Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2012 October index
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| Category:1906 San Francisco Earthquake survivors | relisted at CfD 2012 October 30 | October 23 |
| Category:1st National Assembly of Pakistan | merge all | October 2 |
| Category:2010s Japanese animated television series | merge | October 9 |
| Category:Abandoned Pools albums | Rename | October 17 |
| Academics by university in Ireland | Rename | October 30 |
| Category:Adele (singer) songs and Category:Adele (singer) albums | No rename | October 27 |
| Category:Adriatic Sea basin | merge | October 18 |
| Category:African Americans in film professions | delete one, merge the other as nominated | October 5 |
| Category:African-Americans in law | delete | October 11 |
| Category:Aggrotech | merge Category:Aggrotech to and rename Category:Electro-industrial to Category:Electro-industrial artists. | October 19 |
| Category:Aggrotech |  Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 October 19#Category:Aggrotech. -- |
October 11 |
| Category:Aircraft engine stubs | withdrawn by nominator | October 8 |
| Category:Aircraft manufactured by the United States | no consensus. There appears to be a possible consensus for renaming all similar categories, but there is less support for renaming just one of them. So I am closing this as "no consensus" without prejudice to an immediate group nomination of all such categories. If it really is the intent to rename all the by-country subcats of Category:Aircraft by country, then they should all be discussed together | October 18 |
| Category:All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify | no consensus. This was first listed 7 weeks, and relisting it a week ago has generated no further comments. There's no sign of a consensus or of any desire to discuss this further at CFD | October 22 |
| Category:Ambassadors of Czechoslovakia to countries in Asia | Merge | October 27 |
| Category:American actors of Filipino descent | merge | October 24 |
| Category:American actors of Hong Kong descent | double upmerge to Category:American actors of Asian descent and . – | October 19 |
| Category:American country musicians | Thanks for making me clean up the whole damn thing myself. I really appreciate all the help. | October 4 |
| Category:American film studios | No consensus to merge - | October 8 |
| Category:American Jews of Latin American descent | relisted at CfD November 1 | October 19 |
| American mobsters by ethnic or national descent categories | keep all. There was no support for ceasing to categorise the people in these categories as American mobsters, which would be the effect of deleting these categories. It may be that the nominator intended to propose that the categories be upmerged to one or more their respective parents, and two of the editors whose !votes supported deletion appeared to read it that way ... but merger is not what was actually proposed here | October 19 |
| Category:American models of European descent | keep all. The effect of deleting these categories would be to remove the articles so categorised from the parent categories such as Category:American models and Category:American people of XXish descent. No arguments were advanced any where in the discussion in favour such a result, and the editors who supported deletion did so ground of an irrelevant intersection. That is a legitimate reason for upmerger, but not for deletion ... so in the absence of any argument for deletion, the outcome of this discussion is "keep" | October 19 |
| Category:American models of Latin American descent | merge both to Category:Hispanic and Latino American models | October 19 |
| Category:American models of Pakistani descent | delete | October 19 |
| American musicians of Polish descent | Merge | October 31 |
| Category:American people of Latin American descent | relisted at CfD November 1 | October 19 |
| Category:American pescetarians | Delete | October 29 |
| Category:Amon Amarth (band) | delete | October 20 |
| Category:Anahuac Univeristies | Rename | October 15 |
| Category:Androgynous individuals | Delete | October 10 |
| Category:Angles | Rename | October 8 |
| Category:Anime films by date of first release | relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 November 9#Category:Anime_films_by_date_of_first_release | October 31 |
| Archaeological sites in Greece by period | rename all | October 12 |
| Category:Arjen Anthony Lucassen bands or projects | merge. | October 8 |
| Category:Articles without infoboxes | Rename to Category:Wikipedia articles with an infobox request. This deals with the concern that "requesting" makes it sound like the article itself is making a request. And request, suggested/supported by several in some form, had extra "weight" since the name of the populating template is: Template:Infobox requested. - | October 6 |
| Category:Asia and the Pacific 1941–42 | merge | October 6 |
| Association football clubs in the Republic of Ireland by county | Rename all | October 3 |
| Category:Atlas Sound albums | Rename | October 27 |
| Category:Australia broadcasting stubs | rename and rescope | October 10 |
| Australian rules footballers by city | upmerge. | October 3 |
| Category:Aviation by ocean | rename to Category:Trans-oceanic aviation | October 7 |
| Category:Azerbaijani Paralympic medalist stubs | delete category, but keep template | October 22 |
| Category:Baronies in the Peerage of Scotland | merge | October 1 |
| Category:Battalions & Brigades of the British Army in the First World War | rename both | October 22 |
| Category:Beat Happening | Keep | October 25 |
| Category:Beauty columnist | Merge - | October 22 |
| Beer brands | Rename "in" to "of". - | October 18 |
| Category:Bhangra | no consensus | October 4 |
| Category:Bilateral relations of Malaya | delete | October 5 |
| Category:Billboard Pop Songs number-one singles | rename | October 20 |
| Category:Birds of ICUN Red List least concern | delete. Retargeted | October 30 |
| Category:Bisexual Asian Americans | NO CONSENSUS. Please see #Category:Transgender and transsexual Asian Americans | October 10 |
| Category:Black Panther Party members | Rename | October 27 |
| Category:Buddy Miles Regiment albums | Merge | October 28 |
| Category:Buildings and structures in Kiel, Wisconsin | delete | October 1 |
| Category:Buildings and structures in the San Francisco Bay Area by location | rename | October 2 |
| Category:Cacumen albums | merge and leave a category redirect. -- | October 11 |
| Category:California Redwoods | discussion moved to CfD October 24, where the parent category is being discussed | October 27 |
| Category:California Redwoods | merge all | October 24 |
| Campaigns of the Lower Seaboard Theater and Gulf Approach of the American Civil War | RENAME as variously indicated below. There is evident consensus to rename these categories, and no individual differences identified in the separate discussions. Given the couple of objections to the original nomination proposal, the addition of (American Civil War) seems a good compromise, particularly when suggested by the nominator and also used on some previous occasions | October 11 |
| Canadian region categories | keep. except rename Category:Region of Waterloo, Ontario to Category:Waterloo Region. I've combined these because they all amount to the same discussion | October 4 |
| Category:Candidates for the Irish presidential election, 2011 | Merge | October 5 |
| Category:Candy companies | Rename | October 6 |
| Category:Chamillionaire mixtapes | merge to Category:Chamillionaire albums and Category:Mixtape albums | October 28 |
| Category:Children's albums by Canadian artists | rename Category:Children's albums by Canadian artists to Category:Children's music albums by Canadian artists | October 5 |
| Category:Cinema in Kolkata | rename | October 8 |
| College golf container categories | manually upmerge all | October 11 |
| Colorado Rapids U23's | merge both, and rename both target's to remove the apostrophe's from their name's | October 10 |
| Constituencies in the United Kingdom | rename both per nom | October 28 |
| Category:Critics of Iglesia ni Cristo | Delete | October 31 |
| Category:Crusaders navigational boxes | speedy rename C2E | October 28 |
| Category:Crystal Fighters | delete. -- | October 11 |
| Category:Deftones images | rename | October 12 |
| Category:Defunct casinos in Missouri | merge to both parents | October 22 |
| Category:Do-Re-Mi (band) | keep, partly for the same reasons that apply to my Closure of above the discussion on Category:Goldfinger (band). In this case renomination only 18 days after the the previous nomination by the same editor has produced a clear consensus to keep the category | October 25 |
| Category:Dream Theater sideprojects | delete. | October 12 |
| Dublin Professorships | Rename Category:Dublin Professorships to Category:Professorships at Trinity College, Dublin - | October 6 |
| Category:DuPont Manual Magnet High School alumni | merge | October 24 |
| Category:Early Commercial architecture in the United States | no consensus on whether to keep or remove the word "early".<br /There are no objections to fixing the capitalisation, but no support for it either, so I will regard the outcome on that point as another "no consensus". Feel free to list it for speedy renaming, and see if anyone objects | October 11 |
| Category:EC Salzburg players | merge | October 8 |
| Electric energy | merge both | October 9 |
| Category:Electrification Proposals in Britain | delete. There is still only one article in the category, and the suggestion of a merger to Category:Proposed public transport in the United Kingdom would be a poor fit for that article (South Wales Main Line). It is an already existing line, rather tha n a proposed new one. The suggestion of listing rail electrification proposals in an article may be more suitable, whether by expanding an existing article or creating a new one | October 1 |
| Energy resource facilities in the United States | keep. There is a consensus that some restructuring is needed here, but that an automated merge is not the right option. Editors may want to open a centralised discussion on a new structure for energy categories in the United States, and should not feel obliged to delay returning to CFD if any alternative proposals need CFD attention | October 6 |
| Category:Ethnic Armenian Olympians who represented other countries | delete | October 25 |
| Category:European photojournalists | Merge | October 26 |
| Category:Events in California | keep | October 8 |
| Category:Faculty by university in Ireland | Merge | October 30 |
| Category:Fair Trade Shops based in Australia | delete | October 1 |
| Category:Falkirk | Rename all | October 5 |
| Category:Farm to Market Roads with dead ends | upmerge. – | October 9 |
| Category:Female Radio Presenters | Delete | October 22 |
| Category:Female softball players | Merge/Delete | October 14 |
| Category:Fictional popes | delete | October 9 |
| Category:Fjords of British Columbia | withdrawn | October 13 |
| Category:Folk Heroes of Assam | Merge | October 25 |
| Category:Football (soccer) in Nauru | rename | October 11 |
| Category:Football in Spain lists | rename. | October 5 |
| Category:Former Arjen Anthony Lucassen bands or projects | merge. | October 8 |
| Category:Former Google employees | merge | October 20 |
| Category:Four Leaf Records albums | Delete | October 28 |
| Category:French engineers by Grande école | rename. A note to Euroflux: It's not about you. A long description of your contributions does nothing to bolster the case of the category. The category itself has to make sense to the other editors, and in this case it doesn't. Try not to be discouraged, but do try to take their advice to heart | October 9 |
| Category:G-Dragon & TOP albums | no consensus. No participants other than the nominator, whose description is inaccurate, or at best incomplete. The only content is GD & TOP, which is in fact a joint effort between G-Dragon & T.O.P (entertainer). Both those articles exist, and if that had been explained in the nomination it might have created a different outcome to the nominator's recommendation | October 28 |
| Category:Gaelic games governing bodies in Northern Ireland | Keep | October 26 |
| Category:Gansu politicians | rename Category:Gansu politicians to Category:Politicians from Gansu, but no consenus on the rest. The nominator also tagged 6 other categories for renaming in the same way, but the unusual way in which this listing is structured makes it unclear that they are actually being proposed for renaming. The conventional format for CFD nominations lists all the proposed changes above the nominator's rationale, because that allows editors to clearly see what is being proposed. In this case, the other categories were listed much lower down, without a rename target. I'm sure that this was a good faith oversight by the nominator, but the lack of the clarity about the scope of the proposal means that it would be unfair to regard this particular discussion as having reached a consensus to rename the other 6 categories. So I will open a new procedural listing of the other categories, and notify all participants |
October 26 |
| Category:Gay Asian Americans | NO CONSENSUS. Please see #Category:Transgender and transsexual Asian Americans | October 10 |
| Category:Gay dancers | Merge | October 29 |
| Category:Gay men by nationality | relisted at CfD 2012 October 30 | October 15 |
| Category:Gay men by nationality | upmerge the national subcategories to the respective LGBT national subcategories | October 30 |
| Category:Genetics or genomics research institutions and Category:Biotechnology Organizations | Opposed - | October 19 |
| Category:Genres of death metal | no consensus. The proposed action says "delete Category:Subgenres of death metal", but the nominator's rationale says "upmerge", and the one other participant says "delete". The effect of this would be to leave the contents of Category:Subgenres of death metal outside of Category:Death metal, and it is not clear that this is what either editor intended | October 28 |
| Category:Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus | merge both per nominator | October 1 |
| Category:Goldfinger (band) | keep. This category was nominated by the same editor at CFD September 30, which was closed on October 7 as "keep", after nobody supported deletion. If the nominator disagreed with that closure, they could have opened a DRV, but it is tendentious to start a new discussion only 18 days later, and this renomination should have been procedurally closed as soon as it was opened. Since it was not closed, and ran its course, I have assessed it in the usual way for repeat nominations, by considering whether there is a consensus that anything has changed since the previous discussion. In this case, there is no consensus that the previous discussion was flawed or that it overlooked a crucial issue, so the result is keep |
October 25 |
| Category:Harry Potter actors | speedy delete due to mountains of precedents | October 15 |
| Category:Hawaiian players of American football | relisted at CfD 2012 November 1 | October 24 |
| Category:Helix (band) | Keep | October 25 |
| Category:Hindu History | delete | October 13 |
| Category:History of California by city | merge to Category:Histories of cities in California | October 3 |
| Category:History of Venice after 1797 | keep | October 9 |
| Horse racing, Swimming in China | rename 2, merge 1 (as nominated) | October 9 |
| Category:Hot cocoa | merge | October 21 |
| Category:Hot Cross | delete | October 13 |
| Category:Hot Swing Trio albums | Merge | October 28 |
| Category:Hotels by year of establishment | No consensus to rename - | October 19 |
| Category:I Hate Kate albums | Merge | October 28 |
| Category:ICH GCP | rename to Category:Good Clinical Practice | October 17 |
| Category:Idol series runners-up | merge | October 24 |
| Category:Images of Amon Amarth (band) | delete | October 20 |
| Category:Images of Bruce Dickinson | delete | October 10 |
| Category:Images of Free (band) | keep and split out album covers. | October 12 |
| Category:Images of Kara | merge per nominator | October 8 |
| Category:Images of Kerli | Delete | October 14 |
| Category:Images of The Beatles | Delete | October 14 |
| Category:Images of The Lovin' Spoonful | speedy rename WP:C2C. – | October 29 |
| Category:Introductions by continent | delete | October 8 |
| Category:Iraqi intellectuals | delete manually and distribute contents to other categories such as a Category:Iraqi academics, Category:Iraqi scholars, Category:Iraqi writers, where appropriate | October 28 |
| Category:Irish politicians by century | delete. | October 5 |
| Category:Islamic universities in Algeria | Merge to Category:Universities and colleges in Algeria | October 14 |
| Category:Jackie Jackson | Delete | October 29 |
| Category:Japan culture stubs | keep (i.e. do not rename) | October 8 |
| Category:Japhetic | Rename | October 28 |
| Category:Jazz-rock fusion albums by Czech artists | merge to all three parents | October 13 |
| Category:Jock Stein | delete | October 26 |
| Category:Joseph Louis Lagrange | delete | October 1 |
| Category:Juventus Primavera players | merge to Category:Juventus F.C. players | October 20 |
| Category:JYJ albums covers | speedily deleted by SchuminWeb (talk · contribs). -- | October 6 |
| Category:Kashmiri models and actors | split. | October 10 |
| Category:Kashmiri | merge | October 10 |
| Category:Kelly Osbourne | no consensus | October 14 |
| Category:Khazar–Arab Wars | rename. | October 25 |
| Category:Kingdom Come | Delete | October 14 |
| Category:Knights of Rhodes archaeological sites in Greece | merge | October 21 |
| Category:Laboratories | keep. | October 7 |
| Category:Lesbian Asian Americans | NO CONSENSUS. Please see #Category:Transgender and transsexual Asian Americans | October 10 |
| LGBT actors | Delete | October 15 |
| Category:LGBT atheists and related categories | Delete | October 29 |
| Category:List of buildings in Cairo | delete. | October 7 |
| Category:Listed buildings in Norway | merge | October 1 |
| Category:Lists of Ambassadors of Russia by receiving country | merge. | October 10 |
| Category:Lists of Australian biota | Rename - | October 4 |
| Category:Lists of hospitals in Thailand | delete. Its only article is already in the parent categories | October 12 |
| Category:Lists of major league baseball broadcasters | Speedy rename C2C | October 29 |
| Category:Lists of Northern Irish MPs | rename to Category:Lists of Members of the United Kingdom Parliament for Northern Ireland constituencies | October 6 |
| Lists of office-holders by country | rename all. – | October 9 |
| Category:Lists of people by university | 'Rename all. - | October 6 |
| Category:Lists of Philippine politicians | merge as propsed, per the convention of Category:Filipino people | October 20 |
| Category:Lists of Pope John Paul II | Rename | October 25 |
| Category:Lists of Sharlverse | Delete per the discussion, and now, since the AFD has emptied the category, per CSD C1. - | October 3 |
| Category:Lists relating to the Philippine presidency | Rename - If the contents change (such as if the lists are merged), this can obviously be revisited at CfD. - | October 18 |
| Category:Loudermilk albums | Merge | October 14 |
| Category:Ma, Meyer, O'Connor albums | Merge | October 15 |
| Category:Maccabiah Games rugby union teams | Delete | October 25 |
| Category:Mademoiselle Cover Girls | Delete | October 26 |
| Category:Malaya stubs | delete both category and template | October 22 |
| Category:Malaysian albums in 1976 | delete | October 25 |
| Mannheim Steamroller seasonal albums | Merge | October 15 |
| Category:Megacoasters | rename | October 18 |
| Category:Metropolitan areas of South America | merge | October 26 |
| Category:Military units and formations that have changed designation | delete | October 13 |
| Category:Models (band) | Keep | October 25 |
| Category:Mombasa County | delete. This subject is covered by Mombasa District | October 1 |
| More Chinese sports categories | merge 1, rename 3. No clear actions specified for the last two, so no consensus on them | October 9 |
| More Falkirk categories | Speedy rename C2C/D | October 30 |
| More television navigational boxes | keep. (NAC) | October 10 |
| Category:Muslim communities by location | delete | October 7 |
| Category:Mykolaiv Oblast geography stubs | delete category, but keep template | October 22 |
| Category:Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes | rename | October 12 |
| Native American Latter Day Saints | merge | October 24 |
| Native Hawaiian Latter Day Saints | relisted at CfD November 1 | October 24 |
| Category:New York City Bar Association members | Delete | October 14 |
| Category:New York State Bar Association members | Delete | October 14 |
| Category:Niece of Baron | delete | October 22 |
| Category:Non English UK Number 1s | delete | October 17 |
| Category:Non-free images of Mitt Romney | merge. -- | October 17 |
| Category:Norteño | rename to Category:Norteño (music) | October 5 |
| Nuclear power by country | reverse merge | October 16 |
| Nuclear power stations by company | rename both per nominator | October 20 |
| Category:Off the Wall (Baltimore) | delete | October 26 |
| Category:Oil and gas companies of the People's Republic of China | rename | October 7 |
| Category:Oil and gas pipelines by country | rename all, as the easiest way to finish implementing a split. Some manual tidyup will be required | October 1 |
| Category:Omidiyeh County geography stubs | keep. Qetuth's advice on how to build a stub category could avoid such issues in future | October 15 |
| Category:Operator topologies | Upmerge | October 30 |
| Category:Opinion polling for elections in New Zealand | Rename | October 14 |
| Category:Organizations that engage in anti-LGBT rhetoric | merge to Category:Organizations that oppose LGBT rights. -- | October 11 |
| Category:Out-of-print books | Delete - | October 10 |
| Category:Outlandish | Delete | October 15 |
| Category:Paula Seling | Delete | October 15 |
| Category:Penn State Lady Lions field hockey players | rename. -- | October 17 |
| Category:People associated with beverages | delete. Those wishing to recategorize or listify any of the contents should check Cydebot's edit summary. (I have already made Category:Baristas.) | October 5 |
| Category:People associated with U2 | Delete | October 5 |
| Category:People born in Sweden | delete | October 22 |
| Category:People educated at Convent School | Delete | October 22 |
| Category:People from Anshan, Liaoning | Opposed - | October 8 |
| Category:People from Harlem, New York | reverse merge, i.e. merge Category:People from Harlem to Category:People from Harlem, New York | October 2 |
| Category:People from Sikar | delete | October 18 |
| Category:People from Westfield, Wisconsin | Merge | October 27 |
| Category:People known by acronyms | delete | October 1 |
| People of Native Hawaiian descent | withdrawn | October 23 |
| Category:People's Republic of China railway station stubs | Rename | October 31 |
| Category:Peoplel from Fleet, Hampshire | Speedy (ish) rename C2A | October 26 |
| Category:Pescetarians | Delete | October 30 |
| Category:Peter Andre | keep, justabout. I think that this disucssion justabout amounts to a consensus to keep the category, though there is little enthusiasm for it | October 22 |
| Category:Petroleum economics and industry | Rename | October 14 |
| Petroleum industry categories | KEEP, with possible split as discussed | October 10 |
| Petroleum industry categories | relisted at CfD 2012 October 10 | October 1 |
| Category:Petroleum production in Canada | rename. -- | October 11 |
| Category:Piirpauke albums | Delete | October 15 |
| Category:Pink Floyd bootleg albums | delete. Per WP:CAT#Overview, the primary purpose of categories is to facilitate navigation. Neither of the two editors who supported keeping this category identified any navigational purpose for this category, so the strongest case is made by those favouring deletion | October 5 |
| Category:Pixar's Up | speedy rename per speedy criterion C2D | October 4 |
| Place Name Wikipedia meetups | rename all | October 17 |
| Category:Places affected by Hurricane Sandy | Delete | October 31 |
| Category:Places in Magerøya | rename | October 8 |
| Category:Places named Trujillo | delete | October 22 |
| Category:Plan 9 stubs | delete the category. No consensus on deleting the template, but feel free to open an immediate new nomination to discuss it | October 22 |
| Category:Polioptilidae stubs | delete category, but keep template | October 22 |
| Category:Political divisions of Taiwan | withdrawn. – | October 24 |
| Political families of Ireland | no consensus | October 21 |
| Category:Political prisoners and detainees of China | merge. Essentially it boils down to this: can the community justify a category for political prisoners in China after deleting a general category for political prisoners, not just recently but in the past as well? The answer - based on the arguments below, primarily for the sake of consistency and avoiding POV - is "no". One person's political prisoner is another person's common criminal. Objective categorisation is possible in some respects, as mentioned during the discussion, but not using "political prisoner" terminology. This discussion is *not* the appropriate venue to call for the overturning of the result of the previous decision, let alone for me to overturn it | October 29 |
| Category:Politics of Madiera | Upmerge | October 5 |
| Category:Pope-related topics | delete. | October 8 |
| Category:Porcupine Tree images | Rename | October 15 |
| Category:Powderfinger side projects | delete | October 5 |
| Category:Pre-1920 comedy film stubs | Rename | October 27 |
| Category:Presenters who are stepmothers | Delete | October 22 |
| Category:Presenters with dogs | Delete | October 22 |
| Category:Presidencies of the United States | Reverse merge "Presidencies of X". Essentially as diffusion to the subcat. - | October 21 |
| Category:Primary Wave Music artists | Delete | October 2 |
| Category:Priyanka Chopra songs | keep | October 18 |
| Category:Probability articles with topics template | delete | October 10 |
| Category:Professional Wrestlers billed as "World's Strongest Man" | delete | October 26 |
| Category:Professional | relisted at CFD November 5 | October 28 |
| Professorships by university | 'Rename all, including the parent to Category:Professorships by university or college. (Concerning the parent, the standard seems to be set by Category:People by university or college and its ultimate parent, Category:Universities and colleges.) - | October 6 |
| Category:Protest disrobing | Merge - | October 22 |
| Category:Protestant victims of Nazism and Category:Catholic people executed by Nazi Germany | merge both to Category:People killed by Nazi Germany | October 18 |
| Category:Public policy and citizen participation in California | delete | October 28 |
| Category:Qarpa albums | no consensus | October 12 |
| Category:Railway stations opened in 1829 | keep, without prejudice to any further nomination relating to Peterkingirons's proposal to rename. That proposal would involve several other categories (Category:Railway stations opened in 1812 and Category:Railway stations opened in 1825, so it should be pursued through a group nomination to merge them | October 25 |
| Category:Ranchera music | rename | October 5 |
| Category:Ranma ½ characters | upmerge all per Calathan's scheme | October 27 |
| Category:Reading Rage players | rename. | October 7 |
| Category:Recipients of the Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France) | rename | October 1 |
| Category:Recipients of the Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (France) | rename | October 1 |
| Category:Recipients of the Croix du combattant volontaire 1914–1918 | Delete | October 28 |
| Category:Reservoirs in Canada | withdrawn by nominator. ([1]) – | October 14 |
| Category:Reservoirs of British Columbia | Rename | October 14 |
| Ring roads | rename all as nominated. There was some support for making the US an exception, but no clear consensus to do so. So I close this as rename all to "ring roads" without prejudice to an immediate further discussion on the US (and any countries for which an exception might be made) | October 16 |
| Category:RMIT University | rename to Category:Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | October 16 |
| Category:Roman Catholic provinces in the United Kingdom | no consensus | October 13 |
| Category:Roque | Merge all to Category:Roque - | October 9 |
| Rugby union at the Maccabiah Games subcategories | Delete | October 25 |
| Category:Sabah–Malaysia relations | merge to a newly-created Category:Federalism in Malaysia, which will not be parented in international relations categories | October 3 |
| Category:SC Chemie Halle | delete Category:SC Chemie Halle | October 8 |
| Category:Schnuffel | Delete | October 27 |
| Category:Scottish Parliamentary constituencies | rename per nom, in particular for consistency with the top-level category rather than creating a new category name midway through the structure | October 28 |
| Category:Scouting for Girls | Delete | October 15 |
| Category:Severed Heads | Delete | October 15 |
| Category:Sex roles | rename | October 12 |
| Category:Shopping venues in Lebanon | delete | October 9 |
| Category:Slovakian aircraft | Rename | October 25 |
| Category:Software Defined Storage companies | merge to Category:Computer storage companies | October 10 |
| Category:Software Defined Storage companies | relisted at CfD 2012 October 10 | October 1 |
| Category:Songs recorded at IBC Studios | Delete | October 30 |
| Category:Songs written by Priyanka Chopra | keep | October 18 |
| Category:SONiA & disappear fear albums | Merge | October 29 |
| Category:Soviet rowing biography stubs | delete | October 8 |
| Category:Special Lecturer at Gresham College | delete. No need to create a list, because it already exists at Gresham College#Gresham_Special_Lecture_series | October 19 |
| Category:Sphinx Family | delete per WP:SNOW. Clearly a nonsensical category. — | October 22 |
| Category:Spiders of Virginia | merge Category:Spiders of Virginia to Category:Spiders of North America | October 10 |
| Sport in Irish towns categories | Merge | October 3 |
| Category:Sri Lankan refugee camps | rename to Category:Refugee camps in Sri Lanka. There was no discussion of the nominator's related proposal for restructuring, but since there were no objections I presume that it is uncontroversial | October 25 |
| Category:Starship albums | merge | October 13 |
| Category:Starship songs | merge. The rationale is supported, but why label the proposed action as "rename" when the clear intention is to merger to a pre-existing category? | October 13 |
| Category:Statistics articles with topics template | delete | October 10 |
| Category:Ste. Rose, Manitoba | delete | October 1 |
| Category:Steampunk music | delete | October 4 |
| Category:Stellar Kart | delete | October 25 |
| Subnational entities | Rename | October 25 |
| Category:Teleplays by Emma Thompson | delete | October 13 |
| Category:Television series produced in New York City | Manual Merge per BHG. (Should not be merged through the automated process.) I'll drop BHG a note. - | October 1 |
| Category:Television series set in Van Nuys, California | Merge | October 27 |
| Category:Text Records albums | withdrawn by nominator | October 2 |
| Category:The Band of Blacky Ranchette albums | no consensus. The nominator proposed merging, which was impossible because the target has never previously existed. The one comment does not appear to have noticed this, so I can't consider this category as having been sufficiently scrutinised to establish a consensus to do anything | October 5 |
| Category:The Band of Blacky Ranchette albums | Rename | October 29 |
| Category:The Jazztet albums | Merge | October 29 |
| Category:The Rebel albums | rename | October 16 |
| Category:Timbiriche | delete | October 16 |
| Category:Toaru Majutsu no Index | rename | October 24 |
| Category:Top 200 US Drugs of 2011 | Delete per WP:OC#TOPTEN and WP:OC#ARBITRARY, among other reasons noted. - | October 1 |
| Category:Touch (TV series) | delete | October 10 |
| Category:Townlands in North Tipperary | merge | October 1 |
| Townlands of County Foo | Rename/Merge | October 30 |
| Category:Transgender and transsexual Asian Americans | NO CONSENSUS. This is a complex set of nominations, dealing as they do with one the one hand inter-related real-world topics and also inter-related Wikipedia matters. I've decided that, despite the split nomination, a single consistent outcome is desirable across all three categories, since there would seem to be no justification in practice nor the content of any of the discussions to produce a split result | October 10 |
| Transport categories for China ex-PRC | Speedy rename/merge C2D | October 29 |
| Category:Trials in England | No consensus to rename. - | October 18 |
| Category:Tripolitania | Withdrawn | October 10 |
| Category:Trujillo Festivals (Peru) | Rename | October 25 |
| Category:Turbonegro | delete | October 16 |
| Category:Turkish Paralympic medalist stubs | delete category, but keep template | October 22 |
| Category:Underworld (band) | delete | October 16 |
| Category:Unicode compatibility characters | delete. It still contains only one article, and since nobody apart from the creator seems to understand what the category is for, it is unlikely to grow | October 10 |
| Category:Unincorporated communities in the United States by county | Keep | October 2 |
| Category:United Kingdom Parliamentary constituencies | rename per nom | October 28 |
| Category:United States Grain Companies | Rename to Category:Grain companies of the United States - | October 1 |
| Category:University librarians | Rename | October 15 |
| Category:University of Great Falls | Keep - | October 3 |
| Category:UPDC participants | Delete - No prejudice against re-creation if the project becomes active. - | October 10 |
| Category:UPDC participants | relisted at CfD October 10 | October 1 |
| Category:Vancouver Whitecaps coaches | split per nominator. The existing category will become a {{container category}} | October 28 |
| Category:Victoria Cross actions | listify and delete | October 11 |
| Category:Waterfront Hotels & Casinos | Delete | October 25 |
| Category:Weapons in Hindu History | merge to Category:Weapons in Hindu mythology | October 13 |
| Category:Wikipedia icons | No consensus to delete the category. - | October 10 |
| Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming | Delete. Given that both are empty and there was no objection here, deletion seems safe | October 13 |
| Category:Wikipedians who are a net negative as an influence on Wikipedia | delete per WP:SNOW. This is a blatant attack page, which was correctly deleted per WP:CSD#G10. It was re-created by a non-admin, and per speedy deletion policy it was eligible for further speedy deletion. To prevent its creation again, I have salted it | October 25 |
| Category:Wikipedians who are not a Wikipedian 2 | procedural close. The same category is already being discussed lower down this page. Per WP:MULTI, splitting the discussion impedes consensus formation. This closure is neither a critcism nor a support of the merge proposal; it is done to avoid duplication of comments, and to ensure that we do not end up with two contradictory decisions |
October 31 |
| Category:Wikipedians who are not a Wikipedian and therefore are Wikipedians because that's the way Wikipedians like us roll | speedy delete per WP:CSD#G7 deletion by author request below | October 31 |
| Wikipedians who are not a wikipedian | delete. As one of the editors who spoke up against Jclemens' ill-considered remark that sparked this whole thing, I feel I understand the background and context of this category well enough to appropriately gauge the consensus below. I would personally be quick to sign up for a Wikipedia that had no problems with "protest categories", but judging from the comments below, it appears that that is not the Wikipedia we have now. It seems clear to me that consensus (right or wrong) is that this category does not fall within the accepted uses of our categorization system. That said, there is no reason individual editors can't be a "member" of the category even though it has been deleted; being a member of a red-linked category might, in fact, be a more effective way to protest. For the record, I don't consider legitimate criticism (which this category appears to me to be) to be an "attack", especially as our policies and guidelines define personal attacks and attack pages. And it certainly isn't "libellous" (!) by any reasonable measure. But consensus is that it doesn't fit within what our category system was designed for, so the legitimate protesting will now need to be done via a red link rather than a blue one | October 31 |
| Category:Wikipedians who are not a Wikipedian | speedily deleted under WP:CSD G10 "attack/disparage" (with a bit of WP:NOTBATTLEGROUND thrown in) I've no involvement in the current Malleus Fatuorum/Arbcom dispute. I can see many good people were outraged by stupid JClemens "not a Wikipedian" remark. But creating categories to attack an editor for a remark he made isn't how we do things. We ARE Wikipedians that means we discuss things together, and we use proper mature methods to do this. We don't tar and feather people (and I think that exactly the reason people rightly objected to JClemens' remark). We don't engage in puerile battle ground tactics - we don't monumentalise the folly of others. Where would it end? Do we end up with "Category:Wikipedians who are fuckers" in protest at things Malleus has said? Please, step back and cool down everyone. When we have a dispute, and real Wikipedians try to use discussion and dispute resolution methods to, well, like "resolve" the dispute, not stunts and protests to ramp it up. Take this to deletion review if you must, but ask yourself how you are helping Wikipedia. Your valid point/protest has now been made | October 24 |
| Category:Wikipedians who are not Wikipedians, and who think this is a great idea, but possibly not, and who are not being indecisive | speedy delete per WP:CSD#G7 deletion by author request below | October 31 |
| Category:WikiProject Deep Purple templates | Delete | October 31 |
| Category:Willis Carto | Delete - | October 1 |
| Category:Wits University FC players | speedy rename. | October 23 |
| Category:Works by Jagadguru Rāmabhadrācārya | rename | October 13 |
| Category:Works by Marika Gombitová | Merge | October 15 |
| Category:Works by Szidi Tobias | Merge | October 15 |
| Category:Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award | Delete | October 7 |