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Category Decision Discussion_log
Category:16th century in the Democratic Republic of the Congo delete January 18
Category:1922 establishment in Hawaii Delete January 23
Category:1981 Writers Guild of America strike delete January 26
Category:1988 Writers Guild of America strike delete. – January 26
Category:2010s crime drama film stubs upmerge to Category:Crime drama film stubs and Category:2010s drama film stubs January 12
Category:2011–2012 Bahraini uprising speedy rename per C2D to match Bahraini uprising (2011–present) January 31
Category:2015 births defaulting to standard practice since there's no consensus to depart from it here: delete; can be created when there's something to do in it January 31
Category:Academic journals published by libraries Delete January 17
Category:Academic journals published by the government Rename January 18
Category:Academics by university in Europe Reverse merge. There is a clear consensus to merge, the question is in which direction. There is stronger support for the reverse merge. This close is consistent with the similar one below and specifically does not address the proposals for Category:Academic staff at foo university. I'm not sure if that becomes a split, which does not require a discussion here, or a followup rename. I'll let the participants decide on how to proceed with that decision January 21
Category:Activities by jihadist organization rename, without prejudice to a future nomination to propose deleting any of them January 19
Category:Airfields in the Middle East merge to Category:Airfields and Category:Aviation in the Middle East January 17
Category:Alumni of Queen's Academy merge January 30
Category:Ambystoma merge January 8
Category:American al-Qaeda past members merge January 27
Category:American cities in fiction rename January 6
Category:American colonial women Opposed. And Speedily Renaming it to Category:Colonial American women per the discussion and other subcats of Category:American colonial people, and similarly its subcat Category:North American colonial women in warfare) to Category:Colonial American women in warfare. - January 2
Category:American female songwriters no consensus since larger part of the discussion addressed the size of the category, not the rationale of nominator January 31
Category:American jazz singer-songwriters delete. – January 26
Category:American nondenominational Muslims Merge January 23
Category:American Psychological Association academic journals do not split January 30
American TV stations by channel number Listify January 7
Category:Ancient Greek Versions with the Divine Name delete; merge content to Category:Septuagint manuscripts with the Divine Name January 14
Anti-Xxx sentiment categories and some Persecution of ... categories No consensus - January 4
Category:April sporting events keep without prejudice against a fresh nomination of the alternative proposal January 25
Category:Aquarium inverts delete January 26
Category:AR platform rename to Category:AR-platform firearms January 13
Category:Aragonese-speaking countries and territories Delete January 22
Category:Arch Enemy songs delete January 8
Category:Architects (British band) songs delete January 8
Category:Areas controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant delete January 2
Category:Armstrong Atlantic State University alumni rename. Note that speedy rename nominations are listed at WP:CFDS. January 7
Category:Articles for any kind of deletion delete January 28
Category:Articles published in peer-reviewed literature rename to Category:Wikipedia articles published in peer-reviewed literature January 15
Category:Artist collectives merge/rename January 18
Category:Asturian-speaking countries and territories Delete January 22
Category:Austerity Britain rename to Category:Austerity in the United Kingdom (1939–54). – January 20
Category:Australian film actresses do not rename January 14
Australian politicians Rename the first two sections. There does not appear to be consensus concerning "unsuccessful candidacy" categories. And due to that, and just the sense that the rest of the nom appears more to be brainstorming, I'm only closing based upon the first two sections. Feel free to re-nominate the rest (while presumably keeping this discussion in mind). - January 1
Category:Austrian State Prize for European Literature winners delete January 26
Category:Ayre (surname) Delete January 17
Category:Basque-speaking countries and territories Delete January 22
Category:Bays of Bridgend County Borough delete; merge contents as proposed January 28
Category:Benches rename January 30
Category:Best Music Video ― Female on Barbados Music Awards Delete January 20
Category:Best Training Partner of NSDC STAR Scheme Delete January 16
Category:Bridges across the River Gipping delete January 6
Category:British architecture reverse merge to Category:British architecture. There was consensus that we shouldn't have both categories. There was no consensus on what direction to merge. I selected to merge to Category:British architecture for two reasons: (1) "FOOian architecture" is the current standard for Category:Architecture by country. (2) Category:British architecture is older than Category:Architecture of the United Kingdom (2004 vs. 2008). This result is not to be regarded as a consensus for Category:British architecture over Category:Architecture of the United Kingdom, however, or for the "FOOian architecture" form over an "Architecture of FOO" form. Users should be free to propose a change to the format of this or the other by country categories without prejudice from this result. January 11
Category:Buena Vista International films delete January 26
Category:Buildings and structures in Western Australia by road & all subcategories no consensus January 17
Category:Buildings and structures known by their street address delete January 2
Category:Burials at priories Rename January 17
Category:Burials by city make these into container categories; to implement this, rename delete Category:Burials by city to Category:Burials by city and place, and rename city categories to "Burials in Foo by place" if they have at least two subcategories, otherwise delete, and in either case purge any articles held at that level. If there is one subcategory (e.g. burials at a specific cemetery/church), move it up into appropriate parents. The country-by-city categories do not appear to need renaming, e.g. "Burials in Belgium by city and place" may be unnecessarily long, but this category level was not discussed here in detail so it may be nominated again January 17
Category:Canadian cities in fiction rename January 6
Category:Canadian football teams in Shreveport, Louisiana merge January 27
Canadian TV stations by channel number Listify. @Bearcat and Bearcat:, @RevelationDirect and RevelationDirect:, @Sillyfolkboy and SFB:,@Peterkingiron and Peterkingiron:, @Mlaffs and Mlaffs: Lots of work to be done by the community to convert to lists January 7
Category:Carcass songs speedy delete January 7
Categories for Metalcore bands delete January 2
Categories: Germany, Kosovo at the Olympics no consensus January 2
Category:Catholic priests who spied for the Soviet Union delete January 28
Category:Catholicism and Far-left politics delete; I note that Category:Eastern Orthodoxy and far-left politics is also a recent creation January 11
Category:Cefnmeiriadog delete January 18
Category:Charter schools in Delaware keep (do not delete) January 19
Category:Chests rename January 30
Category:Christian politics rename January 12
Category:Citation formats rename as proposed; don't keep redirects January 19
Category:Civil rights movement during the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration UpMerge to Category:African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68). Feel free to also upmerge to Category:Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson at editorial discretion. - January 4
Category:Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities delete January 28
Category:Communist parties in Northern Ireland do not merge January 3
Category:Communist parties in Transnistria merge January 7
Category:Companies From Pennsylvania merge January 12
Category:Converts to Protestantism from Anglicanism merge January 1
Category:Cornish-speaking countries and territories delete January 21
Category:Cosmopolitanism delete January 30
Category:Counties of England in fiction speedy rename. – January 2
Category:Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works License rename January 9
Category:Cremations at Mount Thompson crematorium Delete January 17
Category:Criminals from the West Midlands (county) keep January 30
Category:Dakar Rally winning vehicles Delete. It is possible that a category with a more specific purpose could exist, but this categhory is not defining. Feel free to create, with appropriate content a better defined category January 29
Category:Damion Hall albums keep January 8
Category:Dance-pop singles Withdrawn non-admin closure. Ten Pound Hammer( January 10
Category:Darkest Hour songs delete January 5
Category:Deaths by city in England Delete - I'm also deleting the then empty parent Category:Deaths by city in the United Kingdom. And upmerged the remaining 2 categories of its parent Category:Deaths by city and making that a category redirect to Category:Death by city. No prejudice against nominating Category:Death by city and its subcats. - January 18
Category:Deaths from surgical complications Delete, strongest argument is that few, if any, are notable for having died form surgical complications, in most cases it is a trivium. January 8
Category:Decentralized Software delete January 18
Category:Defunct Roman Catholic dioceses rename. – January 26
Category:Disbanded sports events Rename January 25
Category:Disney's Big Hero 6 characters rename January 8
Category:DJ Tatana albums rename January 17
Category:Dolby Surround 7.1 films delete January 30
Category:Drug user Delete January 13
Category:Dutch Orangists Withdrawn January 5
Category:Eastern Christianity keep January 16
Category:Eastern Orthodoxy and far-left politics delete January 18
Category:ECO vehicles delete. – January 26
Category:Economy of Ukraine by Region Merge January 20
Category:Elsevier academic journals associated with learned societies merge to Category:Elsevier academic journals and Category:Academic journals associated with learned societies. January 26
EU/Euratom treaty categorization corrected/consistent rename all. (NAC) January 3
Category:European Federation of Centres of Research and Information on Sectarianism members delete January 24
Executed American people (sub-sub) categories merge January 21
Category:Faculty by university or college in the United Kingdom delete (nothing to merge following the result of the discussion immediately above). January 21
Category:Faculty of the University of Oxford merge January 21
Category:Far East naval battles of World War I rename January 27
Category:Far East naval theatre of World War II merge January 27
Category:Far-left political parties no consensus. This is the onlyresult I can come up with for the time being. Renomination is welcome, if also options of upmerging and the problem of daughter categories have been addressed January 10
Category:FBI agents convicted of murder delete seems to be the consensus of the discussion January 1
Category:Fictional dragon-hybrids Merge January 29
Category:Fictional gymnasts keep. The discussion was tending towards delete but a fresh delete nomination should give more clarity on that January 20
Category:Fictional outlaws no consensus. – January 21
Category:Film actresses from Shanghai merge as nominated and also Category:Chinese film actresses or Category:Chinese television actresses, as appropriate January 31
Category:Films about the United Kingdom Delete January 13
Category:Films distributed by Paramount/Disney delete January 18
Category:Fishguard and Goodwick delete January 18
Category:Font Bureau typefaces keep. A re-nomination should be allowed if the nominator wishes, since some users focused on the nature of the sparse/unclear rationale January 26
Category:Font Bureau typefaces  Relisted at 2015 JAN 26 CFD January 15
Category:Forests in fiction no consensus. Perhaps a renomination would be useful after the articles all get placed in the correct category or categories January 31
Category:Former Reformed Protestants merge January 1
Category:Free Decentralized Software delete January 16
Category:French Story delete. (For the time being, I've placed The Dukes of the Bourbon castle in Montluçon in Category:History of France.) January 19
Category:Frogs of New Zealand Merge to Category:Amphibians of New Zealand January 23
Category:GA-Class Good articles Delete January 25
Category:Galician-speaking countries and territories Delete January 22
Category:Gargoyles in television merge Category:Gargoyles in television, Category:Gargoyles in popular culture, Category:Gargoyles in film, and Category:Fictional gargoyles into a new Category:Gargoyles January 19
Category:Georgia (country) animated television series by decade Delete, already in parent category January 22
Category:Golf clubs and courses in Karachi delete; merge contents to Category:Golf clubs and courses in Pakistan and Category:Sports venues in Karachi January 6
Category:Golf clubs and courses in Klang Valley delete; merge contents to Category:Golf clubs and courses in Malaysia and Category:Sports venues in Selangor January 6
Category:Groove Awards winners Delete January 17
Category:Hassan (surname) delete January 24
Category:Hereditary peers removed from the House of Lords under the Act 1999 Listify January 20
Category:Hetrosexual Wikipedians delete. Per the discussion below and the discussion for the previous version of this category Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2014 November 29#Category:Straight Wikipedians, I am closing this as a "snow delete", i.e. on the merits. I could also have speedily deleted it as G5 but that might have given rise to a discussion in the future about whether recreations under this or similar names would be eligible for speedy deletion under G4 January 18
Category:Highlife albums by Nigerian artists  Relisted at 2015 FEB 4 CFD January 15
Category:Historical Roman Catholic Dioceses in Asia result January 26
Category:Historically segregated white schools in the United States no consensus. Whereas there are good arguments for deletion, the counter keep argument by January 17
Category:History of Arizona stubs Already deleted January 13
Category:Houari Boumédiène delete January 24
Category:Images of 1978 merge January 7
Category:Independent sects in the Latter Day Saint movement delete January 21
India articles assessed in ((month)) delete January 7
Category:International Car of the Year Winners Delete January 13
Category:International Independent Research Consortium Delete January 16
Category:International sports competitions hosted by the Greenland speedily delete as error in name. (The relevant category is at Category:International sports competitions hosted by Greenland.) January 23
Category:Iranian Capitals of Culture delete January 28
Category:Irish-speaking countries and territories delete January 21
Category:Islamic extremist groups restricting education delete January 28
Category:Islamist terrorist incidents - 20th century rename January 27
Islip (town), New York no consensus, valid arguments from both sides January 6
Category:Israeli military personnel who committed suicide no consensus, though there does seem to be consensus that if there is a renomination, the entire tree of Category:Military personnel who committed suicide should be nominated January 5
Category:Jewish group structuring merge January 18
Category:John Maddox Prize winners Delete. Lists exists in the article January 29
Category:Journal series rename January 31
Category:K.d. lang delete January 30
Category:Kahlgrund delete January 19
Category:Kapiti Coast District withdrawn January 14
Category:Kapiti Coast Merge/rename January 16
Category:Language creators  Relisted at 2015 FEB 3 CFD January 9
Category:Latina 30 Under 30 honorees Delete January 17
Category:Law journals edited by students withdrawn January 31
Category:LGBT singer-songwriters delete January 26
Category:Libyans rabbis rename January 19
Category:Liftbacks merge January 14
Category:Long pop songs Delete January 13
Category:Maccabiah Games bronze medalists No consensus to delete, default to keep. January 30
Maccabiah Games categories Merge January 30
Male and female murderers upmerge four: January 22
Category:Male professional wrestlers from Jalisco Merge January 8
Category:Mauritius Wikipedia administration delete January 8
Category:Media not suitable for Commons rename January 28
Category:Medieval Greek astrologers delete. (We're only talking about Theophilus of Edessa as far as contents go, so to resolve issues of upmerging or not and to where, users can deal with this with the categorization of the article.) January 25
Category:Medieval mythology delete January 11
Category:Members of the CPPCC National Committee rename the first, double upmerge the second to the first and to category:Hong Kong politicians. – January 5
Category:Membership top icons rename as nominated. This close is no bar to early re-nomination of this and siblings to have "user" prepended, as well as "templates" appended to the others. – January 8
Category:Memorial roads of Canada delete January 3
Mexican TV stations by channel number Listify January 7
Category:Military installations in Bedfordshire delete January 18
Category:Moths of France delete. I'm not sure if all those who commented correctly read the nomination and/or examined the contents of the categories, but a straight merge to the corresponding "FOOs of Europe" categories would not be appropriate given that these all contain articles and subcategories about the things in French colonies around the world. January 27
Category:Mozart: spurious and doubtful works No consensus. Sorry, no real resolution here but there's many issues regarding the existing, scope and titling of these categories and the inclusion criterion, too much for a single CFD discussion it seems. The titling/existence of these categories could be done with a RFC but there should be separate discussions (on the article talk pages) as to whether various articles belong in those categories. The title and scope are two different issues January 17
Category:Multidisciplinary WikiProjects merge January 10
Music in Mississippi Delete all, put the only article in these categories into Category:Music of Mississippi January 21
Category:Musicians from Fræna merge as proposed and to Category:Musicians from Møre og Romsdal January 3
Category:National football team kit manufacturers delete January 6
Category:National Heritage Houses of the Philippines merge January 2
Category:Neo (constructed language) delete both January 9
Category:Nova Scotia Military Regiments merge Category:Nova Scotia Military Regiments to Category:Military regiments raised in Nova Scotia January 5
Category:Novial no consensus January 4
Category:Online-only journals keep January 28
Category:Open content publishing companies rename January 8
Category:Operas by world premiere location subcategories Rename. There are two issues here, one was the reanme and the other a listify. If we treat the listify comments as neutral, there is consensus for a reanme. Once the rename is completed, it would be fair for a new discussion on the listify option January 21
Category:Opponents of Islamist terrorism delete January 28
Category:Oral citations experiment rename January 8
Category:Orchids of Austria Merge per precedent and as porposed. The main objections here appear to be based on how experts in the field classify these. However the Wikipedia category system is used for its own organization purposes and as part of that we try to avoid over categorization of articles January 26
Category:Outdated articles/sources delete January 10
Category:Paleontology of Ethiopia Delete January 20
Category:Panamanian people of Mandinka descent delete January 5
Category:Past Grand Muftis merge January 28
Category:PD-GermanGov rename January 8
Pentecostal minister categories no action January 4
People excommunicated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints no consensus. The factual development - creation of a parent category and moving some people there - seems to be the closest to consensus January 22
Category:People from Adamsville, Alabama merge January 15
Category:People from Cordova, South Carolina merge January 1
Category:People from Heflin, Alabama merge January 15
Category:People from Oakham, Massachusetts merge January 11
Category:People from Stella, Missouri merge January 12
Category:People from the Elloughton-cum-Brough merge January 17
Category:People from Towamencin Township, Pennsylvania merge January 8
Category:People from Venice (city) rename January 8
Category:People from Western Australia uncategorised by location merge January 18
Category:People of Afro-Panamanian descent delete January 5
Category:People who are namesakes of streets in Halifax, Nova Scotia delete January 4
Category:People who recorded Elvis tribute songs delete January 25
Category:Persian-genre film stubs delete January 28
Category:Pet Turtles administrative close: category already being discussed, as noted January 31
Category:Pet Turtles delete per snow and G4 January 26
Category:Philosophy reference resources rename January 11
Category:Physical infrastructure merge January 2
Category:Pichilemu City Council members, 1894–1897 merge January 1
Category:Pikes delete (merged contents to Category:Former toll roads in the United States) January 15
Pitch and putt competitions in Spain delete January 2
Category:Politicians convicted of corruption keep. (NAC) January 23
Category:Populated places on Iceland's Route 1 delete January 11
Category:Postal infrastructure in London Rename Category:Postal infrastructure in London to Category:Postal infrastructure in the United Kingdom. Create Category:Postal infrastructure as parent, and as as a subcat of Category:Postal system. - January 2
Category:Presidents of Biafra keep January 18
Category:Priests convicted of child sexual abuse rename January 11
Category:Princess Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani delete January 2
Category:Professional wrestlers from Calgary Rename to Category:Stampede Wrestling alumni and cleanup. @Bearcat:, @Sillyfolkboy:, can you do the cleanup? January 23
Category:Professional wrestlers from Monterrey merge. – January 8
Category:Q150 Delete January 17
Category:Quantified human groups Delete per WP:OC#SHAREDNAME. - January 18
Category:Queensland places with golf clubs and courses Delete January 17
Category:Queensland places with war memorials Delete January 17
Radio dramas rename. The category restructures can be done outside of CfD. January 4
Radio stations by frequency delete January 3
Category:Rawlinsonian Professors of Anglo-Saxon No consensus. Made the first a child category of the second January 26
Category:Religious antisemitism Upmerge to Category:Antisemitism January 22
Category:Repulsion (band) songs delete January 7
Riksdag rename. (To address Marcocapelle's question, I suggest that every instance would be a matter dealt with on the talk page for the article about the parliament. The category names then reflect whatever name is selected for the article. In such article name discussions, the standard principles of Wikipedia:Article titles will apply, including WP:UCRN, WP:UE, etc.) January 14
Category:Rivers of Kosala delete January 10
Category:Rolo Tomassi songs delete January 7
Russian Street Categories with 1 Article double merge January 1
Category:Ryukyuan Confucianists No consensus to merge. - January 17
Category:Saraiki cuisine Delete. Note I did edit this category doing cleanup for various nominations. I do not believe that this disqualifies me from closing this January 23
Category:Sarwari Qadiri order delete January 15
Category:Scientific societies by country Merge January 23
Category:Scientific societies of Poland Merge January 23
Category:Scots-speaking countries and territories Delete January 22
Category:Second City alumni Delete. For Category:Second City alumni the decision was to listify, but two lists already exist. S0 even this one can be deleted without loss of information. I'll leave it to the users on how best to combine or redo the existing lists. @Bearcat: maybe you would like to get involved? January 18
Category:Singles certified sextuple platinum by the Productores de Música de España delete January 28
Category:Smithsonian Institution Archives related Delete January 20
Category:Social justice activists of Nova Scotia delete; merge contents to Category:Canadian activists January 3
Category:Songs written by Dean Roland delete January 5
Category:Songs written by DJ Kane delete January 5
Category:Songs written by José González (singer) delete January 5
Category:Spits of Conwy County Borough delete January 28
Category:Sportsmen from Brisbane merge as proposed. This result doesn't preclude further work/changes being done to the category tree. January 30
Category:Sri Lankan people of World War I merge; leave redirect January 4
Category:Steve Bloomer Delete January 17
Storylines in fiction Keep January 22
Category:Streets in Perth Renanme Category:Streets in Perth to Category:Streets in Perth, Western Australia. A merge or reverse merge between the roads and streets categories did not gain a consensus due to the multiple options that wound up being proposed here. If that is still needed, feel free to nominate. There appeared to be a consensus to upmerge Category:Streets in Perth central business district, Western Australia to Category:Streets in Perth, Western Australia, but again with the multiple proposals I'm not convinced that the consensus was strong enough to do that merge, so again that should be a new discussion January 16
Category:Successful Romanian singles delete January 6
Category:Suspected Islamist insurgents delete January 27
Category:Tad (band) songs delete January 9
Category:Teahouse hosts merge January 8
Category:Template-impact Wikipedia essays delete January 9
Terrorism by city Rename January 22
Category:The Black Dahlia Murder (band) songs delete January 8
Category:The Dillinger Escape Plan songs delete January 7
Category:The Kids in the Hall members no consensus to delete, with the balance leaning towards "keep" January 16
Category:The Progressives politicians delete January 31
Category:The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary alumni rename January 19
Category:Traditional Strega Nonna Delete January 17
Category:Transport in Telengana delete January 28
Tribune Media rename; if the article name is renamed again, the categories can follow speedily January 5
Category:Trotskyist organisations in Northern Ireland do not merge January 3
Unused WikiProject India sub-categories delete January 7
Category:User:333-blue Delete January 20
Category:User:Muffingg Delete January 16
Category:UsesSecondParam Delete (by creator of category). Satisfied speedy deletion criterion G2 (test page). January 17
Category:Valid SVG Rename to Category:Wikipedia images in SVG format January 7
Category:Video of the Year on VH1 Soul VIBE Awards Delete January 20
Category:Vietnam War military equipment of Australia merge January 7
Category:Volvo Master venues delete January 5
Category:Warhol superstars delete January 18
Category:Washington (state) sportspeople stubs  Relisted at 2015 FEB 4 CFD January 12
Category:Websites blocked in the United Kingdom delete January 7
Category:Welsh-speaking countries and territories delete January 21
Category:Wikipedia media files with subtitles rename January 18
Category:Wikipedia media files merge January 7
Category:Wikipedian qin xiao players Merge January 20
Category:Wikipedians who like Adele delete, with support for a broader discussion on the underlying principles of these categories January 31
Category:WikiProject Beauty Pageants keep. As I said closing the MfD with the same result, I'd need to see much stronger arguments before deleting a WikiProject anyone is active in January 20
Category:WikiProject NIOSH templates no consensus. A re-nomination would be fine if no further contents are forthcoming. January 6
Category:WikiProjects Based on the Turnkey Project Delete January 10
Category:Windsor Suburban Roads delete January 8
Category:Winners of Automobile Magazine Automobile of the Year Delete January 13
Category:Winners of What Car? Car of the Year Delete January 13
Category:Winners of Wheels Car of the Year Delete January 13
Category:Winners of World Car of the Year Delete January 13
Category:Women's studies journal stubs Upmerge January 29
Category:World Digital Library related no consensus. There are some reasonable suggestions in the discussion, may be they should be explored January 27
World Rugby rename January 4
Category:World War I mines renamed Category:Tunnel warfare in World War I: strong support for doing something, but not doing the original nom; this alt had multiple and reasonably-reasoned support January 31
Category:World War II images no consensus January 8
Category:Young Australian of the Year Award winners delete January 30