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These are resolved (but interesting) issues from Categories for Deletion.
Note: This page is meant to be organized by topic, to make things easier to find. The topics (which are not mutually exclusive) may be somewhat arbitrary.
See also
Category:ToL cleanup and
Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities for delete/keep guidelines on these topics. Other
WikiProjects may have their own guidelines for categories.
On the one hand this is a duplicate of the much more widely used
category:entrepreneurs. On the other, if there is to be a broader category about entrepreneurship, which is what the contents seem to imply is the intention, it should be called
category:Entrepreneurship. I will create the latter in due course.
Wincoote 00:14, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Can't we merge
category:entrepreneur and
category:businesspeople into
category:entrepreneurs (after fixing the capitalization problem first), and then move the non-people articles into
category:Entrepreneurship? -
Kbdank71 14:59, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I like that suggestion. --
Laura Scudder 22:53, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Of course we can't. Huge numbers of important business people are not entrepreneurs. The latter is a subcategory of the former.
Wincoote 14:42, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- And yet you propose to delete corporate leaders, saying it's a duplicate of business people. -
Kbdank71 15:26, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Entrepreneur and entrepeneurs have the same meaning and should be merged. Seems to me we should strive for consistency in the use of plural for all people-related categories. --
Leifern 14:59, 2005 Apr 1 (UTC)
- Merge
Category:Entrepreneur into
Category:Entrepreneurs and forget the "Entrepreneurship" nonsense and leave "business people" out of it. If it is about entrepreneurs and their activities, it belongs in the entrepreneurs category, just as much as listing individuals who might be given this tag.
Gene Nygaard 16:04, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Merge
Category:Entrepreneur into
Category:Entrepreneurs. If there were enough articles about starting businesses to justify a
category:Entrepreneurship, then that should be a separate category. But the individuals should be categorized as "Entrepreneurs".
Category:businesspeople is clearly different. -
Willmcw 23:49, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)
Like my other nominations below this is an unhelpful and little used duplication of
category:businesspeople. If this is deleted, I will find better homes for those articles which are not about individuals.
Wincoote 00:26, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Keep. -
Kbdank71 15:22, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. Duplicates
category:businesspeople and
category:entrepreneurs. Plus, it's a vague category. Many companies have a chairman of the board, a CEO, a COO, etc. Are all of those leaders? What about someone who shows leadership from a subordinate role? -
Willmcw 19:11, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
Rename to
Category:Mountains of Greece for consistency with the naming convention of Mountains of Foo.
RedWolf 07:36, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)
Should be merged with subcategories of
Category:National parks by country (moving in from
Category:Protected areas by country after a previous WP:CFD vote was clarified - I originally misinterpreted the decision). --
Beland 02:12, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Agree. There aren't any NPs that aren't in a country are there?--
ZayZayEM 04:05, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I think the word national gives us a clue there... :) agree.
Grutness|
hello?
10:20, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I beleive there are at least three that are in more than one country, but I don't suppose that matters.
Wincoote 13:45, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- If you follow the reasoning of all these pro/anti China categories then China has no national parks. (Course, I think that's ridiculous, just sayin')
SchmuckyTheCat 20:06, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- (response to Grutness) There's a matter of name. In the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and some other parts of the world, the term "country park" is used instead. —
Insta
ntnood 05:40, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
- You miss my point, which was replying to ZayZayEM. If a park is a national park then by definition it must be in a nation. Doesn't matter what they're called in other parts of the world.
Grutness|
hello?
- Don't understand the proposal. What gets lost in the merger? What name/names are kept? I think that
Category:National parks with the country categories under it and eliminating
Category:National parks by country would be good. Multinational ones would also logically fit into each relevant subcategory (in unusual cases could be in the supercategory if necessary). It seems pretty redundant to include both "national" and "by country". Maybe not strictly so, but people going to "national parks" won't be surprised to see it subdivided by country, and should actually expect it since this isn't the type of thing that each country normally has only one of.
Gene Nygaard 18:01, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Comment: Sounds logical, and to me, "natural reserves" or "protected areas" sound more all-encompassing. There is at least one airport serving three States on the border, and the airport itself is on the soil of two States (Switzerland and France). It is categorised in three [[category:Airports of Foo]] categories. —
Insta
ntnood 05:40, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
I have already moved all the entries to
Category:Puerto Rican dramatists and playwrights to put it more in line with the rest of the entries under
Category:Dramatists and playwrights by nationality.
Ganymead 06:32, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
This was previously put up for a vote
here. There was no consensus as to what an alternative would be, so I'm renominating this for an alternative. My thoughts are, we could go with 1.
Category:Cities and towns in Hungary and
Category:Villages in Hungary, 2.
Category:Cities, towns and villages in Hungary, or 3.
Category:Municipalities in Hungary. Those seemed to be the best ideas from the earlier discussion. -
Kbdank71 22:06, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- 2 - Cities, towns and villages in Hungary -
Kbdank71 22:06, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- 2 - Cities, towns and villages in Hungary -
Adam78 23:07, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- 2 - Cities, towns and villages in Hungary--
NightMonkey 23:57, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
- 4 - Cities and towns in Hungary and towns includes all villages--and even if you don't like my idea, put that serial comma in if you use
Category:Cities, towns, and villages in Hungary --
Gene Nygaard 03:16, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- 2 - Cities, towns and villages in Hungary –
Alensha 19:51, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Everything but 1. I support one single category for all populated places in Hungary, be it Cities in Hungary, Towns in Hungary, Cities and towns in Hungary or Cities, towns and villages in Hungary. BTW Gene, the
serial comma is a subject of debate.
Markussep 12:49, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Categories of star classes
White dwarf stars stars are class D stars. There is also
Category:White dwarfs making this category obsolete. This category is has only a redirect.--
Jyril 21:36, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete as a matter of clean-up.
Courtland 00:08, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
- KEEP because it aids in navigation for those who are not astronomers, but would look in
Category:Stars by spectral type .
132.205.15.43 00:46, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- comment — perhaps a
Star classification terminolgy article, almost an embellished list, could be added to
Category:Stars_by_spectral_type to assist in this matter. I am sensitive to the needs of non-experts in general, but I thought deletion of the category did not unduly handicap them.
Courtland 01:22, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC)
- Delete. Presumably, a non-astronomer wouldn't know a Type-D star from a hole in the ground. -
Kbdank71 18:35, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- COMMENT a non-astronomer would see type D or class D in various star articles and when navigating around WikiPedia might want to look up some more. The articles might be from say SPACE.COM or something.
132.205.45.148 19:25, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Comment. Perhaps, but if they wanted to read an article about a Type D star, they'd have to go to
White dwarf, which, oddly enough, doesn't mention "Type D" once. This is just a category. -
Kbdank71 20:06, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- It is worth mentioning. That article should also include information on classification of different types of white dwarfs.--
Jyril 20:27, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete But move to list-- I think it's important to not simply wipe away indexing by the more technical naming convention.
siafu 18:08, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- KEEP because it aids in navigation for those who are not astronomers, but would look in
Category:Stars by spectral type .
132.205.15.43 00:49, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. How is an empty category going to help anyone? -
Kbdank71 18:35, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- It exists as a categoryredirect and that works for navigation purposes as well.
132.205.45.148 19:27, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)** It exists as a categoryredirect and that works for navigation purposes as well.
132.205.45.148 19:27, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Stellar
spectral types N and R have been combined to type C so these categories are redundant. They are also empty.--
Jyril 21:36, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
- KEEP because it aids in navigation for those who are not astronomers, but would look in
Category:Stars by spectral type .
132.205.15.43 00:49, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. How is an empty category going to help anyone? -
Kbdank71 18:35, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- It exists as a categoryredirect and that works for navigation purposes as well.
132.205.45.148 19:27, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Wolf-Rayet stars are class W stars. There is also
Category:Wolf-Rayet stars making this category obsolete. This category is empty.--
Jyril 21:36, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete as an matter of clean-up.
Courtland 23:57, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
- KEEP because it aids in navigation for those who are not astronomers, but would look in
Category:Stars by spectral type .
132.205.15.43 00:49, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. How is an empty category going to help anyone? -
Kbdank71 18:35, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- It exists as a categoryredirect and that works for navigation purposes as well.
132.205.45.148 19:26, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Redundant with correct
Category:Triumph vehicles.
SFoskett 19:05, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete The reason that it isn't being used is probably that it is in American English.
Wincoote 22:47, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Keep and delete
Category:Triumph vehicles. Using
Wincoote's logic, why isn't it
Category:Ford automobiles? Should the existing
Category:Ford vehicles include all farm tractors sold under by Ford the "Ford" brand? They are
vehicles, are they not? So are Honda motorcycles and Volvo skid-steer loaders, are they not?
Gene Nygaard 23:47, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I can't follow this argument, which may be self-contradictory, but it is advocating a breach of the policy that British English has equal status. If this user's concerns are to be addressed, it should be
Category:Triumph cars and
Category:Triumph motorbikes if required (or "motorcycles" if that is standard). His suggestion is an example of U.S. linguistic imperialism.
Wincoote 00:59, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I don't even buy your interpretation that this would be proper in
British English. Vehicles is too broad a term. Furthermore, vehicles is common in
American English as well, so I haven't the foggiest idea what that argument is involves. In American English, motor vehicles (and in a Department of Motor Vehicles in some states, for example) isn't usually applied to farm tractors and construction machinery, but vehicles certainly includes them. And what's this "Equal Statud" nonsense? Your argument would also mean that
American English has equal status, wouldn't it? And then the logical conclusion would be that characterizing something as American English is most certainly not a legitimate argument for changing it, wouldn't it? Talk about self-contradictory!!
Gene Nygaard 01:21, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- British English is preferred for articles about British topics, and American English for American topics. This is not "nonsense"; it is one of Wikipedia's best known policies. By extension the same should apply to categories.
Wincoote 05:13, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Automobiles are neither a "British topic" nor an "American topic", and most manufacturers are neither. Many are multinational.
- Automobiles is a narrower and more appropriate term in both
British English and
American English so I have no idea what your point is there. An 1885 Triumph bicycle is a vehicle, as is a Red River ox cart.
Gene Nygaard 09:14, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. Changing my vote now that it has been clarified that the "correctness" doesn't involve two words intended to have the same meaning, and that Triumph motorcycles belong in this category as well. If kept, the automobiles category should be as a subcategory of the vehicles category, but that would not appear to be necessary.
Gene Nygaard 14:12, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. It is inconsistent with the 70+ other '[Manufacturer] vehicles' categories we already have.--
Hooperbloob 04:27, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete I don't follow this as an American/British distinction; we both use the terms "automobiles" and "vehicles" with those spellings. I advocate remaining consistent with the existing standard, as cited by
Hooperbloob.
siafu 05:21, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- Delete. Not everything needs to be an argument about American vs British. As for vehicles vs automobiles, if consensus does indeed go for vehicles, then Gene, I'd fill it up with vehicles: cars, trucks, motorcycles, tractors, etc. If they are a vehicle, they belong in the category, period. If people just want cars, then it should be named something else. -
Kbdank71 21:51, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
- I'll be starting the
Red River ox cart article shortly; they are quite interesting vehicles. Meanwhile, I have found a few others to add to the various "vehicles" categories.
Gene Nygaard 02:15, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- We had this exact same argument recently over another category (Car or Automobile or Vehicle), though I don't remember exactly what the category name was (someone here is bound to remember it though). The decision them was that motor vehicle was a perectly accepatable term used both in the US and in the rest of the English speaking world. Don't see why the same decision can't be applied here.
Grutness|
hello?
08:54, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Looks like you've been
snookered out of an argument there. Obviously nobody went with that idea. I don't find any categories about "motor vehicles".
Gene Nygaard 16:59, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- ...in which case, I've no idea why the decision wasn't implemented. If that is - for some reason - not a viable option, I vote to retain the "vehicles" category and delete the "automobiles" one.
Grutness|
hello?
01:32, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Self-nomination. Singular not plural. My typo, sorry. Please delete.
VivaEmilyDavies 02:06, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- wellformed and in use category name =
Category:Botanists active in South America
- Even without the typo, I suspect this category will get nominated for deletion. This topic is better served by a list.
RedWolf 04:53, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
- Delete as a matter of clean-up.
Courtland 05:26, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)
- Delete, but keep
Category:Botanists active in South America until somebody gives convincing arguments against it. /
u p p l a n d 09:02, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
The following is an attempt to collect discussions and precedents involve the question of formatting for country- or culture-specific categories, especially those taking place after January 15, 2005. (E.g. "Lakes of X", "Xian lakes", "Lakes in X", "X lakes", etc.) Note that ther may be other, similar precedents listed under other categories on this page.
- April 7, 2005:
Category:Cinema by country subcats changed from "Fooian cinema" to "Cinema of Foo".
Discussion
- April 7, 2005:
Category:Weapons by country subcats changed from "Fooian weapons" to "Weapons of Foo". No opposition.
- April 1, 2005:
category:Northern Ireland people deleted and contents merged into
Category:People from Northern Ireland. See
discussion.
- March 29, 2005:
Category:Japanese sports deleted and contents merged into
Category:Sport in Japan. See
discussion.
- March 24, 2005:
Category:Cities in Hungary kept. Proposition was opposed by large margin, but no consensus as to what an alternative would be. See
discussion.
- March 24, 2005:
Category:Northern Irish sportspeople renamed. See
discussion.
- March 18, 2005:
Category:Shooters by country deleted. See
discussion.
- March 18, 2005: National parks by country renamed. See
discussion.
- March 18, 2005: "Fooish political parties" changed to "Political parties in Foo". See
discussion.
- March 15, 2005:
Category:Quebec actors kept. See
discussion.
- March 14, 2005: Olympic <x> of the U.S.A. categories renamed. See
discussion.
- March 14, 2005: Snooker players by country categories renamed. See
discussion.
- March 13, 2005:
Category:Russian and Soviet aerospace found deleted. Empty category, counter to naming convention. Nominated by
Aranel followed by no discussion and no dissent.
- March 13, 2005:
Category:Russian and Soviet aerospace companies found deleted. Counter to naming convention. Nominated by
Aranel followed by no discussion and no dissent.
- March 13, 2005:
Category:Russian and Soviet attack aircraft,
Category:Russian and Soviet military aircraft,
Category:Russian and Soviet bomber aircraft and
Category:Russian and Soviet fighter aircraft deleted. See
discussion.
- March 12, 2005:
Category:Korean political parties deleted. Found childless. Equivalent North Korea and South Korea categories already exist.
- March 12, 2005:
Category:United States companies deleted. See
discussion.
- March 11, 2005: "By Country" categories cleaned up and conventions established for standard country names. See
discussion.
- March 8, 2005:
Category:Political parties of the People's Republic of China redirected. See
discussion.
- March 8, 2005:
Category:Insurance companies of the People's Republic of China redirected. See
discussion.
- March 4, 2005:
Category:U.S. newspapers deleted. See
discussion.
-
Libraries: "Libraries in X" is preferred. See
discussion.
- "Economy of CountryName" is preferred to "CountryNamian economy".
- April 8, 2005: Lakes of Foo --> Lakes in Foo was Opposed as Lakes of Foo is the established naming convention for geographical features. See
discussion.
- April 7, 2005:
Category:Towns and Cities in Armenia renamed to
Category:Cities and towns in Armenia. See
discussion.
- April 7, 2005:
Category:Lakes by country moved from Fooish lakes to Lakes in Foo. See
discussion, Round 2.
- March 30, 2005:
Category:London Rivers deleted. See
discussion.
- March 25, 2005:
Category:Lakes by country kept. See
discussion, Round 1
- March 24, 2005:
Category:British rivers renamed into
Category:Rivers of Great Britain and
Category:Rivers of the United Kingdom. See
discussion.
- March 24, 2005:
Category:Rivers of Hong Kong kept. See
discussion.
- March 23, 2005:
Category:English rivers renamed to
Category:Rivers of England. See
discussion
- March 21, 2005:
Category:London River Crossings and
Category:Bridges in London merged into
Category:Bridges and tunnels in London. See
discussion.
- March 8, 2005:
Category:Lists of streets:List of Karditsomagoula's streets deleted. See
discussion.
- March 5, 2005:
Category:Thalassery deleted. See
discussion.
- March 4, 2005:
Category:World Heritage Sites in the Ukraine deleted. See
discussion.
- March 4, 2005:
Category:London Districts deleted. See
discussion.
- February 27, 2005:
Category:Airports of Taiwan was kept. See
discussion.
- January 28, 2005:
Category:Tokyo Prefecture deleted as better served by
Category:Tokyo.
Category:Cities in Tokyo Prefecture deleted as better served by
Category:Cities in Tokyo.
- January 27, 2005:
Category:Canada-place stubs was renamed to
Category:Canada geography stubs to fall in line with naming conventions used for other geography stub categories. See
discussion.
- January 27, 2005:
Category:Ireland-place stubs was renamed to
Category:Ireland geography stubs to fall in line with naming conventions used for other geography stub categories.
- January 17, 2005:
Category:Landforms cleaned up. See
discussion.
- January 16, 2005: Several Irish categories were fixed. See
discussion.
- January 16, 2005:
Category:Swedish forests was renamed to
Category:Forests of Sweden for naming consistency.
RedWolf 03:02, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)
-
Category:Lakes of Cambodia has been kept. See
Category talk:Lakes of Cambodia.
RedWolf 23:07, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)
- December 14, 2004:
Category:Birmingham was kept although the existing articles were moved to
Category:Birmingham, Alabama. See
discussion.
RedWolf 21:31, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)
- December 20, 2004:
Category:Alaska boroughs was kept and
Category:Boroughs in Alaska was deleted. Alaska boroughs are most similar to counties in other states; the convention for counties is "STATE counties". See
Category talk:Alaska boroughs.
- December 3, 2004:
Category:North Carolina places deleted. See
discussion.
- December 3, 2004:
Category:Scandinavia was kept. It does not precisely duplicate
Category:Nordic countries because Scandinavia and the Nordic countries overlap but are not precisely identical.
- November 23, 2004:
Category:Newspapers in Washington was kept. (
Category:Newspapers of Washington state was redirected.) Since Washington, D.C. is referred to as Washington, D.C., disambiguation is not necessary.
- November 19, 2004: Several Slovakian categories were renamed to Slovak. See
discussion.
- "Cities in CountryName" is preferred to "Cities of CountryName".
- "Towns in CountryName" is preferred to "Towns of CountryName".
- "Cities and towns in CountryName" is preferred to "Towns and cities of CountryName" or "Towns and cities in CountryName".
-
Category:Japanese towns was moved to
Category:Towns in Japan. "Towns in X" is the preferred format for towns (assuming that a distinction between towns and cities, etc., exists).
-
Category:Ohio county namesakes was deleted. This would be more appropriate as a list.
-
Category:Denver_metropolitan_area was kept as a parent to
Category:Denver, Colorado (the latter is a subset of the former).
- September 6, 2004:
Category:Continental Europe was deleted (practically duplicates
Category:Europe).
- September 3, 2004:
Category:Cities in the Netherlands was kept and
Category:Dutch cities was deleted. The preferred format for cities is "Cities in X".
- August 21, 2004:
Category:Literature from Birmingham, England was deleted (vaguely defined and overly specific).
- August 19, 2004:
Category:Hamlets in New York was kept. Consensus not entirely clear, but it is a common (and potentially useful), if not entirely official, designation.
- August 14, 2004:
Category:Towns in Pennsylvania was kept, although there is only one actual incorporated town in Pennsylvania. See
[1].
- August 12, 2004:
Category:Towns in Florida was kept. (Florida distinguishes between cities and towns, see
[2].)
- August 1, 2004: County categories containing only the article on the county - the general consensus was to keep the categories (since they should grow), but to avoid creating them en masse before they are needed. A summary of how this works:
- Here's the simple rule: communities get cross-categorized by the type of municipality they are (i.e.,
Category:Cities in Ohio,
Category:Villages in Ohio) and the county they are in. I've seen at least one instance of further subdivision of Cities in _____ County, but I think this is unnecessary, it hinders the purpose of grouping all cities in a state together and all places in a county together, it and simply won't work in rural counties that may only have a handful of communities.
Postdlf 05:53, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- March 28, 2005:
Category:Italian armored vehicles found deleted. No discussion to preserve.
- March 28, 2005:
Category:Armored personnel carriers found deleted. No discussion to preserve.
- March 12, 2005:
Category:U.S. military in the 20th century found deleted. Empty and redundant with
Category:U.S. military history 1900-1999. Nominated by
Aranel; no discussion to preserve.
- March 12, 2005:
Category:U.S. military history 1900 and on found deleted. Empty and redundant with
Category:U.S. military history 1900-1999. Nominated by
Aranel; no discussion to preserve.
- March 8, 2005:
Category:Military terms deleted. See
discussion.
- March 5, 2005:
Category:U.S. military deleted. See
discussion.
- March 5, 2005:
Category:World War II veterans deleted, replaced by
Category:American World War II veterans (and other individual countries).
- November 28, 2004:
Category:Weapons by name was deleted (redundant, "by name" is inherent to categories). See
discussion.
- August 19, 2004: Airforce categories (for individual nations) - the consensus was to delete categories containing only one article. The discussion is archived at
Category talk:Air forces.
- April 8, 2005:
Category:1555 in law renamed to
Category:1550s in law. See
discussion.
- April 6, 2005:
Category:Coup d'états renamed to
Category:Coups. See
discussion.
- March 30, 2005:
Category:American administrative case law found deleted. No opposition or discussion.
- March 9, 2005:
Category:Nova Scotia MHAs deleted. See
discussion.
- February 17, 2005:
Category:Political parties by nationality renamed to
Category:Political parties by country.
- January 24, 2005:
Category:Corruption in Poland deleted as considered POV. See
discussion.
- January 16, 2005:
Category:Kings of Persia deleted. See
discussion.
- January 7, 2005:
Category:Oil for Food deleted. See
discussion.
- December 17, 2004:
Category:Election_results and subcategories were deleted. Election results currently go in "Category:Elections in X" rather than "Category:Election results in X".
- December 16, 2004:
Category:Government in Hawaii was moved to
Category:Government of Hawaii. For state governments in the United States, at least, "Government of X" is the preferred format.
- December 8, 2004:
Category:U.S. presidential cabinet members was deleted as being redundant. See
discussion.
- November 21, 2004:
Category:Traitors was deleted (POV, more suitable to a list which can be annotated) and the information retained at
Treason#List_of_alleged_traitors.
- November 21, 2004:
Category:Political parties by name and subpages were deleted (this isn't how categorization works—categories are automatically alphabetical).
- November 21, 2004:
Category:Occupation of Palestine deleted. See
discussion.
- November 16, 2004:
Category:Nigerian political parties and
Category:Nigerese political parties deleted. See
discussion.
- September 16, 2004:
Category:Liberal leaders in the United States was deleted as inherently POV. See
Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Liberal leaders in the United States.
- September 26, 2004:
Category:Liberal leaders and all subcategories were deleted as POV. (More specific categories, such as
Category:Leaders of the Liberal Party of Canada, were kept.) See
Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Liberal leaders.
- October 6, 2004:
Category:Liberal parties was kept. 4 clear keep votes and only one clear delete. The other categories under
Category:Political parties by ideology are not disputed (currently). See
Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Liberal parties.
Moved back to CFD, passed consensus. Discussion now to see what replacement cat will be. See
discussion for archive.
The policies at
Wikipedia:Categorization of people may post-date some of these decisions.
- April 10, 2005:
Category:Fraternities deleted → duplicate of
Category:Student fraternities.
- April 9, 2005:
Category:English dramatists and playwrights kept. See
discussion.
- April 9, 2005:
Category:Miscellaneous engineers deleted. See
discussion.
- April 8, 2005:
Category:Brooklyn Tip-Top players duplicate of
Category:Brooklyn Tip-Tops players.
- April 5, 2005:
Category:Writers who have killed themselves deleted. See
discussion.
- April 4, 2005:
Category:People associated with University of Chicago,
Category:People associated with Northwestern University,
Category:People associated with Columbia University,
Category:Stanford University people deleted. Better served by lists.
- April 4, 2005:
Category:Male Actors was deleted. See
discussion.
- April 2, 2005:
Category:Professionals by nationality renamed to
Category:Occupations by nationality.
- April 2, 2005:
Category:Sportspeople by country renamed to
Category:Sportspeople by nationality.
- April 1 2005:
Category:Pornographic Stars found deleted. No objections noted.
- April 1 2005:
Category:Early music composers found deleted. No objections noted.
- March 30, 2005
Category:Business leaders kept. See
discussion.
- March 30 2005:
category:industrialists and subcats. Little used duplicates of
category:businesspeople and subcats. No objections or comments were made.
- March 29 2005:
category:British jurists to replaced with
category:British legal professionals. See
discussion.
- March 24, 2005:
Category:Hong_Kong_sociologists was kept. See
discussion.
- March 21, 2005:
Category:Female chess players deleted and put into a list. See
discussion.
- March 18, 2005:
Category:Loonies deleted. See
discussion.
- March 18, 2005:
Category:Misers deleted. See
discussion.
- March 18, 2005:
Category:Compulsive Hoarders deleted. See
discussion.
- March 18, 2005:
Category:Eccentrics deleted. See
discussion.
- March 15, 2005:
Category:Doctors found deleted. Redundant with
Category:Physicians and unused; nominated by
MisfitToys followed by no comment and no objections.
- March 15, 2005: University people categories moved to lists. See
discussion.
- March 15, 2005:
Category:Soviet people kept. See
discussion.
- March 15, 2005:
Category:Australian Aborigines deleted. See
discussion.
- March 13, 2005:
Category:British playwrights deleted. See
discussion.
- March 11, 2005: 14 empty Jews categories deleted. See
discussion.
- March 6, 2005:
Category:Italian Canadians deleted. Empty and duplicated by
Category:Italian-Canadians.
- March 5, 2005:
Category:Americans deleted. See
discussion.
- March 5, 2005:
Category:University of Notre Dame people deleted. See
discussion.
- March 5, 2005:
Category:People of New York deleted. See
discussion.
- March 5, 2005:
Category:Alleged U.S. war criminals deleted. See
discussion.
- March 5, 2005:
Category:2006 births deleted. See
discussion.
- March 5, 2005: Various Oscar-winner categories were kept. See
discussion.
- March 4, 2005:
Category:Scientology lawsuits deleted. See
discussion.
- March 4, 2005:
Category:Publically Homophobic People deleted. See
discussion.
- February 19, 2005:
Category:Bisexual-related topics
Category:Lesbian-related topics and
Category:Gay-related topics deleted. No discussion found here.
- February 15, 2005:
Category:Italian-American sporting legends was deleted as over-categorization. See
discussion.
- February 12, 2005:
Category:Ashlee Simpson deleted. See
discussion.
- February 7, 2005:
Category:English science fiction writers was kept. See
discussion.
- January 20, 2005:
Category:Long Hair people was deleted. See
discussion.
RedWolf
- January 15, 2005:
Category:English zoologists added to resolved. See
discussion.
- January 15, 2005:
Category:Wiccans deleted in favour of
Category:Wiccan people. See
Category talk:Wiccan people.
RedWolf
- January 14, 2005: Several "photographers by nationality" categories seem to have been kept. See
discussion.
- January 14, 2005:
Category:Residents of Birmingham, England deleted. See
discussion.
- January 14, 2005:
Category:Prime Ministers deleted in favour of
Category:Prime ministers. See
Category talk:Prime ministers.
RedWolf
- January 10, 2005:
Category:Jewish Russian people deleted. See
discussion.
- January 10, 2005:
Category:Jews kept. See
discussion.
- January 10, 2005:
Category:The Greatest Canadian was
deleted in favor of full list on
The Greatest Canadian.
- January 7, 2005:
Category:Arabic poets was kept. A technical issue prompted it to be listed when it really wasn't needed. See
discussion.
RedWolf
- December 19, 2004:
Category:Palestinian children killed by Israelis deleted. See
discussion.
- December 10, 2004:
Category:Mute recording artist deleted. See
discussion.
- November 28, 2004:
Category:Christians deleted. See
discussion.
- November 20, 2004: Several Comics people categories were merged. See
discussion.
- September 29, 2004: Categories for cricketers by skill and country were deleted as unnecessarily specific, with
Category:Cricketers by skill and
Category:Cricketers by nationality used instead.
- September 27, 2004:
Category:Spin doctors was deleted as POV.
- September 12, 2004:
Category:Deaths by year,
Category:Births by year, and subcats were kept, see
Wikipedia_talk:People_by_year/Delete.
- August 14, 2004:
Category:African Americans was kept with 4 votes to keep and 4 votes to delete. See
Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:African Americans.
- August 2, 2004:
Category:Gay people was deleted and its contents, as appropriate, merged to
List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual people. See
Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Gay people.
- August 2, 2004:
Category:Notable South Africans was merged into
Category:South African people and deleted
-
Category:United States presidential candidates successfully decided on an inclusion policy and has been kept.
-
Category:Goddesses of Dungeons & Dragons and
Category:Gods of Dungeons & Dragons were merged into
Category:Deities of Dungeons & Dragons.
-
Category:American conservatives was deleted as POV
-
Category:Neoconservatives was deleted as POV
-
Category:Conservatives was deleted as POV
-
Category:British conservatives was deleted as POV
-
Category:Fictional gods and
Category:Fictional goddesses were merged into
Category;Fictional deities. See
Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Fictional gods and Category:Fictional goddesses.
-
Category:Gay icons was kept after two discussions. See
Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Gay icons.
-
Category:Olympic athletes and subcategories were deleted in favor of
Category:Olympic competitors. See
Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Olympic athletes.
-
Category:World War II veterans was kept. See
Category talk:World War II veterans.
-
Category:Diarists by nationality and subcategories were kept. See
discussion.
-
Category:Gay or lesbian politicians was deleted. See
discussion.
-
Category:Social justice was kept after a non-consensus 4-3 Delete on CFD followed by a non-consensus 6-4 Delete on vfd. See
discussion.
-
Category:Ancient Peoples was merged with
Category:Ancient peoples. Ancient Peoples is currently pending deletion. See
discussion.
- April 1, 2005:
Category:Celestial dynamics found deleted. No opposition.
- April 1, 2005:
Category:Manufacturing stubs found deleted with no opposition; superceded by
Category:Industry stubs.
- March 25, 2005:
Category:Hiv found deleted. No opposition.
- March 25, 2005:
Category:Childhood disorders renamed to
Category:Childhood psychiatric disorders. No opposition.
- March 25, 2005:
Category:Miscellaneous disorders renamed to
Category:Miscellaneous psychiatric disorders. No opposition.
- March 14, 2005:
Category:Disorders deleted.
discussion
- March 11, 2005:
Category:Planetology move to
Category:Planetary science.
discussion
- March 11, 2005:
Category:Combinatorial principles deleted. See
discussion.
- March 11, 2005:
Category:To do, Science deleted. See
discussion.
- January 20, 2005:
Category:Specialisms of medicine renamed to
Category:Medical specialties. See
discussion.
- January 16, 2005:
Category:Fish by nationality deleted. See
discussion.
- December 28, 2005:
Category:Paediatrics renamed to
Category:Pediatrics. See
discussion.
- December 14, 2004:
Category:List of galaxies was deleted. Galaxy articles belong in more specific sub-categories of
Category:Galaxies. See
discussion.
- December 14, 2004:
Category:List of stars was deleted and its contents were moved to sub-categories of
Category:Stars. See
discussion.
- December 1, 2004:
Category:Automata was kept as a subcategory of
Category:Computational models. See
discussion.
- November 11, 2004: Objects in the extrasolar system and subcategories. See
discussion.
- October 31, 2004:
Category:Strongly-typed programming languages and
Category:Weakly-typed programming languages were deleted (this is not a useful distinction, see
Strongly-typed programming language).
- September 15, 2004:
Category:Popular_programming_languages was deleted (inherently POV).
- September 15, 2004:
Category:Compiled_programming_languages and
Category:Interpreted_languages were deleted because (aside from being empty), programming languages (at least) usually can be both compiled and interpreted.
- September 7, 2004:
Category:Life was deleted (confusingly named, see
Category:Biology,
Category:Origin of life, and
Category:Tree of life instead).
- April 7, 2005
Category:Kanchi_Shankaracharyas deleted. No opposition.
- March 8, 2005
Category:Churches of Ontario deleted. See
discussion.
- March 8, 2005
Category:Clerics by nationality deleted. See
discussion.
- March 4, 2005
Category:Austrian Jews (alphabetical order) deleted. See
discussion.
- March 4, 2005
Category:Jewish deleted. See
discussion.
- March 4, 2005
Category:Prominent Jews deleted. See
discussion.
- February 10, 2005:
Category:Possible successors to Pope John Paul II was deleted. Consensus was this was better served by a list. See
discussion.
- December 23, 2004:
Category:Thealogy was kept as a redirect to
Category:Theology. The former term is sometimes used, but the terms are close enough that two categories are unnecessary (and somewhat confusing).
- November 25, 2004
Category:Bible stories deleted. See
Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Bible stories.
- November 21, 2004
Category:Advocacy deleted. See
discussion.
- August 1, 2004:
Category:Theosophists and
Category:Theosophist organizations were deleted (too specific) and their contents were merged to
Category:Theosophy.
- August 1, 2004: Satanist subcategories:
Category:Satanist gods,
Category:Satanist organizations,
Category:Satanist texts, and
Category:Satanists were deleted (too specific) and merged into
Category:Satanism.
- June 27, 2004:
Category:Left-Hand_Path and
Category:Right-Hand_Path were deleted (vague and POV) with useful contents merged to
Left-Hand Path and Right-Hand Path.
- April 10, 2005:
Category:Active Wikipedia votes deleted. No opposition.
- March 21, 2005:
Category:Alternative medicine stubs was kept. See
discussion.
- March 21, 2005:
Category:Economic Stubs renamed to
Category:Economics and finance stubs. See
discussion.
- March 11, 2005:
Category:Images of people with little clothing and
Category:Images containing nudity were kept. See
discussion.
- January 10, 2005:
Category:Main page deleted. See
discussion.
- December 18, 2004:
Category:Wikipedian_journalists was kept.
Category:Wikipedians and sub-categories are acceptable for user pages. Discussion moved to
Category talk:Wikipedian journalists.
- September 11, 2004:
Category:GFDL images was kept.
- September 3, 2004:
Category:Unusual articles was deleted (POV and self-referential, see
Wikipedia:Unusual articles instead).
- August 28, 2004:
Category:A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature was kept as a temporary aid to editors and added to
Category:Cleanup (now
Category:Wikipedia cleanup).
- April 10, 2005
Category:Computer and video games by name deleted.
- April 8, 2005
Category:1 hit wonders deleted. See
discussion.
- April 6, 2005
Category:A albums kept even with 1 article. See
discussion.
- April 4, 2005
Category:2010 movies found deleted. See
discussion.
- March 30, 2005
Category:Mortal Combat found deleted. No opposition.
- March 30, 2005
Category:Middle-earth horses found deleted. No opposition or discussion.
- March 28, 2005
Category:Locations in the EverQuest universe,
Category:Luclin,
Category:EverQuest cities,
Category:EverQuest dungeons, and
Category:EverQuest zones deleted. No opposition.
- March 11, 2005 Future years in film categories kept. See
discussion.
- March 8, 2005:
Category:Monty Python musicals deleted. See
discussion.
- March 7, 2005
Category:Musical fiction found deleted. See
discussion.
- February 10, 2005:
Category:Pokémon and Digimon deleted and former two categories restored. See
discussion.
- February 2, 2005:
Category:Playstation games deleted due to existing
Category:PlayStation games. See
discussion.
- January 18, 2005:
Category:Fair games was deleted. See
discussion.
RedWolf 05:50, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)
- January 14, 2005: Keep
Category:Silverchair and
Category:Silverchair_albums but delete
Category:Silverchair members. The discussion has been moved to
Category talk:Silverchair.
- January 14, 2005:
Category:Lemon Jelly albums has been kept. See discussion at
Category talk:Lemon Jelly albums.
- January 14, 2005:
Category:Cheech and Chong Movies was renamed and deleted. See
discussion.
- January 7, 2005:
Category:ProSiebenSat1 (tv networks) was deleted. No objections or comments while listed.
RedWolf 04:20, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)
- December 28, 2004:
Category:Proprietary games was deleted. See
discussion.
RedWolf 00:43, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)
- December 5, 2004:
Category:Unfair games was deleted. See
discussion
RedWolf 04:11, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
- April 19, 2005:
Category:Dewey Decimal Classification deleted. See final part of
discussion
- April 11, 2005:
Category:Milli Vanilli deleted.
- April 10, 2005:
Category:Binary digits,
Category:Ternary digits,
Category:Hexadecimal digit and
Category:Roman numeral symbol,
Category:Digits deleted. See
discussion.
- April 8, 2005:
Category:Buzzwords kept. See
discussion.
- April 7, 2005:
Category:Cocaine deleted. No discussion; 1 vote for deletion.
- April 7, 2005:
Category:Orders of magnitude (numbers) found deleted. No opposition.
- April 7, 2005:
Category:Potato varieties. No discussion; 1 vote for deletion.
- April 7, 2005:
Category:Indefinite large numbers found deleted. No opposition.
- April 6, 2005: Categories of Numbers were all deleted. See
discussion.
- April 6, 2005:
Category:Places in Hong Kong kept. See
discussion.
- April 5, 2005:
Category:Doctor Who planets kept. See
discussion.
- April 5, 2005:
Category:Harry Potter parodies renamed. See
discussion.
- April 1, 2005: Cities in the United States kept. See
discussion.
- March 31, 2005:
Category:Peak Oil renamed to
Category:Peak oil. See
discussion.
- March 28, 2005:
Category:High schools in Washington, DC deleted as a duplicate of
Category:High schools in the District of Columbia.
- March 26, 2005: Something by country - Strongly opposed. See
discussion
- March 21, 2005:
Category:Youth organisations of Singapore deleted. See
discussion.
- March 20, 2005:
Category:Places and its subcats were deleted. See
discussion.
- March 18, 2005:
Category:Analogy articles deleted. See
discussion.
- March 18, 2005:
Category:Tourist attractions in California was kept. See
discussion.
- March 15, 2005:
Category:Castles in America deleted. See
discussion.
- March 15, 2005:
Category:Literary Suicides deleted. See
discussion.
- March 13, 2005:
Category:Turbans deleted. No notable discussion.
- March 12, 2005:
Category:Japanese Translation requests deleted. See
discussion.
- March 9, 2005:
Category:Native American languages kept.
discussion.
- March 8, 2005:
Category:Health fraud deleted. See
discussion.
- March 6, 2005:
Category:Precedents and examples deleted. See
discussion.
- March 4, 2005:
Category:Embezzlement deleted. Empty, no discussion.
- February 28, 2005:
Category:FunBrain.com and
Category:FunBrain arcade categories deleted. See
discussion.
- February 27, 2005:
Category:Wonders of the World deleted. See
discussion (plus
previous discussion).
- February 18, 2005:
Category:Campus organisations merged into
Category:Student societies. See
discussion.
- February 8, 2005:
Category:Books by title and its subcategories. Consensus was to delete all the subcats as MediaWiki software can now manage large categories better. See
discussion.
- February 1, 2005:
Category:Possibly offensive images was deleted as POV. See
discussion.
- January 21, 2005:
Category:World was deleted. See
discussion.
- January 18, 2005:
Category:Languages of Gambia renamed to
Category:Languages of the Gambia. See
discussion.
- January 16, 2005:
Category:Copyright Expired Encyclopedias renamed to
Category:Public domain encyclopedias. See
discussion.
- January 14, 2004:
Category:Autobiography (album) deleted. See
discussion.
- January 11, 2005:
Category:Steam locomotives was kept. See
discussion.
RedWolf 00:36, Jan 28, 2005 (UTC)
- January 9, 2005:
Category:British misuse of drugs act deleted. See
discussion.
- January 9, 2005:
Category:Pro-Life deleted. See
discussion.
- January 8, 2005:
Category:Fortune Global 500 deleted. See
discussion.
- January 8, 2005:
Category:Fastener deleted in favour of
Category:Fasteners. No objections. Note that the category cannot currently be deleted due to block compressed revisions but has been placed on CSD.
RedWolf 18:12, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)
- January 7, 2005:
Category:2004 Indian Ocean earthquake victims deleted. See
discussion.
- January 2, 2005:
Category:Supermarkets in the United Kingdom was deleted without proper procedure. See
discussion.
RedWolf 04:29, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)
- December 21, 2004:
Category:The Cantos was deleted (topic better suited to a list). See
discussion.
- December 20, 2004:
Category:Megatokyo deleted. See
discussion.
- December 19, 2004:
Category:Stub was kept. See
Category talk:Stub.
RedWolf 17:52, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)
- November 7, 2004:
Category:Seven Sisters schools deleted. See
discussion.
- November 3, 2004:
Category:Parental discretion advised deleted. See
discussion.