| Category |
Decision |
Discussion_log
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| Category:"Part of a series on" templates |
rename |
February 6
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| Category:1000 Guineas |
rename |
February 13
|
| Category:12th-century Christian archbishops |
rename |
February 2
|
| Category:18th-century architecture in the United States |
merge/disperse. Note: while implementing this close, I came across this previous discussion in 2011. – |
February 9
|
| Category:1957 establishments in Malaysia |
merge |
February 11
|
| Category:1959 establiishments in Alaska |
merge to Category:1959 establishments in Alaska |
February 24
|
| Category:2008 United States presidential election by state |
rename |
February 14
|
| Category:2013 AFC U-22 Championship players |
delete |
February 15
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| Category:50 great voices |
Delete |
February 25
|
| Category:Actresses |
do not rename |
February 9
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| Category:Aeolian landforms of the United Kingdom |
delete |
February 8
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| Category:Airlines Flying To Tehran |
delete |
February 2
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| Category:American ethnic media |
delete, the merge having already been performed |
February 3
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| Category:American film directors of Armenian descent |
delete |
February 13
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| Category:Americas geography stubs |
rename |
February 9
|
| Category:Anatolian Roman Catholic saints |
Merge |
February 27
|
| Category:Ancient Eleates |
merge |
February 14
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| Category:Ancient Greek sites in Libya |
nomination withdrawn |
February 15
|
| Category:Ancient Roman forts in Hunedoara County |
merge. – |
February 10
|
| Category:Ancient towns |
merge. I take it that this was the preferred option. If anyone wants to propose a rename to the other option, feel free |
February 14
|
| Category:Andean Community of Nations |
rename |
February 18
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| Category:Ani DiFranco |
delete |
February 4
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| Category:Anti-Americanists |
delete |
February 7
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| Category:Arabic books |
merge |
February 9
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| Category:Armenia under-21 international footballers |
keep |
February 15
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| Category:Artefact (band) albums |
delete |
February 1
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| Category:Aspects of Shiva |
rename |
February 17
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| Category:Associated Colleges of the Midwest |
delete |
February 23
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| Athletes from places that use American English |
rename all |
February 26
|
| Award categories with no articles about the awards (countries A–B) |
see individual sections below |
February 25
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| Category:Bandcamp |
delete |
February 14
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| Category:Basketball games in which Michael Jordan played |
delete |
February 8
|
| Category:Bayer objects |
keep |
February 25
|
| Category:Bengali sportspersons |
rename |
February 8
|
| Category:Bibliographies |
Keep |
February 3
|
| Category:Birds of Gibraltar |
merge |
February 15
|
| Category:Bishops of Edmonton of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church |
upmerge/delete as proposed |
February 22
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| Category:Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from Canada |
delete (contents merged to Category:Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church from Canada). |
February 22
|
| Category:Blanche Lazzell |
delete |
February 19
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| Category:Boy-Girl Groups |
delete |
February 17
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| Category:Caterpillars that resemble twigs |
delete |
February 17
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| Category:Characters that appear in the MCU |
delete |
February 25
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| Category:Christian Classics |
delete |
February 17
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| Category:Christian mainstream singles |
Delete |
February 20
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| Category:Cinemas and movie theatres in China |
speedy redirected as duplicate of existing category — and its only actual content was a subcategory which itself was also a duplicate of an existing category, so once that issue was corrected this was also an empty category. No prejudice against renomination for CFR if somebody feels strongly enough that the spelling should be "theatres" instead, but as currently constituted this falls under speedy criteria rather than needing debate |
February 20
|
| Category:Classical topography |
merge |
February 8
|
| Category:Coastal cities and towns in Italy |
merge |
February 14
|
| Category:Collaborations between the Beatles and the Rolling Stones |
delete |
February 12
|
| Category:Companies of the United States with untaxed profits |
delete . – |
February 12
|
| Category:Conservation reliant species |
rename (article was renamed here) |
February 16
|
| Category:Countries by characteristic |
merged, mostly into Category:Countries, but some subcategories as appropriate |
February 14
|
| Category:Crowd funding |
speedy rename. – |
February 18
|
| Category:Crowdfunding video games |
rename |
February 18
|
| Category:Deaths from heart failure |
delete Category:Deaths from heart failure. I think that |
February 21
|
| Category:Delhi MLAs 2013– |
delete |
February 17
|
| Category:Delta Tau Delta members |
Delete |
February 2
|
| Category:Droughts by location |
rename/merge |
February 23
|
| Category:Droughts by year |
merge as proposed in amended nomination and manually to other parent categories |
February 23
|
| Category:Dunes of Anglesey |
upmerge each to Category:Dunes of Wales and the appropriate "Geography of FOO" category |
February 8
|
| Category:Dutch popes |
no consensus |
February 26
|
| Category:Eastern Orthodox Christians from Moldova |
Delete |
February 27
|
| Category:English popes |
no consensus |
February 26
|
| Category:Environment in Brittany |
merge as amended |
February 28
|
| Category:Ethnic Armenian film directors |
delete |
February 13
|
| Category:False pipefish |
rename |
February 8
|
| Category:Fictional assassinated politicians |
rename to Category:Fictional assassinated people |
February 2
|
| Category:Fictional half-angels |
delete; merge contents to Category:Fictional hybrids |
February 19
|
| Category:Fictional pirates |
no consensus. Impossible to tell if comment of 7-Feb is sarcastic or serious |
February 4
|
| Category:Fictional rape victims |
delete |
February 14
|
| Category:Film writers |
Rename to Category:Writers on film |
February 27
|
| Category:Fire departments in Riverside County, California |
speedy delete as empty – it should not have been removed from parent categories or emptied out of process (i.e. while the discussion was still open), but there is no disagreement here about the outcome required. – |
February 18
|
| Category:Flamsteed objects |
keep |
February 25
|
| Category:Foreign-language media in the United States |
rename to Category:Non-English-language media in the United States |
February 23
|
| Category:Former municipalities of Aargau |
withdrawn by nominator; there is a new discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 February 7. – |
February 4
|
| Category:Former municipalities of the canton of Aargau |
withdrawn by nominator – |
February 7
|
| Category:Gas station attendants |
withdrawn as moot: speedily deleted as empty after single article in it was deleted at AFD |
February 19
|
| Category:Geographical areas in Swedish history |
delete |
February 5
|
| Category:Geography of Roman Italy |
rename. There appears to be agreement. |
February 7
|
| Category:Grammy Award-winning artists |
 Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 March 12 |
February 21
|
| Category:Guinness World Records winners |
Delete4 |
February 1
|
| Category:Guinness World Records winners |
no duplicate nominations, please - the discussion should all be at the same place, not split between two dates |
February 9
|
| Category:Highlife albums by Nigerian artists |
no consensus |
February 4
|
| Category:Historical divisions in Sweden |
delete |
February 5
|
| Category:History intrastate divisions |
delete |
February 2
|
| Category:History of Roman Britain |
merge . – |
February 13
|
| Category:Illinois Coal History |
Rename |
February 17
|
| Category:Indian actors in Hollywood |
delete |
February 16
|
| Category:Indochina |
delete |
February 26
|
| Category:Insects of Ukraine |
merge. |
February 9
|
| Category:International Council of Universities of Saint Thomas Aquinas |
delete |
February 12
|
| Category:Invalid redirects |
rename to Category:Articles with redirect hatnotes needing review. – |
February 21
|
| Category:Islam in the Gambia |
merge to Category:Islam in the Gambia. I'll leave a redirect since both forms are acceptable |
February 4
|
| Category:Jetboil |
delete |
February 7
|
| Category:Kings of Arts |
delete |
February 3
|
| Laws in Christianity |
rename to "Christianity and law in the xxth century". |
February 28
|
| Category:Level crossing accidents in the United States |
Rename. This is where consensus is. However the comment by |
February 25
|
| Category:Libre software |
merge; there was discussion about renaming Category:Free software. That should be proposed in a new nomination since the category was not tagged for discussion |
February 7
|
| Category:Lists of TLAs |
rename |
February 5
|
| Category:Live Search |
delete, merge contents to Category:Bing |
February 17
|
| Category:London Post Office Railway stations |
delete. – |
February 12
|
| Category:Magic: The Gathering blocks |
merge |
February 6
|
| Category:Mass media by language |
no consensus especially in the absence of clarification by the nominator. – |
February 9
|
| Category:Member states by organization |
merge |
February 23
|
| Category:Men and the arts |
delete |
February 3
|
| Category:Midwifery |
no consensus. – |
February 20
|
| Category:Minor planets formerly to be visited by spacecraft |
delete. (If anyone is interested in listifying, you can contact me to find out what the contents of the category were.) |
February 27
|
| Category:Moldovan Orthodox Christians |
Rename |
February 27
|
| Category:Morgantina |
delete |
February 14
|
| Category:Motya |
delete . – |
February 13
|
| Category:Names of God in Buddhism |
delete |
February 28
|
| Category:Napa Valley College |
KKeep |
February 8
|
| Category:National Film Award (Bangladesh) winners |
merge to Category:Recipients of Bangladesh National Film Awards. Category:Recipients of Bangladesh National Film Awards was not tagged for discussion, so if anyone would like to propose that it be listified, it needs to be nominated |
February 14
|
| Category:Natural history of the Caribbean by islands |
merge |
February 28
|
| Category:Oak Ridge Associated Universities |
delete |
February 5
|
| Category:Objects named with variable star designations |
Keep |
February 25
|
| Category:Objects within 100 Gly of Earth |
delete |
February 24
|
| Old Believer movement |
Upmerge all |
February 24
|
| Category:Other Russia (coalition) |
rename |
February 6
|
| Category:Oxford events |
rename to Category:Oxford Wikimedia events |
February 17
|
| Category:Paleontologist taskforce articles by quality |
delete |
February 7
|
| Category:Paralympic track and field athletes of Canada |
do not rename |
February 16
|
| Category:Parishes in Sweden |
delete |
February 5
|
| Category:Patriarchs of Kiev and All Rus’ - Ukraine |
rename. (I think User:Axxxion must have confused the existence of the article Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate with the until-this-close non-existence of Category:Patriarchs of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate.) |
February 21
|
| Category:PD-Bain |
rename |
February 22
|
| Category:People charged with sedition |
Rename and purge |
February 2
|
| Category:People educated at Royal College of Science |
speedy merge. – |
February 18
|
| Category:People educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School |
rename/merge back as proposed |
February 26
|
| Category:People from Congress Poland |
nomination withdrawn |
February 19
|
| Category:People from Salem |
RfD discussion now closed |
February 9
|
| Category:People from the Province of Bolzano |
merge |
February 11
|
| Category:Personal Experience |
delete |
February 2
|
| Category:Plagiarism controversies involving Led Zeppelin |
delete and merge contents to Category:Plagiarism controversies and/or Category:Led Zeppelin, as appropriate |
February 3
|
| Category:Polish popes |
no consensus |
February 24
|
| Category:Potential members of editor retention programme |
delete. – |
February 10
|
| Category:Private colleges under licence |
Rename |
February 27
|
| Category:Privatization in Germany |
delete |
February 13
|
| Category:Rail transport stations in London |
Rename |
February 21
|
| Category:Randy Weston compositions |
rename |
February 13
|
| Category:Rebellions in classical history |
rename to Category:Rebellions in ancient history and re-parent to Category:Ancient history |
February 9
|
| Category:Redirects from Exif information |
rename |
February 9
|
| Category:Religion-related legal issues |
rename |
February 28
|
| Category:Republic of Adygea |
rename |
February 22
|
| Category:Roman and pre-Roman Hispania |
rename |
February 7
|
| Category:Roman Catholic Churches completed in 1969 |
administrative close: speedily deleted |
February 2
|
| Category:Roman legions' camps in Romania |
merge. – |
February 10
|
| Category:Royal College (Panadura.) |
speedily deleted |
February 25
|
| Category:Rubber Soul |
delete (was also previously deleted here). |
February 4
|
| Category:Russian religious figures |
Delete |
February 27
|
| Sailors at the Olympics |
Keep |
February 11
|
| Category:Scandinavian Mountains |
withdrawn by nominator |
February 4
|
| Category:Segesta |
delete . – |
February 13
|
| Category:Short film directors |
delete (as was pointed out, no merge of the contents is necessary) |
February 9
|
| Category:Sinch albums |
rename |
February 28
|
| Category:Slope landforms of Wales |
merge/delete as nominated |
February 8
|
| Category:Slovene magazines |
delete |
February 9
|
| Category:Songs by album |
delete |
February 2
|
| Category:Songs which sample or interpolate other songs |
delete |
February 11
|
| Category:Songs with samples by Stevie Wonder |
delete |
February 1
|
| Category:Stars with proper names |
keep |
February 26
|
| Category:States and territories established in the 2870s BC |
Upmerge as nominated - while arguments for upmerging Category:States and territories established in the 29th century BC into Category:States and territories established in the 3rd millennium BC are strong, and such a discussion would probably succeed, it's beyond the scope of this discussion; as well as Category:States and territories established in the 29th century BC exists, the contents of the noiminated category might as well be there |
February 23
|
| Category:The Hunger Games trilogy |
merge |
February 24
|
| Category:The Moon in film |
rename |
February 8
|
| Category:Topography of ancient Rome |
rename. There was no real discussion of issue addressed by the nomination, but the parent category is Category:Ancient city of Rome, so the nomination satisfies speedy criterion C2B and I think is safe to carry out. If users want to pursue any of the other issues discussed, the new category can be nominated |
February 7
|
| Category:Towns of Noakhali |
delete |
February 2
|
| Category:Townshend family |
delete. – |
February 12
|
| Category:Travel and communications in ancient Rome |
rename |
February 7
|
| Tributes to Beatles' albums |
merge |
February 14
|
| Category:Tributes to the White Album |
merge to Category:The Beatles tribute albums |
February 4
|
| Category:Tseghakronism |
delete |
February 28
|
| Category:Turtles as pets |
delete per the previous discussion and the discussion before that |
February 3
|
| Category:Ukrainian Orthodox Christians from the United States |
delete |
February 21
|
| Category:Ukrainian politicians convicted of embezzlement |
merge as proposed |
February 6
|
| Category:Umm Qais |
Delete |
February 14
|
| Category:United Arab Emirates Wikipedia administration |
delete |
February 28
|
| Category:Velia |
delete |
February 14
|
| Category:Video Processing and Encoding Solution Companies |
delete |
February 10
|
| Category:Vincent Vallières albums |
delete |
February 14
|
| Category:Vishwakarma |
delete |
February 10
|
| Category:Washington (state) sportspeople stubs |
merge to Category:Washington (state) people stubs and Category:American sportspeople stubs |
February 4
|
| Category:Water in the North Pole |
Delete |
February 27
|
| Category:Weapon manufacturers |
delete (no merge of the contents is necessary—all of the contents were articles about individuals who were not weapons designers). |
February 9
|
| Category:Wendover Air Force Base |
delete; upmerge sole article to the ten parent categories |
February 21
|
| Category:Wikipedia portals |
rename. As discussed, anyone could now nominate Category:Portals to be renamed Category:Wikipedia portals |
February 14
|
| Category:Wikipedia-related lists |
rename to Category:Lists about Wikipedia |
February 8
|
| Category:Wikipedians that are cats |
speedy delete per WP:G3 as a hoax. Cats are wonderful, but they don't edit encyclopedias |
February 24
|
| Category:Winner of the Vienna Fashion Award |
delete |
February 26
|
| Category:Winners of European Car of the Year |
delete |
February 8
|
| Category:Winners of the Los Angeles Times Women of the Year |
listify, then delete |
February 10
|
| Category:Women's studies stubs |
delete and upmerge contents as proposed |
February 6
|
| Category:Words to avoid |
delete |
February 5
|
| Category:Yugoslav nationalism |
rename |
February 10
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