Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working

If process guidelines are met, move categories to the appropriate section here to prepare to delete. Before deleting a category, please ensure that it is empty. Please help keep this page clean! Listings that have already been dealt with need to be removed quickly.

List is located at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Awaiting closure – updated by AnomieBOT.

See also Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Old unclosed discussions.

Discussions awaiting closure

• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 August 3 (17 open)
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 August 2 (8 open)
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 July 27 (2 open)
• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 July 24 (1 open)

---

Closing procedure

• Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Administrator instructions#Process
• Sub-pages of this page

---

Bots

Bots task pages are listed below. Tasks on those pages are being handled by bots, and may or may not also be listed below.

• JJMC89 bot III (talk · contribs · logs)
• Cydebot (talk · contribs · logs)
• ArmbrustBot (talk · contribs · logs)
• AvicBot (talk · contribs · logs) Edit User:AvicBot/CFDCheckpage and set to enable to turn on. Used to run once per hour, but not currently processing CFDs as of 2015

Bot work

If the category needs to be split among multiple destination categories, requires template editing, or requires editing the documentation subpage of templates, or any other special circumstances that require manual review, list it at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual rather than here.

Speedy moves

See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy.

• NO BOTS Category:Years in go to Category:Go (game) by year
• NO BOTS Category:Years in Asian football to Category:Asian football by year
• NO BOTS Category:Years in Australian soccer to Category:Australian soccer by year
• NO BOTS Category:Years in BMX to Category:BMX by year
• NO BOTS Category:Years in Caribbean sport to Category:Caribbean sport by year
• NO BOTS Category:Years in Central American sport to Category:Central American sport by year

Move

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

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 February 14

• Category:Available gastropod names to Category:Obsolete gastropod taxa

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 February 15

• Category:The Family Channel original programming to Category:The Family Channel (American TV network, founded 1990) original programming

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 February 27

• Category:Here! original productions to Category:Here TV original programming

Merge then delete

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

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 February 15

• Category:Historical sanctuaries to Category:Historic sites
• Category:Historical sanctuaries of Peru to Category:Historic sites in Peru

Empty then delete

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

• None currently

Retain

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

• None currently

Manual work

Please post at: Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual.

• Category:Categories needing manual work before deletion (0)

Old by month categories with entries

This section lists old maintenance categories that should be empty but are not. This can result from reversions of pages, incomplete nominations, bot errors, backlogs or pending manual work.

• Category:Categories for discussion from January 2020 (0) Started with 389 to be processed.
• Category:Categories for discussion from February 2020 (0) Started with 299 to be processed.