Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy

Speedy renaming and speedy merging

Categories may be listed here if they fall under the criteria specified below. Deletion and de-listing may occur after 48 hours if there are no objections. They must be tagged with {{subst:cfr-speedy|new name}} so that users of the categories are aware of the proposal. This delay is to allow for objections over correct spelling, etc. to be made and to ensure that items are not listed here that do not meet the criteria.

Categories that qualify for speedy deletion (per Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion, e.g. "patent nonsense", "recreation", empty categories (that have been empty for four days) can be tagged with the regular speedy tags, such as {{db|reason}}, and no delay is required for these.

Contested requests can be removed from this list after 48 hours. If the nominator wants to continue the process they need to submit the request as a regular CfD using the instructions above.

Speedy criteria

Criteria for speedy deletion, renaming, or merging are strictly limited to:

From 20 November 2009 to 4 December 2013 the policy page Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion transcluded the criteria for deletion of categories from a discussion page instead of having them directly coded in the policy page. To see the history of that section of the speedy deletion policy during that period, see the editing history of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy/Criteria. For current discussion page for the same material see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy#Speedy criteria.

A nomination to merge or rename, brought forward as a full CfD, may be speedily closed if the closing administrator is satisfied that:

• The nomination clearly falls within one of the criteria listed above, and;
• No objections have been made within 48 hours of the initial nomination.

If both these conditions are satisfied, the closure will be regarded as having been as a result of a speedy nomination. If any objections have been raised then the CfD nomination will remain in place for the usual 7 day discussion period, to be decided in accordance with expressed consensus.

Add requests for speedy renaming here

If the category and desired change do not match one of the criteria in C2 listed above, do not list it here. Instead, list it in the main CFD section.

If you are in any doubt as to whether it qualifies, do not list it here.

Use the following format:

* [[:Category:OLD name]] to [[:Category:NEW name]] ~~~~

Don't forget to tag the category with {{subst:Cfr-speedy|new name}}

Please add new entries at the top of the list and sign and date stamp your entries with ~~~~.

A request may be completed if it is more than 48 hours old; that is, the time stamp shown is 19:48, 20 September 2024 (UTC) or earlier.

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• Category:Russian Empire immigrants to the United States to Category:Imperial Russian immigrants to the United States — C2.C, per parent category convention. Jafeluv (talk) 22:02, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Education in the Chechen Republic to Category:Education in Chechnya — Duplicate category. Merge per C2.C and conventions in Category:Chechnya — PanchoS (talk) 12:35, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Architects from New York (U.S. state) to Category:Architects from New York C2.B New York state not disambiguated in categories — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 05:24, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Albanian military people to Category:Albanian military personnel C2.B standard name in category tree — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 05:22, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Islands of Commander Islands to Category:Islands of the Commander Islands C2.A missing word "the" — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 05:17, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Politician from County Kilkenny to Category:Politicians from County Kilkenny — C2.A plural. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:59, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Tanks of the Post-Cold War to Category:Tanks of the post-Cold War caps fix — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 09:07, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
  • Shouldn't this be at Category:Post-Cold War tanks? Jafeluv (talk) 10:07, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
  • In any case, there's also a Category:Tanks of the post-Cold War period, which should be merged. Jafeluv (talk) 20:57, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Mayan Priestesses to Category:Mayan priestesses caps fix — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 09:05, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:World Championship Wresling pay-per-view events to Category:World Championship Wrestling pay-per-view events TJ Spyke 23:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Nicktoon video games to Category:Nicktoons video games - C2.A. — ξ^xplicit 21:30, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments to Category:Cosmic microwave background experiments—Ketil Trout (^<><!) 20:22, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:GNU project software to Category:GNU Project software — For reasons, please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Software/Free_Software#Capitalization. Abdull (talk) 19:28, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:GNU project to Category:GNU Project — For reasons, please see Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Software/Free_Software#Capitalization. Abdull (talk) 19:28, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Christian martyrs of the Medieval era to Category:Christian martyrs of the Middle Ages. Cavila (talk) 19:20, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
  • Which criterion is this? Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 04:55, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

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Nominations with objections or that don't meet speedy criteria will be dropped from this list if not taken to a full CfD.

• Category:Australian education organisations to Category:Educational organisations in Australia — C2.C per conventions in Category:Educational organizations by country — PanchoS (talk) 10:58, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Educational organisations based in New Zealand to Category:Educational organisations in New Zealand — C2.C per conventions in Category:Educational organizations by country — PanchoS (talk) 10:55, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Educational organisations based in the United Kingdom to Category:Educational organisations in the United Kingdom] — C2.C per conventions in Category:Educational organizations by country — PanchoS (talk) 10:55, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Educational organizations based in Canada to Category:Educational organizations in Canada — C2.C per conventions in Category:Educational organizations by country — PanchoS (talk) 10:55, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Educational organizations based in Israel to Category:Educational organizations in Israel — C2.C per conventions in Category:Educational organizations by country — PanchoS (talk) 10:55, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Educational organizations based in the United States to Category:Educational organizations in the United States — C2.C per conventions in Category:Educational organizations by country — PanchoS (talk) 10:55, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
  • Sorry, but I object to all of the above renames of sub-cats of Category:Educational organizations by country. The convention of Category:Organizations by country is to used "based in", and most of the sub-categories use the same format (see e.g. the many sub-cats of Category:Organizations based in the United States). It seems that a batch of recently-created single-item sub-cats of Category:Educational organizations by country have omitted the "based in", and those are the categories which should be renamed. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 00:12, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Winmau World Masters to Category:World Masters (darts). Dropping of the sponsor name per C2.B, in particular WP:SPAM, plus general practice in categorization of sports, music and other events. Sponsor names are not added to event articles and categories unless necessary for disambiguation, as sponsors frequently change, it makes it harder to find things (readers are less likely to know the sponsor[s]' name[s] than to be seeking this information to begin with), and it isn't Wikipedia's job to provide free advertising). Armbrust ^Talk _Contribs 13:27, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

  I don't think C2.B applies, but won't object if everyone else feels it's okay. Jafeluv (talk) 15:56, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

  • Object. Sorry, I'd support this at CFD, but there are good reasons why the speedy criteria have been kept quite narrow, and this is way outside those criteria. In the long run life is easier for everyone if we respect the limits of the the speedy criteria. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 23:01, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:National Insitute of Technology Tiruchirapalli alumni to Category:National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli alumni I made a typo while creating this category. Sorry for the trouble. Mgtm7m (talk) 14:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Head article is at National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:56, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
• Category:States of the United States related lists to Category:United States-related lists by state — C2.C, per conventions at Category:Lists by country and Category:Categories by state of the United States — Vossanova ^o< 21:55, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

• Object; the concept being captured is "Lists related to [U.S.] states," but the proposed format implies "Lists related to the U.S., divided by state." Suggest Category:Lists by state of the United States, similar to Category:Lists by province or territory of Canada, as an alternative.- choster (talk) 22:51, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Ready for deletion

Check Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion for out of process deletions. In most cases, these will need to be nominated for discussion and the editor who emptied the category informed that they should follow the WP:CFD process.

Once the renaming has been completed, copy and paste the listing to the Ready for deletion section of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual.