Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2017 February index
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| Category:1973 establishments in Lagos | Speedy merge (WP:C2E per creator request) | February 2 |
| Category:2017 in Angolan basketball | merge (non-admin closure) | February 1 |
| Category:Actors by city or town in Curaçao | merge (non-admin closure) | February 4 |
| Category:American Authors | Delete | February 3 |
| Category:American women bloggers | keep (non-admin closure) | February 17 |
| Category:Archaeology in Turkey | Merge. Closing as Merge as opposed to speedy delete so this sets precedent for a G4 speedy deletion in the future if it's ever re-created, as it is clear this category goes against the established naming convention. | February 2 |
| Category:Barcelona Sporting Club | no consensus (non-admin closure). It would be helpful if e.g | February 7 |
| Category:Caegory:Business career of Donald Trump | speedied as implausible redirects created by accident | February 21 |
| Category:Caritas | Rename | February 1 |
| Category:Categories by voivodehsip of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth | Merge | February 13 |
| Category:Companies based in Loveland, Colorado | upmerge (non-admin closure) | February 7 |
| Category:Companies based on São Tomé Island | merge (non-admin closure) | February 4 |
| Category:Constitution of Ireland | no consensus (non-admin closure). More specifically there is no agreement on whether or not Northern Ireland has a constitution | February 8 |
| Category:Databases in Eurasia | upmerge according to the corrected nomination | February 5 |
| Category:Dead-end pages from August 2016 | administrative close. Category has already been deleted per WP:G6 | February 4 |
| Category:Departments | withdrawn (non-admin closure) | February 2 |
| Category:Deputy Mayors of Launceston, Tasmania | delete (non-admin closure) | February 1 |
| Category:Deputy mayors of Xi'an | delete (non-admin closure) | February 1 |
| English Football League (EFL) | keep (non-admin closure) | February 20 |
| Category:Failed DYK nominations | merge in reverse of nomination and then delete redundant category, (merge and deletion were completed prior to this non-admin closure) | February 6 |
| Category:Fictional characters of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service | rename (non-admin closure) | February 16 |
| Category:Fictional characters with borderline personality disorders | delete (non-admin closure) | February 10 |
| Category:Fictional jinyiwei | delete as WP:SMALLCAT. I will upmerge the member page to parents Category:Fictional Chinese secret agents, Category:Fictional police officers & Category:Fictional nobility. – | February 16 |
| Category:Fictional massacres | delete (non-admin closure) | February 9 |
| Category:Fictional MSS agents | delete as WP:SMALLCAT. I will merge the member page to Category:Fictional Chinese secret agents and Category:Fictional government agents. – | February 16 |
| Category:Fictional Yakuza members | merge (non-admin closure) | February 4 |
| Category:FOROtv | delete (non-admin closure) | February 21 |
| Category:FOROtv | relisted, see here (non-admin closure) | February 2 |
| Category:French rugby union players from Wallis and Futuna | rename (non-admin closure) | February 7 |
| Category:Funny-sounding words | Delete | February 10 |
| Category:German-Russian culture in Nebraska | delete (non-admin closure) | February 13 |
| Category:Global finance | merge (non-admin closure) | February 13 |
| Category:Goan Brahmins | rename (non-admin closure) | February 3 |
| Hisar (city) | Rename all per nominator, with manual followup as needed | February 7 |
| Category:History of Poland (1569–1795) | merge. (non-admin closure) | February 2 |
| Category:Houses completed in 662 | dual merge without prejudice to a fresh discussion about the second merge target | February 17 |
| Category:Individual bikinis | keep (non-admin closure) | February 14 |
| Category:Inventions invented by people of English descent | delete (non-admin closure) | February 19 |
| Category:Israeli stage designers | merge (non-admin closure) | February 6 |
| Category:Jewish agricultural colonies in the Russian Empire | Keep, per the two opinions expressed and the implicit admission of the nominator. If anyone would like to close this in any other way, I would not object, being that I expressed my opinion in this discussion. (non-admin closure). — Preceding unsigned comment added by | February 9 |
| Category:Jewish American journalists | don't rename (non-admin closure) | February 9 |
| Category:Kazakh ambassador | rename to Category:Lists of ambassadors of Kazakhstan (non-admin closure) | February 14 |
| Category:Lego games | merge to Category:Lego since neither of the discussants was giving a rationale why the two articles and the subcat should disappear from the tree of Category:Lego. (non-admin closure) | February 11 |
| Category:Listed storage buildings in Copenhagen | merge (non-admin closure) | February 13 |
| Category:Los Angeles mayoral candidates, 2013 | delete (non-admin closure) | February 2 |
| Category:Mac OS software | Rename. Any subcats which haven't been remaned yet may be processed at the speedy rename process | February 12 |
| Category:Members of constitutional conventions | no consensus (non-admin closure) | February 7 |
| More shooting sports | rename (non-admin closure) | February 8 |
| Category:Music of Australia | Merge to Category:Australian music | February 13 |
| Category:Musical ensembles with no original members | Delete as trivia | February 10 |
| Category:Nigerian inventors (people) | delete, since the category is meanwhile empty (non-admin closure) | February 13 |
| Category:Norwegian 2. Divisjon players | relisted and added Category:Norwegian 3. Divisjon players to the nomination, see here (non-admin closure) | February 1 |
| Category:Organisations based in the Netherlands by place | speedy merge WP:C2E. – | February 8 |
| Category:Pages with expired Show by templates | delete as obsolete. – | February 9 |
| Category:People from Pechenga | merge to Category:People from Murmansk Oblast (non-admin closure) | February 14 |
| Category:People from Pechengsky District | merge (non-admin closure) | February 14 |
| Category:People who were shot by a U.S. Vice President | delete (non-admin closure) | February 17 |
| Category:Prosvita | Nomination Withdrawn | February 16 |
| Category:Quaker historians | rename (non-admin closure) | February 2 |
| Category:Right of asylum by country | keep. (non-admin closure) | February 9 |
| Category:Sinkholes of Canada | Delete. The lone article was the list, deleted at WP:Articles for deletion/List of sinkholes in Ottawa. That leaves only the redirects, and there is consensus not to have a category consisting solely of redirects. The consensus is that there should be no prejudice to recreating the category if and when there are any substantive (i.e. non-redirect) pages' about sinkholes in Canada | February 1 |
| Category:SIPS objects | delete (non-admin closure) | February 19 |
| Category:Sports organizations of Austria | Rename as nominated, with no prejudice against any request to change the basic scheme of the Category:Sports organisations by country subcats | February 8 |
| Category:Subdivisions of the Duchy of Warsaw | Merge | February 2 |
| Category:Suspected Wikipedia sockpuppets of BethNaught | Speedy delete (non-admin closure) | February 26 |
| Category:Telecommunications Education | delete (non-admin closure) | February 13 |
| Thai (Premier) League football | Withdrawn by nominator. The RM discussion at Talk:Thai_League_T1#Requested_move_7_February_2017 closed with a move of the head article to Thai League T1. I will now do a speedy nomination of all the relevant categories | February 7 |
| Category:Tom and Jerry of Van Beuren | speedy rename. – | February 8 |
| Category:TPOK Jazz | delete (non-admin closure) and I have added the eponymous article in the header of the subcategory as its main article | February 1 |
| Category:Track and field in the United States | merge option B without prejudice to a broader discussion about the most appropriate category names in the whole tree | February 13 |
| Category:Trump administration proposed cabinet members | delete (non-admin closure) | February 15 |
| Category:United States speculative presidential candidates, 2020 | Delete. There may or may not be case for an article about speculation on possible 2020 candidates, but that's a separate issue. In the meantime, there is clear consensus that this WP:CRYSTAL exercise is not a WP:DEFINING attribute of the people so categorised. And it's WP:SNOWing here | February 24 |
| Category:University of Exeter Halls of Residence | delete (non-admin closure) | February 11 |
| Category:Video games with 3D graphics | Delete | February 1 |
| Category:Vietminh | rename (non-admin closure) | February 12 |
| Category:Voting systems | Procedural close as premature. Much better to open a new CFD to reflect the outcome of the Requested Moves discussion, whenever that happens. This discussion was opened only minutes after the linked Requested Moves discussion was opened. However, the RM will remain open for at least 7 days, and possibly a lot longer (the discussion may be relisted, and even if it isn't, the backlog of RM discussions can be big). So by the time thge rM is closed, this discussion will be stale |
February 11 |
| Category:Wikipedians interested in fighting unemployment | Delete. Unanimous support based on long-standing policy | February 8 |
| Category:Wikipedians not interested in researching history | Delete. Unanimous support based on long-standing policy | February 8 |
| Category:Wikipedians who are not "right-minded", and glad of it! | Delete. On the numbers, this is split evenly (3:3), but WP:NOTAVOTE. Closers are obliged to weigh arguments rather than just count votes, and those opposing deletion run counter to the long-standing guideline at WP:USERCAT#Inappropriate_types_of_user_categories. Several of the !votes were based on a defence of this category as a joke, but the guideline is very clear that joke categories are inappropriate, and the networking arguments run counter to long-standing policy at WP:NOTSOCIAL. So I attach little wight to those arguments, and as a result I find a clear consensus to delete. As the lede of WP:USERCAT says, if a Wikipedian wishes to have such a notice, they may edit their user page and add the notice in some other way (such as by adding text or a userbox), rather than inappropriately creating a category grouping |
February 8 |
| Category:Wikipedians who remember the 1970s | Delete. On the numbers, this is split 5:4 in favour of deletion, but WP:NOTAVOTE. Closers are obliged to weigh arguments rather than just count votes, and those opposing deletion run counter to the long-standing guideline at WP:USERCAT#Inappropriate_types_of_user_categories. Several of the !votes were based on a defence of this category as a joke, but the guideline is very clear that joke categories are inappropriate, and the networking arguments run counter to long-standing policy at WP:NOTSOCIAL. So I attach little wight to those arguments, and as a result I find a clear consensus to delete | February 8 |
| Category:Wikipedians who stand up to foo-fighting bullies | Delete. Unanimous support based on long-standing policy | February 8 |
| Category:Wikipedians who wish LHvU would come back | Keep. The arguments for deletion were well-founded in policy, but they were way outnumbered by a significant majority of editors favouring retention. Many of those arguments were variants of WP:ILIKEIT, but then some keep !voters pointed out that a category intended to encourage the return of an esteemed contributor was about as strong an expression of collaboration as you could find ... and encouraging collaboration is the core of WP:USERCAT. So the result is a clear consensus to keep this category. And welcome back, |
February 8 |
| Category:Women atheists | Delete | February 6 |