Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2016 October index
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| 1715 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies | keep. – | October 21 |
| 1716 establishments in Texas and related categories | withdrawn. – | October 21 |
| Category:1951 Missouri Valley Conference baseball season | delete | October 4 |
| Category:20th-century American politicians | The result of this discussion seems to be to keep this category. Both because there are more "keep" votes than "delete" votes, and also because of the "procedural keep" votes. In reply to the argument raised by several editors that this category was deleted in the 2010 discussion, I would like to say that I see reason to differentiate between this category and the others like it which were restored on one side, and those which remain deleted on the other, in that these categories are more defining and are part of a logically built category tree, which does not hold true for the other categories | October 2 |
| Category:20th-century Latin-American activists | delete | October 4 |
| Category:Action adventure films | closed as wrong venue for the proposal. CFD is not for proposing the creation of new categories | October 6 |
| Category:Ancient Roman forts | keep | October 5 |
| Category:Antonio Campos (director) | procedural close. Category has just been deleted per WP:G7. (non-admin closure) | October 23 |
| Category:Art and Entertainment | speedied as empty category | October 20 |
| Category:Billy Bush | delete | October 13 |
| Category:Black liberation movements in the British Empire | delete, though it's best not to empty the category mid-discussion | October 5 |
| Category:Blue Peter presenters | keep | October 3 |
| Category:Boomerang Throwers from Colombia | delete (non-admin closure) | October 21 |
| Category:British Merchant Navy personnel of World War I | rename | October 5 |
| Category:Buildings of Downtown Houston (demolished) | merge | October 10 |
| Category:Buildings of Downtown Houston | merge to Category:Buildings and structures in Houston. (The "Houston, Texas" categories were recently renamed to "Houston".) | October 5 |
| Category:Bulgarian companies established in 2007 | no consensus either to delete or to rename. (The meaning of the nomination is unclear to me since the format of all of the subcategories of the parent Category:Companies established in 2007 by country is "FOOian companies established in 2007".) | October 5 |
| Category:Canadian art history | rename (non-admin closure) | October 10 |
| Category:Cartographers of the Mideast | rename | October 19 |
| Category:Categories by nationality and century | delete | October 9 |
| Category:Catholic schools in Copenhagen | rename | October 4 |
| Category:Chatterton baronets | delete after having ensured that the both articles are in Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom already. (non-admin closure) | October 13 |
| Children's comedy series | rename | October 2 |
| Category:Cities of district significance | The result of this discussion was delete and upmerge articles and categories as needed (which latter task I took upon myself and completed). The argument of Aleksandr Grigoryev against the proposed deletion was successfully countered by Ezhiki. Although in general there is room for categories that bundle country-specific categories, that is true where such parent categories are either global or locally defined themselves. What I mean to say is that if "cities of district significance" were a term in global use, we could have this category. Likewise we could have the category if it would be defined for example as "cities of district significance in former Soviet Union countries". This it is not, and such a rename has not been proposed here, so there is no justification in this case to have a bundling category. At the same time I think there is room to create categories similar to Category:Cities of district significance in Ukraine for Russia and other former Soviet Union states, and at such time a bundling category, properly named, could be created | October 9 |
| Category:Clive Palmer | delete (non-admin closure) | October 9 |
| Category:College television series | rename | October 4 |
| Category:Colorado Springs mayoral candidates | delete (non-admin closure) | October 9 |
| Category:Commerce | delete | October 2 |
| Category:Criticism and refusal of work | merge | October 15 |
| Category:Crude oil companies | delete after having ensured that the content is already in Category:Oil pipeline companies | October 16 |
| Category:Cultural depictions of Roger II of Sicily | merge | October 13 |
| Category:Currency of Belgium | rename to "Category:Currencies of Belgium" per WP:C2C | October 16 |
| Category:Digital newspapers by region | The result of this discussion is to rename and move as proposed and for the reasons of the proposing editor. The only dissenting editor has not explained his reasons, and the merits of the proposal are self-evident | October 2 |
| Category:Disciplines by type | delete per precedent. (I will upmerge a couple of subcats to Category:Categories by type.) – | October 22 |
| Category:Economywide country studies | delete | October 8 |
| Category:Elk and red deer | I understand why this discussion has had little participation, being that it concerns matters which are being debated by expert biologists. The inevitable result of that fact in this case is that there is no consensus for the proposed split. Nevertheless, Justice Aharon Barak has said that a judge can render a decision in matters he knows nothing about, based on judicial reasoning. Therefore, I would like to add, that the best course of action in this case, which is controversial both from an academic point of view as well as in view of the likely confusion mentioned by Fayenatic london, would be to delete Category:Elk and red deer, and upmerge all articles in it to Category:Cervus, which already contains some of the articles anyway. However, since such an option has not been mentioned in the discussion, I leave it up to others to propose it | October 9 |
| Category:Entertainers from the Bronx | keep. (non-admin closure) | October 8 |
| Category:Films featured in Elvira's Movie Macabre episodes | delete | October 16 |
| Category:Films set in New Rochelle, New York | merge | October 11 |
| Category:First Spouses of the Philippines | rename | October 2 |
| Category:Football clubs in Braga and others | merge/delete to Category:Sport in Braga or Category:Sport in Setúbal District (non-admin closure) | October 23 |
| Category:Former Royal Academicians | merge. (non-admin closure) | October 23 |
| Category:Horn African countries | merge (non-admin closure) | October 5 |
| Category:Hot in Cleveland | Nomination withdrawn - With the belated revelation that there is a subcategory being added, I'm withdrawing this nomination | October 22 |
| Category:Hyderabad, India culture | merged as a thing that could have been handled speedy instead of needing debate | October 6 |
| Category:Indian male architects | delete; upmerge contents to Category:Indian architects | October 4 |
| Category:Influential sport horse sires | rename to Category:Sport horse sires | October 1 |
| Category:Iron mines in Australia | rename. (non-admin closure) | October 17 |
| Category:Jesamine's Carinderia | delete (non-admin closure) | October 21 |
| Category:Jimmy Gilmer and the Fireballs songs | merge (non-admin closure) | October 24 |
| Category:Kill Screen | delete | October 18 |
| Category:Labor terminology |  Relisted at 2016 OCT 27 CFD |
October 14 |
| Category:Lethbridge baronets | delete after moving the two baronets articles to Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. (non-admin closure) | October 13 |
| Category:LGBT chambers of commerce | merge to Category:LGBT business organizations and Category:Chambers of commerce (non-admin closure) | October 21 |
| Category:LGBT people opposing same-sex marriage | relisting on current date, since as of right now this is a deadlocked stale discussion that's unlikely to attract any new input | October 8 |
| Category:Local government ministries | keep (non-admin closure) | October 23 |
| Nagorno-Karabakh Republic stub categories and templates | delete (non-admin closure). The category is currently empty | October 1 |
| Category:One-letter disambiguation pages | delete | October 19 |
| Category:Organisations based in Khulna | keep (non-admin closure) | October 21 |
| Category:Palermo Stone hieroglyphs 24th century BC | rename. – | October 21 |
| Category:Patrons of Population Matters | delete. (non-admin closure) | October 15 |
| Category:People educated at City of Bath Boys' School | keep (non-admin closure) | October 21 |
| Category:People from Babergh | keep (non-admin closure) | October 9 |
| Category:People from Brentwood, New Hampshire | keep (non-admin closure) | October 3 |
| Category:People from Madison, Tennessee | merge (non-admin closure) | October 12 |
| Category:PlayStation 3 games without trophy support | delete | October 7 |
| Category:PLoS Computational Biology articles | delete. (non-admin closure) | October 14 |
| Category:Political engineering | delete | October 9 |
| Category:Political party alliances in Taiwan | delete. Category is currently empty (non-admin closure) | October 8 |
| Category:Priests trained at King's College London | Relisted at 2016 OCT 25 CFD, since category was not tagged with Template:Cfm |
October 12 |
| Category:Production and organizations | delete | October 5 |
| Category:Railway Teams | split. @Fayenatic london: I will have the bot rename Category:Railway Teams to Category:Railway sports teams and then a subcategory can be created | October 7 |
| Raktavija | procedural close. This is the wrong place to get articles renamed; see instead the instructions at Wikipedia:Requested moves (non-admin closure) | October 15 |
| Category:Retractions of Donald Trump presidential campaign endorsements | delete | October 11 |
| Category:Rolling animals | no consensus | October 1 |
| Category:Scouting and Guiding in the Palestinian territories | rename to Category:Scouting and Guiding in Palestine. (non-admin closure) | October 13 |
| Category:Smear campaigns | delete. (non-admin closure) | October 14 |
| Category:Soap&Skin | delete. (non-admin closure) | October 14 |
| Category:Songs written by Allen Ritter | delete | October 1 |
| Category:Songs written by Cardiak | delete | October 1 |
| Spiders by country | The result of this discussion no consensus. The three editors who commented on this proposal all mentioned that the proposed upmerges are problematic, and there is no point in the proposed deleting without them. In addition I'd like to point out that we have several "Beast by country" categories, like the well-populated Category:Birds by country and less well-populated categories like Category:Dogs by country and others. And since many academic studies are limited to country boundaries, for reasons of financing and other restrictions of a practical nature, the division by country does actually make sense. Even if other animals do not respect country boundaries (as pointed out in the discussion), man does | October 9 |
| Category:Sportspeople from Kėdainiai | merge as nominated. No dual merge needed, all articles are already in the tree of Category:Lithuanian basketball players. (non-admin closure) | October 15 |
| Category:Tang Prize | delete | October 3 |
| Category:Television series created by Barbara Hall (TV producer) | keep. – | October 17 |
| Category:Terrorist incidents in Hīt | delete and re-categorize single article | October 15 |
| Category:Thomas Parran Jr. | delete. (non-admin closure) | October 14 |
| Category:Transport Research | rename to Category:Transport research organisations | October 10 |
| Category:Two-letter disambiguation pages | delete | October 10 |
| Category:Typhoons in Alaska | merge Category:Typhoons in Alaska and Category:Hurricanes in Alaska to Category:Tropical cyclones in Alaska (non-admin closure) | October 8 |
| Category:Uncracked codes and ciphers | rename. It appears that nominator already implemented the rename. (non-admin closure) | October 7 |
| Category:United States presidential election in Colorado, 2004 | triple upmerge (non-admin closure) | October 24 |
| Category:Warrants issued in Hong Kong Stock Exchange | delete | October 17 |
| Category:Wikipedia bibliography | delete. (non-admin closure) | October 14 |
| Category:Works based on Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment | rename. (Color me amazed that such a scheme exists.) | October 7 |
| Years in Cornwall | merge | October 4 |
| Category:Yugoslav Committee | delete | October 10 |