Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2016 March index
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| 1 and 2 article "Political bosses by state" categories | merge | March 13 |
| 1 article Science Fiction Award by Country subcategories | upmerge | March 16 |
| Category:1747 establishments in Pakistan | merge | March 1 |
| 1899 establishments in Albania | no consensus. – | March 26 |
| Category:1912 establishments in Saint Helena | change parent of this category to Category:Establishments in Saint Helena and Dependencies by year. The rename suggested in the nomination would go against precedent by using an anachronistic name. The main objection the the nominated category seems to be that it has spawned an unnecessary superstructure of parent categories. I will merge and restructure the parents so that there is only one hierarchy for establishments, e.g. Category:20th-century establishments in Saint Helena and Dependencies can include the years before 1922 when St Helena had no dependencies. As there are not yet any Establishments categories beyond 2009, the establishments categories can be left at the older "…and Dependencies" name for now, rather than the current "Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha" | March 12 |
| Category:2016 Brussels bombings | keep. – | March 23 |
| Category:2016 establishments in Portland, Oregon | no consensus | March 14 |
| Category:6th-century Roman usurpers | merge to Category:6th-century Romans. Everyone agrees that this category is flawed as-is, but there's no consensus to merge into some late Roman category. (non-admin closure) ~ | March 28 |
| Category:Aarakocra | speedy delete, blatant copyvio of [1] | March 1 |
| Category:Acts of piracy | keep. – | March 20 |
| Category:Americans promising to leave the country if Trump is elected | snow delete, an obviously inappropriate category with no chance of being kept | March 5 |
| Category:Animal versus animal | delete both | March 19 |
| Category:Antiochian Greek Christians | keep. – | March 1 |
| Category:Aquatics competitions in Spain | merge | March 13 |
| Category:Arab fascists | delete | March 12 |
| Category:Archetypes (psychology) | rename. (non-admin closure) | March 19 |
| Category:Argentine sports competitors | rename to Category:Argentine competitors by sports event. — | March 24 |
| Category:Articles lacking sources from 07-03-2016 | speedily deleted, clearly created in error. – | March 30 |
| Category:Bahria College Karachi NORE 1 alumni | rename to Category:Bahria College Karachi alumni. – | March 17 |
| Category:BDSers | delete. At closure, it had already been speedily deleted as a re-creation of Category:People who boycott Israel. | March 21 |
| Category:Bessarabian Romanians | delete. – | March 2 |
| Category:Big cats of India | rename | March 14 |
| Category:Bishops appointed by Clement XI | merge, per author's consent | March 31 |
| Category:BPHC | rename | March 4 |
| Category:Branches of sociology (interdisciplinary) | rename | March 12 |
| Category:Bugatti Chiron | speedy close, an article (disambiguation page) was nominated here | March 4 |
| Category:Calendar dates | delete | March 25 |
| Category:Cambridge college boat clubs | rename | March 27 |
| Category:Cargo Airline Association | delete | March 31 |
| Category:Castles in Beira Alta District | delete | March 31 |
| Category:Categories by field | keep | March 12 |
| Categories: Synchronized swimming categories for Brazil, China | rename China, no consensus on Brazil. – | March 20 |
| Category:Centuries in Mandatory Palestine | delete | March 5 |
| Category:Channelling | rename to Category:Mediumship. – | March 30 |
| Category:Childhood belief characters | delete | March 7 |
| Category:Christianity and the Greco-Roman world | merge. – | March 26 |
| Classical antiquity | rename as nominated, except the first one to Category:Classical antiquity in modern art and culture | March 27 |
| Category:Classical Latin novelists | no consensus yet, in contrast to deletion of one parent at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_March_26#Category:Roman-era_novelists. Note that the category nominated here remains a grand-child of Category:Ancient Roman writers via Classical Latin-language writers, and consistency with some of the others there might assist in gaining future consensus. – | March 29 |
| Category:Comedy and humor by nationality | split as per nom with no decision on which category should be the parent (if any). There is no consensus on that issue, but there is clear consensus that this is worth splitting. (non-admin closure) ~ | March 31 |
| Category:Crime in Hyderabad, India | no consensus, with the result that the nominated categories be kept, and the parent Category:Hyderabad (which was speedily renamed on 17 March, see [2]) revert to Category:Hyderabad, India. For the record, a few days before that, the Pakistan one Category:Hyderabad, Sindh was at Category:Hyderabad (see [3]), but that name should become a category disambguation page. There was also Category:Hyderabad, Pakistan which was emptied and deleted in April, which I will reinstate as a redirect. – | March 17 |
| Category:Current far-right political parties in Australia | delete | March 27 |
| Category:Defunct Swedish bandy competitions | merge to the parent categories | March 5 |
| Category:Defunct villages | rename. (non-admin closure) | March 18 |
| Category:Delaware Fighting Blue Hens basketball venues | delete | March 24 |
| Category:Depopulated places in the Land of Israel | merge and rename. – | March 16 |
| Category:DJ Ritendra songs | delete. (non-admin closure) SST | March 26 |
| Category:Educational organisations in Germany | keep the first 7 listed, and rename: | March 13 |
| Category:Educationists | rename as specified in nom. (non-admin closure) ~ | March 28 |
| Category:Encyclopedism | no consensus; category now contains History of the Encyclopædia Britannica and World Brain as well as the two primary articles mentioned below, so seems more worthwhile than when some of the comments below were made. – | March 15 |
| Category:Establishments in East Germany by century | delete. (non-admin closure) | March 16 |
| Establishments in Penang | rename/delete as specified | March 12 |
| Category:Establishments in Shawnee Territory | merge per revised nomination, with no objection to creation of Category:Shawnee populated places. – | March 17 |
| Category:Ethnoreligious groups by region | rename, with openness towards further work. – | March 23 |
| Category:Exile political parties of Bhutan | rename as nominated | March 4 |
| Category:Explosive ROF | rename as nominated. – | March 21 |
| Category:Fascism by nation | rename | March 20 |
| Festivals on the Isle of Man | Rename/Upmerge all 3 Subcategories | March 22 |
| Category:Fictional antiheroes | delete. (non-admin closure) | March 15 |
| Category:Fictional psychopaths | delete. I note that the parent Category:Psychopathy in fiction currently includes some characters as well, which might need purging; the list Fictional portrayals of psychopaths would be the better place to collect verifiable instances. – | March 16 |
| Category:Fields of application of statistics | rename | March 12 |
| Category:Films about healthcare | rename (ie, move back) | March 29 |
| Category:Fires beginning October 8, 1871 | merge | March 30 |
| Category:Fitna of al-Andalus | 'keep the first, merge the second to it. – | March 21 |
| Category:Five Towns, New York | rename, given 10:5 support with a range of arguments on both sides. If this was a formal location e.g. city or county, I would have looked for a stronger consensus, as there certainly used to be a US pattern to include the state except for the most well-known cases; but as this is an informal grouping, and there are no other pages using the name as a title (as opposed to in the title, pace DuncanHill), the majority win this one. – | March 4 |
| Category:Former MSNBC program hosts | create new Category:MSNBC program hosts and merge both into it | March 2 |
| Category:General elections to Dáil Éireann | merge back to Category:General elections in the Republic of Ireland | March 3 |
| Category:Gilbert and Sullivan performers | no consensus, with openness towards a fresh nomination for purging and renaming. – | March 23 |
| Category:Gold Awards | delete | March 28 |
| Category:Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail | delete | March 1 |
| Category:Greco-Roman world | merge with some added parent categories as indicated in the discussion. There are arguments for and against, but the arguments that these categories significantly overlap were strongest and unrefuted. There is no prejudice against further nominations to clean up the rest of this tree. In fact, further nominations are practically mandatory. (non-admin closure) ~ | March 26 |
| Category:Head of Punjabi Dept. Punjabi University Patiala | delete; place sole article in a new Category:Punjabi University faculty | March 17 |
| Category:Helsingin Energia | rename. – | March 10 |
| Category:Historical Places | delete | March 2 |
| Category:History of the Sultanate of Ifat | merge | March 10 |
| Category:Human blood | relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_April_27#Category:Human_blood. – | March 6 |
| Identical British awards issued multiple times to the same person | merge | March 20 |
| Category:Indian businesspeople from Andhra Pradesh | rename (the target did not exist at the time of closing) | March 1 |
| Category:Indian businesspeople from Gujarat | merge. Note that the category was empty while closing this discussion, so there isn´t really anything to merge | March 19 |
| Category:Indian businesspeople from Kerala | rename (the target did not exist at the time of closing) | March 1 |
| Category:Indian businesspeople from Maharashtra | merge | March 19 |
| Category:Inspired by Ramana Maharshi | selectively merge then delete. – | March 30 |
| Category:Instrumental and vocal genres | no consensus for deletion or merging, nor for keeping the present combined category, so rename per nomination, moving sub-cat Category:Vocal music up into Category:Music genres. – | March 30 |
| Category:International societies | merge | March 29 |
| International swimming competitions hosted by the Netherlands | rename. – | March 16 |
| Category:Internet Service Provider | redirected as potentially plausible user error | March 28 |
| Category:Ivy League men's basketball series records | delete. Information wanted to be added can be added in article space; doesn't involve categorization. | March 8 |
| Category:Jain organizations | rename | March 14 |
| Category:Japanese Jews | keep. – | March 20 |
| Category:Jewish activists | keep. (non-admin closure) | March 13 |
| Category:Kentucky colonels | listify where supported by a citation, and delete. – | March 22 |
| Category:Kingdom of Tahiti | merge. – | March 12 |
| Category:Late Roman-era Macedonians | merge. – | March 25 |
| Category:Late-Roman-era eunuchs | merge | March 25 |
| Category:Leaders of the opposition (Syria) | rename. – | March 6 |
| Category:Lebanese Internet Service Provider | delete | March 28 |
| Category:Led Zeppelin album track list templates | delete | March 29 |
| Category:Liam Lynch (musician) songs | keep. This has now been discussed twice in the past month (previous discussion here). I suggest we accept the result for now and give it a rest for a period of time. | March 11 |
| Category:Link roads that can be accessed by red public minibuses | delete | March 8 |
| Category:Long track | rename | March 31 |
| Category:Long-term construction contracts revenue recognition | merge | March 13 |
| Category:LSU Lady Tigers soccer | rename | March 20 |
| Category:Macau stubs subcats | upmerge | March 2 |
| Category:Mayday Parade songs | delete. WP:SMALLCAT doesn't have a cutoff for number of articles written in, but if "small" categories are not appropriate, then one article is certainly not appropriate. There are exceptions when categories are likely to expand, but this band has been active for nearly a decade. If almost all of their songs are currently non-notable and not worthy of articles, there's little chance of that spontaneously changing in the future. (non-admin closure) ~ | March 30 |
| Category:Mayors of Cranford, New Jersey | dual upmerge | March 31 |
| Category:Mayors of Johnstown, Pennsylvania | double upmerge | March 9 |
| Category:Mayors of Joplin, Missouri | dual upmerge | March 14 |
| Category:Mayors of Milpitas, California | dual merge | March 31 |
| Category:Medieval sources | merge | March 24 |
| Category:Mediterranean, Middle East and African theatres of World War II | split to the name proposed in the nomination (per lead article), and the additional Africa category proposed in discussion. – | March 4 |
| Category:Member of telephone advisory committees India | delete. – | March 9 |
| Category:Members of professional organizations | merge to Category:Barristers and advocates by place of call and then delete. (non-admin closure) ~ | March 30 |
| Category:Members of the Order of the Silver Elephant | delete. (non-admin closure) SST | March 25 |
| Category:Meredith Brooks and Category:Stefy | delete | March 14 |
| Metro Rail (Los Angeles County) | self-withdrawal to await the results of the article rename discussion | March 16 |
| Metrolink (Southern California) | rename | March 17 |
| Metropolitan and micropolitan areas | don't merge just these five. This closure is without prejudice against a future discussion regarding merging all 50 state categories, but there is clear consensus against merging just this subset. (non-admin closure) ~ | March 31 |
| Category:Military education and training facilities in Serbia | upmerge | March 16 |
| Category:Military schools in Poland | merge to Category:Military education and training in Poland | March 16 |
| Category:Missing songwriters | speedy rename. – | March 14 |
| Category:Monarch's Way | delete | March 1 |
| Category:Multilingual Poets | delete | March 25 |
| Category:Names of Greco-Roman origin | delete. (non-admin closure) SST | March 26 |
| Category:NBC Sports Network shows | merge. – | March 11 |
| New Jersey Transit stations | rename, in the second case to Category:Proposed NJ Transit rail stations. – | March 16 |
| Category:New Zealand Crown owned entities | rename | March 12 |
| Category:Non-governmental organizations by subject | merge/rename as specified | March 14 |
| Category:Non-laugh track sitcoms | delete; a list has now been created | March 21 |
| Category:Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie | rename. (non-admin closure) | March 19 |
| Category:Novelists from Shanghai | merge | March 22 |
| Category:Officials of provincial-ministerial level and above born after 1960 | delete. – | March 14 |
| Category:One-eyed people | delete | March 20 |
| Category:Online companies by country | keep | March 23 |
| Category:Open source philosophy | merge to Category:free culture movement. – | March 11 |
| Category:Opposition to Islam by country or region | rename | March 25 |
| Category:Optical devices | keep | March 21 |
| Pacific Electric | no consensus. – | March 16 |
| Category:Palestinian Christian monks | rename to Category:Christian monks from Palestine. – | March 5 |
| PATH stations | no consensus. – | March 16 |
| Category:Patient | keep. There is clearly no consensus to delete. While there is quite a bit of talk of renaming, specific suggestions for an alternative name haven't been forthcoming or thoroughly discussed. A more focused discussion regarding renaming with specific options offered would be more helpful than relisting this meandering discussion. (non-admin closure) ~ | March 31 |
| People from Bessarabia Governorate | reverse merge where appropriate. – | March 26 |
| People from Moldavia | Rename Category:People from Moldavia to Category:People from the Principality of Moldavia. - | March 26 |
| Category:People from Pittsboro, Indiana | merge | March 29 |
| Category:People of Levantine-Eastern Orthodox Christian descent | relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_April_23 in order to nominate sub-cats too. – | March 4 |
| Category:Perpetrators of the 2016 Brussels bombings | keep. Some of the "delete" opinions were justified on the basis that the category was not populated, and these no longer carry weight as there are currently 5 articles in the category (Mohamed Abrini, Ibrahim El Bakraoui, Khalid El Bakraoui, Osama Krayem, Najim Laachraoui). – | March 25 |
| Category:Perpetrators of the November 2015 Paris attacks | merge the two articles only (not the redirects) to Category:November 2015 Paris attacks | March 26 |
| Category:Persecution of pagans | merge | March 25 |
| Category:Philippine drama | rename | March 19 |
| Category:Philosophy by field | rename | March 12 |
| Category:Physician | speedy rename; reverting to long-standing status quo ante | March 20 |
| Category:Politicians convicted of sex offences | keep. (non-admin closure) | March 14 |
| Category:Populist parties in the United States | delete. Note there are similar categories in other countries that might be nominated as well | March 14 |
| Category:Prehistory in fiction | merge and rename to Category:Fiction set in prehistory. – | March 7 |
| Category:President's Certificate of Merit recipients | delete | March 11 |
| Category:Presidents of the Club of Madrid | delete. The current and former president who were in this category are both mentioned in the text of the article | March 30 |
| Category:Private armies | no consensus. The category's function seems to have been improved during the discussion. – | March 16 |
| Category:Protected images | rename to Category:Wikipedia fully-protected files (to be most consistent with others). – | March 9 |
| Category:Publications and organizations using Oxford spelling | delete | March 7 |
| Category:Rareware | rename | March 4 |
| Category:Real Monarchs SLC players | rename. (non-admin closure) | March 4 |
| Category:Recipients of the Médaillon Des Deux Épées | delete | March 12 |
| Category:Recipients of the Pingat Pentadbiran Awam (Tentera) | delete | March 17 |
| Category:Regional dishes of the United States | delete | March 29 |
| Category:Regions of Armenia | rename as suggested in nom. (non-admin closure) ~ | March 31 |
| Category:Republic of Ararat | merge | March 13 |
| Category:Republicans who will disavow the party if Trump is the 2016 nominee | snow delete, obviously inappropriate categories with no chance of being kept | March 5 |
| Category:Ring of Fire companies | delete. – | March 21 |
| Category:Rob Ford | keep | March 22 |
| Category:Roman-era novelists | delete, despite the lack of consensus for the sub-cat at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_March_29#Category:Classical_Latin_novelists. – | March 26 |
| Category:Royal family orders |  Relisted at 2016 JUN 15 CFD |
March 29 |
| Category:Scholars and Category:Academics | keep. – | March 12 |
| Category:Scholars by specialty or field of research | rename to Category:Scholars by subfield (the word after "by" is usually singular). – | March 12 |
| Category:Scholars from Rivers State | delete. – | March 13 |
| Category:Science and Technology in Pakistan stubs | delete. – | March 30 |
| Seasons and winter by country | delete. – | March 12 |
| Category:Seasons by country | keep Category:Winter in Canada and Category:Winter in the United States, delete other nominated categories | March 3 |
| Category:Seattle Mariners draft picks | delete. As this category (alone out of Category:Major League Baseball draft picks) contains a lot of lists, I will move those to a new Category:Lists of Seattle Mariners draft picks. – | March 30 |
| Category:Sichuanese-language films | no consensus | March 18 |
| Category:Silver Gavel Award winners | delete | March 10 |
| Category:Slave narrative publications | merge | March 11 |
| SNCF regions | delete, as that late proposal gathered a head of steam, with persuasive arguments, and there were no objections to it. Moreover, the contents all seem to be otherwise adequately categorised, so no merger is necessary. – | March 18 |
| Category:Songs about aircraft | no consensus to delete, so rename. – | March 1 |
| Category:Songs about betrayal | keep for now, without prejudice to one-by-one nominations or purging of inappropriate contents. After purging, it may be helpful to add comments on the category talk pages giving broad indications of what has been removed, or links to contribs. – | March 20 |
| Category:Songs about buttocks | no consensus. — | March 7 |
| Category:Songs about the Moon | delete. (non-admin closure) | March 19 |
| Category:South Asian cricketers who have acted in movies | delete | March 14 |
| Category:Southern Levant | merge to Category:Levant, except for articles/subcategories that are already located elsewhere within that hierarchy. Although this discussion shows mixed opinions, there is a degree of consensus that this category is overpopulated at present and overlaps too much with related categories. Those who preferred to keep it have not addressed that problem, which is the core of the nominator's rationale. Since "Southern Levant" is used in academia (apparently for political neutrality), then rather than delete or redirect the category page I will make it a disambiguation page between Category:Levant, Category:History of the Levant, Category:Land of Israel and Category:Palestine (region). As for the metallurgy article, I will move this to Category:Levant since it is about prehistory, not the Ancient period. – | March 16 |
| Category:Sports tactics | merge per nomination. Although there has not been much participation here, given the overlap the contents do need to be merged because of the overlap. This close is without prejudice to further discussions on renaming or even a better split if such could be justified. – | March 3 |
| Category:Spy-Fi films | delete. Note that the category was already empty while closing the discussion | March 13 |
| States of Nigeria | keep. Four editors (whether they !voted or not) had a preference for all pages/categories to be at StateName State, and another recorded a formal Oppose at least for the ambiguous ones; only two would give priority to making the categories match the article names. Therefore I do find a consensus to "keep", rather than the alternative outcome "no consensus". – | March 14 |
| Category:Steam games | Speedy deleted per G4 by RHaworth (NAC) | March 8 |
| Category:Style guideline templates | rename to Category:Wikipedia style templates. – | March 16 |
| Category:Supervedettes | delete | March 2 |
| Category:Syrian conflict peace efforts | rename | March 7 |
| Category:Syrian Opposition | keep. – | March 6 |
| Category:Takehold Records artists | delete; move contents to Category:Tooth and Nail Records artists | March 18 |
| Category:Template shortcuts | no consensus. – | March 20 |
| Template:Bistrița-Năsăud-geo-stub | rename | March 6 |
| Category:Tennis people from Los Angeles | merge as stated and also to Category:Tennis people from California, Category:Tennis people from Queensland, nothing for London, Category:Tennis people from New South Wales and Category:Tennis people from Victoria (Australia) respectively. – | March 15 |
| Category:Terrebonne High School alumni | keep | March 27 |
| Category:The Bund (TV series) | no consensus. — | March 24 |
| Category:The Sun Conference football | keep for now | March 6 |
| Theatres in Italy by city | merge | March 18 |
| Category:Theatres where Gilbert or Sullivan works premiered | delete | March 23 |
| Category:Toseiha | delete | March 1 |
| Traffic accident categories | rename to " incidents". – | March 6 |
| Category:Turkish airstrikes during the Syrian Civil War | upmerge and delete. (non-admin closure) ~ | March 22 |
| Category:Twin Peaks templates | rename, in the second case to Category:House (TV series) user templates. – | March 23 |
| Category:Ukrainian Declaration of Independence | rename to Category:Ukrainian declarations of independence | March 23 |
| Category:Uninhabited villages | delete, merging contents to Category:Former villages | March 18 |
| Category:United Kingdom European Union membership referendum | rename. – | March 14 |
| Category:University of Brasília students | delete | March 15 |
| Urdu1 series | rename and merge as nominated | March 1 |
| UTV (TV channel) | rename. – | March 1 |
| Category:Version 0.7 articles by quality | delete | March 19 |
| Versus (TV channel) | merge | March 1 |
| Category:Video games featuring female antagonists | keep. – | March 4 |
| Category:Water ice | keep. – | March 18 |
| Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Emmanuel College, Cambridge | keep | March 3 |
| Wikipedians by edit count | delete | March 25 |
| Category:William Mitchell College of Law | rename top category, no consensus on alumni. If they are re-nominated, editors nominating/commenting would do well to give examples of precedents. – | March 9 |
| Category:WKU Hilltoppers football navigational boxes | rename. – | March 20 |
| Category:Women's sports in Sweden | merge Category:Women's sport in Sweden to Category:Women's sports in Sweden. There is consensus to merge, there is no consensus about whether or not to include the plural 's' in the name. A new nomination for multiple countries simultaneously in order to harmonize the spelling within the tree would be welcome | March 20 |
| Category:Word Ways people | keep and purge. @JzG/help, Psychonaut, RevelationDirect, and Peterkingiron: I'll leave the actual purging to you as the contributors to this discussion | March 27 |
| Category:Word Ways | delete. (non-admin closure) SST | March 25 |
| Category:World War II political leaders | no consensus. In addition to the initial nomination to rename, deletion was proposed and alternative rename/splits were proposed. A re-nomination that focuses on one of these proposals should be allowed. | March 28 |
| Category:World War II sites in the Isle of Man, Category:Military locations of the Isle of Man, Category:Military of the Isle of Man | rename Category:World War II sites in the Isle of Man to Category:Internment camps in the Isle of Man (changed "on" to "in" per this discussion), and delete the two other categories | March 25 |
| Category:Yazz | delete | March 24 |
| Category:Zhiqing | rename | March 3 |