Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2013 January index
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| Category:10th Mountain Division (United States) | keep | January 11 |
| Category:16 Cities of Spiš | delete, without prejudice to re-creating the category if references are found in reliable sources to support the list. There is no consensus about whether that would be sufficient to justify such a category, but there is a consensus that the category should not exist without sources | January 19 |
| Category:19th-century in photography | rename to Category:19th-century photography. – | January 20 |
| Category:978 establishments in Italy | upmerge to Category:978 establishments. I don't see enough agreement that the articles should also be upmerged to Category:10th-century establishments in Italy here to feel comfortable including that as part of this close, but I see no problem with adding these articles to that cat at any point if there's no objection to it | January 16 |
| Category:A cappella jazz albums | rename to Category:A cappella albums. The two delete votes just expressed concern about whether A capella jazz is really a thing, presumably they don't have that concern about a capella in general. If Category:A cappella albums gets full subcategories can be created | January 12 |
| Category:A. R. Rahman | keep | January 8 |
| Category:Abumusa County geography stubs | delete the category, but keep the template | January 21 |
| Category:Accidental deaths by location | rename. | January 5 |
| Category:Acts of Reparation | rename to Category:Catholic acts of reparation. | January 15 |
| Category:Afghan athletes | no consensus. No evidence has been presented that people outside North America use "athletics" to mean "general sports," so "athletes" can stand for all other countries | January 1 |
| Category:Afghan athletes | result | January 22 |
| Category:African-American female Crunk&B musicians | delete | January 10 |
| Category:African-American female musicians | merge | January 10 |
| Category:Airliner accidents and incidents involving runway overruns | withdrawn. – | January 26 |
| Category:Akanland stubs | Delete | January 14 |
| Category:Akhil Bharatiya Sena politicians | keep. (Nom withdrawn) | January 12 |
| Category:Album covers by author | rename | January 16 |
| Category:Albums conducted by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. | delete | January 2 |
| Category:Algonquian personal names | listify and delete per WP:OC#SHAREDNAMES. Each page should already be in a more specific "people" category e.g. Category:Ojibwe people. – | January 14 |
| Category:Amarna letters authors | rename to Category:Amarna letters writers | January 26 |
| Category:American actors of Chinese descent | no consensus. In many other recent discussions, there has been a consensus to upmerge intersections of actors and ethnicity. In this case, there is clearly no consensus | January 18 |
| Category:American actresses | keep. – | January 4 |
| Category:American basketball biography stubs, 1990s birth stubs | rename | January 15 |
| American Hurlers by "GAA county" | keep. (NAC) | January 27 |
| Category:American Inaugural poets | listify and delete. I will ask the nominator to create the list | January 23 |
| Category:American Indian music | merge | January 13 |
| Category:American male actors | keep by weight of argument, multiple recent precedents, existence of complementary category for female actors, and the international hierarchy. If the female category had been called "American female actors", some of the arguments against this one would fall away; the fact that Category:American actresses follows the internationally still-common term "actresses" should make no difference to whether this one is kept. – | January 16 |
| Category:American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Album | delete | January 11 |
| Category:American people of Asian descent | keep. In terms of a headcount, the debate was finely-balanced between those who support keeping the category and those who want to upmerge it. But WP:NOTAVOTE, and both sides made some good arguments which in the end were inconclusive. There was no agreement on whether this category should be seen a container category, nor on whether "Asian American" is an ethnic or racial concept, or indeed on where to draw a line between ethnicity and race. On those grounds, the closure would have been "no consensus", but there was one crucial point which makes this a "keep": that this is one of ten similar sub-categories of Category:American people by ethnic or national origin (others include Category:American people of African descent, Category:American people of Oceanic descent, etc). Since all the arguments which would support deletion of this Asian grouping can also be applied to the 9 other similar categories, there is therefore no valid reason to delete only the Asian category. So the result is "keep, but without prejudice to a group nomination of this and other similar categories" |
January 14 |
| Category:American people of Irish descent by occupation | no consensus on Category:Murdered American mobsters of Irish descent and Category:American mobsters of Irish descent (now placed directly in Category:American people of Irish descent; merge and delete the rest. | January 11 |
| Category:American pornographic film actors of Asian descent | no consensus. The discussion seems to hinge whether this a category by race, by ethnicity, or a grouping by continent. There is no agreement about what the category is, or what to do about it | January 14 |
| Category:American rail transport magazines | keep all (i.e. do not rename), but without prejudice to a further nomination of these categories as part of any wider set of changes resulting from a review of the naming convention | January 28 |
| Category:American Reformed clergy | rename both to Category:American Calvinist and Reformed clergy. From the discussion, both category names are correct but not expansive enough, yet both overlap. So putting them together seems the smartest thing | January 23 |
| Category:American stock market indices | keep (i.e, do not rename). This nomination is another illustration of the problems caused by the use of adjectival forms of country names, which are in many cases either ambiguous or non-neural. However, there is no consensus here to make this case an exception to the existing guidelines on when to use them | January 21 |
| Category:American writers of Polish descent | merge to Category:American people of Polish descent | January 28 |
| Category:Ancient Greek works by writer | relisted at CFD 2013 February 12 | January 30 |
| Category:Argentine transport stubs | Rename | January 21 |
| Category:Armenians in Massachusetts | rename to Category:Armenian-American culture in Massachusetts | January 9 |
| Category:Articles with Statistical mechanics topics template | delete | January 12 |
| Category:Artist authors | relisted to CFD 2013 February 1 | January 16 |
| Category:Asian sex gang | delete | January 26 |
| Category:Athletics clubs in Canada | rename to Category:Track and field clubs in Canada. | January 2 |
| Automatically assessed | delete all the empty categories. I found 225 of them, which I have listed below: | January 19 |
| Category:Aviation terminology | speedy delete G4, and WP:SALT this time as suggested at the previous CFD. I have checked the contents that were recently added by the the editor who re-created the category,[1] and they are are all otherwise categorised within Aviation. – | January 25 |
| Category:Baseball players from Cincinnati and Chicago | double upmerge | January 13 |
| Category:Belgian colonial people | rename to Category:People of Belgian colonies. | January 2 |
| Category:Bestsellers | rename (C2C) | January 27 |
| Biblical criticism | rename all to the lowercase format as used by the relevant workgroup: Wikipedia:WikiProject Bible/Biblical criticism work group | January 22 |
| Category:Birkenfeld district geography stubs | delete category, upmerge template | January 17 |
| Category:Black English singers | upmerge to Category:English singers. 3 participants seem to feel that 'Black' is a good way to categorize English singers, 4 apparently don't, so this was a close one. But there's consensus that it should be upmerged | January 7 |
| Category:Box set albums | delete | January 3 |
| Category:Brand New | no consensus to delete | January 11 |
| Category:Brand New | rename per nominator to Category:Brand New (band) | January 22 |
| Category:Brazilian jazz albums | merge to Category:Jazz albums by Brazilian artists | January 15 |
| Category:British and Canadian citizen of Levantine-Greek Orthodox Christian descent | rename | January 14 |
| Category:British rail transport magazines | rename to Category:United Kingdom rail transport magazines, to match the sister categories. If the Jan 28 CfD on the sister categories reaches a consensus to change to the "Rail transport magazines of Foo" format, this one can be speedied to match | January 27 |
| Category:British railway junctions | rename to Category:Rail junctions in Great Britain. | January 30 |
| Category:Californian newspaper stubs | speedy rename. – | January 2 |
| Category:Canadian athletes | merge to Category:Canadian track and field athletes, and salt. Note that this discussion was sort of half-closed by |
January 18 |
| Category:Canadian record label compilation albums | merge | January 29 |
| Category:Canadian record label compilation albums | relisted at CfD 2013 January 29 | January 14 |
| Category:Cancelled Xbox games | no consensus to rename | January 6 |
| Carl Sandburg categories | delete all. I see no objections to creating the list but from the outcome of this don't see it as necessary (Category:Carl Sandburg eponyms is currently empty, so deleting it won't get in the way of future list making). There's no problem with the navbox or the works by category | January 7 |
| Category:Cartoon Network censorship | delete | January 13 |
| Category:Cedar Fair rides | rename - C2C, matching standard for sort of category as used in others | January 24 |
| Category:Chaco War infantry weapons | delete | January 7 |
| Category:Charleston Battery (USL A-League) players | merge | January 31 |
| Category:Christian church councils | keep | January 11 |
| Category:Christian confessions, creeds and statements of faith | rename to Category:Christian statements of faith | January 4 |
| Category:Christian ministers | no consensus to merge or move. However, I see no problem with changing the wording of the category to make it more specific and less inclusive, assuming of course that a consensus for how to do this can be reached on the talk page. I also think it would be fine to clean up the category, moving members into better cats as necessary, again, of course, according to consensus | January 9 |
| Category:Christians by occupation | keep | January 10 |
| Category:CITV television programmes | rename | January 2 |
| Category:Cochem-Zell geography stubs | delete category, upmerge template | January 17 |
| Category:Cold War intercontinental ballistic missiles | no consensus. Deleting the Cold War weapons categories en masse might be possible, but this corner case should not be where that effort starts | January 23 |
| Category:College football bowl seasons | rename to Category:American college football bowl seasons | January 6 |
| Category:Comedy concept albums | upmerge to Category:Comedy albums and Category:Concept albums | January 15 |
| Category:Commonwealth Games venues | relisted at CfD 2013 February 1 | January 25 |
| Cook Islands people | no consensus to rename. If people want to set up category redirects at the plurals, that's fine | January 13 |
| Category:Cricketers who retired in 2012 | Delete | January 7 |
| Category:Dapper Dan award winners | delete | January 20 |
| Category:Dayton Silverbacks | merge | January 9 |
| Category:Deaths from brain cancer | rename to Category:Deaths from brain tumor | January 26 |
| Category:Delta Upsilon UWO alumni | merge | January 31 |
| Dominican House of Studies, Washington, D.C. | rename. | January 4 |
| Category:Don Cannon | delete | January 22 |
| Category:Dope Stars Inc. | delete | January 6 |
| Category:Dr. Seuss parodies | no consensus to merge this smaller cat into the larger cat (sorry, I just had to make that reference). It looks like more discussion needs to happen before it can be decided what should happen with this category. Seems like there's a good argument that this is not a SMALLCAT with the examples of room to grow given | January 9 |
| Category:Drugs law enforcement agencies | Rename | January 7 |
| Dutch and French Governors of Mauritius | reverse merge. | January 31 |
| Category:Early whales | merge to Category:Prehistoric cetaceans | January 18 |
| Category:Eastman School of Music alumni | speedy keep. The consensus was that the current name fits with the existing naming convention, so the nominator withdrew the nomination. An RFC is underway at Wikipedia talk:Categorization#RfC - Alumni, which may lead to changes in the convention. If there is a consensus there to change the convention in a way that affects this category, feel free to nominate this category again | January 23 |
| Category:EC 3.5.1 | relisted at CfD 2013 February 9 | January 24 |
| Category:Education in the Republic of China | Rename | January 14 |
| Category:Electronics terminology | keep, but purge of articles which are not actually about terminology, even if this leads to the category being emptied | January 25 |
| Empty A-class categories | keep. (NAC) | January 16 |
| Category:Erina Mano | delete | January 16 |
| Establishments in Slovenia (2 categories) | split to Category:1910 establishments in Carniola and Category:1911 establishments in Carniola as new sub-categories of the proposed targets, and to the proposed targets; then delete. This is without prejudice to setting up an establishments tree for Istria or Gorizia and Gradisca if there are a worthwhile number of articles, but I am not going to do it now for Regional Museum of Koper (Istria) alone; it is already within category:Istria. – | January 2 |
| Establishments in Ukraine (2 categories) | delete | January 2 |
| Category:Eurasian nomads | rename per nominator, and also rename subcat per Fayenatic london | January 19 |
| European basketball biography stubs (four categories) | delete and merge to appropriate nationality category. If there is no appropriate nationality category yet, the article will end up in Category:European basketball biography stubs. I will not create new nationality subcategories in doing this close, but others may wish to do so if there are enough articles to justify doing that. | January 2 |
| Category:Eurovision Song Contest venues | delete | January 24 |
| Category:Extinct cave organisms | Delete | January 18 |
| Category:Facilities of the United States Air Force slated for realignment | delete. I'm going ahead and closing this now, as it looks like a clear-cut deletion case | January 4 |
| Category:Falklands War aircraft | delete | January 7 |
| Category:Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society of London | merge to match the article name and avoid duplicate categories | January 22 |
| Category:Fiction set in ancient Rome by genre | merge | January 30 |
| Category:Fictional reptilian Pokémon | merge to Category:Fictional reptilians | January 22 |
| Category:Fictional stick fighters | delete | January 4 |
| Category:Fighting type Pokémon | fainted delete | January 22 |
| Film groupings by title character(s) | keep all. There is a consensus that this nomination is inconsistent; some of the categories are clearly large enough not to fall foul of WP:SMALLCAT's warnings on size, while others are small. Additionally, arguments were made that since these categories are part of one or more well-established series, they all should be kept per WP:SMALLCAT | January 19 |
| Film series micro-categories | upmerge to all parents | January 19 |
| Category:Film soundtracks by nationality | delete | January 8 |
| Category:Films about dragons | Since Category:Works by topic is a huge category tree, a group nomination of such categories would be unwieldy. Editors who want to discuss appropriateness of this type of categorisation may want to consider opening a WP:RFC on the subject |
January 24 |
| Category:Films About Singlehood | delete | January 21 |
| Category:Films featured in Cinemassacre's Monster Madness episodes | delete | January 9 |
| Category:Films in The Hobbit film series | upmerge to Category:The Hobbit film series – | January 23 |
| Category:Films shot in Congo | Speedy delete G6, G7, C1. | January 11 |
| Category:Firearm brands | upmerge to Category:Firearms manufacturers (manually. I will list this at WP:CFDWM if anyone is willing to help with this task) | January 7 |
| Category:Gaelic Athletic Association competitions | keep. (NAC) | January 27 |
| Category:Gaeltacht places | merge both to Category:Gaeltacht places. There was a consensus that these categories are inappropriate, but no consensus on whether the two Gaeltachtaí belong in Category:Gaeltacht places. By merging the categories, that issue can be discussed on the talk pages of the relevant articles (i.e. Permanent North American Gaeltacht and Gaeltacht Quarter, Belfast) | January 16 |
| Category:Gang rape victims | delete. The sole article appears to be otherwise adequately categorised | January 4 |
| Category:Genus Panthera | merge | January 19 |
| Germany football templates | merge/rename. If non-navbox content is created, these can be recreated | January 5 |
| Category:Ghanaian MPs 2009– | rename | January 19 |
| Category:Government Actuaries (United Kingdom) | Withdrawn by nominator | January 14 |
| Governors of Mauritius | Speedy close. I am closing both of these discussions together, because the same issues apply to both. In each case, an existing category was emptied out of process by the editor who made these nominations to delete the pre-existing categories. Whatever any editors views on the merits or demerits of a category name, a renaming should take place only if a consensus has been established at CFD ... but these two nominations simply seek the rubber-stamping of a renaming which has already been implemented. I will revert the edits by which the two nominated categories were emptied, to restore the status quo ante. If the nominator (or any other editor) wants to pursue this renaming, it should be done in the normal way: by making a proposal at CFD to rename the existing category |
January 31 |
| Category:Governors of the vilayet of Crete | rename to Category:Governors of Ottoman Crete. | January 26 |
| Category:Greek loanwords | delete | January 15 |
| Category:Grupo Niche | delete | January 23 |
| Category:Hans Zimmer | no consensus | January 2 |
| Category:Harz Mountain geography stubs | delete category and template | January 24 |
| Category:Hawaiian warriors | merge to Category:Hawaiian military personnel for now; further work on this may be required. | January 1 |
| Category:Heads of Missions of the United Kingdom | keep and reorganize, making Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom the parent category for the High Commissioners cats and their subcats. Merge Category:Heads of Missions of the United Kingdom to Category:Ambassadors of the United Kingdom. I see no opposition to that new, revised plan, looks like it makes everyone reasonably happy | January 9 |
| Category:Heavy D & the Boyz albums | merge | January 16 |
| Category:Henlopen Conference | merge to Category:Delaware high school sports conferences | January 30 |
| Category:Herbal Remedies | delete | January 1 |
| Category:Hindi loandwords | delete all, and do not listify | January 23 |
| Category:Hispanic slang | merge to Category:Spanish variants. | January 7 |
| Category:Historical Site color templates | rename. | January 5 |
| Category:History of free and open-source software | rename | January 10 |
| Category:Horror stories | delete | January 16 |
| Category:Hotels completed in the 19th century | merge as nominated. The longer name "hotel buildings" provides clarity for those buildings that have had other uses, and is distinguished from Category:Hotels by year of establishment. The parent Category:Hotels by year of opening is misleading as it contains the nominated category and others by year of completion, not opening ( = establishment) as a hotel; this CFD should suffice for a WP:C2C speedy merge of its sub-cats into the corresponding sub-cats of Category:Hotel buildings by year of completion, after which it can be deleted. – | January 8 |
| Category:Hotels on the National Register of Historic Places | rename | January 26 |
| Hurlers by "GAA county" | Proposal for rename was defeated per the consensus achieved at WT:GAA and subsequently confirmed at WT:IMOS | January 17 |
| Category:I Am Weasel images | delete | January 20 |
| Category:I-house architecture | no consensus. While this seems harmless, there are dozens of "(X) architecture" categories that might get renamed if this goes through. So let's have the larger discussion first | January 12 |
| Category:Images of Alanis Morissette | keep. | January 14 |
| Category:Images of Olivia Newton-John | withdrawn. – | January 25 |
| Category:Images of Ricky Martin | delete | January 10 |
| Category:Important Plant Areas in the United Kingdom | delete all | January 25 |
| Category:Indexes of mathematics topics | merge (incidentally, indexes is an acceptable plural for this meaning of index, at least according to the OED. | January 12 |
| Category:Indian analysts | rename to Category:Indian financial analysts to match sister categories. The question of "nationality vs ethnicity" for this set of categories should be decided in a separate, more general discussion | January 28 |
| Category:Indian skeptics | no consensus. I will create Category:Category redirects for the alternative spellings | January 25 |
| Category:Indian women actors | merged. | January 11 |
| Category:Indigenous Territories | rename to Category:Indigenous Territories (Brazil) | January 16 |
| Category:Individual mares | do not rename | January 2 |
| Category:Influential Kenyans | delete. WP:SNOW | January 24 |
| Category:Influential Quarter horse broodmares | rename to Category:American Quarter Horse broodmares. If anyone ever sees the need to change "broodmares" to "mares", nominate it for renaming. | January 2 |
| Category:Invisible Children | Withdrawn by nominator | January 7 |
| Category:Iranian women athletes | rename to Category:Iranian female athletes (track and field) | January 21 |
| Category:Islands in Fujian Province, Taiwan | rename | January 4 |
| Category:Italian paralympic athletes biography stubs | relisted at CFD 2013 February 10 | January 21 |
| Category:J. Williams (singer) | delete | January 20 |
| Category:Jazz compositions in C major | keep | January 20 |
| Category:Jewish footballers | no consensus | January 1 |
| Category:Jiangsu culture | rename as nominated. This is the general pattern within Category:Culture by nationality and city. – | January 4 |
| Category:Joe Arroyo | delete | January 23 |
| Category:Kara's Flowers albums | merge to Category:Maroon 5 albums. I will leave a redirect in place to avoid re-creation. | January 4 |
| Keikyu | rename | January 17 |
| Category:Kirov Oblast geography stubs | withdrawn | January 22 |
| Category:Koblenz region geography stubs | delete category, upmerge subcats | January 17 |
| Category:Kurdish male singers | keep | January 11 |
| Category:Kurdish men by occupation | keep | January 11 |
| Category:Kurdish women | merge, with the possibility to recreate as a container category at some point if it's agreed it's needed | January 11 |
| Category:Kusel district geography stubs | delete category, upmerge template | January 17 |
| Category:Kyoto | keep | January 8 |
| Category:Lands reserved for indigenous peoples | keep but clarify. There is clearly no consensus here to change the categories. Uyvsdi has added to the population of the first one during this discussion. However, they remain unsatisfactory because they are confusing; it is not intuitive that reservations are not "lands reserved…". I encourage editors to add a {{category explanation}} to each page stating what its scope is, and distinguishing the other one. – | January 19 |
| Category:Legislatures of non-governmental organizations | someone has gone ahead and created Category:Governing assemblies of religious organizations, and it seems like that is where consensus was headed. However, since this process was somewhat short-circuited by the early creation, if someone would like to nominate this new category for a rename, feel free to do so. | January 8 |
| Category:LGBT astronauts | delete | January 9 |
| Category:LGBT historians | no consensus. Notice of this discussion was posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject LGBT studies here. This notice was not neutrally worded and therefore inappropriate per the behavioural guideline on Canvassing. | January 12 |
| Category:LGBT linguists | delete. Pnly entry is already in the relevant parents, so we can just delete, rather than merge | January 9 |
| LGBT navigation by gender | delete | January 22 |
| Category:LGBT psychologists | delete | January 9 |
| Category:LGBT scientists | no consensus. Notice of this discussion was posted at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject LGBT studies here. This notice was not neutrally worded and therefore inappropriate per the behavioural guideline on Canvassing. | January 12 |
| Category:LGBT scientists | withdrawn by nominator. I forgot about the very recent discussion and it's clear that this nomination isn't going to go through | January 23 |
| Category:Lists of ghost towns | merge | January 2 |
| Category:Los Prisioneros | keep per the consensus that this category has enough content not to be too small per WP:SMALLCAT ... and {{minnow}} for the nominator for neither checking these points beforehand nor even citing the relevant guideline WP:SMALLCAT | January 22 |
| Category:Lucero albums | split into Category:Lucero (entertainer) albums and Category:Lucero (band) albums | January 9 |
| Category:Lucio Battisti | delete | January 22 |
| Category:Madonna (entertainer) films | speedy delete per G4: discussion was here. (True, that discussion was a long time ago, but I think that the principle that we don't categorize films by actor is so well entrenched and well accepted now that the seven-year gap isn't terribly troublesome.) | January 17 |
| Category:Marianne Faithfull | delete | January 16 |
| Medieval video games | rename all | January 30 |
| Category:Members of Today's Article for Improvement | speedy deleted by RHaworth | January 15 |
| Metro Vancouver | keep, and overturn rename of Category:Greater Vancouver. | January 25 |
| Category:Miami Valley/Dayton Silverbacks players | rename | January 9 |
| Category:Military academies of the Republic of China | Rename | January 14 |
| Category:Military equipment of the Falklands War | delete | January 24 |
| Category:Military equipment of the Iran–Iraq War | delete | January 24 |
| Category:Military Units of the United States Army in Europe | delete | January 17 |
| Category:Mogilev State A.Kuleshov University alumni | rename | January 10 |
| Category:Mongol Christians | Rename to Category:Mongol Empire Christians | January 31 |
| Category:Mongol Muslims | Rename to Category:Mongol Empire Muslims | January 31 |
| Category:Monotheist Paganism | delete | January 30 |
| Category:Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards | delete | January 26 |
| Name disambiguation categories | keep and repopulate | January 10 |
| Category:Named roundabouts | relisted at CFD 2013 February 12 | January 30 |
| Category:National Football League 75th Anniversity All-Time Team | delete | January 12 |
| Category:National Hockey League controversies | delete | January 30 |
| Category:National libraries in Algeria | delete. Added Government buildings in Algeria cat to the article. It is already in Libraries in Algeria and National libraries cats | January 3 |
| Category:Native Americans in Maryland | keep but repurpose to exclude biographies of Native American people which should be moved where necessary into the "X people" categories. Rename two from the word "from" to "in", namely Category:Native Americans in California and Category:Native Americans in Pennsylvania. The state sub-cats of Category:Native American tribes by state should serve as a useful intermediate level. – | January 12 |
| Nebraska ballot measures | no consensus to delete | January 3 |
| New Wikipedians | result | January 22 |
| New Zealand Historic Places Trust | rename | January 20 |
| Category:Nishapur Quarter | relisted at CfD 2013 February 3 | January 16 |
| Category:Nizhny Novgorod Oblast geography stubs | withdrawn | January 22 |
| Category:Non-governmental organizations in Hong Kong | merge | January 13 |
| Northern Ireland Hurlers by "GAA county" | Proposal for rename was defeated per the consensus achieved at WT:GAA and subsequently confirmed at WT:IMOS | January 26 |
| Category:Not The Wikipedia Weekly | delete | January 21 |
| Category:ObsoleteCategory | moot. Already emptied and C1'd | January 22 |
| Category:Old Spice Classic | upmerge to all parents, i.e. Category:College men's basketball competitions in the United States, Category:Sports in Orlando, Florida and Category:Walt Disney World. There is a clear consensus that this single-article category should not be retained, but no argument in favour of removing the article from the categories parents. Please may I remind editors that when they believe a category is inappropriate, thy should check carefully whether deletion will remove articles from any relevant parent categories. If so, the category should be merged rather than deleted |
January 22 |
| Category:Omega-level mutants | delete. No objection to listifying i.e. adding the remaining 4 to the 7 already listed in the main article. – | January 1 |
| Category:On-line payment | rename to Category:Electronic funds transfer | January 10 |
| Category:Open formats closed by software patents | rename | January 2 |
| Category:Orangemen | rename to Category:Members of the Orange Order | January 8 |
| Category:Orhan Gencebay | delete | January 22 |
| Category:Orthodox Jewish scientists | merge to Category:Jewish scientists and Category:Orthodox Jews | January 10 |
| Category:Overpasses | selective merge to Category:Road interchanges, with a few articles going to other categories such as Category:Rail junctions or Category:Viaducts | January 23 |
| Category:Passenger train by highest speed in commercial operations | rename to Category:Passenger trains by operating speed. | January 23 |
| Category:Patti Page | delete. – | January 2 |
| Category:Pebe Sebert | delete | January 28 |
| Category:People from Flatwoods, Kentucky | merge | January 3 |
| Category:People from Leggett, North Carolina | merge. | January 29 |
| Category:People from Moosic, Pennsylvania | Upmerge | January 9 |
| Category:People from Port Wentworth, Georgia | merge | January 13 |
| Category:People from the McAllen-Edinburg-Pharr, Texas, area | rename. per the standard format here, uncontroversial | January 1 |
| Category:People from Winterville, North Carolina | merge | January 21 |
| Category:People involved in incest | Delete and salt | January 7 |
| Category:People known for their contribution to Freemasonry | Relisted at CFD 2013 February 13. The category had not been tagged | January 28 |
| Category:People of the Maratha Empire | keep. Although the nomination refers to a current country, that is not a compelling precedent for former countries; this is a member of Category:People of former countries, where the form "People of the X Empire" is more common. – | January 1 |
| Category:People with synesthesia | relisted at CfD 2013 February 1 | January 25 |
| Category:Perennial candidates | delete | January 12 |
| Category:Perisan loanwords | delete | January 26 |
| Category:Persistent organic pollutants | delete, after a selective upmerge per Fayenatic london's proposal. .The difficulty with this category is that persistence is not a binary characteristic (where compounds either persist or don't); it is a scale, in which compounds may have a half-life ranging from seconds to years. Without a threshold, a category of persistent organic pollutants is meaningless (or at least WP:OC#SUBJECTIVE, but attempts to apply a threshold fall foul of WP:OC#ARBITRARY. So the consensus is to retain the Category:Persistent Organic Pollutant under the Stockholm Convention, which does have clear inclusion criteria, and delete this one. Editors may wish to consider creating a list of other persistent organic pollutants |
January 23 |
| Category:Persistent organic pollutants | relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2013 January 23#Category:Persistent organic pollutants. – | January 8 |
| Pittsburgh Riverhounds | merge all | January 31 |
| Category:Places in New Zealand with dual names | delete | January 18 |
| Places with dual names | delete | January 19 |
| Category:Plays by William Gibson | rename (C2D) | January 27 |
| Category:Please help me :( | speedy delete. – | January 18 |
| Category:Poets who committed suicide | keep | January 20 |
| Category:Pokémon species by type | upmerge to Category:Pokémon species | January 11 |
| Category:Polymaths | delete all | January 20 |
| Port settlements | keep and repopulate. The repopulation has already been done, thanks Hmains! | January 6 |
| Portland Timbers | Speedy rename/merge C2C | January 16 |
| Category:Postage by country | delete | January 24 |
| Postal history by country | keep Category:Postal history of Slovenia, but merge all the others without prejudice to re-creating them if they can be populated with more than one article | January 24 |
| Category:Power Plants of India templates by state | rename | January 11 |
| Category:Practice research | result | January 21 |
| Category:Prehistoric orangutans | merge | January 19 |
| Category:Pretty Boy Floyd (American band) | delete | January 21 |
| Category:Privatisation | rename | January 17 |
| Category:Privatization in New Zealand | Rename | January 10 |
| Category:Project-Class Editor Retention articles | rename, but only if the change can be incorporated into {{WPBannerMeta}}. I will leave a note at Template talk:WPBannerMeta, and leave it to the discussion there to decide whether it is appropriate to modify that template in this way |
January 18 |
| Category:Quarters in Istanbul | relisted at CfD 2013 February 3 | January 16 |
| Category:Recipients of the Philippe Chatrier Award | listify and delete. I will invite the nominator to consider creating the list | January 24 |
| Category:Regular Show censorship | delete | January 13 |
| Category:Rhein-Hunsrück geography stubs | delete category, upmerge template | January 17 |
| Category:Rheinhessen-Pfalz geography stubs | delete category, upmerge template | January 17 |
| Category:Rhinolophus | merge | January 30 |
| Category:Rhinolophus | relisted at CFD 2013 January 30 | January 19 |
| Category:Road accident victims by location | rename. | January 5 |
| Category:Robert Rich albums | rename following similar precedents. – | January 4 |
| Category:Roman Empire people | no consensus to rename | January 9 |
| Category:Ross Lynch | Delete | January 7 |
| Category:Rostov Oblast geography stubs | withdrawn | January 22 |
| Category:S.H.I.E.L.D. films | relisted at CFD 2013 February 10 | January 19 |
| Category:S.H.I.E.L.D. in other media | relisted at CFD 2013 February 10 | January 19 |
| Satellite Award winners | delete | January 3 |
| Schools on the National Register of Historic Places categories | rename | January 21 |
| Seasons of Scottish soccer | Merge | January 14 |
| Category:Serbian-Croatian people | delete. There is a clear consensus that this category is inappropriate, but no consensus on what (if anything) to merge it to. So I will close the discussion as "delete", but will post a list of the category's current contents on the talk page of this discussion page, so that interested editors can review the categorisation of individual articles | January 29 |
| Category:Shakespeare authorship candidates | Delete | January 7 |
| Category:Shakespeare authorship evidence | delete | January 10 |
| Category:Shakespeare authorship questioners | Delete | January 7 |
| Category:Shanghai culture etc. | rename. If it's desired to change from "in" to "of" for the Category:Chinese culture by province tree, that can be nominated seperately | January 16 |
| Category:Share Market Listed Public Sector Undertaking in India | upmerge to Category:Government-owned companies of India | January 21 |
| Category:Six Flags rides | rename - C2C, matching standard for sort of category as used in others | January 24 |
| Category:Sneaky Sound System | relisted at CfD 2013 February 1 | January 25 |
| Category:Snooker venues | Keep. WP:SNOW | January 25 |
| Category:Songs by Japanese idols | merge to Category:J-pop songs. If there's something that doesn't belong there, it can be removed | January 31 |
| Songs with lyrics by Albert Gamse | keep | January 19 |
| Songs with music by Lou Singer | keep | January 19 |
| Category:Songs written by John O'Neill | rename. | January 5 |
| Category:Songs written by Josh Schwartz | keep | January 16 |
| Category:Songs written by Nathaniel Calhoun | keep the categories with more than one article, but delete the 4 single-article categories: Category:Songs written by Nathaniel Calhoun, Category:Songs written by Ed Nelson, Category:Songs written by Hendrik Werber, Category:Songs written by Jorge Luis Piloto | January 19 |
| Category:Songs written by The De John Sisters | delete. Following up my close from the Clash nomination, the songwriting credit to the band is already built into Category:The De John Sisters songs. If the individual De Johns get articles, then there can be individual songwriter categories for them | January 13 |
| Category:Spike TV network shows | rename | January 31 |
| Category:Spiny rats | Rename | January 7 |
| Category:Sponsored albums | no consensus. There was agreement to delete this category, but no explanation from anyone of why to delete this category without also deleting its subcat Category:Sponsored compilation albums. So I am closing this discussion as no consensus, without prejudice to an immediate group nomination which includes any related sub-categories | January 21 |
| Category:Sportsmen from Sydney | keep, taking into account the discussion for Sportsmen from Sydney above. The consensus for that one was clear, this one, as was remarked below, should be considered together with it | January 22 |
| Category:Sportswomen from New South Wales | keep | January 23 |
| Category:Sportswomen from Newcastle, New South Wales | keep | January 23 |
| Category:Sportswomen from Sydney | keep | January 22 |
| Category:Statements (religion) | rename to Category:Statements of faith | January 4 |
| Category:States and territories disestablished in 979 | no consensus. There appears to be a developing view that this an other similar categories should be upmerged to the decade categories. However, there is a lack of clarity on what merge targets should be used, and since several similar categories have been mentioned in this discussion it seems better to close this discussion and allow one followup nomination to deal with all the categories discussed here. So this closure is made without prejudice to an immediate followup group nomination |
January 16 |
| Category:Stations, terminals and stops | no consensus. | January 16 |
| Category:Statistics articles with navigational template | delete | January 12 |
| Category:Strathcona County, Alberta | rename. | January 4 |
| Category:Streets in Hudson County | Speedy rename C2C | January 14 |
| Category:Strings (band) | keep | January 21 |
| Category:Structures with naming rights | Delete | January 14 |
| Category:Subdistricts of Indonesia | speedy keep. The nomination was withdrawn. (non-admin closure) | January 5 |
| Category:Summiters of all 14 eight-thousanders | keep | January 12 |
| Category:Surf revival albums | Merge | January 7 |
| Category:Survivors of the 1918 flu pandemic | delete | January 12 |
| Category:Swedish female actors | rename | January 21 |
| Category:Synods | split and repurpose as disambiguation page for Category:Ecclesiastical provinces, Category:Christian church councils and Category:Governing assemblies of religious organizations. – | January 8 |
| Tampa Bay Rowdies | merge all | January 31 |
| Category:Tarkan (singer) | delete | January 21 |
| Category:Television programs based on A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise | delete | January 20 |
| Television series groupings by title character(s) | a mixed set of changes: | January 19 |
| Television series micro-categories | merge both to all parents | January 19 |
| Category:Templates for peripheries (Kallikratis) | relisted at CfD January 30 | January 22 |
| Category:Templates for peripheries (Kallikratis) | rename. – | January 30 |
| Category:Testament (band) | keep | January 21 |
| Category:The Amazing World of Gumball Censorship | Delete | January 11 |
| Category:The Bronx (band) | keep | January 21 |
| Category:The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu albums | merge | January 11 |
| Category:The New Power Generation | keep. As is often the case with nominations by this editor, the rationale was insufficiently explained. A fuller explanation might have produced a different outcome | January 21 |
| Category:The Omen (film series) | keep | January 15 |
| Category:Things named after Albert Einstein | delete. I will check that each item in the category is in the list before deleting | January 7 |
| Category:Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre albums | rename | January 3 |
| Category:Tipperary hurlers | Rename to Category:Tipperary GAA hurlers | January 3 |
| Toronto Lynx | merge all | January 30 |
| Category:Track and field athletes from Georgia (country) | Merge | January 14 |
| Category:Treaure Island, California | speedy rename per C2D | January 5 |
| Category:Tubing | rename to Category:Tubing (material). Everyone wants some change, though there is disagreement on which is best. So I picked one | January 31 |
| Category:Ultra (British band) | delete | January 21 |
| Category:United Kingdom Gospel singers | merge as redundant. WP:NOTBURO | January 27 |
| Category:United Kingdom historic house stubs | delete. I'm assuming that the concerns of the folks who had comments or objections were addressed by the nom's response to Peterkingiron; even though they didn't come back and say so it seems likely they would be happy with that | January 6 |
| Category:Universities and colleges in the Republic of China | Rename | January 14 |
| Category:University and college book publishing companies | rename to Category:University presses and move other contents to Category:Academic publishing companies. – | January 30 |
| Category:University Challenge contestants | delete | January 12 |
| Category:University of California, Los Angeles School of Law alumni | no consensus | January 30 |
| Category:University of California, Los Angeles School of Law alumni | relisted at CfD 2013 January 30# | January 20 |
| Category:Untitled albums | Delete | January 7 |
| Category:User Pages | merge. Merging of duplicate categories. WP:NOTBURO | January 23 |
| Category:User:Scriberius | Delete | January 7 |
| Category:VDM Publishing writer names | delete per WP:OC#SMALL, and per Wikipedia:Redirect#Categorizing_redirect_pages | January 27 |
| Category:Victims of school bullying | no consensus to delete. However, I do see a consensus to changing the inclusion criteria for the category, since no one seems to think 'at least once' is a good criterion. So I will have a go at changing the wording myself: This page lists people who have notably been victims of persistent school bullying. I invite others to help change the wording if they want to. Also, I think it would be a good idea for victims currently listed in category:school bullying to be moved to this category, and any articles that no longer meet the new criteria to be removed, so I will list this page at WP:CFDWM for people to check out | January 8 |
| Category:Victoria Quay | merge. | January 28 |
| Video game micro-categories | : | January 19 |
| Category:Video Games set in Crusaders | rename to Category:Video games set in the Crusades per Category:Video games set in the Middle Ages | January 30 |
| Category:Vulkaneifel geography stubs | upmerge | January 17 |
| Category:Webcomic authors | rename | January 23 |
| Category:Welfare and poverty | delete after some recategorisation. I will ask the nominator to recategorise the contents of this category, prior to deletion | January 18 |
| Wikipedia categories named after musicians | delete all. In future similar cases it would be appreciated if nominators would check that an artists' songs and albums categories are mutually linked using {{related category}}, and of course linked to the artist's page. The category only becomes unnecessary once those links are provided. – | January 23 |
| Category:Wikipedia pending changes protected pages (level 1) | no consensus for rename | January 11 |
| Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of Organizations | rename. It's totally feasible | January 3 |
| Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of Yoga | rename. | January 3 |
| Wikipedia users position on flagged revisions categories | delete both. Consensus can change, looks to me like it has | January 3 |
| Category:Wikipedia:Hoaxes | rename to Category:Wikipedia hoaxes | January 8 |
| Category:WikiProject Categories articles | rename and purge. Implementing this would require a change to {{WPBannerMeta}}, so I will leave a note at Template talk:WPBannerMeta to see if there is any appetite for doing this | January 21 |
| Category:WikiProject Medicine descendant projects | keep. There was no consensus on whether the wider point of whether or not a WikiProject should have unfettered freedom to organise its own categories, but there a is a consensus that this is an appropriate way to group the large number of descendant categories of this project | January 24 |
| Category:Women of the Mongol Empire | no consensus. A group nomination of this with its parent may be in order to bring them into line with each other. – | January 1 |
| Works by filmmakers | rename 1, and merge 2 per nominator | January 31 |
| Category:Works by Ovid | delete | January 31 |
| Category:Works by Peter Carey | delete | January 31 |
| Category:Works of unknown authorship | Withdrawn by nominator | January 14 |
| Category:Works titled –ana or –iana | Upmerge & delete | January 14 |
| Category:World Champions of Professional Football | delete. We don't have by-player categories for American football champions | January 14 |
| Years in the Czech Republic before 1993 | merge 20th century categories as nominated. Rename 10th century categories to "in Bohemia". I see only enough consensus to rename these, not to get rid of the establishments categories | January 6 |
| Category:Yui (singer) | delete, without prejudice to-creation when there is more content to e categorised | January 16 |
| Category:Yuki Saito (actress) | no consensus | January 16 |