| Category |
Decision |
Discussion_log
|
| Category:2 ft gauge railways |
procedural close. The nominated category has not been tagged. No prejudice against a fresh re-nomination |
December 15
|
| Category:Aaroh Group |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 21
|
| Category:Accompaniment instruments |
delete |
December 12
|
| Category:Adult entertainment |
delete. — |
December 5
|
| Category:Alaska Sports Hall of Fame |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 24
|
| Category:American progressives |
delete |
December 2
|
| Category:American social liberals and Category:American classical liberals |
delete. — |
December 2
|
| Category:Ancient lost cities and towns |
rename. – |
December 16
|
| Category:Arab–Israeli conflict media |
rename |
December 7
|
| Category:Articles in the Article Incubator |
delete. I think it's fair to say that this was a discussion that was pretty "in the weeds" of details, and it's kind of amazing that we had four editors participate. The fact that there was only one editor that objected, combined with the result here, in part suggests to me that there is a rough consensus for deletion. (However, this is not to suggest that all I did was "!vote count" in closing this discussion. I found the arguments advanced in favour of deletion far more convincing and persuasive.) For what it's worth, I have never seen a consensus anywhere that has resulted in empty categories no longer in use being retained for historical purposes. In this regard, categories seem not to be treated the same way as some other historical content |
December 4
|
| Category:Articles that mention a specific track gauge |
delete. I think that in the discussion it was quite evident to everyone that participated that these categories are hidden tracking/administrative categories. However, the consensus I see is that there is no administrative benefit to them that is not otherwise achieved through regular categories. (One user dissented – I don't mean to suggest that there was unanimity.) |
December 6
|
| Category:Atlanta Chiefs (NPSL) players |
merge |
December 19
|
| Category:Australian Marxists |
keep (non-admin closure) |
December 22
|
| Category:BBC 100 Women |
no consensus. For those who want a count, the !votes were essentially split, with 13 editors in favor of not retaining the category in its current form, and 13 editors in favor of keeping it in its current form. A solution/compromise which seems reasonable to me is one that was suggested a couple of different times amidst the discussion but was not really focused on by participants: conversion of the category to an administrative category. The most natural way of accomplishing this would be to categorize the talk pages of the articles as opposed to the main pages. That would seem to satisfy the main arguments of both sides: the utility of the grouping could be retained, and the guidelines on categorization could also be adhered to (since I agree that this designation is probably not "defining" in the guideline sense that is usually required for categorization). So perhaps a re-nomination that focuses on the compromise option would be in order, if anyone dares |
December 6
|
| Category:Behavioral and social facets of systemic risk |
delete |
December 11
|
| Category:Bethlehem Steel (NAFBL) players |
merge |
December 19
|
| Category:Breakfast restaurants |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 22
|
| Category:British Armed Forces |
do not merge. However, it sounds like there is some support for at least a partial – possibly a complete – merge in the opposite direction, so that could be proposed in a new nomination. Category:Military of the United Kingdom would need to be nominated, and it wasn't during this discussion. |
December 1
|
| Category:Capitalist books |
merge |
December 17
|
| Category:Carl Jung in fiction |
merge (non-admin closure) |
December 15
|
| Categories about Cultural depictions of certain celebrities which ought to be merged or changed |
split to Category:Cultural depictions of Mahatma Gandhi and Category:Images of Mahatma Gandhi. – |
December 16
|
| Category:Categories by nationality |
upmerge to Category:Nationality. For the record, many other-language wikipedias still have this layer.[1] It appears that Category:People by nationality was formerly treated as a non-diffusing category of this one, but has become a diffusing category of it. Now that culture has gone to "by country" (CFD 2016 Oct 118), this is no longer needed. – |
December 15
|
| Category:Chicago Stingers players |
merge (non-admin closure) |
December 19
|
| Category:Companies based in Middlesex |
speedied as empty category |
December 10
|
| Category:Conductors (music) by nationality |
withdrawn |
December 14
|
| Category:Conversion of non-Muslim places of worship into mosques |
rename to Category:Places of worship converted into mosques |
December 14
|
| Category:Cut (cards) |
merge |
December 8
|
| Category:Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit |
Delete |
December 8
|
| Category:Democratic Party (United States) presidential debates, 2016 |
delete |
December 18
|
| Category:Distributions with conjugate priors |
merge |
December 7
|
| Category:Economics aphorisms |
rename |
December 16
|
| Category:Economics of uncertainty |
withdrawn (non-admin closure) |
December 22
|
| Category:Educational Details |
speedied as empty category |
December 10
|
| Category:Educational organizations based in Canada |
no consensus. But as noted, whatever is done it should probably be done uniformly at least across Category:Educational organizations by country, which is not consistently one way or the other. (My personal opinion is that requiring "based in" for any organization-by-country category is a little bit pedantic. There might be a consensus for eliminating that more broadly, but it would require a truly broad nomination.) |
December 10
|
| Category:Egyptian films about Arab–Israeli conflict |
dual upmerge (non-admin closure) |
December 6
|
| Category:Egyptian people of Silesian descent |
speedied as empty category |
December 10
|
| Category:English people of Tajik descent |
merge |
December 13
|
| Category:English people of Uzbekistani descent |
merge. (Though it's empty after the close of the discussion immediately below, so there's nothing to actually merge.) |
December 13
|
| Category:English politicians of South Asian descent |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 13
|
| Category:English religion journalists |
delete. Merge contents (single article) to Category:Religion journalists and Category:English journalists |
December 13
|
| Category:English savateurs |
delete; merge contents (single article) to Category:English martial artists and Category:Savateurs |
December 13
|
| Category:English scholars of Pakistan studies |
merge |
December 13
|
| Category:Entrenchments in Malta |
no consensus. The opinions in favour of "keep" would be more convincing if there was actually more existing content rather than just potential for content |
December 13
|
| Category:Estates in Powys |
merge to Category:Country houses in Powys (non-admin closure) |
December 13
|
| Category:Estimation for specific distributions |
merge |
December 7
|
| Category:Estimation for specific parameters |
merge |
December 7
|
| Category:Female archers by nationality |
merge (non-admin closure) |
December 19
|
| Category:Fictional American law enforcement agents |
rename (non-admin closure) |
December 13
|
| Category:Fictional molecular physicists |
merge (non-admin closure) |
December 17
|
| Category:Fictional people by locality in the United Kingdom |
rename (non-admin closure) |
December 10
|
| Category:Fictional Soviet people |
keep (non-admin closure) |
December 19
|
| Category:Films distributed via Indie Screenings |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 15
|
| Category:Films set in Snowflake, Arizona |
merge (non-admin closure) |
December 22
|
| Category:Generalized hyperbolic distributions |
merge |
December 7
|
| Category:Ghost Ship (2002 film) |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 8
|
| Category:Green Bay Packers practice squad players |
delete. While not expressed in such terms, I think everyone who commented was in agreement that the category should not exist. But as pointed out by some, a merge would not be appropriate, which leaves us with deletion. The people are notable because they were (actual) players on other pro football teams |
December 10
|
| Category:Gugudan members |
Speedy Delete per G7 - Author requested deletion below |
December 3
|
| Category:Hi! You just looked at this pointless category! |
Hi! I just speedy deleted this pointless category! |
December 23
|
| Category:History books about mathematics |
merge |
December 10
|
| Category:History of Roman Catholicism |
rename, without prejudice to a future creation of Category:History of Catholicism as a parent category, if needed |
December 14
|
| Category:History of statistics |
rename |
December 10
|
| Category:Home automation |
do not merge |
December 1
|
| Category:Ice Bucket Challenge |
merge to parent categories (non-admin closure) |
December 1
|
| Category:IPC Athletics World Championships |
no consensus (non-admin closure) |
December 15
|
| Category:Kommunist class of cargo ships |
rename, without prejudice to a future proposal to delete/merge it as proposed by a user below |
December 3
|
| Category:Long-memory processes |
merge |
December 3
|
| Category:Male CEOs |
delete |
December 12
|
| Category:Mayors of Burnaby |
merge (non-admin closure) |
December 16
|
| Category:Mayors of Kamloops |
merge (non-admin closure) |
December 16
|
| Category:Mayors of Langley, British Columbia (city) |
merge (non-admin closure) |
December 11
|
| Category:Mayors of Yorba Linda, California |
dual upmerge (non-admin closure) |
December 6
|
| Minnesota United FC |
rename |
December 12
|
| Category:Minsk cinemas |
procedural close, nominated category no longer exists |
December 19
|
| Category:Modular Recordings discography |
move back subcategories and delete category (non-admin closure) |
December 14
|
| Category:Monterey Bay Jaguars players |
merge |
December 19
|
| Category:Musicians in popular culture |
rename |
December 13
|
| Category:Musicians killed in the Mexican Drug War |
dual upmerge (non-admin closure) |
December 23
|
| Category:Names inscribed on the Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great |
delete |
December 15
|
| Category:Noise |
split as proposed. As noted, in uncertain cases individual articles could be double categorized in both |
December 8
|
| Category:Northward flowing rivers |
delete |
December 8
|
| Category:Organizations that support husband-wife marriage |
delete |
December 9
|
| Category:People associated with Pink Floyd |
delete |
December 13
|
| Category:People paid by Big Pharma to schill |
delete, the same applying to Category:Wikipedians paid by Big Pharma to schill. However, this does not extend to other categories in Category:Idiosyncratic Wikipedians as these were not nominated. And this does not preclude populating the redlinked categories as there is no overall consensus on this matter |
December 22
|
| Category:Person details |
speedied as empty category |
December 10
|
| Category:Political party flagbearers (Ghana) |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 4
|
| Category:Proto-step |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 3
|
| Category:Rachel Platten |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 13
|
| Category:Recipients of the Papua New Guinea Independence Medal |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 24
|
| Category:Recipients of the SS-Ehrenring |
delete |
December 15
|
| Category:Recipients of the Sword of Honour of the Reichsführer-SS |
delete |
December 15
|
| Category:Religious schools in Thailand |
delete. If, in the future, anything other than Category:Christian schools in Thailand exists for either category, perhaps the issue could be revisited. But at this stage, those in favour of deletion have the stronger arguments here |
December 6
|
| Category:Researchers in stochastics |
merge. |
December 15
|
| Category:Revolutionary martyrs |
delete |
December 9
|
| Category:Roman fortifications in Snowdonia |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 18
|
| Category:Sega Genesis 4 player games |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 8
|
| Category:Sequel films by country |
withdrawn |
December 22
|
| Category:Sigmund Freud in fiction |
merge. – |
December 14
|
| Category:Starz Entertainment Group |
 Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 30#Category:Starz Entertainment Group. — |
December 9
|
| Category:Step metal |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 3
|
| subcats of Category:Firefighting in fiction |
rename |
December 7
|
| Category:Taxoboxes with an invalid color |
Speedy delete as a category populated by a retargeted template (CSD G8) |
December 2
|
| Category:Tiger Street Football 2014 participators |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 19
|
| Category:Time series databases |
merge |
December 3
|
| Category:Tourist attractions in Jamshedpur |
merge/delete without prejudice to recreate when more content is available (non-admin closure) |
December 22
|
| Category:Trump administration cabinet members |
keep. (Typically in such circumstances, I would recommend filing this category's technically premature creation under "eager-beaverism" and holding one's breath for another month.) |
December 7
|
| Category:Uzbekistani emigrants to England |
delete; merge contents to Category:Uzbekistani emigrants to the United Kingdom |
December 13
|
| Category:Vasectomees |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 6
|
| Category:Warner Bros. Animation animated films |
do not rename. There may be a case for merging Category:Warner Bros. Animation animated films to Category:Warner Bros. animated films or vice versa, but this hasn't been discussed thoroughly (non-admin closure) |
December 7
|
| Category:Wikipedians who don't GAF |
delete |
December 16
|
| Category:Women award winners |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 7
|
| Category:Women politicians |
delete; merge contents to Category:Women in politics, without prejudice to a future nomination to rename Category:Women in politics to Category:Women politicians. There was support for the latter change, but Category:Women in politics was not tagged and nominated as part of this discussion. For now, we can at least merge the contents of both categories together, since there was consensus that only one should exist |
December 11
|
| Category:Women Pulitzer Prize winners |
delete (non-admin closure) |
December 15
|
