As an editing guideline, it doesn't attempt to set down hard and fast rules about these issues, but rather, it provides suggestions for consideration in deciding the issue and then leaves it up to consensus to determine which of the two are preferrable, or if having both are preferred. Here, consensus is that a having a list but no category is preferrable | October 20 |
| Category:Musical groups by numbers | merge all, rename jazz per nom and rename classical to Category:Classical music trios | October 18 |
| Category:NAB Hall of Fame | delete | October 5 |
| Category:National Register of Historic Places disambiguation | delete | October 8 |
| Category:National/Local Campsites of Scouting Ireland | rename to Category:Campsites of Scouting Ireland | October 7 |
| Category:National/Local Campsites of The Scout Association | rename to Category:Campsites of The Scout Association | October 6 |
| Category:Native American | rename to Category:Native American topics | October 6 |
| Category:Next Generation Adelaide International subcategories | upmerge | October 12 |
| Category:Nicolay albums | delete | October 1 |
| Category:Nobel laureates in Economics | Keep. | October 18 |
| Category:Non-fiction books noted for humor | delete | October 9 |
| Category:Non-violent first-person shooters | delete. I must commend the efforts made by those who sought a compromise rename, but as has been pointed out, the suggested renames create many of the same problems that already exist under the current name. This is also a great example of a debate between (1) those who perhaps see categories as things whose meaning should be unambiguous, self-evident, clear on their face, or at least self-explanatory; and (2) those who perhaps see categories as things whose meaning can be crafted precisely and implemented carefully with the use of supporting sources to justify inclusion of articles in them. To quote the oft-referenced sentences from WP:CLN: "Categories appear without annotations, so be careful of neutral point of view (NPOV) when creating or filling categories. Unless it is self-evident and uncontroversial that something belongs in a category, it should not be put into a category." In this case, it's going to be virtually impossible for an article to be "self-evidently" (i.e., without specific sources) or "uncontroversially" (i.e., without someone disagreeing) assigned to the category by the average WP editor. I think this discussion demonstrates that clearly, if nothing else. One editor described this as "mushiness", which captures the concept nicely. Yes, as was pointed out repeatedly (to the point of it becoming trite)—we can use sources to settle the disputes about whether or not articles belong in the category—but having a source somewhere out there in the universe does not make the game's violence or non-violence or or mildness or whatever "self-evident". On the other hand, WP:CLN goes on to point out that "Lists can be embellished with annotations .... Lists can be referenced to justify the inclusion of listed articles." Since appropriate sourcing seems to be the only way out of the mess of determining what is "violence" or "mild violence", etc., it seems a list will best help us implement the use of "non-violent" (or something similar) as the standard for inclusion. (I'm assuming here that since one editor has started a list, there is no need to keep the category from deletion until a list is made. But if required, I can assist in locating the previous contents of the category for the purpose of creating a list.) | October 6 |
| Category:Notable Philosophy Majors | delete | October 10 |
| Category:Number-one singles in Argentina | relisted on 28th | October 22 |
| Category:O. J. Simpson | consensus that two categories aren't necessary, no consensus as to what to do with them. Suggest renomination | October 15 |
| OJ Simpson | relisted on 29th | October 21 |
| Category:Ongoing trends | delete | October 23 |
| Category:Online Companies | relisted on 28th | October 22 |
| Category:Open source fictional characters | delete, if further articles are found, a sourced list would be appropriate | October 14 |
| Category:Oprah | rename | October 23 |
| Category:Ordnance components | rename | October 14 |
| Category:Organizations based in India | rename all | October 4 |
| Category:Outrageous Fortune characters | delete | October 7 |
| Category:Patriotic user templates | rename to Category:Nationality user templates | October 4 |
| Category:Pearls Before Swine (comic strip) | delete | October 14 |
| Category:Penn & Teller | no consensus. BTW, WP:WAX applies not only to the Oprah example, but for the Ellen example as well. Probably should keep that in mind when this gets renominated | October 21 |
| Category:People by race or ethnicity ''et. al.'' | no consensus | October 12 |
| Category:People conceived as the result of adulterous affairs | speedy delete given BLP issues. No point in prolonging this one | October 22 |
| Category:People movers | weakish keep; I relisted to try to gain a stronger consensus for this position but no other opinions were forthcoming; this could be seen as somewhere between a "no consensus" and a "clear keep" | October 20 |
| Category:People movers | Relisted at 2008 OCT 20 |
October 10 |
| Category:People who married their cousins | delete, empty | October 15 |
| Category:People with heterochromia | delete | October 20 |
| Category:People with outstanding memory | delete | October 20 |
| Category:Pharmaceutical recalls | delete | October 2 |
| Category:Phone thriller/horror movies | SPEEDY DELETE as recreation; see prior CfD | October 12 |
| Category:Planet devourers | delete | October 4 |
| Category:PMS Stars | delete redirect | October 4 |
| Category:Political scandals by country | relisted on 23rd | October 16 |
| Category:Political scandals by country | rename to "Political scandals in Foo" | October 23 |
| Category:Preserve America Communities | delete per list creation | October 7 |
| Category:Prisoner characters | rename | October 18 |
| Category:Prisoners of Prison Break | Merge | October 3 |
| Category:Pseudonutrition | delete | October 10 |
| Category:Pseudonyms | no consensus on alter egos, depopulate psuedonyms of "example" articles | October 13 |
| Category:Psychological anime and manga | delete | October 6 |
| Category:Psychological science fiction films | delete | October 16 |
| Category:Public domain characters | delete per WP:NOT issues. Not listify, as me creating the list would not be able to include sources. If anyone wants to create a properly-sourced list of out this, I can provide the articles/subcats | October 14 |
| Category:Public transport in the Yukon | rename per September discussion | October 2 |
| Category:Public transport in Wellington | rename to Category:Public transport in the Wellington Region | October 16 |
| Category:Quarterbacks with 35,000 passing yards | delete | October 22 |
| Category:Railroad-related Registered Historic Places | rename to Category:Railway-related listings on the National Register of Historic Places; as discussed, we can't just add "National" to the current name (esp if registered is fixed to register). "National Register of Historic Places" is a singular entity. The Register is the noun, so just adding National would leave you with essentially "Railway-related National Register", which is horrible grammar | October 8 |
| Category:Reading Abbey | delete | October 21 |
| Category:Reformed Church | merge to Category:Reformed denominations, to be followed with a recategorization of any calvinism-related articles (by someone who knows more about the subject than I do) | October 8 |
| Category:Reformed Church | relisted on oct 8 | October 2 |
| Category:Registered Historic Places by United States insular area | rename | October 18 |
| Category:Registered Historic Places in Alabama | rename all | October 18 |
| Religion by region categories | rename | October 2 |
| Category:Retail stores in the United States | rename to Category:Retail buildings in the United States | October 3 |
| Category:Rhinemetall | G7, author requested deletion. non-admin closure | October 18 |
| Category:Richmond City Council | merge. Richmond is the only city that has a subcat of Category:United States city councils, every other city has an article. The council cat may be more comprehensive, but this is sitting in the people branch of the category tree | October 16 |
| Category:Royal Rumble winners | delete; no reason to salt unless we find it's being continually re-created after deletion consensus | October 14 |
| Category:Sarah Palin controversies | delete; similar McCain and Obama categories were deleted in 2008 OCT 13 CfDs | October 14 |
| Category:Schools in Wellington | rename to Category:Schools in the Wellington Region | October 16 |
| Category:Scouting in The Netherlands | Rename | October 3 |
| Category:Secondary schools in Wellington | rename to Category:Secondary schools in the Wellington Region | October 16 |
| Category:Serie A 2007-08 | delete | October 8 |
| Category:Shakespearean plays | rename | October 13 |
| Category:Ships by place of construction | delete | October 4 |
| Category:Silesian people | withdraw, keep, rename article instead, will do. Thanks. — | October 27 |
| Category:Songs about divorce | delete | October 21 |
| Category:Sony Pictures | Rename. Valid rationale. No opposing arguments. If this isn't a speedy renaming criterion (article redirects to full name) then it should be | October 6 |
| South Africa Prisoners | keep | October 6 |
| Category:Soviet and Russian intelligence agencies | split per nom | October 23 |
| Soviet and Russian military categories | split | October 23 |
| Category:Space operas | delete. A list might not be a bad idea, but would need to be created with sources from the start, else it suffer the same OR issues. If anyone wants to undertake it, I can provide a list of articles that were in this category | October 9 |
| Category:Sports venues in Essex by locality | delete per creator's request | October 1 |
| Category:St John Youth NZ | delete | October 16 |
| Category:St. Paul Apostles players | delete as empty; change to Category:St. Paul Saints (UA) players already made | October 19 |
| Category:Star Wars families | delete, empty | October 15 |
| Category:Star Wars Trade Federation characters | delete, empty | October 15 |
| Category:Stub-Class Indian music articles of unknown-importance | delete, empty; not populated by the template as stated in the category header | October 6 |
| Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of ScienceApologist | delete. — | October 7 |
| Category:Swedish-speaking Finns | no consensus | October 8 |
| Category:Sword-and-Sorcery films | rename to Category:Sword and sorcery films. Feel free to create a new parent and reorganize as needed | October 10 |
| Category:Tamil film actors | SPEEDY DELETED | October 14 |
| Category:Television programs remade oversea | no consensus. I really wanted to join this discussion, because a) I'm leaning toward I don't know if this is useful, so delete, and b) but if kept, really needs a rename because the current name sucks (ok, that may be too strong, but look, when you have to read the title, and then re-read it, and re-read it again, just to figure out what the creator meant, and is it actually good grammar or not, then it's poorly named), but then I realized that I wasn't going to convince either of you to change your mind (oh, I almost forgot, ding ding, to your corners, gentlemen), and since this hasn't been touched since the 11th, it should just be closed, to be renominated at a later date | October 10 |
| Category:The Postal Service singles | rename. I know a good ophthamologist in Kingston, Bearcat | October 1 |
| Category:The School Heroes | delete, empty | October 21 |
| Category:Tibet Autonomous Region | keep | October 3 |
| Category:True-believer syndrome | delete | October 7 |
| Category:Types | no consensus | October 2 |
| Category:UK Christian Student Societies | rename | October 8 |
| Category:US Shows remade for the French market | rename per emerging precedent | October 18 |
| Category:Václav Havel plays | keep | October 15 |
| Category:Václav Havel | delete with Ptydepe moved to Category:Works by Václav Havel | October 15 |
| Category:Vancouver television series | no consensus, although if I recall correctly, there was a rename recently that changed movies (I believe) from "shot in" a particular city to "set in" | October 12 |
| Category:Very young skijumpers | delete | October 4 |
| Category:VfB Leipzig players | rename | October 20 |
| Category:Video game weapons and items | merge Category:Video game weapons to Category:Video game items | October 20 |
| Category:War albums | rename both | October 18 |
| Category:Warren Spahn Award | delete as list already exists | October 23 |
| Category:Wayne Gretzky | delete, OC | October 23 |
| Webby Award | delete per OCAT/AWARD; In this case, the existing list is better suited to present the information | October 3 |
| Category:Windows PET icons | RENAME. No evident basis for current name; rename accurately reflects contents | October 21 |
| Category:Windows Seven | Moved to Category:Windows 7. NAC | October 29 |
| Category:Zombie comics | rename | October 18 |