Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2012 December index
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| Category:16th-century Jewish physicians by country | merge, without prejudice to the future re-creation/discussion of Category:16th-century Jewish physicians of Italy | December 23 |
| Category:16th-century Protestant Reformers and ministers | merge to Category:Protestant Reformers | December 27 |
| Category:1760s establishments in the United States | 'upmerge into Category:1760s establishments in the Thirteen Colonies. No objections to this suggestion by previous contributors, it seems like the nom and earlier contributors would be ok with this idea since arguments revolved around historical inaccuracy | December 14 |
| 1824 establishments in Michigan | rename. I see the point about doing the same thing to Category:1820s establishments in Michigan, but I don't think I see enough discussion here to justify my doing that just from this cfd. I think it will have to be dealt with in a separate cfd | December 10 |
| Category:1871 in South Dakota | rename all. Most participation was after the suggested additions, no one had a problem with them (who supported the original nomination), and doing them all adds consistency. Upmerging them all to the US, as one person suggests, seems sensible to me but I do not see consensus for that here. I do see a consensus here to move these categories, as I've been seeing a general trend toward that (although often not as clear as it is here) in a lot of these CFDs over whether to use the current name or the name used at the time | December 8 |
| Category:1885 establishments in Syria | merge | December 15 |
| Category:1889 establishments in the Czech Republic | rename Category:1889 establishments in the Czech Republic to Category:1889 establishments in Austria-Hungary. I've looked at a lot of these discussions around whether to name the categories after the modern place names or the names used at the they relate to. It seems to me that there's a consensus emerging to do the latter, although it's not unanimous and both sides make well reasoned points. It looks to me like in this particular discussion that a consensus does exist to rename the category | December 14 |
| Category:1910 disestablishments in Turkey | rename | December 24 |
| Category:1912 establishments in Israel | rename to to Category:xxxx establishments in the Ottoman Empire. Whether there should be subcategories of that category need not be part of this decision, that can be for users to figure out through ongoing discussion | December 14 |
| Category:1924 establishments in Israel | rename to Category:xxxx establishments in Mandatory Palestine. None of the supporters of the rename seemed to object to this option as opposed to "British Palestine". This discussion is one in a series about whether to name categories by their modern names or to use the names of the places at the time that they relate to. I have looked at a lot of them and I think I'm seeing a consensus emerge to use the names of the places at the time; however, the consensus is not as clear in some discussions as I think it is in this one. I appreciate that one participant brought up WP:MODERNPLACENAME, which points to an existing consensus. I have not taken into account the argument that people might be offended by a certain name, my task here is to find consensus among Wikipedians in line with the broader consensus of the community | December 14 |
| Category:2 Broke Girls | Deleted by Floquenbeam as pure vandalism (with no prejudice against recreation on valid grounds) | December 5 |
| Category:2000 comic strip disestablishments | Delete | December 29 |
| Category:21st-century actors | keep, but this decision does not preclude creating subcategories. This would be a parent category and would not need to get deleted. I think I do not see enough consensus here to go ahead and create the subcats as part of this CFD, but others can try to find a consensus to do that and go ahead themselves at any point | December 7 |
| Category:285 corridor | Delete | December 20 |
| Category:314 establishments in Turkey | Merge | December 15 |
| Category:ABC television specials | Rename | December 8 |
| Category:Adolfo Farsari photographs | delete | December 12 |
| Category:Afyonkarahisar geography stubs | Rename | December 14 |
| Category:Albums recorded in California | Merge | December 19 |
| Category:Alphas characters | delete | December 16 |
| Category:American boxers of French descent | merge | December 23 |
| Category:American gay-related television programs | merge. I will also merge it to Category:Gay-related television programs, and it sounds like that category might be next for a nomination | December 11 |
| American musicians of Hungarian descent | merge | December 23 |
| Category:American people of German descent by occupation | upmerge | December 16 |
| Category:American peoples culturally isolated | delete | December 16 |
| Category:American politicians convicted of corruption | merge to Category:American politicians convicted of crimes. I will also merge it (i.e. add the two sub-cats, being the only current contents) into Category:Political corruption in the United States. – | December 2 |
| Category:Ancient Roman saints | keep | December 5 |
| Category:Anglican Missionary Bishops in China 1849-1949 | rename | December 12 |
| Category:Arabs in Ottoman and British Palestine | rename to Category:Arab people in British Palestine. There may need to be a CFD to make the naming of these categories consistent, e.g. Category:Arab people by occupation Category:Arab people by country of citizenship, Category:Arab people by ethnic or national origin, but Category:Arab citizens of Israel, Category:Arabs in the Roman Empire and Category:Arabs in Ottoman Palestine | December 7 |
| Category:Arbitrary precision algorithms | rename. – | December 1 |
| Category:Australian pediatricians | Rename | December 29 |
| Category:Australian professional wrestling promotions | keep | December 7 |
| Category:Authors by nation templates | speedy rename all. | December 1 |
| Category:Authors writing in dialects from England | delete | December 21 |
| Authors | rename. (The one that was originally nominated for deletion was deleted in a subsequent discussion here that was closed before this discussion was closed.) | December 3 |
| Category:Ayah | rename to Category:Ayat | December 4 |
| Category:Battlefield-range ballistic missiles | merge | December 23 |
| Category:BBC New Media | keep | December 20 |
| Category:BBC Persian staff | merge into Category:BBC newsreaders and journalists. As FL says all three are also already in Category:Iranian journalists. A disagreement exists about whether this is an unnecessary small category or whether the language is important but I feel that this discussion is enough to show a rough consensus to merge | December 17 |
| Category:Best Song on MTV Europe Music Awards | delete | December 17 |
| Category:Black River District | rename. Although the support for renaming was not unanimous, I feel that there is a general consensus to rename. Those suggesting a rename feel that consistency with the page name is important (which I discounted since we could equally easily move the article again) and that we usually do not translate place names. Opposers felt that on the English Wikipedia, English names should be preferred. Both sides made solid points and this decision was not easy. However I feel this discussion is enough to show that consensus exists | December 12 |
| Category:Book series templates | speedy rename. For nominations that just change "templates" to "navigational boxes" and where the contents are all navboxes, WP:CFDS can be used | December 3 |
| Category:Books authored by me | delete | December 3 |
| Books by publisher | Rename | December 19 |
| Category:British Underclass | delete | December 1 |
| Category:Browser-based games | rename to Category:Browser games | December 3 |
| Category:Buildings and structures in Thurles | merge to both parents | December 22 |
| Buildings of the United States | rename. | December 24 |
| Category:Burials in Africa | delete | December 18 |
| Category:Byzantine saints | keep | December 5 |
| Category:California colonial people | merge to Category:People of pre-statehood California | December 5 |
| Categories: Media-related lists for Australia, Spain also Transport categories | Rename/Merge | December 30 |
| Category:Children's ITV television programmes | Speedy rename C2D | December 30 |
| Chinese convicts | no consensus to delete. People who raised objections gave reasoned explanations for why deleting would be a problem | December 16 |
| Category:Christians of the Byzantine Empire | rename to Category:Byzantine Christians. | December 6 |
| Category:Chronology categories navigational boxes | rename | December 4 |
| Classical albums by date | Keep parent and decade categories. Keep 1990 and all subsequent years. Merge all years up to 1989 into their decade categories. I felt that there was too much opposition to declare a consensus to delete all articles, but only one person objected to this option. Since she was arguing for ease of finding classical albums, hopefully she will be happy with this option too | December 4 |
| Category:Coin manufacturers | rename to Category:Coin mints. The closer of the other CFD left that as an option. I'm just going to have a bot move all articles from Category:Coin manufacturers to Category:Coin mints; if anyone wants to add other articles from other parent cats to Category:Coin mints that would be fine | December 17 |
| Category:Comedy and humor by nationality | no change | December 25 |
| Communities in Vojvodina with sizable ethnic minorities | delete. | December 28 |
| Category:Compositions by key | keep. This should not stop anyone from removing an article from a category if it is placed in it inappropriately | December 18 |
| Category:CTU agents | merge. Although the nom was a blocked sock, it looks from the rest of the participants like there's consensus to merge Category:CTU agents to Category:24 (TV series) characters. Decisions to merge and redirect the articles in these categories can take place through ongoing discussions | December 17 |
| Category:Culture of Abu Dhabi | Rename | December 30 |
| Category:Current members of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico | delete | December 17 |
| Category:Customary units in India | no consensus to rename | December 19 |
| Category:Danube in culture | delete | December 14 |
| Category:Day care sexual abuse allegations | keep. Consensus exists that the current name is more objective, flexible and inclusive | December 13 |
| Category:Deaths at Walter Reed Hospital | delete | December 3 |
| Category:Deaths by location | split to new sub-cat Category:Deaths by country. The sub-cats for deaths at certain types of location can stay in Category:Deaths by location. I have also made a proposal at WikiProject Death suggesting that country sub-categories of Category:Death by country need a new corresponding category e.g. Category:Deaths in Canada. – | December 3 |
| Category:Descendants of Rabbi Meir Katzenellenbogen | listify where necessary into existing List of notable descendants of Meir Katzenellenbogen. – | December 2 |
| Category:Dinosaur museums | merge to Category:Natural history museums. | December 4 |
| Category:Documentary films by music genre | merge | December 5 |
| Category:Dragonlance organizations | delete | December 31 |
| Category:Dutch Reformed churches | rename to Category:Dutch Reformed Church buildings. I wasn't super clear on whether people preferred the upper- or lower-case 'church'; I picked the former per Jfhutson's explanation that that would refer to any buildings of the Dutch Reformed Church. Hopefully that will not include many more buildings than would belong in the "Church churches" category, which was widely opposed. I see this is not consistent with another discussion, but I also understand there's not consistency for naming of these categories | December 22 |
| Category:Edna Staebler Award honorees | delete. I hope I'm not stepping on any toes by assuming that the first two participants are will be ok with deleting given that List_of_Edna_Staebler_Award_recipients exists and Awards categories are discouraged | December 5 |
| Category:Edward Rosewater | delete | December 27 |
| Category:Elementary schools in China | rename | December 15 |
| Category:Elephant Micah | delete | December 12 |
| Category:Engraving companies | merge | December 17 |
| Category:Envy & Other Sins | Delete | December 21 |
| Category:Episcopal churches | no consensus to rename | December 22 |
| Category:Erick Slootsky South Florida | delete | December 3 |
| Establishments by location | merge the first and rename the second as suggested by nom | December 21 |
| Ethnic culture by state and city in the USA categories | rename all. If there are outliers that don't fit this scheme, bring them up for separate renaming nominations | December 31 |
| Category:Explorers of the colonial Southwest of North America | merge to Category:Explorers of North America. No objections to this suggestion, it seems to me from the arguments of people who did not explicitly support this that at least they would not hate it | December 5 |
| Category:Explorers of the United States | keep. | December 6 |
| Category:Ezhava People | Delete | December 19 |
| Category:Falklands War weapons | delete | December 31 |
| Category:Fan-owned English football clubs | rename to Category:Fan-owned English League football clubs | December 3 |
| Category:Feminist journals | keep. This does not preclude removal of any article from the category that someone feels does not belong there (e.g. journals that do not 'self-identify' as feminist, as someone mentioned below) | December 6 |
| Category:Fictional clones | no consensus to rename. I'm not going to purge this, any editor is invited to remove an article from this category that they feel doesn't belong there | December 19 |
| Category:Fictional United States congressional districts | DELETE. | December 22 |
| Category:Films about mice | rename to Category:Films featuring anthropomorphic mice | December 3 |
| Category:For King & Country (band) | delete | December 27 |
| Category:Former statues | merge to Category:Destroyed sculptures | December 25 |
| Category:Freemasons | no consensus to delete. I agree with the closes of the previous CFDs AND the DRV, as far as determining what consensus was from those discussions (even if some of the arguments could have been ignored, there wasn't enough support for the alternative in any of the cases). However from this discussion I am not seeing enough of a consensus to delete this, indeed the keeps outnumber the deletes. Both sides are arguing logically and in line with policy (although difficulty in maintaining a cat or articles being improperly placed in it are not reasons to delete so I'm not taking those into account. However most delete proponents did not use this reasoning). The crux of the debate seems to be whether this is defining enough of a characteristic to categorize a person by. I'm not seeing enough consensus here that it's not to go ahead with deletion. If people feel a given article doesn't belong in one of these categories (e.g. unreferenced claim, or not defining for that person), then it can definitely be taken out | December 8 |
| Category:Gay theatre | Merge | December 8 |
| Category:General Headquarters Air Force Airfield | rename | December 16 |
| Category:Gibraltarian people | reverse merge | December 7 |
| Category:Gospel music venues | merge to Category:Gospel music. The articles in the category that belong in a subcategory of Category:Music venues appear to already be categorized in that tree | December 27 |
| Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College Sandhurst | rename | December 13 |
| Category:Greek mythological Amazons | rename to Category:Amazons (Greek mythology) | December 23 |
| Category:Greek women of the Ottoman Empire | merge. | December 7 |
| Category:Greeks in California | rename. Creator of most of these has argued for deletion here, and the discussion is almost unanimous. Most contributors do not want these categories to be about bios | December 12 |
| Category:Heathcliff (comic strip) | keep | December 21 |
| Category:Heritage Foundation | rename. It satisfies speedy criteria C2D. | December 6 |
| Category:Hualap actors | merge | December 23 |
| Category:Identical twin actors | keep | December 22 |
| Identical twins by occupation | Double upmerge all. The question of the existance of the parent categories is a separate isse beyond the scope of this discussion; as long as these parent categories exist, no reason for the contents of the nominated categories not to be in them | December 10 |
| Category:Imperial Russian people by occupation | keep | December 8 |
| Category:Indian film writers | merge | December 3 |
| Indian football club categories | rename | December 9 |
| Indian footballers by state | rename | December 26 |
| Category:Indian slangs | rename (C2A/C2C) | December 20 |
| Category:Indigenous peoples of India | delete and move any members that belong in Category:Scheduled Tribes of India into that category. People have argued credibly that the overlap is not 100%, and that some of the articles in the Indigenous category don't belong there. So merging all the members into the new category won't work. I do see a consensus here to get rid of the Indigenous category, one way or the other. And it doesn't seem like there's opposition to having Category:Scheduled Tribes of India; the opposition revolves around whether that is an appropriate rename for Category:Indigenous peoples of India, and whether the new name is too narrow. This close doesn't address the latter concern, but it also doesn't prevent the creation of a new category at some point if people can figure out an appropriate name. It seems pretty clear to me from this that "indigenous" is not it. Since we will have to manually move only the articles into Category:Scheduled Tribes of India that belong there, I'm going to list this at WP:CFDWM--if anyone feels like helping to do this, please do! | December 10 |
| Category:Infantry type | Merge to Category:Infantry and delete | December 18 |
| Category:International Federation of Netball Associations | Speedy rename C2D | December 30 |
| Category:Interstate 11 | delete and merge Interstate 11 to Category:Proposed Interstate Highways | December 3 |
| Category:Interstate 12 | delete | December 3 |
| Category:Interstate 16 | delete | December 3 |
| Category:Interstate 17 | delete | December 3 |
| Category:Interstate 676 | merge | December 3 |
| Category:Interstate 678 | merge | December 3 |
| Category:Interstate 82 | delete | December 3 |
| Category:Interstate 89 | delete. I've looked at this discussion and the 5 below it; they're all very similar | December 3 |
| Category:Interstate conflict | Closed. After this was nominated again on the 11th, I did some digging and found that this was discussion was apparently not listed on the category. So no action could really be taken | December 5 |
| Category:Interstate conflict | rename as nominated, removing American Civil War (which is in Category:Wars involving the United States, and in Category:Internal wars of the United States despite the note on that page.) – | December 11 |
| Category:Introductory physics | Delete | December 29 |
| Category:IP blocking | delete. WP:NOTBURO, WP:SNOW | December 17 |
| Category:Ireland mountains and hills navigational boxes | keep without rename. I have gone ahead and created Category:Ireland geography navigational boxes, please feel free to populate it | December 19 |
| Category:Jain architecture | do not merge | December 26 |
| Category:Japanese comics | delete | December 3 |
| Category:Jedi religion | navboxify and delete. The task of creating the navbox is listed at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual, please feel free to help out with it | December 13 |
| Category:Jewish Comintern people | merge | December 12 |
| Category:Joshuu Sasori | delete | December 16 |
| Category:Kamrupi mathematicians | merge to Category:People from Kamrup Metropolitan district | December 25 |
| Kenya ambassadors | keep all (i.e. do not merge) | December 20 |
| Category:Kim Possible characters | upmerge. Although the nom is a blocked sock, the other contributors seem to have a consensus to upmerge based on relevant guidelines | December 17 |
| Category:Knitwitted | delete | December 4 |
| Category:Křivoklát | Delete | December 22 |
| Landforms of Edith Ronne Land | merge and rename, noncontroversial maintiance following the naming/renaming of the area in question | December 22 |
| Category:Latin Americans YouTube Channels | self-close; category was speedily deleted as empty after contents were all deleted. | December 7 |
| Category:Legislatures of non-governmental organizations |  Relisted at 2013 JAN 8 CFD. |
December 24 |
| Category:List of Black Fashion Models | delete | December 31 |
| Category:Lists of things named after Taras Shevchenko | listify. The List of things named after Taras Shevchenko has been started, please feel free to contribute to it | December 11 |
| Category:Lists of toponymy of the United States | speedy merge as duplicate | December 20 |
| Category:Logan Fontenelle | delete | December 13 |
| Category:Los Angeles, California | no consensus as below. – | December 2 |
| Category:Mahala | speedy delete. – | December 19 |
| Category:Major League Baseball players by national origin | keep. This does not preclude removal of specific articles from categories if users feel they are not appropriate, as in the case of someone who was born in Germany but does not seem to be really German. It also does not preclude creation of subcategories to deal with these cases if editors feel that's necessary | December 5 |
| Category:Marxist journals | keep. As I said in the discussion below, anyone can take an article out of this category if they don't think it belongs, as people have mentioned below about 'self-identifying' | December 6 |
| Category:Mayors of Independence, Missouri | merge to Category:People from Independence, Missouri and Category:Mayors of places in Missouri. Without prejudice to re-creation if we get more articles about mayors of Independence, Missouri. | December 2 |
| Category:Mayors of Seguin, Texas | merge | December 8 |
| Category:Members of Parliament convicted of expenses offences | delete (as noted, merging would appear to be redundant in this case) | December 23 |
| Category:Mentally ill monarchs | delete. | December 28 |
| Category:Metatheory of religion | no consensus to delete. In weighing this decision I have not taken into account ad hominem arguments like "you don't know enough about this" because they do not really address the point being discussed, and there's no good way for me to verify whether it's true. I'm also not that convinced by the oft-repeated argument that other topics have theories categories; the need for this category does not follow from that. But I feel that there's too much opposition to this proposal from people who think it's a useful and logical way of categorizing for me to say there's a consensus to delete here | December 9 |
| Category:Meteorite journals | administrative close: consensus already implemented | December 23 |
| Category:Military Light Utility Vehicle | Rename | December 29 |
| Category:Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Norway | merge as nominated, for now, to at least eliminate the duplication | December 27 |
| Category:Miscellaneous card games | merge to Category:Card games | December 16 |
| Category:Moesha characters | merge | December 17 |
| Montreal Impact | rename/merge as nominated | December 23 |
| More people in the history of countries | delete/merge as nominated | December 23 |
| Category:Mughal historians | rename to Category:Historians in the Mughal Empire. There were 3 supporters of the "from" version, but no objections to the "in" version, and I know that the last people to comment did have reasoned objections to the "from" version. So my thinking is that the thing most people are likely to be ok with is the "in" version | December 6 |
| Muppet subcategories | rename per Jc37, with Jedi94's "television series" emendation. | December 24 |
| Category:Musical groups templates | speedy rename. All subcategories can be speedily renamed without nomination, as they only contain navboxes | December 3 |
| Category:Muslim footballers | delete | December 26 |
| Category:National Toy Hall of Fame inductees | delete | December 31 |
| Category:Native American actors who performed in a Native American language | merge | December 23 |
| Category:NC-17 rated films | delete | December 17 |
| Category:Nederlandsche-Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorwegmaatschappij locomotives | delete | December 28 |
| Category:Never Mind The Buzzcocks images | delete | December 25 |
| Category:New Zealand ministries | Merge | December 21 |
| Category:New Zealand pediatricians | Rename | December 28 |
| Category:Night series | delete | December 31 |
| Category:Nobel Peace Prize templates | rename. | December 5 |
| Category:Non Malayali actors acted in Malayalam-language films | merge to Category:Malayalam film actors. No objections from the nom, it seems like the proponents of merging that contributed before this was suggested would be ok with this | December 14 |
| Category:Norwegian noble persons | Merge | December 6 |
| Category:Nuclear reactors attacked by Israel | delete | December 13 |
| On renaming terms to terminology | taken into account in closing each section below. – | December 22 |
| Category:OpenOffice.org | speedy rename per WP:CFD/S/C#C2D | December 24 |
| Category:Oranje-Vrijstaat Gouwermentspoorwegen locomotives | delete | December 28 |
| Category:Organizations based in Rajasthan | merge to Category:Organisations based in Rajasthan. I will leave a category redirect on the nominated category. | December 6 |
| Category:People associated with Kraków | merge | December 24 |
| Category:People born with a cleft palate | no action required; no category was nominated; just a question | December 9 |
| Category:People by ethnicity templates | merge to Category:Ethnic group templates, except where the contents are already in a suitable sub-category of that target (because of the rule in WP:SUBCAT). – | December 1 |
| Category:People from Eldorado, Texas | upmerge | December 31 |
| Category:People from Los Angeles, California | no consensus. Although the nominator and Alansohn in particular presented some good arguments, a slight minority (8 of 18) were not persuaded. Category names should be even more clear than article names, and so need not match articles where there is significant scope for mis-categorisation. The case for needing disambiguation is weak when the primary meaning is so clear, but editors were also swayed by the consistent pattern of using "city, state" within the US; this has a significant benefit in that it saves us repeating this sort of debate as to whether disambiguation is necessary for other US cities, towns and villages. – | December 2 |
| Category:People from Meixian | rename to Category:People from Mei County, Guangdong | December 6 |
| Category:People from Ningbo (hometown) | rename and merge first and second respectively | December 10 |
| People in the history of nations | delete after recategorization. This is a followup to my earlier close. Many of these articles will need homes in relation to the countries mentioned. Once that is done, these can be deleted, as can the parent category | December 15 |
| Category:People navigational boxes | speedy merge. | December 1 |
| Category:People of pre-statehood West Virginia | no consensus. Although a lot of these discussions about whether to use the modern place name or the name of the place at the time in question are going the other way, I cannot see a consensus here to do away with this category. People are bringing up issues here that are unique to this discussion, like having consistency with a cat like this for each state. The opposes outnumber the merges, and their reasoning is logical | December 5 |
| Category:People of the Kingdom of Hawaii | rename. | December 3 |
| Category:People of the Mongol Empire | rename. | December 6 |
| Category:People of the Mughal Empire | rename. | December 6 |
| Category:People of the Ottoman Empire | rename | December 7 |
| Category:People of the Republic of Venice | rename. | December 6 |
| Category:People of the Roman Empire | rename. There's not complete unanimity in formatting here, but we seem to be trending toward "(X) people" in all cases | December 5 |
| Category:People of Upstate New York | merge to Category:People from New York | December 12 |
| Category:People's Republic of China designated terrorist organizations | keep | December 16 |
| Category:People's Republic of China intellectual property law | no consensus to delete. This was a tough one since there was so little participation. I also looked at the other PRC discussions on this page closed by others. I think given the context one objection, based on the concern that there's the need to preserve the distinction, is enough to block deleting for | December 16 |
| Category:Permanent Representatives of Colombia to the United Nations Office at Nairobi | speedily deleted per G7: creator emptied it and immediately replaced it with Category:Permanent Representatives of Colombia to the United Nations at Nairobi. | December 19 |
| Category:Permanent Representatives of Kazakhstan to the European Union | rename. – | December 2 |
| Category:Photographs by theme | rename to Category:Photographs by topic. The opposer did not mention having any opposition to that suggestion, others are for it | December 13 |
| Category:Photographs by war | rename | December 13 |
| Category:Place names of Berkshire origin in the United States | delete and merge the 3 articles into Category:Place names of English origin in the United States as I did with the Kent discussion above. If that category gets deleted, a bot can empty it | December 5 |
| Category:Place names of English origin in the United States | listify and delete. If you're willing to help out with this process, please do. I'm going to put this on the to do page at WP:CFDWM | December 20 |
| Place names of Irish origin in the United States | delete. I did see and take into account the keeps, but they are outnumbered by the deletes who bring up logical reasons and argue that WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS is not a reason to keep a specific item. Also, I've been closing a lot of the other place name discussions similar to this one and they have shown a much stronger consensus to delete these as trivial ways to categorize. So I feel that this closure is in line with a broader consensus as well | December 4 |
| Category:Place names of Kent origin in the United States | merge to Category:Place names of English origin in the United States. If that gets deleted, a bot can empty the category. I'm not going to listify this, but in case anyone feels strongly that it should happen, feel free to make it so. To make that task easier, here's the list of articles currently in the category: Dover, Delaware, Kent County, Delaware. Yep, all two of them | December 5 |
| Category:Place names of Native American origin in the United States | listify and delete | December 13 |
| Category:Place names of Norwegian origin in the United States | delete | December 3 |
| Category:Place names of Welsh origin in the United States | listify then delete | December 1 |
| Category:Pobol y Cwm characters | merge | December 17 |
| Political leader templates | rename. | December 9 |
| Category:Populated places in Yogyakarta | rename as nominated | December 31 |
| Category:Ports and harbours by sea or ocean and Category:Port cities and towns by sea or ocean | do not merge | December 5 |
| Category:President of the Russia templates | merge into Category:Russia and Soviet Union political leader navigational boxes | December 3 |
| Category:Protestant church buildings and congregations by century established | rename | December 21 |
| Category:Psychiatry community services | merge | December 7 |
| Category:QR National locomotives | redirect to Category:Aurizon locomotives. A reminder not to empty/rename categories without going through CFD, blah, blah, blah. | December 3 |
| Category:Quasiballistic missiles | delete | December 23 |
| Category:Queens, New York City | rename to Category:Queens (borough) | December 15 |
| Category:Rabbis in Ottoman and British Palestine | split then delete | December 12 |
| Category:Rauma | rename (C2B, C2D) | December 31 |
| Category:Regular Show episodes | delete. Now empty | December 6 |
| Category:Religion-related WikiProjectsTaoism | delete | December 23 |
| Category:Religious cosmology | merge. If a further merge is needed, then a WP:BOLD nomination can be made | December 16 |
| Category:Religious fundamentalism | keep. However several participants have brought up valid concerns about articles and subcategories included in this cat, and folks with this type of concern should feel free to correct those problems in a way that respects consensus | December 11 |
| Rochester Rhinos | merge | December 4 |
| Category:Roller coasters introduced in 2013 | delete. Some or all of the members of this cat are already in the under construction cat, but editors can add those that are not if it's appropriate | December 7 |
| Roma categories | rename all | December 17 |
| Category:Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal by country | rename to Category:Roman Catholic Church sex abuse cases by country for now. If, during the future work, it is decided that a variation on this name would be preferable, it's OK to renominate. | December 27 |
| Category:Roman Catholicism in the world | merge and distribute to subcategories as needed. | December 4 |
| Category:Roman hermits | rename per nom | December 12 |
| Roman States | delete but if people decide a category for states created as the Empire fragmented is needed it's fine to create one. I'm going to list this at WP:CFDWM so we can put each one in its respective subcategory of Category:Ancient Rome by period, please help out if you feel like it | December 22 |
| Category:Rugby biography stubs | keep | December 14 |
| Category:Russian salon-holders | keep without rename | December 8 |
| Category:Rychnov nad Kněžnou | delete | December 5 |
| Samsun Province, Turkey, geography stubs | delete the second cat, which has already been done by someone else (speedied as an empty cat) | December 12 |
| Category:Scientist templates | speedy rename. | December 1 |
| Category:Serbian culture by place | merge. | December 24 |
| Category:Slang expressions | rename and restructure | December 20 |
| Category:Songs from The Tigger Movie | delete | December 15 |
| Category:Songs written by B*Witched | delete, especially as all four songs are by additional people as well. – | December 2 |
| Category:Songs written by Joachim Horn-Bernges | delete | December 30 |
| Category:Songs written by Max George | Delete | December 30 |
| Category:Songs written by Tim Buppert | delete | December 6 |
| Category:Soviet Anti-Air Defense | Merge | December 30 |
| Category:Sparkle (film series) | delete | December 12 |
| Category:Stations on the Jinghu Railway | merge | December 31 |
| Category:Suicides at MIT | upmerge. | December 28 |
| Suras | rename and merge | December 4 |
| Category:Surviving Christopher Wren London churches | Merge | December 30 |
| Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Pieface007 | delete | December 13 |
| Category:Suzhou geography stubs | delete | December 13 |
| Category:Synthpop New Wave musical groups | no consensus to delete. Multiple users feel that the cats are worthwhile to distinguish different types of synth pop, so although others feel the category is too narrow, consensus to delete has not been reached | December 11 |
| Category:Taishanese people | rename to Category:People from Taishan and Category:People of Taishan descent. No objections to the change of target from the nom. Thank you much, Nlu, for offering to help carry out the split, I will list it at WP:CFD/W/M#Other (and thanks to anyone else who wants to help as well). If the article doesn't give a clue about which new category to place the person in, it probably shouldn't be in either | December 7 |
| Category:Technical terms | merge | December 3 |
| Category:Templates relating to Anne Frank | merge | December 4 |
| Category:Terminology | no merge/rename. – | December 22 |
| Category:Textbook writers from Pakistan | rename | December 9 |
| Category:The Animals of Farthing Wood characters | delete | December 17 |
| Category:The cartoon series | delete | December 8 |
| Category:The Presets | delete | December 12 |
| Category:Treaties of the People's Republic of China | keep | December 16 |
| Category:Tri Nations (rugby union) | merge and redirect. – | December 3 |
| Category:Turkish expatriate basketballers | Speedy rename C2C | December 4 |
| Category:Twin writers | Delete | December 21 |
| Category:Typhoon templates | merge Category:Typhoon templates and Category:Hurricane templates into Category:Tropical cyclone templates | December 7 |
| Category:UML templates | merge | December 4 |
| Category:Unincorporated cities in Norway | delete | December 14 |
| Category:United Kingdom political leader templates | speedy rename. | December 5 |
| Category:Unpublished author or book awards | rename | December 10 |
| Category:Urdu fiction writers | Rename | December 20 |
| Category:User Sidsahu | delete | December 27 |
| Category:Venezuelans in the United States | diffuse manually to multiple targets. There are currently only 13 members so this will not take me long. – | December 3 |
| Category:Vietnamese television | rename | December 3 |
| Category:Vrhunski sportaši i sportski djelatnici | delete; category has remained empty | December 6 |
| Category:Wallsend Boys Club players | no consensus. The debate is split evenly between people who think that a youth club is not a big enough deal to have a category about and people who think that this one is. It looks like consensus to delete this has not been reached | December 16 |
| Category:Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group | rename to Category:Walt Disney Studios | December 5 |
| Category:WFAN | rename to Category:WFAN (AM) | December 16 |
| White African footballers | delete. Since the delete proponents were mainly concerned that ethnicity is not a good way to categorize people, I don't see any problem with looking through the cat and putting any South Africans in Category:South African soccer players. I'll put this at WP:CFDWM so anyone who wants to help out with this should feel free to go ahead | December 1 |
| Category:Wikipedia pending changes protected pages (level 1) | Withdrawn (non-admin closure). | December 9 |
| Category:Wild West, Wild west shows | Merge/reame | December 8 |
| Category:Yogyakarta | it looks like we will have both, then? Category:Yogyakarta Special Region was created but has been nominated for speedy renaming to Category:Special Region of Yogyakarta. Feel free to nominate either again. | December 31 |