Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2010 December index
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| Category:2000s TV shows in India | rename. | December 1 |
| Category:2010 in Christmas Island | delete all except keep Category:History of Christmas Island. | December 18 |
| 679 Recordings | rename all | December 26 |
| Category:Activists by modus operandi | Rename to Category:Activists by type | December 2 |
| Category:Actors in bisexual pornographic films | delete. | December 28 |
| Category:Aerial battles | merge | December 31 |
| Category:AFI 100 Years series | rename. Copyvio is not a CfD issue | December 20 |
| Category:African diasporas | delete | December 23 |
| Category:Against | rename all | December 2 |
| Category:Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in Washington, D.C. | keep/withdrawn | December 11 |
| Al-Nassr | rename to Al-Nassr FC equivalents. | December 30 |
| Category:Alaska elections, 1970 | administrative close: already speedily deleted as an empty category | December 2 |
| Category:Albanian Declaration of Independence | Rename | December 13 |
| Category:All articles to be expanded | keep. | December 13 |
| Category:All articles with unsourced statements | no consensus | December 12 |
| Category:Amalgam Records albums | rename | December 29 |
| Category:America's Cup venues | As the category is currently empty, there is nothing to listify. Therefore, it is a delete. | December 23 |
| Category:American anti-communist propaganda films | keep | December 15 |
| Category:American jazz musicians of Sicilian descent | upmerge as nominated | December 28 |
| Category:American people of German-Jewish descent | keep | December 3 |
| Category:American schoolteachers convicted of sex offenses against students | merge to Category:American sex offenders and Category:American schoolteachers. The category name is not false; these are indeed american schoolteachers that were convicted of sex offenses against students. Just because the "media lost interest" in any other teachers doesn't make it false either. In fact, from what I hear and read, the media has not lost interest; we may just need to find the sources, and write and categorize the articles. Until that is done, however, merging may be a good solution. Recreation permissible if it's determined that we have enough articles to support this category | December 15 |
| Anachronistic Israel categories | merge | December 30 |
| Category:Andros Island | rename as there are no objections | December 14 |
| Category:Animanga infoboxes with duplicate parameters | Rename | December 13 |
| Category:Antillian musicians | rename | December 30 |
| Category:Antisemitic organizations | delete. By pure vote count, it's 2:1 in favor of deletion. And what swings it all the way over is the deletions of the corresponding "people" category and its variants. The other anti-religion categories might be similarly dealt with | December 20 |
| Category:Antisemitism by country | rename to Category:Antisemitism by country or region | December 12 |
| Category:Antitrinitarianism | rename | December 29 |
| Category:Aquaria in Washington, D.C. | keep | December 11 |
| Category:Arab people by ethnic or national origin | non-admin keep. In sorting out the category members I found sufficient ancient Arabs to retain this category. Other categories were remapped as described | December 8 |
| Category:Arab people of Turkish descent | Rename | December 8 |
| Arena Football League | rename. | December 16 |
| Category:Arran | rename all | December 14 |
| Category:Articles on deletion review |  Relisted at 2011 JAN 11 CFD |
December 27 |
| Category:Articles which may no longer need images | Keep. Although the category has created a large backlog, the usefulness of it has been proven | December 29 |
| Category:Australian directors | merge | December 30 |
| Category:Autoloaders | no consensus. There is consensus for change but no consensus as to what. No prejudice against another nomination to rename | December 7 |
| Category:Ba'ath Party (Lebanon) politicians | rename to Category:Lebanese Ba'athists . | December 20 |
| Category:Baathism | merge and recreate as cat redirect | December 14 |
| Category:Bad Salzdetfurth | no consensus | December 10 |
| Category:Bandits by nationality | delete | December 2 |
| Baronies of Ireland | rename all as there are no objections | December 11 |
| Category:Baseball players with kidney stones | Delete | December 16 |
| Category:Basins of the Gulf of Mexico | merge | December 23 |
| Bath | rename all | December 13 |
| Category:Bath | Rename | December 6 |
| Category:Battelle Memorial Institute | keep and populate. | December 30 |
| Category:Bayside, California | no consensus, and may I remind all participants to comment on content, not the contributor. If you feel like you must argue about whatever, take it elsewhere | December 4 |
| Category:BBC Radio Two Controllers | rename | December 30 |
| Category:Beat Generation events | merge. | December 20 |
| Beat writers and poets | merge | December 10 |
| Category:Bergen (Landkreis Celle) | no consensus | December 10 |
| Category:BioArt | keep. Seems populated enough now | December 30 |
| Category:Books by former Scientologists | delete | December 27 |
| Category:Books by Hilary Mantel | rename | December 3 |
| Category:Bosporus | rename | December 30 |
| Category:Boston baseball teams | rename as there are no objections | December 15 |
| Category:Boy band members | delete | December 8 |
| Category:Brands of the World | rename | December 27 |
| Category:Braunlage | no consensus | December 10 |
| Category:Buildings and structures at the University of Dublin, Trinity College | rename per parent cat and head article | December 11 |
| Bus transportation in the United States | Keep, per WP:RETAIN. (non-admin closure) | December 21 |
| Category:Byzantine secular architecture | no consensus | December 10 |
| Category:Canadian television episode lists | rename. | December 19 |
| Categories:Victims of British political repression (main category) and Irish victims of British political repression (subcategory) | delete both | December 5 |
| Category:Category loop | keep, at least for now. When it's no longer useful, the creators can remove it or request its removal | December 5 |
| Category:Central-owned enterprise of the People's Republic of China | no consensus to merge, but rename to Category:Central-owned enterprises of the People's Republic of China to pluralize it | December 14 |
| Category:Change albums | Rename | December 23 |
| Category:Chlorine bombings in Iraq | rename to Category:Chemical weapons attacks. I'm putting the articles in Category:Terrorist incidents involving chemical weapons into this new category, but that category was not tagged, so I'll nominate it separately | December 8 |
| Category:Choral Societies | speedy delete, user request. Next time you can just use {{db-author}} | December 6 |
| Churches | Rename Category:Lists of churches, Category:Coronation churches, and Category:Types of churches as nominated, and rename Category:Basilica churches to Category:Ecclesiastical basilicas. I'm taking no action on Category:Armenian Churches, because that tree needs standardization in another nomination before the top-level category can be renamed; and on Category:Collegiate churches, because that seems to be a phrase that extends beyond the buildings themselves. The lists category should be purged of non-building articles. The coronation category gets renamed because it contains only buildings; the issue of whether the category should exist has not been thoroughly discussed | December 26 |
| Category:City Parks in Syracuse, New York | rename | December 12 |
| Category:Clube de Regatas do Flamengo captains | merge. | December 21 |
| Co-operative Commonwealth Federation | rename as no objections noted | December 10 |
| Category:Companies based in Livonia, Michigan | rename to Category:Livonia, Michigan | December 6 |
| Category:Companies that have entered administration | rename | December 23 |
| Completed in the future | delete; a) empty, b) recreate when there are buildings actually completed in 2012. Marking them as "completed" now is CRYSTAL and OR (find me a source today that says "building x is completed in 2012" and I'll eat my hat) | December 13 |
| Category:Computing navbox templates | keep | December 8 |
| Category:Contemporary architecture | delete. | December 2 |
| Category:Continental Divide in Wyoming | merge and purge. | December 13 |
| Category:Converts to Non-Trinitarian Christianity from Eastern Orthodoxy | merge | December 12 |
| Category:Counties, provincial cities, and municipalities of Taiwan | Upmerge to Category:Political divisions of Taiwan | December 25 |
| Category:Cowbell players | merge | December 30 |
| Category:Crocodiles | rename. | December 1 |
| Dallas Area Rapid Transit | rename all | December 11 |
| Category:Dassel | no consensus | December 10 |
| Category:Database Professionals | delete | December 12 |
| Decapitated | rename | December 6 |
| Category:Descendants of Holocaust survivors | rename to Category:Children of Holocaust survivors. Any who are descendants but not first-generation children may be removed from the category | December 28 |
| Dinghies by designer | rename to Category:Boats designed by Ian Proctor and Category:Boats designed by Jack Holt. I've moved both categories out of Category:Dinghies and into a new Category:Boats by designer | December 23 |
| Category:Division of countries | merge/rename both into Category:Partition (politics). | December 20 |
| Category:Doctors Hospital (Augusta, Georgia) | merge | December 29 |
| Category:Documentary films about the Beat Generation | upmerge. | December 10 |
| Category:Domažlice | no consensus | December 8 |
| Category:Drugs albums | rename | December 4 |
| Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown | rename all | December 8 |
| Eponymous categories for musicians | Keep all | December 18 |
| Eponymous island categories clean-up | Category:Naxos has been Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 December 23#Category:Naxos, Category:Kornati Islands had been withdrawn, the rest will be Renamed |
December 15 |
| Category:Equestrians by event | put it all back. I've restored the contents and relisted the nomination here | December 4 |
| Category:Equestrians by type | put it all back. I've restored the contents and relisted the nomination here | December 4 |
| Equestrians | merge (no stated opposition) | December 28 |
| Category:Eras by medium | rename to Category:Periods by medium. I and others don't see Category:Beat Generation by medium as being quite in line with the rest of the contents, but I'm not sure where else to put it | December 10 |
| Category:European Go Players | rename to Category:Go players by nationality and populate | December 29 |
| Category:Fat acceptance | Rename | December 31 |
| Category:FC Dnepr Mahilyow players | rename | December 31 |
| Category:FC Hranit Mikashevichy players | rename | December 31 |
| Category:FC MTZ-RIPO players | rename | December 31 |
| Category:FC Savit Mahilyou players | rename | December 31 |
| Category:FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk players | rename | December 31 |
| Category:FC Smarhon players | rename | December 31 |
| Category:Female athletes | rename | December 17 |
| Category:Fictional American people of Filipino descent | Speedy delete. Category was empty and had been blanked by its creator | December 17 |
| Category:Fictional portrayals of the BPD | Rename per proposal | December 1 |
| Category:Fictional straight males | Delete | December 28 |
| Category:FIDH | rename. | December 20 |
| Category:Fight Club | delete. | December 16 |
| Category:Film Directors with Statues | delete. | December 31 |
| Category:Film-related locations | rename Category:Film-related locations to Category:Film production districts. Category:Filming locations needs further discussion in its own nomination, and some subcategorization | December 13 |
| Category:Filming locations | split as nominated. I will notify the nominator and leave the performance of the split to him. | December 24 |
| Category:Films released as part of BFI Flipside Strand | delete | December 7 |
| Fingal | rename all | December 8 |
| Flat horse races for fillies and mares | rename (no objections after more than two weeks) | December 24 |
| Category:Football captains in Brazil by club | delete the nominated categories only. The only category discussed was not tagged for deletion | December 11 |
| [[:Category:Former students of St Kevin's College, Oamaru]] | no consensus | December 6 |
| Forts | rename. Though there may be some things that are forts and not fortresses, it's much harder to make the case the other direction. Since the categories are a mish-mash of forts and fortresses, it'd be best to make sure all big stone buildings are in an appropriate castles category. As for the Swedish Realm, countries' borders change, but the fact that something was in those countries does not | December 15 |
| Category:Frank Duval albums | nomination withdrawn. (NAC) | December 24 |
| Category:Freight | delete. The images should be transferred to Commons. I haven't done that, but I have moved them to Category:Rail transport images as suggested, where it will be more likely that someone who knows how will transfer them. Deleting as empty. If anyone has a problem with this solution, let me know. | December 21 |
| Furman Paladins | Rename; I'm not sure relisting again will stimulate any comments, so given that this has been listed for over a month now, I think we can invoke WP:SILENCE. | December 1 |
| Category:Galician Jews | rename per Alansohn to Category:Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe), Category:Rabbis from Galicia (Eastern Europe) and Category:Orthodox rabbis from Galicia (Eastern Europe), which matches the parent article and the "People from" category | December 15 |
| Category:Georgian Russians | merge. | December 20 |
| Category:German Jews who emigrated to the United States to escape Nazism | no consensus | December 3 |
| Category:GLAM Wiki UK 2010 | procedural close; category has already been deleted | December 15 |
| Category:Golden ages | delete. I've made the recommendation adjustment to Golden age (metaphor) before deletion | December 1 |
| Category:Government of Dublin | rename as there are no objections | December 11 |
| Category:Graham Bowers | delete | December 30 |
| Category:Greek directors | keep. The category was not tagged. That said, I've moved all the individual articles into Category:Greek theatre directors and Category:Greek film directors, and moved both of those categories into this one. The Category:DIrectors by nationality category contains several categories like this one, so this has ample reason to be retained | December 16 |
| Category:Gulf of Mexico Watershed | rename Category:Gulf of Mexico Watershed to Category:Drainage basins of the Gulf of Mexico. | December 3 |
| Category:Hallenberg | no consensus | December 10 |
| Category:Hawai'i-related articles not in Hawaiian English | delete | December 7 |
| Category:Heritage railway stations in the United States | delete/rename per nom | December 15 |
| Category:Hillman Prize winners | delete | December 22 |
| Category:Hindu mathematics | merge | December 5 |
| Category:Historic railway stations in the United States | delete | December 2 |
| Category:Historical nations in Poland | Delete. This pair of nominations is over one empty category and a category with one member. With no strong consensus to keep, this can also be deleted under OC small. If anyone can find more articles to populate a better defined category in this area, they can do so | December 23 |
| Category:Historical nations of Poland | Delete. This pair of nominations is over one empty category and a category with one member. With no strong consensus to keep, this can also be deleted under OC small. If anyone can find more articles to populate a better defined category in this area, they can do so | December 23 |
| Category:History of Hanukkah | keep | December 8 |
| Category:Horse people | delete, empty | December 4 |
| Category:Hundred Percent Free | delete. | December 23 |
| Category:Hussain Al Jassmi | delete | December 30 |
| Category:Hydroelectric power stations in Canada | no consensus. There does not seem to have been any support for "powerhouses", and the nominator revised the nomination to propose "generating stations". That gathered some support, but the case for a rename is based on the assertion that Canada has its own consistent terminology for these items, justifying an exception from the convention of Category:Hydroelectric power stations by country. However I see no consensus that there is a consistent terminology across Canada, and several objections to creating any exception to the convention of convention of Category:Hydroelectric power stations by country | December 20 |
| Category:I Am... Yours list | Speedy deleted per WP:IAR as tests/inappropriate use of categorization | December 22 |
| Category:Images of Porter County | rename; may be deleted when all images have been moved to Commons | December 27 |
| Category:Images with inappropriate JPEG compression | Withdrawn since both categories involved, although very similar in content, have different roles | December 30 |
| Category:Incidents | redirect Category:Incidents to Category:Events and purge; delete the rest. | December 6 |
| Category:Infamous | rename | December 22 |
| Category:International military aircraft 2010-2019 | Withdrawn as moot - category is now populated. I will say that I'm a bit shocked and disappointed that several users would support keeping in the face of policy, however. 69.59.200.77 ( | December 16 |
| Category:iPhone OS software | rename all | December 12 |
| Category:Islands in the West Indies | delete | December 23 |
| Category:Islands of Richmond, British Columbia | delete. | December 21 |
| Category:Israeli Krav Maga practitioners | Merge | December 9 |
| Category:Jackson Generals players | rename. | December 15 |
| Category:Jewish American mayors | no consensus | December 24 |
| Category:Jewish inventors | no consensus. The discussion leans toward delete, but not quite enough | December 7 |
| Category:Jews who emigrated to the United Kingdom to escape Nazism | keep | December 3 |
| Category:John Deere | no consensus. After the article move discussion, the article for the company is now at John Deere and the article for the person is at John Deere (inventor). So after this discussion this category matches the article name of the company. If anyone wants to start a new discussion to propose Category:John Deere (company), that could be done. | December 3 |
| Category:Journal of Economic Literature Categories | rename to Category:Journal of Economic Literature. | December 17 |
| Category:Khans in Israel and Palestine | rename to Category:Caravanserais in Israel and the Palestinian territories | December 1 |
| Category:Kongregate users | delete | December 3 |
| Lady Rebels | rename | December 1 |
| Category:Lake Borgne Watershed | delete | December 13 |
| Category:Lakota | no consensus | December 15 |
| Lamas | Rename all | December 20 |
| Category:Late 2000s global financial crisis | rename. If the main article gets renamed again, we can easily rename the cat to match | December 12 |
| Category:LGBT law enforcement workers | keep | December 13 |
| Category:Libido | rename albums, delete general category | December 6 |
| Category:Lists of U.S. locations with large ethnic populations | Relist, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 January 8 | December 10 |
| Category:Literary works by Pierre Schaeffer | rename. | December 18 |
| Category:Local History | speedy delete, C1: category that has been empty for four days. It was added to Hendra Paul Farm on 3 December and removed on 4 December. -- | December 8 |
| Category:Locked room mysteries | Keep and populate | December 31 |
| Category:London actors | rename | December 10 |
| Category:Lords/Barons of Armenian Cilicia | Rename to Category:Lords of Armenian Cilicia | December 17 |
| Category:Maddox | Delete | December 9 |
| Manitoba Bisons | merge Category:University of Manitoba Bisons players, keep Category:Manitoba Bisons players | December 1 |
| Category:Maritime incidents in Switzerland | keep. | December 17 |
| Category:Massachusetts Libertarians | keep | December 8 |
| Category:Mathematical films | rename | December 12 |
| Category:Mayors of Sitka, Alaska | no consensus to delete by renaming/merging, but I will at least create Category:People from Sitka, Alaska as a parent category. | December 24 |
| Category:Members of the Canadian House of Commons by province | Rename | December 8 |
| Category:Merlin (TV series) episodes | delete | December 28 |
| Category:Metro Vancouver | rename all to GVRD or GV equivalent. The asserted difference between the board name and the regional district name seems accurate by my reading. This brings it in line with the others in its parent as well | December 19 |
| Category:Military aircraft by war | no consensus. This isn't a nomination of the categories in question. Those will need to tagged and nominated for consensus to emerge | December 7 |
| Category:Military awards and decorations | keep. The creation of the target category has removed the need for this category's renaming | December 16 |
| Category:Military brats | keep. There are a lot of good pro and con arguments here, and some red herrings. It's true no one deserves an article for growing up on a base, but no one deserves an article for growing up in California either, and yet Category:People from California exists for very good reasons. After reading the arguments, it seems to me that it's a locational category, saving Shaquille O'Neal's article from needing Category:People from Wildfleken, West Germany. It is possible there's a less US-centric term for the category, though none has been proposed here | December 5 |
| Military equipment by conflict | Rename | December 8 |
| Category:Military recovery vehicles | do not rename. It may be necessary to follow this up with a nomination to deal with some of the subcategories created by the nominator when this nomination was ongoing. On balance, it would have been best if the nominator had held off from creating new categories until this discussion was concluded. | December 6 |
| Category:Mount Royal College alumni | rename | December 11 |
| Mount Saint Mary's | rename all | December 16 |
| Category:MTA | renamed by category creator. | December 17 |
| Category:Murdered American people of Irish descent | upmerge per nom | December 13 |
| Category:Murdered mobsters by ethnic or national origin | Rename | December 13 |
| Category:Musical forms | keep both | December 21 |
| Musical groups templates | rename to "(X) alternative rock groups templates". "Artists" doesn't get support, but the goal of reducing the size of the category names is embraced. The main category for such articles is Category:Alternative rock groups, so I'm following that. This is not meant to prejudge a more sweeping set of renames | December 5 |
| Category:Muslim apologists | keep | December 15 |
| Category:Myrtletown, California | delete | December 4 |
| Category:Named highways | delete. This had persuasive arguments both ways, but at heart the "keep" votes are summarized not by "it's needed" but instead by "it's kinda cool." And a look at the contents of Category:Named highways in the United States has over half its contents as redirects; for example, Baytown-East Freeway is a redirect to Interstate 10 in Texas. So we don't even write articles about these highways with their non-numbered names used very often. So there's no real reason to keep the categories other than "it's kinda cool," and really, if it were that cool, we'd have more articles with titles like that. I'm also taking the liberty of preemptively deleting the analogous Category:Named Highways of India, which contains one article and one similar redirect | December 28 |
| Category:Napoleon's invasion of England | rename. Everyone here agrees something must change, but there's disagreement over what it should change to. There's no inaccuracy in the proposed title, as the article clearly states that the buildup happened after the UK was formally created. So I'm matching the article title. Those who want that to change should propose it there | December 20 |
| Category:National Liberal Party politicians | rename | December 12 |
| Native American tribes of South Carolina | rename. | December 23 |
| Category:Naxos | rename. | December 23 |
| Category:Neighborhoods in Uruguay | convert to redirect. | December 20 |
| Category:NME writers | delete. | December 31 |
| Category:Non Chalcedonianism | rename. | December 1 |
| Category:Non-free Wikipedia files | Rename | December 13 |
| Non-governmental organizations | Rename all as nominated | December 14 |
| Category:Non-South African anti-apartheid activists | Rename to Category:International opponents to apartheid in South Africa. Consensus is for a change. This name seems to have the most support | December 5 |
| Category:Nontrinitarian denominations | administrative close: the December 10 discussion is still on-going and has not been closed yet. Let's do one proposal at a time. If the nominator wants to suggest a new proposal in the open discussion, that could be done, but let's not have multiple ones open for the same category. Also, don't forget to use Template:Cfr or Template:Cfm. | December 20 |
| Category:Nontrinitarian denominations | keep. Category:Antitrinitarianism was not nominated, so its renaming cannot be evaluated properly. Feel free to do so | December 10 |
| Category:North American Waterfowl Management Plan | keep. The category creator seems to be populating this at a reasonable speed | December 13 |
| North Tipperary | rename all | December 8 |
| Category:Notable paddleboarders | rename. | December 21 |
| Category:Novels by Alexandre Dumas, père | rename | December 6 |
| Category:O. J. Simpson murder trial | rename | December 26 |
| Category:Odenthal | no consensus | December 10 |
| Category:Online companies | Relisted at 2011 JAN 11 CFD. |
December 30 |
| Category:Ontario road articles by quality | delete all | December 11 |
| Category:Operas with a mythological setting | rename | December 12 |
| Category:Oricon weekly number-one albums | delete. No prejudice against a list being created | December 30 |
| Category:Ornamental plants | No consensus to delete Category:Ornamental trees, but delete Category:Ornamental plants after its articles are merged to Category:Garden plants. | December 1 |
| Category:Parent categories | rename. This is by nature WP jargon, and will need to be explained (and is) in the category header. It'll help if the category is named the same as the template | December 13 |
| Category:Parliamentary constituencies in Dublin | rename | December 27 |
| Partial list of victimology categories | delete all | December 13 |
| Category:People from Blackheath | rename | December 29 |
| Category:People from Kure, Japan | rename | December 6 |
| Category:People from Sandhurst | rename | December 31 |
| Category:People from Trenton, Maine | merge | December 5 |
| Category:People killed in action | no consensus | December 2 |
| Category:Philosophers of art | No consensus, default to keep | December 7 |
| Category:Player Tour Championship 2010/2011 | rename per no objections and to match parent article | December 7 |
| Category:Player Tour Championship | rename | December 7 |
| Category:Political people by country | rename | December 6 |
| Category:Political posters of Australasia | rename | December 6 |
| Category:Polonia | merge | December 14 |
| Category:Pool | rename. Pool (cue sports) was not renamed in that discussion, so this should be | December 24 |
| Category:Portal Software | rename. | December 16 |
| Category:Principals and Vice-Chancellors by university in Scotland | rename | December 15 |
| Category:Products manufactured in the 1970s and 1980s | delete | December 15 |
| Category:Professional wrestlers by generation | delete all. | December 20 |
| Category:Public universities in Oklahoma | Converted to article at List of public universities in Oklahoma | December 16 |
| Category:Punjab (Pakistan) | Relisted at 2011 JAN 13 CFD |
December 31 |
| Category:Rail canyons and gorges of the United States | delete. | December 1 |
| Category:Railroad attractions | keep. | December 1 |
| Category:Railway stations in United States historic districts | delete | December 13 |
| Category:Recipients of Rajyotsava Award2003 | delete. | December 20 |
| Category:Redirects from brand names | no consensus | December 19 |
| Category:Religious identity | no consensus. As the category creator says, there's no category that groups these concepts together, so it seems valid to me | December 15 |
| Category:Religious sees in the United Kingdom | Rename | December 8 |
| Category:Religious sees | rename. Further recategorization may be required | December 8 |
| Rename Category:Religious sees in Scotland, Ireland and Ukraine | rename. I can't argue with the fact that these categories contain only diocese subcategories. However, some contents were removed that were not dioceses, so this close should not prejudge against the creation of categories to contain the diocese categories and similar non-diocese contents | December 20 |
| Category:River Valley | Rename | December 8 |
| Category:Robbers by modus operandi | merge | December 2 |
| Category:Round Maple | delete | December 2 |
| Category:Routes needing mileposts | Don't rename | December 29 |
| Royal Warrant | Rename Category:Royal Warrant holders to Category:British Royal Warrant holders and Category:Royal Warrant to Category:Royal Warrant holders, keep rest | December 5 |
| Category:Sankt Andreasberg | no consensus | December 10 |
| Category:Scheduled sporting events | rename. | December 23 |
| Scottish Unionist Party | rename. | December 16 |
| Category:Search and rescue incidents | delete | December 6 |
| Category:Shipping authorities | rename | December 21 |
| Category:Shipwrecks near Key West | rename | December 27 |
| Category:Shopping malls opened in 2010 | rename | December 2 |
| Category:Siblings of national leaders | delete. | December 31 |
| Category:Sierra Crest | delete | December 1 |
| Single-game achievements in baseball, part 2 | no consensus on the perfect game cat, delete the no hitter one | December 1 |
| Category:Smith Island | rename all | December 14 |
| Soccer clubs by city | rename all | December 15 |
| Category:Socialist Party of America by state | merge | December 7 |
| Category:Songs with music by Tetsuya Komuro | merge since there are no objections | December 5 |
| Category:Songs written by Soulja Boy Tell 'Em | rename | December 26 |
| Category:Soulja Boy Tell 'Em albums | rename | December 26 |
| Category:Soulja Boy Tell 'Em songs | rename | December 26 |
| Category:Sound amplifier manufacturers | speedy delete; category has remained empty. This shouldn't serve as any type of consensus-based "precedent" because the rename was apparently done by the nominator prior to the nomination | December 2 |
| South Dublin | It seems we have consensus for a rename to something, and no objection to the South Dublin (county) form, so I will move the categories there. Another CFD to discuss removing the disambiguator may be held at anytime. | December 22 |
| Category:South Korean professional wrestlers | Withdrawn (category became populated after the CfD, therefore no reason for the CfD to continue) | December 20 |
| South Tipperary | rename all | December 8 |
| Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes | Rename | December 18 |
| Category:Squash at the 2009 World Games | rename as there are no objections | December 5 |
| Category:Sri Lankan Senators | rename | December 12 |
| Category:St Martins Property Group | keep. | December 29 |
| Category:Substituted templates | Merge | December 13 |
| Category:Suitcase murders | delete | December 29 |
| Category:Superstores In The United States | rename, for now. This entire category tree needs a re-evaluation, as there are multiple categories for the same concept. For now, I'm just cleaning up the capitalization | December 1 |
| Category:Sweet | rename. | December 18 |
| Category:Tampa Bay Watershed | delete. | December 4 |
| Tchaikovsky | rename all | December 12 |
| Category:Television seasons | keep. | December 19 |
| Category:Tensile architecture | no consensus. Something needs to be done here, but it's not clear what. The scientists and architects can't be put into Category:Tensile membrane structures. Some recategorization is recommended, and after that occurs, if one or the other category is made unnecessary, then it can be deleted | December 5 |
| Category:Territorial Army | rename. | December 16 |
| Category:Terrorist incidents against Israelis and Jews | delete | December 17 |
| Category:Terrorist incidents by responsible parties | Rename to Category:Terrorist incidents by responsible party | December 8 |
| Category:Terrorist incidents involving chemical weapons | delete | December 28 |
| Category:Texts by format | delete | December 10 |
| Category:The Bill seasons | rename | December 22 |
| The CW | rename | December 7 |
| Category:The Lion King voice actors | delete | December 29 |
| Category:The X Factor winner's singles | delete. Per WP:CAT, categories should be based on essential, "defining" features of article subjects, and the keep arguments do not claim that this applies (they are mostly variants of WP:ITSUSEFUL) | December 26 |
| Category:Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band members | Rename | December 8 |
| Category:Theories of metaphor | rename to Category:Metaphor | December 13 |
| Category:Theories of tropes | delete. Upmerging would put Category:Metaphor into a category it doesn't belong in | December 13 |
| Category:To Kill a Mockingbird | Merge Category:To Kill a Mockingbird characters into Category:To Kill a Mockingbird | December 10 |
| Category:Tortuga | rename | December 14 |
| Category:Townships of Kaohsiung County | Relisted, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2011 January 4 | December 25 |
| Category:Transgender and transsexual people, pre-1900 | merge. There's no support for keeping the category as is. There's only middling support for dividing by century at all, but this closure should not prejudge against creating new, more specific century categories (or deleting them if they get created). Should that happen, the affected pages are Jeanne Baré, James Barry (surgeon), Albert Cashier, Chevalier d'Eon, Enrique Favez, Kaúxuma Núpika, Hosteen Klah, Osh-Tisch, Ozaawindib, Charley Parkhurst, Pine Leaf, and We'wha | December 4 |
| Category:Transmedia | no consensus | December 31 |
| Transport categories | Rename | December 13 |
| Transport operators | withdrawn by nominator. I've put all the "operators" categories in a new Category:Transport operators by country, and given "Transport companies" categories to any which didn't have them | December 21 |
| Category:Tuamotu | rename as there are no objections | December 14 |
| Category:Tug boats of the United States | rmerge | December 29 |
| Category:Tug boats | rename | December 29 |
| Category:Twist endings | delete | December 28 |
| Category:Ukrainian soccer clubs outside of Ukraine | rename to Category:Ukrainian association football clubs outside Ukraine | December 23 |
| Uncategorised people | delete, except for Uncategorized good articles, which is used when someone tags an article with a template but neglects to specify a topic; see the category for more info | December 5 |
| Category:Underground rapid transit by country | put it all back. This nomination was compromised by the nominator, who removed any ability of editors to tell what was in the categories. It can be renominated after the contents are all put back | December 5 |
| Category:Union College, New York alumni | Keep | December 23 |
| Category:United States communities with African American majority populations | No consensus to keep/delete, especially as the breakup of these by state changes the matter (to a debatable amount). The suggestion to rename to Category:Populated places in the United States with African American majority populations will be enacted, however. Should someone desire to nominate the tree, they should feel free to do so | December 31 |
| Category:United States railfanning locations | delete. We do not categorize locations by subjective applicability to a hobby; there are no categories for kite-flying locations or birdwatching locations. Any of the subcategories can be placed into category:Railroad attractions, which was kept above. I'm also preemptively deleting Category:California railfanning locations and its subcategory Category:Feather River Route railfanning locations in California | December 1 |
| United States railway stations opened | merge all | December 12 |
| Category:Upcoming chips | rename as there are no objections | December 13 |
| Category:US Volcanic fields West of 109°W | rename to Category:Volcanic fields of the western United States; as Vegas points out, there is consensus for change even though it is mixed to what. This solution is the only one that is bot-able. Moving to by state categories is a manual process; if that is desired, please be BOLD and do it | December 13 |
| Category:Users involved in The Great Background Drive | delete | December 3 |
| Category:V-weapon subterranea | keep. The category serves to hold a valid subset of its two parents. That said, the sites category might deserve a look | December 13 |
| Category:Venue | rename. | December 1 |
| Victims of political repressions clean-up | delete. There is an inherent problem with categories, in that categories do not come with notes, explanations, or even sources; they are just added to the bottom of an article as facts. As such, we cannot use categories that are subjective or POV. As was pointed out, you can deal with many points of view in an article, but not with categories. These categories, have been argued here and elsewhere, are subjective and POV. There are very few arguments that they are not. As pointed out, whether or not someone is a victim of repression is based upon the source, which can be countered with one that says otherwise. Again, without the explanations an article can benefit from, the category is doing nothing more than stating a "fact", which is misleading. Categories must be objective and NPOV | December 22 |
| Category:Victims of the French Revolution | rename to Category:People killed in the French Revolution. | December 21 |
| [[:Category:Villages in Mull ==== ]] | relisted at 2011 JAN 5 CFD by | [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 December 29#Category:Villages in Mull ==== |December 29]] |
| Category:Void albums | Rename | December 31 |
| Volcanic eruptions by year | delete | December 6 |
| Category:Wales Labour Party | rename to Category:Welsh Labour (party). | December 28 |
| Category:Watersheds by continent | rename | December 29 |
| Watersheds by country | merge first to Category:Drainage basins by country, and rename "Watersheds" to "Drainage basins" but keep current structure. This should address Hmains's objection, and should not prejudge against a nomination of the contents of Category:Drainage basins by country | December 29 |
| Category:Watersheds by ocean | rename | December 29 |
| Watersheds by political boundaries | merge | December 21 |
| Category:Watersheds of Alaska | no consensus | December 19 |
| Category:Watersheds of the United States by state | no consensus | December 15 |
| Watersheds to drainage basins | rename (to first option listed for those with two options) | December 15 |
| Category:Watersheds | rename. (I think we can only assume that the anonymous comments here came from the same person, and that person was also responsible for creating some of the subcategories referred to.) | December 7 |
| Category:Website article topics with .net domain names | Delete both | December 19 |
| Category:Website article topics with .org domain names | Delete | December 19 |
| Category:West Slavic countries | Upmerge | December 23 |
| Category:Wikipedia books on Buddhism | keep. So broad a subject deserves its own category | December 8 |
| Category:Wikipedia categories for redirects based on page history or potential | merge to Category:Wikipedia redirects. | December 8 |
| Category:Wikipedian Chicharito fans | Delete | December 18 |
| [[:Category:Wikipedian EU Patent Inventors]] | delete both | December 6 |
| Category:Wikipedians by ethnic or national descent (and subcategories) | delete all | December 7 |
| Category:Wikipedians from Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador | delete Listification of this category is not feasible since there is only one user | December 3 |
| Category:Wikipedians who read zines | Delete | December 18 |
| Category:WikiProject Golden Horseshoe Roads articles | delete all | December 11 |
| Category:WikiProject Golden Horseshoe Roads participants | Delete | December 11 |
| Category:WikiProject Science Fiction categories | Keep | December 21 |
| Category:WikiProject Science Fiction categories | Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 December 21 |
December 11 |
| Category:Wire songs | rename | December 22 |
| Category:Wittingen | no consensus | December 10 |
| Category:Woolworth | Withdrawn to allow an overhaul of this category to fix more problems then identified when nominated | December 30 |
| World War II by country | rename per option 1 | December 29 |
| Category:World War II Japanese tanks | no consensus. This doesn't seem to be the place to start this discussion | December 7 |
| Category:World War II weapons | no consensus. There doesn't seem to be any clear proposal here, and no listing of the affected categories, let alone any tagging of them. The nominator has identified an inconsistency in naming patterns, but there isn't even any consensus that this is a problem worth resolving, let alone any consensus on a particular solution. Editors may want to start discussions on the relevant wikiproject(s) on how to address this. Whether or not it is discussed elsewhere, any further CFD discussion should be properly structured, with the relevant categories all listed in the nomination and all properly tagged | December 24 |
| Category:Worst "Original" Song Golden Raspberry Award-winning songs | delete | December 10 |
| Category:Worst Picture Golden Raspberry Award winners | keep | December 10 |
| Category:Worst Prequel, Remake, Rip-off or Sequel Golden Raspberry Award winners | no consensus | December 10 |
| Category:Worst Screenplay Golden Raspberry Award winners | no consensus | December 10 |
| Category:Xinbei | rename/merge as nominated. Category:Districts in Xinbei deleted as empty | December 31 |
| Category:Yachts by name | rename as nominated | December 23 |
| Category:Yakir Yerushalayim recipients | Listify (already done) and delete | December 22 |
| Category:Yell | rename all | December 14 |