Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2007 November index
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| Category:2-3D Students | speedy delete. Used only to create non-notable pages | November 30 |
| Category:20 year club | delete. – | November 6 |
| Category:20 Year Club | speedily deleted as nonsense by | November 6 |
| Category:2000s fads | delete | November 11 |
| Category:2006 reestablishments | merge to Category:2006 establishments | November 26 |
| Category:2pac Shakur | delete. The text is a copyvio, and an eponymous category already exists at Category:Tupac Shakur × | November 23 |
| Category:77 Boadrum drummers | delete.– | November 8 |
| Category:Aberdeen IronBirds alumni | rename all | November 29 |
| Category:Academic enclaves | keep | November 5 |
| Academics by religion | Delete - Noting also to any concerns about Jewish ethnicity (see discussion directly above), that the single member of that category is already in one of its subcats | November 21 |
| Academics categories | relisted on dec 11 | November 28 |
| Category:ACM magazines | rename | November 14 |
| Category:ACM Special Interest Groups | rename | November 14 |
| Category:ACM | rename | November 14 |
| Category:Afghan politicians | close as forum shopping | November 28 |
| Category:AFL Draft templates | keep. – | November 2 |
| Category:African American academics | keep (and no merge). Consensus clearly favours retaining, and the utility and real-world recognition of this as a notable intersection is demonstrated | November 28 |
| Category:African American baseball players | keep. Although an article titled African American baseball would not be viable (unlike, for instance, African American music), the broader topic of African Americans in the history of baseball in the United States is a subject of cultural interest, as demonstrated by the sources provided by | November 7 |
| Category:African Footballer of the Year | rename to Category:African Footballers of the Year | November 26 |
| Category:Ahle Sunnat | delete. All of the articles, except one which will be manually tagged with {{uncategorized}}, are already otherwise categorised in various subcategories of Category:Islam and/or Category:Sunni Islam. – | November 2 |
| Category:Airlines of Georgia (country) | reverse merge, convention of Category:Georgia (country). – | November 18 |
| Category:Airports in the Inland Empire | merge. – | November 7 |
| Category:Albinos | rename both as nominated and leave category redirects. – | November 3 |
| Category:Album articles without cover art | Delete, but feel free to create an album version of the talk page template: Template:reqimage (there are apparently already several variations according to that template page). - This category seems to be populated from Template:Infobox Album, the infobox on each of these articles. One template should be as good as another for this, and it's clear that this should be on the talk page or not at all | November 12 |
| Category:Album covers with no commentary | rename. – | November 15 |
| Category:Alison Krauss & Union Station | delete | November 11 |
| Category:All non-free Logos | keep, don't rename. Associated with cleanup processing | November 27 |
| Category:Allen Ginsberg | delete. All pages in the category, except Pull My Daisy (PMD), are visibly linked from the main article. PMD shouldn't appear in the category in any case, as it constitutes films by actor overcategorisation (I realise that the connection is slightly stronger, in light of Pull My Daisy (poem), but nonetheless ...). – | November 6 |
| Category:Alumni of Dublin University | delete. – | November 11 |
| Category:Alumni of Westfield, University of London | rename as nominated, to match the title of the main article: Westfield College. – | November 6 |
| Ambassadors | keep, except rename Category:Iranian ambassadors to Category:Ambassadors of Iran and rename Category:Ambassadors of the South Africa to Category:Ambassadors of South Africa. Feel free to propose the remaining categories for renaming under speedy renaming criterion 4, per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)#Political office-holders. – | November 1 |
| Category:American Academy of Arts and Sciences | merge to Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences | November 29 |
| Category:American Academy of Arts and Sciences | relist given nominator's change of view and lack of comments thereupon | November 20 |
| Category:American athlete-politicians | as follows – Almost an even split of "delete" and "keep" opinions expressed, with editors making good points on both sides. I have to say that I can't see consensus here and I can't honestly say that I weigh the arguments on either side sufficiently heavily to tip the balance towards either keeping or deleting | November 22 |
| Category:American bloggers | no change in name. We are busy expanding abbreviations rather than the other way round. WP:SNOW | November 10 |
| Category:American film actors | keep. – | November 6 |
| Category:American Samoa territorial agencies | merge Category:American Samoa territorial agencies to Category:American Samoa | November 23 |
| Category:American television actors | keep. – | November 6 |
| Category:American vampires | Delete, CSD C1, just tag as {{db-catempty}}. -- | November 18 |
| Amphibious assault ships -> Amphibious warfare vessels | merge/rename as nominated. – | November 16 |
| Category:Ancient Empires of Africa | rename | November 12 |
| Ancient Roman categories | Merge all to Category:Ancient people or Category:Ancient peoples (or their subcats) as appropriate, per Ancient history. This won't be done "automatically". And as such, I'm listing this at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual. Someone knowledgeable in the topic is welcome to please help out. No prejudice against someone turning these into lists as well | November 24 |
| Category:Android | delete, ambiguous and unnecessary | November 27 |
| Category:Animals as dramatic characters in television | merge to Category:Television series about animals. – | November 6 |
| Category:Ann Rinaldi | delete. – | November 6 |
| Category:Anomalies | rename to Category:Anomalies in physics. – | November 20 |
| ANSI C | delete all; the single article already appears in Category:C programming language. – | November 3 |
| Category:Anti-Chinese sentiment in Japan | merge. – | November 20 |
| Category:Anti-Chinese sentiment in Thailand | delete | November 26 |
| Category:Anti-Islam sentiment | nomination withdrawn by nominator | November 23 |
| Category:Anti-Islam | rename. However, this is not precedential toward Category:Anti-Islam sentiment, which is about actions taken against those of Muslim faith. As Itaqallah notes below, there's a reasonable difference between criticism and prejudice | November 25 |
| Category:Arab localities in Palestine 1948 | rename as nominated; since renaming in this case involves not just a change in title but also a change in the scope of the category, please revise the category description and add/remove articles as appropriate. A few notes: | November 23 |
| Category:Argentina Dirty War | merge as nominated. The article Dirty War is about the violence in Argentina; more generally, Dirty War refers specifically to Argentina. There may be other conflicts/events which could be classed as "dirty wars" (though whether it is appropriate to call them that depends on the sources), but they would belong in Category:Dirty wars. When the word "war" is capitalised in this context, it refers to the dirty war in Argentina. – | November 1 |
| Category:Argentinian lugers | rename. – | November 10 |
| Category:Armenian Jews | keep. – | November 8 |
| Category:Armenians of the Netherlands | merge (delete, effectively, since the category members are the same). – | November 8 |
| Category:Armenians of Turkey | rename Category:Armenians of Turkey and Category:Turks of Armenian descent to Category:Turkish people of Armenian descent. This, rather than "Turks," is becoming the dominant phrasing in categories of this type | November 8 |
| Category:Art school culture | delete. – | November 5 |
| Category:Art schools in the Republic of China | a slow speedy delete for being empty for 4 days | November 22 |
| Artefacts/artifacts | keep as is. I particularly liked Carlossuarez's comment about "WP's quirky patchwork" | November 14 |
| Category:Articles in need of Song Infoboxes | rename as nominated. – | November 7 |
| Category:Articles needing coordinates from November | merge. – | November 7 |
| Category:Articles related to Alice Nine | Delete - already split/empty | November 25 |
| Category:Articles to be expanded since November 2006 | that the category hath been speedily deleted | November 3 |
| Category:Articles with topics of unclear notability from December 2006 | Speedy delete | November 3 |
| Category:Articles with unsourced statements since 2007-10-08 | speedy delete as empty / housekeeping | November 18 |
| Category:Articles with unsourced statements since July 9, 2007 | speedy delete as empty / housekeeping | November 18 |
| Category:Artists against crime | delete. – | November 23 |
| Category:Ash Ketchum's Pokémon | Delete - I would had closed as "Listify", per the discussion below, but Ash Ketchum already has such a list | November 21 |
| Category:Asian Footballers of the Year | delete | November 26 |
| Category:Aussie Bites Authors | Delete | November 21 |
| Category:Austen family | delete. – | November 6 |
| Category:Authoritarian political parties | relisted on dec 12 | November 29 |
| Category:Avenged Sevenfold | delete | November 26 |
| Category:Avengers cast members | Delete | November 27 |
| Category:Bad check recovery | merge Category:Bad check recovery to Category:Payment systems | November 26 |
| Baltimore County roads | merge to Category:Roads in Baltimore County, Maryland. – | November 4 |
| Category:Bano Qudsia | delete. – | November 5 |
| Category:Beer and breweries by region | rename to Category:Beer and breweries by country and populate as necessary with sub-categories. Whilst noting Hmains's comment that the concrete proposal was made late in the discussion, it was clear to me that it was a proposal that was generally supported in the discussion before that point, and so relisting was not necessary | November 10 |
| Category:Big collectives | delete. – | November 19 |
| Category:Bilderberg attendees | delete | November 14 |
| Category:Bill and Ted | delete. – | November 5 |
| Category:Billboard Adult Top 40 number-one singles | Rename | November 28 |
| Category:Billy and Mandy | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:BioErotica | Delete | November 21 |
| Category:Bioinformatics Software | speedy delete as empty | November 6 |
| Category:Blogosphere | delete. – | November 11 |
| Category:Books in the At Issue series | delete. – | November 8 |
| Category:Brain tumour deaths | rename | November 18 |
| Category:British Army Portal officers | delete. I am also deleting all subcategories, per a combination of CSD G6 (all categories are empty except for a userbox and | November 2 |
| Category:Brunching Shuttlecocks | delete. – | November 8 |
| Category:Buildings and structures in Nelson | rename. – | November 22 |
| Category:Buildings and structures in Reno | rename all. | November 2 |
| Category:Buscando a Timbiriche, La Nueva Banda contestants | no conclusion, for now. The subcategories of category:Reality television participants suggest we do keep these types of categories. With no prejudice to a global nomination of contestant categories, this one is too obscure to serve as a precedent for categories like Category:Big Brother contestants | November 6 |
| Category:Byzantine allies | delete | November 23 |
| Category:CAF Awards | delete (already in Category:Confederation of African Football) | November 26 |
| Category:Campine | selectively merge. Dessel and Mol, Belgium are already located in Category:Municipalities of Antwerp and so do not need to be merged. Campine appears in Category:North Brabant, and will be also placed into Category:Antwerp (province) and Category:Limburg (province). – | November 5 |
| Canadian capitals | rename all | November 26 |
| Canadian councillors | rename all as nominated. – | November 16 |
| Category:Cancelled Virtual console games | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Cardinals | rename to category:Roman Catholic cardinals | November 9 |
| Category:Carly Schroeder images | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Cartoon Network original movies | merge to Category:Cartoon Network television movies | November 9 |
| Category:Cartoon Network original series | delete | November 9 |
| Category:Cases profiled in the CCM | delete. The subject of cases profiled in a publication is more suited for the main article about the publication than a category. – | November 6 |
| Category:Categories by medium | delete as this is effectively (poor) categorization by name | November 28 |
| Categories for human settlements in Mexico | Rename/Merge all to "Cities and towns in..." per convention of Category:Cities by country | November 19 |
| Category:Caucasian American rappers | delete | November 29 |
| Category:Celtic Cup(Soccer) | delete | November 27 |
| Centuries by period | delete | November 24 |
| Category:Centuries of the future | rename to category:Centuries in the future to match category:Years in the future. This is a procedural cleanup, but otherwise this close would have been a "keep" result | November 8 |
| Century eras | closed and moved. | November 8 |
| Century eras | merge all. Most of the categories would be emptied by the removal of the corresponding ##th century Jewish history category, which should have taken place even if the categories had been kept. (The division into centuries of the history of a religion and people is a matter of convenience, whose merits can be separately debated; however, the centuries themselves do not constitute meaningfully distinct eras.) That leaves only a few categories to consider. Some, such as Category:19th century eras, include few articles and are arguably overcategorisation, as the contents would fit just as well in the main parent category. Others, such as Category:21st century eras, are populated by articles about subjects whose designation as eras is highly questionable (e.g. Iraq War, Iraqi insurgency). The combination of these factors, plus concerns about the interpretation of the term "era", suggests that a separate categorisation scheme for eras is unnecessary. – | November 10 |
| Category:Channelling | No action - Please feel free to renominate based on the discussion below | November 20 |
| Category:Chappelle's Show | delete. – | November 4 |
| Character actors | delete all. Far too broad and no objective criteria for inclusion. Character actor doesn't help in formulating a useful category definition either | November 10 |
| Category:Charismatic religious leaders | not tagged for deletion = not going to delete it. I'm not a great one for process for the sake of it, but not tagging the category (especially bearing in mind Otto raised the point twice) makes it very difficult for editors with an interest in the category to know about the discussion and participate, whatever the outcome looks likely to be. Feel free to renominate | November 26 |
| Category:Charmed characters | Rename Category:Charmed characters to Category:Charmed (TV series) characters | November 25 |
| Category:Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court | merge. – | November 10 |
| Category:Chijon family | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Children's action and adventure television series | delete. – | November 5 |
| Category:Children's animal television series | delete. – | November 5 |
| Category:Chilean memoirists | Early Keep. As nominator of this CFD as well as looking at WP:SNOW, now that the category is populated I see no reasno to delete it now | November 22 |
| Category:Chinese American scientists | upmerge. While there are strong arguments on the keep side, I found myself swayed against them by Black Falcon's statement that he'd support subcategorization for Chinese American scientists but not Thai American ones, on the basis of category size. This struck me as subcategorization for subcategorization's sake, rather than as part of any organized scheme | November 6 |
| Category:Chinese thought | No consensus to Merge - Though no prejudice against disussing cleanup options (such as to "culture", noted below) and then renominating | November 25 |
| Category:Chinua Achebe | speedy delete per WP:CSD#G7 | November 6 |
| Category:Cities by geographic region | delete. A merge to Category:Judea and Samaria Area does not seem necessary, as all articles that would belong there are already appropriately categorised. – | November 23 |
| Category:Class A radio stations in North America | delete. – | November 8 |
| Category:Class A radio stations in North America | relist to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 8. – | November 1 |
| Category:Class of 3000 | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Classic country radio stations in the United States | keep. – | November 2 |
| Category:Classical guitar composers | merge. – | November 19 |
| Category:Closed railway stations in Victoria | merge both to Category:Closed railway stations in Victoria (Australia) | November 22 |
| Category:Co-heirs to abeyant baronies | delete | November 26 |
| Category:Coffer | delete | November 2 |
| Category:Coleman Patrick Walsh the Third | delete | November 26 |
| Category:Colossus class battleships | rename. – | November 16 |
| Category:Comedian politicians | Listify and Delete - Listifying deals with the "keep" and the "Merge" concerns. Noting also that Category:Celebrity politicians currently has only subcats as its membership | November 23 |
| Category:Comic Book Characters created in the 60s | November 19 | |
| Category:Comic book navbox templates | rename to Category:Comic book navigation templates. Consensus is to rename the category, but not to what. Looking at the category, these are indeed templates. | November 29 |
| Category:Comic book publishing companies of Bermuda | Delete, CSD C1, just tag as {{db-catempty}}. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Comic-book packagers | merge to Category:Comic book publishing companies. This is too small a distinction, as most publishers reprint material. However, this discussion does suggest that all the "comic book publisher" categories should be looked at for renaming into their "comics" form | November 8 |
| Category:Comics by author | no consensus | November 29 |
| Category:Comics by Joe Sacco | keep. The category appears to be restricted enough. (I would say that if a comic book has the same writer all the way through, it's probably okay for a category here. So the Ennis category seems fine to me.) | November 15 |
| Category:Commercial software | delete. – | November 6 |
| Category:Companies based in Columbus | rename. – | November 20 |
| Category:Companies based in Del Norte County | rename | November 20 |
| Category:Companies based in El Dorado County | rename | November 20 |
| Category:Companies based in Manchester | keep, to match the main article and category. – | November 21 |
| Category:Companies based in the Portland metropolitan area | upmerge to Category:Companies based in Oregon (exception of Category:Companies based in Vancouver, Washington). Since this category was added to replace Category:Companies based in Oregon, deletion without upmerging would leave most articles out of the category tree. – | November 21 |
| Category:Companies Headquartered in Memphis, TN | rename to Category:Companies based in Memphis, Tennessee. – | November 22 |
| Category:Companies of Norway by location | keep | November 21 |
| Category:Computer hardware by vendor | relist to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 11. – | November 4 |
| Category:Computer hardware by vendor | rename | November 11 |
| Category:Computer research | delete. – | November 7 |
| Category:Computer security specialists, and others | Merge both Category:Computer specialists and Category:Computer professionals to Category:People in information technology. Keep Category:Computer security specialists - There were concerns about renaming the security "specialists" to "people" | November 24 |
| Category:Computer security specialists, and others | relisted to CfD 2007 November 24 | November 15 |
| Category:Computer-related events and awards | relist to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 17. – | November 1 |
| Category:Computer-related events and awards | November 17 | |
| Category:Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Congregatio Discipulorum Domini order | speedy delete per WP:CSD#C1 as empty (contains only itself) | November 26 |
| Category:Constantly vandalized pages | delete | November 26 |
| Category:Construction equipment rental companies | keep. – | November 8 |
| Category:Construction equipment rental companies | relisting see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_November_8#Category:Construction_equipment_rental_companies | November 2 |
| Category:Contemporary Ceramics | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Contestants in British game shows | rename. There is another notability/utility discussion going on elsewhere on CfD, so this gets closed with the simplest possible change | November 22 |
| Category:Controversies involving tasers | rename as nominated. The taser is only one type of electroshock weapon. While the renaming of Electroshock weapon controversy is outside the scope of this nomination, various factors argue against it. Most notably, the defining element of electroshock weapon controversies is the fact of use of such a device ... it doesn't matter whether the device is a taser or an electric shock prod. – | November 16 |
| Category:Cookie cutter stadiums | rename to Category:Multi-purpose stadiums. That's the least-POV common term for these monstrosities | November 28 |
| Category:Copyright free use attribute required | relisted to CfD 2007 Dec 7, to generate more discussion | November 26 |
| Category:Country radio stations in Canada | keep. – | November 2 |
| Category:Country radio stations in the United Kingdom | keep. – | November 2 |
| Category:Country radio stations in the United States | keep. – | November 2 |
| Category:Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Cowboy Mouth | delete | November 14 |
| Category:Crime in fiction | Delete - "Crime in fiction" is too broad, as noted by | November 16 |
| Category:Current female heads of government | keep. A rare but reasonable exception to the "no-current-categories" doctrine, per Category:Current national leaders | November 12 |
| Category:Cycle racing clubs in Australia | delete, WP:NOT#DIRECTORY. – | November 4 |
| Category:Dab-Class articles | merge Category:Dab-Class articles to Category:Disamb-Class articles | November 27 |
| Category:Deaths from Parkinson's disease | No consensus | November 25 |
| Category:Decanonized saints | Delete | November 28 |
| Category:Defunct airlines of Georgia (country) | reverse merge, convention of Category:Georgia (country). – | November 18 |
| Defunct football competitions | rename as nominated. – | November 17 |
| Category:Defunct United States soccer competitions | rename per Category:Defunct United States soccer competitions to Category:Defunct American soccer competitions | November 26 |
| Category:Democracy Alliance | delete. Neither "people by donation" and "organisation by donor" are good models of categorization, since they are not defining characteristics (and any trend to start categories of this sort would lead rapidly to category clutter). Combining the two ideas in one category doesn't improve it, since categories don't allow "themes" to "emerge" from the grouping. Matters of that sort are best handled on the main article, or a separate article / list, which will allow proper explanation and references | November 23 |
| Category:Descent: FreeSpace | rename | November 20 |
| Category:Development banks | delete, empty. When you're both back from your exotic field trips, tag and nominate the other categories if you feel so inclined | November 22 |
| Category:Dexter's Laboratory | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Dinosaurs discovered in Arabic countries | delete. – | November 8 |
| Category:Disamb-Class articles | rename Category:Disamb-Class articles to Category:Disambig-Class articles. Perhaps, as jc37 notes, this should ultimately be Category:Disambiguation-Class articles, but more discussion is probably needed | November 27 |
| Category:Disambiguation lists of ships | rename to Category:Ship disambiguation. The sentiment against including "ambiguous" or "lists" in the title is fairly strong. Of the remaining options, Category:Ship disambiguation has more support and more closely corresponds to the pattern of Category:Disambiguation. – | November 2 |
| Category:Disney actors | delete and salt | November 20 |
| Disney characters by medium | No consensus - It looks like this nom has expanded to several subcategories. (Which themselves aren't tagged for discussion.) Please feel free to relist/renominate based on the discussion below | November 25 |
| Category:Disney comics authors | delete | November 22 |
| Category:Disneyland Paris | merge. – | November 18 |
| Category:Disturbed | delete | November 30 |
| Category:Domain-specific languages | merge | November 25 |
| Category:Domesticated pigeon breeds | already deleted as empty as somebody decided to pre-empt the decision. Impatient. Next time, please don't | November 20 |
| Category:Doom creatures | delete | November 28 |
| Category:Draka | delete, influenced by ample precedent. While Category:The Domination would have been a better title, renaming does not address the issue of eponymous overcategorisation. Creating a navigation template is an option, but its appropriateness is contingent on whether there is enough material to necessitate one. In any case, it is not a prerequisite to deletion of the category, as the articles are adequately interlinked via text. – | November 18 |
| Category:Drink images | merge Category:Drink images to Category:Beverage images | November 28 |
| Category:Drinking songs | keep, but prune. This is a legitimate song category, but songs that are not primarily sung in a drinking context should be pruned from the category | November 6 |
| Category:Due South | delete. – | November 8 |
| Category:Dune religions | speedily deleted by | November 27 |
| Eagle Scouts | Delete Category:Eagle Scouts and Category:Distinguished Eagle Scouts; Listify Category:Fictional Eagle Scouts to Scouting in popular culture | November 26 |
| Category:Eastern Pennsylvania high school ice hockey | delete | November 21 |
| EDA | rename all as nominated. – | November 19 |
| Category:Eerste Divisie 2006/2007 | delete | November 13 |
| Category:Eikaiwa | No consensus - And after reading the WikiProject's talk page, I don't think that there is consensus yet there either. I think the best would be to determine the main article name first, and then decide about disambiguation, and the category. Note that articles names can indeed be in other languages if appropriate. (As someone said once: "Redirects are cheap" : ) | November 13 |
| Category:Eikaiwa | relisting see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_November_13#Category:Eikaiwa | November 1 |
| Category:Elder women in television programs | delete | November 13 |
| Category:Elemental Gelade characters | Delete, CSD C1, just tag as {{db-catempty}}. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Elementary schools in Palos Verdes | delete, empty | November 25 |
| Category:Elements | delete. – | November 10 |
| Enemies and Allies | upmerge to appropriate parent categories: Category:Vikings, Category:Ancient Roman foreign relations and Category:Ancient Rome, and Category:Byzantine Empire, respectively. – | November 11 |
| Category:Enemies from The Legend of Zelda series | merge. – | November 10 |
| Category:English-Americans | merge. A separate nomination is needed to rename Category:English Americans. – | November 14 |
| Category:Entourage (TV series) | delete. – | November 11 |
| Category:Episode articles not asserting notability | delete. – | November 25 |
| Eponymous categories and similar subcategories | keep all | November 4 |
| Category:Eponyms | keep | November 13 |
| Category:Eponyms | relist to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 13. – | November 4 |
| Category:Erdős number 1 | delete (empty). I don't think I've seen a nomination where nearly everyone who'd be likely to close it had voted, so since someone has to, I will. First, the category is empty. Second, a votecount (yes, I know) puts the opinions at 13 delete, 8 keep, and 3 abstain. Third, the arguments for deletion (there aren't any surviving Erdos 2+ categories, it's trivial and non-defining, we don't do collaborator categories with anyone else (not even the obvious choice of Kevin Bacon)) seem significantly stronger than the arguments for keeping (the numbers are notable and interesting, the size of the category is fixed (at 511!), the nomination process is hopelessly flawed). I encourage anyone to send it back to DRV if you like, but it seems to me that a better use of effort might be to make a good list here | November 14 |
| Category:ESPN25's 25 Biggest Sports Flops | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Ethical bank | Listify and Delete - The definition of "ethical" appears to be subjective from the discussion below. As such, this should be a list of banks, if anything, so that references/clarifications can be noted. There is already a small list at the article ethical banking (and a lengthier list previously removed here) | November 21 |
| Category:Eurabia | keep. – | November 10 |
| Category:Eurasians by occupation | Delete all that were nominated/tagged | November 15 |
| Category:Eurasians | no consensus | November 27 |
| Category:EuroCup 2007-08 | delete | November 30 |
| Category:European countries never qualified for a major tournament | delete. – | November 19 |
| Category:European Poker Players Hall of Fame | delete | November 30 |
| Category:European_American_baseball_players | category doesn't exist, nothing here to debate | November 11 |
| Category:Evolution video games | merge Category:Evolution video games to Category:Biological simulation video games | November 28 |
| Category:Exalted characters | speedy delete per CSD C1 (category that is empty for at least 4 days). – | November 17 |
| Category:Famous Cheeses | merge Category:Famous Cheeses to Category:Cheeses | November 28 |
| Category:Famous Seventh-day Adventists in society | merge Category:Famous Seventh-day Adventists in society to Category:Seventh-day Adventists | November 28 |
| Category:Fars | merge into Category:Fars Province. – | November 7 |
| Category:Female artists | reverse merge Category:Women in art and Category:Female artists to Category:Women artists, and purge non-visual arts practitioners. The "Women" categories include many "Women (X)es" and "Female (X)es"" categories which at some point should be standardized one way or another | November 11 |
| Category:Female models | November 20 | |
| Category:Female writers (10th century) | merge all "female" categories into corresponding "women" categories | November 29 |
| Category:Fictional antagonists | speedy delete and salt | November 18 |
| Category:Fictional baseball teams | delete. This redirect doesn't even need to go into the sports teams category, as the article it redirects to is about an episode | November 3 |
| Category:Fictional bookbinders | Delete - With no prejudice for recreation if/when a suffucient amount of articles exist for such categorisation | November 26 |
| Category:Fictional businesses | merge. – | November 19 |
| Category:Fictional characters created from adaptations of licensed media | delete. The current title is not supported and no adequate alternative was offered or discussed. Interested editors are encouraged to investigate, especially as a collaborative effort, whether alternate means of categorisation are possible, necessary, and/or desirable. In the event that such investigation may be aided by knowledge of this category's contents prior to deletion, a list of such is available here. – | November 1 |
| Category:Fictional child characters in television programs | delete | November 13 |
| Category:Fictional elements from video games | merge. – | November 10 |
| Category:Fictional environmentalists | delete | November 11 |
| Category:Fictional fire victims | delete | November 13 |
| Category:Fictional messihas | delete. – | November 18 |
| Category:Fictional narcissists | delete: whether as a very slow "speedy delete" for recreation or as a result of the discussion matters not for present purposes | November 17 |
| Category:Fictional nudists | delete. Although there is no prejudice against creating Category:Fictional social nudity advocates, it is doubtful that it could be adequately populated. Most of the articles in Category:Fictional nudists are not about naturists, but instead characters who do not require clothing, wear skintight or supposedly 'flimsy' clothing, or have appeared nude. With few exceptions, the articles make no reference to naturism. In those few cases where the "nudist" (or "naturist") label is supported by the article, it is not clear that the "social nudity advocate" label would apply, since not every naturist (real or fictional) is an advocate of social nudity. – | November 17 |
| Category:Fictional people with diabetes | delete. – | November 12 |
| Category:Fictional prisoners | keep, but prune. Anyone who's not specifically known for being a prisoner should be removed | November 9 |
| Category:Fictional radio | delete. Though my instinct was to upmerge to Category:Fictional media, neither article actual belongs in that category tree. One article is about a real series of sketches and the other about a science fiction concept, and both are otherwise categorised. – | November 19 |
| Category:Fictional rape victims | delete | November 11 |
| Category:Fictional swimmers | rename to Category:Fictional competitive swimmers and rescope, without prejudice to renomination. With regard to retention of the category, this is essentially a "no consensus" close. Although most of the character biographies mention competitive swimming, in some cases it's mentioned as a part of a character's "early life" and so may not be a defining attribute. However, the suggested rename at least relocates the category to a more accurate and appropriate title. – | November 6 |
| Category:Fictional teetotalers | delete. – | November 10 |
| Category:Fictional television | Merge to Category:Fictional television programming | November 26 |
| Category:Filipino Catholics | merge Category:Filipino Catholics to Category:Filipino Roman Catholics | November 25 |
| Category:Filipino television soap operas | speedy delete (author request and empty) | November 27 |
| Category:Filipino Thais | rename all as nominated. A separate nomination will be needed to consider the desirability of merging the various subcategories of Category:Thai people of European descent (formerly Category:Thai Europeans). – | November 5 |
| Film directors by medium | rename Category:Film directors by medium to Category:Film directors by genre, no action on the remainder at this time | November 28 |
| Category:Film templates | Speedy delete as empty | November 18 |
| Category:Films about high school life | delete. In addition to the noted overlap between this category and Category:Teen films (although this may not necessarily be the case, it is with the three articles currently in the category) and the difficulty of determining the degree to which a film is about high school life, there is also the issue of how we define "high school life". Is it sufficient if a film is set in a high school? If the main characters are identified high school students? If it involves themes of peer pressure, drug use, homework, teen sex, and whatever else high school students did and do ....? While it may be premature to suggest that there is no possibility of having a valid category for this subject, this category (with its title and contents) is not viable. – | November 4 |
| Category:Flemish academics | keep (and no merge). No consensus in support of proposal apparent at this time | November 28 |
| Category:Folk rock music | delete, empty | November 27 |
| Category:Football competitions in the Netherlands | rename. – | November 17 |
| Category:Former designated terrorist organizations (2) | split into Category:Defunct organizations designated as terrorist and Category:Organizations formerly designated as terrorist | November 13 |
| Category:Former nightclubs | rename to Category:Defunct nightclubs. – | November 1 |
| Category:Former Students of Easington Community Science College | keep, no consensus to delete. Arguments to the effect that it constitutes a defining characteristic and is useful for navigational purposes are also persuasive. However, also rename to Category:Alumni of Easington Community Science College for consistency | November 26 |
| Category:Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Free application servers | Rename to Category:Free software application servers, per several of the articles in the category | November 21 |
| Category:Free Lance-Star media | delete. – | November 2 |
| Category:Free personal information managers | No move - The problem is that there are other pages that should be dealt with first. There is this category's parent Category:Personal information managers. And then there's the merge proposal for Personal information manager and Personal information management. And there is even a List of personal information managers. Essentially, it would seem to be the question of whether these are "managers", or "management software". And since it's PIM, not PIMS (among many other references}, I'm going to follow Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names), and Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms (as well as the apparent current convention), and say "No move". That said, someone is welcome to place a category redirect at Category:Free personal information management software (redirecting to Category:Free personal information managers) | November 17 |
| Category:Free spreadsheets | Rename to Category:Free spreadsheet software. Feel free to nominate Category:Spreadsheets and Category:Online spreadsheets together for similar renaming, but as the categories weren't tagged, I won't extend this decision to them automatically | November 15 |
| Category:Free word processors | keep | November 18 |
| Category:Freemasons | delete. As recreation of the category is likely, the category will also be salted to prevent future creation outside the channels of deletion review. – | November 10 |
| Category:Frew Publications | delete. – | November 15 |
| Category:Friends | delete | November 23 |
| Category:Frisian-Dutch_people | delete | November 23 |
| Category:Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize winners | delete | November 30 |
| Category:Fullmetal Alchemist episodes | Delete, CSD C1, just tag as {{db-catempty}}. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Galveston Hurricane of 1900 | keep | November 11 |
| Category:Games in Star Trek | Speedy deleted by | November 22 |
| Category:Gangs in the United States of America | rename. A general switch from "United States" to "United States of America" would require discussion at a much more general level than a single CFD nomination. – | November 16 |
| Category:Gator Olympians | Delete by | November 16 |
| Category:Gay superheroes | rename to Category:LGBT superheroes. – | November 12 |
| Category:GCHQ | rename both, as nominated. Old cats to be retained as soft redirects | November 28 |
| Category:Gen¹³ members | delete | November 13 |
| Category:Genre hybrid games | delete | November 13 |
| Category:Georgist economists | keep | November 30 |
| Category:Georgist politicians | keep | November 30 |
| Category:Georgists | keep | November 30 |
| Category:Gerash | delete | November 13 |
| Category:German cannibals | upmerge to both category:Cannibals and category:German murderers. I'm also proactively merging category:Korean cannibals the same way. There's definitely support for the category:Murderers to be subdivided by nationality, but not murderers-by-action-after-murder. I'm also presuming that the articles are about people who killed and ate their victims. If there are articles about people who ate other people's victims, they should be removed from the murderers subcategories. (Now I need a shower.) | November 7 |
| Category:Germany articles needing images | merge, without prejudice to recreation as part of a more developed categorisation scheme. For similar reasons, I am also merging Category:Germany articles needing maps to Category:Wikipedia requested maps in Germany. (In both cases, only a modification to Template:WikiProject Germany is needed.) | November 17 |
| Category:Germany articles needing images | relist to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 17. – | November 1 |
| Category:Ghost in the Shell theme music | Delete, CSD C1, just tag as {{db-catempty}}. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Ghostbusters characters | keep. Nomination is based on a false premise, as the category has six articles | November 28 |
| Category:Ghostbusters comics and novels | merge up | November 28 |
| Category:Ghostbusters objects and technology | merge' up | November 28 |
| Category:Gilman School alumni | keep | November 12 |
| Category:Girl gang films | upmerge to Category:Exploitation films. There's no genre here, but without the upmerge, these films will fall out of the genre genre of Exploitation films | November 6 |
| Category:Girl lovers | Deleted, POV category, creator banned here and on de:WP. | November 3 |
| Category:Girl | delete | November 14 |
| Category:Goldman Sachs alumni | rename Category:Goldman Sachs alumni to Category:Goldman Sachs people | November 23 |
| Category:Government ministers of the PNA | rename. – | November 7 |
| Category:Governor of the Turks and Caicos | rename and leave category redirect. – | November 1 |
| Category:Great Midwest Conference men's basketball tournament venues | delete. – | November 6 |
| Category:Great Migration | delete | November 2 |
| Category:Greek schools | merge. – | November 15 |
| Category:Groupe des six | rename to Category:Les Six. | November 19 |
| Category:Gu Long | delete. – | November 5 |
| Category:Hald0com Retrofits Variants | delete, empty. – | November 1 |
| Category:Harry Potter fictional publishings | rename | November 26 |
| Category:Harry Potter hybrids | Delete | November 27 |
| Category:Harry Potter magical spells | delete. | November 3 |
| Category:Harry Potter plants | merge. | November 3 |
| Category:Harry Potter vehicles | merge. | November 3 |
| Category:Haruhi Suzumiya novels | Delete, CSD C1, just tag as {{db-catempty}}. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Haunted hospitals | merge. – | November 1 |
| Category:Health in Manchester | delete; all articles already appear in Category:Hospitals in Manchester. – | November 3 |
| Category:Hebrew Bible quotations | Merge to Category:Hebrew Bible verses - I gave great weight to | November 23 |
| Category:Hebrew Bible saints | Rename Category:Hebrew Bible saints to Category:Old Testament saints | November 12 |
| Category:Hec Crighton Award winners | delete | November 26 |
| Category:Heirs Apparent | delete, empty at end of discussion | November 23 |
| Category:Heritage Canada | rename to Category:Department of Canadian Heritage. – | November 16 |
| Category:Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Hi-Bird | speedy delete as empty. Please note that per WP:CSD#C1 empty categories can be speedy deleted simply by tagging them with {{db-emptycat}}, and they will be zapped if still empty after 4 days. This involves less work for the nominator and for everyone else :) | November 1 |
| Category:High Schools in Hesse | merge. – | November 19 |
| Category:High schools in Jacksonville | delete, salt. | November 26 |
| Category:Historic weather events in the United States | rename all | November 11 |
| Category:Historical eras by century | delete. As a category for eras by century, it should not include pages such as Category:19th century, but rather pages such as Category:19th century eras. However, as all such pages are to be deleted per this CFD, there is no need for this category. – | November 8 |
| Category:Homestar Runner characters | Delete, CSD C1, just tag as {{db-catempty}}. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Homestar Runner | delete. At the time of this closure, there are six articles in the category, all of which have other suitable homes. A quick overview of the articles did not suggest any other pages which might be appropriately placed in this category | November 8 |
| Category:Hong Kong dramas | delete. – | November 7 |
| Category:Hospital disambiguation | rename to Category:Lists of ambiguous hospital names. While there wasn't much discussion, the rationale BHG used is basically a speedy criteria (CSD C.2.4) | November 2 |
| Category:Huawei | delete | November 26 |
| Category:Humanitarian awards | rename. – | November 1 |
| Category:Hurricane Betsy | delete. – | November 11 |
| Category:Hurricanes in the United States | rename Category:Hurricanes in the United States to Category:Hurricanes in the United States by state, and then Category:Historic hurricanes in the United States to Category:Hurricanes in the United States. The "by state" category should then become a subcategory of the "in the U.S." category | November 11 |
| Category:Hurricanes never impacting land | merge to Category:Atlantic hurricanes, as all of these are Atlantic cyclones. – | November 24 |
| Category:Ian Irvine characters | delete. – | November 7 |
| Category:Ian Irvine | delete. – | November 7 |
| Category:Ian Rankin | delete. – | November 8 |
| Category:IEEE DASC Standards | rename to fix capitalization. | November 19 |
| Category:Iggy Arbuckle articles | Delete per precedent (that links in the main article are enough in this case) | November 14 |
| Category:Incarcerated rappers | keep. – | November 19 |
| Category:Incumbent Indian Chief Ministers | merge | November 12 |
| Category:Incumbent Indian Deputy Chief Ministers | merge | November 12 |
| Category:Incumbent Indian Governors | merge. – | November 3 |
| Category:Incumbent Native American leaders | merge | November 13 |
| Category:Indian caricaturists | Delete, CSD C1, just tag as {{db-catempty}}. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Indian comic book characters | rename | November 5 |
| Category:Indian nationalist political parties | no consensus | November 29 |
| Category:Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis alumni | keep | November 26 |
| Category:Inglewood Unified School District schools | delete | November 26 |
| Intelligence acronyms | rename both as nominated | November 28 |
| Category:Intelligence by genre | Rename to Category:Intelligence by type | November 28 |
| Interchanges | speedy delete Category:Interchanges of Japan per CSD C1 (category that is empty for 4+ days) and delete Category:Interchanges as overcategorisation (contains only one article that already appears in Category:Named interchanges). – | November 16 |
| Category:International Mister Gay | delete. – | November 8 |
| Category:Interstate 72 | delete. – | November 16 |
| Category:Iranian women fashion designers | delete | November 29 |
| Irish politicians by party | rename all as nominated. – | November 10 |
| Category:Islamist terrorism | rename. – | November 9 |
| Category:Islamophobia | rename to category:Anti-Islam sentiment. An examination of the previous close on April 14 suggests it was not based on concensus; that debate had as many (and as many different) keep arguments as delete ones. There is significant support in this debate for a category based on anti-Islam sentiment. What there isn't support for is the term Islamophobia, which many people here consider a neologism. So I'm restoring it to its original title, and if people want to debate that without the fog of a questionable name, so be it | November 7 |
| Category:Italian singers of albanian descent | merge into Category:Italian singers and Category:People of Albanian descent | November 28 |
| Category:Italo-Irish Americans | Delete | November 19 |
| Category:Ivan Yefremov | delete. – | November 7 |
| Category:Jack the Ripper letters | merge Category:Jack the Ripper letters to Category:Jack the Ripper (I will also upmerge to Category:Letters; although this wasn't suggested in the discussion, it seems uncontroversial – please let me know if it's not); no consensus for Category:Jack the Ripper victims. Feel free to renominate the "victims" category in the context of a more focused discussion (also, it wasn't entirely clear whether the proponents of merging supported merging to Category:Jack the Ripper, Category:English murder victims, Category:Courtesans and prostitutes, or a combination of the three. – | November 4 |
| Jacksonville | rename all | November 30 |
| Category:James Bond allies | Merge both to Category:James Bond characters, except for the lists, which should be merged to Category:Lists of James Bond allies | November 24 |
| Category:James Bond love interests | Merge Category:James Bond love interests to Category:James Bond characters | November 27 |
| Category:James Merrill | delete. – | November 8 |
| Category:Japan Post Group | keep. – | November 7 |
| Category:Japanese citrus | delete | November 15 |
| Category:Jesuit colleges in India | keep. – | November 16 |
| Category:Jewel Riders | delete. – | November 6 |
| Category:Jewish historians | no consensus | November 29 |
| Category:Jewish history by centuries | mixed: rename the parent category to Category:Jewish history by century, per the convention of Category:Categories by century, and handle the subcategories per certain principles listed below | November 8 |
| Category:Jewish politicians | Keep both - However, in going over Category:Jewish politicians, I note that there are some entries and subcats that may be confusing to someone glancing over the category with the idea that these are contemporary politicians (Exilarchs, for example). The category should be cleaned up in order to make the historical distinction more clear | November 27 |
| Category:Jewish surnames | no consensus. There's certainly no consensus to delete, but the delete arguments are very strong nonetheless | November 11 |
| Category:Jim Jones albums | rename. | November 8 |
| Category:Jim Jones | delete | November 2 |
| Category:Joe Biden | delete. Per many precedents, eponymous categories for individuals are not desired unless they legitimately include (i.e. exclusive of miscategorisation) more than just a handful of articles. The three articles in this category are interlinked and otherwise categorised. – | November 4 |
| Category:John Edwards | delete. – | November 7 |
| Category:Johnny Bravo | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Jonti Picking | delete (all articles already appear in Category:Flash cartoons and/or Category:Lists of flash cartoon episodes). It is not clear that the convention of Category:Animated short films applies to this case, as Picking's creations are online flash cartoons, which may not be directly comparable to animated short films. For one thing, the cartoons were created – not directed – by him. The convention of Category:Flash cartoons, which does not subcategorise by creator, seems to be more relevant. There is also the question of whether 3-5 articles (excluding the main biography and an article about a website) require a separate category. – | November 8 |
| Category:Journalism academics | No consensus to rename this specific category. - The broader issue seems to be defining the difference between "academic" and "scholar" as used in these category sets (and how all the categories are subcategorised). Let's figure out the inclusion criteria before starting merges/renames. (Incidentally, I presume that the "mergeto/mergefrom" template set is inappropriate for categories. Merges are typically nominated for discussion on CfD.) I hope that closure of this CFD doesn't stop the broader discussion being continued on a talk page "somewhere" | November 16 |
| Journalist renames | rename to Category:Science journalists and Category:Motoring journalists respectively. No real risk of confusion with journalists who write about where to "motor to" | November 23 |
| Category:Journalists killed in Chechnya | rename. – | November 5 |
| Category:Judge Dredd images | Delete, CSD C1, just tag as {{db-catempty}}. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Juvenile deliquency films | delete. FWIW, the category was created less than 30 minutes after the creation of the single articles that populates it, so it was likely created specifically to house that article. No depopulation seems to have taken place. – | November 8 |
| Category:K. W. Jeter | rename to category:Novels by K. W. Jeter. | November 7 |
| Category:Kernel methods for machine learning | no consensus. – | November 7 |
| Category:Kid Nation participants | speedily deleted by | November 30 |
| Category:King Kong video games | merge to Category:Video games based on films | November 28 |
| Category:Kings of Nigeria | rename as nominated. Perhaps not a perfect solution but better than using "Kings", as Picaroon explained. Sub-categorising 14 articles by "type of royalty" did not attract much support | November 20 |
| Category:Korean fruits | delete. The consensus is that while particular food items may be very significant in a particular country, it is rare for them to be exclusive to that country, so categorising in this way would lead to category clutter. This could be summarised with reference to WP:CAT's requirement that a category should denote a defining characteristic of the article being categorised: a particular fruit may be a defining feature of Korean diet, but that does not mean that the Korean usage is a defining attribute of that fruit | November 13 |
| Category:Korean War amphibious warfare ships of the United States | merge. – | November 21 |
| Category:Kot Dial Das | merge/delete (there is still only the one article). – | November 23 |
| Category:Labour parties | no consensus | November 29 |
| Category:Larestan | rename to Category:Larestan County; no consensus for upmerging. – | November 7 |
| Category:Legal academics by specialty | rename both. – | November 7 |
| Category:Legendary Pokémon | Delete - (And noting existing list at Legendary Pokémon.) | November 27 |
| Lethbridge | rename all, for consistency with current lead article name format, and in the absence of an established overriding convention for Canadian placename cats | November 27 |
| Category:LGBT characters in comics | keep | November 12 |
| Category:LGBT-related events and awards | rename to Category:LGBT-related awards after upmerging all events into Category:LGBT events (or an appropriate subcategory). A separate nomination will be needed to rename the latter category – and possibly a number of its subcategories. – | November 1 |
| Category:LGBTQQ South Park Characters | merge | November 12 |
| Category:List of Freeman of the City of London | delete, as a non-defining attribute of those categorised | November 12 |
| Category:List of Knight Rider episodes | merge. If/when there are more articles about individual episodes of the Knight Rider TV series, they should be relocated to Category:Knight Rider episodes. At present, there seem to be only two such articles. – | November 1 |
| Category:List of United States presidential electors, 2004 | merge. – | November 4 |
| Category:Lists of anime and manga characters | keep. There is no consensus that lists of characters should not be placed in Characters by series parent categories along with categories for individual series. I have left a request with the operator of | November 1 |
| Category:Lists of Desperate Housewives characters | merge to Category:Desperate Housewives characters and Category:Lists of television characters. – | November 16 |
| Category:Lists of fictional characters by work | Merge Category:Lists of fictional characters by work to Category:Lists of fictional characters by medium. It's a start at least, while accepting that the members will still need to be merged into the subcats | November 19 |
| Category:Living French writers | merge (currently empty), without prejudice to creating Category:21st century French writers. – | November 18 |
| Category:Lobbyists who committed suicide | delete | November 12 |
| Category:Looney Tunes Golden Collection | Delete (I'm presuming that the membership is only Looney Tunes Golden Collection and the 5 volume pages.) - Much of the discussion below referred more to the AfD, or to concerns about the nominator (who appears civil for the most part, but whose recent talk page comments at times seem to be a bit too close to biting other editors). Note that I closed AFD for the individual volume articles (with a result of "keep"). As for the category, this is utterly duplicative of the main article (and the navbox Template:Looney Tunes Golden Collection - the need of which seems questionable, at best) | November 20 |
| Category:Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame inductees | Delete - This is indeed just an example of Wikipedia:Overcategorisation#Award winners. In addition, there is no related article, and there wasn't even a reference to the museum at Winnfield, Louisiana | November 19 |
| Category:LPFM Radio Stations | rename Category:LPFM Radio Stations to Category:Low-power FM radio stations | November 28 |
| Category:LSMR-401 class landing ship mediums | rename to Category:LSM(R)-401 class Landing Ships, Medium and Category:LSM(R)-501 class Landing Ships, Medium. This seems to be the closest to consensus | November 9 |
| Category:Lupe Fiasco | delete. – | November 4 |
| Category:Mad Men episodes | delete. – | November 14 |
| Category:Mad Men | delete. – | November 7 |
| Category:Mad science | delete | November 28 |
| Category:Main cities with a main Central Business District | merge. – | November 4 |
| Category:Mainframe software companies | speedy deleted by | November 6 |
| Category:Major concepts in Red Dwarf | merge. – | November 18 |
| Category:Malayali business people | merge. – | November 19 |
| Category:Mandaen | rename | November 13 |
| Category:Market research | no consensus. Reverse merge might work ok, but Marketing research wasn't tagged. Relisting for the reverse is in order. | November 30 |
| Category:Martial arts infoboxes | a slow speedy delete per author request | November 24 |
| Category:Marvel Comics characters with superhuman strength | keep. | November 24 |
| Category:Masked entertainers | err, don't do it. | November 26 |
| Mass re-name | close; as noted by | November 17 |
| Category:Massacres of Palestinians in Israel | Rename to Category:Massacres in Israel during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Taking it in parts (based on the discussion below): | November 23 |
| Category:Mayors of Osaka, Japan | keep | November 28 |
| Category:McLoughlin Brothers games | delete, without prejudice to recreation when there are more articles to categorise. – | November 6 |
| Category:Media in Columbus, Ohio | no consensus | November 20 |
| Category:Medical schools in California | merge to Category:Schools of medicine in the United States. – | November 1 |
| Category:Members of Associazione Culturale Nove | delete. – | November 16 |
| Category:Members of the Australian Club | delete | November 23 |
| Category:Merchants in Harry Potter | speedy delete, empty | November 27 |
| Category:Metal recording studios | merge. – | November 6 |
| Category:Middle schools in Palos Verdes | merge | November 25 |
| Category:Miller | delete | November 30 |
| Category:Mimar Sinan | delete, having now moved two buildings to Category:Mimar Sinan buildings | November 20 |
| Category:Miss Earth 2007 delegates | merge. – | November 2 |
| Category:Mitchell and Webb | I'm going to close this as No consensus. If this is to be seen as comparable to Category:Monty Python, then those who support keeping need to clearly define its inclusion criteria. (And possibly think of an appropriate rename option.) Else the next time it's on CfD it's likely to be deleted for just the reasons | November 18 |
| Category:Mitsubishi Motors templates | no consensus | November 12 |
| Category:Mobile phone culture | Conditional Keep - It needs an introduction clearly explaining its inclusion criteria. If this hasn't happened in a relatively short period of time (30 days, or so), then it may be speedied per the DRV (or nominated here at CFD if the introduction is contested). Obviously discussion to refine the introduction would be preferrable to deletion, if possible | November 17 |
| Category:Modern Library 100 best non-fiction | delete. – | November 8 |
| Category:Molluscs of New Zealand | no consensus. As many of the species in the category are endemic to NZ, perhaps its contents could be trimmed and relocated to Category:Endemic molluscs of New Zealand, possibly in cooperation with WikiProject Marine Biology and WikiProject New Zealand. – | November 4 |
| Category:Moncton, New Brunswick | rename | November 26 |
| Category:Monuments in Liepāja | merge Category:Monuments in Liepāja to Category:Monuments and memorials in Latvia | November 28 |
| More Irish politicans | rename both as nominated. – | November 10 |
| Category:Mork & Mindy | speedy delete by creator. | November 22 |
| Category:Motorway articles by quality | delete all. – | November 19 |
| Mshasho Productions | delete all; after The Dogg is removed from Category:Music of Namibia, there is no other content to merge. – | November 3 |
| Category:Muggles | Delete - The Dursley family is already in a subcat, and Muggle isn't a character | November 27 |
| Category:Municipalities in Tindouf Province | delete as empty at the end of the discussion, without prejudice to recreation if necessary | November 29 |
| Category:Murder victims of Operation Condor | rename to Category:People killed in Operation Condor and Category:People killed in the Dirty War. – | November 1 |
| Category:Music with Place Name in Title | delete all. – | November 4 |
| Category:Musicians by religion | delete. The intersection isn't meaningful here, and the precedents are strong. (And yes, Little Richard just turned 75. Ooh, my soul.) | November 27 |
| Category:Musicians featured on Theme Time Radio Hour | delete. – | November 14 |
| Category:Musicologists and Category:Music scholars | merge Category:Music scholars to Category:Musicologists. – | November 9 |
| Category:Muslim astronauts | listify then delete | November 27 |
| Category:National extreme journeys | delete | November 30 |
| Category:National Treasure series | delete. – | November 6 |
| Category:Navigable bridges | delete (now empty) | November 14 |
| Category:Needs album infobox | rename all as nominated. – | November 3 |
| Category:Needs single infobox conversion | rename both as nominated. – | November 6 |
| Category:Neil Gaiman | rename and repurpose. – | November 6 |
| Category:Nektar | delete. – | November 4 |
| Category:Neue Slowenische Kunst | delete. | November 27 |
| Category:New articles | keep | November 22 |
| Category:New York State Reference Routes and Parkway Routes | rename. – | November 3 |
| Category:Newgrounds | delete. – | November 8 |
| Category:NHS Highland | Delete. | November 30 |
| Category:Non-free Logos | keep and don't rename, per cat:All Non-free Logos discussion immediately below | November 27 |
| Category:Non-standard Extra tracklisting templates | rename as nominated. – | November 7 |
| Category:Novels by Barbara Kingsolver | keep, convention of Category:Novels by author. As noted by | November 2 |
| Category:Novels by David Weber | reverse merge Category:Books by David Weber to Category:Novels by David Weber. The current categorisation scheme for works by author may need revision, but such revision would require a fairly broad-based consensus or, at least, a more encompassing nomination. In the meantime, it seems best to merge these categories, as all of the entries in the "books by..." category are works of fiction. – | November 1 |
| Category:Novels with a pedophile theme | delete. – | November 5 |
| Category:Old Forres Sandle Manor Students | delete. – | November 16 |
| Category:Old Leightonians | no consensus in this particular case and thus not much use a test case | November 21 |
| Category:One Piece Abilities | Delete, CSD C1, just tag as {{db-catempty}}. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Open source games | No consensus to rename -Though there seems to be a few concerns about the name as it is. Feel free to re-nominate categories to determine between "open-source" or "open source", and between "games" or "video games" (or "software-based games), etc | November 20 |
| Category:Organizations by field | speedily deleted by | November 8 |
| Category:Organizations by year of establishment; Category:Organizations established in 2000 | Nomination Supported - Not sure what else to call this one. It seems to be a fair use of Categories for discussion (though being procative, rather than reactive, about a WP:BOLD action.) I won't suggest that all such recreations must do this (that would be a very bad idea), but I have to admit that it was a nice, "non-disruptive" way to do it, and similar nominations in the future should be welcomed. (Side note: next time, please tag the categories, since that gives others who may be interested a chance to see the discussion. Template:cfd should be fine as a generic notice.) | November 19 |
| Category:Organizations for female writers | speedily deleted as empty by | November 29 |
| Category:Organizations in the StarCraft universe | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Orientalists | keep. The article Orientalism capitalizes the "O" throughout. Also, tagging is necessary before a change like this can be made | November 13 |
| Category:OUN | rename | November 24 |
| Outer Limits | rename, without prejudice to further consideration of whether merger would be best | November 20 |
| Category:Outlawz affiliates | delete. – | November 19 |
| Category:Outlook | delete, empty (the only article it contained was deleted whilst the category was under discussion | November 29 |
| Category:Overseas Vietnamese Roman Catholic dioceses | delete. – | November 9 |
| Category:P2P Charities | rename to Category:P2P charities to fix the capitalization, without prejudice to a further debate on whether a better rename is possible | November 21 |
| Category:Pages using header-temp template | delete. – | November 3 |
| Paintings by artist | No consensus - Concerns about nicknames, concerns whether the convention should be reversed (paintings by artist, instead of artist paintings). Please feel free to relist as less of a group nomination (which should help resolve the nickname concerns/questions). This isn't the first time the Works by creator conventions have been questioned. Please feel free to nominate the whole Category:Paintings by artist category (or even the whole Category:Works by artist system) for a reversal of convention | November 20 |
| Category:Pakalomattom | rename Category:Saint Thomas Christians people. This rename wasn't suggested by any of the voters, but everything seems to think some rename is necessary. Both the group and people in the group have the same name (that is, we can't split like Category:Protestantism and Category:Protestants). The closest analogue I could find is Category:Jehovah's Witnesses people, so that's the direction I'm heading. Definitely no prejudice against another nomination | November 6 |
| Category:Pakistan articles about unknown subject of Pakistan | Delete - There has apparently been no discussion about this at the WikiProject, which would seem to make sense, since the creator of the category | November 19 |
| Category:Pakistani cartoonists | Delete, CSD C1, just tag as {{db-catempty}}. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Paraplegics | rename and redirect. | November 2 |
| Category:Particle in a box | merge. – | November 16 |
| Category:Paul Tsongas | delete. – | November 7 |
| Category:PD-self | delete. – | November 19 |
| Category:People born in Mozambique | delete | November 23 |
| Category:People from Cardston municipal district | rename. – | November 15 |
| Category:People from Crockett, Texas | rename. As there does not seem to be a people by county category scheme for the United States, the new category will be located in Category:People from Texas and Category:Houston County, Texas. If any other suitable parent categories exist, please add them. – | November 1 |
| Category:People from Cumbernauld | merge. – | November 7 |
| Category:People from Den Haag | rename (with capital T) | November 24 |
| Category:People from Greenville, Illinois | merge to Category:People from Bond County, Illinois | November 2 |
| Category:People from Jacksonville | rename. – | November 21 |
| Category:People from Joliet West | Delete | November 21 |
| Category:People from Launceston | rename | November 12 |
| Category:People from Middleborough, Massachusetts | merge. – | November 4 |
| Category:People from Orlando Florida | merge. – | November 16 |
| Category:People from Queenstown, New Brunswick | merge to Category:People from Queens County, New Brunswick. – | November 18 |
| Category:People from Red Deer | rename as nominated, consistency | November 27 |
| Category:People from Roosevelt, Utah | delete | November 12 |
| Category:People from Sharon, Massachusetts | merge. – | November 4 |
| Category:People from Sheldon | keep | November 16 |
| Category:People from Sullivan, Missouri | merge to Category:People from Franklin County, Missouri | November 2 |
| Category:People from the Czech Republic | delete. The Czech Republic is an independent political entity that has existed only since January 1, 1993. To identify as "people from the Czech Republic" individuals who died prior to that date or who left the area encompassed by the territorial boundaries of the Czech Republic prior to that date is factually inaccurate. We would not identify Julius Caesar as a person from the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana) or Tsar Alexander I of Russia as a person from the Russian Federation | November 4 |
| Category:People from the Inland Empire, California | rename, without prejudice to subsequent renaming, merging, or deletion as part of a general cleanup effort related to these categories, as suggested by | November 7 |
| People from West Berkshire by settlement | Rename Category:People from West Berkshire by settlement to Category:People from West Berkshire, per convention of Category:People from Berkshire. )(and really per Category:English people by county.) No consesnsus on the UpMerge proposals. It just looks like more discussion is needed to find an appropriate convention on what should and shouldn't be categorised (and how they should be categorised) under the subcats of Category:English people by county. (The presumably "wider context" noted in the discussion below.) | November 18 |
| Category:People of The Nineteen Year Winter | delete. – | November 2 |
| Category:People over eight feet tall | merge Category:People over eight feet tall to Category:People with gigantism | November 26 |
| Category:People with ADHD | delete | November 26 |
| Category:People with diabetes type 1 | delete (also see the 2007 Apr 6 discussion). – | November 2 |
| Category:Perennial Philosophy | delete. – | November 14 |
| Category:Personality Rights | delete, without prejudice to recreation of an alternatively-named category if Template:Personality rights is kept at TFD. – | November 2 |
| Category:Pikmin characters | delete | November 28 |
| Category:Place of worship disambiguation | keep all. Please see the Nov 2 discussion and considering initiating new nominations if you can think of a better naming standard for the subcategories of Category:Disambiguation. It may be useful to raise the issue at Category talk:Disambiguation. – | November 3 |
| Category:Planet of the Apes Films | rename. – | November 6 |
| Plays | Rename all per nomination except to Delete Category:Plays by Truman Capote. No prejudice against an immediate renomination (including tagging, of course) for an overall change in the category's convention | November 18 |
| Poetry by X | rename all, including Category:Shakespeare's sonnets. There isn't any Sonnets by author categorisation scheme that might reveal a convention for such categories; indeed, Category:Sonnets has only that one subcategory. The subcategories of Category:William Shakespeare consists of a mix of "Shakespeare X" and "Shakespearean X", but only one that starts with "Shakespeare's". If an alternate name is desired, please initiate a new nomination. – | November 2 |
| Category:Poetry collections by Margaret Atwood | rename as nominated. | November 8 |
| Category:Pokémon items | merge Category:Pokémon items into Category:Pokémon | November 13 |
| Poker Player Halls of Fame | delete. None of the members of this list are regularly called "Hall of Famer Doyle Brunson" (or whatever) on TV broadcasts, leading me to agree with some of the arguments that Binion's selection of these people is not a big deal. Their achievements (winning the World Series, say) are much more valuable as subjects of categorization | November 5 |
| Category:Polish - Jewish relations | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Polish organisations in Australia | delete; the sole category member already appears in Category:Organisations based in Australia. – | November 1 |
| Category:Political office-holders in the European Union | rename. – | November 21 |
| Category:Political office-holders Italy | merge. – | November 9 |
| Category:Political parties by ideology | rename all | November 29 |
| Politicians by party | rename all as nominated, without prejudice to a further Whig-related discussion if merited | November 17 |
| Politicians by religion | Delete all - Several of the suggestions for "Keep"-ing apply more to whether such information is relevant/"notable" for inclusion in each politician's article, than whether such a grouping system should exist | November 21 |
| Category:Popular history | delete. As noted in the discussion, "events of historical interest which may not have much historical impact, but which might be interesting as events" requires subjective interpretations regarding the historical impact of an event and the degree to which it may be interesting. Moreover, the category is empty due to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 17#Category:United States popular history. – | November 18 |
| Category:Porsche tractors | Merge to both Category:Porsche vehicles and Category:Tractors. And I think, in this case, we can worry about future category schemes (as noted below) in the future | November 21 |
| Category:Portable applications | delete. – | November 9 |
| Category:Portuguese anti-communists | delete | November 2 |
| Category:Portuguese theologists | merge (note: currently empty). – | November 19 |
| Category:Power Standards | no consensus | November 29 |
| Category:Power Standards | relist | November 20 |
| Category:Power Standards | speedy close as duplicate discussion. This category is lready the subject of an open CfD to which the category is properly linked: see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 20#Category:Power_Standards | November 24 |
| Category:Preachers | delete. As noted by all participants, the inclusion criteria for these categories are subjective. Any attempt to introduce more objectivity would involve either applying the broadest possible definition (i.e. anyone who has ever preached, irrespective of how much they do it and how defining it is to them) or essentially arbitrarily selecting a set of narrow inclusion criteria. The latter would render the category scheme largely redundant to other existing categories and the former would face issues of construct validity. There is also the problem that setting particular inclusion criteria does not guarantee that they will be followed, but that (while still significant) is secondary to the main problem of definition. – | November 3 |
| Category:Pretenders to the throne of Sarawak | Delete - Per WP:BLP, we're going to err on the side of caution on this. This just screams for a need for references. Anyone who would like to nominate the the whole scheme of Category:Pretenders for listifying (or at least renaming) is welcome to do so | November 18 |
| Category:Pretenders to the throne of the principality of Waldeck und Pyrmont | Delete with essentially the same rationale as Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 18#Category:Pretenders to the throne of Sarawak: "Per WP:BLP, we're going to err on the side of caution on this. This just screams for a need for references. Anyone who would like to nominate the the whole scheme of Category:Pretenders for listifying (or at least renaming) is welcome to do so." | November 19 |
| Category:Pretenders to the Ukranian throne | delete (empty anyway) | November 22 |
| Category:Prince Hall Freemasons | delete – no reason to treat this any differently to its deleted parent. I have made a note of the 15 names currently in this category, and put it in my | November 17 |
| Category:Prisoners on remand | delete. – | November 9 |
| Category:Prisoners sentenced to caning | delete. – | November 9 |
| Category:Professional female pool players | rename. Insufficient consensus to de-genderize | November 22 |
| Category:Projects by Dubai Properties | delete | November 30 |
| Category:Propaganda phrases | Merge Category:Propaganda phrases to Category:Political slogans. Though it would appear that some should instead be in its subcats: Category:Political catch phrases or Category:American political slogans. (And a few which possibly shouldn't be in any of the cats.) Please feel free to cleanup/sort | November 16 |
| Category:Protected designation of origin | rename all as nominated. – | November 3 |
| Category:Protoss | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Psychology NOS | merge. – | November 2 |
| Category:Public Image Ltd albums | rename with redirect | November 24 |
| Category:Pugad Baboy templates | delete. – | November 2 |
| Category:QTV | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Quadriplegics | rename and redirect. | November 2 |
| Category:Queens consort subcategories | rename all as nominated/amended. – | November 1 |
| Category:Queens in film | delete. – | November 7 |
| Category:Quiz Books | merge and subcategorise (effectively delete as the article already appears in Category:1992 books and Category:Indian books). – | November 1 |
| Category:Race and intelligence controversy | keep | November 3 |
| Category:Racine Legion | delete. – | November 2 |
| Category:Radiocommunications | merge. – | November 1 |
| Category:Raging Planet releases | delete and split | November 20 |
| Category:Rail transport in Nelson | rename. – | November 22 |
| Category:Rapcore Artist | merge. – | November 2 |
| Category:Reading series | merge to category:Literature and category:Social events. There's no exact subcategory of the literature category that quite works, though one could easily be created | November 5 |
| Reality TV participants | Keep | November 26 |
| Reality TV participants | relist here. Two comments is insufficient IMHO to declare a general consensus in this area that would be capable of being referred to as a precedent in future discussions | November 19 |
| Category:Recalled products | delete. The problem of undefined scope (or excessively broad scope, if one takes the title at face value and uses the broadest definition of "recalled") has primacy over questions of whether the article is or can be adequately populated. – | November 14 |
| Category:Red | delete. – | November 10 |
| Category:Refus Global's co-signatories | listify to Refus Global#Signatories. The listified content can be expanded, modified, or removed as editors see fit. – | November 1 |
| Category:Regierungsbezirk | rename Category:Regierungsbezirk to Category:Government regions of Germany and Category:Former Regierungsbezirk to Category:Former government regions of Germany | November 1 |
| Regina, Saskatchewan | rename all | November 26 |
| Category:Religious architecture | keep | November 2 |
| Category:Religious organizations which tolerate polygamy | delete. While an article about religious views on polygamy would probably be viable, the stance of a religion or a religious organisation on polygamy is not a defining attribute. As hinted at by | November 16 |
| Category:Requests for verification | delete. – | November 8 |
| Category:Resort operators | merge to Category:Hotel and leisure companies. That's the right target, but it also seems ripe for a renaming. That should be nominated separately | November 13 |
| Category:Retro automobile trend | relist to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 13. – | November 5 |
| Category:Retro automobile trend | rename | November 13 |
| Category:Retrograde categories | delete | November 29 |
| Category:Revelation | rename to Category:Supernatural revelation as everyone wants some change and this seems the closest to consensus, but with no prejudice to bringing this up again | November 2 |
| Category:Rider legislation | delete | November 22 |
| Category:RiffTrax movies | Delete. The essential arguments here are (1) it is not a defining characteristic of these films that they have been riffed by this company and (2) notability of RiffTrax does not mean that this category is therefore warranted. Otto's final comment in the discussion (16:09, 30/11/07) puts it neatly | November 23 |
| Category:Robotboy | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Rolling Stones songs written for other artists | Merge both Category:Rolling Stones songs written for other artists and Category:Songs covered by The Rolling Stones to Category:The Rolling Stones songs. Merge Category:Songs covered by Cream to Category:Cream songs. (It was tagged as well.) | November 27 |
| Category:Roman Catholic Church murder scandals | delete. There is no consensus for renaming to any one particular title (or, indeed, for renaming at all). The least problematic of the options offered below seems to be Category:Roman Catholic clergy convicted of genocide. However, it is still questionable whether that particular intersection is a significant intersection. If it is, is it significant in a general context or only in the context of the Rwandan Genocide (are the any instances of RC clergy being convicted of genocide outside of involvement in the Rwandan Genocide?). – | November 4 |
| Category:Roman Catholic dioceses of Italy | Rename for consistency | November 23 |
| Category:Royal Canadian Navy ship names | no consensus | November 5 |
| Category:RTS television programmes | keep, but perhaps it could have a name that means something? | November 26 |
| Category:Runestones, Blekinge | rename. – | November 15 |
| Category:Runestones, Skåne | merge. – | November 16 |
| Category:Rusyn historical regions | merge as overcategorization/underpopulated, with no prejudice against a recreation if it can be sufficiently verified and populated (per Peterkingiron) | November 2 |
| Category:Rusyn saints | delete without prejudice to the creation of Category:Ruthenian Catholic Church or recreation of this category if there is additional material to categorise (or if a clearer convention is established for the categorisation of saints). Given the ambiguity associated with whether classifying Alexis Toth as a "Slovak saint" is accurate, deletion seems preferable to merging: undercategorisation is always easier to identify and fix than miscategorisation. – | November 2 |
| Category:Safety Engineering | merge. – | November 16 |
| Category:Saint Tail images | Delete, CSD C1, just tag as {{db-catempty}}. -- | November 18 |
| Category:San Francisco Bay Area activism | rename to Category:San Francisco Bay Area organizations, without prejudice to subsequent renomination for purposes of renaming, merging, or deletion. – | November 1 |
| Category:Sanke cards | convert to article: see Sanke card. – | November 4 |
| Category:Scabs | delete. – | November 10 |
| Category:School massacres in North America | upmerge to Category:School massacres. Additional discussion will probably be needed to determine the fate of the individual, by-country categories. On the one hand, categorisation by country for less than three articles may be overcategorisation. On the other, categorisation of school massacres by country allows such categories to be placed into the appropriate subcategory of Category:Massacres by country. – | November 7 |
| School massacres | Merge all, except to Delete Category:School massacres in the United Kingdom, per nom | November 22 |
| Category:Science fiction short story collections by Harlan Ellison | merge both. – | November 8 |
| Category:Scientists from Cincinnati | upmerge to both parents. – | November 9 |
| Category:Scottish Footballers of the Year | delete | November 26 |
| Category:Scottish National Party (SNP) politicians | rename both | November 17 |
| Category:Screenshots of The Big O | rename to Category:The Big O media | November 16 |
| Category:Sculpture types | rename. – | November 9 |
| Category:Second Ladies of the United States | keep. – | November 1 |
| Category:Seekers | delete | November 4 |
| Category:Serbian building and structure stubs | wrong forum - taken to WP:SFD | November 30 |
| Category:Serbophobia | rename to Category:Anti-Serbian sentiment per Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 7#Islamophobia. If after the name change, someone wants to nominate it without the neological problem, that's fine. If there are other "(X)-ophobia" categories for actual acts of racism or ethnic cleansing, they should also go through this change | November 12 |
| Category:Serial Experiments Lain episodes | Delete, CSD C1, just tag as {{db-catempty}}. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Serie C2/A/B/C clubs | merge all to Category:Serie C2 clubs, which should mean simply deleting them unless some are missing | November 26 |
| Settlements and Neighbourhoods in Algeria | delete Category:Neighbourhoods in Algeria, keep Category:Settlements in Algeria | November 28 |
| Category:Seventh-day Adventism in Europe | Speedy delete per G7 | November 9 |
| Category:Shadow Yamato X games | delete | November 30 |
| Category:Shadow Yamato X | delete | November 30 |
| Category:SharePoint | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Shows on Cartoon Cartoons | delete | November 1 |
| Category:Shows on Miguzi | delete | November 1 |
| Category:Shows on Toonami | delete | November 1 |
| Category:Shugo | delete. The category's sole member is a biographical article that can be reached from Category:Government of feudal Japan (a category reserved for general topic articles) via Category:Daimyo (a biographical category). – | November 2 |
| Category:Sinan buildings | rename. – | November 20 |
| Category:Singaporean people by ethnic or national descent | rename. – | November 12 |
| Category:Singing children | merge. – | November 1 |
| Sint Maarten | rename all | November 30 |
| Category:Six Flags parks and attractions | merge. – | November 16 |
| Category:Skateboarding comedy films | Delete | November 26 |
| Category:Skull Island species | delete | November 28 |
| Category:SkyOS | delete | November 28 |
| Category:Skyscrapers in Columbus | rename. – | November 20 |
| Category:Snugpak | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Software by owner | relist to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 11. – | November 4 |
| Category:Software by owner | rename | November 11 |
| Category:Solo projects | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Songs about drug use | delete | November 30 |
| Category:Songs about fame | speedy delete per user request | November 20 |
| Category:Songs with Place Name in Title | delete. If the goal is to have a grouping of articles for a WikiProject, there are two options. The first is for the WikiProject to maintain its own lists as subpage of the main project page. The second is to create a project banner to place on article talk pages (see Wikipedia:WikiProject#Creating and maintaining. On a side note, it might be a good idea to make a WikiProject proposal before starting the project. – | November 4 |
| Category:Songs with pop culture reference | delete | November 24 |
| Category:Songs with sexual themes | Delete | November 14 |
| Category:Soulja Boy | keep the songs and albums categories; the main category was speedy deleted per CSD G4. – | November 5 |
| Category:Sources used by Livy | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:South Jersey High School Ice Hockey League | Delete. Maxim | November 27 |
| Category:South Tyrol | Leave alone pending the ongoing discussion of the main article name | November 28 |
| Category:Southern Football League | rename. – | November 1 |
| Category:Space Battleship Yamato | delete | November 14 |
| Category:Space simulators | Keep | November 26 |
| Category:Specialist hospitals | delete | November 2 |
| Category:Speech pathology | rename to Category:Speech and language pathology, without prejudice to renominating to solicit additional discussion on deletion, merging, or renaming, especially if the title of the main article (which is currently a bit Anglocentric) changes. – | November 1 |
| Category:Spinning masters. | Delete - And suggest that someone nominate or at least investigate its only member, R. P. Richardson. Looks like it could be potential copyvio, as well as possibly COI or vanity. (See also: | November 26 |
| Category:Spoiler warning templates | delete | November 16 |
| Category:Spreadsheets | rename both, as nominated. Old cat names to be retained as soft category redirects | November 27 |
| St. John's | rename all to Foo in/of St. John's, Newfoundland per article | November 26 |
| Category:St. Lunatics members | keep, withdrawn. – | November 1 |
| Category:St. Mark's Place | merge. – | November 1 |
| Category:Star Fox vehicles | upmerge, then delete as nominated | November 27 |
| Category:Star Trek robots | no consensus, either to rename (to either one of the two options presented) or to delete | November 22 |
| Category:Star Trek-style starship simulators | Delete - The main problem, as shown below, is that such a "listing" would require references, and as such is better suited to a list. WIthout references, though, there is no way to know if such a list is valid. I've posted the list of (former) members to Category talk:Star Trek starship simulators, with a request for references | November 23 |
| Category:StarCraft books | rename. – | November 1 |
| Category:State Tech Prep | delete. – | November 2 |
| Category:State terrorism methods | delete | November 1 |
| Category:State terrorism victims | delete | November 1 |
| Category:Stations of Nagoya Railroad | merge. – | November 1 |
| Category:Statutory Professors of Oxford University | rename. – | November 14 |
| Category:Steamboat Companies in Pacific Northwest | double merge, as suggested by | November 16 |
| Category:Steamboats in Pacific Northwest | Delete - all the category's members are already in Category:Paddle steamers except Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company (which probably shouldn't be in this category either). The members are: two related boats - one was built from the other - which link to each other in their articles; Two lists of boats - one which is under Category:Paddle steamers of British Columbia (a subcat of Category:Paddle steamers); and one which is directly under Category:Paddle steamers. As the two latter examples would appear to show, "by geographic location" is probably better suited to lists | November 16 |
| Category:Stikine Volcanic Belt | Rename Category:Stikine Volcanic Belt to Category:Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province. (Based only on the discussion below, looking over the category, and reading the two related articles.) I have to say that in looking over Stikine Volcanic Belt, it seems to be more about what it isn't than what it is. Both articles should probably be merged (but that's beyond the scope of this closure : ) | November 13 |
| Category:Strike (attack) | delete | November 2 |
| Category:Style | speedy delete under G7, C1, and this discussion. Did not salt though | November 2 |
| Category:Sub Pop | delete. – | November 5 |
| Subcategories of Category:Political parties in Indian states | rename main category to Category:Political parties in India by state and all subcategories to "Political parties in (state name). This matches Category:Cities and towns in India by state | November 16 |
| Category:Suhl | merge without prejudice to future recreation under the conditions specified below (i.e. when there are substantially more than 3 articles to categorise). Since appropriate subcategories exist for the articles Suhl and Ringberghaus, they have been relocated to Category:Towns in Thuringia and Category:Buildings and structures in Thuringia instead of the main parent category for Thuringia. – | November 1 |
| Category:Super Friends characters | Keep | November 17 |
| Category:Super Friends characters | relist to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 17. – | November 1 |
| Category:Supercentenarian trackers | delete. As all category members are linked from the article Extreme longevity tracking, there is no need to listify. – | November 1 |
| Category:Superhero pastiches | delete | November 12 |
| Category:Superman graphic novels | Delete, CSD C1, just tag as {{db-catempty}}. -- | November 18 |
| Category:Supervillain pastiches | delete | November 12 |
| Category:Supervillains of the Hood empire | delete | November 24 |
| Category:Survival horror video games | UpMerge Category:Survival horror video games to Category:Horror video games. In looking over the two cats, nearly all of the members of the subcat are already in the parent (including several subcategories of both) | November 15 |
| Category:Suzue Miuchi's manga | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Systems software companies | speedily deleted by | November 6 |
| Category:Tactical voting | merge all to Category:Voting theory, without prejudice to recreation if more material is created. – | November 19 |
| Category:Tamil-language films by actor | delete both. – | November 4 |
| Category:Tamora Pierce | delete. – | November 4 |
| Category:Tangerine Dream | delete | November 11 |
| Category:Tasmanian Composers | merge. – | November 7 |
| Category:Team Full Tilt | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Technical & Management Festivals | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Tennessee conventions | delete; merging is unneeded per | November 1 |
| Category:Tennis clubs established before 1900 | delete. Cut-off years can only be non-arbitrary in a specific context (e.g. 1933-45 in the context of the history of Germany); however, even then, the particular period should ideally be referred to in words (e.g. Category:Nazi Germany). Simply being a round number is not enough for categorisation, and 1900 is just as arbitrary as 1899, 1901, or 1910. I am also deleting Category:Tennis clubs, which will be emptied by this closure. As only two of the five are tennis-only clubs, and all are already categorised in their appropriate "Sports clubs" and "Tennis venues in ..." categories, deletion seems a better option than upmerging. – | November 4 |
| Category:Terrans (StarCraft) | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:The Authority members | delete | November 13 |
| Category:The Bill regular actors | delete | November 24 |
| Category:The Friday Night Project hosts | delete. – | November 18 |
| Category:The Gazette | delete. – | November 16 |
| Category:The Legend of Zelda locations | upmerge into both parents. – | November 6 |
| Category:The Matrix video games | merge to Category:Video games based on films | November 28 |
| Category:The Mills Corporation | delete, seems sensible | November 12 |
| Category:The Orb | delete | November 14 |
| Category:The Outer Limits | delete | November 12 |
| Category:The Parlotones | rename. – | November 1 |
| Category:The Powerpuff Girls | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:The Sandbaggers TV episodes | rename. – | November 8 |
| Category:The Sandbaggers | delete | November 14 |
| Category:The Simpsons Screenshots (Tracey Ullman Show) | Delete, CSD C1, just tag as {{db-catempty}}. -- | November 18 |
| Category:The Trews | delete. – | November 6 |
| Category:The Zeta Project | delete. – | November 6 |
| Category:Theorem provers | Rename Category:Theorem provers to Category:Theorem proving software systems. "Automated" would seem to refer to the task or process, not to the software itself. And in looking over the category members, it's clear that these are "software systems". (Which should also help give the category a bit more clarity.) | November 16 |
| Category:Time travelers in Star Trek | delete. – | November 15 |
| Category:To do, priority Collaboration | delete both as internal maintenance. The only category members are a WikiProject and a task force. While most WikiProjects have their own to-do lists or templates, there is little reason for the projects themselves to be placed in "to do" categories. – | November 8 |
| Category:Tolkien | merge as nominated, without prejudice to reorganisation of the category scheme as necessary and appropriate, and leave a category redirect | November 7 |
| Category:Towers in Business Bay | delete | November 29 |
| Category:Trailer Park Boys | delete. – | November 8 |
| Category:Transformers Pretenders | rename | November 26 |
| Category:Transgressive artists | delete | November 5 |
| Category:Transport Specialists from Afghanistan | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Transportation terminology | upmerge the two subcategories to Category:Terminology, which can serve as a parent for terminology-related articles and categories, and upmerge the three articles to Category:Transportation, as deletion will leave them uncategorised. Placing virtually every article about a concept (e.g. public transportation, infant car seat) in the main category for the concept and in a "terminology" category is redundant. To avoid such redundancy, terminology-related categories should be restricted to articles that are actually about terms and terminologies (e.g. List of terms used in bird topography). – | November 1 |
| Category:Travel blogs | merge. – | November 1 |
| Travelers | Delete all - These are writers, journalists, explorers, and soldiers. While the intent of the category seems to be those who "may be" notable for travelling distances, the inclusion criteria is vague and subjective - as noted in the discussion below. (For what seems to be a semi-related category, see: Category:Travel writers.) "Adventurers" may be nominated in a separate discussion, but since it wasn't tagged, it isn't included in this closure | November 12 |
| Category:Tri-City Valleycats alumni | rename (already done). | November 25 |
| Category:TTI Telecom | delete. The product articles seem to have been deleted and the main article (even if kept) alone does not justify an eponymous category, per ample precedent. – | November 1 |
| Category:Turners Falls, Massachusetts | merge. – | November 1 |
| Category:Twelve labours of Herakles | rename per nom. "Let's at least match the name of the lead article" is the main argument here | November 25 |
| Category:U.S. Route 36 | delete. – | November 16 |
| Category:UFC venues | delete. – | November 17 |
| Category:UK Raving | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:UK real estate | November 7 | |
| Category:UK Thrash | upmerge as nominated. – | November 1 |
| Category:UK | redirect (empty, thank you Peterkingiron.) | November 22 |
| Category:Ukrainian diaspora of Australia | merge into Category:Ukrainian Australians | November 28 |
| Category:Ullensaker | keep. – | November 1 |
| Category:Umberto Eco | delete. At this point, there is not enough material to justify an eponymous category, and Eco's publications belong in Category:Works by Umberto Eco. – | November 7 |
| Category:United States popular history | delete. – | November 17 |
| Category:United States soccer competitions | merge. – | November 19 |
| Category:Units based on multiples of 12 | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Universities and colleges in Jacksonville | rename | November 30 |
| Category:University of London External Programme | relist to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 8. – | November 2 |
| Category:University of London External Programme | Rename | November 8 |
| Category:University of London Institute in Paris | relist to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 November 8. – | November 2 |
| Category:University of London Institute in Paris | upmerge to Category:University of London, with no prejudice to re-creation if more content is developed | November 8 |
| Category:Urban context photographers | upmerge as suggested by Johnbod. – | November 1 |
| Category:Urban tunnel | merge to the appropriate subcategory of Category:Tunnels by country. – | November 1 |
| Category:Urdu literature | keep | November 5 |
| Category:US Natural Advantage | Speedy delete as spam | November 1 |
| US parties...Right/Left/Center | Delete both Category:Leftist parties and organizations in the United States and Category:Rightist parties and organizations in the United States; No consensus to delete Category:Libertarian parties and organizations in the United States | November 26 |
| Category:US Presidential Elections with Differing Electoral and Popular Vote Winners | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:US state government navigational boxes | rename. – | November 6 |
| Category:Ushering | delete | November 30 |
| Category:Utah tornadoes | keep | November 11 |
| Category:Valerii Flacci | delete | November 1 |
| Category:Vancouver television series | no consensus to do anything, and it's already been relisted once | November 22 |
| Category:Vancouver television series | relist to geneerate broader consensus. See CfD November 22 | November 9 |
| Category:Vice mayors | delete | November 1 |
| Category:Video game currencies | merge. – | November 15 |
| Category:Video games based on Image Comics | keep. – | November 4 |
| Category:Violoncello concertos | rename. – | November 4 |
| Category:Virtual Worlds - Kids | merge to Category:Virtual reality communities | November 13 |
| Category:Virtual Worlds - Kids | relisting, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_November_13#Category:Virtual_Worlds_-_Kids | November 1 |
| Category:Vocal duets | No consensus for rename | November 25 |
| Category:War of the Triple Alliance battles | rename. – | November 6 |
| Category:War on something | listify (already done). | November 19 |
| Category:War on Terror | no consensus. Clearly, the decision of one user to change the article name despite consensus to the contrary has influenced this debate, as several voters endorse the nomination for matching the article name. This is a discussion that needs to resolve (or fail to resolve) on the article talk page, and then the category can be brought into line if the new article name sticks | November 2 |
| Category:Warcraft characters | delete - empty at end of discussion (only contained two user sandboxs). I note in passing that during this discussion the list itself was deleted for lack of sources/notability without prejudice to proper recreation | November 28 |
| Category:Warcraft custom games | upmerge. – | November 12 |
| Category:Warcraft items | delete. The sole category member already appears in Category:Warcraft. – | November 12 |
| Category:Warcraft locations | delete, empty | November 26 |
| Category:Warcraft lore | delete | November 12 |
| Category:Warcraft organizations | delete, empty. – | November 22 |
| Category:Warsaw Uprising Insurgents | relist for further discussion, now at CfD 2007 Dec 7 | November 27 |
| Category:Washington Irving | delete. – | November 7 |
| Category:Water Truck Pumps | delete; the sole member already appears in the target. – | November 1 |
| Category:Web mashups | delete. – | November 16 |
| Category:Weebl and Bob | delete, per above. All category members already appear in Category:Flash cartoons. – | November 8 |
| Category:Werewolves in fiction | keep. – | November 8 |
| Category:Werewolves in fiction | relisting to generate more discussion see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_November_8#Category:Werewolves_in_fiction | November 2 |
| Category:Western Pacific Railroad Museum | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Western writers about Russia | No consensus to Merge (or just about anything else, at the moment). (Personally I think they could use better names - ducks out of sight from Mike : ) - The writers aren't about Russia, they write about Russia.) From what I see below, feel free to renominate each for individual renaming, and/or perhaps listification, but merging appears to be currently opposed | November 12 |
| Whitehorse, Yukon | rename all | November 26 |
| Category:Whitney Independent Study Program alumni | delete. – | November 2 |
| Category:Wii Zapper games | no consensus | November 29 |
| Category:Wikipedia articles with biased sources | delete. Also note that the template that populated this category – Template:Biased source – was deleted per Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2007 November 5, thus making this category eligible for speedy deletion per criterion C3. – | November 5 |
| Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Bears work portal | speedy delete per CSD G6 (housekeeping: empty maintenance category) and CSD C1 (category that is empty for 4+ days). – | November 19 |
| Category:WikiProject Song articles | rename. – | November 7 |
| Category:William Butler Yeats | delete. The articles are adequately and appropriately interlinked, and there is not adequate material to justify eponymous categorisation (indeed, the inclusion of some of the current members is questionable). For instance, while the village of Drumcliffe may be known mostly for its relation with Yeats, such a connection is better expressed in articles than through Places by famous person categorisation. Although more articles could be added the category, their connection to Yeats would mostly be in the form: Works by (see Category:Works by William Butler Yeats), People connected to, Places connected to, and so on. (In general, eponymous categories are very limited in the degree to which they can reflect the complexities of human inter-relation.) – | November 13 |
| Category:Wilson Sporting Goods Equipment | delete | November 1 |
| Category:Winner of Kritikerprisen | rename to Category:Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature winners | November 4 |
| Category:Winners of the Hans Christian Andersen Award | delete. A good portion of the biographical articles mention the award; however, that does not necessarily mean that being a winner of the award is a defining attribute. Deletion should be reconsidered if information can be offered that suggests that it is a defining attribute. – | November 4 |
| Category:Wizards of Waverly Place | delete. – | November 8 |
| Category:Words by language | Rename Category:Words by language to Category:Words and phrases by language; No consensus to rename Category:English words | November 26 |
| Category:Works at the Museum of Modern Art | rename. – | November 19 |
| Category:Works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art | merge. – | November 19 |
| Category:Wrestling venues | delete | November 13 |
| Category:Xbox Live Vision camera supported | delete; a list is available at Xbox Live Vision#Compatible games. – | November 7 |
| Category:Xingyiquan | Keep - now has four articles and a subcategory. Potential to expand | November 23 |
| XML | upmerge all. – | November 1 |
| Category:Yosemite | rename | November 11 |
| Category:Yugoslav music Hall of Fame | delete. – | November 1 |
| Category:Zenit football managers | rename. – | November 16 |
| Category:Zerg | delete. – | November 1 |