Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2013 November index
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| Category:1010s in the United Kingdom | upmerge, since straightforward deletion would remove the category from its European parent. -- | November 15 |
| Category:2000s pencil sketch | delete. The category had already been emptied out of process] by | November 25 |
| Category:90210 (TV series) episodes | delete | November 27 |
| Actors from boroughs of New York City | merge | November 16 |
| Adam Green/Hatchet | delete; article placed in Category:Hatchet (film series) | November 9 |
| Category:AFC Ajax honorary club members | delete | November 21 |
| Category:African Americans' rights activists | rename to Category:African-Americans' civil rights activists | November 24 |
| Category:African-American surgeons | MERGE to Category:African-American physicians. There is evident consensus to merge and all those who would merge agree on at least the target I've indicated. I do not see that there is immediate convergence on the double merge, however | November 25 |
| Category:Afro-Colombian people | rename | November 20 |
| Category:Albums produced by Don Fury | keep. It should be noted I'm pretty sure the nominator has been cautioned about this before, but if not: having a "redlink producer" is not a reason for nomination of deletion for categories like this | November 12 |
| Category:Albums produced by Don Fury |  Relisted again at 2013 NOV 12 CFD |
November 4 |
| Category:Albums recorded at OTR Studios | delete. (NAC) | November 28 |
| Algeria youth international footballers | merge all | November 24 |
| Category:Alltel | Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 December 2#Category:Alltel. -- |
November 18 |
| Category:American Middle Eastern studies | rename | November 1 |
| Category:American models by city | MERGE and DELETE to the second indicated category. This appears to have happened with the passage of time since the nomination. Also, most of the original categories appear to have been deleted as creations of a banned user. The de facto outcome has been that the second of the two merge targets has been created, and all but a few originals then deleted. I will follow that pattern for the few that remain. I note that there are requests for a two-way merge, but that can always be accomplished just editorially, there is no need for a CfD to approve it at this stage | November 26 |
| Category:American people of Latin American descent | keep as {{container category}} | November 20 |
| Category:American straight-to-series scripted television series | delete | November 1 |
| Category:Animated television programs | KEEP as is | November 25 |
| Category:Anitta | delete. (NAC) | November 28 |
| Category:Archaeological discoveries by continent | no consensus. This is the top-level category for a number of continent- and country-level 'Archaeological discoveries' categories. If the contention is that they, as a whole, are not useful, then they should be nominated as a group (and all tagged). As it stands now, this discussion affects only one category. -- | November 13 |
| Austria youth international footballers | merge all | November 24 |
| Banksia redirect categories | delete | November 9 |
| Category:Barnstars | speedy rename C2C. – | November 19 |
| Category:Bedroom musicians | delete | November 1 |
| Category:Bicontinental countries | delete | November 26 |
| Category:Bishops of Thebes, Greece | keep. The head article is Metropolis of Thebes and Livadeia (created just before this nomination was made), so there might be a case for a rename to match that title. However, this discussion did not examine that option; three editors preferred the status quo, and there was no support for the nominator's propsal | November 20 |
| Category:Black Guyanese people | rename to Category:Afro-Guyanese people | November 19 |
| Category:BLP articles lacking sources from 2013 | speedy delete per WP:CSD#C1 (category empty for 4 days), without prejudice re-creation if anyone wants to subdivide Category:BLP articles lacking sources by year | November 8 |
| Category:Bonkers (TV series) | Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 December 25 |
November 21 |
| Category:Brian Tyler songs | rename | November 19 |
| Category:British sheriffs | Rename to Category:Sheriffs in the United Kingdom. Please don't hang me if I got this wrong. Looks like there was a cleanup done on the contents and as a result of that, the last proposed name seems to have the consensus based on how the content is not organized. Given how old this discussion is, if this is wrong and there is a better name, please start another discussion | November 12 |
| Category:British Trust for Ornithology medallists | delete all | November 24 |
| Category:Bruce Johnston | delete | November 7 |
| Category:Buffyverse time travel episodes | Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 December 2. -- |
November 17 |
| Category:Bulgarian people by ethnographic region | no consensus. There was agreement that the current name does not convey the category's scope (Bulgars outside Bulgaria), but no agreement on what other name would be clearer | November 19 |
| Category:Burial place unknown | Delete | November 19 |
| Category:Burial places of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom | delete | November 17 |
| Category:Burial sites of Presidents of the United States | Delete | November 29 |
| Category:Burials in catacombs | delete | November 19 |
| Category:C Sharp developers | delete all | November 25 |
| Category:Camerini d'alabastro | delete | November 12 |
| Category:Caribbean countries | rename to Category:Countries in the Caribbean. -- | November 14 |
| Category:Carry On films crew members | Delete | November 30 |
| Categories: Centuries in England/Scotland/Great Britain | keep | November 27 |
| Category:Censorship of science | delete. (NAC) | November 22 |
| Category:Characters by species | rename to Category:Fictional characters by species; there is no consensus on the choice of 'species' versus 'classification' and it may be useful to revisit this issue. -- | November 14 |
| Chefs by city | upmerge manually to both parents | November 4 |
| Category:Chicago Bears training camp venues | delete | November 29 |
| Chinese railway stations | rename | November 14 |
| Clergy in America | delete all | November 25 |
| Category:Collapsed buildings | split to Category:Collapsed buildings and Category:Building collapses | November 19 |
| Category:Columbia University women | delete | November 25 |
| Compound modifiers | no consensus. There was a consensus that these categories needed a variety of solutions rather than the single solution proposed here. Feel free to renominate in smaller groups | November 1 |
| Category:Computer scientists by IFIP Working Group | delete | November 1 |
| Category:Computer scientists from Melbourne | merge | November 1 |
| Category:Counties of the United States with Hispanic majority populations | delete | November 12 |
| [[:Category:Countries bordering <ocean>]] | delete | November 16 |
| Category:Countries bordering the Atlantic Ocean | delete. (NAC) | November 6 |
| Category:Craig Vetter | no consensus to delete | November 11 |
| Category:Cricket books and magazines | Delete. Since everything other then Category:Wisden is in a subcategory that is parented to books and magazines along with cricket media, there is nothing to split. Category:Wisden can be reviewed by someone knowledgeable in this area and add any articles that belong to the book or magazine categories | November 21 |
| Category:Culture of Edmundston | no consensus. If the contents of the category does not grow in the future, a re-nomination may be appropriate | November 3 |
| Category:Cybertron | upmerge. -- | November 18 |
| Cyprus youth international footballers | merge all | November 26 |
| Category:Dad's Porno Mag members | Delete | November 23 |
| Category:Educational institutions in the United States by accreditation association | no consensus. This closure is without prejudice to making further proposals. The category structure at the time of the nomination did not include another longstanding category, Category:Schools in the United States by accreditation association, which has now been added, and should be considered as well in a future nomination. I did not find Orlady's middle option persuasive, as it would not have dealt with schools; and as for the universities/colleges associations, Category:Universities and colleges in the United States by association might have been a more appropriate merger target than Category:Universities and colleges by association, as these bodies are nationally-focussed. – | November 1 |
| Category:Egyptian American directors | upmerge to Category:American people of Egyptian descent and Category:American directors | November 9 |
| Category:English Anglican priests | no consensus. There is broad agreement that the current category doesn't work, but no agreement on the solution. As it stands, this category is labelled as a category-by-nationality, but as a sub-category of Category:Church of England clergy it is also used a by-denomination set (grouping priests of the Church of England). Removing this category from Category:Church of England clergy would remove most CoE priests from the COE categories; but renaming it per the nominator's proposal would mean that those English people who are priests in another Anglican denomination would me miscategorised. The parent Category:Anglican priests by nationality is an assortment of categories by nationality and categories by denomination, and it seems that only in the case of Scotland do we have both: a denominational Category:Scottish Episcopalian priests and a nationality Category:Scottish Anglican priests. Some sort of centralised discussion is needed to decide how Anglican priests should be categorised, so I will open an RFC ... and notify Wikipedia:WikiProject Anglicanism, who should have been notified of this discussion |
November 2 |
| Eponymous categories for musicians/musical groups | no consensus on Category:NMB48; delete the rest. On the question of group-versus-individual nominations, there is a degree of discretion that applies and not everyone will agree. Personally, I do not recommend grouping eponymous categories into one nomination, since it is necessary to evaluate for each category whether there exists sufficient content to warrant an eponymous category. It is best to avoid a situation where participants might say "keep these ones, but delete the rest"—that is a sign that the same reasoning did not apply to all categories equally (at least in the eyes of certain participants). -- | November 18 |
| Category:Esham | delete | November 4 |
| Category:European Golden Shoe | merge | November 21 |
| Category:Fat athletes | delete per WP:IAR and WP:G10. As noted this is subjective and, even if we assume it wasn't created deliberately as an attack category (which given its single occupant and the editing history of its creator, seems rather possible) it would become bait for such without any siginificant encyclopedic value | November 18 |
| Category:Female sex organs | Mege, retain as {{category redirect}} | November 27 |
| Category:FGM victims | NO CONSENSUS. There is consensus that retaining the nominated categories is unsuitable, but no clear decision as to where there should be merged to before deletion. So it seems that the nominated categories are not yet able to be deleted. I think if an agreement to rename them can be reached elsewhere, there should be no problem with a bold move and then a speedy deletion | November 19 |
| Category:Fictional killers | relisted at CFD 2013 December 19 | November 29 |
| Category:Fictional poems | delete | November 17 |
| Category:Fictional polyamorous characters | delete | November 22 |
| Category:Fictional state lieutenant governors of the United States | delete | November 20 |
| Category:Fighters who defeated two or more Gracies | delete | November 15 |
| Category:Films shot in Metrocolor | delete | November 10 |
| Category:Films with Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet | delete. – | November 25 |
| Fire towers | do not merge. As | November 11 |
| Category:Firefly (TV series) soundtracks | upmerge | November 11 |
| Category:First Nations women | keep | November 1 |
| Category:Former bishops | Delete. All of the arguments for merging do not take into account the fact that the articles are already in a very specific bishop category of the tree so placing them at the top level would be an error | November 24 |
| Category:Former named state highways in Oregon | relisted at CFD 2014 January 16 | November 21 |
| Category:Fright Night | delete | November 9 |
| Category:Gabriel's variety | delete | November 12 |
| Category:Ghanaian Football Clubs | delete | November 26 |
| Category:Glasgow City L.F.C. players | rename (C2D) | November 15 |
| Category:Green Bay Packers championship games | merge to Category:Green Bay Packers postseason | November 29 |
| Category:Guardians | merge | November 14 |
| Category:Hartford Bicentennials players | merge | November 19 |
| Category:Health centers | No consensus, default to keep. This looks like a likely candidate for a future CfD nomination. Any such nomination should address the question of ambiguity and whether there are differences of meaning (possibly regional) between "health centers" and "clinics". – | November 3 |
| Healthcare to Health care | keep. – | November 1 |
| Category:History of Galicia (central Europe) | delete (merge to Category:History of Galicia (Eastern Europe), but category has remained empty, so nothing to merge) | November 16 |
| Honorary Fellows | listfy and place new lists in list categories. Category:Honorary Fellows of universities and colleges renamed to Category:Lists of Honorary Fellows of universities and colleges. Category:Honorary Fellows of colleges of the University of Cambridge renamed to Category:Lists of Honorary Fellows of colleges of the University of Cambridge; its subcategories to be listified. Category:Honorary Fellows of colleges of the University of Oxford renamed to Category:Lists of Honorary Fellows of colleges of the University of Oxford; its subcategories to be listified. Category:National Research University – Higher School of Economics Honorary Professors to be listified. Category:Honorary Fellows of the University of Liège deleted, since it contains only one article (Robert Wyatt), but users can create a list if desired. | November 7 |
| Category:Honoured Masters of Sports of the USSR | rename the first, delete the second. – | November 7 |
| Category:Horse burials | Merge Category:Horse burials to Category:Horses in culture and religion. - | November 22 |
| Hot to Trotsky | rename | November 12 |
| Category:House arrest | Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 December 2. -- |
November 18 |
| Category:House of 1000 Corpses characters | delete | November 9 |
| Category:Hurricane articles needing attention | rename/upmerge as proposed | November 17 |
| Category:Ig Nobel Prize winners | delete | November 24 |
| Category:Individual antennas | delete | November 25 |
| Category:International Federation of Catholic Universities | delete | November 19 |
| Category:IPI World Press Freedom Heroes | delete | November 10 |
| Category:Israeli people of Arab descent | MOOT. It appears that the nominator is happy with a de-subcategorisation approach. As far as I can see no category by the name the nominator refers to currently appears in this category, so I think the nomination is moot. In any case, there is no consensus that this one should be deleted or renamed as proposed | November 30 |
| Category:Italian Catholic bishops | speedy delete per creator's agreement | November 21 |
| Category:Janelle Monáe | delete. (NAC) | November 7 |
| Category:Jeungpyeong | delete | November 9 |
| Category:Joan Baez | delete | November 3 |
| Category:John C. Stennis Space Center | merge | November 9 |
| Category:Joss Whedon | delete. (NAC) | November 2 |
| Category:Kaleidoscope albums | split. The nominated category is now a disambiguation category. | November 10 |
| Category:Kid's clothing and accessories retailers | Rename to Category:Children's clothing retailers. There were two discussions here. One was whether or not to keep this. Clearly there was no consensus for deletion. However this is a small category at present and renaming could help populate the category, so there is potential for growth. While not specifically mentioned in the discussion, this name matches the current naming in the rest of the tree. It fixes the use of kids and eliminates the inclusion of accessories which several editors appear opposed to. I have no objection to a new deletion (or renaming) discussion on the condition that before the deletion nomination, someone tries to populate the category so that we can see if this can be populated. If it can not, the OC#SMALL guidelines would appear to apply. If it can be populated then the discussion on a need to split in this manner could be held. So I fully expect this to come back here for some reason, and this close does not discourage anyone from doing so and is better then a no consensus which would leave the original problem unaddressed after 2 months | November 19 |
| Category:Killer Klowns from Outer Space | delete | November 1 |
| Category:Korea Baseball Organization | merge | November 9 |
| Category:Latino people | merge. -- | November 15 |
| LGBT state legislators of the United States | withdrawn by nominator. I misread the category structure; there is no ghettoisation | November 17 |
| Category:Linux kernel hackers | Rename | November 25 |
| Category:Lists of collective nouns | merged Other members have disappeared. -- | November 21 |
| Category:Lists of UK MPs 2010– | keep. -- | November 13 |
| Category:Locations in County Dublin | rename (C2C) | November 16 |
| Category:Locations in Táin Bó Cúailnge | Withdrawn by nom | November 21 |
| Logs | rename | November 9 |
| Category:Lunar human landing | delete | November 12 |
| Category:Lutheran linguists | delete, without prejudice to creating a new category whose title better reflects the intended scope. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Major League Baseball free agents | delete | November 24 |
| Category:Major League Baseball players from Latin America | merge/delete | November 17 |
| Category:Male actors from the Bronx | Withdrawn by nominator BHG makes some good points re: interface, so I'm withdrawing for now pending more work on the category intersection interface. If someone wants to nominate the smaller regions to merge they can do so in a separate nom for clarity | November 16 |
| Category:Male sex organs | Merge, retain as {{category redirect}} per similar discussion below | November 27 |
| Category:Maloideae | delete | November 29 |
| Category:Married... with Children episodes | delete | November 27 |
| Category:Martial arts films by country | Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 December 2. -- |
November 15 |
| Category:Marvel Cinematic Universe television characters | delete. (NAC) | November 7 |
| Category:Mazandaran geography stubs | rename | November 17 |
| Medieval Ukraine people | merge | November 20 |
| Category:Memorial highways | delete | November 1 |
| Category:Microsoft woman employees | merge. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Microsoft women | Delete. Based on the discussion comments, the contents are already in other categories in the correct trees so no upmerge is needed | November 27 |
| Category:Middlesex scorers | merge | November 21 |
| Category:Military occupation | NO CONSENSUS, unfortunately. The discussion did not converge on any particular alternative and the nomination is not widely enough supported. Seems like a set of individual renames would be needed here, maybe after a discussion somewhere else first | November 7 |
| Category:Mission District, San Francisco | reverse merge from Category:Mission District, San Francisco, California | November 11 |
| Category:Monogenoidea | rename. (NAC) | November 28 |
| Category:Multiracial French | Delete | November 27 |
| Category:Municipal seats in Alberta | delete | November 17 |
| Category:Murdered feminists | delete | November 10 |
| Category:Museums for children in Saint Petersburg | delete | November 9 |
| Category:Music museums in Saint Petersburg | delete | November 9 |
| Category:Music videos by Aardman Animations | keep. (NAC) | November 8 |
| Musicians/singers by century, nationality and gender | merge. It looks like there could probably be a consensus to also upmerge the target categories, but a new nomination is required for those since they were not tagged for discussion | November 16 |
| Category:Muslim Generals | delete. (NAC) | November 13 |
| Category:Nadia Ali | delete | November 8 |
| Category:Named antennas | rename per C2C | November 12 |
| Category:NASA contractors | delete. (NAC) | November 7 |
| Category:NASA goodwill lunar sample display gifts | merge all. (NAC) | November 7 |
| Category:National Basketball Association players from Latin America | merge | November 5 |
| Category:Naval museums in Saint Petersburg | merge to Category:Maritime museums in Saint Petersburg | November 9 |
| Category:Navy of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies | keep | November 26 |
| Netherlands youth international footballers | merge all | November 24 |
| Category:New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame inductees | delete | November 1 |
| Category:Northern America | DELETE ALL. The weight of the dicussion is to delete, and the arguments for 'objecting' are not particularly convincing, especially ones based on factors other than reasonable encyclopedic operation. I would also note that perhaps these categories have been mostly emptied since this nomination, as they are all very sparsely populated, lending futher weight to their deletion | November 15 |
| Category:Northern Songs | delete | November 20 |
| Category:Notes | rename. (NAC) | November 7 |
| Category:NZBiota | speedy merge (category creator has agreed) | November 12 |
| Category:Oceanian people of Oceanian descent | keep, but tag as a {{container}} category | November 21 |
| Category:Oil painters | delete | November 5 |
| Category:Olympics | RENAME as indicated | November 20 |
| Category:Optimus Prime | rename to Category:Images of Optimus Prime, and purge | November 8 |
| Category:Organisations based in Thailand | RENAME as indicated. COMMONALITY seems a good argument given the standing of the previous discussions (although, being British English myself, I don't really buy that organizations is considered to be the native spelling, even if it might have been deemed, in recent years, technically 'valid') | November 20 |
| Category:Orkanger IF managers | delete both | November 8 |
| Category:Orkanger IF | Delete Category:Orkanger IF, No consensus Category:Kongsberg IF | November 8 |
| Category:Our Miracle | delete | November 25 |
| Category:Packs of actors | DELETE. Some suggestions of renames are given - this can be done manually if wished | November 15 |
| Category:Paperrock Records albums | delete | November 3 |
| Category:Parks in Canada by by province or territory | already renamed/merged | November 9 |
| Category:Paul Auster | delete | November 1 |
| Category:Pekan Olahraga Nasional venues | delete; one article upmerged as proposed | November 7 |
| Category:Pencil work by Indian artists | delete all | November 25 |
| Category:People from Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania | merge. -- | November 18 |
| Category:People from Dzershinsk, Russia | rename. (NAC) | November 7 |
| Category:People from Fayette City, Pennsylvania | merge. -- | November 18 |
| Category:People from Franklin Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania | merge. -- | November 18 |
| Category:People from Greater Sacramento | rename to Category:People from the Sacramento metropolitan area. (NAC) | November 6 |
| Category:People from Manteo, North Carolina | merge. (NAC) | November 22 |
| Category:People from Prosperity, South Carolina | merge. (NAC) | November 6 |
| Category:People from Union, Mississippi | Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 December 2. -- |
November 17 |
| Category:People on Forbes lists | delete | November 10 |
| Category:Plagiarism detection | merge | November 23 |
| Category:Plays by the Marquis de Sade | speedy delete as empty | November 29 |
| Category:Politics of Georgia | Keep as a {{category ambiguous}} | November 21 |
| Politics of Orkney and Shetland | MERGE as nominated | November 29 |
| Category:Populated places in the United States with Hispanic plurality populations | listify, than delete. (NAC) | November 6 |
| Category:Porcelain Black | delete | November 8 |
| Category:Pramod Kamble | Delete | November 25 |
| Category:Prehistoric Perciformes stubs | rename to Category:Prehistoric perciform stubs | November 25 |
| Category:Presidents of the Romanian Union of Plastic Artists | delete | November 9 |
| Category:Princess Leia | relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 December 19#Category:Princess_Leia | November 25 |
| Category:Professional valuation organisations based in Chicago, Illinois | merge | November 9 |
| Category:Project Catwalk (Netherlands) | delete (per accidental creation; see discussion below) | November 26 |
| Category:Pseudonymous albums | relisted at 2013 December 20 | November 21 |
| Category:Pseudonymous musicians | delete | November 9 |
| Category:Pseudonymous rappers | delete | November 9 |
| Category:Puppet Master characters | delete | November 10 |
| Category:Purple People Eaters | merge to Category:Minnesota Vikings players | November 29 |
| Category:Qom geography stubs | merge | November 17 |
| Category:R2-D2 | delete | November 11 |
| Category:Rabbis whose tombs have become pilgrimage sites | Delete | November 29 |
| Category:Radical lesbian feminists | merge | November 10 |
| Category:Reality television shows of Nigeria | speedy rename per C2C creator's assent. | November 23 |
| Category:Rebbie Jackson | delete. (NAC) | November 6 |
| Category:REC | delete. -- | November 13 |
| Category:Recipients of the King Rama IX Coronation Medal | delete all | November 25 |
| Category:Recipients of the Order of Duke Branimir | no consensus | November 25 |
| Category:Recipients of the World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award | delete | November 10 |
| Category:Red vs. Blue characters | delete | November 23 |
| Category:Republicanism in Thailand | KEEP. The two keep arguments are convincingly strong, and tip the balance away from 'no consensus' | November 25 |
| Category:Rivers and Lakes of Missoula County, Montana | delete | November 24 |
| Category:Robert J. Shiller | delete | November 1 |
| Category:Roman Catholic missionary orders | relisted at 2013 December 19 | November 30 |
| Category:Rooster Teeth | Keep | November 23 |
| Category:Royal lovers | Move to Category:Male lovers of royalty. Reasons given below | November 9 |
| Category:Saints of Ottoman Corinth | merge | November 10 |
| Category:Serie A top scorers | delete | November 21 |
| Category:Set categories | no consensus. This might be better discussed at WT:CAT | November 12 |
| Category:Sexual elements in fiction | speedy delete per WP:CSD#G7 (author request) | November 24 |
| Category:Shane Scully series | delete | November 13 |
| Category:Shinigami in Bleach | relisted at CFD 2013 December 19 | November 29 |
| Category:Shubdubs | delete | November 5 |
| Category:Slavic-speaking wikipedians | speedy rename (C2A) | November 7 |
| Category:Slim Burna | delete | November 1 |
| Small TV categories | manually delete all, after checking all articles are properly categorised | November 30 |
| Category:Solitary Animals | DELETE. This is an exceptionally well-argued debate, and I am glad of the great assistance it provides to a closing admin who has no expertise in the area. My delete conclusions is based on the fact that the keepers have not persuaded the weightier deleters that there is a clear-enough rule that can be followed in populating this category due to the many and varied types of behaviour a particular animal might have, which variations cannot be expressed by the category alone. It is observed that a/the list could do this job with the degree of subtlety and analysis it requires | November 26 |
| Category:Song recordings produced by Tom Denney | delete | November 23 |
| Category:Songs about remorse | delete. (NAC) | November 7 |
| Category:South Pacific Lists of tropical cyclones | merge | November 17 |
| Space program | no consensus to rename all. As several editors pointed out, WP:ENGVAR permitrs variations by local usage. Some editors asserted that there was a particular reason to adopt the word "program" for some of the countries involved, and there might have been a different outcome if the discussion had focused on each particular proposal. Editors may wish in future to renominate some of these categories individually | November 16 |
| Category:Spacecraft Sea Launch Platforms | rename | November 24 |
| Category:Spacecraft which reentered in 2013 | Keep as is. – | November 6 |
| Category:Spawn villains | upmerge to both parents. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Sports festivals by country | no consensus. Assistance with tagging can be obtained by making a bot request, or asking an active editor who uses AutoWikiBrowser (see Category:Wikipedians who use AutoWikiBrowser. I don't mind tagging the categories myself, if a more encompassing nomination is prepared. -- | November 15 |
| Category:Stabbing victims | delete | November 18 |
| Category:Star Trek races | merge | November 19 |
| Category:Star Wars creatures | merge Category:Star Wars creatures and Category:Star Wars races to Category:Star Wars species | November 19 |
| Category:Starsky & Hutch seasons | Upmerge to Category:Television seasons | November 13 |
| Category:Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip episodes | delete | November 27 |
| Category:Subscription or libraries using via for subscription | Speedy G7 | November 17 |
| Category:Successfully sued plagiarizing songs | delete. (NAC) | November 22 |
| Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of Doglicker9912 | speedy delete per WP:CSD#G7 (creator requests deletion). (For future reference of DarthBotto and other editors, there is no need to open a CFD discussion in this sort of sitruation. Just tag the page with {{tl|db-self} |
November 5 |
| Category:Suspicious deaths | delete | November 18 |
| Category:Swami Vivekananda | rename. I note that there are subcategories that will also need to be renamed. These could be done speedily if someone nominates them | November 4 |
| Category:T-pop | speedy delete WP:CSD#C1 as empty. The category's creator has subsequently created Category:Thai popular music, which presumably replaces this one | November 20 |
| Category:Tamara Gee | delete. (NAC) | November 28 |
| Tate | Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 December 25 |
November 8 |
| Taíno categories | speedy rename C2A, keeping the old as redirects. – | November 20 |
| Category:Television series about bats | delete | November 17 |
| Category:Terms of French origin | MERGE to Category:Lists of English words of French origin, but actually this appears to have been done since the nomination. It only contains List of Spanish words of French origin, so I will in fact DELETE the nominated category | November 26 |
| Category:Terrestrial communications cables | rename to Category:Optical telecommunications cables | November 12 |
| Category:Thanksgiving Classic | moot. The category had already been speedy-deleted as empty, having been emptied out-of-process into a new Category:NFL on Thanksgiving Day. Feel free to nominate that new category for renaming, without any need for delay | November 15 |
| Category:The Beat albums | rename | November 24 |
| Category:The Dream Backfield | merge to Category:Chicago Cardinals players | November 29 |
| Category:The Helix (Dublin) | Delete | November 25 |
| Category:The Hogs | merge to Category:Washington Redskins players | November 29 |
| Category:The Karate Kid characters | merge | November 9 |
| Category:The Steel Curtain | merge to Category:Pittsburgh Steelers players | November 29 |
| Category:Thorpe Park attractions | merge, following the established scheme in Category:Amusement rides by amusement park which mostly does not have sub-cats for amusements/rides. There is not sufficient consensus in this CfD to break the pattern. If an editor feels this is wrong in principle then start an RFC at the WikiProject. – | November 8 |
| Category:Time in Belarus | no consensus. The discussion was not helped by the nominator's failure to suggest where the relevant articles would be categorised. The usual solution in cases like this where there is a concern about overly small categories is to merge to one or more parent categories, but that was not offered here. The description of the nomination's scope as "most of the other junk in Category:Time by country" was also unhelpfully vague, as well as inappropriate in tone |
November 1 |
| Tintin | relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 December 2#Tintin. – | November 25 |
| Category:Tokusatsu actors | delete | November 4 |
| Toronto Blizzard | rename/merge as nominated. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Torpedo bombers | delete, by weight of argument. The consensus at the relevant WikiProject WP:AIR/C gives no support to these categories. Many of these aircraft were used in multiple roles. The existing list of torpedo bombers and the text of the page interceptor aircraft suffice, and are more useful. Here is a link to the changes in case these are useful to check that the lists are appropriately complete. This closure is without prejudice to creating a separate list of interceptors. – | November 6 |
| Category:Tragic villains | Delete | November 20 |
| Category:Tribe of Heaven albums | delete. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Tropical cyclones by season | rename | November 17 |
| Typhoons in the Philippines by year | Option B | November 18 |
| Category:U.S.StatesLargestCities | delete | November 23 |
| Category:UK locations with ethnic minority-majority populations | delete | November 5 |
| Category:Uncle Grandpa | delete | November 26 |
| Category:Underground countries | delete. (NAC) | November 6 |
| Category:Universities and colleges by association | keep for now, without prejudice to a renomination in smaller chunks. (Yes, I did participate in this discussion and make a !vote, but since I was the only editor to support the nomination, I don't see any problem in recognising that there is a clear consensus for that I was wrong) |
November 2 |
| Category:Universities and colleges in multiple states | delete both per Black Falcon's plan | November 12 |
| Category:Universities of Science and Technology in Bangladesh | rename | November 3 |
| Category:Urban legends in video games | delete | November 26 |
| Category:Video games featuring female protagonists | keep. So long as the application of the category is enforced as the category name and definition are written, there should be no problem with this being overexpansive. With two "keep" results in the past few weeks, I would expect there to be a significant gap between this close and a future nomination for deletion. | November 7 |
| Category:Video games featuring non-playable female protagonists | DELETE. The passage of time here makes closure difficult. I understand from the final comment that an editorial move has apparently already taken place ( | November 26 |
| Category:Video games featuring protagonists of selectable gender | no consensus, defaulted to keep. Good arguments from both sides, none of them being obviously stronger than the opponents | November 26 |
| Category:Virtual machines | Withdrawn by nom. Changes have made this discussion irrelevant | November 1 |
| Category:Voice actors who committed suicide | merge | November 8 |
| Category:Weapon Locating Radar | no consensus | November 24 |
| Category:Wikipedia categories named after separation barriers | delete | November 3 |
| Category:Wikipedia general sanctions | rename | November 5 |
| Category:Wikipedia pages referenced by the press | reverse merge to Category:Wikipedia pages referenced by the press. – | November 4 |
| Category:Wikipedian Nightmare on Elm Street fans | rename | November 27 |
| Category:Wikipedians who will edit for pay | delete | November 16 |
| Category:Willy Moon | delete | November 27 |
| Category:Winners of the Nykredit Architecture Prize | DELETE | November 25 |
| Category:Women by ethnicity | keep. This is an appropriate parent category for several sub-categories of women that would otherwise not be within Category:Women. It appears that this category has already been legitimately pruned since the nomination. If there were policy grounds against this category, they were not specifically identified, and some sections that were cited e.g. WP:OC#OPINION have no bearing on it. – | November 4 |
| Category:Women by organization | Delete now that all of the subcategories have been processed by individual CfDs | November 26 |
| Category:Women by province or territory in Canada | delete, with selective merge where needed. No merge is needed for most categories, as the contents are well categorised already. Although some editors were in favour of keeping the categories, they did not counter the strong policy grounds cited by those arguing for merger/ deletion, which I find persuasive. As for the actresses categories, these are already parented by Category:Canadian actresses by province or territory and the "women in" categories. – | November 10 |
| Category:Women who committed suicide | merge to Category:Female suicides. -- | November 12 |
| Category:Women who have explored both Polar regions | merge | November 20 |
| Category:Women's clothing companies | Delete | November 21 |
| Category:Wrestling promoters | rename Category:Wrestling promoters to Category:Professional wrestling promoters | November 4 |
| Category:Wuppertaler SV Borussia | rename all | November 22 |
| Years in Malaysia and Singapore | merge as nominated. (NAC) | November 22 |
| Category:Zones | delete | November 1 |