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Category Decision Discussion_log
2018 sports-related lists rename February 2
Category:2020 United States Green Party presidential campaigns dual merge. (non-admin closure) February 16
Category:20th Century Fox rename. (non-admin closure) February 18
Category:Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Interviewees delete. (non-admin closure) February 7
Category:Albanian trap musicians merge to newly created Category:Trap musicians February 26
Category:Alleged aircraft–UFO incidents and near misses rename. (non-admin closure) February 5
Category:Ambassadors of the Maldives rename and redirect. – February 25
Category:American comedians of Egyptian descent merge to Category:American people of Egyptian descent and Category:American comedians. – February 24
Category:American comedians of Iraqi descent merge to Category:American people of Iraqi descent. Already merged to comedians category below (see "Lebanese" discussion). – February 24
Category:American comedians of Jordanian descent merge to Category:American people of Jordanian descent. – February 24
Category:American comedians of Lebanese descent merge to Category:American people of Lebanese descent and Category:American comedians of Arab descent, since the latter is defining for the two current members here. – February 24
Category:American comedians of Palestinian descent dual merge as all five member pages do refer to Arab-American or Arab culture. – February 27
Category:American journalists of Burmese descent merge February 16
Category:American journalists of Lebanese descent merge to Category:American people of Lebanese descent and Category:American journalists. – February 24
Category:American journalists of Palestinian descent merge; there is no consensus about removing the members from the Arab hierarchy, but most of the member pages do make significant mention of Arab-American or Arab media, so this will be a dual merge. – February 27
Category:American journalists of Spanish descent merge February 16
Category:American journalists of Sri Lankan descent merge February 16
Category:American journalists of Syrian descent merge to Category:American people of Syrian descent and Category:American journalists. – February 24
Category:American sportspeople of Palestinian descent merge; no consensus about removal from Arab hierarchy, so merge there also. – February 24
Category:American victims of rape delete. (non-admin closure) February 7
Category:American writers of Burmese descent merge February 16
Category:Anastasia (1997 film) Merge to Category:Cultural depictions of Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia February 8
Category:Animated Aquaman films Merge February 2
Category:Animated Catwoman films merge to Category:Catwoman in other media and where necessary Category:Films based on works by Bill Finger and Category:Films based on works by Bob Kane per recent precedents. The contents are already in subcats of the other parent Category:Animated films based on DC Comics. – February 10
Category:Animated Green Lantern films Merge February 2
Category:Animated Harley Quinn films Merge February 21
Category:Animated Joker films Delete February 8
Category:Animated Wonder Woman films Merge February 2
Category:Ant-Man films Upmerge February 3
Category:Antarctic Ice Marathon runners delete. (non-admin closure) February 12
Category:Apple Inc. mobile phones No consensus February 22
Category:Archbishops of Asia merge February 8
Category:Ardian Bujupi delete (non-admin closure) February 26
Category:Areas of traditional spread of Ukrainians and Ukrainian language rename to Category:Ukrainian-speaking countries and territories. Note that there does seem to be some consensus that the category needs some culling or updating February 2
Category:Argentine trap musicians Speedily deleted.. The category has been deleted as created by a block-evading editor. The category was currently empty, so there is nothing to merge February 11
Category:Aromantic Wikipedians delete per WP:C1. (non-admin closure) February 23
Category:Art by animals withdrawn February 16
Category:Attacks in Nigeria in 2012 Merge February 21
Category:Australian subscription television series delete February 6
Category:Autonomous Turkic states delete February 8
Category:Available gastropod names rename as nominated. – February 14
Awards of the Holy See Merge February 22
Awards received by person Use singular February 23
Category:Batman locations merge (non-admin closure) February 27
Category:Battlefield 2 mods merge (non-admin closure) February 20
Category:Beneficial insects delete February 15
Category:Biology of gender merge. @Place Clichy: you may want to take your proposals forward after this. – February 22
Category:Birds of Kazakhstan Merge February 13
Category:Black characters in television delete February 29
Category:Blocked historical users delete (non-admin closure) February 19
Category:Bong Joon-ho delete (non-admin closure) February 20
Category:Books about mental health No consensus February 25
Category:Books about survival rename. (non-admin closure) February 18
Category:Bozo the Clown Delete February 24
Category:British esports players Keep February 27
Category:British rock oboists upmerge Category:British rock oboists to Category:British oboists and Category:Rock oboists; delete Category:Rock oboists by nationality February 12
Category:British television series based on South Korean television series delete (non-admin closure) February 28
Category:Bromeliaceae species delete. Given that the comment advocating listifying before deletion specified that once the pages were properly categorized the list "can probably also be deleted", and given Hyperik's response below, I don't think a full list in mainspace is needed, but I have pasted a list of all pages currently in the category on the talk page. (non-admin closure) February 6
Category:Burial sites of the House of Kęsgailos delete February 20
Category:Businesspeople from Vancouver, Washington Keep February 8
Category:Cancer angiogensis inhibitors delete. Deleted per creator's request February 13
Category:Capital T delete February 22
Category:Catchphrases keep. – February 5
Category:Categories by branch merge February 9
Categories by geography Option B. (non-admin closure) February 22
Category:Catwoman films merge to Category:Catwoman in other media and where necessary Category:Films based on works by Bill Finger and Category:Films based on works by Bob Kane per recent precedents. – February 10
Category:Clergy in Ireland merge to Category:Religious leaders in Ireland. In this case there is already an intermediate Category:Christian religious leaders in Ireland so I will leave the contents in that one. – February 6
Category:Clergy in the United Kingdom merge to Category:Religious leaders in the United Kingdom. – February 11
Category:College football bowl games won by eventual national champions delete. (non-admin closure) February 23
Category:Commanders of the Royal Thai Armed Forces Headquarters Merge February 23
Category:Companies delisted from the New York Stock Exchange merge to Category:Companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange February 17
Category:Computer game user templates Rename to Category:PC game user templates February 9
Category:Coroner's investigations in Canada delete. (non-admin closure) February 12
Category:Councils of government in the United States merge (non-admin closure) February 5
Category:Criminals from Middlesex merge as WP:SOFTDELETE. – February 21
Category:Cthulhu Mythos symbols delete. Categories have been emptied so discussion is closed. February 2
Category:Daisy Civic List politicians keep (non-admin closure) February 23
Category:Deaths due to bird attacks Merge February 27
Category:Defunct ex-gay organizations merge February 13
Category:Defunct trade unions of Canada rename February 12
Category:Denny Regrade, Seattle rename (non-admin closure) February 27
Category:Discovery Home original programming rename February 10
Category:Disney Experimental Era relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_March_5#Category:Disney Experimental Era (non-admin closure) February 21
Category:Disney Revival relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_March_5#Category:Disney_Revival (non-admin closure) February 21
Category:Documentary films about electric cars Upmerge February 25
Category:Dragon (spacecraft) rename. Also would have been valid use of speedy criterion C2D. (non-admin closure) February 19
Category:Dragonriders of Pern locations delete (non-admin closure) February 27
Dunedin Sound categories rename February 19
Category:Dungeons & Dragons aberrations Merge February 22
Category:Dungeons & Dragons fiends no consensus. For the record, (i) the target was merged to Category:Dungeons & Dragons creatures per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 March 27; (ii) as of today there are still 5 articles and 74 redirects in this category. – February 21
Category:Dungeons & Dragons giants Merge February 22
Category:Dungeons & Dragons monstrous humanoids delete as empty. If the contents were moved, that ought to have been disclosed here. If they were merged and redirected, the categories should have been left on the redirect pages. Perhaps they were deleted. – February 11
Category:Dungeons & Dragons standard creatures Merge February 27
Category:Dynasty (TV series) rename February 3
Category:Effects delete. (non-admin closure) February 24
Category:English athletes no admin action required (non-admin closure) February 15
Category:English rock oboists merge per nomination. – February 21
Category:English rock violists merge, with one addition as stated below. – February 21
Category:Eukaryote ecology merge (non-admin closure) February 20
Category:Eukaryotes by conservation status merge February 10
Category:Everly (group) albums rename. (non-admin closure) February 14
Category:Everton L.F.C. players relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_March_5#Category:Everton_L.F.C._players (non-admin closure) February 20
Category:Falcon rocket launches keep (non-admin closure) February 1
Category:Fauna of Newfoundland and Labrador rename the first to Category:Fauna of Atlantic Canada, and the second to Category:Endemic fauna of Newfoundland (island), moving marine fish & the list from the second into the first. Note: I believe there is sufficient consensus here to do something, even though there was not agreement on exactly what, so I have been somewhat creative and chosen new names/purposes that fit with siblings, e.g. Category:Fauna of the Northeastern United States which does contain Atlantic fish. – February 19
Category:Fictional airborne aircraft carriers merge February 15
Category:Fictional location redirects rename Category:Redirects from fictional locations to Category:All fictional location redirects and restructure accordingly. – February 5
Category:Files copyrighted by the Wikimedia Foundation merge (non-admin closure). @Fayenatic london: I'll leave it up to you to implement this February 21
Category:Films directed by Kovelamudi Surya Prakash Rao merge to Category:Films directed by K. S. Prakash Rao User:Ceyockey ( February 2
Category:Films directed by Kovelamudi Surya Prakash Rao Merge February 21
Category:Forgotten Realms creatures delete February 22
Category:Fossil taxa of Europe merge February 6
Category:Fox Family original programming relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_March_5#Category:Fox_Family_original_programming (non-admin closure) February 11
Category:Freemason United States Presidents merge. (non-admin closure) February 7
Category:French-language writers Rescope, adding subcat, removing note and adding {{category diffuse}}. CFD precedents for this include 2012 Aug 23 for Category:English-language songs, closed as "keep as container… [like] Category:English-language singers", and 2017 Sep 13 which deleted English-language albums. Both were closed despite WP:INVOLVED, the first one by me but against my own !vote. In that close I gave weight to February 25
Category:G4 (television) rename February 9
Category:Geographic history of Australia no consensus. Perhaps an RFC might be helpful. – February 24
Category:Ghost Rider films Upmerge February 3
Category:Gilbert and Sullivan performers delete. If anyone wants to selectively add the members of the category to a different category (D'Oyly Carte Opera Company members), a list of the current contents can be found on the talk page (non-admin closure) February 12
Category:Gnomes keep (non-admin closure) February 27
Category:Gondor Upmerge February 13
Category:Greek Vampire Creatures disperse and delete as specified below. – February 8
Category:Greyhawk creatures merge February 11
Category:Hard drugs delete (non-admin closure) February 25
Category:Harley Quinn films Upmerge February 10
Category:Hellboy (film series) Delete February 8
Category:Here! original productions rename to Category:Here TV original programming and purge. – February 27
Historical sanctuaries merge. – February 15
Category:History of computing topical overviews merge but to the alternative targets suggested by February 22
Category:Hungarian conspiracy theorists has already been deleted (non-admin closure) February 4
Category:Identity disorders delete. (non-admin closure) February 12
[[:Category:Identity disorders==== ]] No action (WP:NAC). The category was deleted by Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_February_12#Category:Identity_disorders. [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2020 February 5#Category:Identity disorders==== |February 5]]
Category:Identity split. – February 21
Imams (worship leaders) merge February 4
Category:Immigration by continent keep. (non-admin closure) February 9
Category:Indicator species delete February 8
Category:Insects acting as insect pest control agents Rename February 15
Category:Ipswich MPs keep as withdrawn by nom. (non-admin closure) February 26
IRA Directorate of Intelligence related categories delete February 18
Category:Issues (societal and conceptual) Delete February 24
Category:Italian American heavy metal musicians selective merge to Category:American heavy metal musicians or sub-cat, then merge to Category:American people of Italian descent. – February 15
Category:IUCN Category Ia delete February 22
Category:Joker films Delete February 8
Category:Junior Network shows relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_March_6#Category:Junior_Network_shows (non-admin closure) February 27
Category:Kurdistan Region rename February 19
Category:Kursbuchstrecke Merge to Category:Germany rail transport templates February 23
Category:Kwinana, Western Australia redirect. I will delete the new page Category:City of Kwinana and move the old page over it. – February 17
Category:LaserDiscs rename February 9
LGBT and rename February 15
Category:LGBT clergy in Judaism no consensus. Note: We don't have hierarchies for Category:LGBT religious workers or Category:LGBT religious leaders, but there is Category:LGBT clergy; and the category name matches its lead article. Presumably there is scope for further growth other than rabbis. There is nothing against a split to a new sub-cat for LGBT rabbis. – February 13
Category:LGBT people and marriage Merge February 12
Category:LGBT saints delete but make list. I have added a bare list in the "See also" section at History of Christianity and homosexuality, see [1]. – February 28
Category:LGBT-related media by region Merge February 21
Category:Libertarian Party of New Hampshire chairs delete as it is meanwhile empty. (non-admin closure) February 27
Category:Lists of fictional works merge to Category:Lists of fictional things. (non-admin closure) February 19
Category:Lists of historical period drama films rename to Category:Lists of historical drama films. – February 22
Category:Livestock guardians split to Category:Livestock guardian dogs. Note: I will implement this by a rename and then re-create the parent. – February 4
Category:Lungless salamanders rename February 10
Category:Males rename. – February 22
Category:Mamluk scholars Rename to Category:Scholars of the Mamluk Sultanate and Category:Theologians of the Mamluk Sultanate February 2
Category:Marina and the Diamonds Rename to Marina Diamandis February 11
Mass media Rename February 22
Category:Members of the Hokkaido Legislative Assembly Rename February 7
Category:MEPs for the United Kingdom 2019–2024 rename to Category:MEPs for the United Kingdom 2019–2020. (non-admin closure) February 10
Category:Microscopic organisms described by Antonie van Leeuwenhoek delete (deletion was only opposed by one participant). – February 9
Category:Middle-earth buildings delete February 10
Category:Middle-earth rings and jewels No consensus February 10
Category:Middle-earth weapons No consensus February 10
Category:Mistresses of schools Rename to Category:Women heads of schools in the United Kingdom February 7
Mobile applications by country Upmerge/delete February 28
Category:Moonshine by country delete (non-admin closure) February 9
Category:Moonshine by distilled drink delete February 10
Category:Multiplayer gaming services rename February 9
Category:Musician-politicians delete February 25
Category:Nature sanctuaries disperse and delete (this is a case of WP:SHAREDNAME). – February 4
Category:Nazi SS Keep (WP:NAC). February 12
Category:NCAA championship seasons delete all. (non-admin closure) February 3
Category:NEON films rename. (non-admin closure) February 1
Category:New Democratic Party of Canada rename as option A February 1
Category:New Zealand aviation record holders speedy keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) February 25
Category:Nobel laureates in Economics no consensus (non-admin closure) February 22
Category:Noggin (brand) original programming keep. (non-admin closure) February 9
Category:North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University alumni Rename The main article has been at its current location for two years now without discussion February 11
Category:North Korea–United States proxy conflict speedy deleted as requested by the author February 13
Category:North Pole Marathon runners delete. (non-admin closure) February 12
Category:Novels about survival rename February 18
Category:Online gaming services rename February 9
Category:Open-sex sailing at the Summer Olympics rename to Category:Unisex sailing at the Summer Olympics. – February 27
Category:Outer Planes selective merge (non-admin closure) February 21
Category:Pakistani kabaddars merge to Category:Pakistani kabaddi players February 17
Category:Pan-tropical fauna merge. (non-admin closure) February 2
Category:Pejorative terms for trans people Merge February 8
Category:People associated with Gilbert and Sullivan No consensus February 12
Category:People educated at Westminster School merge and disambiguate. – February 21
Category:People from County of London (before 1965) Delete February 5
Category:People from Paradise Valley, California delete February 14
Category:People from South London merge February 5
Category:People who compete in parasports rename to Category:Parasports competitors. – February 2
Category:People who were forensically reconstructed delete. (non-admin closure) February 24
Category:Planescape characters merge February 3
Category:Poisonous minerals delete February 21
Category:Populated places in Province No. 4 rename February 15
Post-classical Delete/rename February 28
Post-dissolution Netherlands Antilles delete (non-admin closure) February 21
Prefectural assemblies Merge The sole oppose !vote is from a now indefinitely blocked user February 8
Category:Rabbis in London keep. I have added this into Category:Religious leaders in the United Kingdom.– February 13
Category:Redirects from catchphrases keep. (non-admin closure) February 5
Category:Redirects from route numbers No consensus February 5
Religious sanctuaries manual merge and delete. I will list these for manual processing. – February 16
Category:Riddler films Merge to Category:Riddler in other media February 3
Category:Romance-speaking countries and territories delete February 21
Category:Rubiaceae taxonomic synonyms delete February 25
Category:Ruined churches of World War II Rename to Category:Ruins of churches destroyed during World War II; revisit if further clarification is needed There's several different counter proposals flying around on different aspects but no clear preference so it's best to take the category on the main point and then revisit February 27
Category:Rulers of Gondor merge. – February 14
Category:Saigyō delete February 29
Category:Sammarinese people of the Spanish Civil War No consensus to delete February 8
Category:Sanctuaries delete February 4
Category:Scottish stockbrokers no consensus about removing from the English financial businesspeople hierarchy, therefore dual merge for the third one; single merge for the first two, where merging to the Scottish sibling is either unnecessary or not obviously justified for the current member pages. (I have put a few of the member pages into Scottish occupational categories.) – February 17
Category:Scottish Television articles needing infoboxes delete (non-admin closure) February 27
Category:Seats of local government by country no consensus (non-admin closure) February 28
Category:Seats of local government no consensus (non-admin closure) February 28
Category:Serie A de México players delete February 15
Category:Sex and gender in technology manual merge as WP:SOFTDELETE, i.e. this may be recreated if it can be made useful. – February 14
Category:Sex- or gender-related stereotypes rename. (non-admin closure) February 14
Category:Sexual and gender identity disorders Split. (non-admin closure) February 5
Category:Sexual fluidity delete February 11
Category:Sexual Minorities in Mahabharata Rename to Category:Androgynous characters in Mahabharata February 22
Category:Shakespearean scholars relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_March_9#Category:Shakespearean_scholars (non-admin closure) February 29
Category:Shire of Waroona, Western Australia Rename February 18
Category:Shopping malls in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania keep. Perhaps the suggested category could be added as a parent to the current category. – February 4
Category:Sinn Féin TDs who attended fee paying schools delete February 11
Category:Social casual gaming no consensus for social-network games, so rename to Category:Social casual games February 9
Category:Sociology of art delete February 19
Category:Songs about feces delete (non-admin closure) February 11
Category:South Pacific Mandate rename. Also would have been valid use of speedy criterion C2D. (non-admin closure) February 20
Category:Soy Luna characters merge February 4
Category:Spelljammer creatures Merge February 11
Category:Spree shootings no consensus. If re-nominating, please make it a group nomination along with its sub-cats (or at least the most populated ones). – February 21
Category:Star Wars Force-sensitive characters merge top one, keep sub-cats. – February 22
Category:Stern School of Business alumni rename February 10
Category:Stub-Class Universities articles Withdrawn by nominator February 29
Category:Survival skills media rename February 18
Category:Tanks of Greece Delete. The most convincing argument is that of WP:NONDEFINING included in the nominator's rationale; who a piece of equipment is sold to is not part of the definition of that piece of equipment. I sympathize with the thought that this is a common category type; but the weight of the guideline (not Policy, mind you) is on the side of delete. User:Ceyockey ( February 2
Television task forces relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_February_29#Television_task_forces (non-admin closure) February 21
Television task forces rename per option A. Thank you February 29
Category:Tetramethylcyclopropanoylindazoles delete February 3
Category:The Bill articles needing infoboxes delete (non-admin closure) February 27
Category:The Family Channel original programming rename to Category:The Family Channel (American TV network, founded 1990) original programming. – February 10
Category:The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Keep (WP:NAC). February 9
Category:This Movie Sucks! episodes delete February 15
Category:Toadlets delete. (non-admin closure) February 14
Category:Trans men in film Rename February 10
Category:Transfeminine male actors delete. (non-admin closure) February 5
Category:Transformers characters in video games merge. (non-admin closure) February 2
Category:Transgender erotica merge. (non-admin closure) February 2
Category:Transgender in South Africa Merge February 9
Category:Transgender rights by region merge manually February 2
Category:Transmisogyny merge toCategory:Transphobia and Category:Misogyny User:Ceyockey ( February 2
Category:Transmisogyny merge February 10
Category:Tree frog stubs rename. (non-admin closure) February 23
Category:United States Executive Cabinet members by presidential administration Rename February 9
Category:University of Rostock faculty Rename and consider the wider tree This has been effectively a test case nomination February 5
Category:Venom films Merge February 21
Category:Viacom Media Networks relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_March_6#Category:Viacom_Media_Networks (non-admin closure) February 27
Category:Victorian-era naval ships by country no consensus on 19th-century ships, so keep Australia & Canada, delete/merge others. – February 28
Category:Video games developed in the People's Republic of China merge. (non-admin closure) February 7
Category:Video games in England delete February 17
Category:Violence against trans people merge per the alternative proposal February 7
Visual arts Rename February 21
Category:Walking art keep. (non-admin closure) February 19
Category:Warlock films delete February 13
Category:Wikidiaries delete. (non-admin closure) February 14
Category:Wikipedia books on eukaryotes merge (non-admin closure) February 29
Category:Wikipedia community sites Delete February 25
Category:Wikipedia header templates speedy keep. Withdrawn by nominator. (non-admin closure) —⁠ February 26
Category:Wikipedia investigations Merge (WP:NAC). February 13
Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Incorrigible Troll keep. (non-admin closure) February 16
Category:Wikipedia terminology Merge (WP:NAC). February 16
Category:WikiProject Burundi templates double merge. – February 14
Category:WikiProject Delhi templates double merge. – February 14
Category:WikiProject Dubai templates double merge. – February 14
Category:Women political candidates keep as a container category (which it currently is) February 21
Category:Works about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster rename. (non-admin closure) February 1