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The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.

Category Decision Discussion_log
Category:1941 in Lebanon rename pre-1918 categories as nominated; do not rename the rest August 14
Category:19th-century painters of historical subjects Keep August 4
Category:2010 Tour de France cyclists upmerge. There is consensus to not retain these categories but upmerging is required to ensure that these articles are not removed from the event category trees altogether. -- August 1
Category:2nd-century Christian female saints Dual upmerge to Category:nnn-century Christian saints and (Category:period Christian female saints‎ or Category:Christian female saints of the period. The complete list is here August 21
Category:6th-century Persian people rename August 10
Category:7th-century Persian people rename August 10
Category:Acid-base disturbances rename August 6
Category:Acid-base physiology rename August 6
Category:Active Jewish NFL Players delete August 18
Category:Addictive drugs delete August 17
Category:Ahmadiyya beliefs and doctrines no consensus. This close is no bar to early re-nomination. (The proposal would have matched the others that use "belief and doctrine", which have both words as a singular, but those that include "practices" rather than "doctrine" have both words as plurals.) – August 26
Category:Alexander Dennis buses no consensus August 24
Category:All City Chess Club members delete. – August 10
Category:Alpha Epsilon Pi brothers delete. – August 1
Category:Alumni of the Royal Free and University College Medical School Rename August 17
Category:American burglars no consensus, so I will implement the category text suggested by SFB. – August 13
Category:American people of Spanish-Filipino descent delete; merge contents to Category:American people of Filipino descent August 11
Category:American punk rock guitarist stubs merge. – August 11
Category:American women engineers no consensus August 20
Category:Ancient Greeks in Asia‎ withdrawn by nominator (see discussion) August 27
Category:Ancient Iran partial upmerge as nominated. – August 8
Category:Animated human characters no consensus, though I caution against applying real-world classification schemes to fictional universes and against assuming that "humanoid" implies "human" August 2
Category:Ante-Nicene Christian female saints no consensus (closed to mirror results of related discussion). Suggest a unified nomination if this attempted again August 27
Category:Ante-Nicene Christian saints no consensus August 28
Anti- categories no consensus. – August 16
Category:Armenia–Azerbaijan border crossings Delete (NAC). Note: The only article in this category is already in Category:Armenia–Azerbaijan border August 4
Category:Askew family delete August 10
Category:Assyrian athletes rename. – August 8
Category:Australian Roman Catholic bishops merge August 24
Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in the Republic of China Delete. I looked at the parent categories, and I'm not sure that we need to add anything. If I missed something, just add it. As a result no merge is needed hence the delete August 27
Category:Awadhi merge to Category:Awadh. – August 5
Ba'ath Party politicians Rename August 20
Category:Banu Munajjim merge to all parents, as the others also seem relevant. – August 8
Category:Baseball people from Chiba Prefecture merge. This close provides a precedent for all sport-specific sub-cats and grandchild cats within Category:Sportspeople by prefecture in Japan to be put forward at WP:CFDS for speedy upmerging. As far as I can see, all articles are already separately categorised by sport e.g. Category:Japanese sumo wrestlers, so they only need upmerging to the "Sportspeople by prefecture" categories. – August 25
Category:Baseball players from Syracuse, New York merge to Category:Sportspeople from Syracuse, New York and Category:Baseball players from New York. – August 23
Category:Basketball players from Berlin upmerge, noting that the contents are already in Category:Sportspeople from Berlin/ Category:German racing drivers as appropriate, so double upmerge is not needed. This close is authority for speedy nomination of the remaining 12 state sub-cats in Category:Racing drivers by state in Germany. – August 24
Category:Battles involving East Anglia‎ merge August 27
Category:Battles involving Sussex‎ Merge August 27
Category:Battles involving the Buyid dynasty‎ Delete August 27
Category:Battles of the Roman–Sassanid Wars Rename August 23
Category:Bedford College, London Rename as nominated; should the main article be renamed, the category can subsequently be moved accordingly August 19
Category:Belgian Promotion rename August 18
Category:Bella Thorne delete. – August 25
Category:Bible paraphrases Merge, leaving a redirect August 21
Category:Big 33 Football Classic alumni delete August 12
Category:Birds of Lithuania merge. However, the lists of birds by country should already be in Category:Lists of birds of Europe, so should instead be merged to "Fauna of Foo". – August 8
Category:Birds of Suriname merge August 29
Category:Birds of the United Kingdom rename. – August 28
Category:Branch of Meteorology rename to Category:Branches of meteorology. – August 12
Category:Brand name poultry rename as nominated. – August 15
Category:Breesport, New York Delete (NAC) August 26
Category:Brereton family no consensus, discounting the nominator's original rationale which no longer applies. – August 10
Category:Bridges in Xinjiang merge to Category:Bridges in China and Category:Buildings and structures in Xinjiang. – August 26
Category:British Isles coastal fauna delete. – August 8
Category:Buddhist views Rename August 23
Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. automobiles no consensus August 30
Bugatti Automobiles S.A.S. automobiles relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 August 30. – August 8
Category:Bugatti engines and subcategory merge Category:Bugatti engines to Category:Bugatti and to Category:Engines by maker, which has at least one other aircraft engine sub-cat already. The nominator may have intended to nominate Category:Bugatti aircraft engines for deletion, but mis-pasted this in the nomination, so I don't think there is sufficient consensus to delete that, especially as keeping it meets Vegaswikian's objection. – August 2
Byzantine Papacy Delete August 3
Category:Caleb Johnson (singer) Delete August 19
Category:Canadian animists Keep (NAC) August 26
Canadian ice hockey people by city Upmerge to "Sportspeople from City" and "Ice hockey people from Province/Territory" pairs. Consensus was to delete, but we have to make sure that we keep the articles in those trees. If anyone wants to help with the merge, feel free. As to major cities, that was not really discussed as to which ones, so there was really no case to exclude individual cities August 20
Category:Category needed merge, noting that some restructuring will be needed. – August 7
Category:Chinese history in television rename to Category:Chinese period television series. There is a consensus to change from the current name, so I chose one of the existing naming patterns that exist for other countries. – August 2
Category:Cholmondeley Award winners Delete August 20
Category:Christian 90's record labels delete. – August 9
Category:Christian interfaith and secular relations upmerge to Category:Christianity and other religions. The existing Category:Christian ecumenism seems to suffice for the other topic. – August 17
Category:Christian primitivism Rename to Category:Restorationism (Christianity). Consensus was for a rename. The selected name appears to address the only objection in the discussion which was raised before this suggested target August 22
Category:Christian scholars keep. – August 20
Category:Christian universities and colleges by country no consensus. The cited guideline may not apply, since it suggests deletion of categories that "by their very definition, will never have more than a few members". This is probably not the case for the nominated category, because there are Christian universities in many countries August 26
Category:Clifton family no consensus, discounting the nominator's original rationale which no longer applies. – August 10
Category:Coalition of parties rename all to Category:Political party alliances and similar. – August 14
Category:Computing keep August 14
Category:Coulson Norman Mitchell nomination #2 Closed as a duplicate discussion of #Category:Coulson Norman Mitchell. All comments to be considered in the close of that discussion August 29
Category:Coulson Norman Mitchell nomination #3 Closed. We currently have two discussions already open that need to be combined. No reason to add a third. If this really is a valid option, it can be included with the consolidated discussion below (once that happens) August 29
Category:Coulson Norman Mitchell delete August 29
Category:Councils of London upmerged August 30
Category:Creators of REVOLO delete August 8
Category:Cuban film stubs delete; upmerge contents as nominated August 21
Category:Culpeper family no consensus. – August 10
Category:Dam controversies add criteria, purge if necessary, and create sub-cat Category:Cancelled dams, rather than "Unbuilt dams", as "Cancelled..." is the naming format by type of structure within Category:Unbuilt buildings and structures. – August 10
Category:Detroit Tigers season stubs merge Category:Detroit Tigers season stubs to Category:Michigan sport stubs and Category:Baseball season stubs. The others listed below have not been tagged. – August 17
Category:Disney Princess rename categories. The article names are not determined here; renaming of each one has been rejected on the articles' talk pages. – August 25
Category:Disney's Snow White characters Upmerge to both parent categories (NAC) August 12
Category:Documentaries of John Pilger rename to Category:Documentary films presented by John Pilger. There in no consensus to delete, but consensus that it should not remain under its present name. – August 14
Category:Documentary films about geology rename. – August 5
Category:Dukes of Clarence and Avondale Delete August 12
Category:Dukes of Clarence and St Andrews delete August 12
Category:Dukes of Hazzard rename August 17
Category:Durrani Empire people‎ Keep (do not merge) - a separate discussion could be started about a rename as proposed by August 8
Category:Dusty Groove reissues listify and delete. – August 7
Category:Early Turkish Anatolian architecture merge, also to its other parent Category:Early Turkish Anatolia. – August 3
Category:East Ukraine delete August 18
Category:Education by religious affiliation no consensus August 26
Category:Education in Kosala delete August 17
Category:Engineering colleges in India relisted at October 10. – August 15
Category:English deities (and its two childcategories) rename August 18
Category:English women dramatists and playwrights Keep August 17
Category:Eran Spahbeds Merge August 23
Category:Fictional domestic workers keep. In any case only the first category page (Category:Fictional nannies) was tagged, so the others would be kept according to procedure. – August 28
Category:Fictional female magicians rename. – August 12
Category:Film awards for male debut actors keep. – August 20
Category:Films about legal appeals merge to Category:Courtroom films. – August 9
Category:Films directed by Yasujiro Ozu merge August 10
Category:Films set in a fictional country no consensus. – August 21
Category:Films set in a fictional region delete August 20
Flora of the Great Basin desert region rename to Category:Flora of the Great Basin and Category:Trees of the Great Basin respectively. – August 26
Category:Folk Christianity keep August 10
Category:Folklore split, unanimously supported. – August 16
Category:Football venues in the United Kingdom split to Category:Football venues in British Overseas Territories, without prejudice to further nominations. – August 2
Category:Former capitals of Canada Delete August 11
Category:Former United States state capitals rename August 14
Category:Fortified cities merge both into a new Category:Fortified settlements August 26
Frankish Papacy delete. – August 3
Category:Gangsta rap artists Rename. If Category:Rappers is ever renamed to Category:Rap artists, this can be renamed back August 15
Category:Gardens by Lancelot "Capability" Brown rename August 3
Category:GasTerra Flames rename August 28
Category:GasTerra Flames Already renamed by Good Olfactory - see here August 24
Category:Gay classical musicians rename to Category:LGBT classical musicians August 6
Category:Geography of Kosala delete August 19
Category:Georgia (U.S. state) in the American Civil War keep, in spite of the awkwardness of the parenthetical disambiguator in some of these titles. -- August 1
Category:Grammar notes delete as empty August 29
Category:Grand Theft Auto clones relist at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 October 10 as the discussion has not acknowledged the existence of the lead article Grand Theft Auto clone. – August 15
Grand Tour stage winners by nationality Keep August 19
Category:Great Seljuq Empire delete. Note: there is also Category:Seljuk Empire, and I will move the Wikidata connections there. – August 3
Category:Greek and Roman fictional slaves rename. – August 12
Category:Habitat keep as there is majority agreement on keeping the split from (types of) habitats. – August 14
Category:Hellenistic individuals Rename to Category:Hellenistic-era people August 27
Category:Hindu views Rename August 23
Category:History painters no consensus, defaulted to not moved August 4
Category:Iaşi County geography stubs speedy delete WP:G6. – August 11
Category:Ice hockey people from Detroit Upmerge all to both the respective city's sportspeople category (as listed in the nomination) and to the state/province ice hockey category August 12
Category:Ice hockey people from Markham, Ontario double upmerge. – August 13
Category:Indian animated characters upmerge per August 2
Category:Infobox philosopher maintenance delete August 28
Category:Insects described by Moses Harris delete August 22
Category:Iranian dynasties do not rename August 8
Category:Islamic politics and Islamic world studies split. As Category:Islamic studies already exists, I will implement this by renaming the category to Category:Islam and politics; interested editors e.g August 25
Category:Islamic terrorism Keep August 31
Category:Istanbul Marathon winners delete August 20
Italian municipalities reverse merge. The "communes" sub-categories may be speedily renamed to "Municipalities", if someone would be so kind as to tag them and list them at WP:CFDS. – August 15
Category:Japanese family law no consensus. As noted originally by Black Falcon, here we have a conflict between C2C and C2D. Per C2C, FOOian law is still the standard August 21
Category:Judeo-Islamic topics‎ rename August 17
Category:Khosrau II delete August 31
Category:Kolkata theatre rename August 17
Category:Kosal Wikipedians Delete August 19
Category:KS Vllaznia Shkodër seasons administrative close: speedily deleted August 18
Category:LGBT Roman Catholics a big mess. See comments at bottom August 12
Category:LGBT topics and religion rename August 23
Category:LGBT-related documentary films rename August 18
Category:LGBT-related horror films keep August 14
Category:Link notes rename to Category:External link note templates. – August 1
Category:Magnolia Pictures films delete August 1
Category:Makula family delete. – August 8
Category:Marathon at the Olympics rename to Category:Marathons at the Olympics, matching the pattern of other multi-sport event categories within Category:Marathons. – August 15
Category:Max van der Stoel Award winners delete August 9
Category:Maymandi family delete. – August 8
Category:Mayors of Kirkland Lake delete, upmerge contents as nominated. (As for the delay—there is a distinct lack of admins closing CFDs right now, and there has been for several months now.) August 21
Category:McCarthy Trenching albums Delete August 20
Category:Medieval Turkey merge. – August 3
Category:Members of the Confederate House of Representatives from Georgia Rename August 15
Category:Mid-Ohio Valley geography stubs rename to Category:Mid-Ohio Valley, West Virginia geography stubs. – August 21
Category:Military history of ancient Gaul‎ delete. Upmerge to the revised target is unnecessary as the only article in the category is already there August 28
Category:Military history of Persia‎ merge August 23
Category:Moroccan dynasties rename back to old name. I note that the category was created by August 10
Moths described in 2009 and other years Restore and keep August 3
Category:MotoGP race reports rename August 29
Category:Music from The Hunger Games (film series) rename. – August 8
Musical intervals Rename to the (music) form August 19
Category:Muslim communities by continent Delete. All subcategories are in an Islam by continent category so deleting should not lose parenting to that tree August 5
Category:Muslim communities by country relist at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 November 8#Category:Muslim communities by country. The sub-cats are tagged but not listed here; fixing that may result in more contributions. – August 5
Category:Muslim education merge August 17
Category:Muslim ruling clans of India‎ Rename and purge as needed August 8
Category:Muslims by period no consensus. – August 1
Category:Naresh Krishna Raja speedy deleted at user's request August 12
Category:National Football League summer camp sites Delete August 20
Category:Neurotypical Wikipedians Delete August 12
Category:New Democratic Party (Canada)‎ Rename August 11
Category:New Years fiction rename August 17
Category:Nizamid family delete. Both articles are in occupational sub-cats of the other parent, Category:People of the Seljuq Empire. – August 3
Category:Norman and Medieval England rename August 31
Category:Northern Europe keep August 10
Category:NorthernAreas-geo-stub rename to {{GilgitBaltistan-geo-stub}}. – August 12
Category:Novel Series started in 1997 upmerge to Category:Novel series. – August 23
Category:Novels based on Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri delete as empty August 29
Category:Obsolete video game consoles Delete August 16
Category:On-Media television networks withdrawn by nominator. After further research, while On-Media has been acquired by CJ E&M, as far as I can discern, On-Media is still operating separately. I am not entirely sure, but until somebody can say for sure, I will go ahead and withdraw this. Non-admin closure August 21
Category:People associated with the Tea Party movement rename to Category:Tea Party movement activists, and purge. Only the renaming will be automated, so assistance with purging will be welcome. – August 7
Category:People executed for refusing to convert to Christianity procedural close as category page was not tagged. – August 18
Category:People from Baldwin, Maine no consensus. – August 18
Category:People from Beulaville, North Carolina Merge August 20
Category:People from Breesport, New York merge (NAC) August 26
Category:People from Denmark, Maine keep. – August 18
Category:People from Ivyland, Pennsylvania Merge August 27
Category:People from Naples, Maine keep. – August 25
Category:People from New Carrollton, Maryland merge. – August 26
Category:People from Oxford, Maine keep. – August 25
Category:People from Stockport (district) rename. – August 26
Category:People from Stockport Borough Rename August 15
Category:People with Lou Gehrig's disease redirect to Category:People with motor neurone disease. Note that the category was empty upon close August 25
Polyphaga infraorder categories implement as nominated. (In summary, the contents of the nominated categories (including their subcategories) were merged to Category:Polyphaga stubs and the various templates that populate the nominated categories were redirected to Template:Polyphaga-stub. Dawynn please come yell at me if I am wrong.) August 26
Category:Pop singer-songwriters Delete August 20
Category:Prehistoric Turkey Merge as nominated August 3
Category:Programming rules of thumb keep. – August 15
[[:Category:Proposed rail infrastructure in <<country>>]] no consensus. – August 3
Proposed rail infrastructure in Ireland keep per guideline. – August 3
Proposed railroads in the United States by state rename. Note, I'm not fixing the pending rename of the realistic parent from the old close August 13
Proposed railway stations in Ireland keep. I have added positive guidance about the parent categories before the existing negative guidance in WP:IRE-CATS. – August 3
Category:Radio stations and networks by content split to Category:Radio stations by format and Category:Radio networks by format. – August 19
Category:Recipient of Mention in Despatches delete August 3
Category:Regions of Iran Withdrawn' August 31
Category:Religion in China by religion merge to Category:Religion in China August 25
Category:Religious belief and doctrine by religion Keep (NAC) August 26
Category:Religious textbooks delete. The only member was a children's catechism, so I have added it to Category:Catechisms. – August 26
Category:Rendering APIs merge. I will also put the merged category into Category:Graphics libraries. – August 4
Category:Reptiles of Metropolitan France merge, taking care to keep lists and sub-cats in suitable national parent categories. – August 29
Category:Rhythm and blues singer-songwriters Delete August 20
Category:Rock singer-songwriters Delete August 20
Category:Roman Catholic Bishops of Pittsburgh rename. The balance of opinion is slight (4:3 for renaming), and in the absence of a strong consensus I give weight to the desirability of matching all the sibling categories in Category:Roman Catholic bishops by diocese in the United States. Most of the hierarchy within Category:Bishops by diocese in North America follows this pattern ("Category:Denomination bishops of Place") with the relatively scarce exceptions of Category:Roman Catholic bishops by diocese in Canada‎ and a few that start with "Roman Catholic" within Category:Roman Catholic archbishops by diocese in the United States‎. Elsewhere within Category:Categories by diocese there are further inconsistencies, but where the denomination comes first then lowercase is predominant for the title. See also the rarely used format Category:Bishops of Liverpool (Roman Catholic) which avoids the problem. – August 15
Category:Roper family delete August 10
Category:San Francisco County, California geography stubs rename. – August 22
Category:Sarcopterygian Wikipedians Delete August 30
Category:Sasanian people rename all per nomination. – August 29
Scania categories rename August 15
Category:Scottish Premier League football squad templates delete August 10
Category:Seleucis Merge to Category:Seleucid Empire August 21
Category:Seljuk Turkish rulers in Anatolia delete. – August 3
Category:Seljuq historians delete. Note: the contents are the same two pages as in Category:Seljuq officials (kept below). – August 3
Category:Seljuq officials no consensus. – August 3
Category:Shi'a Muslim monarchs‎‎ no consensus. However, there seems to be no objection to restructuring the contents as suggested below by August 8
Category:Sieges involving the Sassanid Empire‎ Rename August 23
Category:Sinhala lexicographers merge. – August 25
Category:Songs written by Eddie Fisher (musician) Rename August 15
Category:Songs written by Trackmasters keep August 12
Category:Soviet state Merge August 30
Category:Sports originating in Manitoba speedy delete (G7). – August 20
Category:States by religious status rename to Category:Religion and government. – August 23
Subcategories to Video games by country sorted by company keep "Video games developed in Foo" for where the work was actually done, and rename "Video games by Fooian company" to "Video games by Fooian companies" for the base of the company that published the game. "By company" is more logical IMHO but "by companies" follows the precedent for works by individuals, see the sub-cats of Category:Works by writer nationality and Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_February_12#Category:Ancient_Greek_works_by_writer. Therefore, the "by company" categories will be renamed to Category:Video games by Chinese companies, Category:Video games by Czech companies, Category:Video games by Japanese companies, Category:Video games by British companies and Category:Video games by American companies. – August 15
Category:Symbolic religiosity merge. – August 2
Category:Syrian Civil War spillover in Iraq merge to Category:Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. – August 5
Template:Salem-stub rename to Template:Salemwitchtrials-stub. – August 3
Template:SanFranciscoCountyCA-geo-stub rename. – August 22
Category:The Hunger Games trilogy characters rename. – August 8
Category:The Joy Formidable delete August 29
Category:The Narrative delete August 30
Category:Theological schools by country and subcategories merge/rename. Although the nominator has not listed the subcats here, they have been tagged, and I think this is sufficient to demonstrate consensus. – August 17
Category:Tidal power stations in Europe Upmerge (NAC) August 13
Category:Title card screenshots no consensus August 8
Category:Treaties of the Seleucid Empire‎ Merge August 27
Category:Tunceli Province geography stubs delete August 14
Category:UH member clubs Rename to Category:United Hospitals sports clubs August 19
Category:Ukrainian film stubs Upmerge August 12
Category:Uncategorized Articles in Andhra Pradesh delete. For the record, it is currently empty. – August 7
Category:Uncategorized good articles Renamed to Category:Good articles without topic parameter. I am closing this but asking @Armbrust: to process the actual renaming. ☺ ·  August 7
Category:United States colonial and territorial capitals rename August 14
Category:Universities and colleges in the People's Republic of China merge August 14
Category:University of Florida Gators' men's Cross Country athletes procedural close as nominator did not tag the category. It has since been speedily deleted as empty. – August 2
Category:Unofficial names delete August 26
Category:USSR State Prize winners merge August 24
Category:Vampires in manga rename/merge. – August 3
Category:Villages in Jowayin County rename August 21
Category:Volcanoes of Bougainville Rename to Category:Volcanoes of Bougainville Island August 19
Volkswagen categories no consensus on Category:Volkswagen vehicles (therefore keep it), rename others. – August 15
Category:Volvo Buses rename to Category:Volvo buses, as there is no consensus for a longer name. – August 15
Category:Wars involving Persia‎ merge August 23
Category:Western Ukraine delete August 22
Category:White Citizens' Council relisted November 29. – August 15
Category:Wikipedia project help delete August 30
Category:Wikipedia uncategorized templates delete all. These used to be populated by a template, but that was long ago, see Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2009_December_17#Template:Uncategorized_template. – August 28
Category:Wikipedians with autism Keep August 3
Category:WikiProject Inheritance Cycle members merge. Just in passing, there doesn't seem to be an established convention for this—some use "members" and some use "participants" August 31
Category:Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities Delete August 20
Category:Worldcon Guests of Honor delete. Well, this was an interesting discussion if nothing else. It was very tempting to close this discussion as one that simply needed to be aborted because of it being hopelessly compromised by some obvious off-site campaigning/votestacking and possible sock/meat puppetry, but instead I've done the harder job of picking through the discussion, casting out the dross that needs to be tossed, and holding onto and considering the rest August 31
Category:Worst Picture Golden Raspberry Award winners delete August 27
Category:Writers by ethnic or national descent merge; there's more or less a consensus here that both should not exist August 9
Category:Xth Kenyan Parliament merge August 2
Years in pre-independent Indonesian sport Upmerge all August 16
Category:Youth model governments Rename August 22