Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2009 February index
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| "Doctors" categories | rename all to "Fooian medical doctors" (and I'd like to welcome back the Australian contingent to CFD, it's always a sincere pleasure when you show up) | February 19 |
| Category:1450s century architecture | rename | February 8 |
| Category:1978 Operas | speedy merge – the only article in the category has been moved | February 2 |
| Category:2000s black and white films | delete for now. Consensus is to implement a by-decade set of subcats to Category:Black and white films, thereby keeping this category as is, however, nobody has stepped up to state they will implement the plan, and without that, the plan fails. If someone states they want to take this on, I'll get the list of 2000s articles and recreate this category | February 25 |
| Category:3GPP standards | rename | February 4 |
| Category:4th millennium | delete for now | February 9 |
| Category:Abandoned buildings in the United States | re-listify! We'll show those AFDers! what do you mean, stop joking around? ok, then... keep. Consensus is that abandoned (given up, not in use, but still standing) is different from former (demolished) | February 21 |
| Category:Abduction researchers | Rename to Category:Alien abduction researchers | February 28 |
| Category:Abortion-related violence | rename | February 16 |
| Category:Abuse | no consensus at this point. Renomination for deletion would be available if this isn't cleaned up and pruned per the discussion | February 19 |
| Category:Actor-athletes merge to Category:Sportspeople turned actors | Delete. While the consensus was to delete both, the latter one was not tagged. I have nominated Category:Sportspeople turned actors for deletion based on this discussion, so if the consensus remains, that can be deleted | February 28 |
| Category:Actors who studied with Lee Strasberg | delete. The one article in the category makes no mention of attending the "Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute" | February 2 |
| Category:Africa by year | no consensus. This whole africa/years tree is a mess. Not only are there these two duplicate categories, but as noted there is Category:Years of the 13th century in Africa and Category:13th century in Africa. And don't forget Category:Centuries in Africa. Recommend a relist to merge all of the relevant categories. Shouldn't be an issue with all of the other "by year" "by century" etc renames going on | February 5 |
| Category:African American Supreme Court judges | delete | February 6 |
| Category:Alabama Sports Hall of Fame | delete | February 10 |
| Category:Albums with alternate track listings | delete. | February 23 |
| Category:American beauty pageant contestants | delete. Where winners are definitely notable, I don't see in this discussion anything that points to the contestants being notable as well. Even Jonbenet Ramsey was a winner of several pageants | February 19 |
| American Civil War Categories | merge each as nominated | February 15 |
| American Civil War categories | upmerge to parent categories | February 13 |
| Category:American federal lawyers | rename. There is no consensus for deletion, but there is agreement that the current name isn't working. As for how the category is purposed (as a container category or whathaveyou), that is beyond the scope of this CFD. AKA, discuss at the talk page, be bold, etc. This CFD does not preclude renominating for deletion if either the rename or (repurposing, whatever) doesn't work | February 5 |
| Category:American football images | delete | February 9 |
| Category:American Touring Car Championship | delete (has remained empty) | February 25 |
| Ancient Greeks | rename all as nominated. I'm all for using BCE, but as of right now there is not consensus to change it. Get consensus at VP or MOS, and I'll happily add BC to BCE as a speedy criterion. Besides, if I recall correctly, wasn't there a big to-do about this awhile back that involved the arbcom? | February 3 |
| Anglicans parent category (-ies) | procedural close. Consensus would appear to favor C, both | February 15 |
| Category:Anime and manga articles using obsolete infobox parameters | rename to Category:Anime and manga articles using obsolete and incorrect infobox parameters | February 2 |
| Category:Architecturally notable contemporary synagogues | rename to Category:Post-World War II synagogue architecture. There was no consensus to delete, but there is agreement that the current name is poor. As for "contemporary" vs "post WWII", the latter is very specific, there is no guessing what it means, whereas Contemporary is subjective | February 20 |
| Category:Argentinian ballet dancers | merge. – | February 22 |
| Category:Arizona Supreme Court judges | speedy rename as creator/only editor request | February 19 |
| Category:Articles being handled by WikiProject Nutrition | delete (has remained empty) | February 24 |
| Category:Articles needing additional references from sept 5 | Speedied as test. Attempted article in Categoryspace. | February 1 |
| Category:Articles with inappropriate criticism sections | delete | February 12 |
| Category:Artists' Rifles soldiers | keep | February 7 |
| Attractions | rename (again, except for las vegas). For the Orlando vs Orlando, FL issue: "Orlando" does not mean "Orlando, FL and the area surrounding it". It means "Could be Orlando, FL, but it might be an Orlando somewhere else". There is nothing in either category name that is taken to mean city or more-than-city. If you want either one to mean "and surrounding area", the category should be named "Category:Orlando(,FL) and surrounding area". Clear. Concise. No guessing | February 26 |
| Category:Australian track and field athletes | merge | February 3 |
| Category:Automotive market | delete | February 19 |
| Category:Bamiyan Province | merge per article title | February 16 |
| Category:Band templates | rename | February 26 |
| Category:Barlows of note | Delete. All are contained in Barlow (surname) | February 28 |
| Category:Basketball players from Dallas | multi-merge to Category:Basketball players from Texas and Category:People from Dallas, Texas / Category:People from Houston, Texas | February 11 |
| Basketball players from specific cities |  Relisted at 2009 MAR 10 |
February 23 |
| Category:Battles of the Expedition to Port Royal Sound of the American Civil War | Delete | February 8 |
| Category:Battles of the Operations Against Major Confederate Cities 1862 of the American Civil War | merge to Category:Battles of the Lower Seaboard Theater and Gulf Approach of the American Civil War and Category:Conflicts in 1862 | February 13 |
| Category:Battlestar Galactica objects | upmerge to Category:Fictional objects and delete | February 22 |
| Category:Behavioral psychologists | merge into Category:Behaviourist psychologists. Contents may be pruned of articles as appropriate per discussion. See also related discussion immediately below | February 15 |
| Category:Behaviourist psychologists | keep as target of merge in discussion immediately above this one. There was some mention that the "u" should be dropped from the spelling of this category to conform with behaviorism/Category:Behaviorism, but I didn't really see a consensus for this change when the two discussions are read together—ACEOREVIVED for one repeatedly referred to "behaviourist" and "behaviourism". And seeing as how "behaviourist" is an acceptable spelling according to the main article, this may simply be a WP:ENGVAR issue that we shouldn't really change without a solid consensus for doing so. If there's still a desire to change the spelling I suggest a new CfD specifically to address this issue | February 15 |
| Category:Bela Kiss albums | delete. The one remaining article looks like it's going to be deleted | February 19 |
| Category:Biographies (books) | do not rename | February 22 |
| Category:Biographies of George Washington | delete (upmerge) | February 21 |
| Biota of countries test proposal | keep | February 15 |
| Category:Biota of the West Bank | keep until better idea is found. There is consensus that breaking down by country isn't useful, but nobody could come up with a replacement. Rather than delete this now and have to find the articles later to place them in a region category, keep this for now. I personally would lean towards by continent; while region may be more accurate, we may wind up choosing regions that have no meaning for readers. More people would know where, say, Europe is. Recommend contacting a relevant wikiproject or perhaps the village pump for ideas | February 5 |
| Bishops by century | rename | February 3 |
| Category:Black rock musicians | Never edit Wikipedia unless fully coherent. It's been one of those days | February 18 |
| Category:Bloody Roar characters | delete (has remained empty) | February 21 |
| Category:Boas | merge and redirect to Category:Boinae by common name | February 6 |
| Book categories | merge per nom, except for the historical documents cats. Merge those into Category:Indian historical documents | February 11 |
| Category:Books about Mohammad Reza Pahlavi | delete | February 21 |
| Category:Bosnian Croats | merge | February 4 |
| Category:Bosnian Serbs | rename | February 18 |
| Category:Boston College men's soccer | rename as nominated. Occuli's point about not including "men's" is valid, but since the creation of a corresponding "women's" category is at least theoretically possible for the future, we don't lose much at this stage by including the "men's", except for consistency with the others. Whether or not these other examples have theoretical "women's" categories may be playing a role in what they are named | February 23 |
| Category:Boundary of Greater Nepal | delete | February 22 |
| Category:Bowman | delete | February 6 |
| Category:Bridges completed in the 1st century | rename all, no consensus on BC/BCE | February 8 |
| Category:British people of mixed Latino/Hispanic-European Ethnicity | delete | February 14 |
| British Secretaries of State | Canada has gone missing? Oh dear. We shall miss your beer, hockey, and, um... uh... land link to Alaska? rename all, prefixing "British" | February 4 |
| Category:Buddhist Peace Fellowship | delete. I'm not an expert on navbox creation, whoever wants to do that can, if they need the article list from the category, I can provide | February 25 |
| Category:Canadian beauty pageant contestants | rename to "winners" and weed out the non-winners. (of course, this doesn't answer the question if these are winners of a Canadian beauty pageant or Canadians who have won a beauty pageant regardless of where the pageant was. I'm going to take it as either, so if someone wants to be bold and swing it one way or the other, feel free) | February 26 |
| Categories:1972 through 1989 top-tier pro tennis circuits | multiple Unless I have this wrong: Merge first three (1989 ATP Tour, etc) into (1989 Nabisco Grand Prix, etc), do not rename to add "tennis tour". Next, delete the ones nominated for deletion. Finally, rename the remaining ones (1xxx ATP Tour and 1xxx ATP Buenos Aires) to (1xxx Volvo/Buenos Aires Grand Prix), do not add (tennis) or (tennis tour). See [1] for list | February 13 |
| Categories:1972 through 1989 top-tier pro tennis circuits | relisted on feb 13 | February 7 |
| Categories:C.F. Pachuca players, managers | rename | February 10 |
| Categories:Indoor soccer | rename per main article Indoor soccer and prior precedent Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 January 29#Category:Indoor soccer players | February 6 |
| Categories:Swiss people of Booian descent | rename | February 25 |
| Categories:Swiss people of Booian descent | rename | February 25 |
| Category:Category I Historic Places | rename to Category:New Zealand Historic Places Trust Category I listings | February 5 |
| Category:Category II Historic Places | rename to Category:New Zealand Historic Places Trust Category I listings (see above discussion) | February 5 |
| Category:Catholic Cardinals | rename for growth potential. If after time nothing gets added, it can always be upmerged in a new nomination | February 15 |
| Category:Characters in written fiction by nationality | keep | February 14 |
| Chicago musicians | rename | February 11 |
| Chinese pageant contestants | rename to "winners" and weed out the non-winners | February 26 |
| Churches | rename | February 24 |
| Civil war categories | merge each as nominated | February 16 |
| Category:CNET websites | no consensus | February 21 |
| Category:Columbia University Law School faculty | merge | February 27 |
| Category:Columbus, Ohio suburbs | merge | February 10 |
| Commonwealth cats | rename | February 15 |
| Category:Competitors at the FIS Junior Ski Jumping World Championships 2009 | delete | February 20 |
| Category:Controversial Film | speedy deleted by | February 26 |
| Category:Coraline | delete | February 10 |
| Category:Countries invaded by the United States | rename to Category:Invasions by the United States | February 5 |
| Category:Cracking | rename | February 14 |
| Category:Croatian Republic of Herceg-Bosna | rename to match the article. I note that nobody replied to Carlos' suggestion of renaming the article to match "Herceg-Bosna". If consensus appears there for that change, this can be renamed back just as easily | February 18 |
| Category:Cusine of Kerala | Speedy Merge per convention and spelling | February 5 |
| Category:Dallas, Texas musicians | rename | February 7 |
| Category:Defunct cities in Oregon | rename | February 18 |
| Category:Defunct universities in England | rename all | February 11 |
| Category:Deleted article recreated and advanced to Good Articles Class | delete. A recreated article has either gone through DRV and was overturned, or is a completely rewritten new article which has nothing to do with the original save the name. Neither of which are good reasons for a category. This does not preclude the project listing the articles in project space | February 25 |
| Category:Designing Women episodes | delete | February 15 |
| Category:Determinants of health | delete | February 10 |
| Category:Detroit musicians | rename | February 2 |
| Category:Diet and food fads | delete | February 1 |
| Category:Dog songs | delete | February 1 |
| Category:Dolls by character name | no consensus | February 3 |
| Category:Dominican Flags templates | rename | February 14 |
| Category:Double entendres | delete. Petsmart? | February 16 |
| Category:Druze by country | rename to "Druze people of FOO nationality" format | February 15 |
| Earthquakes | rename, no consensus on BC/BCE | February 11 |
| Economies | rename | February 25 |
| Category:Eggs | keep as parent cat for all manner of egg-related-funnery. Feel free to create missing subcats as supported by articles | February 22 |
| Empty redirects to "... templates" categories | Delete | February 23 |
| Category:Endocrine-related diseases and the skin | rename | February 21 |
| Category:Enforcers of the NHL | Speedy delete recreation of previous deleted category with a different name | February 12 |
| Category:English espionage historians | merge to Category:British espionage historians | February 2 |
| Category:English people of German descent | no consensus | February 11 |
| Category:Environmental video | delete | February 11 |
| Category:Ethnic groups in Papua | delete; without prejudice to future creation of by-province subcategories for Category:Ethnic groups in Western New Guinea | February 16 |
| Category:European football (soccer) players | delete | February 14 |
| Category:Evolutionists | delete | February 25 |
| Category:Failed pilots | rename to Category:Television pilots not picked up as a series | February 13 |
| Category:Famous Australians | delete | February 21 |
| Category:Fashion muses | delete | February 20 |
| Category:Female Secretaries of State | rename to Category:Female foreign ministers | February 4 |
| Category:Fictional Afghans | keep Yet again today I find myself in the minority. It happens. | February 14 |
| Category:Fictional Afghans | rename to Category:Fictional Afghan people. There is no consensus on deletion; while more people wanted to keep based upon procedural grounds (which admittedly are weak reasons), Hiding put forth an amazingly strong argument to delete. On to the rename: As was discussed, Afghan is a dab, and can refer to any number of things (I found myself wondering about fictional blankets). And the keeps were keeping against deletion, not against renaming | February 20 |
| Category:Fictional builders | delete to get rid of the extra level of categorization. If it's desired to rename fictional construction workers to fictional builders, then this can be recreated | February 19 |
| Category:Fictional eggs | delete. If you remove all the articles that are not actually eggs, you are left with a very small category that is not likely to grow. Books about eggs are not fictional eggs, they are books | February 22 |
| Category:Fictional tadpoles | merge | February 22 |
| Category:Filipino beauty pageant contestants | rename to Category:Filipina beauty pageant winners. The discussion here centered on the deletion of the "contestants" categories, which does have consensus to do (and would need to be nominated), but as | February 9 |
| Category:Filming location | rename to pluralize, no consensus on deletion | February 12 |
| Category:Finnish people of Slovakian descent | speedy delete, author's request – you can use {{db-author)) next time | February 2 |
| Category:First Employment Contract | rename | February 12 |
| Fix Image->File in the image issue category names | relisted on feb 12 | February 5 |
| Fix Image->File in the image issue category names | rename images to files, fair use to non-free, and prepend with Wikipedia. (and leave redirects) | February 12 |
| Category:Folk musical instruments | no consensus | February 27 |
| Category:Former cities in the United States | No consensus on a word to replace "cities", but consensus to replace "defunct" with "former". There appears to be agreement that "former cities" is insufficiently inclusive of the different types of settlement. However, there is no consensus on what term to use in its place, and significant problems were raised with all suggested alternatives. CFD participants may to wish to discuss the issue and open a fresh CFD with a revised proposal. The list of changes that will be made as a result of this CFD is: | February 19 |
| Category:Former Labour Party politicians (UK) | merge | February 1 |
| Category:Former Lifeguard | delete | February 6 |
| Category:Former members of the Senate of Trinidad and Tobago | merge | February 2 |
| Category:Former National Register of Historic Places | no consensus | February 23 |
| Category:Former residents of the City of London | delete based upon 'a former resident is not necessary "from"' | February 2 |
| Category:Former Schoolteachers | Upmerge. While I think that the delete side of the issue may have the stronger argument, I don't see that as reaching consensus. With the merge nothing is really lost and any articles that don't belong in the upmerged categories can be removed. There is clearly no consensus to keep this category | February 19 |
| Category:Former students of Magdalen Hall, Oxford | rename | February 5 |
| Category:Former students of the Pontifical Gregorian University | rename | February 11 |
| Category:FPMT | rename | February 25 |
| Category:Free software | keep current name | February 1 |
| Category:Free, open source role-playing video games | merge. The merge targets were never stated explicitly, but I'm assuming they should be Category:Free video games and Category:Open source video games. Whether Category:Open source video games survives as an independent category depends on the CfD above, which was not yet closed at the time of this closure | February 1 |
| Category:Gargoyles | rename | February 1 |
| Category:Gender differences in peace, war and aggression | delete (has remained empty) | February 18 |
| Category:Genetic skin diseases | rename to Category:Genodermatoses | February 27 |
| Category:Georgetown, Washington D.C. | Moved to Speedy Renaming. Non-admin close | February 6 |
| Ghanaian MPs | keep | February 28 |
| Category:Ghost Town DJs songs | No consensus - same ol', same ol', nothing new to see here, move along : ) | February 15 |
| Category:Godchildren of members of the British Royal Family | Delete | February 8 |
| Golden Globe Award winners | no consensus | February 11 |
| Category:GUBU | merge | February 14 |
| Category:Hancock's Half Hour | delete | February 10 |
| Category:HC Vitkovice players | convert to redirect (nominated category was empty at closing) | February 11 |
| Category:Heinrich Himmler | delete | February 10 |
| Category:Hemp and American History | upmerge to Category:Cannabis in the United States and Category:Hemp | February 5 |
| History of country by place | rename | February 21 |
| Category:Hospitals in Rural/Regional Victoria | rename | February 5 |
| Category:House of Moytoy | delete | February 14 |
| Category:Houston, Texas musicians | rename | February 11 |
| Category:Images of places listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places | rename to Category:National Register of Historic Places images. – | February 23 |
| Category:Imperial Geography | delete | February 7 |
| Category:Indian biographies (books) | rename | February 21 |
| Category:Internet advertising by method | rename | February 21 |
| Category:Italian American Sports Hall of Fame | delete | February 17 |
| Category:Japanese probes | rename. WP:SNOW | February 23 |
| Category:Jewish Christians | No consensus (default to delete) - As this is a recreation of a category which has been deleted twice per two separate CfDs, and there is, per this discussion, no current consensus concerning whether it should be a category, defaulting to WP:CSD#G4 - recreation, and therefore, delete | February 13 |
| Category:Jewish_skeptics | Speedy close This nom seems a little fishy given that it's the user's very first edit, and as Cgingold points out, it's part of a much larger family of similar "skeptic" categories. Non-admin closure | February 4 |
| Category:Judea and Samaria | keep | February 20 |
| Category:Judy Garland biographies | merge | February 21 |
| Category:Jumblatt | delete | February 15 |
| Category:Keyboards | rename to Category:Keyboards (computing) | February 16 |
| Category:Legend of the Seeker | merge | February 19 |
| Category:LGBT atheists | delete. does anyone know of an emoticon of my jaw hitting the floor? Just wondering... | February 18 |
| Category:LGBT civil rights | rename | February 7 |
| LGBT people by political orientation | delete all | February 14 |
| Category:Libraries in Melbourne | Speedy delete as empty | February 28 |
| Category:Library types by subject | rename to Category:Types of library by subject area | February 24 |
| Category:Lincoln scholarship and biography | rename | February 21 |
| Category:List of Psychodramatists | rename | February 16 |
| Category:List of Sustainable buildings by country | relisted on 26th | February 20 |
| Category:List of Sustainable buildings by country | rename to Category:Sustainable buildings and structures by country | February 26 |
| Category:Lists of Acts of Parliament of the United Kingdom Parliament | keep | February 24 |
| Category:Lists of former entities | keep | February 15 |
| Category:Lists of Registered Historic Places by state | rename, as this was covered by the CFD of 18 October 2008 | February 23 |
| Longwood University baseball | rename | February 19 |
| Category:Major Cities in Italy | delete | February 11 |
| Category:Manchester United F.C. goalkeepers | delete | February 1 |
| Category:Manowar Member | They're not? Could you speedy fix one, then the other? If so, why not both at once? I'm confused. rename | February 5 |
| Category:Markets in the United States | rename to Category:Retail markets in the United States as this would appear to have been purged of anything financial. Recommend nominating Cat:Markets and subcats for splitting into Retail markets and Financial markets | February 14 |
| Mass deletion of unused category redirects | keep, but if deletion of certain redirects are desired, they can be nominated for CFD just like any other category (aka, not speediable) | February 5 |
| Category:Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu | delete | February 20 |
| Category:Matsuri Hino manga | delete. – | February 13 |
| Category:Member of Artists Rifles | procedural close, already deleted by | February 6 |
| Category:Members of the European Parliament by gender | delete | February 10 |
| Category:Members of the House Committee on Un-American Activities | delete. While the HCUA was notable and non-ordinary, I agree that it was not defining for its members. In addition, it was correctly pointed out that we do not have categories for various house committees | February 1 |
| Category:Members of the National Assembly | rename | February 12 |
| Category:Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for Cheshire constituencies | upmerge | February 2 |
| Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives by seniority | rename | February 1 |
| Category:Miami rappers | rename | February 11 |
| Category:Ministry of the Malaysian Government | merge | February 9 |
| Category:Miscellaneous psychiatric disorders | merge to Category:Mental illness diagnosis by DSM and ICD | February 14 |
| Category:Miss Universe Canada | rename (you people make me laugh) | February 26 |
| Category:Miss Vietnam | rename | February 26 |
| Category:Mobil Travel Guide starred restaurants and chefs | delete | February 7 |
| Museums | rename except for las vegas and louisville | February 25 |
| Category:Musical episodes | rename to Category:Musical television episodes | February 16 |
| Category:Musical instrument destruction | listify (already done). – | February 13 |
| Category:Musical radio programs | rename. Musical: of music. No? Ok, a rename would put this in line with the subcats | February 14 |
| Category:Napier University | rename | February 26 |
| Category:NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races | rename to Category:NASCAR Truck Series races | February 16 |
| Category:National Basketball Association lore | delete | February 16 |
| Category:National Scenic Areas (Scotland) | rename | February 13 |
| Category:Nevisian musicians | rename | February 1 |
| Category:New Mexico Chiles (USISL) players | Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close | February 13 |
| Newspapers | rename, no consensus to change the defunct ones (aside from adding a state where applicable) | February 26 |
| Category:Nobel Prize Laureates of the Optical Society of America | merge to Category:Nobel laureates in Physics and Category:Members of the Optical Society of America | February 27 |
| Category:Non petrolumn based lubricants | administrative close; no existing category nominated | February 2 |
| Category:North Carolina soccer | rename | February 19 |
| Category:North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame | delete | February 17 |
| Category:North Dakota elections, 2012 | delete as empty | February 2 |
| Category:North Texas alumni in the music arts | delete | February 3 |
| Category:Northern Cyprus | keep | February 8 |
| Category:Novels by character | rename to Category:Novel series by main character | February 17 |
| Category:Nutritional skin diseases | delete, added to WP:CFDWM for manual work | February 20 |
| Category:Off-grid renewable energy | merge | February 20 |
| Category:Ohr Somayach | keep Settle down, kids. It's just a category | February 14 |
| Category:Old Edwardians | rename to Category:Old Edwardians (Johannesburg). | February 17 |
| Omaha | rename (incidentally, the article is at Omaha, Nebraska since that was relevant to at least one user) | February 25 |
| Category:Open source video games | no consensus. There are questions on what "free" means or should mean | February 1 |
| Category:Operas by year | rename to Category:Operas by century but don't delete. Use Category:Songs by date as a guide, move the decade categories into Category:Operas by decade and the year categories into Category:Operas by year, and put them all under Category:Operas by date | February 4 |
| Category:Orbs | delete | February 9 |
| Category:Organisations in Devon | rename | February 25 |
| Category:Over 6'3" (people) | delete | February 20 |
| Category:Oxymorons | delete. – | February 23 |
| Category:Paleontology in video games | delete | February 3 |
| Category:Papers archived at Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center | delete | February 5 |
| Category:Paralympic competitors by country | Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close | February 6 |
| Category:Parnaíba's city | delete | February 2 |
| Category:Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan people | rename to Category:Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle people | February 9 |
| Category:Peace studies | rename. – | February 13 |
| Category:Pennsylvania Dutch people | no consensus | February 13 |
| Category:People acquitted of sex crimes | delete | February 27 |
| Category:People associated with Braintree, Massachusetts | merge | February 21 |
| Category:People executed by unspecified method | delete | February 12 |
| Category:People from Tunisia | delete after manually merging articles to an appropriate category | February 19 |
| Category:People from Udupi | keep | February 15 |
| Category:People from West Province | rename to Category:People from West Province, Rwanda | February 26 |
| Category:People imprisoned during the Northern Ireland conflict | no consensus | February 20 |
| Category:People of Côte d'Ivoire descent | merge | February 25 |
| Category:People of mixed Latino/Hispanic-European Ethnicity | delete | February 20 |
| Category:People who have shoplifted | delete. Consensus is that this is not generally a defining characteristic. – | February 22 |
| Category:People with surname Kolarov | articlify and delete | February 26 |
| Category:People with uncategorized mental illness | delete | February 5 |
| Permission | delete | February 14 |
| Pharmacology | procedural close. Not a lot of support, but then again, no opposition | February 24 |
| Category:Plays that have had incidental music written for them | delete Articles can be added to Plays with incidental music if desired | February 7 |
| Category:Plural marriage | rename | February 2 |
| Category:Pocket PC software | no consensus | February 3 |
| Category:Polydactylic people | delete | February 24 |
| Category:Popular symbols of the United Kingdom | delete | February 2 |
| Category:Porridge | delete | February 10 |
| Category:Post-Soviet Russia | no consensus | February 1 |
| Category:Pregnancy's under the age of 13. | rename to Category:Precocious puberty and pregnancy | February 3 |
| Category:Premixed and RTD alcoholic beverages | rename to Category:Premixed alcoholic beverages | February 9 |
| Category:Priests by century | upmerge to Category:Priests and the appropriate Category:Clergy by century | February 11 |
| Category:Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area, Alaska | rename | February 7 |
| Category:Professional wrestling music | delete | February 25 |
| Category:Project-specific Welcome templates | rename | February 20 |
| Promotional soccer categories | delete all. – | February 22 |
| Category:Protestant converts to Atheism | no consensus | February 3 |
| Category:Publications by interest | keep | February 1 |
| Category:Publications by medium and topic | delete | February 1 |
| Category:Quincy Jones | delete | February 5 |
| Category:Rabbis of Ohr Somayach | keep | February 14 |
| Redirects to auto-assessment categories | delete | February 17 |
| Category:Reformed Christian Americans | rename to Category:American members of Reformed Christian churches | February 26 |
| Category:Registered Historic Places in Alberta | delete | February 5 |
| Category:Reiki | delete | February 27 |
| rename Category:British Bangladeshis | Rename | February 28 |
| Renamed of categories:Bosnia and Herzegovina people convicted of war crimes | rename | February 18 |
| Category:Renewable energy economics | merge | February 20 |
| Category:Rescued articles advanced to Good Article status | delete. As below, appropriate for a list in project space, not for a category | February 25 |
| Restaurants | rename except for Las Vegas (applies to other renames on this page) | February 24 |
| Category:Riot control weapons | no consensus The idea for the merge is sound; when you control a riot, your goal isn't to kill people. Hence, you use less-lethal weapons. However, as pointed out, these are not completely overlapping. For example, while you could use the less-lethal cattle prod to control a riot, you probably wouldn't | February 14 |
| Category:Riots by year | rename, recreation ok if to be used for holding individual year categories, like the other "foo by year" categories | February 7 |
| Category:Royal Academy of Music faculty | rename | February 4 |
| Category:Rude behavior | delete | February 13 |
| Category:Rugby films | keep as a parent for Category:Rugby league films and Category:Rugby union films and any articles that don't apply to either of those subcats | February 16 |
| Category:Ruse Province | merge | February 16 |
| Schools | rename | February 25 |
| Category:Science fiction related lists | relisted on 18th | February 12 |
| Category:Science fiction related lists | rename to Category:Science fiction lists | February 18 |
| Category:Scientists with Yorkshire connections | delete | February 20 |
| Category:Seating Plans | delete | February 26 |
| Category:Senior Wranglers | delete both. Since virtually of the arguments presented in this discussion apply equally or more to Category:Second wranglers, I have initiated a discussion about Category:Second wranglers at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 March 1. – | February 5 |
| Category:Serbia and Montenegro footballers | keep | February 4 |
| Category:Serial literature | merge both together and name Category:Novels first published in serial form | February 22 |
| Category:Sex victim advocacy | rename. Everyone brings up very valid points, including Carlos. "sexual abuse" is subjective, and I think, too broad for what we're trying to capture. That said, it's a better name than "Sex victim advocacy", even if cumbersome. (I did like the "Rape victim advocacy" (or anything as specific) suggestion as it is more objective, there wasn't consensus for it) | February 18 |
| Category:Shambhala Buddhism | upmerge to Category:Non-traditional Buddhism | February 25 |
| Category:Shopping malls in Cincinnati, Ohio | merge | February 23 |
| Skyscrapers | rename | February 24 |
| Category:Sly & the Family Stone | keep | February 21 |
| Category:Social structure by country | merge | February 18 |
| Software piracy | rename | February 15 |
| Category:Somalian footballers | rename | February 20 |
| Category:Songs by Jerry Leiber | Heck with it. Boldly merged the categories since no one else wants to help, and only "keep" vote doesn't have a valid rationale attached. Categoires have to match the parent, and in this case, the parent is Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. I think naming conventions override here. Non-admin closure | February 1 |
| Category:Songs that sample 1980s hit singles | delete | February 26 |
| Sorting out more cats for the London (UK) area | merge | February 21 |
| Category:Souk | rename to Category:Souqs | February 19 |
| Category:South African doctors | rename | February 26 |
| Category:Special Defensive and Enforcement of Malaysia | merge to Category:Law enforcement in Malaysia | February 9 |
| Category:Sports lore and subcategories | relisted on 23rd | February 17 |
| Category:Sportspeople from Pittsburgh | merge to Category:Sportspeople from Pennsylvania | February 11 |
| Category:Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame | delete | February 17 |
| Category:Star Wars filming locations | delete | February 14 |
| Category:Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame | speedy deleted as re-created material (2008 Sep 23) | February 15 |
| Category:State cabinet secretaries of Puerto Rico | rename | February 10 |
| Category:Strategic Simulations games | rename. – | February 8 |
| Category:Students of Art Students League of New York | rename | February 2 |
| Category:Students of Loughborough University | merge per precedent of Category:Alumni by university or college in the United Kingdom. If it is desired to add "and students", an umbrella nomination for the other subcats should suffice | February 2 |
| Category:Swear words | Delete. Nothing left to merge, only two articles in suggested merge target | February 8 |
| Category:Sweetwater rescue | delete | February 4 |
| Swiss footballers by ethnic | delete. All articles are in Category:Swiss footballers already, so the last 6 categories will be upmerged respectively to Albanian-Swiss people, Swiss of Bosnian descent, Turkish Swiss people, Swiss French people, Swiss German people, and Swiss Italians. If there are sourcing problems in a particular article, the article should simply be removed from the ethnicity category | February 15 |
| Category:Tajiks folk instruments | merge to Category:Tajik folk instruments to remove the "s" from Tajik, no consensus on the change to "musical instruments" | February 16 |
| Category:Talk page templates | merge | February 21 |
| Category:Tamaki Nami songs | rename | February 6 |
| Category:Television shows by language | relisted on mar 4 | February 25 |
| Category:Terrorist incidents before 1970 | rename to Category:Terrorist incidents in the 20th century | February 8 |
| Category:Texas music artists | relisted on 24th | February 18 |
| Category:Texas music artists | rename to Category:Texas country musicians | February 24 |
| Category:Texas music | rename to Category:Texas country music for consistency other country music categories and other texas music categories. I'm unsure why Texas Country is capitalized the way it is. I checked the references for the article, and the only one that even mentions "Texas country" uses a lowercase "C". It's also an opinion piece, so we would probably have no problems renaming the article | February 20 |
| Category:Texts by topic | merge | February 1 |
| Category:The AN designation system | rename | February 14 |
| Category:The Four Campaigns of Admiral Yi during the Imjin Year (1592) | merge | February 5 |
| Category:The Macerich Company | rename | February 15 |
| Category:The Troubles in Northern Ireland | rename all to foo of/people killed during/etc "The Troubles (Northern Ireland)" | February 13 |
| Theatre companies | rename | February 24 |
| Category:Titular Sees of the Coptic Orthodox Church | listify and delete. | February 24 |
| Category:Tom Cruise biographies | upmerge. It's not in Bios by subject (which itself seems to be a small random group of bios; it's missing a lot of "by subject"s), and American bios isn't so big to need subcatting at this point. recreation ok if it grows to need it | February 21 |
| Category:Trademark trolls | administrative close; category was speedily deleted per creator's request | February 20 |
| Train (band) | rename | February 12 |
| Category:Translators to Ojibwa-Potawatomi-Ottawa language | delete | February 9 |
| Category:Tribes officially recognized by the United States | relisted on mar 4 | February 25 |
| Category:Tribes | rename to Category:Tribes (video games) | February 15 |
| Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus | rename | February 15 |
| Category:U.S. State Population Maps | rename, to be deleted if/when the images are copied to commons | February 26 |
| Category:UK equality case law | rename to Category:Equality case law in the United Kingdom | February 27 |
| Category:UK labour case law | rename to Category:Labour case law in the United Kingdom | February 27 |
| Category:UK planning interested parties | rename to Category:Interested parties in planning in the United Kingdom | February 27 |
| Category:UK railway stations by former operator | rename to Category:Railway stations in the United Kingdom by former operator | February 27 |
| Category:UK railway stations by train operating company | rename to Category:Railway stations in the United Kingdom by train operating company | February 27 |
| Category:UK Railways Authorised but not built | rename to Category:Railways authorised but not built in the United Kingdom | February 27 |
| Category:UK regional academic networks | rename to Category:Regional academic computer networks in the United Kingdom | February 27 |
| Category:UK regional rail systems | there wasn't really a great consensus for this, but I'm going to have this one renamed as nominated just so that the "UK" as an adjective can be converted to a more appropriate adjective of "British". However, this close is done with a strong recommendation that this category and the other subcategories of Category:Regional rail systems be nominated for a mass rename to "Regional rail systems of Foo", as it seems likely that there would be a consensus for that if broadly applied to all the categories. (See also nomination immediately above.) | February 27 |
| Category:UK Underground Punk Scene | rename to Category:Underground punk scene in the United Kingdom | February 27 |
| Category:UK waste legislation | rename to Category:Waste legislation in the United Kingdom | February 27 |
| Category:Uncategorized pages needing expert attention | delete (has remained empty) | February 23 |
| Category:United Kingdom law | rename | February 27 |
| Category:United States House of Representatives elections in the District of Columbia | no consensus. I remember there being a bunch of CFDs regarding W, DC vs D of C, but I can't remember what the outcome was at this time | February 2 |
| Category:United States regional rail systems | no consensus on proposed name, though it sounds like a broad nomination for all subcategories of Category:Regional rail systems would be appropriate, since there seems to be some support for "Regional rail systems of Foo" if the format is applied across the board to all of the subcategories. I hate to close this as no consensus in light of my close immediately below, which now leaves this category as the odd-man out, so I'm strongly recommending a nomination that can standardize all of these names | February 27 |
| Category:United States victims of anti-LGBT hate crimes | rename. My own opinion is that American != only from the US, but alas, the masses have spoken | February 14 |
| Universities and colleges in Zhengzhou | rename | February 25 |
| Universities and colleges | rename | February 25 |
| Category:University of Denver faculty and staff | merge | February 6 |
| Category:University of Nevada | merge (University of Nevada Press will not be merged but could be added again if deemed appropriate) | February 8 |
| Unpopulated future century categories | delete for now | February 2 |
| Category:US City Montages | rename | February 26 |
| Category:US Flower class corvettes | rename to match sibling categories in Category:Flower class corvettes. If a mass rename is desired to change form to "Flower class corvettes of FOO", please make a nomination to do so | February 26 |
| Category:US GAAP | rename | February 26 |
| Category:US-headquartered, non-AMA-affiliated motorcycle clubs | rename to expand "AMA", no consensus on delete | February 26 |
| Category:Usage-Based Linguistics | delete | February 25 |
| Category:Victims of communism | no consensus. NPOV, too broad, many unanswered questions, and no good solutions. Is there no existing merge target? Perhaps not all articles will fit in the new category, but that isn't always a bad thing | February 21 |
| Category:Video games containing bees | delete | February 2 |
| Category:Video games containing sharks | delete | February 2 |
| Category:Vigilante 8 | delete | February 20 |
| Category:Violent incidents in the United States | rename to Category:Violence in the United States | February 27 |
| Category:Virgin Islands people | delete | February 2 |
| Category:Wall Street Journal Editorial Board | upmerge to Category:Wall Street Journal people | February 22 |
| Category:War on Terror | rename | February 15 |
| Category:Washington (U.S. state) | Never mind. Having never seen a case like this before, I wasn't aware that categories generally have to be more specific | February 22 |
| Category:Water Overseers of Los Angeles, California | Delete | February 8 |
| West German footballers | keep | February 4 |
| Western Australian geographic navbox cats | rename | February 26 |
| Category:Western | rename | February 5 |
| Category:White hip hop artists | delete | February 26 |
| Category:Widows | delete. | February 20 |
| Category:Wikipedia bots | support, will notify WP:BON | February 20 |
| Category:WikiProject 24 pages | delete | February 20 |
| Category:WikiProject Films categories | delete | February 14 |
| Category:Windsor Station | delete | February 21 |
| Category:Women state legislators in North Carolina | keep | February 6 |
| WWI and WWII Mediterranean shipwrecks | rename | February 19 |
| Category:Y.R. K.V. Mechelen | rename | February 24 |
| Category:Years in terrorism | merge to Category:Terrorist incidents in the 20th century | February 8 |
| Category:Yugoslav footballers | rename | February 4 |