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Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2017 July index

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The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.

Category Decision Discussion_log
Category:1920 in Northern Ireland sport merge to Category:1920 in Irish sport (non-admin closure) July 11
Category:1920 in Northern Ireland delete (non-admin closure) July 21
Category:20th-century American male comedians procedural closure, categories have meanwhile been deleted per WP:G5. (non-admin closure) July 5
Category:21st Century synthpop songs merge (except where already in sub-cats). – July 5
Category:Acquired disorders delete (non-admin closure) July 20
Category:Actresses from Scranton, Pennsylvania merge (non-admin closure) July 19
Category:Agricultural and natural resource economics delete. Silence = consent July 6
Category:Ambassadors of Bangladesh to Portugal keep (non-admin closure) July 10
Category:Basketball players from Cork (city) merge (non-admin closure) July 10
Category:Burr–Hamilton duel delete (non-admin closure) July 6
Category:Caste atrocities in India merge (non-admin closure) July 13
Coke Studio empty/useless SUBCATS procedural close, categories have been emptied and deleted per C1, presumably out of process. Based on the discussion it doesn't look like this is a great loss. (non-admin closure) July 22
Category:Companies based in the National Capital Region (Canada) soft delete (non-admin closure) July 1
Category:Cricket in Albania keep for now without prejudice to a new wider nomination involving Category:Cricket by country and a large number of country categories together (non-admin closure) July 10
Category:Dalit LGBTQIA merge to Category:LGBT people from India and to appropriate Dalit categories where required. – July 18
Category:Dance musicians keep. Note that we have separate categories for Category:Dance music and Category:Electronic music as well. (non-admin closure) July 15
Category:Dischan Media relisted, see here (non-admin closure) July 15
Category:DJs from Northern Ireland Speedy keep. The nominator ( July 11
Category:Doctors of Law delete. I have listified the Doctors of both laws in Doctor of both laws; interested editors are welcome to add details there. – July 4
Category:Economic development, technological change, and growth merge. – July 4
Category:Eight-wheel drive no consensus. – July 5
Category:Europe Pacific Rugby Trophy delete (non-admin closure) July 9
Category:Ex-ex-gay people rename to Category:People self-identified as ex-ex-gay. (non-admin closure) July 1
Category:Expatriate footballers in Faroe Islands speedy merge (criterion C2B) July 23
Category:Fatehabad, Haryana delete. There is no need to merge, all content is already in the tree of Category:Fatehabad district. (non-admin closure) July 22
Category:Fictional beauticians keep, i.e. not renamed. Consensus to keep the current title July 6
Category:First Peoples National Party of Canada politicians delete. Silence = consent July 6
Category:Former Roman Catholic patriarchates rename (non-admin closure) July 1
Category:Former users that were percecuted by wikipedia-admins WP:SNOWy delete — July 4
Category:Gender-neutral games and toys speedy deleted as empty category July 1
Category:Harem video games no consensus (non-admin closure) July 11
Category:Health, education, and welfare delete July 6
Category:History of Roman Catholicism by country no consensus, which defaults to keep, i.e. do not merge. There is a narrow WP:LOCALCON in favour of the renaming amongst the 4 participants here, but I note the clear lack of consensus in the much wider discussion at Talk:Catholic Church#Our_whole_category_system_might_be_broken. It's cleAr that changes need broader support than has been offered in this discussion. July 2
Category:Homosexual people merge (non-admin closure) July 8
Category:Hong Kong corrupted government officials rename (non-admin closure) July 9
Category:Human diseases and disorders keep (non-admin closure) July 21
Category:Hurling players merge (non-admin closure) July 2
Category:Indian National Congress Ideologues delete. All articles were already in Category:Indian National Congress politicians or a subcat of it. (non-admin closure) July 10
Category:Indian politicians disqualified rename (non-admin closure) July 12
Category:Innovation consulting firms merge to parent Category:Management consulting firms (non-admin closure) July 19
Category:Institutional murder delete (non-admin closure) July 13
Category:International girl groups merge (non-admin closure) July 3
Category:Iranian diaspora political office-holders no consensus to delete, so merge to Category:Politicians of Iranian descent, within Category:Politicians by ethnic or national descent, as this is the most relevant comparable hierarchy that I can find. This is broader than "office holders"; if someone thinks that the latter makes a notable intersection, then the thing to do is to create a list. – July 5
Category:Kildare rename (non-admin closure) July 10
Category:Knowing Bros participants delete. – July 2
Category:Libertarian parties keep (non-admin closure) July 20
Category:Libertarian socialist parties keep (non-admin closure) July 20
Category:Local bodies of Nepal merge (non-admin closure) July 16
Category:Luiz Fernando Carvalho delete (non-admin closure) July 24
Category:Manga-influenced comics delete (non-admin closure) July 8
Category:Mathematics and abstraction infobox templates rename (non-admin closure) July 4
Category:Mayors of Frankfort, Kentucky merge to multiple parents (non-admin closure) July 3
Category:Mayors of Kalyan-Dombivali Municipal Corporation no consensus (non-admin closure) July 9
Category:Medieval homosexual people Merge, with no prejudice for nominating to a non-anachronistic name, if any can be found July 8
Category:Mind-mapping software keep (non-admin closure) July 15
Category:Ministers for Agriculture Ghana delete, the category had been emptied already (non-admin closure) July 19
Category:MTR stations in New Territories speedy rename WP:C2E. – July 26
Muslim Zionists merge (non-admin closure) July 15
Category:NAIA standings templates by conference speedy delete G7, author's request July 3
Category:Neighborhoods relisted, see here July 11
Category:Network protocols relisted, see here (non-admin closure) July 5
Category:Nichols Bridgeway speedy delete under WP:CSD#G7 July 12
Category:Off to School participants delete. July 3
Category:Olivet College Athletic Hall of Fame Inductees delete (non-admin closure) July 20
Category:One-Hit Wonders in the United States delete. I've listed the current content of the articles on the talk page in case anyone would be interested in creating a list article (non-admin closure) July 2
Category:Peder Griffenfeld delete (non-admin closure) July 9
Category:People admitted to the practice of law by reading law delete, not that there is a strong consensus to do so, but the category's creator has apparently already moved the contents into a replacement category Category:American lawyers admitted to the practice of law by reading law. I will merge the category page history, to make it as if there had been a rename. – July 5
Category:People at Aerovel Corporation soft delete (non-admin closure) July 10
Category:People from Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania merge (non-admin closure) July 22
Category:People from Cokeburg, Pennsylvania merge (non-admin closure) July 22
Category:People from South Charleston, West Virginia keep (nominated by mistake for merging into itself) July 24
Category:People from the Brong Ahafo Region speedy merge WP:C2D. – July 28
Category:People named James Fridman procedural close. Category has already been deleted per WP:G2. (non-admin closure) July 10
Category:People targeted by the Anti-Defamation League speedy delete per BLP mixed in with a heavy dose of SNOW July 25
Category:Performance consulting firms merge (non-admin closure) July 19
Category:Proverbial People delete. July 5
Category:Regions of Mexico delete all except the 3 flora & fauna categories July 3
Category:Robots of Hungary keep without prejudice against a fresh nomination with a wider scope (non-admin closure) July 5
Category:Roman Catholic Church Councils by country no consensus, which defaults to keep, i.e. do not merge. July 2
Category:Roman Catholic Church sex abuse cases by country no consensus which defaults to keep, i.e. do not merge. July 2
Category:Roman Catholic dioceses by continent keep, i.e. do not merge. July 2
Category:Roman Catholic schools by continent no consensus, which defaults to keep, i.e. do not merge. July 2
Category:Roman Catholic universities and colleges by country no consensus, which defaults to keep. July 2
Category:Roman Catholic-related lists no consensus, defaulting to keep, i.e. do not merge. July 2
Category:Roman Catholics by nationality keep, i.e. do not merge. July 2
Category:Roman Catholics keep, i.e. do not merge. July 2
Category:Roscommon rename (non-admin closure) July 7
Category:Salutatorians delete (non-admin closure) July 20
Category:Scheduled Tribes Merge. The category redirect is kept, as there is a clear absence of consensus to delete altogether, and redirects are cheap, even in this namespace July 10
Category:Service companies keep (non-admin closure) July 19
Silent Westerns redirect templates and delete categories (non-admin closure) July 5
Category:Skaters (band) delete (non-admin closure) July 11
Category:Snapchat rename (non-admin closure) July 8
Category:Software companies of the United States by state keep (non-admin closure) July 11
Category:Songs about love delete. July 9
Category:Sri Lankan accessibility activists delete (non-admin closure) July 20
Category:Star Cinema heist films merge/delete per nominator. July 3
Category:Star Wars moons delete (non-admin closure) July 22
Category:Star Wars revolutionaries merge (non-admin closure) July 20
Category:Storm templates merge (non-admin closure) July 23
Category:The 99 delete (non-admin closure) July 6
Category:Veterinary medicine images delete empty category (non-admin closure) July 14
Category:WikiProject Film banner templates with categories disabled keep July 6
Category:Windows 95 game covers delete (non-admin closure) July 1
Category:Works critical of Donald Trump rename (non-admin closure) July 13
Years in the Rome Empire merge July 1
Category:Zama American High School alumni Keep July 10