Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2013 February index
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| "Works by" not needed | delete all | February 18 |
| Category:1955 or 1956 births | merge to Category:1950s births and Category:Year of birth missing (living people)/Category:Year of birth missing. – | February 13 |
| Category:1963 assassinations | no consensus. Note that I am closing Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 February 2#Category:Assassinations_by_year together with this one, and the closing statement (to follow) is the same in both cases | February 7 |
| Category:1990s television series | procedural close. This is not a proposal to delete/rename/split/merge the category, so it doesn't belong at CFD. The nominator may want to take up the suggestion of asking the question at Wikipedia talk:Categories | February 4 |
| Category:1993 in English cricket | keep. -- | February 15 |
| Category:19th-century buildings and structures in Louisville, Kentucky | no consensus. There may be merit in a wider discussion on how to develop the existing Category:Buildings and structures completed in the 19th century, perhaps at WT:CAT | February 12 |
| Category:19th-century buildings and structures in Louisville, Kentucky | Relisted at CFD 2013 February 12 | February 2 |
| Category:21st Century attacks on Jewish cemeteries | delete | February 12 |
| 970s cats | merge all | February 3 |
| Category:Abrahamic prophecy | delete | February 19 |
| Category:ACE Coaster Landmarks | delete | February 8 |
| Category:Actors awarded British damehoods | Rename | February 22 |
| Category:African words and phrases | delete | February 1 |
| Category:AGM plants | delete | February 5 |
| Category:AGM shrubs | pruned aka delete | February 5 |
| Air National Guard | keep. | February 2 |
| Category:Aircraft manufactured by Algeria (etc) | rename to Category:Aircraft manufactured in Algeria. – | February 11 |
| Category:Albert Einstein prizes | relisted at CFD 2013 March 7 | February 26 |
| Alcohol-related deaths in U.S. states | keep all | February 16 |
| Algonquin loanwords | listify and delete | February 16 |
| Alumni of Panadura Royal College | keep. – | February 16 |
| Category:American actors of Chinese descent | administrative close. The ongoing discussion is here | February 4 |
| Category:American actors of Finnish descent | result | February 6 |
| Category:American female pornographic film actors) | Delete, could have probably been a speedy under CSD R3 | February 4 |
| Category:American given names | delete | February 6 |
| American monarchists | no consensus | February 16 |
| Category:Ancient Christian saints | Rename to Category:Ante-Nicene Christian saints then purge | February 2 |
| Category:Ancient Christians | relisted at CFD 2013 February 25 | February 13 |
| Category:Ancient Christians | rename | February 25 |
| Category:Ancient Greek vegetarians | delete both | February 19 |
| Category:Ancient Greek works by writer | rename all | February 12 |
| Category:Ancient Greeks accused or listed as atheists | delete | February 9 |
| Category:Android software | rename | February 17 |
| Category:Anime and manga by demographic | relisted at CFD March 1 | February 6 |
| Category:Anna Akhmatova Museums | merge | February 4 |
| Army National Guard | keep. | February 2 |
| Category:Artillery of the Spanish Civil War | merge Category:Military equipment of the Spanish Civil War to Category:Spanish Civil War, delete Category:Artillery of the Spanish Civil War – | February 8 |
| Category:Artist authors | consensus to keep. There was also general dissatisfaction with the current name, but no consensus on any alternative. Having been relisted once already, the discussion has now been open for a total of nearly 4 weeks ... and since the idea of renaming hasn't made any significant progress since the last relisting, it's time to close | February 1 |
| Category:Assassinations by year | delete. I see no strong reason for listification here. All of the relatively meager contents of these categories have categories about their assassinations {e.g, Boutros Ghali's Category:Assassinated Egyptian politicians) and categories about their dates of death (e.g., his Category:1910 deaths). There's no clear support for uniting the two concepts in eitehr category or list form. However, if someone wants to make a bunch of lists, that's fine by me | February 25 |
| Category:Assassinations by year | no consensus. Note that I am closing Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 February 7#Category:1963_assassinations together with this one, and the closing statement is the same in both cases | February 2 |
| Category:Augusta – Richmond County metropolitan area | relisted at CFD 2013 March 4 | February 24 |
| Category:Austin – Round Rock metropolitan area | relisted at CFD 2013 March 4 | February 24 |
| Australian Aboriginal peoples categories | rename, as nobody opposed the move on the ground that the existing term is used by the peoples in question. The objection at the end of this discussion is answered by keeping biographies in the "Foo people" sub-category of "Foo" where this exists. {{Category explanation}} templates may help. In unambiguous cases it may be appropriate to move the lead article from "Foo people" to "Foo". – | February 26 |
| Category:Automata | split to Category:Automatons (computation) and Category:Automata (mechanicals) | February 5 |
| Category:Avenue D songs | withdrawn | February 12 |
| Category:Bakery/café restaurants | no consensus on splitting. There was no support for the current name, so I'll take as a consensus to rename to the only proposed alternative: Category:Bakery cafés | February 7 |
| Ballet dancers by gender categories | Rename the male categories, no consensus for the female categories | February 26 |
| Category:Batmobile | Delete | February 7 |
| Boer War weapons and Gulf War equipment | delete (with some upmerges). This is not a referendum on the legitimacy of categorizing weapons by war in general. It is, however, a referendum on categorizing weapons by limited-length war for which the weapons were not designed. In the case of World War II, many weapons were created especially for the war; the Bat (guided bomb) was developed in 1941 and used by 1944. But the Gulf War wasn't a hot war for long enough for a single government design contract to be approved, let alone for a weapon to be designed, built, deployed, and used by the end of the war. The delete votes, of which there are many, provide a strong performer-by-performance rationale for this course of action | February 11 |
| Category:Boneheads (TV series) | administrative close: deleted as hoax by another editor | February 20 |
| Category:Bradenton–Sarasota–Venice metropolitan area | relisted at CFD 2013 March 4 | February 24 |
| British railway stations | rename to "in Great Britain" | February 24 |
| Category:Burials at Archcathedral Basilica of Sts. Stanisław and Vaclav, Kraków | Rename | February 3 |
| Category:Burials at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima | rename without prejudice to a further renaming if and when the head article is moved | February 21 |
| Category:Burials in Krakow | rename. | February 20 |
| Category:Burials in Santarem District | rename, without prejudice to a further renaming if and when the head article is moved | February 21 |
| Category:Canadian LGBT mayors | nomination withdrawn. There were no deletion rationales at all which were validly specific to this category; instead, the only cited argument was against the entire concept of categorizing politicians as LGBT at all, which was not actually within the scope of the debate. One person did express a preference for upmerging, but also indicated that the renaming was acceptable to her — and spent much more of her time explaining that position (and the inappropriateness of the "delete as irrelevant" argument) instead of the upmerge one anyway; one person unequivocally supported renaming. Given that the possibility of a consensus to upmerge instead of renaming is the only reason that I didn't just rename it myself right off the bat, and there's clearly no consensus in the end to actually do so, I'm therefore closing this as a withdrawn nomination and just going ahead with what I probably should have done in the first place. If anybody wants to make a comprehensive nomination of the entire Category:LGBT politicians tree, they're certainly free to do so if they wish — but I have to admit that the phrase "fool's errand" comes to mind | February 9 |
| Canadian ships | merge. | February 21 |
| Category:Cape Fear region | relisted at CFD 2013 March 4 | February 24 |
| Category:Captain Marvel (DC Comics) films | upmerge. | February 5 |
| Carolina Dynamo | merge | February 11 |
| Category:Celtic loanwords | rename, when the sub-categories have been listified | February 10 |
| Category:Chinese composer stubs | upmerge category, but keep template | February 25 |
| Chinese text | merge | February 10 |
| Category:Christian martyrs of the Roman era | rename | February 12 |
| Category:Ciconiiformes stubs | Upmerge category, and redirect template | February 17 |
| Cities and towns in Sudetenland | delete both. No need to listify, because a list already exists at Municipalities in Sudetenland | February 9 |
| Category:City and Country School alumni | listify and delete | February 25 |
| Category:City and Country School alumni | relisted at WP:CFD 2013 February 25 | February 12 |
| Category:Coffee houses | a very weak consensus to rename to Category:Coffeehouses, without prejudice to any further renamings of the category, or to renamings resulting from a move of the head article | February 7 |
| Category:Commonwealth Games venues | no consensus. | February 1 |
| Community organizers or activists | rename Category:Community organizers to Category:Community activists. | February 27 |
| Category:Computer wargames | keep without merge | February 8 |
| Congregational churches categories | keep all (i.e. do not rename or delete). There is a clear local consensus here not to rename these categories as proposed. The question of whether we should have categories for "churches" or "church buildings" has been discussed at CFD many times over the last few years. The debates have usually been lengthy (and sometimes heated), and their outcomes have been inconsistent. Isn't it time for a WP:RFC to seek wider input on this question, and try to build a stable consensus rather than re-hashing the same debate again and again at CFD? |
February 4 |
| County Championships | keep all | February 2 |
| County Football Championships by year | relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 March 13#County Football Championships by year | February 2 |
| Category:Dabbling ducks | keep both. | February 28 |
| Dance Magazines's "25 to Watch" | delete | February 23 |
| Category:Danish Christian ministers | withdrawn by nominator | February 4 |
| Category:Death rock musical groups | rename both | February 28 |
| Category:Debby Ryan | keep | February 20 |
| Category:Democratic People's Republic of Korea government images | delete | February 6 |
| Category:Diving ducks | keep both. | February 28 |
| Category:Doctor Who non-fiction books | rename to Category:Books about Doctor Who | February 17 |
| Category:Dominican Republic people of African descent | delete | February 9 |
| Category:Dr. Seuss parodies | keep. There is some support for, but no clear consensus to, rename to Category:Parodies based on works by Dr. Seuss, so I encourage a follow-up nomination (perhaps including similar categories in Category:Parody by topic) to discuss the name. -- | February 15 |
| Category:Dragon Day | split per nom. I have moved the three images (File:Dragon Day 1996.jpg, File:Cornell Dragon Day 2006.jpg, and File:Dragonday 2008.jpg) to Category:Cornell University images. If anyone would like to move them to commons that would be wonderful | February 24 |
| Category:Drama Desk Award winners | no consensus. This debate was evenly split. The issue at stake seems to be the significance of this particular award, but sadly neither side offered any evidence either way (although there were several assertions). There are currently 17 awards categorised under Category:Theatre award winners, but there was no agreement on how this fits in the hierarchy of theatrical awards. Editors may wish to consider starting a wider discussion at WikiProject Theatre, where more evidence could be gathered on which theatrical awards are defining | February 13 |
| Category:Drama Desk Award winners | relisted at CFD 2013 February 13 | February 6 |
| Drug-related suicides in U.S. states | keep all | February 16 |
| Category:Duluth–Superior | relisted at CFD 2013 March 4 | February 24 |
| Category:Dutch vegetarians | delete all | February 19 |
| Category:Early American naval commanders | relisted to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 March 13#Category:Early American naval commanders | February 12 |
| Category:EC 3.5.1 | rename to Category:Linear amides. Editors seem to be evenly divided between support for "amides" and amidases", so I was going to toss a coin. But Google shows 145,000 hits for "linear amides" versus only 41 hits for "linear amidases", so I left the coin in my piggy bank | February 9 |
| Category:Eidolon albums | speedy rename per WP:C2D | February 16 |
| Category:Eidolon | speedy rename per WP:C2D | February 16 |
| Category:English archaeologists | keep. | February 22 |
| English cricket seasons | merge all | February 13 |
| Category:English republicans | no consensus. -- | February 15 |
| Category:English words | Withdrawn by nominator. | February 1 |
| Ethnic categories related to Vojvodina | keep Category:People of Rusyn descent plus its sub-categories, but delete the others | February 7 |
| Category:Evansville metropolitan area | relisted at CFD 2013 March 4 | February 24 |
| Category:Exosquad images | merge to Category:Animated series images | February 7 |
| Category:Exosquad | delete | February 6 |
| Category:Farms and ranches on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana | Relisted at CfD 2013 February 12 | February 2 |
| Category:Farms and ranches on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana | split | February 12 |
| Feminism books | merge both. If editors any of the books in these categories have been miscategorised and should really be in Category:Books about feminism, that can be dealt with through normal editorial processes |
February 20 |
| Category:Fictional American archers | merge | February 1 |
| Fictional American people of Dutch descent | no consensus. The lack of consensus is mostly mine here. There are 19 other categories of this type, and deleting one making no sense. But if they are all nominated, this discussion can serve as a supporting argument | February 25 |
| Category:Fictional characters by writer | rename to Category:Literary characters by writer. | February 27 |
| Category:Films distributed by Disney | no consensus. | February 25 |
| Category:Films distributed by Disney | relisted at CFD 2013 February 25 | February 17 |
| Category:Finnish loanwords | delete | February 2 |
| Fires by year | no consensus. | February 27 |
| Category:Foods named after places | delete. The existence of specifically-protected names for foods appears to have been one of the stronger arguments against deletion in the August 2011 CFD. That point was not discussed here, but we already have Category:Products with protected designation of origin (and its national subcats) for such foods ... so this category meets WP:OC#SHAREDNAMES | February 2 |
| Category:Forms of Christianity | merge. | February 28 |
| Category:Freelance Marketplace websites | rename | February 17 |
| Category:Gaelic games county team navigational boxes | rename to Category:Gaelic games county navigational boxes. – | February 13 |
| Games of skill | keep both | February 18 |
| Category:German danceurs | speedy rename WP:C2E, but add into Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 February 26#Ballet dancers by gender categories. – | February 25 |
| Category:German guns | merge | February 13 |
| Germanic loanwords | listify and delete all | February 25 |
| Category:Global internet community | delete. – | February 16 |
| Category:Government of Liaquat Ali Khan | no consensus. There's some consensus for change here, but all the subcategories of Category:Prime Ministers of Pakistan have subcategories of "Government of (X)." It makes no sense to change this one but not the others | February 25 |
| Category:Government of Liaquat Ali Khan | relisted at CFD 2013 February 25 | February 17 |
| Category:Great Reading Adventure | delete | February 20 |
| Category:Greenville, South Carolina metropolitan area | relisted at CFD 2013 March 4 | February 24 |
| Category:Hangzhou railway station stubs | rename category, redirect template. Note that Qetuth's comments about other other templates are outside the scope of this nomination. They would require a separate discussion |
February 11 |
| Category:Harvard librarians | relisted at 2013 February 10 | February 1 |
| Category:Harvard librarians | rename as nominated. – | February 10 |
| Category:Historic bars of Boston, Massachusetts | merge | February 2 |
| Category:Hospitals on the National Register of Historic Places | rename | February 5 |
| Category:Hotels in England by name | delete all | February 6 |
| Hurling clubs | Proposal defeated. The existing status quo is overwhelmingly preferred | February 1 |
| Category:Hurricane season templates | delete rather than merge, because each of the members is already in the regional sub-cat of Category:Tropical cyclone templates. The vote for merger confirms the lack of interest in maintaining this category for the season templates. – | February 17 |
| Category:Hussain Muhammad Ershad | delete | February 12 |
| Category:Indian actors by language | relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 March 13#Category:Indian actors by language | February 7 |
| Category:International cricket competitions by year | create head category Category:International cricket competitions by period for the multi-year members longer than a season. Others can stay in Category:International cricket competitions by year whether part of one calendar year or a season spanning two years, following the example of Category:Domestic association football league seasons by year, and as part of Category:Seasons in cricket. – | February 21 |
| Category:Isle de France | merge to Category:History of Mauritius | February 12 |
| Category:Italian paralympic athletes biography stubs | merge Category:Italian paralympic athletes biography stubs to Category:Italian athletics biography stubs and Category:Paralympics stubs. Note that while we do have a Category:Paralympic medalist stubs, there is no general stub category for Category:Paralympic competitors. It might be advisable to create a Category:Paralympic competitor stubs (or Category:Paralympics biography stubs), since there are 757 pages in Category:Paralympics stubs |
February 10 |
| Category:Ivor Novello Award winners | keep | February 5 |
| Category:Jews in Rock'n'Roll and Rockabilly music | listify and delete | February 13 |
| Category:Kingsport–Bristol metropolitan area | relisted at CFD 2013 March 4 | February 24 |
| Category:Kosovo War guided missiles | delete. I added the 3 current members to the list within the main article. – | February 8 |
| Category:KYTV (TV series) episodes | delete | February 14 |
| Category:Law firms in India | Speedy delete under CSD G7 (author request) | February 16 |
| Category:Le Corbusier buildings in India | keep. I do not think it would be appropriate to make categories for one architect's works by city. – | February 25 |
| Category:Lexington–Fayette metropolitan area | relisted at CFD 2013 March 4 | February 24 |
| Category:Liberty Global Europe | rename (C2D) | February 9 |
| Category:Libraries of Cumberland, MD-WV-PA | delete | February 17 |
| Category:Library museums | split manually, categorising each page in the appropriate library and museums cactegory | February 17 |
| Category:Linear amides | rename | February 18 |
| Category:List of Chinese Canadian organizations | speedy renamed | February 9 |
| Category:List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) episodes | rename to Category:Lists of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series) episodes | February 9 |
| Category:Lists of AGM plants | rename | February 5 |
| Category:Lists of Billboard Hot Latin Tracks number-one hits | rename (C2D) | February 13 |
| Category:LivingTV television programmes | rename (C2D) | February 16 |
| Category:Logar Valley | rename | February 28 |
| Category:Long Island deaths | delete | February 6 |
| Los Angeles Misioneros | merge | February 11 |
| Category:Madeira geography stubs | delete category, but keep template | February 25 |
| Category:Malayali actors | relisted at CFD 2013 March 1 | February 7 |
| Category:Male kings and Category:Female queens | speedy delete per WP:CSD#G1 as bad joke / attention-seeking / WP:POINTy disruption / whatever | February 3 |
| Category:Matlock (TV series) episodes | delete | February 15 |
| Category:Mayors of Fayetteville, North Carolina | merge to Category:People from Fayetteville, North Carolina and also to Category:Mayors of places in North Carolina. There is a consensus to upmerge, but only of the 3 editors in this discussion spotted that the category has two parents. Please can nominators remember to check this when proposing a merger? | February 15 |
| Category:Medicinal plants-stubs | rename both template and category | February 12 |
| Category:Middle Africa WikiProjects | delete all | February 19 |
| Category:Military equipment by conflict | keep. I closed this nomination as a delete, but that doesn't mean this is flying. Even if limited wars shouldn't have equipment categories, world-spanning wars can have such categories, and those need something to contain them | February 13 |
| Category:Military equipment of the Iraq War | delete | February 8 |
| Category:Military equipment of the Korean War | listify and delete. – | February 8 |
| Category:Military equipment of the Royal Air Force | delete after selective upmerge to Category:Royal Air Force, where this is defining. – | February 8 |
| Category:Military equipment of the Second Boer War | delete. See my earlier close for the rationale. Additionally, at this point, none of the categories contain anything except an article about a horse breed | February 16 |
| Category:Military equipment of the Second Sino-Japanese War | upmerge. – | February 8 |
| Military equipment of the Vietnam War | delete all. – | February 10 |
| Category:Military operations of the post-1945 period | relisted to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 March 13#Category:Military operations of the post-1945 period | February 7 |
| Category:Military operations post-1945 | relisted to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 March 13#Category:Military operations post-1945 | February 8 |
| Category:Minnesota Thunder (USL A-League) players | merge | February 11 |
| Category:Moonlighting (TV series) episodes | delete | February 15 |
| Category:Mosques in North Africa | delete | February 8 |
| Category:Mountains and ski resorts in the Okanagan | split | February 19 |
| Category:Movie and Television Directors | delete. All contents are in other director categories | February 21 |
| Category:Moyne-Templetouhy hurlers | moot - deleted per G6 | February 14 |
| Category:Museums of Ancient Rome | relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 March 13#Category:Museums of Ancient Rome | February 2 |
| Category:Mysteries and Scandals episodes | delete | February 15 |
| Category:Named roundabouts | rename/merge all to Category:Roundabouts and traffic circles and Category:Roundabouts and traffic circles in the United States. | February 12 |
| National anthem singers | delete | February 28 |
| Category:Native American actors who performed in a Native American language | delete, or rather "don't undelete", since the category has already been deleted | February 6 |
| Category:Native American words and phrases | relisted at CFD 2013 March 1 | February 6 |
| Category:Natural History Museum | rename. – | February 1 |
| Naval mines | no consensus. | February 28 |
| Category:NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship Games | delete | February 28 |
| Category:Nevada elections, 1976 | keep | February 25 |
| Category:New Zealand youth orchestras | merge to all parents (i.e. Category:New Zealand orchestras, Category:Youth organisations based in New Zealand and Category:Youth orchestras) | February 6 |
| Category:Nishapur Quarter | keep. No prejudice against immediate renomination due to lack of consensus | February 3 |
| Category:No Wave musical groups | rename. | February 28 |
| No wave | withdrawn. | February 28 |
| Category:Non-traditional Buddhism | rename to Category:Buddhist new religious movements | February 6 |
| Nonagenarians | result | February 5 |
| Category:Noncombat internal explosions on warships | Split into Category:Non-combat internal explosions on warships and Category:Ships sunk by non-combat internal explosions | February 14 |
| Category:North Dakota Fighting Sioux men's ice hockey players | rename per supports below and speedy criterion C2D | February 12 |
| Category:Northern Ireland stage actors | Rename all. The question of the stage actor categories needs to be discussed in a discussion about Category:Stage actors, not about the category here in the original nomination | February 4 |
| Numeronyms/Backronyms/Orphan initialisms | delete all | February 11 |
| Category:Obie Award recipients | no consensus | February 6 |
| Category:Online museums | merge. Duplicate categories; WP:NOTBURO | February 12 |
| Category:Past presidents of The Virginia Bar Association | listify to List of presidents of the Virginia Bar Association. -- | February 1 |
| Category:Paul Brown coaching tree | delete | February 7 |
| Category:People from Agnew, Washington | merge | February 20 |
| People from London boroughs | rename all to the "People from Foo (London borough)" format. This may be a bit of a WP:BOLD close but I see no clear dissent to this option, so to boldly go and all that | February 8 |
| Category:People from Sparta, North Carolina | merge | February 18 |
| Category:People from the Texas South Plains | delete | February 17 |
| Category:People known for their contribution to Freemasonry | merge to Category:Freemasons | February 13 |
| Category:People with synesthesia | delete | February 1 |
| Category:Personal genome sequenced | delete | February 14 |
| Category:Polytheliacs | Delete | February 3 |
| Category:Pre-1910 comedy film stubs | merge to Category:Pre-1910 film stubs and Category:Silent comedy film stubs | February 5 |
| Category:Production battery electric cars | merge. There is already a list at List of production battery electric vehicles | February 17 |
| Category:Property damaged by arson | keep "destroyed", delete "damaged". It looks as if someone has made sure that any "damaged" buildings which were actually destroyed are now in both categories. St Barnabas' Church, Erdington is an example of one that was not destroyed, and will be de-categorised; this seems a reasonable outcome. – | February 14 |
| Category:Proprietary libraries | rename to Subscription libraries, with the possibility of another rename (e.g. to Membership) in the future if further discussion and development of the articles shows it's appropriate | February 23 |
| Category:Puerto Rican nuns | keep. – | February 8 |
| Category:Punjwood film actors | rename to Category:Punjabi film actors | February 7 |
| Category:Quarters in Istanbul | no consensus. | February 3 |
| Category:Radio stations in Colorado Springs & Pueblo | split | February 16 |
| Category:Rainbow Codes | relisted at CFD 2013 February 25 | February 11 |
| Category:Rainbow Codes | selective upmerge where not already in a specific sub-cat of Category:Cold War military equipment of the United Kingdom. WP:OCAT requires deletion, and the info already exists and is being kept as a list, which is in Category:Code names. – | February 25 |
| Reality cooking competition winners | no consensus | February 6 |
| Category:Redirect-Class United States articles of NA-importance | no consensus. This type of category exists for many projects, and there is no sign of either 1) a local consensus to remove it for WikiProject United States, or 2) a broader consensus to remove all such categories. The nominator or others may wish to start a wider discussion elsewhere on categorising redirects | February 11 |
| Renaminng category from Category:Teen pregnancy in film and television to Category:Teenage pregnancy in film. | renamed speedily. Note to the nominator: please submit categories to either CFD or CFDS in future, not both | February 22 |
| Revolvers by country | rename all as nominated, to be followed up by the nominator in the case of Czech weapons. – | February 13 |
| Category:Riku is a total hottie | speedy delete per WP:CSD#G2 | February 12 |
| Category:Roads by year of opening | delete. | February 18 |
| Category:Robbery | withdrawn by nominator | February 27 |
| Category:S.H.I.E.L.D. films | upmerge to appropriate Marvel films categories. | February 10 |
| Category:S.H.I.E.L.D. in other media | delete. | February 10 |
| Salem, Oregon metropolitan area | relisted at CFD 2013 March 4 | February 24 |
| Category:Salisbury High School alumni | moot - sent to WP:CFDS as C2B eligible | February 14 |
| Category:San Antonio metropolitan area | relisted at CFD 2013 March 4 | February 24 |
| Category:Sanskrit words and phrases | purge of everything that is not actually an article about a word or phrase ... and then if it is empty, tag for speedy deletion with {{db-catempty}} | February 1 |
| Category:Satellite Award winners | delete | February 4 |
| Category:Saturn Award winners | delete | February 5 |
| Category:Saudi Arabian Websites | rename | February 17 |
| Category:Schools damaged by arson | no consensus. | February 13 |
| Category:Scorer of a thousand first-class runs before the end of May | Delete | February 20 |
| Semi-autos by country | rename all as nominated, using "South Korea" where appropriate. – | February 13 |
| Category:Sequenced genomes | keep. | February 13 |
| Category:Sesame Street actors | delete. These by-performance categories never get endorsed on CFD | February 5 |
| Category:Shintōhō | rename to Category:Shintoho films | February 11 |
| Category:Short-range ballistic missiles | keep both | February 10 |
| Smalltown mayors in North Carolina | merge all, to all parents | February 22 |
| Category:Sneaky Sound System | no consensus | February 1 |
| Category:Soap Opera Digest Award winners | relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_March_12#Category:Soap_Opera_Digest_Award_winners | February 23 |
| Category:Soap Opera Digest Award winners |  Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 February 23. -- |
February 15 |
| Category:Songs by songwriter | status quo | February 6 |
| Category:Songs from Billy Elliot the Musical | merge | February 8 |
| Category:Songs written by Dennis Knutson | keep. There's no guideline that requires a parent article; there is only a guideline that, if a parent article exists, the category matches it | February 7 |
| Category:Songs written by Jace Everett | keep | February 10 |
| Category:Songs written by James Valentine (musician) | do not rename | February 9 |
| Category:Songs written by Morris Levy | no consensus. Wikipedia does not exist to right great wrongs. If these songs are sourced as being credited to Levy, we may need to accept that for categorization purposes | February 22 |
| Category:Songs written by The Fireman | merge to both parents, per nominator | February 22 |
| Category:Spanish and English-language journals | merge to Category:Multilingual journals. There is a clear consensus not to keep this category at this time, but no consensus to remove its contents from Category:Multilingual journals. So the result is is to upmerge rather than delete | February 16 |
| Category:Spanish-language television shows | rename to Category:Spanish-language television programming. BHG's suggestion seems like it solves all the problems: it is neutral toward content (unlike series), and neutral toward WP:ENGVAR (unlike programs/programmes). Let's see a wider nomination on this | February 24 |
| Category:Special libraries | result | February 23 |
| Category:Sports injuries to specific organs | delete | February 25 |
| Sportspeople from | administrative close. Users should not use the nomination process to prove a point. | February 3 |
| Category:St.Patrick's(Wicklow) Gaelic footballers | rename; various other grandchild categories of Category:Gaelic footballers by county in the Republic of Ireland have the place name in the middle of the category name. – | February 18 |
| Category:Star Trek films | rename | February 27 |
| Category:State Organizations of Tamil Nadu | merge to Category:State agencies of Tamil Nadu. If editors want to diffuse some of the articles to a new Category:Government-owned companies of Tamil Nadu, please go ahead | February 22 |
| Category:State parks in the United States | rename all using "of". There are good arguments for using "in" at the top level, but the nominator has explained why using "of" is also acceptable; most contributors seem satisfied with that, and it will look more sensible for it to be consistent with the sub-cats. – | February 25 |
| States and territories disestablished before 1000CE | merge to century categories. I leave it to BHG to deal with the details | February 13 |
| Category:Step by Step (TV series) episodes | delete | February 13 |
| Category:Strategies for dealing with the two party system | delete | February 12 |
| Sub-categories of 'Fictional characters who use magic' | no consensus. It is very tempting to rename the witches category, but there's no rule that females can't be "sorcerers" (see Sorcerer (Dungeons & Dragons), which is gender neutral) | February 28 |
| Sub-categories of 'Fictional characters who use magic' | relisted at CFD 2013 February 28 | February 18 |
| Category:Suicides in Bangladesh | speedy merge per WP:C2E | February 24 |
| Syrian names | merge both to Category:Arabic given names. I have closed these two discussions together, since the topic and the issues are the same in each case |
February 5 |
| Category:Teenage mothers | Delete | February 26 |
| Category:Television series by RDF Media Group | no consensus | February 16 |
| Category:The Holocaust in Bosnia and Herzegovina | rename | February 12 |
| Category:The Holocaust in Croatia | no consensus. | February 25 |
| Category:The Holocaust in Croatia | relisted at CFD 2013 February 25 | February 12 |
| Category:The Simpsons merchandise | rename all | February 18 |
| Category:The Westies | rename to Category:Westies (New York gang) | February 27 |
| Category:The X-Files episode redirects to lists | speedy delete as empty category per WP:CSD#C1. For future reference, categories which have become redundant in this way don't need to be brought to CFD; just tag them with {{db-catempty}}. (This doesn't apply if an editor thinks a category is a bad idea; it's only to be done when a category is no longer applicable to any pages) | February 10 |
| Category:Thunderbirds (TV series) films | rename | February 27 |
| Category:Tipperary GAA hurlers | Rename per recent full discussions at WT:GAA and elsewhere | February 9 |
| Tipperary sportspeople | put it all back. Is it required that every discussion about Ireland categories turn into a wheelwar? Well, regardless, the discussion was poisoned immediately upon the removal of articles from the categories, so I looked solely at the merits. As far as I can read through the thicket, the counties exist now, and Category:Sportspeople by county in the Republic of Ireland exists to contain such categories. So it's staying for now | February 14 |
| Category:Tourist accommodations | keep. | February 17 |
| Category:TV articles of unclear notability | no consensus on merger, but speedy delete Category:Television articles with topics of unclear notability as empty'. There seems to be agreement here that we have duplicate categories, and that this duplication should be removed. However, the underlying situation is more complicated than that (and would require significant changes to the {{notability}} template), so I am closing the merger proposal as "no consensus" without prejudice to a renaming if and when the underlying issues are resolved. The Category:Television articles with topics of unclear notability was created on 13 Feb, and has always been empty. It will remain empty, because {{notability}} is currently incapable of populating the category. {{notability}} currently takes the following parameters: |
February 26 |
| Category:Tzadik Records | keep | February 25 |
| Category:U.S. Pergocrema 1932 players | rename | February 11 |
| Category:UK Government logos | temporarily merge Category:UK Government logos and Category:UK Government agency and department logos to Category:Logos of the United Kingdom Government. There is no consensus for where these should be categorized, but there is complete agreement that there should be only one category. So as a temporary fix, I chose the one with 86 entries rather than the one with 1 and the other with 0, at least after out-of-process removal. We can now open up this single category for renaming if folks like | February 3 |
| Category:Unicode character | delete. Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/💮 was closed as "merge", so Faynatic's reservation no longer applies | February 26 |
| Category:United Kingdom mass media lists | no consensus. | February 6 |
| Category:University book publishers of the United States / Canada | rename (C2C) | February 8 |
| User contacts | delete | February 5 |
| Category:User:Ammartivari | speedy delete per WP:CSD#G7 | February 11 |
| Category:Utica–Rome metropolitan area | relisted at CFD 2013 March 4 | February 24 |
| Category:Vampire: The Dark Ages | merge | February 8 |
| Category:Vegetarians by century | delete both | February 19 |
| Category:Vegetarians | delete all | February 11 |
| Category:Visitor attractions in the Detroit metropolitan area | relisted at CFD 2013 March 4 | February 24 |
| Watersports | rename to 'Water sports in' with tree being grown from there | February 3 |
| Category:Weapons of Australia in active service | delete all | February 9 |
| Category:Welsh loanwords | listify and delete all | February 10 |
| Category:White Russians | rename to Category:White Russians (movement), without creating a precedent for the sub-cats. – | February 4 |
| Category:Wikipedia administrators who will provide copies of deleted articles | relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_March_12#Category:Wikipedia_administrators_who_will_provide_copies_of_deleted_articles | February 23 |
| Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to consider placing self-requested blocks | relisted to Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013 March 13#Category:Wikipedia administrators willing to consider placing self-requested blocks | February 23 |
| Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in San Francisco, California | merge | February 4 |
| Category:Wikipedian post-normal scientists | merge | February 25 |
| Category:Wikipedians in Juneau-Southeast Alaska | rename to Category:Wikipedians in Southeast Alaska, without ptrejudice to creating a sub-category for those from Juneau | February 19 |
| Category:Wikipedians in Middle Africa | delete all | February 19 |
| Category:Wikipedians who wish Bish and Giano would come back | delete | February 14 |
| WikiProject Kingdom of Hungary categories | All speedily deleted as subpages of a project deleted under G5 | February 8 |
| Women mayors | rename all | February 7 |
| Words and phrases of Australian Aboriginal origin | listify and delete all | February 10 |
| Works based on Doctor Who | rename all | February 17 |
| Works based on Star Trek | rename all | February 18 |
| Category:Works based on The Simpsons | keep | February 15 |
| Works based on Torchwood | rename all | February 17 |
| Category:Works by Brian Cleeve | delete | February 1 |
| Category:Works by C. V. Raman Pillai | rename | February 1 |
| Category:Works by James Phelan | delete | February 1 |
| Category:Works by Joan Maragall | delete | February 1 |
| Category:Works by Karin Fossum | delete, without prejudice to re-creation if any articles are written on her poems | February 1 |
| Category:Works by Orhan Pamuk | delete, without prejudice to re-creating it if any articles are created on non-book works by Pamuk | February 18 |
| Category:Works by R. K. Narayan | merge | February 1 |
| Category:Works by Roger Hall | delete | February 1 |
| Category:Works by W. W. Phelps (Mormon) | rename to Category:Songs with lyrics by W. W. Phelps (Mormon) | February 9 |
| Category:World War II guns | merge | February 15 |
| Category:Worthies of Devon | delete | February 26 |
| Category:ZCBJ | no consensus. Only the nominator commented here, and the situation is a little too confused to allow this one to slip through on the basis of silence=no opposition. If all these different names do indeed refer to the same organisation, then the articles should be merged. If that happens, feel free to renominate the category without delay ... but unless and until the articles are merged, a category renaming would be putting to cart before the horse |
February 26 |
| Category:Zonemedia | rename (C2D) | February 8 |
