| Category |
Decision |
Discussion_log
|
| Category:10,000 Maniacs media |
Merge |
November 25
|
| Category:15th century in Egypt |
no consensus. After over a month, there's no consensus here. Editors seem split between wanting a merge to Egypt-based categories, wanting a merge to Mamluk-based categories, and wanting a merge to "in Mamluk Egypt"; there are also objections to all these options. (non-admin closure) |
November 21
|
| Category:16th-century Lords Protector of England |
Delete |
November 23
|
| Category:17th-century Dukes of Normandy |
merge contents to Category:Dukes of Normandy and delete |
November 13
|
| Category:17th-century Dukes of Normandy |
 Relisted at 2018 NOV 13 CFD |
November 5
|
| Category:17th-century Jacobite pretenders |
Merge to Category:Jacobite pretenders |
November 22
|
| Category:1989 in Tehran |
merge contents and delete |
November 14
|
| Category:19th-century Jacobite pretenders |
Merge to Category:Jacobite pretenders |
November 22
|
| Category:2018 hardcore punk albums |
Delete |
November 5
|
| Category:2018 timelines by country |
Delete |
November 19
|
| Category:2018-related timelines for current events |
Merge to Category:2018-related timelines |
November 19
|
| Category:20th-century Jacobite pretenders |
Merge to Category:Jacobite pretenders |
November 22
|
| Category:21st-century Jacobite pretenders |
Merge |
November 22
|
| Category:75th United States Congress templates |
keep, since it has been populated |
November 7
|
| [[:Category:<Animal>s described in <year> with very confined scope and small size]] |
merge |
November 4
|
| Category:ABL templates |
Rename |
November 17
|
| Category:Aditya Birla Group |
keep |
November 2
|
| Category:Adobe Systems |
Rename |
November 25
|
| Category:Albums by LGBT artists |
Delete |
November 9
|
| Category:Albums from Spider-Man films |
Rename |
November 26
|
| Category:Algerian Championnat National seasons |
Merge |
November 13
|
| Category:Aliases of 76.66 |
Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 December 16, in order to solicit input from the WikiProject |
November 25
|
| Category:Alliage (band) members |
Delete |
November 30
|
| Category:Alternative journalism organizations |
No consensus |
November 10
|
| Category:Ambassadors of France to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic |
Merge |
November 16
|
| Category:American people of European descent |
containerize. (I only see opposition to deletion of the category; containerization was not addressed by those who opposed.) |
November 14
|
| Category:American Solidarity Party |
delete |
November 12
|
| Category:American subsidiaries of foreign companies |
no consensus |
November 7
|
| Category:American wives |
administrative close: as noted category was deleted per WP:G5 |
November 24
|
| Category:Ancient Christianity |
Rename the first two to Category:Christianity in the late modern period and Category:Christianity in the early modern period; no consensus for the third but a new nomination of that alone is recommended |
November 8
|
| Category:Anna Jane Vardill |
delete |
November 20
|
| Category:Armenian American writers |
Merge |
November 22
|
| Category:Atheist (band) members |
delete. – |
November 10
|
| Category:Biogeochemical cycle |
Not moved |
November 20
|
| Category:BioWare companions |
Merge |
November 5
|
| Category:Birds of Equatorial Africa |
Merge |
November 23
|
| Category:Birds of the Albertine Rift montane forests |
Merge |
November 19
|
| Category:BL Lac objects |
Rename |
November 5
|
| Category:Black days |
No consensus |
November 27
|
| Category:Boating lists by year |
rename to Category:Lists of yachts |
November 21
|
| Category:Boating timelines |
speedily deleted per WP:G7 by |
November 21
|
| Bookstores by U.S. state/city |
Standardise on "in" without prejudice to any future split |
November 19
|
| Category:Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992 film) |
Delete |
November 27
|
| Category:British towns without a railway station |
delete |
November 7
|
| Category:Buddy TV shows |
Delete |
November 29
|
| Category:Bunch AfC submissions by user |
Delete |
November 24
|
| Category:Bunsen Is a Beast |
WP:SOFTDELETE as there is currently insufficient content. – |
November 13
|
| Category:Candian people by province or territory by occupation |
Speedy merge. Sorry folks. The mis-spelling was my error when I created the category. I have redirected[1] it |
November 4
|
| Category:Canon law legal terminology |
Merge |
November 27
|
| Category:Castlebar Song Contest |
Delete |
November 24
|
| Categories labeling people as Queer |
No consensus |
November 16
|
| Categories:2007 in long track to 2010 in long track |
rename |
November 12
|
| Category:Catholic Church offices |
Rename to Category:Catholic ecclesiastical titles without prejudice to a broader nomination of the tree. After long debate this has the most local consensus |
November 1
|
| Category:Characters created by J. J. Abrams |
delete |
November 6
|
| Christianity per city |
Merge |
November 25
|
| Category:City Councilmen of Nauvoo, Illinois |
rename and merge as proposed. (non-admin closure) |
November 8
|
| Category:Classical Palestine |
Relisted at 2018 DEC 3 CFD |
November 6
|
| Category:Classical Syria |
Relisted at 2018 DEC 3 CFD |
November 6
|
| Climbs in cycle racing in ... |
Purge. Consensus is to purge any articles that don't have significant content about cycling from these categories, and to create List of climbs in cycle racing (current draft at Draft:List of climbs in cycle racing). If any categories are emptied as a result, I will request speedy-deletion. (non-admin closure) |
November 25
|
| Category:Coastal towns in Massachusetts |
Merge to Category:Populated coastal places in Massachusetts |
November 29
|
| Category:Conservative Jewish synagogues |
merge Category:Conservative Jewish synagogues to Category:Conservative synagogues, without prejudice to a fresh nomination to propose ALT1, since it had some support |
November 19
|
| Category:Controversies about women in science and technology |
Delete |
November 27
|
| Category:Convicted book-thieves |
Rename |
November 1
|
| Category:Cooperatives in College Park, Maryland |
rename. (non-admin closure) |
November 27
|
| Category:Cossack Hetmanate people |
rename/merge to Category:People of the Cossack Hetmanate, and defer to editorial judgment on the appropriate parentage |
November 16
|
| Category:CounterVandalismUnit user templates |
Speedy rename C2E |
November 23
|
| Creationists by religion |
rename/split as nominated |
November 3
|
| Category:Crime templates by type |
merge |
November 10
|
| Category:Current events by country |
Delete |
November 19
|
| Category:Dead (band) albums |
delete |
November 6
|
| Category:Divisiones regionales de fútbol |
rename |
November 12
|
| Category:Drugs for impotency |
Merge |
November 24
|
| Category:E.M.S |
The category has already been deleted by |
November 4
|
| Category:Eastern Orthodox Christian communities |
Kept |
November 25
|
| Category:Eastern Orthodox church bodies |
rename to Category:Eastern Orthodox Church bodies and purge non-canonical/independent church bodies to Category:Eastern Orthodoxy (or an appropriate subcategory). I will list this at WP:CFD/W/M for processing; however, any assistance from the discussion's participants would be appreciated |
November 25
|
| Category:Eastern Orthodox independent churches |
no consensus |
November 25
|
| Category:Eastern Orthodox noncanonical church bodies |
Merge |
November 25
|
| Category:Eastern Orthodoxy |
rename Category:Eastern Orthodox Church organisation to Category:Eastern Orthodox Church. (non-admin closure) |
November 25
|
| Category:Education schools in Australia |
Rename |
November 16
|
| Category:Education schools in Canada |
rename to Category:Teachers colleges in Canada |
November 16
|
| Category:Education schools in India |
Rename |
November 16
|
| Category:Education schools in New Zealand |
Rename |
November 16
|
| Category:Education schools in the United Kingdom |
Rename |
November 16
|
| Category:Educational organisations |
Withdrawn by nominator |
November 22
|
| Category:Egyptian Premier League footballers |
relist, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_December_16#Category:Egyptian Premier League footballers (non-admin closure) |
November 25
|
| Category:Egyptian revolutionists |
Merge |
November 5
|
| Category:Employees of the National Museum of Natural History (France) |
rename to Category:National Museum of Natural History (France) people. From other cases, this seems to be the preferred form for this type of category. |
November 5
|
| Category:English supercentenarians |
up merge |
November 20
|
| Category:EngvarC |
redirect (non-admin closure) |
November 9
|
| Category:EngvarO |
redirect (non-admin closure) |
November 9
|
| Category:Equivalence classes |
Delete |
November 13
|
| Eswatini templates |
Rename |
November 5
|
| Category:Far-right politics in Brazil |
speedy keep. In fact, since the only non-sock delete vote is an obvious templated comment not clearly meant for this discussion and only linking to the general informational page on policies, I'm closing this per WP:SNOW and WP:EVASION. If anyone who is not banned has a good reason to suggest deletion of this category, please start a new discussion |
November 24
|
| Category:Features |
delete |
November 22
|
| Category:Fictional characters of the (agency) |
Rename |
November 28
|
| Category:Fictional characters of the Postal Service |
merge. (non-admin closure) |
November 28
|
| Category:Films acted by Rajnikanth |
Delete |
November 30
|
| Category:Films divided in chapters |
Delete |
November 5
|
| Category:Former populated places in Palestine (region) |
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 January 31#Category:Former populated places in Palestine (region) |
November 29
|
| Category:Geobox usage tracking for beach type |
delete. Was just created as a temporary tracking category |
November 4
|
| Category:Gut (band) albums |
delete |
November 6
|
| Category:Hanson (band) members |
delete |
November 1
|
| Category:Hawaiian Eye |
Delete |
November 26
|
| Category:Health in Vatican City |
keep (non-admin closure) |
November 26
|
| Hindu calendars |
Merge |
November 8
|
| Historic buildings |
No consensus |
November 17
|
| Category:Historic hotels in the United States |
Keep for now; revisit if the broader category tree is considered |
November 5
|
| Category:History of Eastern Orthodoxy in the United States |
Merge |
November 26
|
| Category:Holy orders in the Catholic Church |
no consensus. There was strong opposition to Category:Clerical state in the Catholic Church and to merging with Category:Catholic clergy, but Category:Major orders in the Catholic Church seemed to get traction, though whether it should replace this category or be its parent was unresolved. I recommend a follow-up nomination with a new proposal and without the rejected proposals muddying the waters |
November 1
|
| Category:Homeschooled people in the United States |
Delete |
November 14
|
| Category:Husbands |
administrative close: as noted categories were deleted per WP:G5 |
November 24
|
| Category:Independent film production companies of the Philippines |
merge as WP:SOFTDELETE due to lack of participation. – |
November 10
|
| Intersection of descent and occupation |
No consensus |
November 11
|
| Category:Israeli settlement |
keep. I will update the hatnotes at each category in an effort to minimize confusion |
November 26
|
| Category:Journalists of the Ottoman Empire |
self-close per discussion below |
November 28
|
| Category:Kamarupa |
no consensus. This close is no bar to re-nominating the category e.g. for renaming and purging if appropriate. – |
November 10
|
| Category:Kamarupa |
Rename |
November 22
|
| LGBT political advocacy groups in New England |
procedural close as the category pages were not tagged to give anyone notice of the discussion. In any case there was no support from the regular CFD participants who happened to see it. – |
November 8
|
| Category:Libertarian organisations |
rename (every users' !vote was considered only once) |
November 12
|
| Category:Libraries in Copley Square |
Delete |
November 29
|
| Category:Lists of neighborhoods in Mexico City |
Upmerge |
November 25
|
| Category:Lists of songs by recording artists |
Rename |
November 30
|
| Category:Location map by country templates |
Rename |
November 27
|
| Category:Location map templates crossing 180th meridian |
Rename |
November 27
|
| Category:Locations based on Doctor Who |
Delete |
November 29
|
| Lost (TV series) season categories |
Rename to Category:Lost (season 1) episodes |
November 27
|
| Category:Lost submarines of Argentina |
Keep |
November 17
|
| Category:LSD (group) members |
keep (non-admin closure) |
November 10
|
| Category:LSU–Alexandria Generals baseball |
delete |
November 8
|
| Category:LSU–Shreveport Pilots baseball |
delete |
November 7
|
| Category:M. Pokora |
Delete |
November 30
|
| Category:Mainline Electric Multiple Units of India |
rename |
November 4
|
| Category:Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994 film) |
Delete |
November 27
|
| Category:Mayors of Aurora, Illinois |
merge |
November 7
|
| Category:McNulty Prize Winner |
Delete |
November 21
|
| Category:Media presentation of Islamic terrorism |
Rename |
November 2
|
| Medical and health organizations by medical specialty |
No consensus |
November 12
|
| Category:Medical buildings in Mullaitivu District |
Merge |
November 25
|
| Category:Medical buildings in Sri Lanka by district |
Merge |
November 25
|
| Men's and Women's Winter Olympics |
rename |
November 1
|
| Category:Metal Max (series) |
Speedy rename C2D |
November 30
|
| Category:Ministers of Information Technologies and Communications |
Rename |
November 26
|
| Category:Ministers of Posts and Telecommunications |
Rename |
November 15
|
| Category:Mites described in 1959 |
merge/delete as nominated |
November 4
|
| Category:Mlechchha dynasty |
WP:SOFTDELETE until there are more pages to be added. – |
November 10
|
| Category:Months in the 2000s |
Keep without prejudice to a rename nomination |
November 19
|
| Category:Music works about Spider-Man |
Merge |
November 26
|
| Category:Names of places in Pakistan |
no consensus. There was not enough discussion to form a consensus on the merits of this (type of) category, but any subsequent nomination should take into account the existence of similar categories for other countries. That said, there does appear to be significant overlap between Category:Place names and Category:Toponymy as well as Category:Lists of populated places |
November 28
|
| Category:NASCAR teams established in 2005 |
merge |
November 6
|
| Category:Nepalese observances |
Delete |
November 26
|
| Category:Newspapers of New England |
Rename to Category:Newspapers published by Newspapers of New England, Inc. |
November 25
|
| Category:Non-talk pages requesting an edit to a protected page |
Rename |
November 5
|
| NRHP occupations |
delete |
November 13
|
| Category:Observances set by the Attic calendar |
Merge |
November 23
|
| Category:Observances set by the Nepali calendar |
Merge |
November 26
|
| Category:Omaha people |
Rename |
November 19
|
| Category:Ontario communities with large francophone populations |
delete |
November 8
|
| Opposed speedies |
no consensus |
November 11
|
| Organisation to organization |
no consensus |
November 3
|
| Category:Organisations based in the European Union |
Rename to Category:Organisations related to the European Union |
November 6
|
| Category:Organisations with royal patronage |
rename |
November 12
|
| Organisations |
rename, although there was insufficient participation to establish a binding precedent for future cases. – |
November 13
|
| Organization to organisation (Commonwealth) |
Rename. The discussion here & precedent favour national consistency over subject consistency |
November 5
|
| Organization to organisation (Europe) |
no consensus |
November 5
|
| Organization to organisation (other) |
no consensus |
November 5
|
| Ottoman Syria |
Kept |
November 16
|
| Category:Palestinian Christian communities |
Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 January 31#Category:Palestinian Christian communities. |
November 30
|
| Category:People associated with oil shale |
rename as nominated |
November 6
|
| Category:People convicted of rape by nationality |
do not merge |
November 5
|
| People from the Ottoman Empire |
No consensus |
November 28
|
| Category:Performing groups disestablished in the 2010s |
delete |
November 6
|
| Category:Pervs |
Speedy deleted per WP:G3 by admin @Donald Albury |
November 17
|
| Category:Photometry |
relist, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_December_16#Category:Photometry. (non-admin closure) |
November 28
|
| Category:Pig Newton, Inc. |
Delete |
November 28
|
| Category:Populated coastal places on Martha's Vineyard |
Merge to Category:Populated coastal places in Massachusetts |
November 29
|
| Category:Portals with titles not starting with a proper noun |
keep |
November 14
|
| Potential speedies |
rename |
November 12
|
| Category:Privately held companies in the United States |
Merge |
November 14
|
| Category:R5 (band) members |
keep (non-admin closure) |
November 30
|
| Category:Radioactive waste repositories in France |
merge. (non-admin closure) |
November 28
|
| Category:Ranji Trophy Cricketers |
Delete |
November 29
|
| Category:Redirected fictional character articles |
rename |
November 6
|
| Category:Redlands Bulldogs basketball |
rename |
November 12
|
| Category:Regulations by political parties |
Delete |
November 24
|
| Category:Regulations of the Communist Party of China |
merge, also to other parent Category:Regulations by political parties as no rationale was given for excluding that one. – |
November 13
|
| Religions by city |
Merge |
November 30
|
| Religious calendars |
Merge/rename |
November 8
|
| Category:Romanian Orthodoxy |
Delete |
November 25
|
| Category:Russia location maps |
Merge |
November 27
|
| Category:S.S. Cavese 1919 players |
merge |
November 5
|
| Category:Sabrina Carpenter |
Delete |
November 9
|
| Category:Saint Barthélemy supercentenarians |
speedy delete, empty category |
November 8
|
| Category:Sarah Paulson |
Delete |
November 14
|
| Category:Set categories |
No consensus |
November 22
|
| Category:Seventh-day Adventist leaders |
merge |
November 11
|
| Category:Sex offenders in Florida |
delete. While there is no clear consensus on having or not having a Florida-specific sex crimes topic category, there is consensus that this category should not exist. I will recategorize the contents based on the comments here (see list of edits) but ultimately leave it up to editorial judgment on categorizing individual articles |
November 13
|
| Category:Sex offenders in Florida |
Relisted at 2018 NOV 13 CFD |
November 5
|
| Category:Sexual abuse victims activists |
Rename |
November 29
|
| Category:Shreveport-Bossier Sports |
delete |
November 7
|
| Category:Skeptical Wikipedians |
Delete |
November 24
|
| Category:Small Isles |
Rename to Category:Small Isles, Inner Hebrides |
November 2
|
| Category:Space: Above and Beyond |
delete |
November 8
|
| Category:Spain under-20 international footballers |
merge |
November 6
|
| Category:Spider-Man and literature |
delete |
November 26
|
| Category:Spider-Man appearances by medium |
Merge |
November 26
|
| State Emergency Service of Ukraine |
procedural close, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2018_November_15#Category:State_Emergency_Service_of_Ukraine. – |
November 12
|
| Category:State Emergency Service of Ukraine |
No consensus |
November 15
|
| Category:Superhero crime films |
No consensus |
November 15
|
| Category:Swaziland international footballers |
rename |
November 4
|
| Category:Swaziland national football team managers |
rename |
November 4
|
| Swaziland |
Rename all except those removed from the list by the discussion |
November 5
|
| Category:Synod of Bishops (Catholic) |
Rename |
November 29
|
| Teachers colleges |
Merge/rename to "Teacher colleges"; revisit if needs be. There's stronger support for "colleges" over "schools" and keeping separate categories by default is an undesired outcome but given the limited discussion after multiple relistings this may need further consideration in a merged environment |
November 5
|
| Teaching by country |
Keep |
November 18
|
| Category:Technological comparison |
Rename |
November 19
|
| Category:Television channels and networks by interest |
merge |
November 11
|
| Category:Television schedules |
Keep |
November 29
|
| Television templates by genre |
Merge |
November 1
|
| Timeline categories |
No consensus |
November 29
|
| Category:Timelines of Christian history |
Rename |
November 25
|
| Category:Timelines of media |
withdrawn (non-admin closure) |
November 29
|
| Category:Titular Sees of the Coptic Orthodox Church |
Rename |
November 25
|
| Category:Tony Burrows songs |
withdrawn and resolved as discussed |
November 5
|
| Tornadoes in the United States by state by date |
Merge |
November 28
|
| Category:Torture in films |
split to new sub-categories Category:Documentary films about torture and Category:Torture in art; no consensus to rename or delete the nominated categories. – |
November 15
|
| Category:Tucker Carlson |
Delete |
November 22
|
| TV episodes by country and series |
Delete |
November 1
|
| Category:Twin-engined airplanes with fixed landing gear |
delete |
November 20
|
| Category:Underdog |
delete |
November 11
|
| Category:Uniform Resource Locator |
Rename |
November 12
|
| United Arab Emirates |
Rename |
November 17
|
| Category:University towns |
procedural close, please re-nominate with sub-categories. – |
November 9
|
| Category:User as-0 |
delete |
November 20
|
| Category:User fr-0.5 |
Delete |
November 27
|
| Category:User qwh-0 |
Delete all |
November 27
|
| Category:Victims of school bullying |
delete |
November 14
|
| Category:Water transport timelines |
Merge |
November 21
|
| Category:Weekly television shows |
delete |
November 29
|
| Category:Whig (British political party) MPs |
Keep |
November 29
|
| Category:Whig (British political party) politicians |
Keep |
November 29
|
| Category:Wikipedia categories named after Brazilian politicians |
keep. (non-admin closure) |
November 28
|
| Category:Wikipedia categories that should not contain articles |
no consensus |
November 6
|
| Category:Wikipedia disambiguation pages with links monthly contests from November 2018 |
Speedy delete. G6: the miscategorization that caused the bot to create it has been fixed. Or call it a G7 if you'd rather |
November 9
|
| Category:Wikipedia guidance essays |
delete category and redirect {{guidance essay}} to {{essay}}. Articles in this category populated by the {{guidance essay}} template will be automatically recategorized into Category:Wikipedia essays. (non-admin closure) |
November 25
|
| Category:Wikipedians in regions seeking members |
delete, speedy per WP:G7 and the category has already been emptied. (non-admin closure) |
November 27
|
| Category:Wikipedians who don't drink alcohol |
Delete |
November 21
|
| Category:Wikipedians who miss and like Stan Lee |
Delete |
November 16
|
| Category:Wikipedians who ride Amtrak |
Delete |
November 21
|
| Category:Wikipedians who work at Google |
Delete |
November 27
|
| Category:Wildlife of Belarus |
Merge |
November 23
|
| Category:Women murder victims |
rename |
November 4
|
| Category:Works about Spider-Man |
Merge |
November 26
|
| Category:Wrocław University of Technology |
rename |
November 6
|
| Category:Year lists |
manually merge (non-admin closure) |
November 21
|
| Category:Youth organisations in Europe |
No consensus |
November 12
|
