Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2009 January index
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| 'Category:Foreign-born soccer players who played for the Booia' leftovers | delete | January 11 |
| Category:11th-century bishops | rename | January 31 |
| Category:16 July births | delete | January 21 |
| Category:16th-century Spanish people | keep | January 20 |
| Category:18th century Congregationalists | keep | January 18 |
| Category:2008-09 South Pacific cyclone season | no consensus | January 13 |
| Category:2008-2009 New Years Honours | Delete | January 1 |
| Category:3D video games | rename | January 27 |
| Category:3GPP2 standards | rename | January 26 |
| Aborted albums | rename | January 25 |
| Category:Abusers | delete | January 26 |
| Actors by state | rename. (Without prejudice against a renomination to propose cleaning these out/redefining their use in the way suggested by Sam.) | January 26 |
| Category:Actors by year | rename | January 27 |
| Category:Adoptive parents | Delete. While several editors mentioned a listify as an option, the related precedent nominations were deletions and not listify closes | January 11 |
| Category:African American publishers | rename | January 7 |
| Category:African American repatriates | delete | January 19 |
| Category:African American United States vice-presidential candidates | keep | January 3 |
| AIDS-related deaths by country | keep | January 9 |
| Category:All non-free logos | no consensus I know, there was no opposition, but there was in the prior CFD's, and I'm not seeing the need for this merge. In fact, the nomination itself doesn't appear to know the reason for having both. I would recommend posting this at the Village Pump to get wider input | January 15 |
| Category:Alternative music | rename, adding "rock" to the record label category for consistency (if not an oversight, let me know and I'll move it as nominated), keep as redirects | January 3 |
| Category:American conservative writers | merge | January 17 |
| American conservatives redux | delete | January 5 |
| Category:American expatriate American football players in Germany | upmerge | January 4 |
| Category:American football players from Arizona | rename | January 26 |
| Category:American liberalism | rename | January 11 |
| Category:American people by political orientation | keep | January 8 |
| American players of American football by state | rename | January 19 |
| American Samoan legislators | rename | January 22 |
| Category:Anarchism by genre | rename to Category:Anarchism by form | January 14 |
| Category:Ancient Synagogues | speedy rename. | January 28 |
| Category:Anglican scientists | delete | January 11 |
| Category:Anno Domini | rename | January 25 |
| Category:Anthropology films | withdrawn | January 15 |
| Category:Aribonid dynasty | no consensus | January 9 |
| Category:Arkansas State Indians football categories | no consensus | January 25 |
| Category:Army-Navy Game venues | Delete | January 1 |
| Artists by state | rename | January 25 |
| Assemblies of God people | merge/delete per nom. While true, these are relatively new categories, nothing has been added to them other than the clergy subcats since creation. Not even John Ashcroft | January 5 |
| Category:Associates of King's College | withdrawn by nominator (me) per discussion below | January 14 |
| Category:Australian country-rock groups | merge, recreation permissible if other articles are found/written | January 8 |
| Category:Austrian-Australian Jews | delete | January 10 |
| Category:B-movie directors | delete (upupmerge to Category:Film directors to make sure that isn't lost. single upmerging to Category:Film directors by genre doesn't make sense as that's for genres, not people) | January 3 |
| Category:Bahá'í magazines | upmerge to Category:Religious texts and Category:Bahá'í texts | January 12 |
| Category:Bahá'í practices | keep | January 14 |
| Category:Bahá'í teachings | rename | January 12 |
| Category:Baltimore Light Rail Stops | no consensus | January 3 |
| Category:Baltimore Metro Subway | rename | January 3 |
| Category:Banned in Japan | delete. If someone wants to create a list, the articles are below | January 31 |
| Category:Beguines and Beghards | Keep - per subsequent expansion/recategorisation | January 18 |
| Category:Beyoncé concert tours | rename | January 20 |
| Category:Bilinguals | Delete | January 1 |
| Category:Bishops by century | reverse merge. In other words, the ones being kept will be the ones without "Christian" and with the proper hyphenation. (There are more of these "Christian bishop" categories for other centuries that could be similarly nominated.) | January 23 |
| Category:Black Africa | rename to Category:Sub-Saharan Africa | January 7 |
| Category:Black African people | no consensus | January 7 |
| Category:Black hat seo | rename to Category:Black hat search engine optimization | January 3 |
| Category:Bloody anime series | delete (was already deleted as empty, but consensus here was that it should have been deleted, even if populated) | January 17 |
| Category:Books by Comenius | rename | January 1 |
| Category:Born in Kazakh SSR | merge to Category:Soviet people. I read through all of the articles and could not determine from the article text which ones were ethnically Kazakh, so I'm not moving any into Category:Kazakh people. If someone else can do the work to determine this, I can provide a list of articles that were in this category | January 1 |
| Category:Boston Terriers athletic directors | rename | January 10 |
| Category:Bougainville Province | rename | January 22 |
| Category:British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame | rename | January 2 |
| Category:British people in Taiwan | rename | January 26 |
| Category:Buddhism related literature | rename to Buddhist literature | January 15 |
| Category:Buddhist practices | keep | January 14 |
| Category:Buddhist studies contributers | rename to Category:Buddhist studies scholars | January 15 |
| Category:Buddhist-related lists | rename | January 12 |
| Category:Buildings attacked in the November 2008 Mumbai attacks | delete | January 12 |
| Category:Burmologist | rename to Category:Burmese studies scholars | January 25 |
| Category:CABLE Liner people movers | rename | January 9 |
| Category:Cal Poly Sport Hall of Fame | delete | January 6 |
| Category:Canadian Congregationalists | keep | January 18 |
| Category:Canadian people of the Moravian Church | delete for now. As noted, the only article in the category, Doris Saunders, makes no mention of her religion. Recreation permissible if other articles are found/written for this category, or if Doris's article is sourced | January 18 |
| Category:Canadian people | keep | January 15 |
| Category:Canadian-West Indians | delete all of the subcats in this are already properly categorized | January 22 |
| Category:Canals in Myanmar | rename per other CFD's and DRV and Burma | January 30 |
| Category:Cancer deaths in Hawaii | No consensus to delete. Though it does look like a consensus to do a group nom for listification/deletion, if that is wanted | January 19 |
| Canoers/Canoeists | rename all | January 3 |
| Category:Caprivi | rename | January 8 |
| Categories by genre | Rename. Consensus was to do something. While there may be some logic to deletion, it did not gain any traction here. If deletion is needed, it would be best discussed on a by category basis. I don't see how that could work in a group nomination like this one. It appears that the oppose comment only applies to one, or at best two, of the nominations. Since there was this only comment, I fell that it should be treated the same as the others in this group nomination. Since it is a rename, we have not really lost anything and we can rename to something better if someone has a suggestion. The two categories marked as not having been tagged were tagged at some point in the discussion | January 15 |
| Categories for individual members of "The Invincibles" | delete | January 13 |
| Categories for pre-Germany years | withdrawn by nominator | January 1 |
| Categories related to the province of Bolzano-Bozen | January 22 | |
| Categories:Irish expatriate association footballers | rename | January 2 |
| Categories:People by region in Quebec / Regions of Quebec | Rename most of them. No consensus on Category:People from Laval, Quebec, Category:Laval, Quebec, and Category:Laurentides, Quebec. -- | January 17 |
| Categories:People by state, etc. in Fooia | rename | January 2 |
| Categories:Soccer in South Africa | rename to "football (soccer)" for at the very least, consistency between the South African categories. If it is desired to be just "football" or just "soccer" or (and now for) something completely different, we can do them all in another nomination | January 5 |
| Category:Category-Class tennis pages | rename It would appear that the template has already been updated, as everything is already showing as being in the red-linked categories | January 15 |
| Category:Cel-shaded video games | rename | January 27 |
| Category:Celebrities born in prison | Delete | January 11 |
| Category:ChalkZone | delete | January 4 |
| Category:Chinese Congregationalists | no consensus | January 18 |
| Category:Chinilpa | rename | January 1 |
| Category:Christian literature | no consensus | January 15 |
| Category:Christian religious leaders by century | delete | January 14 |
| Category:Christians by century | keep | January 18 |
| Category:Churches by patron saint | delete; in reading this discussion, I am unable to see any reason to keep as a category, as they do appear to be overcategorization by shared name. A list would be a better vehicle to display the connections | January 3 |
| Category:Cing | rename | January 12 |
| Category:Classical songs | rename per revised nom | January 14 |
| Category:Clinically proven homeopathic remedies | delete | January 18 |
| Category:Comeback project | result | January 18 |
| Commonwealth Games medalists | rename all | January 7 |
| Category:Communities of Pembrokeshire | merge. Seems to be agreement also on how to relate the contents to Category:Villages in Pembrokeshire, but that's something that will be done article-by-article, of course | January 21 |
| Category:Companies listed on the SWX Swiss Exchange | rename | January 5 |
| Category:Computer game mods | rename | January 27 |
| Category:Congregationalist clergy by nationality | keep | January 18 |
| Category:Congregationalist clergy by period | keep, I personally think the whole "part of a scheme" is also part of the pile, but the masses have spoken, over and over, that one-article categories are ok | January 18 |
| Category:Corvettes | no consensus. While I strongly agree with Neier's note regarding naming conventions, there is the problem of what is the main article called, and the lack of a workable solution to dab categories | January 21 |
| Category:CPSU members | rename to Category:Communist Party of the Soviet Union members | January 8 |
| Category:Creation myths | keep | January 28 |
| Category:Cremations | Delete | January 1 |
| Category:Criminal justice in Oregon | Merge. Per the discussion this merge does not prevent recreation of the deleted category based on broader discussions on the topic | January 6 |
| Category:Cringe-inducing foods | DELETE, WP:SNOW | January 23 |
| Category:Croatia municipality templates | rename | January 24 |
| Category:Croatian people | keep | January 15 |
| Cruises | delete | January 7 |
| Category:Current Members of the Canadian House of Commons | delete | January 13 |
| Category:Cyclopses | round and round and round we rename. This time we'll leave a redirect | January 5 |
| Category:Dark Angel (band) albums | no consensus | January 22 |
| Category:Deal or No Deal (US) | upmerge and delete (kind of like excretion happens, if you think about it) | January 1 |
| Category:Deist texts | merge to Category:Deism | January 12 |
| Category:Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from Missouri | Rename Category:Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from Missouri to Category:Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from Missouri Territory - No prejudice against a subsequent/immediate group nom to suggest adding "the" to them all | January 19 |
| Category:Descendants of Black Refugees (War of 1812) | delete | January 26 |
| Category:Descendants of John Tripp | delete | January 24 |
| Category:Descendants of Kamehameha's siblings | delete | January 26 |
| Category:Descendants of slave traders | delete | January 26 |
| Category:Descendants of Stephen Bachiler | delete (article fixed) | January 26 |
| Category:Destruction TV | delete (category was also empty at time of close) | January 20 |
| Category:Disamb-Class U.S. Congress articles | rename | January 29 |
| Category:Disambig-Class tennis pages | rename It would appear that the template has already been updated, as everything is already showing as being in the red-linked categories | January 15 |
| disambiguating Categories:Thunder Bay | Rename all to <stuff> <preposition> Thunder Bay, Ontario (if not already in that format). Another way to put this would be: "Rename per solution proposed by Vegaswikian" | January 11 |
| disambiguating Category:Kumasi | rename | January 14 |
| disambiguating Category:Skåne | relisted on 16th | January 10 |
| disambiguating Category:Skåne | rename to Category:Scania, etc. to match article. No consensus on disambiguation. I would think that "cat:Skane County" would take care of the disambig issues, but if someone is looking only at Cat:Scania without knowing about the county cat, they won't know if it refers to the province or the county. (On a personal note, I would recommend renomination for disambiguation) | January 16 |
| Category:Diseases of skin appendages | Rename to Category:Medical conditions of the skin. Clearly there is a consensus to rename. However the target of the rename is at issue. In reading through this I sense that a rename to Category:Medical conditions of the skin could well be a reasonable alternative at this point. This rename does not preclude a later rename to something else if a different consensus develops. I did look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine/Dermatology task force/Categorization, skin appendages is only used for this one category so I don't see replacing this one use as a problem. I will hold the rename for 24 hours in case anyone wishes to object to this closing | January 10 |
| Category:Diseases of skin appendages | rename | January 26 |
| Disestablishment by year and decade BC | no consensus, defaulting to keep | January 25 |
| Category:Disturbances of pigmentation | rename | January 19 |
| Category:Documentaries alleging war crimes | withdrawn by nominator | January 15 |
| Category:Documentaries by topic | withdrawn by nominator | January 14 |
| Category:Donner party | keep | January 27 |
| Category:Dukla Prague players | rename | January 3 |
| Category:Dutch people in Taiwan | rename | January 26 |
| Category:Economy and Finance Minister of Uruguay | rename | January 26 |
| Category:ECPA Christian Book Award winners | delete | January 10 |
| Category:EERE templates | delete (now empty; only template was deleted) | January 17 |
| Category:Egyptian footballers in Europe | merge | January 30 |
| Category:Eight-thousanders | no consensus | January 20 |
| Category:Eisenhower administration | rename per discussion here and the precedent from November 2008. I understand the desire to do fix all of them at once, but that isn't a good reason not to fix this one while we have it | January 22 |
| Category:Elecric trucks | Speedy Deleted. Non-admin close | January 4 |
| Category:Element | speedy delete as apparent test page | January 12 |
| Category:English people | keep | January 15 |
| Category:Equids | rename | January 18 |
| Category:Estonian fascists | delete (has remained empty) | January 17 |
| Category:Etichonid dynasty | no consensus | January 9 |
| Category:Europe songs | rename | January 4 |
| Category:Ex-gay people | rename to Category:People self-identified as ex-gay | January 25 |
| Category:Executive recruiting firms | merge (was empty at close) | January 22 |
| Category:Extremists | deleted by | January 7 |
| Category:Family of Paul Biya | delete | January 26 |
| Category:FHSAA Athletic Conferences | rename | January 31 |
| Category:Fictional time travelers | Delete and Salt. Based on the previous CfD and their apparent support here I see no reason for keeping. In the future any attempt at recreation should somehow strive to find a consensus, make on the CfD talk page before allowing recreation | January 18 |
| Category:Film festival founders | Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close | January 11 |
| Category:Films articles needing expert attention | merge | January 24 |
| Films by year and decade | rename/merge all as nominated | January 1 |
| Category:Films set in San Francisco | no consensus | January 24 |
| Category:Fireside chats | delete; creator request | January 22 |
| Category:First-party developers | rename | January 27 |
| Category:FM 87.7 MHz Stations with video signal | delete | January 12 |
| Category:Football (soccer) strikers | rename | January 2 |
| Category:Football clubs in Silesian-Moravian Region | rename per nom; it won't be hard to renom it to add the "the" if needed | January 10 |
| Category:Football kit templates | keep Redirect categories are supposed to be empty | January 22 |
| Category:Former academics of the University of Leeds | merge | January 14 |
| Category:Former Assyrian Nestorian Christians | delete; Category:Former Assyrian Christians could be created for other articles if and when needed | January 12 |
| Category:Former church buildings | no consensus | January 2 |
| Category:Former churches | no consensus | January 3 |
| Category:Former churches | rename (btw, was there supposed to be a third rename? I note the stray "and" making it seem like something was omitted in the nom) | January 10 |
| Category:Former philosophy majors | delete. | January 13 |
| Category:Former pupils of Sullivan Upper School | rename | January 22 |
| Category:Former pupils of the Royal School Dungannon | Rename. Deletion can be discussed after the rename is there is a strong opinion about this, however it may be best to do that as part of a larger nomination | January 28 |
| Category:Former Unificationists | Roughly delete. I note that List of Unificationists also contains a section for former members | January 6 |
| Category:Fraggle Rock | delete | January 3 |
| Category:Francis Bacon works | rename to Category:Francis Bacon paintings | January 1 |
| Category:Frank noble houses | merge to Category:Frankish families | January 9 |
| Category:French philosophers of the 20th century | rename | January 29 |
| Category:French politicians of the 17th century | rename | January 28 |
| Category:Freshman Congress Members | delete | January 12 |
| Future Olympic Games categories | delete The articles are already categorized in Summer/Winter Olympic games | January 27 |
| Category:G30 | rename | January 17 |
| Category:Game creation software | rename | January 27 |
| Category:Game engines | rename | January 27 |
| Category:Game modification tools | rename | January 27 |
| Category:Gamma ray bursts | rename | January 3 |
| Category:GBdot | delete, not exactly a user category, even though that's all that is left | January 10 |
| Category:German-American businesspeople | merge | January 6 |
| Category:Go Phones | Delete | January 18 |
| Category:Golden Boot Award winners | delete | January 15 |
| Category:Governors of Mumbai | speedy delete per creator request. (There's not really a viable case to be made for reverse merge since it is a historical position and the official name was "Governor of Bombay"; it was never called "Governor of Mumbai". The position ceased to exist in 1962 and was replaced by the position of Governor of Maharashtra. Bombay wasn't renamed Mumbai until 1996.) | January 8 |
| Category:Grande Croix of the Légion d'honneur | speedy delete per creator request | January 12 |
| Category:Grayson | delete, as noted, the three articles in this category are already in other honorverse categories | January 24 |
| Category:Grunge | rename ot match main article. If it gets renamed to drop the "music", this can always be renamed back | January 23 |
| Category:GSM standard | rename to Category:Global System for Mobile communications | January 17 |
| Category:Guinness World Record holders | Delete -- | January 1 |
| Category:Heroes' Days | keep, and restrict it to days of the week that end in "Q" and are named after Hero sandwich or Captain Hero, and if there are no days named as such, well, give it enough time, monkeys and typewriters, and we'll eventually have an article to add to the category. Sorry, couldn't help myself. I don't see the point, personally, in restricting the contents so much as to make the category WP:OC#SMALL, but others apparently do, so no consensus | January 7 |
| Category:Hidden Camera | rename | January 23 |
| Category:High-Speed Downlink Packet Access | Upmerge. If this grows to the point that a category is really needed, then it can be recreated | January 18 |
| Category:Hindu worship | keep | January 14 |
| Category:Hinduism related lists | rename | January 12 |
| Category:History of Romania (1940-1945) | merge | January 29 |
| Category:Holocaust survivors | keep. All participants are strongly cautioned to check your emotions and invective at the door. This is a discussion, not a bitchfest. If you find yourself commenting on the editor, you might want to take your edit elsewhere. I have here, and I will in the future, discount all ad hominem arguments | January 22 |
| Category:Honorary doctors | delete | January 14 |
| Honorary Fellows | no consensus | January 14 |
| Category:House of Ivrea | no consensus | January 9 |
| Category:House of Poitiers | no consensus | January 9 |
| Category:House of Reginar | no consensus | January 9 |
| Category:Humanitarian operations | rename per the parent category, Category:Military operations by type. This should not be a problem for adding interagency operations, as the military is involved | January 8 |
| Category:Husch Blackwell Sanders famous lawyers and alumni | delete | January 19 |
| Ice hockey players by descent | delete | January 29 |
| Category:Icelandic footballers currently playing abroad | merge, as they are identical. If it's desired to get rid of both, the second one can be nominated as well | January 16 |
| Category:Igbo female singers | delete, empty | January 3 |
| Category:Image-Class tennis pages | rename It would appear that the template has already been updated, as everything is already showing as being in the red-linked categories | January 15 |
| Category:Imperial Russia | rename. (Note that some of the subcategories still use "Imperial Russia" and could likewise be nominated for renaming.) | January 22 |
| Category:Indoor soccer players | keep | January 29 |
| Category:Interest (emotion) | rename to Category:Interest (psychology). This could have gone either way, (delete or rename), but there was really not a lot of strong, ahem, emotion on what to do. There was some agreement that it could work with a rename | January 5 |
| Category:International Boxing Hall of Fame | rename | January 2 |
| Category:Internet vigilantes | delete | January 16 |
| Category:Islam related literature | rename | January 15 |
| Category:Isometric video games | rename | January 27 |
| Category:Jailed TDs | I really hate leaving things as they are when it's clear that everyone in the discussion agrees that the current name is no good. However, without agreement on whether to delete or rename, I have to close this as no consensus | January 8 |
| Category:Jewish neo-Nazis | delete | January 29 |
| Category:Jewish terrorism | keep | January 24 |
| Category:Kalo | Speedily deleted at creator's request (G7) | January 1 |
| Category:Kazakh Nordic combined skiers | rename | January 22 |
| Category:Keio Electric Railway | rename. Although Neier is correct, that there might be confusion if/when the Keio Group article and category are created, that doesn't prevent the name change of these categories now. Besides, there might not be confusion, and the article/category might never get written | January 8 |
| Category:Kentucky colonels | no consensus | January 2 |
| Category:Kiribati Congregationalists | keep | January 18 |
| Category:Kittitian and Nevisian players of American football | rename | January 19 |
| Category:Kosovar people | keep | January 15 |
| Category:Kurdish terrorists | Keep - (Note that I also closed the Tamil CfD noted in the discussion below) | January 20 |
| Category:Languages of Bougainville Province | rename | January 29 |
| Category:Large family cars | delete. This might be part of a classification system, but without references, it's hard to tell | January 14 |
| Law school professors vs. faculty | rename | January 5 |
| Category:Lee Ranaldo | delete | January 17 |
| Category:Level editors | rename | January 27 |
| Category:LGBT Jamaican Americans | delete | January 31 |
| LGBT Politicians by Office | keep all | January 18 |
| Category:LGBT politicians from the United States currently in office | merge | January 7 |
| Category:LGBT-related lists of organizations | rename | January 13 |
| Category:Liberals | delete. The arguments here are mainly the same used for the deletion of Category:Conservatives; "liberal" means something different based upon who you are and what country you are speaking of | January 6 |
| Category:List of artists that appear on ROIR | rename to Reachout International Records recording artists | January 18 |
| Category:List of British people by ethnic or national origin | Rename. This action does not prevent | January 18 |
| Category:List of dance artists by genre | Rename per discussion and reparent sub categories. Someone should check the parents for Category:Dance artists by genre after I create it | January 18 |
| Category:List of films about mathematicians | delete in favor of already existing list | January 26 |
| Category:List of religious groups by country | delete. recreation permissible if other articles are found/written | January 15 |
| Category:List of United States enlisted ranks | rename to Category:United States military enlisted ranks | January 14 |
| Category:Lists of chapters or members of United States student societies | delete (has remained empty) | January 18 |
| Category:Lists of LGBT-related people | no consensus | January 31 |
| Category:Lists of Northern Irish people | rename | January 24 |
| Category:Lists of Papal conclave, 2005 | upmerge | January 19 |
| Category:Lists of slums | merge | January 6 |
| Category:Lists of theologians and religious scholars | rename to Category:Lists of theologians and religious studies scholars | January 13 |
| Category:Llanelli Scarlets | no consensus | January 10 |
| Category:Local governance in India | delete, empty | January 19 |
| Category:Loudoun County Fire-Rescue | double upmerge and delete | January 13 |
| Category:Macedonian people | keep, if "Republic of" is desired as a subcat, that can be created | January 15 |
| Category:Madhya Pradesh 2008 Lagislative Assembly Candidate | rename to Category:Madhya Pradesh politicians | January 13 |
| Category:Madoff fraud | Delete - The article and list would seem to be preferable at this time | January 19 |
| Major Indoor Soccer League | Rename | January 25 |
| Mammal hybrids | rename all | January 24 |
| Category:Masonic Degree | delete | January 30 |
| Category:Masonic organizations | no consensus | January 30 |
| Category:Massachusetts elections in 1936 | Closed: Category creator has tagged for Speedy Deletion. Non-admin close | January 31 |
| Category:Matches at the Wembley Stadium (1923) | delete | January 13 |
| Category:Matfreding dynasty | no consensus | January 9 |
| MCC | rename | January 19 |
| Category:Members of the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance of Namibia | rename | January 1 |
| Category:Members of the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame | delete | January 30 |
| Category:Members of the North Carolina State House | rename | January 30 |
| Category:Mesoregions of Santa Catarina | rename | January 14 |
| Category:Metal bands in El Salvador | rename | January 21 |
| Category:Ministers of Cattle ranch, Agriculture and Fishes of Uruguay | rename | January 26 |
| Category:Ministers of Public health of Uruguay | rename | January 26 |
| Category:Mobile Payment | no consensus | January 18 |
| Category:Mobile phone standards | no consensus | January 17 |
| Category:Mobile phones | keep current name | January 18 |
| Category:Moesha | delete | January 12 |
| Category:Moldovan linguistic and ethnic controversy | keep | January 29 |
| Category:Monopoly (economics) | no consensus. While my own personal opinion did not enter into the close, I happen to agree with GO. If you want the monopoly game article and find yourself at Monopoly, you'll know immediately you're at the wrong article. With the category, it is entirely possible that someone will add Category:Monopoly to a game-related article and never click on it to see they added it to the wrong category. Better to have it as a redlink so the editor knows they added it to a non-existent category | January 10 |
| Category:Montreal festivals | rename (no opposition and will match other categories) | January 5 |
| Category:Monuments and memorials in the Sweden | the rename | January 30 |
| Category:Moravians (ethnic group) | delete | January 24 |
| Category:Multiracial Singaporeans | delete | January 12 |
| Category:Music students by teacher | RENAME Category:Music students by teacher to Category:Lists of music students by teacher; LISTIFY and then DELETE its subcategories | January 4 |
| Musicians by state | rename | January 25 |
| Category:Muslim Shrines in Tamilnadu | merge contents to Category:Sufi shrines in India and Category:Buildings and structures in Tamil Nadu, with a hat-tip to choser for creating the list from the existing category commentary | January 26 |
| Category:Mythology of the creation and death | merge to Category:Mythology to delete Category:Mythology of the creation and death. If further subcatting of Mythology is desired, that can be done at any time | January 29 |
| Category:NA-importance Xbox articles | procedural close, category was already speedied on jan 14 as C1-empty | January 10 |
| Category:National Association baseball players | rename Category:National Association baseball players to Category:National Association of Professional Base Ball Players members by team and * Category:National Association of Base Ball players by team to Category:National Association of Base Ball Players members by team. As for the side discussion as to whether or not the team categories should exist or not and whether or not a nomination will go through without the nominator getting trouted, and whether or not we should bring back the journalists categories without getting deleted straight off as recreations (moving away from the keyboard to take a breath), good points all around, if someone wants to mass-nominate something, feel free, but for now I'm going to go ahead with the NAPBBP cats | January 4 |
| Category:National Capital District | rename | January 22 |
| Category:National Capital Region | rename | January 22 |
| Category:National Film Board of Canada productions | rename | January 30 |
| Category:Neoplatonist texts | keep | January 12 |
| Category:New York Sun people | no consensus | January 3 |
| Category:New Zealand Independant crown entities | delete (empty) | January 29 |
| Category:NFL players convicted of crimes | delete | January 1 |
| Ni-Vanuatu | rename | January 20 |
| Category:Northeastern University Athletics Hall of Fame | delete | January 7 |
| Category:Northern Irish emigrants | rename | January 24 |
| Category:Northern Irish expatriates | rename | January 24 |
| Category:Northern Irish murder victims | rename no comment about the usefulness of 1.5 articles per category | January 24 |
| Category:Northern Irish Nobel laureates | rename | January 24 |
| Category:Northern Irish people by ethnic or national origin | rename to Category:People from Northern Ireland by ethnic or national origin | January 24 |
| Category:Northern Irish people by occupation | rename to Category:People from Northern Ireland by occupation | January 24 |
| Category:Northern Irish people by religion | rename to Category:People from Northern Ireland by religion | January 24 |
| Category:Northern Irish people stubs | Not the right place for this discussion. This category is controlled by Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting and you can discuss this change over there | January 24 |
| Category:Northern Irish people | rename. This comes down to strength of argument (and as always, not a vote count). Please note, as Kbthompson and BHG point out, there are many problems with Northern Ireland which this CFD is not meant to resolve. This rename does not mean that articles cannot also be in "British people", "Irish people", or both. It does not mean that if you can't use the term "Northern Irish". It's just a way to better categorize people here at Wikipedia | January 7 |
| Category:Northern Irish prisoners and detainees | rename | January 24 |
| Category:Northern Irish women | rename | January 24 |
| Category:Notable cavalrymen | rename | January 20 |
| Category:Notable Lebanese People | delete. I'll manually merge the contents to the appropriate subcategory of Category:Lebanese people OR Category:Lebanese Americans, as appropriate | January 7 |
| Category:Notable People from Tuticorin | rename just removing the "notable" for now. I'm not sure if it needs the ",India" as well, if so it can be renominated if it does | January 20 |
| Category:November 2008 Mumbai attacks | rename | January 12 |
| Category:Nuclear-powered ships | do not rename | January 25 |
| Category:Nymphomaniacs | Delete (I wonder if there are those out there who bemoan that this currently isn't an "all-inclusive" category, regardless of where the lines are drawn in definition : ) | January 19 |
| Category:Object-oriented database management systems | no consensus | January 25 |
| Category:Object-oriented database management systems | withdrawn | January 23 |
| Category:Oblique video games | rename | January 27 |
| Category:Oceania All Stars Players | delete. (I'm going out on a limb here since this is a category someone at WP:FOOTY might be interested in, but seeing as how the nominator let them know, I guess I can assume that I have their permission to implement the consensus here.) </bitter-sarcasm> | January 6 |
| Category:Oh Yeah! Cartoons | delete | January 4 |
| Category:Olivia Newton-John | No Consensus - This is made even more clear by the past CfDs noted by | January 20 |
| Category:Olympic torchbearers | Delete | January 1 |
| Category:One-term congressmen | delete | January 3 |
| Opposed to the Third Reich | rename to Category:German conservatives in the German Resistance and Category:German monarchists in the Gernam Resistance | January 4 |
| Category:Orthodox converts to Jehovah's Witnesses | delete | January 5 |
| Category:Orthodox converts to Mormon Faith | Upmerge the only entry | January 18 |
| Category:Orthodox converts to Pagan religions | delete | January 5 |
| Category:Orthodox converts to Yehowism | delete | January 5 |
| Category:Other complete problems | merge per nom. Twri has not been active much in the last month. If desired, this can always be renominated to find a "better" solution if the merge target is still controversial | January 8 |
| Category:Other complete problems | relisted on jan 8 | January 1 |
| Category:Overseas Panamanians | merge | January 7 |
| Category:Pac biters | delete | January 5 |
| Category:Pakistan diaspora | merge | January 2 |
| Pakistani Cave Explorer & mountain climbers | delete; I'm not an expert on merging articles, if someone else wants to take a crack at it, I'll restore the text | January 5 |
| Category:Papua New Guineans by religion | rename | January 22 |
| Category:Parishes of Wales | rename | January 10 |
| Category:Pedophiles | delete. Was deleted, no consensus to recreate it. Major BLP issues, which will not be solved with a rename, in fact may introduce new problems. If someone wants to create a "convicted" category and populate it with articles that are sourced, I can provide the article list from this category | January 15 |
| Category:People associated with religion or philosophy | upmerge to Category:People by association | January 12 |
| People by century | rename | January 5 |
| Category:People by sexual attraction | delete | January 5 |
| People by Taiwanese descent | rename | January 28 |
| Category:People from Bas-Saint-Laurent | merge | January 17 |
| Category:People from Colombia by department | rename | January 29 |
| Category:People from Hastings (district) | delete, the only thing in Category:People from Hastings (district) is Category:People from Hastings, and I'm not very well going to add Category:People from Hastings to itself. Unfortunately, it's populated by a template, and I can't seem to get it out, so Category:People from Hastings will have a redlink until someone can fix it | January 7 |
| Category:People from São Tomé and Príncipe | rename | January 14 |
| Category:People from St Leonards-on-Sea | rename | January 7 |
| Category:People from the Eastern Cape | keep | January 2 |
| Category:People from the Free State (South African province) | keep | January 2 |
| Category:People from the Western Cape | keep | January 2 |
| Category:People from Thunder Bay District | rename for consistency with the other subcats and to match the parent cat. If someone, perhaps one of the people here (hint hint), wants to nominate the whole bunch for a rename to remove the ", Ontario", that can be done at any time | January 22 |
| Category:People killed by Yahweh | delete | January 27 |
| Category:People of Huguenot descent | no consensus | January 21 |
| Category:People of Northern Irish descent | rename | January 24 |
| Category:People of the Federated States of Micronesia | rename | January 21 |
| People of the Moravian Church | delete; merge contents as nominated | January 24 |
| Category:People of the November 2008 Mumbai attacks | rename per amended nomination | January 12 |
| Category:People who have recieved honorary degrees from Harvard University | honorary delete | January 6 |
| Category:People with gastritis | delete. | January 13 |
| Category:People's Republic/Republic of Haven | no consensus | January 24 |
| Category:Persons connected to George W. Bush | upmerge and delete. As noted, we don't categorize people by people; if the connection is defining and notable, these articles belong in Category:George W. Bush | January 5 |
| Category:Pete Doherty singles | rename | January 21 |
| Category:Philosophical films | delete | January 15 |
| Category:Philosophy Comparisons | no consensus, rename to fix capitalization | January 5 |
| Category:Piano rock songs | Deleted by Maxim, non-admin close | January 7 |
| Category:Picts | merge to move the articles. If anyone wants to recreate this in order to use it as a parent category for non-people articles, feel free | January 12 |
| Category:Pippinid dynasty | no consensus | January 9 |
| Category:Places named after the Breuner family | delete | January 3 |
| Category:Plant common name disambiguation | merge | January 13 |
| Category:Players financed by Hardball | delete | January 10 |
| Category:Pocket PC software | no consensus | January 14 |
| Category:Pocket PC software | no consensus. While there is agreement that a rename is in order, there is no agreement as to what. I recommend renominating this (yet again) | January 21 |
| Category:Pocket PC software | relisted on feb 3 | January 27 |
| Category:Political parties observed by the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz | Delete | January 11 |
| Category:Politics lists | merge | January 3 |
| Category:Polling templates | delete; only user pages remain in it | January 2 |
| Category:Pools | rename to Category:Natural pools | January 25 |
| Category:Populist Party elected officials | rename | January 14 |
| Category:Populists | delete | January 4 |
| Category:Portal-Class tennis pages | rename It would appear that the template has already been updated, as everything is already showing as being in the red-linked categories | January 15 |
| Category:Post-Roman Scotland | rename | January 8 |
| Category:Posthumously born people | Delete. I read through this several times. One of the main concerns about people categories is that they be defining for the individual. I see nothing in the keep arguments that this characteristic is in fact defining. The closest may come in the case of royalty, but even there it is a nice point of interest but nothing that really shows why it is defining. The other keep arguments like well populated, verifiable, the death is a major event for the child or it is legitimate; don't get to the heart of it being defining. If there is really a need to group people by this, it can return as a list that explains why this is defining for that individual. Another point is that this category is somewhat of an arbitrary point of time. Why is this more defining then the case of a mother dieing in child birth? Why is this more defining if one or both parents die in 1 month, or 4 months or a year? | January 21 |
| Category:Presidents of the ICC | rename | January 19 |
| Category:Prisoner (TV series) characters | rename | January 7 |
| Category:Prix Goncourt winners | no consensus | January 19 |
| Category:Professional sports leagues | keep | January 29 |
| Category:Project-Class tennis pages | rename It would appear that the template has already been updated, as everything is already showing as being in the red-linked categories | January 15 |
| Category:Prominent JD/MBAs | no consensus | January 5 |
| Category:Proposed buildings | rename | January 3 |
| Category:Protestant converts to Nation of Yahweh | delete | January 5 |
| Category:Public Key Cryptography | rename | January 21 |
| Category:Puerto Rican American football players | rename | January 19 |
| Category:Puggle | merge | January 3 |
| Category:Raëlian beliefs and practices | keep | January 14 |
| Railroad categories | no consensus. As more people commented, the fewer categories they were ok with being renamed. The only ones left that had consensus were a few that changed (US) to (U.S.), which had nothing to do with the rationale for the nomination | January 23 |
| Rappers by ___location | rename as nominated. (Without prejudice to future proposal to add states to city categories as mentioned by Grutness.) | January 26 |
| Category:Ray Mears | delete | January 3 |
| Category:Reader's advisory | delete | January 16 |
| Category:Recipients of the Belgian Croix de Guerre | Rename to alternate proposal | January 18 |
| Category:Recipients of the Bronze Star medal | speedy rename as capitalization error | January 28 |
| Category:Recipients of the French Croix de Guerre | Rename to alternate proposal | January 18 |
| Category:Recipients of the Luxembourg Croix de Guerre | Rename to alternate proposal | January 18 |
| Category:Regional commands of Israel | keep | January 1 |
| Category:Religion films | rename to Category:Films about religion | January 15 |
| Category:Religious leaders by century | keep | January 18 |
| Category:Religious leaders by period | keep | January 18 |
| Rename of some pages Category:Particular sport players by nationality | rename the "by country" cats to "by nationality" (per nom), no consensus on adding "by nationality" to the others, noting problems with the Snooker players category. I suppose this does not stop anyone from being bold and creating, for example, Snooker players by nationality and moving into it only the appropriate cats, leaving Snooker players as a supercat (would that be an uppercase meow?) | January 5 |
| rename of some subcats of Category:Yugoslav people | rename | January 14 |
| rename to Categories:Expatriate football (soccer) players | rename | January 5 |
| Category:Republic of the Congo people | keep | January 15 |
| Category:Rhodesian Congregationalists | no consensus | January 18 |
| Category:Ripley's Believe It or Not Record Breakers | Delete | January 1 |
| Category:Robert Morrison (missionary) | delete | January 25 |
| Category:Roger Rabbit | rename | January 4 |
| Category:Royal Navy sailors | no consensus. There was some movement toward using personnel (officer) and personnel (non-officer), but not enough support in my mind. Recommend renominating both categories if this is what is desired | January 27 |
| Category:SA Tennis Open | rename to Category:South Africa Tennis Open | January 31 |
| Category:Samoan Congregationalists | keep | January 18 |
| Category:Scientifically proven paranormal phenomena | delete | January 18 |
| Category:Second-party developers | rename | January 27 |
| Category:Seduction songs | rename | January 1 |
| Category:Senior Wranglers | relist to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2009 February 5 (see relisted discussion for detailed explanation). – | January 27 |
| Category:Shades of brown | Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close | January 3 |
| Category:Shopping centers by year of establishment | keep | January 25 |
| Category:Sibling musical trios | Never mind, I thought the last cfd was longer ago | January 25 |
| Category:Sikh beliefs | keep | January 14 |
| Category:Sikh practices | no consensus | January 14 |
| Singers by ___location | rename | January 26 |
| Category:Small family car | delete | January 14 |
| Category:Songs by Edward Elgar | no consensus | January 9 |
| Category:Songs by Frank Loesser | rename | January 1 |
| Songs by X | rename, but only the ones that already exist as "blue-linked categories". Red-linked categories do not yet "exist" in that they have not yet been "created" (though articles may appear on them to show what the category would contain if created). I'm not going to have a bot create "renamed" categories from still non-existent categories because it will create categories with no parents. The ones that don't exist should be created and populated by editors as any new category would be. (Addendum (21.00 11 JAN 2009): This result also doesn't apply to Category:Songs by Edward Elgar, which wasn't properly tagged for this discussion and which was separately nominated at a later date.) | January 5 |
| Category:South African people | keep | January 15 |
| Category:South Korean spree killers | no consensus | January 11 |
| Category:Southern Conference Hall of Fame inductees | delete | January 29 |
| Category:Soviet radio | no consensus, although Tim is correct, this nomination does go against convention | January 5 |
| Category:Soviet repressive organs | delete | January 15 |
| Category:Spacecraft in the Honorverse | merge to Category:Science and technology in the Honorverse | January 24 |
| Category:Spanish-speaking Filipinos | delete | January 19 |
| Category:Sport in Redbidge | speedy delete, CSD G6: Housekeeping, + CSD C1: empty category - as the correctly spelt version exists, there is no point in prolonging this | January 27 |
| Category:Sports Club Dynamo | rename | January 16 |
| Sportspeople by state | rename | January 11 |
| Category:Squash | Withdrawn | January 5 |
| Category:St. Ives artists | rename | January 5 |
| Category:St. Louis Restaurants | rename | January 29 |
| Category:Stanley | rename | January 24 |
| Category:State Sponsors of Terrorism | delete, already an article | January 2 |
| Category:Stuart Draper plays | Delete. While there are some playwrights that have categories, my review of these is that they are the more prolific ones. In some cases they even have subcategories. I don't think that it is valid to use the part of argument in this case when there may be a large number of playwrights that may only produce a single play and have no need for a category | January 25 |
| Category:Swedish government agencies | rename | January 5 |
| Category:Tamil terrorists | No Consensus | January 18 |
| Category:Tanya Huff | delete | January 14 |
| Category:Tatra vehicles | keep | January 29 |
| Category:Tecmo Super Bowl players | delete | January 25 |
| Category:Telugu Cinema Charitra | delete | January 12 |
| Category:Template-Class tennis pages | rename It would appear that the template has already been updated, as everything is already showing as being in the red-linked categories | January 15 |
| Category:The Bill characters | rename, may be deleted if all of the templates in the category are deleted, leaving the category empty | January 8 |
| Category:The Invincibles | rename | January 14 |
| Category:The Simpsons guest stars | speedily deleted as re-created material. Previously deleted 6 times under various names: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 | January 20 |
| Category:The Warriors gangs | delete | January 13 |
| Category:Timeline of sociology | rename | January 16 |
| Category:Timorese footballers | rename | January 23 |
| Category:Tin Man | delete | January 22 |
| Category:Tokyo Kyuko Electric Railway | rename to match the article. Ok, there might be confusion between Tokyu Corporation and Tokyu Group, but as noted, the articles have been named as such since September of 2007, and the neither talk page shows any complaints from confused readers or editors. The hatnotes on each category probably go a long way to explaining what the main articles are. If, in the future, we find that people are starting to get confused, we can always rename things back | January 8 |
| Category:Toni Braxton | delete per much precedent | January 1 |
| Category:Transgender in film | rename per nom. If further discussion is desired to change "film and television", a broader CFD can be opened (or perhaps brought to the village pump) | January 5 |
| Category:Tucker clan (Sierra Leone) | rename to Category:Sherbro Tuckers | January 7 |
| Category:Tuvaluan Congregationalists | keep | January 18 |
| Category:TV word game shows | delete | January 14 |
| Tyrol (state) and Tyrol (historical region) | no consensus | January 30 |
| Category:Ulaanbaatar | Rename | January 28 |
| Category:Union Theological Seminary alumni | Rename | January 28 |
| Category:United States Attorneys from the Western District of Washington | rename as nominated. I realise I commented below, but it was on a technical naming point and I had no real opinion about the proper name, so I feel I'm not in a conflict of interest. From my reading of the discussion(s), there seems to be a fairly clear consensus to avoid the more verbose names for these (see also the Oregon discussion below). If anyone objects to me closing this discussion due to my comment, just let me know and I will open it up again for someone else to close | January 7 |
| Category:United States Attorneys of the District of Oregon | rename as nominated | January 7 |
| Category:United States Department of Energy personnel | rename | January 5 |
| United States federal elections by state | rename mainly for consistency. I'm torn on the arguments about "United States federal elections". For accuracy, I suppose it should be named as such, but unless there are federal elections in any other california, hawaii, kansas, etc, it's pretty clear that the categories are referencing the united states. Let's do this, rename for consistency, and then if someone wants to rename the whole lot to "united states federal elections in foo", they can put up an umbrella nom | January 10 |
| Category:United States presidential inaugural addresses | Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close | January 22 |
| Category:United States Senate election in Minnesota, 2008 | delete | January 23 |
| Category:United States Senate elections, 2009 | Speedy delete as empty | January 25 |
| Category:United States Senators who have been in Space | delete | January 15 |
| Category:United States vice-presidential candidates, 1956 | merge to Category:United States vice-presidential candidates | January 3 |
| Category:United States Virgin Islands American football players | rename | January 19 |
| Category:University and college rugby football clubs | rename to Category:University and college rugby union clubs | January 30 |
| Category:University Ucinf | delete There is already a Category:Universidad de Ciencias de la Informática UCINF | January 21 |
| Category:Unruoching dynasty | no consensus | January 9 |
| Unused NA-Class articles categories | speedy delete all as empty C1 / dependent on retargeted template G8 | January 21 |
| Unused Non-article pages categories | speedy delete all, C1 empty / G8 dependent on retargeted template | January 21 |
| Unused Unassessed-Class articles categories | speedy delete all | January 21 |
| Category:US State Articles (LDS) | rename | January 25 |
| Category:USA Top Model winners | delete | January 8 |
| Category:Vector video games | rename | January 23 |
| Category:Vegetarian beers | no consensus, although vegaswikian brings up a valid point, why would be combine brands and buildings in the same category? | January 4 |
| Vehicle registration plates by state | merge | January 14 |
| Category:Vehicle registration plates of Tennessee | delete; nothing to upmerge as the one article in the category is already in both parents | January 14 |
| Category:Video game visual styles | rename | January 21 |
| Category:Video game visual styles | while a rename seems to be in order, there is no consensus for a target. If desired, this can be relisted to get further input | January 8 |
| Category:Video games with digitized sprites | withdrawn | January 23 |
| Category:Video games with time travel | listify and delete | January 23 |
| Category:Villages in Croatia | merge | January 7 |
| Category:Vincentian people | rename | January 13 |
| Virgin Islands people | renameCategory:United States Virgin Islander politicians to Category:United States Virgin Islands politicians, delete the rest | January 27 |
| Category:Wagnerian singers | delete | January 9 |
| Washington → Washington (U.S. state) | rename. Sportspeople can be fixed/changed upon the completion of the sportpeople CFD | January 6 |
| Category:Washington law | rename | January 13 |
| Category:WCAU-TV | delete | January 2 |
| Category:Wells | Rename . Having said that, this category can be recreated to serve as a container category for the structures | January 28 |
| Category:Western Province | rename | January 22 |
| Category:White Star Lines Big Four | merge to Category:Ships of the White Star Line. Feel free to rename/expand the template at your leisure | January 26 |
| Category:Wii games that use the Gamecube controller | upmerge and delete | January 8 |
| Category:Wikipedia featured articles in other languages | procedural close. As noted, none of the categories have been tagged. Please see the instructions on WP:CFD if you would like to renominate these for deletion. If you need assistance, please contact me on my talk page | January 31 |
| Category:Wikipedia recently completed bot requests | delete | January 31 |
| Category:WikiProject Films stub templates | rename, weakly as it were | January 11 |
| Category:WikiProject Persian Cinema | administrative close only : already deleted by | January 12 |
| Category:WikiProject Pixar | C1 - speedy delete. | January 11 |
| Category:Wilhelminer dynasty | no consensus | January 9 |
| Category:Wilmington metropolitan area | rename; no opposition and will conform to new meta-article name | January 6 |
| Women writers by century | rename all for consistency. A question on merging can be settled in a new nomination if desired | January 26 |
| Category:Wooden synagogues of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth | rename | January 1 |
| Category:Works by Francis Bacon | rename | January 2 |
| Category:World champions in pocket billiards | rename | January 9 |
| World Music Award winners | delete/rename per nom | January 8 |
| Category:Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area, Alaska | rename | January 22 |
| Writers by state | rename | January 25 |
| Category:Writers of the Moravian Church | keep | January 18 |
| WTO | rename | January 22 |
| Category:Years in space exploration | withdrawn | January 28 |
| Category:Youth substance abuse prevention | delete both | January 12 |
| Category:Youths | delete. Come on, people, nothing about My Cousin Vinny? I'm so disappointed in you all. | January 27 |