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Category Decision Discussion_log
1 article University categories delete. – September 3
Category:1652 establishments in the Cape Colony delete some, keep others per Marcocapelle. – September 11
Category:1722 establishments in Belgium rename all. – September 5
Category:17th century in the English colonial empire rename September 2
Category:17th century in the Netherlands merge. — September 30
Category:1807 disestablishments in the Holy Roman Empire merge as proposed. If users feel to move the articles to the "in Germany" subcategories that might exist, they could do so, and then we could see what happens next in this long-running saga. September 5
Category:1866 establishments in British Burma merge. — September 9
Category:18th century in the Netherlands merge September 8
Category:1912 establishments in French Morocco merge. — September 4
Category:1977 in Moldova rename. – September 5
Category:1978 establishments in Namibia merge/rename. – September 20
Category:1982 comic debuts merge September 25
Category:1985 Livingston Open no consensus September 6
A few more award categories keep, though the rationales were split. Some wanted to keep on the merits, others wanted to keep and close the discussion because they thought that the nomination was simply attempting to make a WP:POINT September 2
Category:Abandoned military aircraft projects of France merge September 11
Category:Abstract Figurative delete. Not really eligible for a speedy deletion since the category is not empty, but since there has been no objection after several weeks ... September 17
Category:Advent churches delete September 3
Category:Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. characters delete September 17
Category:Air Costa Rica delete September 22
Category:Akita delete September 22
Category:Akiva Goldsman delete September 22
Category:Alam family delete September 13
Category:Albums certified by Musiikkituottajat delete September 16
Category:Algae genera rename September 30
Category:Ali Zafar albums keep. If the sole article is ever deleted and the category is thereby emptied, the category can be deleted September 29
Category:Ali Zafar delete September 29
Category:Allergenic foods delete September 26
Category:American businesspeople by date rename September 23
Category:American poets of Ottoman descent delete September 10
Ancient earthquakes merge/delete as proposed. The follow-up discussion may result in further changes September 5
Category:Ancient earthquakes split into Category:1st-millennium earthquakes and Category:1st-millennium BC earthquakes. I'm leaving Mount Tai earthquake out of the scheme for now, but will leave it to the editors involved here to decide whether to nominate Category:1st-millennium BC earthquakes for a renaming to Category:1st-millennium BC and earlier earthquakes so that that one article can also be included in it. September 10
Category:Annual awards speedy delete. – September 9
Category:Arab socialist politicians  Relisted at 2015 OCT 9 CFD September 11
Category:Architects from Sicily delete (category was emptied already in favour of Category:Sicilian architects). Category:Sicilian architects was not tagged for this discussion, but it's open for someone to nominate it for renaming to Category:Architects from Sicily September 11
Category:Arrow characters delete September 30
Category:Arrowverse characters delete September 30
Category:Article in rhyme delete September 26
Category:Australian Dictionary of Biography rename September 2
Category:Australian Olympic medal winning rowers merge to Category:Olympic medalists in rowing and Category:Olympic medalists for Australia (the latter of which really means merging into the appropriate subcategory: Category:Olympic gold medalists for Australia, Category:Olympic silver medalists for Australia, or Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Australia)‎. The articles appear to already be in Category:Olympic rowers of Australia. September 7
Category:Black Women Oral History Project delete September 1
Category:Bligh Cabinet delete September 1
Category:Boardwalk Hall Auditorium Organ merge September 6
Category:British Scrabble players keep. For the sake of consistency, any proposals to rename the category should be proposed/considered for Category:Scrabble players and all of its by-nationality subcategories. Alternatively, explanatory headers can be added. (I'm not sure this is a unique issue, however—we have Category:British swimmers, but I don't think anyone assumes that any British person who swims recreationally should go in the category. Categories for people do (or are at least supposed to) come with a built-in understanding that this characteristic is defining for the individuals included.) September 6
Category:Building societies of Scotland merge September 14
Category:Burgundian Circle withdrawn September 6
Category:Caitlyn Jenner delete and merge contents to Category:Jenner family. Can be re-created (and potentially reconsidered at CFD) if it becomes possible to populate the category with more than the current four articles and four non-free files (images) September 18
Category:Carboxamides do not merge. It sounds like there is a hesitation to completely merge the two even though the terms are often informally used interchangeably. September 9
Cardiovascular disease deaths delete September 15
Cardiovascular disease deaths delete September 16
Cardiovascular disease deaths delete September 4
Category British MPs by political party rename September 9
Category:Centrally funded Technical Institutions other than IITs and NITs in India delete. If anyone wants to attempt a categorization of these institutions based on a positive rather than a negative characteristic, it could be done. September 22
Centuries in Belgium rename. — September 13
Category:Certified singles administrative close. It looks like this discussion was started mainly to get advice on how to proceed, and the nominator has commenced nominations to delete subcategories, so I'm assuming this can be closed now. September 1
Category:Christian College Consortium delete September 15
Christopher Wren buildings by location Rename the London category, upmerge the others into Category:Christopher Wren buildings September 1
Category:Churches by height delete September 2
Category:Coats of arms of London Boroughs rename September 3
Category:Coats of arms of Nigeria rename, without prejudice for a discussion on the broader issue mentioned by the IP. (NAC) September 6
Category:College rock songs delete September 24
Category:Commonwealth Games sports delete. The IP's suggestion is a good one; however, the category only contains half a dozen articles and categories, all of which are about current Commonwealth Games sports. Someone could create a list of all sports that have ever been at the Commonwealth Games, but this category doesn't really provide much of a basis for doing so. September 1
Category:Concepts by field no consensus (that I can see). But there might be a vague agreement here that things need to be cleaned up and changed in some ways September 3
Category:Cornish-speaking people no consensus. — September 4
Category:Council of Independent Colleges delete September 1
Category:County Commissioners of Penobscot County, Maine merge September 11
Category:Cultural history of Russia no consensus September 24
Deletion review regarding awards categories deletion review has been closed. The result was "relist". September 4
Category:Destroyed landmarks in Belgium delete (category has remained empty) September 13
Diseases with eradication efforts merge both into a new Category:Infectious diseases with eradication efforts. If users want to nominate this new category for a new/better name, it's OK to do so September 18
Category:Districts of Kristiansand merge Category:Districts of Kristiansand to Category:Boroughs of Kristiansand, without prejudice to further nominations for changes September 16
Category:Dry places in New Jersey rename to to Category:Places in New Jersey that prohibit the sale of alcohol. – September 16
Category:Dukes of Baden delete September 20
Category:Dukes of Lothier delete September 13
Category:Dutch artists (before 1830) Upmerge both September 12
Category:Dutch Golden Age merge subcategories/delete category as nominated September 11
Category:Electorate of the Palatinate delete September 19
Category:Electors of Baden  Relisted at 2015 OCT 2 CFD. September 20
Electors of the Palatinate merge Category:Electoral Princes of the Palatinate to Category:Electors of the Palatinate; other proposal withdrawn. It sounds like further work on the categorization is possible. September 19
Category:English republicans no consensus, though there does seem to be agreement that the current system here is messed up. This is without prejudice to users changing the categorization for individual articles and/or proposing some other overhaul of the system. I note that the most recent consensus on the category was to "keep" it September 27
Category:Eradicable diseases merge into the new Category:Infectious diseases with eradication efforts, which was a result of the discussion immediately above. A post-merging cleanup might be required, because a disease which someone might have categorized as eradicable is not necessarily properly categorized as an infectious disease with an eradication effort September 18
Category:European Champions by nationality rename for now. If someone wants to nominate these for deletion, please do so as it sounds like there is some support for this September 27
European Parliament constituencies no consensus. It's unclear what the goal is here as the nominator is for creation of categories (based on I presume a split of something else). It seems as though two editors in the end (@Fayenatic london and Peterkingiron:) agreed on something but I'm not seeing a full consensus for that anywhere here and I suggest that a new CFD with a more clear proposal be conducted instead to describe the intended split September 24
Category:FA Cup Final linesmen delete September 27
Category:Fashion designers for females merge to Category:Fashion designers. – September 26
Category:Fashion designers for kids merge to Category:Fashion designers. – September 26
Category:Fashion designers for males merge to Category:Fashion designers. – September 26
Category:Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland presidents do not rename September 12
Category:Fictional characters who can mimic the characteristics of others merge September 12
Category:Fictional victims of child abuse do not rename; this is without prejudice to a nomination for deletion September 13
Category:Field Marshal of the Philippine Commonwealth Army Deleted as G5 September 9
Category:Filipino Military Heroes of the Philippine Commonwealth Army Deleted as G5 September 9
Category:Filmed deaths to do with law enforcement officers delete September 26
Category:Food by ingredient rename Category:Dishes by main ingredient to Category:Prepared foods by main ingredient and also merge Category:Food by ingredient into that new category. No consensus for now on Category:Breads by ingredient, Category:Seeded breads, and Category:Sesame seed breads, but they can be nominated again, if desired, for a more focused discussion on them. September 17
Category:Food grains rename September 30
Category:Foods producing flatulence delete September 26
Category:Former bunraku theatres merge September 8
Category:Former Cleveland Companies rename. – September 26
Category:Forts in Thrissur district merge (to all parent categories). September 28
Category:Four species no consensus on deletion, therefore rename. There is no Jewish ritual called "Four Species", therefore rename to Category:Four species (Sukkot) which matches parent category:Sukkot. – September 30
Category:Fragaria (aka Strawberries) merge Category:Fragaria species to Category:Fragaria; users free to create a Category:Strawberries subcategory September 13
Category:Fred Hampton delete September 7
Grammarians categories September 17
Category:Harivamsa withdrawn September 14
Category:High Frame Rate films delete September 2
Category:Hiking and tramping tracks in New Zealand keep. — September 22
Historical people merge September 23
History of Dutch Brazil merge/delete September 18
Category:History of the Batavian Republic merge September 6
Category:History of the Electoral Palatinate rename to Category:History of the Palatinate (region) September 19
Category:History of Westphalia merge September 20
Category:Honorary Chaplains to the King merge. – September 21
Category:I-Taukei Fijian people by religion administrative close: nomination re-structured and now listed here September 25
Category:I-Taukei Fijian people by religion merge September 26
Category:ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers by year delete, though there is also consensus that list articles would be appropriate September 2
Category:Images replacing placeholders delete September 1
Category:Imperial valleys delete September 19
Category:Important Geological Sites delete September 23
Category:Indian classical dancers rename to Category:Performers of Indian classical dance. Category:Indian performers of Indian classical dance could be created as a subcategory, if users think this is a good idea. Note that this nomination did not deal with one of the subcategories, Category:Indian female classical dancers which presumably could be nominated to be named Category:Female performers of Indian classical dance or similar. There is also a Category:Indian classical choreographers‎. September 7
Category:Indian folk fashion designers delete (sole article is category was already in Category:Indian fashion designers) September 26
Category:Interquel films merge to Category:Sequel films September 22
Introductions by year and Introductions by century do not merge. However, editors seem to be open to some adjustments to the names and what are included in the categories September 18
ISIL members by nationality rename Iraq category, upmerge others to Category:Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members. Consequently, upmerge Category:Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant members by nationality too. – September 7
Category:JogiAsad delete. – September 19
Category:Kenyan television programmes keep. – September 26
Category:Kidnapped writers delete September 29
Category:Korean-language singers of South Korea merge September 9
Category:Leaders in various Latter Day Saint denominations merge. — September 17
Category:Lebanese communities outside of Lebanon rename for now, without prejudice to a nomination for a different name. Purging is also OK as needed. September 15
Category:Lebanese fascists delete September 12
Category:LGBT places delete, with the contents being upmerged to Category:LGBT. September 11
Category:LGBT-related anime and manga rename to Category:LGBT-themed anime and manga. September 8
Category:Likes engineers more than Scientists delete September 10
Category:List of Manhattan Project women delete. The articles appear to all be categorized in Category:Manhattan Project people and an appropriate subcategory of Category:Women scientists. September 23
Category:Lists of buildings and structures in Comoros rename; brings entire category tree into same format, so in a sense, this is an "uncontroversial" C2B/C2C change September 2
Category:Lithuanian Youtube Personalities delete (category was still empty at close) September 13
Category:Long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom keep. — September 22
Category:Long-distance trails in the Republic of Ireland keep. — September 22
Category:Main topic classifications keep September 30
Category:Malaysian deceased politicians merge (non-admin closure) September 8
Category:Male Singers by Nationality speedy merge to pre-existing and well-populated Category:Male singers by nationality September 30
Category:Marine engineers and naval architects split September 3
Category:Mathematical time and date function templates no consensus. The discussion has identified that there are some issues regarding the names of these categories and their function, but it was not wholly determined how to rectify said issues. — September 12
Category:Members of National Panhellenic Conference sororities delete September 1
Category:Metal detector Rename to Category:Metal detecting September 29
Category:Middle schools in the United States by county delete. (Category has remained empty.) September 3
Category:Middle-earth food and drink merge to Category:Middle-earth redirects September 17
Military bases and facilities to installations 2 rename September 19
Category:Military of Oceania rename September 3
Category:MM Multiple Musician delete. (Category was empty by the time of the close and the sole article had been deleted.) September 22
Category:Modern reenactment keep/withdrawn September 18
Category:MoonScoop delete September 26
Category:MundoFox network affiliates rename September 5
Category:Muslim views merge to both Category:Islamic belief and doctrine‎‎‎‎ and Category:Islam and society. — September 12
Category:Namur (city) no consensus. A precedents exists that asserts the idea that, if the title of the article for a city is the primary topic and does not include disambiguation, then the category should follow suit (cf. Category:Paris, Category:London, Category:York). However, there is also a separate precedent to keep the qualifier in the category name to avoid ambiguity where it exists (Category:Galway (city), Category:Dublin (city), Category:Limerick (city)). Both sides make valid arguments to support their respective case. These types of categories can only likely be changed on a case-by-case basis, and not a sweep of any sort; opinions are divided almost equally, and there is insufficient support to rename the categories as nominated. — September 27
Category:Neo-Shu'ubiyya nationalisms rename September 11
Category:New England Association of Schools and Colleges delete September 24
Category:New Zealand Māori academics consensus seems to generally oppose the creation of Category:Academics of Māori descent, but to generally support the creation of Category:Linguists of Māori and Category:Māori studies academics. Perhaps once the split is done we can see what's left and which articles are simply being categorized as academics of Māori descent. Despite general opposition, User:Stuartyeates does present a good argument for having a category for academics of Māori descent (and as a person living in NZ, I can substantiate that it is an intersection of actual significance under the law and in society generally). September 12
Category:Non-governmental organizations based in Afghanistan rename September 13
Category:Old Saxon language rename September 30
Category:Oompa Loompa delete September 22
Category:OpenNIC delete; merge contents to Category:Alternative Internet DNS services September 13
Category:Organizations based in the Netherlands merge/rename. The "s" spelling clearly has priority in time here. I will add category redirects to prevent the problem from developing again. September 4
Category:Organizations named after Taras Shevchenko delete. (To summarise, this deletion has left us with Category:Lists of things named after Taras Shevchenko and Category:Things named after Taras Shevchenko. A follow-up nomination for those might be appropriate here.) September 24
Category:Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency in fiction administrative close: category was deleted per G7 September 22
Category:Pan-Arabists merge September 12
Category:Pederastic films rename, without prejudice to a deletion nomination September 25
People from Congress Poland merge all. — September 12
Category:People of former Dutch colonies‎ rename September 17
Category:People of the Dutch Golden Age merge (non-admin closure) September 8
Category:People of the Wars of Liège delete; could be re-created if there are articles to add beyond just the heads of state September 19
Category:Places of interest in Kristiansand delete; the sole article in it was already categorized in a subcategory of Category:Tourist attractions in Norway. It is also in Category:Tourism in Kristiansand September 16
Category:Polish Tourist Trails rename. — September 22
Category:Presenter women wearing hijab delete September 20
Category:Prime meridians keep. — September 22
Category:Princes of Dannenberg merge September 30
Category:Province of Westphalia delete September 20
Category:Punjabi pornstars delete. (All of the articles are already in Category:Indian pornographic film actresses.) September 10
Category:Rapper speedy delete, naming convention is clear, see e.g. WP:PLURAL. – September 22
Rastafari categories both  Relisted at 2015 SEP 15 CFD September 1
Rastafari categories no consensus. These discussions have been open for nearly 12 weeks and have been listed three separate times, and we're just not getting participation. To change the names, we need a consensus to do so. September 15
Category:Recipients of the Southern Cross of Honor delete September 21
Category:Religious views split, delete, and rename as nominated. — September 12
RfC births and deaths categorization scheme RfC has closed September 13
Category:Ribat related names delete September 1
Category:River Downs delete September 1
Category:Road accidents rename. The other issues surrounding the name of either category name should be explored further, but this venue may not be it. — September 23
Roman Catholic bishops in Germany rename September 24
Category:Royal houses of the States of the Seventeen Provinces delete September 12
Category:Santhara delete September 22
Science and technology merge/rename per amended proposal September 12
Category:Scottish Gaelic-speaking people delete Category:Scottish Gaelic-speaking people after converting to a List of notable Scottish Gaelic-speaking people, which in effect "containerises" it by reducing it to the existing container category Category:Scottish Gaelic-language occupations; and merge Category:Welsh-speaking people into Category:Welsh-language occupations. Although there is a strong disagreement here, those arguing for deletion have backed their case much more strongly by references to Wikipedia guidelines, in particular WP:OCAT. In closing this discussion with a decisive outcome rather than "no consensus", I rely on the guidance at WP:CONSENSUS that Consensus is ascertained by the quality of the arguments given on the various sides of an issue, as viewed through the lens of Wikipedia policy. Editors who disagree with WP:OCAT should propose changes on its talk page; this decision is being implemented according to current guidance. Those editors wishing to keep these categories have stated that they are useful; well, a list can be more useful, by stating the significance of each person's support or activity concerning the language; and navigation from e.g. language activist biographies can be achieved by adding a link to the list. In making this close I am particularly mindful of a recent deletion per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2015 September 10#Category:Welsh-speaking sportspeople which was endorsed at DRV (Wikipedia:Deletion review/Log/2015 September 20). – September 15
Category:Seafaring songs delete September 15
Category:Shaun King race debate delete September 11
Category:Ships by shipbuilding rename for now; if users decide that there is also a need to categorize ships built by individual shipbuilders, then perhaps a broadening of the name could be considered in a new nomination. But generally, ships are built by companies, not sole individuals, even when the company is named after the founder or main guy September 18
Shipwrights do not merge, at least for now. It sounds like a clean-up is in order. After the clean-up, perhaps this could be reconsidered, depending on the contents of the categories at that time. September 18
Category:Sicilian architects rename. (In passing, I note that at this stage, the subcategories of Category:People from Sicily are not at all consistent in naming format, with many of them using "Sicilian".) September 22
Sinn Féin MPs do not rename September 20
Category:Skwxwu7mesh people rename to Category:Squamish people (individuals) September 13
Category:Sociology index delete September 10
Category:Sporty fashion designers merge to Category:Fashion designers. – September 26
Stars with Proper Names delete September 5
Category:Stradivari violas delete September 16
Category:Strawberry sodas delete September 11
Category:Suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio rename to Category:Cleveland metropolitan area. — September 12
Category:Sulawesi languages rename September 25
Category:Superlatives in sports rename to Category:Perfect scores in sports September 30
Category:Surface chemistry rename (non-admin closure) September 19
Category:Swedish banjoists delete September 17
Category:Television channels in Brazil merge. – September 26
Category:Temple Towns delete. Whether the articles should be included in Category:Hindu holy cities will be a question for each article. (Category:Hindu holy cities and Category:Holy cities were also called into question, but neither were nominated as part of this discussion.) September 5
Category:Terminology keep September 3
Category:Thai Buddhist temples no consensus. – September 1
Category:The Dark Side of the Moon delete September 6
The entire "Taverns in the United States" category tree keep all. — September 12
Category:Things named after Nnamdi Azikiwe delete September 16
Category:Three-digit Interstate Highways rename; leave a redirect. September 5
Category:Three-digit U.S. Highways merge to Category:U.S. Highway System September 28
Category:Three-digit U.S. Highways withdrawn September 18
Category:Traffic collision deaths in Liberia rename for now, though given this discussion, it's possible that it might be named back to "traffic collision ...". September 18
Tsunamis merge/delete September 5
Category:Uncategorised Australia articles merge September 10
United States elections in Georgia Keep. Concensus makes it clear again that when we have a disambiguation on the base category, the disambiguation stays in all subcats where the ambiguous term appears even if in some cases the category name is completely unambiguous otherwise September 7
Category:United States feeder judges delete September 23
Category:Useless categories delete September 22
Category:VFL/AFL players born outside of Australia delete. — September 15
Category:Visitor attractions in South Africa by province speedy rename. Further nominations like this can go straight to WP:CFDS. – September 9
Category:Welsh-speaking sportspeople delete. Those in favour of deletion have the stronger guideline-based arguments here. Incidentally, the closing of the previous discussion was not intended to be interpreted as meaning that we should take all of the articles that were previously categorised in Category:Welsh-speaking people and create subcategories by occupation. It was intended to reflect the consensus of that discussion, which was that the category should only contain subcategories for occupations in which speaking Welsh is integral to it, such as Category:Welsh-language singers or Category:Welsh-language poets. There are now quite a few subcategories of Category:Welsh-speaking people that are questionable under this standard. I apologise that the previous close did not make this crystal clear; I had thought that it would have been understood by the context of the discussion as a whole. I'm assuming here that the creation of the subcategories was an honest misinterpretation and not a back-alley attempt to get around the result of the discussion. September 10
Category:When Heaven Burns delete September 22
Category:Wikipedia bots using pywikipedia rename September 8
Category:Wikipedia events merge Category:Wikipedia events and off-line initiatives‎ into Category:Wikipedia events. — September 12
Category:Wikipedians who contribute to the Indonesia Wikipedia rename September 11
Category:Wolf 359 delete September 24
Category:Women writers for children rename (non-admin closure) September 19
Category:Writers on Muslimophobia merge to Category:Scholars of Islamophobia. Users can decide whether the articles in question are appropriately in that category September 3
Category:Writers who use less punctuation delete. If anyone wants to start a sourced list, the contents of the category at deletion was Samuel Beckett, Cynan Jones, James Joyce, Saadat Hasan Manto, and Cormac McCarthy September 17
Category:Xiangqi position merge September 18
Zeeland delete September 8