Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2015 October index
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| "X in Queens, New York" categories | keep. – | October 8 |
| 14th-16th century natural disasters | merge | October 14 |
| Category:Adele (singer) | rename | October 28 |
| Category:Afaka script | delete. I have upmerged the article to all parent categories, one of which was Category:Artificial scripts | October 25 |
| Category:AFC U-12 Championship | administrative close: category was speedily deleted as empty | October 14 |
| Albania youth international footballers | merge | October 18 |
| Category:Albania(n) sport(s)-related lists | merge to Category:Albania sport-related lists. Category:Albania sports-related lists was mentioned as a possibility; that category does not exist, but this close is without prejudice to proposal to rename it to that | October 24 |
| Category:Albanian Essayists | procedural close. This was intended to be filed at WP:CFDS, and I've listed it there | October 1 |
| Category:Albums by certification | delete | October 15 |
| Category:Albums by gold certification | delete. There is a problem, however, with not dealing with all the certifications from a particular country at once. These categories are not generally added manually but rather are applied by application of Template:Certification Table Entry. In the template, the country is specified as well as the level of certification, and that adds the article to an appropriate category. The problem is, it's not easy to turn of the category application for gold certifications for all countries but not turn it off for other certifications of all countries. (It may be possible, but I don't know how to do it.) It is easy to turn off all category application for a particular country's certifications. For that reason, these particular categories might just have to remain as "red-linked categories" on the articles until/unless all the certifications for any particular country are deleted. Thus, despite the challenges with nominating whole country trees at once, it might be a better idea to do so if we want the articles to be actually removed from the categories sooner rather than later. | October 7 |
| Category:Alternative running styles | merge | October 17 |
| Category:Alumni of Leeds Metropolitan University | rename Category:Alumni of Leeds Metropolitan University to Category:Alumni of Leeds Beckett University | October 9 |
| Category:American disabled sports organisations & United States disability organizations | rename | October 5 |
| Category:Ancient grains | delete. The main article, which needs work, includes a list anyway. The category was added to the pages on top of existing categories, so there is no need to merge back. – | October 20 |
| Category:Arab socialist politicians | no consensus | October 9 |
| Category:Aramean nationalists | delete | October 16 |
| Category:Arnulfings | merge | October 7 |
| Category:Artistic incompetence | delete. There were a variety of proposals of ways the category could be salvaged, none of which gained a consensus. This close is therefore without prejudice to users creating a list of some sort, or maybe even creating a category with a different name and defined criteria for article conclusion. A newly created category should not be identical in content to this category. If users have problems with any new category that may be created, it can of course be nominated for renaming or deletion. | October 24 |
| Category:Association of Independent Colleges and Universities in Massachusetts members | delete | October 29 |
| Category:Backyard Brawl | delete; upmerge contents | October 14 |
| Category:Bacon scholars | rename as proposed. (non-admin closure) | October 30 |
| Category:Bahamian American Freemasons | delete | October 24 |
| Category:Baloncesto Málaga basketball players | rename | October 13 |
| Baltic states / countries | merge to Category:Baltic states | October 11 |
| Bavarian Order of Merit | merge | October 31 |
| Category:Ben Affleck | delete | October 14 |
| Category:BILAL YOUNAS JUTT | speedy delete. The category was empty and the text contained someone's Windows software username and password key, so I thought it was probably best to delete speedily rather than wait | October 8 |
| Category:Biographical films about fashion designers | merge | October 2 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina youth international footballers | merge | October 19 |
| Category:British Empire and Commonwealth Games by host country | rename | October 25 |
| Category:Cambodia Tribunal | rename | October 3 |
| Cardiovascular disease deaths by country | delete | October 10 |
| Centuries in East and West Germany | merge/delete | October 4 |
| Centuries in German states | merge. – | October 4 |
| Category:Cincinnati–Northern Kentucky metropolitan area | rename | October 12 |
| Category:Classical music articles by quality | delete; without prejudice to re-creation if things change and the relevant wikiproject desires to begin using this system | October 2 |
| Category:Climate change skeptics | rename as nominated. Several users also expressed a desire to rename Category:Climate change skepticism and denial. That will require a new nomination because the category was not tagged with Template:Cfr and was not the overall focus of this nomination. | October 6 |
| Category:Contemporary German history | withdrawn, without prejudice to a future re-nomination | October 14 |
| Category:Counts of Rosselló | merge | October 22 |
| Countships of the Holy Roman Empire <-> Counties of the Holy Roman Empire | merge to Category:Counties of the Holy Roman Empire | October 22 |
| Category:Cultural works about science | merge | October 16 |
| Category:Czech Republic under-19 international footballers | merge | October 18 |
| Category:Dance teachers | merge Category:Dance instructors to Category:Dance teachers (technically done via a rename per comments below) | October 23 |
| Dauphins of France <-> Heirs presumptive to the French throne | withdrawn | October 19 |
| Category:Dental crowns and bridges | wrong venue this is an article in the wrong space | October 7 |
| Duchy of Brunswick | merge/delete per nom. – | October 1 |
| Category:Elbe-Weser Triangle | delete | October 1 |
| Category:Electors of Baden |  Relisted at 2015 OCT 28 CFD |
October 2 |
| Enclaves and exclaves | merge as proposed. (non-admin closure) | October 30 |
| Category:Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture | delete | October 18 |
| Category:Expansionists | delete | October 20 |
| Category:Films directed by Morgan Freeman | keep | October 3 |
| Category:Films set in Sidney, Ohio | merge/delete | October 27 |
| Category:Florida Gators women's track and field | merge | October 17 |
| Category:Football at the 2015 Military World Games | delete. All three of the articles were already in the sole parent category, Category:Football at the Military World Games, so there was no need to upmerge | October 11 |
| Former districts of Germany | no consensus | October 18 |
| Category:Former French empires | delete | October 17 |
| Category:Fosselvi | delete | October 19 |
| Category:Frankish noble families | reverse merge. – | October 8 |
| Category:Fraternalists | no consensus to delete, but there seems to be a consensus that at least a rename could be appropriate, though there wasn't any strong consensus on which specific name. For now, I will rename to Category:Members of fraternal service organizations to match Category:Fraternal service organizations, but this should by no means be seen as the final say on the name of this category or on whether its subcategories should continue to exist. There is no consensus on these matters as a result of this discussion. | October 22 |
| Category:French colonialism | merge | October 21 |
| Category:Fruit in Malaysia | merge | October 17 |
| Category:Garage door opener manufacturers | no consensus | October 7 |
| Category:Garamantes | delete | October 17 |
| Category:Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets men's track and field coaches | rename | October 17 |
| Germanic peoples | no consensus to delete. Perhaps the alternative renaming proposal could be made in a fresh nomination? | October 9 |
| Category:Germanic tribes | no consensus. — | October 9 |
| Category:Germany after reunification | merge to Category:Contemporary German history for now and some clean up will likely be desirable | October 4 |
| Category:Government hospitals | delete | October 18 |
| Category:Grand Masters | delete | October 15 |
| Category:Greek Revival buildings in Germany | rename | October 16 |
| Category:HABS-HAER-HALS documentation | rename. — | October 12 |
| Category:Healthcare in the United Kingdom | no consensus. I have restored Category:Health in Jersey as a parent to Category:Healthcare in Jersey, since it was emptied out of process by one of the participants of this discussion. For now, the healthcare categories are subcategories of the health categories. They can both exist until there is consensus to merge one way or the other | October 4 |
| Category:Hellenistic geographers | delete | October 23 |
| Historical people | delete/merge | October 11 |
| History of Christianity | rename as proposed. (non-admin closure) | October 31 |
| History of France by location | merge. If anyone wants to propose taking this further, Category:History of France by location can be nominated | October 18 |
| Category:History of New Netherland | merge | October 20 |
| Holy Roman Empire in the Middle Ages | delete | October 24 |
| Category:Human resource management women | upmerge to Category:Human resource management people | October 10 |
| Hungary youth international footballers | merge | October 18 |
| Category:Hurricanes in Desirade | delete; merge contents tp Category:Hurricanes in Guadeloupe. | October 1 |
| Category:IHeartRadio radio stations | delete | October 31 |
| Category:IIIT | merge | October 25 |
| Incorrect rodent "breeds" categories | Delete. All entries in the nominated categories are alreasy in the category trees of the species, so there's nothing to merge | October 2 |
| Category:Indian skeptics | rename. (non-admin closure) | October 23 |
| Category:Indoor athletics (track and field) venues in Louisiana | merge | October 17 |
| Category:Inmates of Federal Correctional Institution, Oakdale | delete | October 2 |
| Category:Intelligence activities in India | rename | October 25 |
| Category:Interlocking directorates | delete | October 20 |
| Category:Iranian martyrs | delete | October 8 |
| Category:Italian architects from Lazio | merge as proposed. (non-admin closure) | October 31 |
| Category:Jamie Lawson albums | no consensus to delete, though the guidelines suggest that if one article exists, it may be kept. Per usual naming practices I'm going to rename the category to Category:Jamie Lawson (musician) albums so that it matches Jamie Lawson (musician). If the article about the only album is deleted in the AFD, users may nominate the then-empty category for speedy deletion. | October 8 |
| Category:Jamie Lawson songs | keep, though per usual naming practices I'm going to rename the category to Category:Jamie Lawson (musician) songs so that it matches Jamie Lawson (musician). | October 8 |
| Category:Jamie Lawson | delete | October 8 |
| Category:Jesuit history in Central and South America | rename as proposed. (non-admin closure) | October 31 |
| Category:Jordan articles | merge | October 29 |
| Category:K-LOVE radio stations | rename | October 1 |
| Category:Keith Sequeira | speedily deleted (C1: Empty category) └ | October 20 |
| Category:Kherwara Chhaoni | delete | October 2 |
| Category:Kings of Provence | rename | October 7 |
| Kiribati | rename all and keep redirects from former category names. — | October 31 |
| Category:Kven history | delete | October 28 |
| Category:Languages of Murcia | merge | October 25 |
| Late medieval earthquakes | merge/delete | October 2 |
| Category:Lime production | merge | October 5 |
| Category:Lime sodas | merge | October 4 |
| Category:Listed railway stations in Australia | keep. No prejudice against speedy renomination for renaming. (non-admin closure) | October 31 |
| Category:Lists of firsts | no consensus | October 18 |
| Category:Makradeo | delete | October 2 |
| Category:Mayors of Warren, Michigan | merge (and also to Category:Mayors of places in Michigan). | October 5 |
| Category:Medical colleges in Ajmer | merge | October 23 |
| Category:Medical colleges in Bikaner | merge | October 23 |
| Category:Medical colleges in Kota | merge | October 23 |
| Category:Medical colleges in New Delhi | rename | October 23 |
| Category:Medieval Catalan and Occitan history | delete | October 21 |
| Category:Members of Masonic Lodges of Adoption | delete; if the articles about the women need to be categorized as Freemasons, they can be placed in the appropriate subcategory of Category:Freemasons by nationality. I checked, and the majority of the articles are already so categorized, and the ones that are not probably should not be categorized as Freemasons at all | October 24 |
| Category:Members of the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor | delete | October 24 |
| Category:Members of the Knights of Columbus | rename and purge | October 24 |
| Category:Members of the Orange Order | rename and purge | October 24 |
| Category:Methods and principles in archaeology | rename to Category:Methods in archaeology and purge of inappropriate articles. One weakness of the CFD process is that sometimes categories are nominated and the agreed-upon solution is not straightforward or easily achieved, simply because the category as it was originally named and populated was deficient, but not so deficient so as to justify outright deletion. This seems to be one of those cases. I will place this task at WP:CFDWM, and any user who wishes to take a crack at it can do so | October 4 |
| Metropolitan France | merge/delete | October 18 |
| Migratory birds by hemisphere | not renamed. (non-admin closure) | October 31 |
| Millennia in West Germany | delete | October 14 |
| Category:Minor characters in Norse mythology | merge | October 27 |
| Category:Mongolic peoples | merge | October 18 |
| Category:Mozabite people | delete | October 17 |
| Musical families | Rename all. If any categories are to small to stand on their own, they can be nominated for deletion separately | October 4 |
| Category:Natural history of the United States | withdrawn by nominator. (non-admin closure) Zeke, the Mad Horrorist | October 17 |
| Category:Navy Corrections and Programs | delete | October 20 |
| Category:Neo-Shu'ubiyya nationalists | delete | October 3 |
| New Netherland | delete | October 26 |
| Category:Newa Talai | delete | October 2 |
| Category:Nibelungid dynasty | merge | October 7 |
| Category:Notre Dame–USC football rivalry | delete/merge | October 15 |
| Category:Orientalist fraternalism | delete | October 11 |
| Category:People by company in the United Kindgom | speedily renamed | October 21 |
| Category:People from Brunswick | rename | October 15 |
| Category:People in English history | delete | October 1 |
| Category:People of the August Putch opposition | delete. (2 participants favour deletion, and 3 are indifferent about renaming or deleting. For the record, the main article 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt says the event was also known as the August Putsch or August Coup (Russian: Августовский путч Avgustovsky Putch). The main category was speedily renamed from August Putch just before this nomination. The main article mentions very few of the current members of this category.) – | October 16 |
| Category:People related to the Teutonic Order | rename. And purge/add articles to Category:People from the State of the Teutonic Order if necessary; clean up category structure and ensure that everything is squared away. Note that Category:Teutonic Knights was a redirect to Category:Teutonic Order until this close, so I read a !vote of "merge" as meaning "rename" | October 9 |
| Category:Piano rock albums | delete | October 13 |
| Category:Pippinids | merge | October 7 |
| Category:Pope Francis albums | merge to Category:Works by Pope Francis. – | October 1 |
| Category:Portraits on coins | rename as proposed. (non-admin closure) | October 30 |
| Category:Presidents of the United States who were Freemasons | listify and delete. – | October 1 |
| Category:Printworthy redirects | Keep. In its present form, this nomination cannot result in deletion, as the nomination was not done correctly: the category pages were not tagged. If that were the only consideration, I would tag them and re-list this discussion to allow it to run for a full week from now. However, there seems to be no point in doing that, as it is a WP:SNOW keep anyway, with everyone except the nominator opposed to deletion, and with the nomination apparently based on the mistaken assumption that the only consideration is Wikipedia as a whole being printed, but printing particular sections of Wikipedia, either for personal use or for publication, certainly does take place. The editor who uses the pseudonym " | October 24 |
| Category:Professorial degrees | merge. – | October 1 |
| Category:Purple Moon games | delete | October 3 |
| Category:Question and answer sites | rename | October 11 |
| Category:Rappers' birth decades | delete | October 22 |
| Category:Recipients of the Hanoverian Waterloo Medal | no consensus | October 7 |
| Category:Religious leaders in New Zealand | keep. (non-admin closure) | October 28 |
| Category:Ships at the Japanese Instrument of Surrender | delete | October 1 |
| Category:Ships in Norwegian history | merge | October 28 |
| Category:Singles by certification | delete | October 15 |
| Category:Singles certified by the Federation of the Italian Music Industry | delete | October 29 |
| Category:Singles certified by the Recording Industry Association of America | delete | October 25 |
| Category:Songs featuring Mellotron | delete, but listify to Mellotron | October 20 |
| Category:Songs from We Will Rock You (musical) | delete | October 28 |
| Category:Spanish variants of Africa | merge | October 26 |
| Category:Sports venues in Vidarbha | merge | October 29 |
| Category:Sportspeople from Utrecht | rename, though the entire Category:Utrecht (city) tree could be considered in the future, since the article about the city is at Utrecht and is the primary meaning of that name | October 14 |
| Category:Stephen Foster tribute albums | delete; merge article to Category:Tribute albums and the new Category:Stephen Foster | October 2 |
| Streams | merge all to new "Rivers and streams of FOO" categories. (The "Rivers of FOO" categories will be renamed to "Rivers and streams of FOO", to retain the edit histories of these older categories, and then contents of the "Streams of FOO" categories will be merged into the new categories.) As mentioned, these renames will probably prompt future nominations to rename other rivers categories for other places, but I agree with | October 24 |
| Category:Subdistricts of Karo Regency | rename | October 28 |
| Category:Taylor Swift tribute albums | merge to parent categories. — | October 13 |
| Category:Television stations in Federal District | redirected to Category:Television stations in Mexico City | October 8 |
| Template:OuedEdDahabLagouira-geo-stub | procedural close. Wrong venue, and ultimately dealt with. — | October 13 |
| Category:Texas–Texas Tech football rivalry | delete; upmerge contents | October 14 |
| The entire "Sequenced genomes" category tree | rename/delete as nominated | October 10 |
| Category:The Hunger Project | delete | October 25 |
| Category:The Score | delete | October 8 |
| Category:Things named after Taras Shevchenko | delete/merge | October 27 |
| Category:Thuringian people | merge | October 9 |
| Category:Ticklers | merge | October 12 |
| Category:Traditions and history of the United States Navy | rename | October 16 |
| Category:United States Endurance Racing Association | merge. AFD had not yet closed at the time of this closing | October 29 |
| Category:Users who experienced domestic violence as a husband | delete | October 23 |
| Category:Userspace RFC drafts | delete. — | October 13 |
| Category:Venetian architects | rename to Category:Republic of Venice architects. — | October 31 |
| Category:Victims of cyberbullying | do not rename, but there seems to be consensus that the definition may need to be tightened up, or perhaps an alternate rename might be appropriate. So this is without prejudice to other proposals or changes being made | October 7 |
| Viking Age people | not renamed. (non-admin closure) | October 27 |
| Category:Viscounts of Marseille | merge | October 20 |
| War of the Sicilian Vespers | rename and populate as nominated (no objections) | October 19 |
| Category:Watercolours | rename. I will also put a category redirect on Category:Watercolour paintings | October 17 |
| Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Naval Historical Center | delete. Just a note that there are a ton of these types of categories in Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from public domain works of the United States Government. | October 16 |
| Category:Wikipedia articles that use Cockney Rhyming Slang | delete | October 18 |
| Category:Wikipedia files for deletion | rename Category:Wikipedia files for deletion to Category:Wikipedia files for discussion. Retain Category:Non-free content review requested until it is naturally emptied; once all of the discussions at WP:NFCR are closed and the category is thus emptied, it may be nominated for speedy deletion based on this discussion. | October 28 |
| Category:Wikipedians who are indefinitely blocked for a violation of the username policy | keep. (non-admin closure) | October 30 |
| Category:Wildgraviates | merge to Category:Counties of the Holy Roman Empire. (non-admin closure) | October 30 |
| Category:Women legislators in ltaly | speedy rename | October 27 |
| Category:Women of color | rename as nominated for now. There is consensus that the category needs to be renamed. Several other name options were discussed, so this close is without prejudice to a new nomination to rename the new category. And of course any articles aren't appropriately in the category can be removed from the category. | October 24 |
| Category:Works by actor | delete | October 2 |