The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| Category:2008 Terrorist incidents in Sri Lanka | upmerge x 3 (manually) | August 9 |
| Category:4th century BC Roman people | rename all | August 7 |
| Category:Abraham Lincoln Brigade | rename. I fixed the problem of the article being in the category by removing it, and adding catmore to the category and maincat to the article in the members section | August 23 |
| Category:African American lawyers | keep | August 20 |
| Category:Airborne warfare tactics | Rename Category:Airborne warfare tactics to Category:Aerial warfare tactics - And the suggestion of cleanup with this and the other sub-cats of Category:Aerial warfare | August 24 |
| Category:Aircraft Ground Handling companies | rename to Category:Aircraft ground handling companies. No consensus to change "aircraft" to "airport" | August 3 |
| Category:Aircraft Ground Handling | rename to Category:Aircraft ground handling. No consensus to change "aircraft" to "airport" | August 3 |
| Category:Alabama (band) albums | Keep | August 21 |
| Category:Alabama (band) songs | Keep | August 21 |
| Category:Albion, Michigan | keep. Appears to have been further populated since nomination. | August 5 |
| Category:Albums produced by Joe Walsh | keep; rationale for deletion no longer exists | August 7 |
| Category:Alternative theories of September 11, 2001 attacks | no consensus | August 2 |
| Category:Ambassadors of the United States to Bangladesh | rename | August 2 |
| Category:Ambassadors of the United States to the Soviet Union | rename. and I reject the insinuation that I'm not prefect | August 2 |
| Category:American royalty | rename per nom. If it is desired to create North and South American categories and populate those from the new category, be bold and do it. | August 18 |
| Category:Amtrak stations in Butte County, California | upmerge | August 21 |
| Category:Antarctic Press | Delete. Closed by | August 30 |
| Category:Arabic Music | delete. All the articles are already in subcategories of the target | August 10 |
| Category:Arizona Baseball | delete | August 12 |
| Category:Arizona Brewers players, Category:Gulf Coast League Astros players, Category:Gulf Coast League Rangers players, Category:Gulf Coast League White Sox players, Category:Sioux Falls Canaries | rename | August 18 |
| Category:Armenian-Lebanese people | rename to Category:Lebanese Armenians | August 14 |
| Category:Articles with example Visual Prolog code | delete | August 18 |
| Category:Ashanti (singer) | keep | August 21 |
| Category:Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki books | rename | August 6 |
| Category:Australian fashion labels | rename all | August 18 |
| Category:Auto-Anti-Semitism | delete | August 14 |
| Category:Azerbaijani Georgians | rename | August 16 |
| Category:Azureus | delete, empty | August 16 |
| Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland | Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close | August 20 |
| Category:Batman weapons | upmerge and delete | August 6 |
| Category:Battles of Quantrill's Raid into Kansas of the American Civil War | delete | August 14 |
| Category:Beach Records albums | delete; only article was deleted | August 10 |
| Category:Beauty and the Beast songs | rename all | August 19 |
| Category:Benjamin Zephaniah | rename to Category:Books by Benjamin Zephaniah | August 11 |
| Bilateral relations | rename all, leaving category redirects at the old name and the short-dash versions | August 13 |
| Category:Black Kids singles | rename | August 26 |
| Borders of former countries | rename all | August 22 |
| Category:Boston musical groups | rename | August 9 |
| Category:Box set | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Brain Tumor Funders' Collaborative | delete | August 21 |
| Category:British transgender people | keep, without prejudice to a future, broader nomination to settle naming issues. And a 'tsk tsk' to | August 7 |
| Category:Building complexes | delete | August 2 |
| Category:Buildings in films | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Burials in Exeter Cathedral | speedy delete, author request (G7) | August 6 |
| Category:California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo alumni | no consensus/keep | August 22 |
| Category:California State University, Fullerton basketball players | rename | August 5 |
| Category:California State University, Fullerton basketball Titans men's basketball coaches | rename | August 5 |
| Category:Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame | rename | August 12 |
| Canadian Soccer League (1986–1992) | rename | August 19 |
| Category:Canals of London | rename | August 10 |
| Categories:AEK Athens F.C. | rename all | August 8 |
| Categories:Hongkongers by Fooian descent | rename all to Category:Hong Kong people of Fooian descent | August 17 |
| Categories:Indians of Fooian descent | rename all | August 23 |
| Categories:Indonesians of Fooian descent | rename all | August 23 |
| Categories:Iranians of Fooian descent | no consensus | August 14 |
| Categories:Italians of Fooian descent | rename all | August 5 |
| Categories:Mozambicans of Fooian descent | rename both | August 14 |
| Categories:Nicaraguans of Fooian descent | rename all | August 14 |
| Categories:South Africans of Fooian descent | rename/merge | August 24 |
| Categories:Trinidad and Tobago people of Fooian descent | merge/rename all | August 14 |
| Categories:Trinidad and Tobago people | rename all | August 19 |
| Christian Universalists | rename those with more than 10 articles, upmerge the remainder | August 4 |
| Category:Cincinnati Kelly's Killers players | keep, assuming the article redirect switch happens | August 16 |
| Category:Citizens of TwoChairs | delete (now empty; has been replaced with user category) | August 22 |
| Clothing and textile companies | rename all | August 17 |
| Category:Collaborators with World War II era Japan | deleted creation by banned user see Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/DavidYork71 | August 24 |
| Category:Collectables Records artists | delete, partly informed by consensus to delete other similar categories below | August 9 |
| Category:Comic Icons | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Communal cities, towns and villages in Israel | no consensus | August 7 |
| Category:Complete lists | delete. Per WP:SAL, to denote a complete list use "This is a complete list of Xs." in the lead. Use of this category, way down at the bottom of an article, doesn't give the reader or editor any idea of what it means, and they shouldn't need to go to that category to figure it out | August 13 |
| Category:Country pop albums | delete | August 15 |
| Category:Cultural generations | relist here | August 18 |
| Category:Cultural lists | keep and per GO, if any article is inappropriately in this category, it can be removed by anyone. Be bold | August 18 |
| Category:Dance tracks | merge to Category:Dance music per jc's arguments | August 21 |
| Category:Deaths from bronchitis | withdrawn | August 23 |
| Category:Deaths from dementia | withdrawn | August 23 |
| Category:Deaths from dermato poly myositis | withdrawn | August 23 |
| Category:Diaoyu Islands protection movement activists | delete | August 7 |
| Category:Diplomatic missions by country | rename | August 14 |
| Category:Diplomatic missions by host country | rename | August 14 |
| Category:Districts of Helsinki | close per CharlotteWebb. Nothing for CFD to do | August 10 |
| Category:Districts of the United States | delete | August 11 |
| Category:Dixie Chicks | keep | August 2 |
| Category:Dragon Ball sagas | delete | August 5 |
| Category:Dynamo Berlin players | rename | August 13 |
| Category:Eberron religions | delete | August 12 |
| Category:Eclipse Comics | Delete. Closed by | August 30 |
| Category:EMI albums | merge | August 21 |
| Category:Erie Seawolves players, Category:Lancaster Jethawks players, Category:Odgen Raptors players, Category:Sacremento River Cats players, Category:Gulf Coast League Yankees players, Category:Gulf Coast League Red Sox players | delete | August 18 |
| Category:Female life peers who are also wives of peers | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Female pool players | no consensus to delete at this time | August 22 |
| Category:Feminism and sexuality |  Relisted at
2008 AUG 29 |
August 21 |
| Category:Ferries in Bangkok | rename | August 21 |
| Category:Ferries in the United States | rename all per nom, although "ferries vis-à-vis foo" is indeed tempting. The fact that using "of" is an accepted convention for ships in general creates a strong presumption in favour of using "of" for categories of types of ships | August 14 |
| Category:Festina doping scandal | delete | August 21 |
| Category:Fictional baronies | no consensus | August 12 |
| Category:Fictional bullies | delete | August 25 |
| Category:Fictional characters with facial disfigurements | delete per subjective/trivial argument (and on a personal-opinion side note, is a "facial disfigurement" really a "disability"? Just wondering) | August 13 |
| Category:Fictional characters with powered armor | delete | August 25 |
| Category:Fictional child murderers | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Fictional earldoms | delete | August 12 |
| Category:Fictional owners | delete | August 24 |
| Category:Fictional sperm donors | delete | August 24 |
| Fictional trans | Out of process, but it did end with one category from three (Intersexuals and Transgendered people were already deleted as of this close), so keep | August 1 |
| Category:Fictional unincorporated communities | upmerge and delete | August 12 |
| Category:Fictional wombats | keep | August 9 |
| Category:Files that are public domain in the United States but not public domain in country of origin and that must not be hosted on Wikimedia Commons | Delete with a suggestion to use the templates | August 24 |
| Category:Files that are public domain in the United States but not public domain in country of origin and that must not be hosted on Wikimedia Commons | relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 August 24 | August 11 |
| Category:Flora of Pitcairn | merge | August 24 |
| Category:Fooian magazines | close, categories not listed. This discussion was about listing the categories, not about the merits of the rename. As noted, people deserve the right to know exactly what they are discussing. And with due respect, Pichpich, if you had spent half the time you did arguing why you didn't want to list the categories, you could have just listed them | August 8 |
| Category:Footballers from Singapore | rename | August 10 |
| Category:Forested Areas in Oregon | delete | August 1 |
| Category:Former dictatorships | delete | August 18 |
| Category:Frederik Collett Paintings | Speedy Rename | August 24 |
| Freemasonry categories | rename | August 10 |
| Category:G Funk | rename | August 9 |
| Category:Gandhi albums | rename | August 12 |
| Category:Genericized trademarks | delete | August 14 |
| Category:Genocides during World War I | delete | August 9 |
| Georgia-related categories | rename all | August 11 |
| Category:Georgian-Abkhazian conflict | rename to to Category:Georgian–Abkhazian conflict (change dash, no consensus on name order) | August 12 |
| Category:German Communists opposed to the Third Reich | rename all | August 11 |
| Global warming and ozone hole skeptics categories | delete, without prejudice to creation of "activist"-type categories with decent inclusion criteria | August 7 |
| Category:Grand Lodge of Spain | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Grand Orient de France | delete per nom. If and when the systemic bias problem is resolved, the category can be recreated, taking into consideration the problem of historical/modern | August 14 |
| Category:Grand Orient of Belgium | no consensus | August 9 |
| Category:Groups targeted in the Holocaust | delete and merge back those articles which were moved into this category from Category:The Holocaust. – | August 19 |
| Category:Head coaches of Team Norway | rename | August 9 |
| Category:Hereford Music Scene | rename | August 9 |
| Category:High schools with crusader mascot | delete | August 4 |
| Category:Holocaust deniers | keep | August 5 |
| Category:Homosexuality People | DELETE per WP:SNOW. Unanimous support for deletion, no conceivable argument for keeping | August 14 |
| Category:Horror films actors | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Icelandic vocalists | out of process move, but nobody complained, so closing discussion as delete, empty | August 6 |
| Category:Independent albums | merge | August 6 |
| Category:Indians at the 2008 Summer Olympics | delete | August 17 |
| Category:Indonesian collaborationists | Deleted created by sockpuppet of banned user | August 23 |
| Category:Inter-Earths | delete per consensus here and at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Inter-Earth | August 10 |
| Category:Inter-Jupiters | delete per consensus here and at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Inter-Jupiter | August 10 |
| Category:International footballers of Armenian descent | delete. When the only person who is clear about the category's use is the creator, there is a problem | August 15 |
| International Hockey League (2007–present) players | rename | August 19 |
| Category:Interplanets | delete per consensus here and at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Interplanet | August 10 |
| Intersections of fictional characters and occupations | no consensus to listify at this time | August 20 |
| Category:Iranian fundamentalists | delete | August 14 |
| Category:Iranian fundamentalists | relisted on Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_August_14 | August 8 |
| Category:Irish association footballers and subcats | rename all | August 23 |
| Category:Italian-American actors | UpMerge to Category:Italian-Americans and Category:American actors | August 20 |
| Category:Jewish inventors | keep | August 20 |
| Category:Jewish Singaporeans | merge | August 10 |
| Category:Jews by religion | rename to Category:People of Jewish descent by religion | August 15 |
| Category:Jovial planets | rename to Category:Gas giant planets | August 12 |
| Category:Judge Advocate Generals of the U.S. Army | Rename Category:Judge Advocate Generals of the U.S. Army to Category:Judge Advocates General of the United States Army - (Probably could have been speedy.) | August 20 |
| Category:Judge Advocate Generals of the U.S. Navy | Rename Category:Judge Advocate Generals of the U.S. Navy to Category:Judge Advocates General of the United States Navy - (Probably could have been speedy.) | August 20 |
| Kalamazoo Wings (2000–present) players | rename | August 19 |
| Category:Kamehameha-capable Dragon Ball characters | delete | August 5 |
| Category:Kashrut | keep. As | August 11 |
| Category:Kentucky painters | upmerge per nom | August 1 |
| Category:Kentucky State Thorobreds football players | keep current name | August 4 |
| Category:Killian documents | rename | August 19 |
| Category:Kindergartens in Hong Kong | Delete | August 21 |
| Category:Latin Americans of Fooian descent | merge/rename both | August 14 |
| Lawyers and jurists from Cincinnati | merge | August 1 |
| Category:Lebanese blogs | upmerge as nominated and delete | August 26 |
| Category:Leicester musical groups | Withdrawn in favour of more general naming convention | August 9 |
| Category:Les Légions Noires bootlegs | C1 per Happyme22. Non-admin closure | August 2 |
| Category:Les Légions Noires | delete | August 2 |
| Category:Lesbians of Color | delete | August 7 |
| Lesotho, Basotho, Sotho? | option 1 | August 6 |
| Category:LeToya Luckett | no consensus | August 14 |
| Category:LGBT actors from Germany | keep, without prejudice to a future, broader nomination | August 7 |
| Category:LGBT Hare Krishnas | Speedy close. This discussion really belongs at Deletion review given how short the time period was since the last nomination. It also appears that this may be a WP:POINT or WP:Disruptive editing nomination. In any case, the reason for the nomination is not valid in and of itself. In fact a category with one member is valid and can exist. Size is not in and of itself a reason for deletion. Finally, it would appear that most of what was contained in these categories has been removed since the two nominated categories now contain a grand total of one article. That would also be an out of process change | August 22 |
| Category:LGBT Hindus | Speedy close. This discussion really belongs at Deletion review given how short the time period was since the last nomination. It also appears that this may be a WP:POINT or WP:Disruptive editing nomination. In any case, the reason for the nomination is not valid in and of itself. In fact a category with one member is valid and can exist. Size is not in and of itself a reason for deletion. Finally, it would appear that most of what was contained in these categories has been removed since the two nominated categories now contain a grand total of one article. That would also be an out of process change | August 22 |
| LGBT people by religion | keep both. Depending on the outcome in deciding whether or not to include the article in Category:LGBT Hare Krishnas, it could be speedily deleted if it remains empty for four days | August 7 |
| Category:LGBT people from Great Britain | upmerge | August 4 |
| Category:Liquified Natural Gas Terminals | rename per nom | August 3 |
| Category:List New Jersey pages | delete as empty | August 26 |
| Category:List of fictional characters who can manipulate wind | delete, speedy G4 | August 5 |
| Category:List of mad scientists | rename to Category:Fictional mad scientists | August 3 |
| Category:Living Enrichment Center | rename to Category:Images of the Living Enrichment Center | August 5 |
| Category:LNG plants | rename | August 3 |
| Category:LNG | rename | August 3 |
| Category:Los del Rio | delete | August 19 |
| Category:Luftwaffe Wings | no consensus. It would be best to discuss this elsewhere and come to CfD with a solution rather than trying to come up with something here. Geschwader is certainly translated as Wing, Gruppe as Group and Staffel as Squadron, but is it necessary to have any category below "Military units and formations of the [whichever air force it is]"? Anyway, perhaps the great and good of WP:AVIATION and WP:MILHIST could help? | August 8 |
| Category:Luxury Hotels | delete. – | August 25 |
| Category:Machine tooling | merge | August 1 |
| Category:Machine tools | keep | August 17 |
| Major League Baseball players by home state | rename all | August 20 |
| Category:Mass transit in Oregon | delete redirect | August 24 |
| Category:Mauian royalty, Category:Oahuan royalty | rename all | August 18 |
| Media based on media match up | No consensus on "programs". (Incidentally, note that "easier" does not necessarily make it right. Feel free to re-nominate series/shows/programs/programmes.) Rename the (non-stricken) rest | August 22 |
| Category:Meshuggah | keep. I think the point that a distinction needs to be drawn between the type of "similar" categories that were deleted and the type of "similar" categories that were kept in previous CfDs is well taken. Obviously, the current situation with regards to these types is in a bit of flux, with deletion usually occurring for categories with "few" articles/subcategories and no consensus to delete or keep decisions on those that have "many". What defines and separates the "few" from the "many" is the essence of what is in flux and can only really be sussed out by accumulation of past and future precedent. In this case, most seem to feel that this is an example of a "many" | August 7 |
| Category:Metros in India | merge | August 18 |
| Category:Metros in Japan | merge | August 18 |
| Category:Military industrial complex | Rename Category:Military industrial complex to Category:Military-industrial complex, per Military-industrial complex | August 24 |
| Category:Ministries of Afghanistan | rename | August 2 |
| Category:Mononymous persons | delete. Mainly because it's recreation of an already deleted category, but also based upon the arguments below. Many of the keep arguments were based upon the fact that the people in this category were related simply because they are known by one name, and for no other reason. Cosmic Latte helpfully provides a link to WP:CAT, which states "The categories to be included, which serve as classifications, should be the significant (useful) topics to which the subject of the article most closely belongs to as a member, and where readers are most likely to look if they can't remember the name of the thing they are trying to look up." CAT also goes on to give an example that a useful category for Michael Jackson would be Pop singers, while a not useful one would be "Musicians whose first name starts with M". This category falls under the not useful variety. Good Ol'Factory describes this perfectly, as this is not only overcategorization, but equates it to Category:People named Buddy | August 6 |
| Category:Motion City Soundtrack | delete | August 8 |
| Category:Murdered pregnant women | keep | August 7 |
| Category:Music venues in New York City (closed) | rename | August 15 |
| Category:Musical groups from Birmingham, England | keep | August 10 |
| Category:Musicians from Philadelphia | rename | August 5 |
| Category:Musicians from Pittsburgh | rename | August 5 |
| Category:Myanmar–Russia relations | rename | August 13 |
| Category:National liberation movements | keep, without prejudice to a possible superior solution in the future, as referred to by | August 6 |
| Category:Nature and natural science templates | rename | August 7 |
| Category:Near future technology | rename to Category:Emerging technology | August 12 |
| Category:New Orleans songs | rename | August 14 |
| Category:Non-article New Jersey pages | delete. Categories remained empty for 4 days+ | August 26 |
| Category:Non-Korean baseball players in Korea | rename | August 20 |
| Category:Non-profit organizations based in Finland | rename | August 4 |
| Category:Northernmost settlements | merge to Category:Settlements in the Arctic as noted | August 23 |
| Category:Nuclear Rabbit albums | delete; only article was deleted | August 10 |
| Category:Occupational safety | rename | August 17 |
| Category:Olympic female footballers of Japan | Merge to Category:Olympic footballers of Japan. | August 22 |
| Olympic flag bearers | delete, a comprehensive list exists | August 15 |
| Category:Olympic swimmers for Croatia | speedy rename per established naming convention. — | August 12 |
| Category:Opposition to homosexuality | delete | August 14 |
| Category:Optimization | rename | August 14 |
| Category:Organ systems | no consensus. Organ systems redirect to Biological system, but Biological systems redirect to Systems biology. It would seem that they are different, if even only slightly. | August 16 |
| Category:Organised crime in Australia | no rename, obviously. — | August 9 |
| Category:Outlet malls in the United States | Withdrawn I made the category Outlet malls already, which now houses another subcat as well | August 25 |
| Category:Owen Wister Award | delete | August 17 |
| Category:Pan-European advocacy groups | no consensus. There is consensus to rename, but not to what. Everyone seemed more interested in the "advocacy group" part of the title, much to the chagrin of the nominator, but whatever; sometimes that's how CFD's go. If I can point out, this category is currently in Category:Advocacy groups, which if that were so "American", someone presumably would have removed the multitudes of Australian, Bahamanian, British, Canadian, European, International, Japanese, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Swedish groups' articles currently in the category | August 1 |
| Patient organizations | Merge Category:Patient advocacy organizations to Category:Patients' organizations | August 22 |
| Category:Peerage work group articles | rename to Category:Peerage and Baronetage work group articles | August 20 |
| Category:People associated with Oxford Centre for Vaishnava and Hindu Studies | listify, then delete | August 6 |
| Category:People by city in New Zealand | rename | August 12 |
| Category:People by country by period | delete (category has remained empty) | August 22 |
| Category:People by country by status | no consensus | August 10 |
| Category:People who have been considered avatars | rename to Category:People considered avatars by their followers | August 4 |
| Category:People with navel piercings | Delete | August 21 |
| Category:People with tinnitus | listify at Tinnitus#Notable_individuals_with_tinnitus | August 16 |
| Category:People's Artists of Georgia | withdrawn by nominator (see below for reason) | August 19 |
| Category:People, places, and things named for ... | delete | August 5 |
| Category:Persons who have been cloned | merge | August 11 |
| Category:Phil Spector singles | rename singles category per nom; delete albums category as duplicate | August 14 |
| Category:Pixies | sprinkled with Pixie dust and Renamed to Category:Pixies (band) : ) | August 22 |
| Category:Places associated with Shakespeare | rename | August 5 |
| Category:Police officers accused of murder | rename to Category:Police officers indicted for murder. After the bots transfer the articles, I'll go through and weed out the non-applicable articles. Feel free to double check my work on this | August 3 |
| Category:Political parties in Soviet Union | speedy delete | August 3 |
| Category:Politics about the military | rename | August 11 |
| Category:Pop punk singles | rename Category:Pop punk singles. Not really sure what to do with Category:Cobra Starship singles, as Punk Pop is being renamed due to songs by genre conventions, but Cobra Starship isn't a genre, it's a band. Delisting it for now, renominate by itself if desired | August 23 |
| Category:Preschools in Ohio | Delete | August 20 |
| Category:Prime Ministers of RSFSR | rename | August 10 |
| Category:Propaganda films | no consensus. Sorry, folks, but there still isn't any consensus, and I don't think relisting it for yet another week is going to solve that | August 21 |
| Category:Propaganda films | Relisted at
2008 AUG 14 |
August 6 |
| Category:Propaganda films | Relisted at
2008 AUG 21 per request |
August 14 |
| Category:Public companies run by founders | delete | August 18 |
| Category:RAFVR wartime service | rename | August 3 |
| Category:Railway stations in Butte County, California | ugh, I really hate the "keep as part of a series" rationale. A one article category is useless. Period. Upmerge if you want. Whatever, this is just my minority opinion, sorry for the rant. Keep | August 21 |
| Category:Rapid transit in Morocco | delete | August 18 |
| Category:Rathbone-Bruce films | rename | August 17 |
| Category:Red Bull Salzburg players | rename to Category:FC Red Bull Salzburg players | August 13 |
| Category:Relations to Shakespeare | rename | August 5 |
| Category:Religious organizations established in the 1100s | no consensus/keep, based also upon the 1110's CFD below | August 1 |
| Category:Religious organizations established in the 1110s | no consensus. And can I suggest Eric and GO have a nice cup of tea and a sit down? | August 1 |
| Restaurant templates | administrative close; no categories nominated | August 22 |
| Category:Roads in Hamburg | keep. Unfortunately the category has been emptied, which will require some repopulation efforts | August 10 |
| Robot categories | No consensus on Theraputic and Ecological. Rename Category:Artistic robots to Category:Artistic and performing robots, Category:Biomimetic robots to Category:Biomorphic robots, and Category:Robot caused deaths to Category:Deaths caused by industrial robots | August 11 |
| Category:Rollerskates | rename. — | August 20 |
| Category:Roman Catholic dioceses in Timor-Leste | rename | August 10 |
| Category:Royal Peace Award | Delete as G12 by | August 30 |
| Category:Rush (band) | keep | August 16 |
| Category:Russians in Estonia | rename. (completely unrelated to the close: American here, and yes, I take it to mean something other than what you are most likely intending. A well written header is necessary IMO. I still don't know why we are categorizing people like this, but that's neither here nor there) | August 16 |
| Category:Rwandan Genocide people | rename to Category:People of the Rwandan Genocide | August 8 |
| Category:SAB TV Shows | rename | August 1 |
| Category:Scientologists by Nationality | Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close | August 26 |
| Category:Seattle Repertory Theatre | delete | August 8 |
| Category:Selenographers | Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close | August 2 |
| Category:Self identifying drug addicts | no consensus on deletion, rename per Good Olfactory to fix spelling | August 16 |
| Category:Settlements in the Arctic | no consensus. It would seem that if this is going to change, then all of the other "Arctic" cats should be renamed as well. "Arctic circle" may be arbitrary, but there is no question where it is. "the Arctic" as noted could change depending on different factors. Arbitrary is better than subjective. But for now, the "arctic circle" template may work well. Let's give the wikiproject time to prove this will work. If not, we can always mass nominate all of them | August 23 |
| Category:Shakespeare academia | rename to Category:Shakespearean scholarship | August 5 |
| Category:Siblings of Presidents of the United States | keep all | August 26 |
| Category:Simon Fraser soccer players | rename | August 10 |
| Category:Slipper and the Rose songs | delete, empty | August 6 |
| Category:Songs about fashion | delete | August 8 |
| Category:Songs about masturbation | ...delete!!!1!eleven!!(and I'm spent) | August 9 |
| Category:Songs by Bob Crewe | rename | August 26 |
| Category:Songs by Bob Gaudio | rename (multiple songs have now been added to category) | August 26 |
| Category:Songs by Cole Porter | rename | August 25 |
| Category:Songs written by Leslie Satcher | no consensus. A repeated CfD this soon after the last one might usually warrant a procedural keep, but in this case it's understandable how the nominator could have been confused by the CfD for Category:Songs written by Anthony Smith or thought that consensus had somehow changed about these types of categories in general. But in this case, there's no consensus to delete and the Anthony Smith CfD may indeed be seen in the future as an out-of-the-ordinary "outlier" result | August 10 |
| Category:Southern rock bands et al | rename all | August 17 |
| Category:Space Marine Chapters | upmerge to Category:Space Marines (Warhammer 40,000) and delete | August 7 |
| Category:Space Marines (Warhammer 40,000) | upmerge | August 13 |
| Category:Space: Above and Beyond episodes | delete | August 5 |
| Category:Spanish freemasonry | delete (it is empty) | August 9 |
| Category:Sperm donors | rename | August 24 |
| Category:Sporting Lisbon players | rename | August 21 |
| Sports festivals by host country | rename all | August 6 |
| Category:Sports festivals hosted in London | rename | August 21 |
| Category:Sportspeople from Singapore | delete | August 10 |
| Category:Sri Lankan terrorists | procedural close per nominator's request at my talk page. While there has been additional support for deletion, which would normally preclude an early closure, a speedy close is justified by the particular circumstances of this case. The category was discussed at CFD only a few days ago as part of a bulk nomination of all "terrorist" and "terrorism" categories, where it was kept. The validity of including specific articles in the category is currently under discussion at the relevant WikiProject. – | August 9 |
| Category:Stubs | Speedy keep and a trout to me. Non-admin closure | August 18 |
| Category:Sub-Earths | rename all | August 12 |
| Subcategories of Category:Major League Baseball players by position | rename all | August 9 |
| Category:Suicides by gas | no consensus | August 2 |
| Category:Suvi Koponen | delete. Both images are on Commons, so there is actually no need to categorise them here. – | August 24 |
| Category:Taiwan and the United States | rename to Category:Republic of China – United States relations (seriously, folks, some days I think you make many of these renames WAY more complex than they need to be. For example, if Joe Reader, or even Joe Neweditor is going to use the dash that's on their keyboard, why the frig are we not using it as well? Who's grand idea was it to make things more difficult for people? Stop overthinking things) | August 23 |
| Category:Talk pages of the deleted replaceable fair use images | rename | August 18 |
| Category:Taste in music | Delete | August 21 |
| Category:Templates using ParserFunctions | Delete | August 21 |
| Texas Education Agency categories | delete all | August 19 |
| Category:The Flatlinerz albums | rename to Category:Flatlinerz albums | August 5 |
| Category:The Sarah Jane Adventures companions | delete | August 1 |
| Category:The Signature Collection | delete | August 9 |
| Category:The Velvet albums | Deleted by PeterSymonds. Category was emptied after Flash Back got nuked. Non-admin closure | August 16 |
| Category:Tom T. Hall songs | rename | August 26 |
| Category:Traceless Biometrics | delete, empty | August 21 |
| Category:Trainers | merge both to Category:Athletic shoes | August 20 |
| Category:Transportation ministers | merge | August 17 |
| Category:Trinidadian people by ethnic or national origin | merge | August 14 |
| Category:Turks in Bulgaria | rename | August 16 |
| Category:TV Asia shows | rename | August 1 |
| Category:UK SCUBA diving sites | rename | August 11 |
| Category:United States elections by state | rename to Category:United States federal elections by state | August 8 |
| Category:United States-Iraqi relations | superseded by Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 August 13#Bilateral relations. — | August 12 |
| Category:Univerity of Pisa | speedy re-cat/delete. — | August 10 |
| Useless plant cats created by Bot, Episode IX | upmerge per nom | August 13 |
| Useless plant cats created by Bot, Episode X | rename all ("genus containing only 4 species" not equal to "category contains only 4 articles") | August 22 |
| Category:User:The Twenty Thousand Tonne Bomb | being discussed at WP:UCFD. – | August 11 |
| Category:Utah Valley State College | rename all | August 9 |
| Category:Valencia (autonomous community) | rename | August 13 |
| Category:Van Morrison singles | merge to Category:Van Morrison songs | August 14 |
| Category:Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party politicians | rename | August 25 |
| Virgin Islands | rename all | August 15 |
| Category:Warcraft comics | delete with recreation permissible if other warcraft comics articles are found or written | August 5 |
| Category:Warhammer 40,000 deities | delete as empty category | August 12 |
| Category:Wikipedia administrators open to recall | somewhere between keep and no consensus with clearly no consensus on whether it is worth asking about whether an RFA candidate intends to join the category. (There are alternative forms of the question that might solicit interesting and informative responses - such as "what are your thoughts on ..." or "what are the issues with ..." or "how could ___ work better ...") I do believe that if we ever find a better solution this category will depopulate itself (of the active admins at any rate) fairly quickly. But unless a superior solution is found, given all the prior discussions, it is unlikely that a consensus to end it will emerge any time soon. I didn't see a single new argument this time around, just old arguments with some new examples used | August 17 |
| Category:WikiProject Fictional series | speedy delete as non-controversial housekeeping ( WP:CSD#G6) | August 4 |
| Category:Worcester musical groups | rename | August 9 |
| Category:Works of Mate Bulić | rename | August 16 |
| Category:Works of Miroslav Škoro | rename | August 16 |
| Category:Works of Siniša Vuco | rename | August 16 |
| Category:Works of Thompson | rename | August 16 |
| Category:Yahweh | no consensus | August 18 |
| Category:Zagreb Crisis mayor nominees | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Zee TV shows | rename. The others in Television series by network should probably be renamed one way or the other for consistency, but that is out of the scope of this discussion | August 1 |
The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
| Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
|---|---|---|
| Category:2008 Terrorist incidents in Sri Lanka | upmerge x 3 (manually) | August 9 |
| Category:4th century BC Roman people | rename all | August 7 |
| Category:Abraham Lincoln Brigade | rename. I fixed the problem of the article being in the category by removing it, and adding catmore to the category and maincat to the article in the members section | August 23 |
| Category:African American lawyers | keep | August 20 |
| Category:Airborne warfare tactics | Rename Category:Airborne warfare tactics to Category:Aerial warfare tactics - And the suggestion of cleanup with this and the other sub-cats of Category:Aerial warfare | August 24 |
| Category:Aircraft Ground Handling companies | rename to Category:Aircraft ground handling companies. No consensus to change "aircraft" to "airport" | August 3 |
| Category:Aircraft Ground Handling | rename to Category:Aircraft ground handling. No consensus to change "aircraft" to "airport" | August 3 |
| Category:Alabama (band) albums | Keep | August 21 |
| Category:Alabama (band) songs | Keep | August 21 |
| Category:Albion, Michigan | keep. Appears to have been further populated since nomination. | August 5 |
| Category:Albums produced by Joe Walsh | keep; rationale for deletion no longer exists | August 7 |
| Category:Alternative theories of September 11, 2001 attacks | no consensus | August 2 |
| Category:Ambassadors of the United States to Bangladesh | rename | August 2 |
| Category:Ambassadors of the United States to the Soviet Union | rename. and I reject the insinuation that I'm not prefect | August 2 |
| Category:American royalty | rename per nom. If it is desired to create North and South American categories and populate those from the new category, be bold and do it. | August 18 |
| Category:Amtrak stations in Butte County, California | upmerge | August 21 |
| Category:Antarctic Press | Delete. Closed by | August 30 |
| Category:Arabic Music | delete. All the articles are already in subcategories of the target | August 10 |
| Category:Arizona Baseball | delete | August 12 |
| Category:Arizona Brewers players, Category:Gulf Coast League Astros players, Category:Gulf Coast League Rangers players, Category:Gulf Coast League White Sox players, Category:Sioux Falls Canaries | rename | August 18 |
| Category:Armenian-Lebanese people | rename to Category:Lebanese Armenians | August 14 |
| Category:Articles with example Visual Prolog code | delete | August 18 |
| Category:Ashanti (singer) | keep | August 21 |
| Category:Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki books | rename | August 6 |
| Category:Australian fashion labels | rename all | August 18 |
| Category:Auto-Anti-Semitism | delete | August 14 |
| Category:Azerbaijani Georgians | rename | August 16 |
| Category:Azureus | delete, empty | August 16 |
| Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland | Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close | August 20 |
| Category:Batman weapons | upmerge and delete | August 6 |
| Category:Battles of Quantrill's Raid into Kansas of the American Civil War | delete | August 14 |
| Category:Beach Records albums | delete; only article was deleted | August 10 |
| Category:Beauty and the Beast songs | rename all | August 19 |
| Category:Benjamin Zephaniah | rename to Category:Books by Benjamin Zephaniah | August 11 |
| Bilateral relations | rename all, leaving category redirects at the old name and the short-dash versions | August 13 |
| Category:Black Kids singles | rename | August 26 |
| Borders of former countries | rename all | August 22 |
| Category:Boston musical groups | rename | August 9 |
| Category:Box set | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Brain Tumor Funders' Collaborative | delete | August 21 |
| Category:British transgender people | keep, without prejudice to a future, broader nomination to settle naming issues. And a 'tsk tsk' to | August 7 |
| Category:Building complexes | delete | August 2 |
| Category:Buildings in films | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Burials in Exeter Cathedral | speedy delete, author request (G7) | August 6 |
| Category:California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo alumni | no consensus/keep | August 22 |
| Category:California State University, Fullerton basketball players | rename | August 5 |
| Category:California State University, Fullerton basketball Titans men's basketball coaches | rename | August 5 |
| Category:Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame | rename | August 12 |
| Canadian Soccer League (1986–1992) | rename | August 19 |
| Category:Canals of London | rename | August 10 |
| Categories:AEK Athens F.C. | rename all | August 8 |
| Categories:Hongkongers by Fooian descent | rename all to Category:Hong Kong people of Fooian descent | August 17 |
| Categories:Indians of Fooian descent | rename all | August 23 |
| Categories:Indonesians of Fooian descent | rename all | August 23 |
| Categories:Iranians of Fooian descent | no consensus | August 14 |
| Categories:Italians of Fooian descent | rename all | August 5 |
| Categories:Mozambicans of Fooian descent | rename both | August 14 |
| Categories:Nicaraguans of Fooian descent | rename all | August 14 |
| Categories:South Africans of Fooian descent | rename/merge | August 24 |
| Categories:Trinidad and Tobago people of Fooian descent | merge/rename all | August 14 |
| Categories:Trinidad and Tobago people | rename all | August 19 |
| Christian Universalists | rename those with more than 10 articles, upmerge the remainder | August 4 |
| Category:Cincinnati Kelly's Killers players | keep, assuming the article redirect switch happens | August 16 |
| Category:Citizens of TwoChairs | delete (now empty; has been replaced with user category) | August 22 |
| Clothing and textile companies | rename all | August 17 |
| Category:Collaborators with World War II era Japan | deleted creation by banned user see Wikipedia:Requests for checkuser/Case/DavidYork71 | August 24 |
| Category:Collectables Records artists | delete, partly informed by consensus to delete other similar categories below | August 9 |
| Category:Comic Icons | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Communal cities, towns and villages in Israel | no consensus | August 7 |
| Category:Complete lists | delete. Per WP:SAL, to denote a complete list use "This is a complete list of Xs." in the lead. Use of this category, way down at the bottom of an article, doesn't give the reader or editor any idea of what it means, and they shouldn't need to go to that category to figure it out | August 13 |
| Category:Country pop albums | delete | August 15 |
| Category:Cultural generations | relist here | August 18 |
| Category:Cultural lists | keep and per GO, if any article is inappropriately in this category, it can be removed by anyone. Be bold | August 18 |
| Category:Dance tracks | merge to Category:Dance music per jc's arguments | August 21 |
| Category:Deaths from bronchitis | withdrawn | August 23 |
| Category:Deaths from dementia | withdrawn | August 23 |
| Category:Deaths from dermato poly myositis | withdrawn | August 23 |
| Category:Diaoyu Islands protection movement activists | delete | August 7 |
| Category:Diplomatic missions by country | rename | August 14 |
| Category:Diplomatic missions by host country | rename | August 14 |
| Category:Districts of Helsinki | close per CharlotteWebb. Nothing for CFD to do | August 10 |
| Category:Districts of the United States | delete | August 11 |
| Category:Dixie Chicks | keep | August 2 |
| Category:Dragon Ball sagas | delete | August 5 |
| Category:Dynamo Berlin players | rename | August 13 |
| Category:Eberron religions | delete | August 12 |
| Category:Eclipse Comics | Delete. Closed by | August 30 |
| Category:EMI albums | merge | August 21 |
| Category:Erie Seawolves players, Category:Lancaster Jethawks players, Category:Odgen Raptors players, Category:Sacremento River Cats players, Category:Gulf Coast League Yankees players, Category:Gulf Coast League Red Sox players | delete | August 18 |
| Category:Female life peers who are also wives of peers | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Female pool players | no consensus to delete at this time | August 22 |
| Category:Feminism and sexuality | Relisted at
2008 AUG 29 |
August 21 |
| Category:Ferries in Bangkok | rename | August 21 |
| Category:Ferries in the United States | rename all per nom, although "ferries vis-à-vis foo" is indeed tempting. The fact that using "of" is an accepted convention for ships in general creates a strong presumption in favour of using "of" for categories of types of ships | August 14 |
| Category:Festina doping scandal | delete | August 21 |
| Category:Fictional baronies | no consensus | August 12 |
| Category:Fictional bullies | delete | August 25 |
| Category:Fictional characters with facial disfigurements | delete per subjective/trivial argument (and on a personal-opinion side note, is a "facial disfigurement" really a "disability"? Just wondering) | August 13 |
| Category:Fictional characters with powered armor | delete | August 25 |
| Category:Fictional child murderers | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Fictional earldoms | delete | August 12 |
| Category:Fictional owners | delete | August 24 |
| Category:Fictional sperm donors | delete | August 24 |
| Fictional trans | Out of process, but it did end with one category from three (Intersexuals and Transgendered people were already deleted as of this close), so keep | August 1 |
| Category:Fictional unincorporated communities | upmerge and delete | August 12 |
| Category:Fictional wombats | keep | August 9 |
| Category:Files that are public domain in the United States but not public domain in country of origin and that must not be hosted on Wikimedia Commons | Delete with a suggestion to use the templates | August 24 |
| Category:Files that are public domain in the United States but not public domain in country of origin and that must not be hosted on Wikimedia Commons | relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 August 24 | August 11 |
| Category:Flora of Pitcairn | merge | August 24 |
| Category:Fooian magazines | close, categories not listed. This discussion was about listing the categories, not about the merits of the rename. As noted, people deserve the right to know exactly what they are discussing. And with due respect, Pichpich, if you had spent half the time you did arguing why you didn't want to list the categories, you could have just listed them | August 8 |
| Category:Footballers from Singapore | rename | August 10 |
| Category:Forested Areas in Oregon | delete | August 1 |
| Category:Former dictatorships | delete | August 18 |
| Category:Frederik Collett Paintings | Speedy Rename | August 24 |
| Freemasonry categories | rename | August 10 |
| Category:G Funk | rename | August 9 |
| Category:Gandhi albums | rename | August 12 |
| Category:Genericized trademarks | delete | August 14 |
| Category:Genocides during World War I | delete | August 9 |
| Georgia-related categories | rename all | August 11 |
| Category:Georgian-Abkhazian conflict | rename to to Category:Georgian–Abkhazian conflict (change dash, no consensus on name order) | August 12 |
| Category:German Communists opposed to the Third Reich | rename all | August 11 |
| Global warming and ozone hole skeptics categories | delete, without prejudice to creation of "activist"-type categories with decent inclusion criteria | August 7 |
| Category:Grand Lodge of Spain | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Grand Orient de France | delete per nom. If and when the systemic bias problem is resolved, the category can be recreated, taking into consideration the problem of historical/modern | August 14 |
| Category:Grand Orient of Belgium | no consensus | August 9 |
| Category:Groups targeted in the Holocaust | delete and merge back those articles which were moved into this category from Category:The Holocaust. – | August 19 |
| Category:Head coaches of Team Norway | rename | August 9 |
| Category:Hereford Music Scene | rename | August 9 |
| Category:High schools with crusader mascot | delete | August 4 |
| Category:Holocaust deniers | keep | August 5 |
| Category:Homosexuality People | DELETE per WP:SNOW. Unanimous support for deletion, no conceivable argument for keeping | August 14 |
| Category:Horror films actors | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Icelandic vocalists | out of process move, but nobody complained, so closing discussion as delete, empty | August 6 |
| Category:Independent albums | merge | August 6 |
| Category:Indians at the 2008 Summer Olympics | delete | August 17 |
| Category:Indonesian collaborationists | Deleted created by sockpuppet of banned user | August 23 |
| Category:Inter-Earths | delete per consensus here and at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Inter-Earth | August 10 |
| Category:Inter-Jupiters | delete per consensus here and at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Inter-Jupiter | August 10 |
| Category:International footballers of Armenian descent | delete. When the only person who is clear about the category's use is the creator, there is a problem | August 15 |
| International Hockey League (2007–present) players | rename | August 19 |
| Category:Interplanets | delete per consensus here and at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Interplanet | August 10 |
| Intersections of fictional characters and occupations | no consensus to listify at this time | August 20 |
| Category:Iranian fundamentalists | delete | August 14 |
| Category:Iranian fundamentalists | relisted on Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2008_August_14 | August 8 |
| Category:Irish association footballers and subcats | rename all | August 23 |
| Category:Italian-American actors | UpMerge to Category:Italian-Americans and Category:American actors | August 20 |
| Category:Jewish inventors | keep | August 20 |
| Category:Jewish Singaporeans | merge | August 10 |
| Category:Jews by religion | rename to Category:People of Jewish descent by religion | August 15 |
| Category:Jovial planets | rename to Category:Gas giant planets | August 12 |
| Category:Judge Advocate Generals of the U.S. Army | Rename Category:Judge Advocate Generals of the U.S. Army to Category:Judge Advocates General of the United States Army - (Probably could have been speedy.) | August 20 |
| Category:Judge Advocate Generals of the U.S. Navy | Rename Category:Judge Advocate Generals of the U.S. Navy to Category:Judge Advocates General of the United States Navy - (Probably could have been speedy.) | August 20 |
| Kalamazoo Wings (2000–present) players | rename | August 19 |
| Category:Kamehameha-capable Dragon Ball characters | delete | August 5 |
| Category:Kashrut | keep. As | August 11 |
| Category:Kentucky painters | upmerge per nom | August 1 |
| Category:Kentucky State Thorobreds football players | keep current name | August 4 |
| Category:Killian documents | rename | August 19 |
| Category:Kindergartens in Hong Kong | Delete | August 21 |
| Category:Latin Americans of Fooian descent | merge/rename both | August 14 |
| Lawyers and jurists from Cincinnati | merge | August 1 |
| Category:Lebanese blogs | upmerge as nominated and delete | August 26 |
| Category:Leicester musical groups | Withdrawn in favour of more general naming convention | August 9 |
| Category:Les Légions Noires bootlegs | C1 per Happyme22. Non-admin closure | August 2 |
| Category:Les Légions Noires | delete | August 2 |
| Category:Lesbians of Color | delete | August 7 |
| Lesotho, Basotho, Sotho? | option 1 | August 6 |
| Category:LeToya Luckett | no consensus | August 14 |
| Category:LGBT actors from Germany | keep, without prejudice to a future, broader nomination | August 7 |
| Category:LGBT Hare Krishnas | Speedy close. This discussion really belongs at Deletion review given how short the time period was since the last nomination. It also appears that this may be a WP:POINT or WP:Disruptive editing nomination. In any case, the reason for the nomination is not valid in and of itself. In fact a category with one member is valid and can exist. Size is not in and of itself a reason for deletion. Finally, it would appear that most of what was contained in these categories has been removed since the two nominated categories now contain a grand total of one article. That would also be an out of process change | August 22 |
| Category:LGBT Hindus | Speedy close. This discussion really belongs at Deletion review given how short the time period was since the last nomination. It also appears that this may be a WP:POINT or WP:Disruptive editing nomination. In any case, the reason for the nomination is not valid in and of itself. In fact a category with one member is valid and can exist. Size is not in and of itself a reason for deletion. Finally, it would appear that most of what was contained in these categories has been removed since the two nominated categories now contain a grand total of one article. That would also be an out of process change | August 22 |
| LGBT people by religion | keep both. Depending on the outcome in deciding whether or not to include the article in Category:LGBT Hare Krishnas, it could be speedily deleted if it remains empty for four days | August 7 |
| Category:LGBT people from Great Britain | upmerge | August 4 |
| Category:Liquified Natural Gas Terminals | rename per nom | August 3 |
| Category:List New Jersey pages | delete as empty | August 26 |
| Category:List of fictional characters who can manipulate wind | delete, speedy G4 | August 5 |
| Category:List of mad scientists | rename to Category:Fictional mad scientists | August 3 |
| Category:Living Enrichment Center | rename to Category:Images of the Living Enrichment Center | August 5 |
| Category:LNG plants | rename | August 3 |
| Category:LNG | rename | August 3 |
| Category:Los del Rio | delete | August 19 |
| Category:Luftwaffe Wings | no consensus. It would be best to discuss this elsewhere and come to CfD with a solution rather than trying to come up with something here. Geschwader is certainly translated as Wing, Gruppe as Group and Staffel as Squadron, but is it necessary to have any category below "Military units and formations of the [whichever air force it is]"? Anyway, perhaps the great and good of WP:AVIATION and WP:MILHIST could help? | August 8 |
| Category:Luxury Hotels | delete. – | August 25 |
| Category:Machine tooling | merge | August 1 |
| Category:Machine tools | keep | August 17 |
| Major League Baseball players by home state | rename all | August 20 |
| Category:Mass transit in Oregon | delete redirect | August 24 |
| Category:Mauian royalty, Category:Oahuan royalty | rename all | August 18 |
| Media based on media match up | No consensus on "programs". (Incidentally, note that "easier" does not necessarily make it right. Feel free to re-nominate series/shows/programs/programmes.) Rename the (non-stricken) rest | August 22 |
| Category:Meshuggah | keep. I think the point that a distinction needs to be drawn between the type of "similar" categories that were deleted and the type of "similar" categories that were kept in previous CfDs is well taken. Obviously, the current situation with regards to these types is in a bit of flux, with deletion usually occurring for categories with "few" articles/subcategories and no consensus to delete or keep decisions on those that have "many". What defines and separates the "few" from the "many" is the essence of what is in flux and can only really be sussed out by accumulation of past and future precedent. In this case, most seem to feel that this is an example of a "many" | August 7 |
| Category:Metros in India | merge | August 18 |
| Category:Metros in Japan | merge | August 18 |
| Category:Military industrial complex | Rename Category:Military industrial complex to Category:Military-industrial complex, per Military-industrial complex | August 24 |
| Category:Ministries of Afghanistan | rename | August 2 |
| Category:Mononymous persons | delete. Mainly because it's recreation of an already deleted category, but also based upon the arguments below. Many of the keep arguments were based upon the fact that the people in this category were related simply because they are known by one name, and for no other reason. Cosmic Latte helpfully provides a link to WP:CAT, which states "The categories to be included, which serve as classifications, should be the significant (useful) topics to which the subject of the article most closely belongs to as a member, and where readers are most likely to look if they can't remember the name of the thing they are trying to look up." CAT also goes on to give an example that a useful category for Michael Jackson would be Pop singers, while a not useful one would be "Musicians whose first name starts with M". This category falls under the not useful variety. Good Ol'Factory describes this perfectly, as this is not only overcategorization, but equates it to Category:People named Buddy | August 6 |
| Category:Motion City Soundtrack | delete | August 8 |
| Category:Murdered pregnant women | keep | August 7 |
| Category:Music venues in New York City (closed) | rename | August 15 |
| Category:Musical groups from Birmingham, England | keep | August 10 |
| Category:Musicians from Philadelphia | rename | August 5 |
| Category:Musicians from Pittsburgh | rename | August 5 |
| Category:Myanmar–Russia relations | rename | August 13 |
| Category:National liberation movements | keep, without prejudice to a possible superior solution in the future, as referred to by | August 6 |
| Category:Nature and natural science templates | rename | August 7 |
| Category:Near future technology | rename to Category:Emerging technology | August 12 |
| Category:New Orleans songs | rename | August 14 |
| Category:Non-article New Jersey pages | delete. Categories remained empty for 4 days+ | August 26 |
| Category:Non-Korean baseball players in Korea | rename | August 20 |
| Category:Non-profit organizations based in Finland | rename | August 4 |
| Category:Northernmost settlements | merge to Category:Settlements in the Arctic as noted | August 23 |
| Category:Nuclear Rabbit albums | delete; only article was deleted | August 10 |
| Category:Occupational safety | rename | August 17 |
| Category:Olympic female footballers of Japan | Merge to Category:Olympic footballers of Japan. | August 22 |
| Olympic flag bearers | delete, a comprehensive list exists | August 15 |
| Category:Olympic swimmers for Croatia | speedy rename per established naming convention. — | August 12 |
| Category:Opposition to homosexuality | delete | August 14 |
| Category:Optimization | rename | August 14 |
| Category:Organ systems | no consensus. Organ systems redirect to Biological system, but Biological systems redirect to Systems biology. It would seem that they are different, if even only slightly. | August 16 |
| Category:Organised crime in Australia | no rename, obviously. — | August 9 |
| Category:Outlet malls in the United States | Withdrawn I made the category Outlet malls already, which now houses another subcat as well | August 25 |
| Category:Owen Wister Award | delete | August 17 |
| Category:Pan-European advocacy groups | no consensus. There is consensus to rename, but not to what. Everyone seemed more interested in the "advocacy group" part of the title, much to the chagrin of the nominator, but whatever; sometimes that's how CFD's go. If I can point out, this category is currently in Category:Advocacy groups, which if that were so "American", someone presumably would have removed the multitudes of Australian, Bahamanian, British, Canadian, European, International, Japanese, Malaysian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Swedish groups' articles currently in the category | August 1 |
| Patient organizations | Merge Category:Patient advocacy organizations to Category:Patients' organizations | August 22 |
| Category:Peerage work group articles | rename to Category:Peerage and Baronetage work group articles | August 20 |
| Category:People associated with Oxford Centre for Vaishnava and Hindu Studies | listify, then delete | August 6 |
| Category:People by city in New Zealand | rename | August 12 |
| Category:People by country by period | delete (category has remained empty) | August 22 |
| Category:People by country by status | no consensus | August 10 |
| Category:People who have been considered avatars | rename to Category:People considered avatars by their followers | August 4 |
| Category:People with navel piercings | Delete | August 21 |
| Category:People with tinnitus | listify at Tinnitus#Notable_individuals_with_tinnitus | August 16 |
| Category:People's Artists of Georgia | withdrawn by nominator (see below for reason) | August 19 |
| Category:People, places, and things named for ... | delete | August 5 |
| Category:Persons who have been cloned | merge | August 11 |
| Category:Phil Spector singles | rename singles category per nom; delete albums category as duplicate | August 14 |
| Category:Pixies | sprinkled with Pixie dust and Renamed to Category:Pixies (band) : ) | August 22 |
| Category:Places associated with Shakespeare | rename | August 5 |
| Category:Police officers accused of murder | rename to Category:Police officers indicted for murder. After the bots transfer the articles, I'll go through and weed out the non-applicable articles. Feel free to double check my work on this | August 3 |
| Category:Political parties in Soviet Union | speedy delete | August 3 |
| Category:Politics about the military | rename | August 11 |
| Category:Pop punk singles | rename Category:Pop punk singles. Not really sure what to do with Category:Cobra Starship singles, as Punk Pop is being renamed due to songs by genre conventions, but Cobra Starship isn't a genre, it's a band. Delisting it for now, renominate by itself if desired | August 23 |
| Category:Preschools in Ohio | Delete | August 20 |
| Category:Prime Ministers of RSFSR | rename | August 10 |
| Category:Propaganda films | no consensus. Sorry, folks, but there still isn't any consensus, and I don't think relisting it for yet another week is going to solve that | August 21 |
| Category:Propaganda films | Relisted at
2008 AUG 14 |
August 6 |
| Category:Propaganda films | Relisted at
2008 AUG 21 per request |
August 14 |
| Category:Public companies run by founders | delete | August 18 |
| Category:RAFVR wartime service | rename | August 3 |
| Category:Railway stations in Butte County, California | ugh, I really hate the "keep as part of a series" rationale. A one article category is useless. Period. Upmerge if you want. Whatever, this is just my minority opinion, sorry for the rant. Keep | August 21 |
| Category:Rapid transit in Morocco | delete | August 18 |
| Category:Rathbone-Bruce films | rename | August 17 |
| Category:Red Bull Salzburg players | rename to Category:FC Red Bull Salzburg players | August 13 |
| Category:Relations to Shakespeare | rename | August 5 |
| Category:Religious organizations established in the 1100s | no consensus/keep, based also upon the 1110's CFD below | August 1 |
| Category:Religious organizations established in the 1110s | no consensus. And can I suggest Eric and GO have a nice cup of tea and a sit down? | August 1 |
| Restaurant templates | administrative close; no categories nominated | August 22 |
| Category:Roads in Hamburg | keep. Unfortunately the category has been emptied, which will require some repopulation efforts | August 10 |
| Robot categories | No consensus on Theraputic and Ecological. Rename Category:Artistic robots to Category:Artistic and performing robots, Category:Biomimetic robots to Category:Biomorphic robots, and Category:Robot caused deaths to Category:Deaths caused by industrial robots | August 11 |
| Category:Rollerskates | rename. — | August 20 |
| Category:Roman Catholic dioceses in Timor-Leste | rename | August 10 |
| Category:Royal Peace Award | Delete as G12 by | August 30 |
| Category:Rush (band) | keep | August 16 |
| Category:Russians in Estonia | rename. (completely unrelated to the close: American here, and yes, I take it to mean something other than what you are most likely intending. A well written header is necessary IMO. I still don't know why we are categorizing people like this, but that's neither here nor there) | August 16 |
| Category:Rwandan Genocide people | rename to Category:People of the Rwandan Genocide | August 8 |
| Category:SAB TV Shows | rename | August 1 |
| Category:Scientologists by Nationality | Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close | August 26 |
| Category:Seattle Repertory Theatre | delete | August 8 |
| Category:Selenographers | Withdrawn by nominator. Non-admin close | August 2 |
| Category:Self identifying drug addicts | no consensus on deletion, rename per Good Olfactory to fix spelling | August 16 |
| Category:Settlements in the Arctic | no consensus. It would seem that if this is going to change, then all of the other "Arctic" cats should be renamed as well. "Arctic circle" may be arbitrary, but there is no question where it is. "the Arctic" as noted could change depending on different factors. Arbitrary is better than subjective. But for now, the "arctic circle" template may work well. Let's give the wikiproject time to prove this will work. If not, we can always mass nominate all of them | August 23 |
| Category:Shakespeare academia | rename to Category:Shakespearean scholarship | August 5 |
| Category:Siblings of Presidents of the United States | keep all | August 26 |
| Category:Simon Fraser soccer players | rename | August 10 |
| Category:Slipper and the Rose songs | delete, empty | August 6 |
| Category:Songs about fashion | delete | August 8 |
| Category:Songs about masturbation | ...delete!!!1!eleven!!(and I'm spent) | August 9 |
| Category:Songs by Bob Crewe | rename | August 26 |
| Category:Songs by Bob Gaudio | rename (multiple songs have now been added to category) | August 26 |
| Category:Songs by Cole Porter | rename | August 25 |
| Category:Songs written by Leslie Satcher | no consensus. A repeated CfD this soon after the last one might usually warrant a procedural keep, but in this case it's understandable how the nominator could have been confused by the CfD for Category:Songs written by Anthony Smith or thought that consensus had somehow changed about these types of categories in general. But in this case, there's no consensus to delete and the Anthony Smith CfD may indeed be seen in the future as an out-of-the-ordinary "outlier" result | August 10 |
| Category:Southern rock bands et al | rename all | August 17 |
| Category:Space Marine Chapters | upmerge to Category:Space Marines (Warhammer 40,000) and delete | August 7 |
| Category:Space Marines (Warhammer 40,000) | upmerge | August 13 |
| Category:Space: Above and Beyond episodes | delete | August 5 |
| Category:Spanish freemasonry | delete (it is empty) | August 9 |
| Category:Sperm donors | rename | August 24 |
| Category:Sporting Lisbon players | rename | August 21 |
| Sports festivals by host country | rename all | August 6 |
| Category:Sports festivals hosted in London | rename | August 21 |
| Category:Sportspeople from Singapore | delete | August 10 |
| Category:Sri Lankan terrorists | procedural close per nominator's request at my talk page. While there has been additional support for deletion, which would normally preclude an early closure, a speedy close is justified by the particular circumstances of this case. The category was discussed at CFD only a few days ago as part of a bulk nomination of all "terrorist" and "terrorism" categories, where it was kept. The validity of including specific articles in the category is currently under discussion at the relevant WikiProject. – | August 9 |
| Category:Stubs | Speedy keep and a trout to me. Non-admin closure | August 18 |
| Category:Sub-Earths | rename all | August 12 |
| Subcategories of Category:Major League Baseball players by position | rename all | August 9 |
| Category:Suicides by gas | no consensus | August 2 |
| Category:Suvi Koponen | delete. Both images are on Commons, so there is actually no need to categorise them here. – | August 24 |
| Category:Taiwan and the United States | rename to Category:Republic of China – United States relations (seriously, folks, some days I think you make many of these renames WAY more complex than they need to be. For example, if Joe Reader, or even Joe Neweditor is going to use the dash that's on their keyboard, why the frig are we not using it as well? Who's grand idea was it to make things more difficult for people? Stop overthinking things) | August 23 |
| Category:Talk pages of the deleted replaceable fair use images | rename | August 18 |
| Category:Taste in music | Delete | August 21 |
| Category:Templates using ParserFunctions | Delete | August 21 |
| Texas Education Agency categories | delete all | August 19 |
| Category:The Flatlinerz albums | rename to Category:Flatlinerz albums | August 5 |
| Category:The Sarah Jane Adventures companions | delete | August 1 |
| Category:The Signature Collection | delete | August 9 |
| Category:The Velvet albums | Deleted by PeterSymonds. Category was emptied after Flash Back got nuked. Non-admin closure | August 16 |
| Category:Tom T. Hall songs | rename | August 26 |
| Category:Traceless Biometrics | delete, empty | August 21 |
| Category:Trainers | merge both to Category:Athletic shoes | August 20 |
| Category:Transportation ministers | merge | August 17 |
| Category:Trinidadian people by ethnic or national origin | merge | August 14 |
| Category:Turks in Bulgaria | rename | August 16 |
| Category:TV Asia shows | rename | August 1 |
| Category:UK SCUBA diving sites | rename | August 11 |
| Category:United States elections by state | rename to Category:United States federal elections by state | August 8 |
| Category:United States-Iraqi relations | superseded by Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 August 13#Bilateral relations. — | August 12 |
| Category:Univerity of Pisa | speedy re-cat/delete. — | August 10 |
| Useless plant cats created by Bot, Episode IX | upmerge per nom | August 13 |
| Useless plant cats created by Bot, Episode X | rename all ("genus containing only 4 species" not equal to "category contains only 4 articles") | August 22 |
| Category:User:The Twenty Thousand Tonne Bomb | being discussed at WP:UCFD. – | August 11 |
| Category:Utah Valley State College | rename all | August 9 |
| Category:Valencia (autonomous community) | rename | August 13 |
| Category:Van Morrison singles | merge to Category:Van Morrison songs | August 14 |
| Category:Vanguard Progressive Unionist Party politicians | rename | August 25 |
| Virgin Islands | rename all | August 15 |
| Category:Warcraft comics | delete with recreation permissible if other warcraft comics articles are found or written | August 5 |
| Category:Warhammer 40,000 deities | delete as empty category | August 12 |
| Category:Wikipedia administrators open to recall | somewhere between keep and no consensus with clearly no consensus on whether it is worth asking about whether an RFA candidate intends to join the category. (There are alternative forms of the question that might solicit interesting and informative responses - such as "what are your thoughts on ..." or "what are the issues with ..." or "how could ___ work better ...") I do believe that if we ever find a better solution this category will depopulate itself (of the active admins at any rate) fairly quickly. But unless a superior solution is found, given all the prior discussions, it is unlikely that a consensus to end it will emerge any time soon. I didn't see a single new argument this time around, just old arguments with some new examples used | August 17 |
| Category:WikiProject Fictional series | speedy delete as non-controversial housekeeping ( WP:CSD#G6) | August 4 |
| Category:Worcester musical groups | rename | August 9 |
| Category:Works of Mate Bulić | rename | August 16 |
| Category:Works of Miroslav Škoro | rename | August 16 |
| Category:Works of Siniša Vuco | rename | August 16 |
| Category:Works of Thompson | rename | August 16 |
| Category:Yahweh | no consensus | August 18 |
| Category:Zagreb Crisis mayor nominees | delete | August 9 |
| Category:Zee TV shows | rename. The others in Television series by network should probably be renamed one way or the other for consistency, but that is out of the scope of this discussion | August 1 |