Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/User

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If process guidelines are met, move categories to the appropriate section here to prepare to delete. Before deleting a category, ensure that it is empty.

Please help keep this page clean! Listings that have already been dealt with need to be removed quickly. When all of the entries in a category have been updated, move the listing to the "Ready for deletion" section for an administrator to finish.

Closing discussions

Closing procedures:

• Wikipedia:Category deletion policy#Normal closure
• Wikipedia:Deletion process#Categories for Discussion page
• Template:Cfduserend may optionally be placed on the talk page of a category.
• Wikipedia:Userboxes#Syntax for including_categories:

  When editing userboxes to make a category change, |}</div> should be the last line for most userbox code. It should not be on the same line as the text that precedes it.

  <includeonly> (or <noinclude> if not categorising userpages) should be on the same line as |}</div> to prevent extra spacing from appearing when grouping userboxes on userpages.

To be emptied or moved

The following user categories meet the requirements 1) for deletion but are not empty, or 2) for renaming/moving. You can still review discussions, which have been moved to archive pages (in particularly controversial cases, discussion may be left intact on this page instead). This section is meant to be a summary with no discussion. Some cleanup links have been moved to bots task pages listed above. You may find it helpful to use the software WP:AWB in re-categorisation.

Editors: Please take care to note whether or not the discussion suggests the category may need to be split among multiple destination categories, the category should be converted into a list, or there are any other special circumstances that preclude a bot from blindly implementing the decision.

Speedy Moves/Merges

After a category is empty, editors may move the entry to Ready for deletion below.

2008 February 21

• Category:Wikipedians who liked The Dukes of Hazzard to Category:Wikipedians who like The Dukes of Hazzard

2008 February 20

• Category:Wikipedians who are Cajuns to Category:Cajun Wikipedians

2008 February 19

• Category:Protestant Christian Wikipedians to Category:Protestant Wikipedians

2008 February 11

• Category:Wikipedian football (soccer) club team fans to Category:Wikipedian football (soccer) team fans

Move/Merge and delete

After a category is empty, editors may move the entry to Ready for deletion below.

Please link to the per-day page that has the discussion on it.

2008 February 14

• Category:User simple-1 to Category:User simple
• Category:User simple-2 to Category:User simple
• Category:User simple-3 to Category:User simple
• Category:User simple-4 to Category:User simple
• Category:User simple-N to Category:User simple

Empty and delete

After a category is empty, editors may move the entry to Ready for deletion below.

Please link to the per-day page that has the discussion on it.

• None currently

Empty but do not delete

This is for "parent" categories which need members removed, but not the sub-categories. After a category is empty, simply remove it from the list.

Please link to the per-day page that has the discussion on it.

2008 February 06

• Category:Wikipedians interested in books

Already deleted but not empty

This is for categories which have already been deleted, but which still have members in them that need to be removed from the category.

Please link to the per-day page that has the discussion on it.

2008 February 13

• Category:Rouge admins

2008 January 22

• Category:Gayass Wikipedians

2007 December 04

• Category:Wikipedians who use CAGBot stats

2007 October 04

• Category:Queer Wikipedians
• Category:Gay Wikipedians

2007 September 06

• Category:Wikipedian high school students

2007 June 28

• Category:Heterosexual Wikipedians - the sole member manually re-added the category after it was removed

2007 June 23

• Category:Irreligious Wikipedians

2007 June 15

• Category:Father Wikipedians - the sole member manually re-added the category after it was removed
• Category:Male Wikipedians

2007 June 04 DRV

• Category:Wikipedians who support the LGBT community

2007 April 19

• Category:Wikipedians who use GNU/Linux

Ready for deletion

The categories below meet the eligibility requirements for deletion at the top of this page. These categories have been de-populated, and any documentation of this decision completed. Administrators may delete these categories at will (do not delete the log page). If there is a particular category that is replacing the deleted category (redundant, misspelled, etc.) as noted below, that should be mentioned in the deletion log entry.

• None currently