| Category |
Decision |
Discussion_log
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| Category:1632 series redirects needing articles |
Delete (also empty at close) |
July 23
|
| Category:18th Century in Great Britain |
Merge Category:18th century in the United Kingdom to Category:18th Century in Great Britain |
July 10
|
| Category:2000s fads |
Delete |
July 27
|
| Category:2002 Cincinnati Masters |
Delete as empty. Strongly support whacking all out-of-process-emptiers with a big stick |
July 15
|
| Category:2006 in Turkmenistan |
No Consensus |
July 5
|
| Category:21st-century former rulers |
Merge |
July 16
|
| Category:600 mm gauge railways |
delete |
July 3
|
| Category:749 earthquakes |
delete |
July 3
|
| Category:8th-century astronomers |
Do not rename/merge |
July 23
|
| Category:9/12 Candidates |
DELETE |
July 4
|
| Category:Accused American spies for the Soviet Union |
Speedy delete per G4; see here. |
July 6
|
| Category:Adventure sports |
Delete; Category:Extreme sports under a different name, which has been previously deleted |
July 27
|
| Category:African American atheists and agnostics |
Delete. Inappropriate to join two separate, though non-deist, strands of thought in this manner |
July 8
|
| Category:African American Secretaries of State |
Delete |
July 12
|
| Category:Alternative economy |
Delete |
July 21
|
| Category:Alumni of the Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" |
Rename to Category:Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler alumni for consistency with the parent article and Category:Alumni by university or college in Germany |
July 10
|
| Category:Alumni of The Royal Conservatory of Music |
Closed, no action needed |
July 13
|
| Category:Alumni of The Royal Conservatory of Music |
delete, no point in dragging this one out. Duplicate category accidentally created, empty |
July 13
|
| Ambassadors and Permanent Representatives |
Rename/merge |
July 28
|
| Category:Ambassadors to the United Nations |
Merge to Category:Permanent Representatives to the United Nations |
July 5
|
| Category:American alternative rock music groups |
Rename |
July 28
|
| American river shipwrecks |
Merge/Rename |
July 22
|
| Category:American sportspeople by ethnic or national origin |
Merge/Delete per nom |
July 30
|
| Category:Ancient and medieval Chinese physicians |
Rename |
July 24
|
| Category:Ancient and medieval physicians in Egypt |
Delete; was still empty at close |
July 23
|
| Category:Ancient and medieval physicians |
Delete (now split out per below) |
July 23
|
| Category:Anti-Catholicism in film |
Delete |
July 17
|
| Category:APEC |
Rename |
July 29
|
| Category:Arbitrary detention |
Delete |
July 13
|
| Category:ARMPAC recipients |
Delete |
July 29
|
| Category:Articles about evidence |
Delete |
July 11
|
| Category:Articles actively undergoing a major edit |
Rename |
July 29
|
| Category:Articles actively undergoing construction |
Rename |
July 29
|
| Category:Articles containing Slovenian language text |
rename |
July 4
|
| Category:Articles which may be unencyclopedic |
rename |
July 5
|
| Asian Games |
delete |
July 1
|
| Category:Associated Production Music |
Delete (was empty at close) |
July 24
|
| Category:Association football penalty shootouts |
keep |
July 27
|
| Category:Astronauts elected to political office |
Delete |
July 26
|
| Category:Astronomy Olympiad |
Delete |
July 27
|
| Category:Attapu Province |
Rename Category:Attapu Province to Category:Attapeu Province and Category:Cities, towns and villages in Attopu Province to Category:Cities, towns and villages in Attapeu Province. Given its use in Template:Provinces of Laos I have selected 'Attapeu' for the sake of consistency |
July 8
|
| Category:Australian Open |
Rename per nom |
July 7
|
| Category:Australian places named from foreign wars |
Delete |
July 3
|
| Category:Avant-progressive rock |
Rename. Anyone have a pill for my headache which is getting progressively worst? Anyway, consensus is that since the article was deleted, this is not a valid genre. Outright deletion does not seem at all correct. So an upmerge to the parents seems to be the only choice and is among the options presented in the discussion |
July 26
|
| Azerbaijani descent |
Speedy Delete as empty |
July 6
|
| Category:Bangladeshi actresses |
merge |
July 6
|
| Category:Barack Obama presidential controversies |
Delete as empty |
July 22
|
| Category:Basti |
rename |
July 31
|
| Category:Beet the Vandel Buster characters |
delete |
July 27
|
| Category:Behavioral methods of birth control |
Delete |
July 17
|
| Category:Bender |
Rename to Category:Bender, Moldova |
July 13
|
| Category:Bender |
Withdrawn by nominator (me) pending article move discussion; to be pursued later. |
July 6
|
| [[:Category:Bessarabian counties --> Category:Counties of Bessarabia]] |
Delete. Requested by creator |
July 21
|
| Category:Beverly Hills Cop music |
Upmerge |
July 24
|
| Category:Bilderberg Attendees |
Delete per precedent and as a trivial categorisation |
July 12
|
| Category:Billboard Hot Country Songs number-one singles of the year |
No consensus with a note that this was a close call between non consensus and a keep |
July 2
|
| Category:Biowaste |
Rename to Category:Biological waste |
July 9
|
| Category:Birthers |
delete |
July 31
|
| Category:Black Lace albums |
Nom withdrawn (non admin close) |
July 26
|
| Category:BMX riders |
Rename. Consensus is there for a rename, the issue is capitalized or not. I'm going to go with not (as nominated) after reading this and the article talk page. If consensus develops to change to the capitalized version, another nomination can be made. This was actually closed as a keep by another admin while I was working on the wording for a rename close. After a discussion, |
July 24
|
| Category:Bohemian Club members |
Listify and Delete |
July 4
|
| Category:Books made into films |
No consensus. This discussion was a bit of a mess so if anyone wants to pursue this, I suggest a re-nomination with two separate questions asked that can be responded to in separate sections. Q1: Should the category be kept or deleted? Q2: if Q1 results in "keep" or "no consensus", should the category be renamed to Category:Books adapted into films? |
July 25
|
| Category:BRIC countries |
Delete |
July 16
|
| Category:British victims of anti-LGBT hate crimes |
Upmerge Category:British victims of anti-LGBT hate crimes and Category:Canadian victims of anti-LGBT hate crimes to Category:Victims of anti-LGBT hate crimes |
July 7
|
| Category:Brooklyn Tigers seasons |
Rename to Category:Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL) seasons |
July 9
|
| Category:Buildings and structures in Spokane |
Rename |
July 6
|
| Category:Canadian sport officials |
rename |
July 20
|
| Category:Canadian sportspeople by province or territory |
Rename except for the first |
July 18
|
| Category:Cancelled CD-i games |
Delete |
July 23
|
| Category:Captives held in "the salt pit" |
Rename to Category:Prisoners and detainees held in the Salt Pit. Either "captives" or "P&d" could probably have worked, so as mentioned we may as well go with matching this to the ultimate parent Category:Prisoners and detainees. |
July 17
|
| Category:Cases involving Jehovah's Witnesses |
Rename |
July 16
|
| Category:Cfl1 |
Close - CFD is not required to create categories. If this one is created, it should be Category:American silent film directors per standard capitalization. Non-admin close |
July 11
|
| Category:Channel 73 digital TV stations in the United States |
Delete |
July 17
|
| Chatham-Kent categories |
keep all |
July 1
|
| Category:Cheeses named in Cheese Shop sketch |
Delete |
July 13
|
| Category:Chinese Canadian sportspeople |
Delete/Merge per nom |
July 30
|
| Category:Chipmunk songs |
Rename to Category:Chipmunk (rapper) songs |
July 8
|
| Category:Christ's Hospital Old Blues |
Speedy reverse merge. Recreation of a deleted category |
July 6
|
| Category:Christianity in Macedonia |
Merge Category:Christianity in the Republic of Macedonia to Category:Christianity in Macedonia and Category:Religion in the Republic of Macedonia to Category:Religion in Macedonia per Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Macedonia/consensus |
July 9
|
| Category:Christmas and holiday season |
Delete |
July 2
|
| Category:CIS football |
Rename to Category:Canadian Interuniversity Sport football |
July 28
|
| Category:Climate change feedbacks and causes |
Merge to Category:Climate change |
July 13
|
| Category:Coastal towns |
Merge per nom and cleanup. The subcategories are already parented so that they will roll up correctly if this category is removed |
July 29
|
| Category:College soccer venues |
Delete |
July 16
|
| Category:College track and field people |
Rename all per nom |
July 19
|
| Category:Color blind people |
Delete. I think consensus is clear even if the reasons for keeping are not |
July 28
|
| Category:Coloured South African people |
Keep |
July 30
|
| Category:Commerce raiders of WWI |
Rename |
July 25
|
| Category:Commuting cyclists |
Delete as a trivial categorisation |
July 15
|
| Category:Computers and environmental issues |
No Consensus |
July 8
|
| Category:Controversial inscriptions |
Rename to Category:Inscriptions of disputed origin |
July 27
|
| Criminal categories implying POV |
End of discussion. This discussion appears to have come to an end and I don't see that it calls for any particular action by the closing admin |
July 29
|
| Category:Critics of Wikipedia |
Keep, based on the consensus/voted here. But we need to make sure this category doesn't get filled with crap. For instance, surely Wikipedia Review and Conservapedia belong if this category exists, because they are defined by their Criticism of Wikipedia. On the other hand, The Times, clearly does not belong. The article didn't mention those criticisms anywhere, and it was quite shameful to see this category among the others. The Times is not notable/categorized because of their criticism of us. Please, volunteers, watch this category, and help clean it up |
July 19
|
| Category:Crocodylus |
Merge to Category:Crocodylidae |
July 6
|
| Cruisers by navy |
Rename |
July 26
|
| Category:Crusade people (Christians) |
Rename all to Christians/Muslims of the XXXX Crusade form. Clear consensus for change and clear support for something along the lines of <Christians/Muslims/Crusaders> of the Crusades. Per |
July 15
|
| Category:Current Egyptian footballers in Europe |
Rename/Merge |
July 21
|
| Category:Dance Crews |
Delete |
July 3
|
| Category:Dancing films |
Rename |
July 24
|
| Category:Danish silent film directors |
Merge |
July 11
|
| Category:Defunct companies of Chicago, Illinois |
Rename per nom |
July 8
|
| Category:Defunct companies of Oregon |
merge |
July 31
|
| Category:Defunct schools in Norfolk County, Ontario |
Speedy Delete as empty |
July 17
|
| Category:Departments and Government of Billings, Montana |
Rename |
July 16
|
| Destroyer classes |
Rename |
July 29
|
| Destroyers by navy |
Rename |
July 26
|
| Category:Detention centres for extrajudicial prisoners of the United States |
Rename to Category:Detention centers for extrajudicial prisoners of the United States |
July 13
|
| Category:Disney Princess video games |
Merge to Category:Disney Princess |
July 5
|
| Category:Doctors Without Borders |
Rename |
July 29
|
| Category:Documentaries about documentaries |
Delete |
July 26
|
| Category:Documentaries about Wikipedia |
Delete (upmerging to Category:Wikipedia). If more articles that would fit the categorization are created in the future, this can be revisited |
July 25
|
| Category:Dog eaters |
Delete |
July 9
|
| Category:Dr. Slump characters |
Delete |
July 21
|
| Category:Dragon Magazine covers |
keep |
July 20
|
| Drought(-)tolerant categories moved from speedy |
Rename all per nom |
July 15
|
| Category:Druze surnames |
Delete. Per discussion and Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2009_June_6#Category:Surnames_by_country. This deletion is entirely without prejudice to the two categories being re-created as a part of any new scheme of categorisation agreed at Category talk:Surnames or similar |
July 3
|
| Category:Dunaújváros FC players |
Merge Category:Dunaújváros FC footballers to Category:Dunaújváros FC players. Convention for players-by-club is to use 'players' not 'footballers'. Advise nomination of the remainder of Category:Footballers in Hungary by club iot eliminate this quirk |
July 17
|
| Category:East German political parties |
Rename |
July 16
|
| Category:Economic Cooperation Organization |
Delete |
July 29
|
| Category:Economics of global warming |
Merge to Category:Economics and climate change |
July 7
|
| Category:ECRG MEPs serving 2009-2014 |
Rename |
July 16
|
| Category:English country music songwriters |
Keep |
July 18
|
| Category:English people of Cuban descent |
KEEP |
July 4
|
| Category:Environmental issues with aviation |
Rename/Merge |
July 21
|
| Category:Ethical banking |
Keep |
July 29
|
| Category:Ethical banks |
Delete |
July 17
|
| Category:Ethnic enclaves in the United Kingdom |
No consensus. Maybe a rename? |
July 16
|
| Category:Ethnic groups in the United Kingdom |
Keep |
July 30
|
| European music groups |
delete |
July 1
|
| Category:Evidence |
Rename. After scanning the articles and subcategories it is clear that everything is not about law. This supports the need for a rename. However the rename does not preclude recreation in the future of this category as a container one if needed. As to the name. We prefer to use a name that does not include disambiguation. In reading the evidence article, this topic seems to be the only one that uses parenthetical disambiguation. So I'm going to go with Category:Evidence law as the target. I will not oppose a new nomination to Category:Evidence (law) if editors believe that may in fact be the better choice. However I would suggest that before that is done, consideration be given to renaming the article to line up better with the other evidence related articles |
July 11
|
| Category:Ex-gay organizations |
Don't rename |
July 29
|
| Category:Executed people by Alexander the Great |
Rename per nomination and undo the out of process moves during the discussion. Having said that, new subcategories can be created under the new parent if appropiate. Clearly the out of process changes require this unorthodox close. The close would have been easier without this extra drama, but all that aside, there is consensus for the new name of this category |
July 20
|
| Category:Executed rapists |
Deleted by |
July 26
|
| Category:Explosions in Iraq |
Keep, part of wider scheme |
July 4
|
| Category:Fads |
Delete all |
July 27
|
| Category:Fair use BusinessWeek magazine covers |
keep |
July 20
|
| Category:Famous explosions |
delete |
July 4
|
| Category:Faustnh biology categories |
Delete all. WP:SNOW - No sense letting this very deeply confused/hoax categorisation stick around longer than necessary |
July 13
|
| Category:Fell running event |
rename |
July 31
|
| Category:Female film directors |
no consensus. There were arguments in support of both, neither side significantly stronger than the other |
July 4
|
| Category:Festetics |
delete |
July 31
|
| Category:Fictional characters who can change their size |
Delete |
July 19
|
| Category:Fictional characters with genius-level intellect |
Delete |
July 7
|
| Category:Fictional video games set in the pre-20th Century United States |
Merge. Will also take the initiative to fix the capital "c" in "Century" in the target category |
July 24
|
| Category:Film based Marvel Comics video games |
rename |
July 5
|
| Category:Film sequels with different MPAA ratings than their predecessors |
Delete |
July 8
|
| Category:Films about documentaries |
Delete |
July 26
|
| Category:Films about journalists |
Merge Category:Films about journalism to Category:Films about journalists |
July 21
|
| Category:Films by occupation of the protagonist |
Upmerge to Category:Films by topic. |
July 18
|
| Category:Films by topic |
Keep |
July 23
|
| Category:Films depicting British Empire lifestyle |
Rename to Category:Films set in the British Empire. There is a strong consensus to rename to something, but only a weak consensus on what it should be. If this name is though to be overbroad or otherwise inappropriate, a re-nomination for renaming should be allowed. |
July 25
|
| Category:Films featuring Peking opera |
Rename per nom |
July 18
|
| Category:Films feautring orphans |
Rename to Category:Films about orphans. It's a fair point that this category, once renamed, will fit right in with Category:Films by topic. Personally I think that this is an excellent reason for nominating that category, and its contents, for deletion... However, until that happens, this category does fit into a structure - however flawed |
July 15
|
| Films with stereophonic and monaural soundtracks |
Delete |
July 24
|
| Category:First number-one singles for artist |
Delete |
July 13
|
| Category:Fishing history |
Rename |
July 24
|
| Category:Flame of Recca characters |
Delete |
July 21
|
| Category:Flame of Recca |
Delete |
July 21
|
| Category:Former CBS Corporation subsidiaries |
No Consensus |
July 3
|
| Category:Former Colleges of the University of Oxford |
Rename to Category:Former colleges and halls of the University of Oxford |
July 14
|
| Category:Frontside artists |
Delete |
July 7
|
| Category:Futbol Club Atlas |
Rename |
July 18
|
| Category:Gate news items |
Delete (both as re-created material and per discussion here) |
July 30
|
| Category:Genes by chromosome |
Rename |
July 16
|
| Category:GetBackers characters |
delete |
July 27
|
| Category:Glossary of German terms |
Merge/Rename |
July 22
|
| Category:Green Lantern films |
Delete |
July 23
|
| Category:Guantanamo Bay attorneys |
Keep |
July 19
|
| Category:Hail Eris! read A Drifting brain |
Speedy Delete as nonsense |
July 19
|
| Category:Heads of state tried for major crimes |
Delete |
July 27
|
| Category:Historical sources on Alexander the Great |
Delete with the note that it appears all three keeps were from the same editor. Listify made a case, but since most of the information already exists in Historical Alexander the Great, the list basically exists |
July 20
|
| Category:Hockey films |
Rename to Category:Ice hockey films |
July 15
|
| Category:Homophobic violence |
No Consensus |
July 9
|
| Category:Human genes by chromosome |
rename |
July 27
|
| Category:IIHF |
Rename |
July 29
|
| Category:Images of baseball players |
Delete |
July 3
|
| Imprisoned |
Merge: |
July 9
|
| Category:International court judges |
Rename |
July 17
|
| Category:International courts |
Rename |
July 2
|
| Intersection of British and Fraudster not a matter of encyclopaedic interest and is fundamentally racist. |
Keep. WP:SNOW and WP:POINT |
July 16
|
| Intersection of Italian and Fraudster not a matter of encyclopaedic interest and is fundamentally racist. |
Keep. WP:SNOW and WP:POINT |
July 16
|
| Intersection of Scottish and Fraudster not a matter of encyclopaedic interest and is fundamentally racist. |
Keep. WP:SNOW and WP:POINT |
July 16
|
| Category:Irish Catholic Wikipedians |
Delete |
July 9
|
| Category:Irish Republican Army films |
Rename |
July 18
|
| Irish to Northern Ireland |
rename all |
July 27
|
| Category:IRT Broadway-Seventh Avenue Line stations |
Rename for now. Honestly, I don't know what to do with cases like this. The consensus on what to do with WP:DASH in category names is at a standstill. By default here I'm matching to the category name per the comments below to that effect. |
July 23
|
| Category:Islands in the Shetland Islands |
Rename to Category:Islands of Shetland |
July 12
|
| Category:Isotopes of neutronium |
Keep |
July 25
|
| ISS |
Rename: |
July 29
|
| Category:Italian loanwords |
Keep |
July 23
|
| Category:J. Malucelli Futebol players |
Rename |
July 23
|
| Category:Jamba! |
Delete |
July 22
|
| Category:Japanese Cigarettes |
rename Category:Japanese Cigarettes to Category:Japanese cigarette brands; delete Category:Japanese Cigarettes and Tabacco companies |
July 6
|
| Category:Jeopardy! video games |
Merge: |
July 9
|
| Category:Jethou |
Delete. Limited contents and scope for growth |
July 22
|
| Jewish astronauts - WP:OC#CATGRS |
Keep. WP:SNOW and WP:POINT. I'll note that this is another one of related categories that keep reappearing. As noted in the discussion, even editors who agree with the deletion of this and related categories are opposing this nomination for technical reasons. This keep should not be used as justification in any future nominations as supporting the existence of this category. I'll further note that the last two discussions on June 11 and May 9 were closed as no consensus. So given the current dissension by both supporters of the category and opposers, it is simply too soon to expect a consensus to develop. In fact one could argue that the constant nomination of this and related categories is polluting the water and preventing a fair and reasonable discussion as evidenced by this discussion so far. I'll also add that tempers are so high that editors are actually ignoring other closes and actually reverting admin closes |
July 18
|
| Category:Jewish explorers |
Keep. I'm closing based on WP:SNOW and WP:POINT as other recent closes used in this area. It is not likely that there will be any short term change in past closing consensuses for this reason. This last series of nominations is digressing into areas other then the actual proposal. Nothing in this close shall be interpreted as a keep for supporting future nominations. Other editors are free to nominate this category for deletion using a different reason at any time |
July 18
|
| Category:Jewish Inventors |
Already closed as listify. Users do not have the option to change a previous close by an admin. If you have a question with that action, you can take it to deletion review |
July 18
|
| Category:Jewish sportspeople |
Keep. I'm closing based on WP:SNOW and WP:POINT as other recent closes used in this area. It is not likely that there will be any short term change in past closing consensuses for this reason. This last series of nominations is digressing into areas other then the actual proposal. Nothing in this close shall be interpreted as a keep for supporting future nominations. Other editors are free to nominate this category for deletion using a different reason at any time |
July 18
|
| Category:Jimmy Neutron characters |
Delete |
July 23
|
| Category:Joke characters |
Delete |
July 22
|
| Category:Jurists by faith |
Rename to Category:Jurists of religious law |
July 15
|
| Category:K.d. lang songs |
Rename to Category:k.d. lang songs. Note there is apparently a technical limitation in how this displays on the category page, so while the title is displayed correctly, it's use in the page is not. If anyone knows of a way around this that requires admin action, please let me know. As a technical note, the name of the category is not really changed |
July 21
|
| Kennedy School, Harvard subcategories |
Rename |
July 17
|
| Category:King of Pop |
delete |
July 3
|
| Category:Knut Hamsun |
Delete. Nature and direct bearing of contents do not justify an eponymous category - article is more than sufficient to allow navigation |
July 27
|
| Category:Korean hip hop groups |
Delete for now; populate Category:South Korean hip hop groups. |
July 24
|
| Category:Korean People's Army |
Merge |
July 24
|
| Category:Korean record labels |
Delete (move endorsed) |
July 24
|
| Category:Korean rhythm and blues musical groups |
Delete (move endorsed) |
July 24
|
| Category:Leaders of political parties in Australia |
Delete but without prejudice to re-creation as part of a future scheme of sub-categorisation by party or similar |
July 28
|
| Category:Lines of Tsukuba Express |
rename |
July 4
|
| Category:List of research institutes in Hyderabad |
rename to Category:Research institutes in Hyderabad |
July 31
|
| Category:Lists of manga chapters |
Rename |
July 28
|
| Category:Lists of Negima characters |
Upmerge to Category:Lists of anime and manga characters and Category:Negima |
July 24
|
| Category:Locations visible on Google Street View |
Delete |
July 23
|
| Lost submarines by country |
Rename |
July 25
|
| Category:Loughborough UCCE cricketers |
Rename to Category:Loughborough University cricketers |
July 15
|
| Malayalam-language films by year |
Merge all on a per-decade basis |
July 11
|
| Category:Marin County Board of Supervisors |
Merge as nominated |
July 24
|
| Category:Marin County supervisors |
Delete (endorse action) |
July 24
|
| Category:Mario Universe games |
No Consensus |
July 8
|
| Category:Maritime Records |
delete as uncontested nomination |
July 27
|
| Category:Members of the Nation of Islam |
Keep |
July 11
|
| Category:Menstruation |
Rename |
July 19
|
| Category:Meteorology timelines |
rename all |
July 27
|
| Category:Mohakash Barta |
Delete |
July 27
|
| Monasteries by country |
Rename |
July 11
|
| Monasteries by country |
Rename |
July 18
|
| Category:Montenegro chess players |
rename |
July 2
|
| Category:Mosques in Newfoundland |
Rename immediately (per discussion with creator below) (nominator self-close) |
July 29
|
| Category:Motorcycling media depictions |
Rename/Merge |
July 21
|
| Category:Motorcycling subcultures |
Rename/Merge |
July 21
|
| Category:Mountain ranges of Upstate California |
Merge (Category:Upper California was merged to Category:Northern California in the previous discussion, so doing this is consistent with that result.) |
July 26
|
| Category:Multinational law enforcement agencies |
Delete |
July 6
|
| Multiplayer browser-based games |
Rename to Category:Browser-based multiplayer online games' |
July 15
|
| Category:Murder articles |
rename to Category:Murders |
July 6
|
| Category:Music videos and DVDs |
Merge Category:Music videos and DVDs to Category:Video albums by artist |
July 31
|
| Category:Music videos directed by Al Yankovic |
rename |
July 3
|
| Category:Musical groups by nationality and genre |
Delete all |
July 1
|
| Category:Musical sibling duos |
Rename |
July 30
|
| Category:Muslim jurists |
Rename to Category:Jurists of Islamic law. Name could be tweaked to either Category:Islamic law jurists or Category:Sharia jurists if desired, but we'd need a new discussion. |
July 24
|
| Category:Naat khawans |
Rename to Category:Naat Khawans |
July 10
|
| Category:National sports teams of FYR of Macedonia |
Rename: |
July 11
|
| Nationality sub-categories of Category:Seismologists |
Merge Category:Macedonian seismologists to Category:Seismologists |
July 25
|
| Category:Nausicaa characters |
Delete |
July 21
|
| Category:Nazi composers |
Delete |
July 23
|
| NBA seasons |
No Consensus |
July 4
|
| Category:NCAA soccer players |
No Consensus |
July 19
|
| Category:New South Wales State of Origin players |
Rename to Category:New South Wales Australian rules football State of Origin players for consistency with NSW Rugby League category |
July 15
|
| Category:New Zealand umpires |
rename to Category:New Zealand cricket umpires |
July 20
|
| Category:Northern Irish accountants |
Rename all to "XXX from Northern Ireland" form. Wrt questions over tagging, in the absence of particular controversy over the substance of the rename, I invoke WP:IAR, WP:BOLD, and all that good stuff as a blanket justification for going a little rogue |
July 13
|
| Category:Northern Irish installation artists |
Merge |
July 28
|
| Category:Northern Irish musicians by genre |
Keep (renaming to Category:Musicians from Northern Ireland by genre per suggestion and other recent changes to similar categories.) |
July 28
|
| Category:Novels made into films |
keep |
July 25
|
| Category:Number-one singles in Portugal |
delete |
July 6
|
| OECS |
Rename |
July 29
|
| Category:Old provinces of Laos |
Merge to Category:Subdivisions of Laos |
July 7
|
| Category:Olympic athletes of Canada |
rename per nom. Per WP:ENGVAR, "An article on a topic that has strong ties to a particular English-speaking nation uses the English of that nation." Given the usage of the term "athlete" in the United States and Canada to refer to any sportsperson, the current category names are misleading, and require disambiguation |
July 29
|
| Category:Olympic athletes of Canada |
 Relisted at 2009 JUL 29. |
July 20
|
| Category:Omens |
Delete |
July 24
|
| Category:One Network |
Delete |
July 1
|
| Category:Order of Léopold recipients |
Rename to Category:Order of Leopold recipients |
July 10
|
| Category:Orthodontic Encyclopedia |
Delete |
July 8
|
| Overcategorization of sportspeople |
No Consensus |
July 29
|
| Category:Pacific Northwest cities |
Delete |
July 7
|
| Category:Parents of people with Down syndrome |
Delete |
July 9
|
| Category:Parliament of Israel |
Rename to Category:Knesset |
July 15
|
| Category:Passenger equipment |
Rename to Category:Passenger rail vehicles |
July 8
|
| Pennsylvania townships |
Rename all per nom |
July 14
|
| Category:People associated with Bedford College |
Merge/Rename |
July 22
|
| People by occupation by Canadian province or territory, group 1 |
rename all |
July 27
|
| People by occupation by Canadian province or territory, group 2 |
rename all |
July 27
|
| People by school in England |
No consensus |
July 23
|
| Category:People from Stormont, Dundas, and Glengarry, Ontario |
Rename |
July 24
|
| Category:People involved with Shinto |
rename |
July 20
|
| Category:People with the name Hurricane |
Delete |
July 13
|
| Permanent Representatives to the UN |
Rename |
July 17
|
| Category:Peruvian Ministers of the Environment |
Keep |
July 19
|
| Category:Philip K. Dick Memorial Award |
Delete Category:Philip K. Dick Memorial Award and Category:Philip K. Dick Memorial Award winner |
July 10
|
| Philip K. Dick |
Keep Category:Philip K. Dick, Delete Category:Philip K. Dick Memorial Award winner |
July 11
|
| Category:Photography, vernacular |
Rename to Category:Vernacular photography |
July 10
|
| Category:Pogrom of Armenians |
rename |
July 3
|
| Category:Poker Halls of Fame |
Delete |
July 29
|
| Category:Port Technology |
Rename |
July 30
|
| Category:Prehistoric artiodactyls |
Rename |
July 28
|
| Category:Presidents of the General Assembly of the League of Nations |
Rename/merge |
July 28
|
| Category:Proposed Decade in which Moses leads the Exodus of the Jews from Egypt |
Speedy deleted as G7 |
July 5
|
| Category:Psychiatrist films |
Rename. No objection to a later nomination if a better name is found |
July 18
|
| Category:Québec sports teams |
Speedy rename as a type of quasi-"spelling error" (creator supports change). |
July 28
|
| Category:Race (historical definitions) |
Rename to Category:Historical definitions of race |
July 15
|
| Radio stations by frequency |
Delete |
July 1
|
| Category:Rafting films |
Withdrawn by nominator |
July 21
|
| Category:Railway stations by served venue |
Delete |
July 29
|
| Category:Rape and Revenge films |
Rename |
July 24
|
| Category:Reforestation and Category:Deforestation |
No Consensus |
July 4
|
| Category:Relisted AfD debates |
Keep |
July 9
|
| Remixes |
Delete |
July 22
|
| Category:Renewable energy banks |
Delete |
July 16
|
| Category:Ricky Martin DVD Videography |
Delete |
July 21
|
| Category:Roots |
Rename to Category:Plant roots. Clear consensus for a name change - suggest that interested editors give consideration to renaming Root for consistency |
July 9
|
| Category:Royal Conservatory of Music alumni |
Rename: |
July 13
|
| Rugby league footballers by nationality |
Keep |
July 28
|
| Rugby league players by club |
rename |
July 1
|
| Category:Russian rappers |
keep all |
July 5
|
| Category:Russia–United Arab Emirates relations |
No consensus on keep vs. delete, so we default to the status quo—but |
July 27
|
| Category:Samurai Deeper Kyo characters |
Upmerge to Category:Samurai Deeper Kyo pending the outcome for that category discussion. |
July 24
|
| Category:Samurai Deeper Kyo images |
Delete |
July 25
|
| Category:Samurai Deeper Kyo |
Delete |
July 25
|
| Category:Sci Fi Channel (United States) staff |
Delete (empty at close) |
July 7
|
| Category:Sci Fi Channel (United States) |
Rename to Category:Syfy |
July 7
|
| Category:Sci Fi Channel original films |
No Consensus |
July 10
|
| Category:Sci Fi Channel shows |
rename to Category:SyFy original programs |
July 10
|
| Category:Sex symbols |
Delete per snow and G4 speedy. |
July 10
|
| Category:Sheepshead |
delete |
July 31
|
| Ship classes by country |
Delete |
July 25
|
| Ships of the People's Liberation Army Navy |
Rename |
July 25
|
| Category:Slam Dunk characters |
Delete |
July 21
|
| Category:Smiths |
Rename to Category:Metalsmiths and cleanup. Since most of what is in here is about metal, this means that the bots can do most of the work. No objection to Category:Smiths (trades), or is that Category:Smiths (trade), as a parent category and to hold what does not belong in the category as renamed. I did ask a question in the debate about how to deal with a few of the out of place articles, but I don't consider that as a disqualification from closing this debate. The fact that the main article was at metalsmith, was also a faction in the choice |
July 16
|
| Category:Soil stub candidates |
Moving to WP:SFD for close to be performed. |
July 25
|
| Solange categories |
Rename |
July 17
|
| Category:Solar energy by territory |
merge |
July 1
|
| Category:Soldering |
Rename |
July 24
|
| Category:Songs by John Coltrane |
Rename |
July 11
|
| Category:Songs written by Al Yankovic |
rename |
July 3
|
| Category:Songs written by Darryl Worley |
Keep |
July 29
|
| Category:Songs written by Hayley Williams |
keep |
July 5
|
| Category:Sound catchphrases |
Rename/Merge |
July 21
|
| Category:Sports announcers |
No Consensus |
July 6
|
| Category:Sports by city |
delete |
July 4
|
| Category:Sportspeople from Melbourne |
no consensus. Both sides have provided strong arguments |
July 6
|
| Category:Spouses of Massachusetts Governors |
Rename to Category:Spouses of Massachusetts governors |
July 25
|
| Category:St Leonards Seniors |
rename to Category:St Leonards School Seniors |
July 2
|
| Category:StarFox games |
Rename |
July 29
|
| Subcategories of Alternate versions of comics characters |
Merge: |
July 12
|
| Category:Sun-Festival |
Delete |
July 27
|
| Support/Oppose flagged revision |
keep both |
July 6
|
| Surfing locations by country/region |
Keep |
July 12
|
| Category:Symptoms of obsessive–compulsive disorder |
delete |
July 27
|
| Category:Tamagotchi Versions |
Merge to Category:Tamagotchi |
July 10
|
| Category:Tara Porichity |
Delete |
July 27
|
| Category:Taxes |
Merge per nom. While there were points made about keeping this as is, the significant amount of overlap and the lack of parent categories that were appropriate for the content really support the merge as nominated. If anyone really thinks that we need to leave a redirect, drop a note on my talk page after the bots move the articles and I'll create it |
July 22
|
| Category:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles parodies |
Delete |
July 12
|
| Category:Terminator films |
Keep/no consensus |
July 18
|
| Category:The hindu supplements |
Delete |
July 28
|
| Category:The Jackson 5 members |
Withdrawn |
July 4
|
| Category:The John Francis albums |
Delete (still empty at close) |
July 25
|
| Category:The Nation of Gods and Earths people |
Rename to Category:Members of the Nation of Gods and Earths iot match parent |
July 15
|
| Category:The Rasmus music videos |
Delete |
July 20
|
| Category:The Wreckers |
No Consensus |
July 4
|
| Category:Theatre schools and training organizations |
Merge |
July 26
|
| Category:TheGrandAmanin |
Administrative close: speedily deleted by another editor. |
July 27
|
| This category is not a nationality and is fundamentally racist. |
Keep. WP:SNOW and WP:POINT |
July 16
|
| This category is not an occupation and should be deleted. There is no need to categorise criminals by nationality or affinity. |
Keep. WP:SNOW and WP:POINT |
July 16
|
| Category:Transport ministers of Nigeria |
rename |
July 1
|
| Category:Types of economics |
Merge to Category:Schools of economic thought and methodology |
July 4
|
| Category:Types of running |
Merge to Category:Running |
July 20
|
| Category:Types |
Delete |
July 21
|
| U.S. Navy oilers |
Rename |
July 18
|
| U.S. state cabinet departments |
Rename all per nom and |
July 14
|
| Category:UFC champions |
rename |
July 20
|
| Category:Ukrainian police |
Rename |
July 16
|
| Category:United Church of Christ |
Rename per nom |
July 7
|
| Category:United States budget |
Rename |
July 27
|
| Category:United States gay rights cases |
Rename as nominated, noting that this seems to be the standard form of the subcategories of Category:United States case law by topic. A reformatting of these per Alansohn's suggestion could be proposed in a broader proposal |
July 16
|
| Category:United States Navy Armadillo class tankers |
Rename |
July 18
|
| Category:United States video game companies |
Rename |
July 26
|
| Category:Universities and colleges by affiliated with the Stone-Campbell movement |
Rename as nominated. There is a consensus that this needs to be renamed to remove the word "by", but there is no consensus on whether to use "Stone-Campbell movement" or "Restoration Movement", so we default to keeping what presently exists, which is "Stone-Campbell movement" |
July 14
|
| Category:University of Chicago linguists |
I have tagged the category and it is now relisted at 2009 AUG 5 |
July 28
|
| Category:University of Nevada alumni |
No consensus; but it's been empty for more than 4 days so I'm deleting it as empty. If someone wants to re-create it as a parent container for subcategories that would be permitted, though doing so is not mandated by this close either |
July 26
|
| Category:Unofficial sequels |
Delete |
July 26
|
| Category:Upstate California |
Merge |
July 25
|
| Category:User nv-0 |
Delete |
July 9
|
| Category:Users with no Barnstars |
Administrative close. Already under discussion on 2009 Jun 29. I'll place a note there about this nomination. I've also left a note on the talk page of the user who removed the tag. |
July 2
|
| Category:VeggieTales characters |
Merge to Category:VeggieTales. |
July 23
|
| Category:Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Nicaragua |
Keep as part of larger scheme |
July 14
|
| Category:Victims of human rights abuses |
Keep |
July 15
|
| Category:Victims of the extraordinary rendition program |
Rename to Category:People subject to extraordinary rendition by the United States |
July 14
|
| Video albums |
Rename per nom. Very interesting discussion. The nomination points out that there was no standard for these categories. The one proposed did receive support and while there were some questions, nothing that I read was really an objection. So there was consensus for a rename. Having said that, there may well be a need for additional cleanup. If said cleanup affects some of these newly renamed categories, this decision should not be viewed as an impediment to renominating small subsets of these categories for rename as part of a larger consensus scheme |
July 22
|
| Category:Video covers |
Rename to Category:Images of video covers. Consensus was to rename. The target was open to discussion. Since the result is a rename, nothing is really lost by selecting among the options. This decision does not prevent someone from renominating if they feel that the chosen target is unacceptable |
July 22
|
| Category:Video games by source |
Withdrawn |
July 11
|
| Category:Vietnamese expatriates in Canada |
Keep, fits in with existing structure of Category:Expatriates in Canada |
July 8
|
| Category:VJs |
Merge/Rename to Category:VJs (media personalities) |
July 22
|
| Category:Warships built in the United States for export |
Rename |
July 25
|
| Washington companies |
Rename per nom |
July 9
|
| Category:Web television series |
Rename |
July 30
|
| Category:Web television |
Rename |
July 30
|
| Category:Whitewater canoeing venues |
Rename |
July 27
|
| Category:Whiting class seaplane tenders |
Rename to Category:Kenneth Whiting class seaplane tenders |
July 10
|
| Category:Wikipedia files with unknown source from unknown date 2009 |
Merge (both were empty at close, so just deleting the nominated category) |
July 25
|
| Category:Wikipedia policy |
Merge per nom |
July 5
|
| Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Santa Clara County |
Rename |
July 25
|
| WikiProjects using XXX-Class in their grading scheme |
Delete all |
July 12
|
| Category:Without Borders organisations |
Merge to Category:International nongovernmental organizations |
July 29
|
| Category:Woodworking abrasives |
Merge all per nom |
July 15
|
| Category:Words referring to ethnic groups |
merge |
July 6
|
| Category:Wreckers |
Rename to Category:Wreckers (Transformers) |
July 4
|
| Category:Wrongly accused terrorism suspects |
Rename: |
July 17
|
| Category:WWE Guest Hosts |
Delete |
July 21
|
| Category:X-Men music |
Delete |
July 23
|
| Category:Xavier University alumni |
Rename |
July 24
|
| Category:XxxHolic characters |
Delete |
July 22
|
| Category:Zara class cruisers |
rename |
July 31
|
Relisted at 2009 JUL 29.