Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2012 April index
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The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
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| Category:115th United States Congress | Delete | April 9 |
| Category:1537 establishments by country | no consensus. As noted by some editors, it would help if there was a centralised discussion on how to approach this type of categorisation, which has been the subject of several inconclusive recent CfDs. May I suggest WT:YEARS? | April 5 |
| Category:1849 in fiction | delete. No prejudice to other nominations of this kind | April 8 |
| 1914 in Austria-Hungary | no consensus. As noted by some editors, it would help if there was a centralised discussion on how to approach this type of categorisation, which has been the subject of several inconclusive recent CfDs. May I suggest WT:YEARS? | April 5 |
| Category:1957 in Burkina Faso | rename. Merging to a decades category seems fine, but does not yet have enough support in this nomination. The article is French Upper Volta, so that's the name I'm using | April 6 |
| 1958 establishments in Ireland | No rename | April 15 |
| 19th-century Austrian people | no consensus. | April 12 |
| Category:2000 establishments in London | merge. I will include this as part of my close of the last nomination | April 14 |
| Category:Abbesses | withdrawn by nominator without any !votes for deletion or merge | April 26 |
| Academic Libraries in Ireland | no consensus. It is not surprising that these nominations led to different results. There is a larger discussion going on, and when it is resolved, this can be opened again | April 15 |
| Category:Academicians by nationality | Merge | April 12 |
| Category:Aerospace journals | rename; the implication of the last two points is that the current name is ambiguous and may refer to the general Category:Aviation magazines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by | April 18 |
| Aerospace museums by state with one entry | No consensus | April 19 |
| Category:Aerospace museums in Washington, D.C. | No consensus noting also the outcome of this broader discussion | April 18 |
| Category:African American documentaries | Rename to Category:Documentary films about African Americans | April 18 |
| Category:Agricultural shows in Canada | rename. Category:Agricultural shows in the United States would need to be nominated in a new nomination. | April 27 |
| Category:American artists by ethnic/national descent | No consensus on German & Mexican; upmerge the others to both parents | April 19 |
| Category:American people of Jewish descent by occupation | Upmerge to Category:American people of Jewish descent | April 17 |
| Category:American players of American football of Hungarian descent | Delete | April 11 |
| Category:American pornographic film actors of Hawaiian descent | rename | April 18 |
| Category:American pornographic film actors of various ethnic descent (Iranian, Chamorro, Russian, Italian, Irish, Danish, Hawaiian, German) | upmerge all to Category:American pornographic film actors, except no consensus on Hawaiian category. That can be renominated immediately. I did not keep the Chamorro one since it contained only one person, but if there is a combined category later, that article can be added to it | April 3 |
| Category:American socialist organizations opposed to communism | Delete | April 5 |
| Category:American sportspeople of Asian descent | relisted at CfD 2012 April 27 | April 19 |
| Category:Anarchist films | rename and purge. If there are films by anarchists that are not anarchism in here, they should be removed | April 12 |
| Category:Animal flight | keep | April 5 |
| Category:Anubis | Delete. Everything is already in a higher category | April 30 |
| Arabic novelists | Rename | April 11 |
| Category:Arabic-language women's writers | Upmerge to Category:Arabic-language writers & Category:Women writers | April 12 |
| Category:Archaeological artefacts | Rename. There's a trend emerging in CFDs that matching the main article name takes precedent over WP:RETAIN | April 9 |
| Category:Archaeological sites in the Republic of Ireland | No merge | April 13 |
| Armenian emigrants | No rename | April 13 |
| Category:Army Physical Training Corps soldiers | Speedy rename C2D | April 9 |
| Category:Art game developers | Merge | April 16 |
| Category:Art games | Delete | April 7 |
| Category:Articles needing images | Keep | April 28 |
| Category:Artists' muses | Delete | April 23 |
| Category:Asian American female golfers | Merge | April 19 |
| Category:Audrey Hepburn albums | keep. | April 6 |
| Category:Audrey Hepburn | keep, but prune out the husbands | April 6 |
| Category:Australian national junior sports programs | delete | April 1 |
| Austrian expatriates in the Czech lands | Delete. All are categorise in (at least) Austrian categories | April 12 |
| Category:Bacteria organized by method of differentiating | Delete. Only content has already been manually added to the merge target so no upmerge is necessary | April 27 |
| Category:Baseball in the Puerto Rico | speedy merge as obvious duplicate. (i haven't checked whether this meets the speedy criteria, but Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy.) | April 14 |
| Category:Beaches in Malaysia | Merge | April 12 |
| Category:Beeches Old Boys | Clear consensus to rename to Category:People educated at the De La Salle College (Jersey) | April 1 |
| Category:Black science fiction writers | Delete | April 12 |
| Category:Blueberry sodas | Merge to Category:Fruit sodas | April 30 |
| Category:Boats and rafts made of plastic bottles | merge the rafts to Category:Rafts, and move the people to Category:Rafting for now. There is a majority opinion to move the rafts, though some discomfort with the term "junk." I put the people in the Rafting category, but there can be more subdivision into something like Category:Raft builders if desired | April 15 |
| Category:Booker Prize | No consensus | April 20 |
| Category:Books available as e-books | Delete | April 3 |
| Category:Bridges by date | Speedy rename C2C | April 6 |
| Bridges completed by decade | merge decade categories to year categories and century categories for 1700s on. There is no clear "architecture by structure type and decade" scheme on Wikipedia. Per | April 13 |
| Buildings and structures illustrated on banknotes | Listify & delete | April 17 |
| Category:Can-Am teams | no consensus. This current category name is the product of a speedy renaming, which proceeded on the basis of "bringing a category into line with established naming conventions", even though there were 3 other exceptions. Since there was a full discussion which reached was no consensus on whether to rename those 3 other exceptions, they have been retained. I will therefore treat this discussion as a contested speedy renaming for which consensus was found not at full discussion, and restore the status quo ante bellum by reversing the speedy renaming | April 9 |
| Category:Canada places with Pakistani communities | Delete | April 10 |
| Category:Canadian sportspeople of Asian descent | relisted at CfD 2012 April 27 | April 19 |
| Category:Cars of the United States | no consensus. Editors have identified a difficulty in the categorisation of cars by country. It is now not uncommon for a company based in country A to manufacture a model in countries B and C, and sell it countries D to Z. A discussion has been opened at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Automobiles#Request_comment_on_category_renames.2Fcleanup | April 9 |
| Category:Casting (manufacturing) | No rename | April 25 |
| Category:Castles in Thailand | Merge | April 24 |
| Category:Categories by parameter | Withdrawn for now - | April 8 |
| Category:Categories by time period | rename/merge per revised nominations, except merge Category:Categories by era and Category:Categories by time period into a new Category:Categories by period (but manually separate out the geologic ones to a new Category:Categories by geological period); rename Category:American people by time period by state to Category:American people by period by state. This was a bit of a hard discussion to interpret, but I think that the nominator's edits to his nominations generally reflect the consensus that developed. If I messed up in any way, please notify me. As a final note, I point out that Category:Prehistoric animals sorted by geochronology was apparently overlooked when the corresponding plants category was nominated. There may be a need for follow-up nominations for this and other categories (eg, subcategories of some of the renamed ones) that are identified. | April 30 |
| Category:Categories | Rename | April 8 |
| Category:Category loop | speedy delete as unneeded test page. | April 30 |
| Category:CEFAT Alumni | Rename to Category:People educated at Centro de Estudios y Formación Actoral | April 30 |
| Category:Children of national leaders | Keep | April 17 |
| Christ's Hospital Old Blues | rename as proposed | April 2 |
| Category:Cities and towns of the Byzantine Empire | Rename | April 13 |
| Colonial Australia in television and film | Rename (Speedy C2C, parents cats are "Films/Television shows set in...") | April 22 |
| Category:Colonial history of Brazil | Rename to Category:History of Brazil (1500-1815) | April 8 |
| Category:Contributor to Rees's Cyclopaedia, 1802-1819 | Delete - | April 12 |
| Category:Court systems | No merge - the term "judiciary" considered to be ambiguous. - | April 25 |
| Category:Cream soda | Rename | April 30 |
| Category:Cruel Intentions | Delete | April 17 |
| Category:Deaf painters | Merge | April 12 |
| Category:Die Hard novels | upmerge to Category:Die Hard | April 1 |
| Category:Diff'rent Strokes characters | Delete | April 1 |
| Category:Dinosaurs in literature fiction | Rename to Category:Novels about dinosaurs | April 2 |
| Category:Dinosaurs in television documentaries | Split | April 8 |
| Category:Dinosaurs in television fiction | Rename | April 8 |
| Category:District of Columbia templates | Merge to Category:Washington, D.C. templates | April 5 |
| Category:Dot-com people | Delete | April 27 |
| Category:Dot-com | merge to Category:Online companies | April 26 |
| Category:Eastern Kentucky Lady Colonels women's basketball coaches | Speedy rename C2C | April 19 |
| Category:Electricians | a bit complicated to explain, so please bear with me. There is a consensus here to rename Category:Electricians to Category:Electrical trades. However, the original removal of biographical articles from Category:Electricians was not upheld at DRV March 22, so as Fayenatic london noted, the current category also has to be considered as if it contained the biographies of individual electricians. So the first effect of all this is that there will be a new Category:Electrical trades to contain the articles on trades which currently populate the category. Since there is no consensus here to convert Category:Electricians to a list, the second effect of this discussion is to that Category:Electricians is repopulated with individual biographical articles |
April 1 |
| Category:Elizabeth Taylor | keep. | April 6 |
| Category:English transsexuals | Delete/Upmerge to both Category:LGBT people from England and Category:Transgender and transsexual people. - | April 24 |
| Category:European Energy Centre | Delete | April 5 |
| Category:Events at the Millennium Stadium | Listify & delete | April 12 |
| Category:Evolution | no consensus. | April 5 |
| Category:Executed Nazi leaders | Rename/merge | April 13 |
| Category:EXO (band) | Delete | April 12 |
| Category:Facebook groups | No consensus | April 17 |
| Category:Fellows of learned societies | no consensus. | April 12 |
| Category:Female American rock drummers | Double upmerge | April 16 |
| Category:Female British racing drivers | Merge | April 23 |
| Category:Female NASCAR drivers | Upmerge | April 16 |
| Category:Fictional MI6 agents | Rename to Category:Fictional British secret agents; revisit if this precise form is problematic | April 12 |
| Category:Files (hand tool) | Keep | April 28 |
| Category:Files with short filenames | Already merged | April 12 |
| Category:Films directed by Carl Rinsch | Delete | April 30 |
| Category:Fire departments of Asia | Merge without prejudice to breaking out by country and, if needed once enough by-country categories are created, by continent. Omce there are enough. That is not now | April 25 |
| Category:Flora of Southern China | Delete | April 28 |
| Category:Florida Architecture, 100 Years, 100 Places | Listfy & delete | April 27 |
| Category:Former students by secondary school in New Zealand | Rename all | April 2 |
| Category:Franz Lehár | Delete | April 26 |
| Category:Free data recovery software | - No consensus to merge - | April 4 |
| Category:GA-Class Iron Maiden articles | Delete | April 25 |
| Category:Gasoline engines | no consensus to rename. ··· | April 14 |
| Category:Gay Hindus | Merge to Category: LGBT Jews, Category:LGBT Christians and Category:LGBT Hindus, respectively | April 27 |
| Category:Gay memoirists | Delete | April 27 |
| Gay people | Delete & upmerge | April 26 |
| Category:GMA Network, Inc. | Delete | April 30 |
| Category:Grand National Party and Category:Grand National Party politicians | speedy rename both per speedy criterion C2D | April 24 |
| Category:Great Basin tribes | Merge | April 11 |
| Category:Guild of Copy Editors | Speedy rename C2C | April 18 |
| Category:Gulf Coast League Phillies players | Spedy rename C2C | April 6 |
| Halls of Fame in Ireland | rename to ROI subcategory, then recreate as parent. This could easily be overturned by a wider discussion | April 15 |
| Category:Harpsichord builders | speedy rename (C2C) | April 5 |
| Category:Hate | no consensus. However, I am nominating it for Speedy renaming to Category:Hatred to match the head article Hatred | April 11 |
| Category:Health and the European Union | Withdrawn by nominator | April 4 |
| Category:Health care markets | Delete | April 17 |
| Category:Health effectors | Rename | April 18 |
| Category:Health in Southeast Asia | UpMerge - No prejudice against re-creation should consensus of a future RfC agree to create such a categorisation scheme for regional parts of Asia (such as "Southeast Asia"). - | April 9 |
| Category:Health in the People's Republic of China | merge. The merge votes significantly outweigh the others, but it's important to know that there are other China-related discussions going on now, and this might be overruled by one or more of them in the near future | April 5 |
| Category:Health in Tibet | Keep | April 28 |
| Category:Health organisations in the United Kingdom | Merge | April 8 |
| Healthcare by subdivision of the United States | No consensus to merge. I also looked over Also, considering the arguments (on various "sides") concerning this, there would seem to be sufficient cause to allow for revisiting (renominating/re-discussing) Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2012_March_28#Category:Healthcare_by_country. - | April 13 |
| Category:Healthcare in England by county | Speedy rename/merge C2C | April 5 |
| Category:Healthcare infrastructure | merge to Category:Medical and health organizations | April 18 |
| Category:Healthcare law | merge. Re-subdivision could be considered if someone could provide some sources that would justify having two separate categorization schemes. Although one can draw a distinction based on the dictionary definition of the words used, in practice it appears that there is no distinction made between these two areas of law. As an indication of this, there is no separate article for Healthcare law. The relevant distiction is probably between Health law and Medical law. (On a personal note, I took a course once called "Health Law", and it covered issues related to "health" and issues related to "healthcare", and I have never seen a law school offer two separate courses in the field that would divide health law in this manner, so I am inclinded to think that the distinction is artificial when it comes to law.) | April 27 |
| Category:Healthcare software | No merge | April 11 |
| Category:Hector Berlioz | no consensus. — | April 26 |
| Category:Heinrich Schütz | Delete | April 26 |
| Category:Highpoints in the Caribbean | Delete | April 3 |
| Category:Hispanic and Latino American women in the arts | no consensus - Apparently "something" should be done, just no consensus on what. Feel free to renominate. - | April 19 |
| Category:History of Albania during Ottoman administration | Merge | April 23 |
| Category:History of Brazil by time | Merge | April 29 |
| Category:History of Cumberland, MD-WV-PA | Rename to Category:History of Cumberland, MD-WV MSA. Revisit the whole tree if necessary | April 25 |
| Category:Hospitals in Ireland | Keep and repopulate - | April 11 |
| Category:Husbands of Elizabeth Taylor | G4 speedy delete as a recreation | April 6 |
| Illegal immigrants to the United States | No rename | April 9 |
| Category:Images of Yes (band) | nothing. No action was proposed, and no discussion took place. If the nominator wants something done to the category, zie should propose merger, deletion, renaming or whatever. Use of WP:TWINKLE makes that easy | April 5 |
| Category:Indian automobiles | Withdrawn by nominator | April 8 |
| Category:International Accounting Standards | Rename | April 22 |
| Category:International buses | Speedy rename C2C | April 9 |
| Category:Iranian heads of Judicial System | no consensus. If the naming gets sorted out, this can be nominated again | April 5 |
| Irish emigrants to the United States | No rename | April 15 |
| Category:Irish unionism and Category:Scottish unionism | rename to Category:Unionism in Ireland and Category:Unionism in Scotland respectively. – | April 30 |
| Category:Isle of Lismore | speedy merge to pre-existing Category:Lismore, Scotland, which was created about 40 hours prior to Category:Isle of Lismore being created. The first-created category generally has priority until consensus determines otherwise. As noted, if a rename of the category is desired, the best starting place would be a nomination at WP:RM to move Lismore, Scotland to Isle of Lismore. Until the article is moved, the standard convention would be for the category to match the article name. | April 29 |
| Category:Italian Vedutisti | Rename | April 16 |
| Category:J-ska | Delete | April 2 |
| Japanese films | no consensus. This is indeed a logical way to subdivide the films by year categories--but only if it happens. If a month goes by and these are the only ones subdivided, these should be nominated for up merging again, with the standards for keeping being raised quite a bit. (I deleted one of the categories, as it was empty.) | April 4 |
| Category:Jarlabanke runestones | Upmerge to Category:Runestones in Uppland | April 2 |
| Category:Jewish documentary films | relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 May 11 with parent category for further discussion. – | April 26 |
| Category:Johann Strauss II | Upmerge to Category:Strauss family | April 23 |
| Category:Journalists imprisoned for refusing to reveal sources | nomination withdrawn (self-close by nominator). The grounds for deletion no longer exist, because the category is now adequately populated. There are no remaining votes to delete, so a self-closure is permissible | April 9 |
| Category:Kapuso | Delete | April 30 |
| Category:Ken Batcher | delete | April 5 |
| Category:Kickstarter projects | withdrawn by nominator | April 24 |
| Kurdish-language writers | keep | April 18 |
| Category:Lakes in New Mexico | Keep | April 3 |
| Category:Lasse Berghagen | Delete | April 16 |
| Lesbians | Delete & upmerge | April 26 |
| Category:LGBT American people of Mexican descent | dual merge to Category:LGBT Hispanic and Latino American people and Category:American people of Mexican descent | April 10 |
| Category:LGBT black British people | Merge | April 24 |
| Category:Locomotion | rename to Category:Locomotion (biological) | April 4 |
| Category:Management Education | speedy merge to pre-existing and properly capitalized Category:Management education. | April 30 |
| Category:March of Time | Rename to Category:The March of Time films | April 16 |
| Category:Matsu | no consensus to upmerge, so rename to Category:Matsu Islands | April 17 |
| Category:Medical informatics | Merge | April 7 |
| Category:Medical software | No consensus | April 11 |
| Category:Member of American Legislative Exchange Council | Listify & delete | April 24 |
| Category:Members of the pre-1707 Parliament of England | Rename to Category:Members of the Parliament of England (pre-1707) | April 18 |
| Category:Middlesex County Cricket Club Executive Board Members | Articlify | April 30 |
| Category:Misnomers | Delete | April 15 |
| Category:Miss Puerto Rico winners from Ponce | merge as nominated | April 18 |
| Category:Monarchic history of Brazil | Rename to Category:History of Brazil (1815-1889) | April 8 |
| Category:Motor vehicles manufactured in the United States | see below. | April 8 |
| Category:Municipalities of Oslo | Delete | April 30 |
| Category:Native American people | Keep. Not a snowball's chance in the domain of Phil, and Wikipedia reflects reality, not rejecting it and substituting its own. The term used in the real world is "Native American", without a hyphen, dash, en-dash, em-dash, or Dash Rendar | April 19 |
| Category:NCAA Division I FBS football ranking movements | Delete | April 16 |
| Category:Nepalese entrepreneurs | Merge | April 9 |
| Category:Neurobiologists | Merge | April 5 |
| Category:NGC astronomical objects | Rename. There may need to be a wider nomination to consider the whole tree and weigh the lack of ambiguity within the field against the perceived confusion outside it | April 11 |
| Category:Non-H visual novels available in English | Delete. Merger performed to ensure all properly categorised | April 28 |
| Category:Notable faculty Forest Lake Area High School | UpMerge to Category:American schoolteachers. - | April 11 |
| Category:Notable persons in Chiropractic | delete | April 18 |
| Category:Nuclear program of the People's Republic of China | Speedy close - Let's hold off on CfD noms of PRoC/China and RoC/Taiwan until things are sorted out (per the ongoing consensual discussions) and the the dust has settled a bit more. - | April 9 |
| Category:Number-one singles in Colombia | Delete | April 27 |
| Category:Old Alleynians | Rename - | April 7 |
| Old Carthusians, Salopians, and Wykehamists | Rename - | April 17 |
| Category:Old Etonians | Rename - Also, as is common practice, regardless of what the presumed intent of a nomination (or nominator for that matter) may or may not be, if substantive/argumentation discussion occurs, an XfD discussion should be treated as any other XfD. This is similar to why we do not close XfDs as "withdrawn" if substantive discussion/argumentation has occurred. - | April 14 |
| Old Fooian category redirects | Present consensus is to rename/delete on June 22, 2012 pursuant to hatted nomination list. Assuming consensus does not change, that should occur. Separate consideration is requested, at that time, for Eton and Harrow | April 1 |
| Category:Old Greshamians | Option 2 and purge of those only attended schools earlier/younger than secondary schools, such as middle or elementary schools. (Though leaving implementation of the latter to editorial discretion.) - | April 14 |
| Category:Old Haileyburians | Rename to Category:People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College - if you need a bot to do the category changing on the pages, let me know | April 2 |
| Category:Old Harrovians | Rename - | April 15 |
| Category:Old Westminsters | Rename - Note that primary topic is typically trumped by precision when dealing with categories (as opposed to articles). - | April 23 |
| Category:Online commenting available through Facebook | Delete | April 17 |
| Category:Open universities | delete | April 4 |
| Category:Orders with sash worn on the left shoulder | Delete | April 23 |
| Organisations based in Ireland | No rename | April 15 |
| Category:Oriya writers and Gujarati writers | Rename | April 12 |
| Category:PDFlink without a parameter | Delete | April 12 |
| Category:Pedestrian bridges | Merge to Category:Footbridges per main article; revisit if that's moed | April 25 |
| Category:People educated at the De La Salle College (Jersey) | Rename | April 22 |
| Category:People from islands in the Slate Islands of Scotland | administrative close: all three categories were emptied and speedily deleted per G7. | April 29 |
| Category:People from Karelia | no consensus. It seems that Wikipedia has not yet developed a stable consensus on how to use political boundaries for the geographical categorisation of historical people. In most cases, this is uncontentious, because blatant anachronisms can be avoided through the use of narrow geographical areas, so that Category:People from Foo (city) remains accurate even though Foo city has at various times been part of Ruritania, the Republic of Narnia, and the Narnia-Ruritanian Empire ... but such change does not always happen by the shuffling of neatly consistent blocs of territory. Provinces can be merged or divided, making it hard to establish a consistent nomenclature which avoids anachronism and/or ambiguity. In this case, the discussion here seemed on initial inspeation to be rather pointless, because the nominated category currently contains only 2 articles: List of Karelians and Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde. However, that seems to be the case only because an editor has today created Category:People from the Republic of Karelia and populated it. I think it's unfortunate that this action was taken unilaterally, particularly since it was done by an editor who was aware of this discussion (having contributed to it), and should not have pre-empted its outcome. (A WP:TROUT is on its way). Nonetheless, the sub-categorisation does not appear to me to be a perverse outcome, so I will let it stand ... but since it was implemented out-of-process, editors who disagree with it should feel free to make any new nominations for renaming or merger, without any need for a delay after this closure |
April 5 |
| Category:People in a first-cousin relationship | Delete | April 30 |
| Category:People of Hawaiian descent | Merge | April 18 |
| Category:People who have portrayed vampires | Delete | April 15 |
| Category:People with Dupuytren's contracture | Delete | April 13 |
| Category:People with spasmodic dysphonia | delete | April 4 |
| Philosophers by language | Delete Category:German-language philosophers, Merge Category:Latin-writing philosophers to Category:Roman era philosophers, Merge Category:Urdu-language philosophers to Category:Pakistani philosophers, Rename Category:Arabic-language philosophers to Category:Medieval Arab philosophers | April 16 |
| Category:PlayStation | rename. | April 13 |
| Category:Poles | Rename to Category:Polar regions of the Earth. There's no support for the current title and numerous alternatives proposed but this one has the most support. Revisit if necessary | April 24 |
| Category:Polish independence and revolutionary organizations | Split | April 12 |
| Category:Political posters using an octopus | speedy merge to Category:Political posters per WP:IAR. No need to waste time on this | April 18 |
| Category:Portal box templates using obsolete parameters | Delete | April 20 |
| Category:Porte class gate vessels | Keep | April 30 |
| Category:Pre-Schism Christian church councils | delete. | April 14 |
| Category:Precolonial history of Brazil | Rename to Category:History of Brazil before 1500 | April 8 |
| PRoC/China-RoC/Taiwan | Speedy Close - Even if this wasn't looking like WP:SNOW, these topics (PRoC/China and RoC/Taiwan) have recently undergone some major discussions, and discussion is still ongoing on how to sort it out. Having cydebot (The helpful category bot) arbitrarily move things around would hinder rather than help the editorial process in this case. - | April 10 |
| Pseudonymous categories | Keep all | April 18 |
| Category:Pseudonymous rappers | keep. | April 11 |
| Category:Puerto Rico First Ladies from Ponce | Upmerge | April 27 |
| Category:Quemoy | Speedy rename C2D | April 17 |
| Category:Ranking movements | Delete | April 16 |
| Category:Ravians | Rename | April 14 |
| Category:Recipients of the 150 Years Commemoration of Bangkok Medal | Delete | April 24 |
| Category:Recipients of the Red Cross Medal of Appreciation (Thailand) | Delete | April 24 |
| Category:Recovery | Delete | April 3 |
| Category:Redirect pages for Desert Hot Springs, California | Delete | April 19 |
| Category:Reed aerophones | Reverse merge | April 23 |
| Category:Regions of Azawad | Delete without prejudice to later creation. Given the circumstances of Azawad it will take a while before arrangements are clear | April 13 |
| Category:Religious groups by continent | Delete | April 3 |
| Category:Religious groups in Europe | Delete | April 3 |
| Category:Religious groups | delete. | April 5 |
| Category:Republican history of Brazil | Rename to Category:History of Brazil (1889 to present) | April 8 |
| Category:Richard Burton | Delete | April 28 |
| Rivers | delete per WP:SMALLCAT, i.e. a small category will never have more than a few members. Currently contains only the head article | April 8 |
| Category:Roman Catholic cathedrals in Côte d'Ivoire | Kept | April 5 |
| Category:Roman Catholic cathedrals in Moscow | merge per nominator | April 5 |
| Roman Catholic Religious Sisters | merge all to new categories named "Fooish Roman Catholic religious sisters and nuns" | April 5 |
| Category:Rosarians | Merge as proposed | April 17 |
| Category:Royal Family of Hawaii | rename to Category:Royalty of the Kingdom of Hawaii | April 10 |
| Category:RT (TV network) programs | No consensus | April 17 |
| Category:Rules | keep. | April 5 |
| Category:Santiago, Chile | No consensus | April 20 |
| Category:Scientists by learned society | Merge to Category:Members of learned societies | April 12 |
| Category:Seasons in English cricket | No rename | April 18 |
| Category:Serbian World War II monuments and memorials | speedy rename (C2C) | April 1 |
| Several PRC categories | Speedy close Let's let the discussions (and subsequent consensual editorial work) continue before nominating here, please. - | April 8 |
| Category:Shake It Up: Live 2 Dance | Delete | April 9 |
| Category:Ships sunk in 1915 | merge. | April 6 |
| Shipwrecks by country | rename to "of." There is a strong desire from all commenters to do something, so this can't be closed as no consensus. The majority of commenters are for the "of" form, though "in" has strong supporters too. There is some concern that it changes the scope of the category, and it does indeed seem to. So some contents may need to be recategorized | April 30 |
| Category:Singers who performed in Classical Arabic | rename to Category:Singers who perform in Classical Arabic | April 5 |
| Slovene and Slovenian clean-up | Merge/Delete | April 30 |
| Category:Slovene painters | Merge | April 23 |
| Category:Slovene people | Speedy rename C2C | April 18 |
| Category:Socrates family | Rename | April 26 |
| Category:Solar eclipse of 1893 April 16 | merge to Category:Solar System images pending transfer to Commons. The files are already tagged for transfer | April 12 |
| Category:Solar eclipse of 2010 January 15 | merge to Category:Solar System images pending transfer to Commons. The files are already tagged for transfer | April 12 |
| Category:Solid freeform fabrication | Merge | April 17 |
| Some X people by Kurdish-descent categories | No consensus - Feel free to renominate (possibly as separate nominations). - | April 18 |
| Category:Songs from Yessongs (film) | delete. All songs already categorized under Category:Yes (band) songs. — | April 24 |
| South African Old Boys | Rename without prejudice to a wider nomination of the entire South African tree | April 21 |
| Category:South American ungulates | rename | April 5 |
| Category:Spacecraft missing information | No merge; rename to Category:Wikipedia spacecraft articles missing information | April 12 |
| Category:SpaceX space launch vehicles | Rename. If the various category trees need broadening/branching in the future, that can be considered at that point. - | April 25 |
| Category:Sports in the Marshall Islands | Reverse merge | April 23 |
| Category:Sports in the Marshall Islands |  Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2012 April 23 |
April 15 |
| St. Mary's University alumni | Rename to Category:St. Mary's University, Texas alumni | April 9 |
| Sting categories | Speedy rename C2C/D | April 16 |
| Category:Stub categories | keep visible (i.e. do not hide) | April 6 |
| Subcategories of Category:Gondola lifts by country | No consensus on Japan; upmerge rest to Category:Gondola lifts and Category:Transport in (Country name) | April 19 |
| Category:Supergroups | Rename | April 23 |
| Category:Taiwan island group | Already merged | April 14 |
| Taiwan | Close both Let's let the current discussions and consensual editorial work continue before nominating to CfD. - | April 7 |
| Category:Television series by HIT Entertainment | No rename | April 23 |
| Tennessee State Tigers men's basketball categories | Speedy rename C2C | April 19 |
| Category:Tennis umpires | Delete | April 8 |
| Category:Terrestrial crocodiles and Category:Marine crocodiles | Rename | April 7 |
| Texas Colonial People | rename to Category:People of Spanish Texas, per nominator (and also per parent Category:Spanish Texas and subcat Category:Governors of Spanish Texas | April 10 |
| Category:The Police images | keep, but move most contents into Category:The Police album covers. Singles covers are part of album covers categories per this discussion | April 16 |
| Category:The Tick | Rename | April 13 |
| Category:Theatrical producers | Merge | April 11 |
| Category:Theorems in Galois theory | no consensus. However, the category is empty, so I will speedy delete it per WP:CSD#C1, without prejudice to recreating it. Editors may wish to have a wider discussion on the "Theorems in" subcats of Category:Mathematical theorems, possibly at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mathematics |
April 23 |
| Category:Theorems in Galois theory | relisted to CfD 2012 April 23 | April 15 |
| Things in film and television | split all per nominator | April 10 |
| Category:Unionism | rename to Category:British unionism. There is clear consensus that the category has to be renamed to avoid connection with organized labor. There is unsurprising conflict about what it should be renamed to, so I'm matching the article title | April 17 |
| Category:United States federal healthcare legislation | rename. The sources that have been provided are convincing, and it makes the stated opposition to the rename look an awful lot like an artificial distinction based on word definitions rather than on how the terminology is used in practice. | April 30 |
| United States places with Orthodox Jewish communities | Listify | April 19 |
| Category:United States places with Pakistani communities | listify and delete. However, the category is currently empty, so as closing admin all I can do is to delete it | April 10 |
| Category:United States Supreme Court decisions that overrule | Delete | April 24 |
| Category:Units_of_chemical_measurement | Keep/Withdrawn | April 29 |
| University of Hawaii baseball | Rename; both C2D (albiet a redirect) and a non-controversial change to match the actual current name of the team | April 28 |
| Category:User eml:pra-N | Delete | April 30 |
| Category:User rn-2 | Delete | April 30 |
| Venetian emigrants to the United States | Merge to Category:Italian emigrants to the United States | April 12 |
| Category:Victims of antisemitism | Keep & rename to Category:Victims of antisemitic violence | April 16 |
| Virginia Colonial people | No consensus | April 15 |
| Category:Visitor attractions in Japan by location | Rename | April 14 |
| Category:Watches (specific model) | Rename to Category:Watch models | April 23 |
| West Indian Communities in the United States | Listify | April 16 |
| West Virginia in the American Revolution | merge both as nominated | April 15 |
| Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from FOLDOC | delete. | April 11 |
| Category:Wikipedia categories named after Scientology figures | upmerge to Category:Wikipedia categories named after religious figures | April 5 |
| Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Weakley County | speedy rename C2C. Speedy renames can proceed if uncontested after 48 hours (see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy), and this one has been uncontested for 7 days | April 7 |
| Category:Wikipedia templates needing music examples | Delete | April 3 |
| Category:Wikipedian who like the Matrix series | delete, without prejudice to the creation of a new Category:Wikipedians interested in The Matrix (franchise) to assist collaboration amongst those wikipedians who are actually interested in collaborating on related articles | April 3 |
| Category:Wikipedians in Balochistan (Pakistan) | Rename | April 8 |
| Category:Wikipedians in Punjab (Pakistan) | Rename | April 8 |
| Category:Wikipedians interested in American history | Merge | April 3 |
| Wikipedians who like X | Wikipedians who dislike user-like categories, I mean delete | April 17 |
| Category:Wikipedians who wish Bish and Giano would come back | no consensus. This is a very suspect category concept, far more suited to a user box than a category. But there really isn't anything that prevents its existence (except perhaps the "overtly narrow" guideline). There's no way to read this discussion as favoring "delete." However, this could be a pathogenic category, leading to the creation of other, less positive and more narrow "user about user" categories. It's worth watching for a little while, seeing if it gets obviated by the return of these editors, or obviated by their continued absence. I expect we'll see this one nominated again | April 1 |
| Category:WikiProject Phineas and Ferb members | speedy delete as housekeeping (G6) / page dependent on a deleted page (G8) | April 28 |
| Category:Wilderness areas of Tasmania | keep. No support for the proposal to delete, and clear grounds to speedy close since the same proposal was rejected in a CfD only a week previously | April 6 |
| Category:Wireless locating | no action for now. Further discussion is needed to decide whether the hatnote of this category should become an article called Wireless locating, and to what extent this overlaps with Location awareness. Editors should feel free to start a new CfD discussion when those issues have been resolved | April 5 |
| Category:Women Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery | Merge to | April 21 |
| Category:Women's competitions | Delete | April 26 |
| Category:Women-owned businesses | Delete | April 26 |
| Category:Works by Agatha Christie | Keep | April 21 |
| Category:Works by period | rename to Category:Works by period of setting. There is a clear consensus for change, but no consensus on what to change it to, so I found something I think most commenters could live with. (The construction "time period" contains what in my opinion is an unneeded "time," so I'm nominating the two other categories that use it here.) | April 14 |
| Works by time period of setting | Rename | April 29 |
| Category:Works of Pope Leo XIII | speedy merge | April 24 |
| Category:World Heritage Sites in the Kingdom of Denmark | Speedy rename C2C | April 4 |
| Category:World War II ghetto inmates | Rename | April 13 |
| Category:World War II ghetto inmates | withdrawn by nominator | April 4 |
| Category:World War II ghettos | rename per nominator | April 5 |
| Category:World War II Nazi concentration camps in former Yugoslavia | Speedy rename C2C | April 26 |
| Category:Yahoo! Groups | No consensus to delete now; purge and then revisit | April 17 |
| Category:Years in British politics | No consensus to rename - | April 7 |
| Category:Years in Canadian sports | C2C speedy to Category:Canadian sport by year per WP:ENGVAR | April 29 |
| Category:Yes (band) Yessongs songs | Merge to Category:Yes (band) songs | April 23 |
| Category:Yes (band) Yessongs | Delete | April 23 |
| Category:Yuvan Shankar Raja | Delete | April 26 |