Category
Decision
Discussion_log
Category:16th-century animal births
relisted at WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 13#Category:16th-century_animal_births
March 3
Category:1786 events of the French Revolution
merge per nom and to ALT3 Category:Causes of the French Revolution . Yes, I am WP:INVOLVED . However, this discussion is 33 days overdue for closure, and consensus is clear, so I think that Wikipedia is better served by closing it.
March 3
Category:1990s American LGBT sitcoms
merge (non-admin closure )
March 28
Category:Academic pressure in Asian cultures
delete redirect (non-admin closure )
March 24
Category:African-American biographical dramas
keep
March 17
Category:Albums recorded in a home studio
no consensus
March 22
Category:Alternatives to heart transplant
merge (non-admin closure )
March 26
American Latter Day Saints from Missouri
delete (non-admin closure )
March 11
Category:American physicians of Armenian descent
merge (non-admin closure )
March 4
Category:Amphibians of Nigeria
Merge
March 18
Category:Aptornithidae
Merge to parent Category:Neognathae
March 16
Category:Aptornithidae
relisted, see here (non-admin closure )
March 7
Category:Armenian people from Istanbul
relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 12#Category:Armenian_people_from_Istanbul
March 8
Category:Articles with improper non-free content (lists)
procedural close , category no longer exists (non-admin closure )
March 12
Category:ARU referees
relisted at WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 13#Category:ARU_referees
March 15
Category:Aspire (political party) councillors
delete (non-admin closure )
March 11
Category:Australian Collectors
delete (non-admin closure )
March 22
Category:Bandy World Championship-winning players
keep (non-admin closure )
March 13
Category:Bandy World Championship-winning players
relisted, see here (non-admin closure )
March 5
Category:Barlas
relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 10#Category:Barlas
March 24
Category:Barons de Brus
relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 10#Category:Barons_de_Brus
March 23
Category:Baseball coaches from Alabama
keep
March 26
Category:Best companies to work for awards
rename to Category:Employer awards . (non-admin closure )
March 24
Category:BHP Billiton
rename
March 6
Category:Black Power
no consensus (non-admin closure )
March 10
Category:Black Power
relisted, see here (non-admin closure )
March 2
Category:Bollywood content lists
rename . (Yes, I am WP:INVOLVED , but this has been open 5 weeks and consensus is clear)
March 3
Category:British standards
merge (non-admin closure )
March 8
Category:Business and employer associations of Poland
rename to Category:Business organisations based in Poland . (non-admin closure )
March 9
Cal State Hayward Pioneers football
Rename (WP:NAC ). --
March 4
Category:Cannabis addiction recovery organizations
merge (non-admin closure )
March 10
Carniolan culture
merge
March 4
Category:Carniolan society
merge to Category:Slovene dialects . It seems we agree that this is the best outcome. I'll leave the subcategorization to experts.
March 3
Category:Category (grouping)
delete
March 7
Category:Cherokee people
keep , i.e. do not rename. Note that the cat had not been tagged
March 30
Category:Chinese teas
keep
March 2
Category:Class (grouping)
delete
March 6
Category:Community-based organizations
relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 10#Category:Community-based_organizations
March 23
Category:Competitors at multi-sport events by country
keep . –
March 5
Corbeta Uruguay base
mere & delete per revised nomination. –
March 27
Category:Cossack raids on Ottoman Empire
Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 18#Category:Cossack raids on Ottoman Empire
March 10
Category:Counties of Appalachia
Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 4#Category:Counties of Appalachia
March 9
Category:Darude
delete (non-admin closure )
March 15
Decades in Belfast
merge and delete . Likewise Category:2020s in Belfast which was created after this nomination. –
March 20
Category:Department of the Government of Nepal
rename (non-admin closure )
March 19
Category:Department stores of Bangkok
merge/delete (non-admin closure )
March 17
Category:Depression organizations
Merge to Category:Mental health organizations
March 11
Category:Deuterostomes of Asia
merge (non-admin closure )
March 26
Category:Deuterostomes of Japan
merge (non-admin closure )
March 6
Category:Device Therapy for Heart failures
delete (non-admin closure )
March 26
Category:DiMaggio family
delete (non-admin closure )
March 10
Category:DiMaggio family
relisted, see here
March 2
Category:Directorial debut films
keep (non-admin closure )
March 4
Category:Discovery Communications
rename
March 8
Category:Educational institutions in India
keep (non-admin closure )
March 30
Elections in Ireland by year
merge
March 21
Category:Emerging standards
merge (non-admin closure )
March 16
Category:Emerging standards
relisted, see here (non-admin closure )
March 8
Category:Empress Ki (TV series)
delete (non-admin closure )
March 28
Category:Episcopal church buldings in Idaho
speedy rename . It appeared that the relevant articles were redlinked to the target. (non-admin closure )
March 1
Category:Equivalence
delete and replace with Category:Equivalence (mathematics) . (Admin note: this was implemented by purging and renaming.) –
March 2
Category:Equivalent units
no consensus . –
March 3
Category:Ethnic Armenian lawyers
Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 2#Category:Ethnic Armenian lawyers
March 14
Category:Events at the 1997 European Athletics U23 Championships
relisted at WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 13#Category:Events_at_the_1997_European_Athletics_U23_Championships
March 19
Category:Fame Academy participants
Purge and upmerge per AnemoneProjectors. Pinging the participants to do the purging: @Woodensuperman , AnemoneProjectors , and Marcocapelle
March 1
Category:FC Bayern Munich footballers
keep
March 20
Category:Fictional American people of Irish descent
no consensus . This should not be brought forward again unless it is part of a nomination of all categories of fictional characters by descent. In the meantime, it might be helpful to build a visible hierarchy of those categories. –
March 29
Category:Fictional Irish people by ethnic or national origin
rename
March 21
Category:Fictional rogue planets
merge (non-admin closure )
March 17
Category:File deletion template shortcuts
delete (non-admin closure )
March 18
Category:Films based on Pride and Prejudice
keep (non-admin closure )
March 21
Category:Films directed by Bala (director)
keep (non-admin closure )
March 28
Category:Films directed by Bala (director)
relisted, see here
March 20
Category:Films scored by Aadesh Shrivastav
merge
March 12
Category:Films shot in multiple formats
delete
March 19
Category:Fish of Togo
merge (non-admin closure )
March 6
Category:FishCenter Live
delete (non-admin closure )
March 15
Category:Formula Atlantic drivers
Delete (WP:NAC ).
March 19
Category:Gambits
Merge
March 21
Category:Gay villages in the New Jersey
rename . –
March 28
Category:Gender pay gap by country
Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 17#Category:Gender pay gap by country
March 17
Category:Great Lakes Premier League seasons
delete (non-admin closure )
March 5
Category:Greek mathematics
keep , i.e. do not rename
March 16
Category:Groups connected to the Khazars
relisted at WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 13#Category:Groups_connected_to_the_Khazars
March 24
Category:Halo factions
merge (non-admin closure )
March 7
Category:Health standards
no consensus
March 8
Category:History of Welsh devolution
rename
March 15
Category:Hungarian actors in gay pornographic films
merge to parent categories (non-admin closure )
March 25
Category:Immigrants to the United Kingdom from Aden
no consensus to merge or delete, so rename . –
March 13
Insurance in small countries
Keep (WP:NAC ).
March 30
Category:Jenny Parks
delete (non-admin closure )
March 15
Category:Late Iron Age Scotland
relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 12#Category:Late Iron Age Scotland
March 8
Category:Leaders of People's Alliance of Tower Hamlets
keep . Delete !voters far outnumber keep !voters, but the nominator's blatant misrepresentation of WP:SMALLCAT was accepted by most keep !voters, leaving their !votes ill-founded in policy. For the record, WP:SMALLCAT 's current version says Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members, unless such categories are part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme (underlining added by me)
March 11
Category:Leaders of Tower Hamlets First
keep . Delete !voters far outnumber keep !voters, but the nominator's blatant misrepresentation of WP:SMALLCAT was accepted by most keep !voters, leaving their !votes ill-founded in policy. For the record, WP:SMALLCAT 's current version says Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members, unless such categories are part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme (underlining added by me)
March 11
Category:Leather Industry
Speedy rename per WP:C2D
March 4
Category:Lebanese communities outside Lebanon
merge
March 24
Category:Legal films
keep (non-admin closure )
March 4
Category:Leucogeranus
delete as empty. (non-admin closure )
March 7
Category:List of 'Star Wars' Characters
Delete (WP:NAC ). --
March 25
Category:List of Image Comics publications
delete (non-admin closure )
March 30
Category:Lists of railway accidents in Australia
rename all . Note that this discussion was originally closed inappropriately (see WP:BADNAC ) by a now-blocked non-admin sock @Artix Kreiger , who proceeded to move the pages manually. I reverted all the manual moves; full saga explained here
March 27
Category:Logical fallacies
rename (non-admin closure )
March 10
Category:Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League roster navigational boxes
merge (non-admin closure )
March 2
Category:Major League Soccer first round draft picks
delete soccer , but keep NHL
March 26
Category:Male characters in television
keep
March 9
Category:Manned missions to Mars
rename per Talk:Human mission to Mars#Requested_move_5_March_2018
March 5
Category:Manned Soyuz missions
rename
March 5
Category:Manned spacecraft
rename
March 5
Category:Marshmello
delete (non-admin closure )
March 15
Category:MCU actors
moot . Speedy-deleted by @Bbb23 per WP:G5 (Creation by a blocked or banned user in violation of block or ban)
March 20
Category:Medieval Samaritan physicians
upmerge to three parent categories (non-admin closure )
March 1
Category:Mega-City One people
upmerge (non-admin closure )
March 13
Category:Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2000–2005
nomination withdrawn
March 14
Mergers and acquisitions by year
rename
March 12
Category:Ministry of Catering (Jordan)
Delete (WP:NAC ). --
March 24
Category:Misha Arobelidze
delete (non-admin closure )
March 29
Category:Modern Turkic states
relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 10#Category:Modern_Turkic_states
March 17
Category:Monsters
keep as a parent category
March 25
Category:Monsters
split relisted, see here (non-admin closure )
March 4
Category:Muscovy Company
delete , without prejudice to recreating the category if and when there are more pages to populate it
March 16
Category:Non-commercial use only images
relisted, see here
March 11
Category:Non-governmental organisations with Irish names
keep . At least based on this poorly conceived nomination
March 28
Category:Non-governmental organization stubs
no consensus . There might have been consensus for a merge, but there is no consensus for outright deletion
March 21
Category:Non-governmental organizations of elected officials in Nigeria
merge to Category:Political organizations in Nigeria . One is stated to be non-partisan so I have also added it into Category:Government-related professional associations . –
March 28
Category:Non-governmental organizations of elected officials in the United States
rename to Category:Government-related professional associations in the United States
March 28
Category:Nothing
relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 10#Category:Nothing
March 20
Category:Now United
delete (non-admin closure )
March 15
Category:Nullary operations
delete
March 13
Category:Olympic javelin throwers
keep (non-admin closure )
March 5
Category:OM
Merge , without redirect
March 21
Category:Operas set in Iberia
merge articles to Category:Operas set in Spain , but sub-categories must be merged to Category:Operas set in Europe . –
March 11
Category:Operas set in Scandinavia
delete by merging to Category:Operas set in Europe , because at the time of closure it only contains sub-categories and those are not directly in that parent. –
March 12
Category:Orders, decorations, and medals
no consensus (non-admin closure )
March 29
Category:Organizations based in Antarctica
relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 10#Category:Organizations_based_in_Antarctica
March 27
Category:OTI Festival Venues
delete (non-admin closure )
March 22
Category:Pages with incorrect dash length in scorelines
delete (non-admin closure )
March 15
Category:Parkway Drive
delete (non-admin closure )
March 30
Category:Peers by year
rename . –
March 29
Category:People from Appalachia by county
delete
March 1
Category:People from Tonnerre
rename (non-admin closure )
March 5
Category:People of Cuman descent
delete Category:Ukrainian people of Cuman descent , but keep Category:People of Cuman descent
March 24
Category:Places on the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail
delete
March 3
Category:Plants containing caffeine
merge to Category:Herbal and fungal stimulants . (non-admin closure )
March 6
Category:Player progress tracking in video games
relisted, see here (non-admin closure )
March 25
Category:Polaris people
delete (non-admin closure )
March 8
Political prisoners
delete (non-admin closure )
March 11
Political prisoners
relisted, see here (non-admin closure )
March 2
Category:Prague linguistic circle
keep
March 2
Category:Presidents of the University of Santiago, Chile Student Federation
merge (non-admin closure )
March 11
Category:Procurement practices
merge . The category currently has only two other specific sub-categories, not 30 as mentioned by the editor who objected, and he has not replied to the nominator's point about inclusion criteria. –
March 29
Category:Professional wrestling jobbers
relisted at WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 12#Category:Professional_wrestling_jobbers
March 1
Category:Province of Venice
relisted at WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 13#Category:Province_of_Venice
March 1
Category:Psychiatry organizations
keep
March 11
Category:Quezon City Capitals templates
delete (non-admin closure )
March 2
Category:Racehorse births by year
rename
March 1
Category:Racehorse births
merge
March 1
Category:Radio stations in West Edmonton Mall
delete (non-admin closure )
March 13
Category:Railway accidents
rename (non-admin closure )
March 16
Category:Railway stations at college campuses
rename . There is a consensus that if the category is kept, it should be renamed. No consensus on @Marcocapelle and DexDor 's suggestion to delete, so feel free to open a new deletion discussion on the renamed category
March 27
Category:Roku software
delete (non-admin closure )
March 31
Category:Roman Catholic cleric-scientists
rename . –
March 13
Category:Roman Catholic orders and societies
merge . –
March 13
Category:Roman Catholic universities and colleges
relisted at 2018 May 3 . –
March 13
Category:Roman Catholicism and science
rename , which will now also match the article after the RM linked below. –
March 13
Category:Rougetius
delete as empty (non-admin closure )
March 7
Category:S.League
rename all
March 23
Category:Scheduling class
delete
March 4
Category:Science ministries
merge
March 26
Category:Scottish devolution
not renamed
March 13
Category:Scottish devolution
withdrawn (non-admin closure )
March 9
Category:Secretary-General
no consensus . A nomination to merge might have had a different outcome
March 26
Category:Serjeants-at-law
Rename (WP:NAC )
March 22
Category:SESAC
relisted, see here
March 23
Category:SESAC
soft delete (non-admin closure )
March 31
Category:Simplification
relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 12#Category:Simplification
March 8
Category:Social Democratic Party (UK) MEPs
keep
March 13
Category:Somali-born male long-distance runners
selectively merge
March 8
Category:Songs about Libanon
speedy deleted as an empty category. There's no need for seven days of debate about a straightforward spelling error that the creator caught and corrected themself, when it can just be speedy deleted under at least two criteria (empty category and/or "Author requests deletion")
March 23
Category:Songs written by Takeoff (rapper)
no consensus
March 11
Category:Specialist law enforcement agencies of Republic of Macedonia
rename (non-admin closure )
March 24
Category:Specialist police agencies of India
relisted, see here (non-admin closure )
March 24
Category:Sports competitors
no action ; a different proposal may be brought forward instead. –
March 24
Category:Sportspeople who were artists
delete . List is at List of sportspeople–artists
March 24
Category:Sportspeople
procedural close . The nom withdrew the original proposal, at which point this discussion should have been closed. Trying to use this discussion as the place for a different proposal involving different categories just makes a confused discussion. Feel free to open a new discussion about the new proposal
March 17
Category:Strigeidida
relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_April_10#Category:Strigeidida
March 23
Category:Tatar topics
relisted at WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 13#Category:Tatar_topics
March 25
Category:Television anchors from Lafayette, Indiana
delete (non-admin closure )
March 27
Television programmes
rename all except Canada and Australia
March 24
Template:Southern-California-geo-stub
relisted, see here . (non-admin closure )
March 26
Category:Tennis players from Indiana
Merge
March 18
Category:TERF violence
delete . CFD wasn't even really necessary, as empty categories can just be speedied so long as they weren't emptied out of process, but we are where we are
March 13
Category:Tomb Raider series
no consensus
March 25
Category:Tomb Raider series
relisted, see here
March 17
Category:Tourist attraction in Sylhet
rename (non-admin closure )
March 4
Category:Tower Hamlets Independent Group councillors
keep . Delete !voters far outnumber keep !voters, but the nominator's blatant misrepresentation of WP:SMALLCAT was accepted by most keep !voters, leaving their !votes ill-founded in policy. For the record, WP:SMALLCAT 's current version says Avoid categories that, by their very definition, will never have more than a few members, unless such categories are part of a large overall accepted sub-categorization scheme (underlining added by me)
March 11
Category:Trade and professional organizations
merge
March 19
Category:Trick 'r Treat
Delete (No prejudice against recreation in the future if this ever actually does turn into an ongoing franchise) (WP:NAC ).
March 30
Tsardom of Russia
no consensus
March 16
Category:Turkic tribes
split
March 21
Category:Turkmenistan dentists
keep without prejudice against opening a fresh discussion with a batch nomination. (non-admin closure )
March 11
Category:Ukrainian Cossack nobility
relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 12#Category:Ukrainian Cossack nobility
March 11
Category:Ukrainian Cossack officers
delete
March 10
Category:Ukrainian military personnel of the Khmelnytsky Uprising
rename
March 18
Category:Ukrainian people of the Thirty Years' War
Merge
March 18
Category:Unary operations
relisted at WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 12#Category:Unary_operations
March 13
Category:Universal Deluxe Editions
delete
March 29
Category:Veritas (political party) MEPs
keep
March 13
Category:Video game locations
relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 12#Category:Video game locations
March 8
Category:Videographies of YouTubers
no consensus
March 23
Category:Viking Age in Scotland
relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 10#Category:Viking_Age_in_Scotland
March 18
Category:Washington Senators (1961–1971) personnel
merge to Category:Washington Senators (MLB 1961–1971) . (non-admin closure )
March 11
Category:We Demand a Referendum Now politicians
keep . Yes, I am WP:INVOLVED . However, this discussion is ~30 days overdue for closure, and consensus is clear, so I think that Wikipedia is better served by closing it.
March 13
Category:West Edmonton Mall
delete . (non-admin closure )
March 13
Category:Wild Arms (series)
rename all
March 15
Category:Women Tech Executives
split (non-admin closure ) . @Swpb and Dimadick : It would be great if one of you could perform the split and let me know when you are done. In any case I'll list this at WP:CFDWM
March 26
Category:Women video bloggers
keep
March 24
Years and decades in Russia
merge year categories in Russia before 1547 to century categories in Russia and to Europe categories. This consensus is without prejudice to further discussions. –
March 1
Years and decades in Ukraine
merge up to 17th century, no consensus for 1700s onwards. –
March 4
Category:Yoruba-speaking people
relisted at WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 13#Category:Yoruba-speaking people
March 16
Category:YouTubers by genre
no consensus
March 23
Category:Yusuf Islam albums
speedy keep per WP:SNOW . (non-admin closure )
March 13
Category:Zaporozhian Cossacks
relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 April 12#Category:Zaporozhian Cossacks
March 11