The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.
Category | Decision | Discussion_log |
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Category:10th-century Roman consuls | delete. – | October 22 |
Category:13th-century establishments in the State of the Teutonic Order | dual merge. (non-admin closure) | October 14 |
Category:1920s silent Western (genre) film stubs | delete. It is currently empty, as the related template was deleted per Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2021_October_4#Template:1920s-silent-Western-film-stub. – | October 4 |
Category:2018 Swedish general election | keep (non-admin closure) | October 8 |
Category:2021 WAFF Championship | delete (non-admin closure) | October 24 |
Category:2021 Women's Cricket World Cup | delete (non-admin closure) | October 24 |
Category:2022 Summer Youth Olympics | delete (non-admin closure) | October 24 |
Category:2023 Summer Youth Olympics | delete (non-admin closure) | October 24 |
Category:21st-century women singers by nationality | keep. (non-admin closure) | October 2 |
Category:8th-century BC kings of Rome | merge. – | October 25 |
Category:A.C. Pisa 1909 | rename | October 9 |
Category:A.F.C. Fylde | rename | October 14 |
Category:Adventure film controversies | delete (non-admin closure) | October 23 |
Category:AFC U-16 Championship qualification | keep | October 9 |
Category:Albums produced by TroyBoi | delete (non-admin closure) | October 15 |
Category:Alexander von Humboldt Fellows | delete. There was no consensus to listify, but I have copied the category's contents onto the talk page | October 16 |
Category:American reggaeton artists | rename. – | October 8 |
Category:American victims of school bullying | delete | October 18 |
Articles needing attention | merge (non-admin closure) | October 13 |
Category:Artists by record label | rename to Category:Recording artists by label. – | October 27 |
Category:Austrian royalty | keep and remove headnote (non-admin closure) | October 1 |
Category:Award-winning films | rename. I will redirect the old name to avoid its being re-created. – | October 19 |
Category:Award-winning television series | merge. I will redirect the nominated category to discourage its re-creation. – | October 19 |
Category:Award-winning works | keep. (non-admin closure) | October 19 |
Category:Bangladeshi film singers | merge (non-admin closure) | October 3 |
Category:Big East Conference (1979–2013) broadcasters | delete (non-admin closure) | October 16 |
Category:Black Marxists | rename to Category:African-American Marxists | October 12 |
Category:Board game gameplay and terminology | manual upmerge to Category:Board games, selectively rename the rest to Category:Board game terminology | October 22 |
Category:Books about mathematics | no consensus | October 27 |
Category:Boonie Bears fans Wikipedians | delete (non-admin closure) | October 21 |
Category:Brazilian jazz (genre) musicians | no consensus. In any case this category cannot be considered without Category:Brazilian jazz (genre) musicians by instrument and its sub-cats. – | October 27 |
Category:Brâncovenesc style architecture | keep. – | October 22 |
Category:Buildings and structures in the Canton of Bern | merge. (non-admin closure) | October 10 |
Category:Bulgarian scholars, writers and artists | delete, but I will move the lead article into appropriate categories. – | October 25 |
Category:Canon Law articles needing attention | delete (non-admin closure) | October 18 |
Category:Categories by crown land of Austria-Hungary | merge. – | October 13 |
Categories:Acts of the Oireachtas | merge to Category:Acts of the Oireachtas of the 1920s, Category:1923 in Irish law (etc). – | October 21 |
Category:Chemists as head of government | delete. – | October 23 |
Category:Chicago Fire FC broadcasters | delete (non-admin closure) | October 16 |
Category:Christmas film controversies | delete (non-admin closure) | October 23 |
Category:City of Manningham | delete (non-admin closure) | October 29 |
Category:Clinical psychology tests | rename to Category:Mental disorders diagnostic procedures. Perhaps the second word should be singular, i.e. Category:Mental disorder diagnostic procedures; if anybody else thinks so, please nominate this under WP:C2A. – | October 22 |
Category:College football winless seasons | no consensus. – | October 27 |
Category:Commandants and Generals of the Royal Navy | merge | October 4 |
Category:Communist Party of India politicians (Marxist) from Kerala | delete (non-admin closure) | October 18 |
Category:Companies formed by merger | delete. I have made a new List of corporate mergers as the info may yet be useful as a list.– | October 23 |
Category:Contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary | convert to list, then delete. – | October 8 |
Counter categories depdendent on deleted/redirect categories | delete (non-admin closure) | October 5 |
Category:D.C. United broadcasters | delete (non-admin closure) | October 16 |
Category:Deaths in Metro Manila | delete. See also Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2021 October 28#Category:Deaths in the Philippines by province. – | October 13 |
Category:Deaths in the Philippines by province | delete. See also Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2021 October 13#Category:Deaths in Metro Manila. – | October 28 |
Category:Deaths in Yorkshire and the Humber | delete | October 3 |
Disease-related deaths | convert to container categories. – | October 31 |
Category:Diseases characterised by polyuria | delete. I note that the lead article already has a list and prominently mentions the current category members. – | October 12 |
Category:Diseases characterized by inflammation | delete | October 9 |
Category:East Germany–North Korea relations | delete | October 14 |
Category:Emotional and behavioral disorders in childhood and adolescence | merge | October 3 |
Category:English anti-communists | delete | October 18 |
Category:English-language writers from Australia | delete. No merge is needed. – | October 25 |
Category:English-language writers from Canada | delete | October 25 |
Category:Entities | no consensus. – | October 23 |
Category:Establishments in the State of the Teutonic Order by century | delete (non-admin closure) | October 27 |
Category:Ethiopian lyricists | rename to Category:Ethiopian songwriters. Consensus is that as named there is little potential for growth, and the name is not accurate as the one entry is a songwriter rather than just a lyricist | October 8 |
Category:Ethnic enclaves in Australia | keep. For the record, it currently contains Category:Chinatowns in Australia, Category:Little Italys in Australia, Greek Precinct, Melbourne, Malay Kampong Group and Thai Town, Sydney. – | October 17 |
Category:Ethnic restaurants | reverse merge, without prejudice to a follow-up renaming proposal to "cuisine" (non-admin closure) | October 15 |
Category:European Court of Human Rights case law by involved country | keep | October 9 |
Category:Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches | delete. – | October 17 |
Category:Fanaticism | delete | October 11 |
Category:Films directed by Karl Heinz Martin | rename (non-admin closure) | October 18 |
Category:Films set in Autumn | delete. – | October 10 |
Category:FlightTime's custom templates & sub-categories | Delete | October 17 |
Footballers by city in Israel | merge all containing fewer than five articles, rename the rest to "footballers" (with some support and no opposition here, and could be done speedily anyway under WP:C2C), and splitting Category:Footballers from Jaffa from Category:Footballers from Tel Aviv. For the record, in order to leave backlinks to the discussion, the renames are as follows | October 1 |
Former Canadian intelligence agencies | rename (non-admin closure) | October 18 |
Category:French Life Senators | rename. – | October 20 |
Category:Go competitions by region | rename (non-admin closure) | October 21 |
Category:Go competitions in Germany | merge. – | October 28 |
Category:Go tournament navigational boxes (multiple subcats) | rename all. – | October 19 |
Category:Gongsun Du and associates | merge to Category:Gongsun family (Three Kingdoms) as only one editor opposed, and the basis of the opposition was addressed by the disambiguator. (non-admin closure) | October 22 |
Category:Gorizia and Gradisca people | merge | October 6 |
Category:Gorizian historians | merge | October 7 |
Category:Gorizian people | merge | October 6 |
Category:Greek contemporary laïko singers | merge. (non-admin closure) | October 2 |
Category:High school football competitions in the United States | merge to Category:High school football games in the United States | October 27 |
Category:Higher education in Arkansas | delete (non-admin closure) | October 18 |
Category:Historians of Rockaway, Queens | merge (non-admin closure) | October 1 |
Category:Historical events by country | keep. @ | October 12 |
Category:History of the Palestinian territories | merge and rename as nominated (non-admin closure) | October 14 |
Category:HTF Haters | delete (non-admin closure) | October 16 |
Category:I Am a Singer (South Korean TV series) contestants | delete per WP:PERFCAT. Since the contestants are available in list form in the I Am a Singer article, no information is lost | October 27 |
Category:Impulse-control disorder not elsewhere classified | rename to Category:Impulse-control disorders and populate. – | October 27 |
Category:Indian film singers | merge | October 3 |
Category:Indian mythological television series | keep. If this is revisited in future, it might be helpful to consider more of the hierarchy Category:Hindu mythology in popular culture together. – | October 12 |
Category:Iranian operatic sopranos | merge (non-admin closure) | October 2 |
Category:Iranian vocalists | rename/merge per nom. – | October 10 |
Category:Italian Life Senators | rename. – | October 20 |
Category:Jamaican girl groups | double merge, also to Category:Girl groups. Note 1: Category:Jamaican women singers is diffused by century. Note 2: as stated below, Category:Girl groups by nationality has many other small sub-cats, so all those with just 1 or 2 members should be nominated following this CFD. – | October 27 |
Category:Japanese people with non-standard romanized names | delete | October 5 |
Category:Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist monks | rename and purge of non-priest members | October 27 |
Category:Kazakh women in politics | merge/rename (non-admin closure) | October 22 |
Category:Khmer women singers | merge (non-admin closure) | October 31 |
Category:Kingdoms and countries of Austria-Hungary | merge. (non-admin closure) | October 5 |
Category:Lennon songs | delete (non-admin closure) | October 26 |
Category:LGBT directors by nationality | delete. – | October 28 |
Category:LGBT legislators in Spain | keep. – | October 22 |
Category:LGBT legislators in the United Kingdom | speedy keep, WP:SNOW applies (non-admin closure) | October 21 |
Category:Life senators of Burundi | rename. – | October 20 |
Category:Light TV affiliates | rename to Category:TheGrio affiliates. – | October 22 |
Category:Light TV affiliates | renamed already, see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_October_22#Category:Light_TV_affiliates. – | October 23 |
Category:Lists of people by name feature | rename to Category:Lists of people by epithet | October 7 |
Category:Lists of people by nickname | keep | October 29 |
Category:Lists of people sharing a surname | rename all. – | October 8 |
Category:Lists of restaurants by ethnicity | rename also considering the previous discussion. If there is going to be a follow-up nomination about using "cuisine" in the name it makes sense to nominate the two categories together. (non-admin closure) | October 18 |
Category:Los Angeles FC broadcasters | delete (non-admin closure) | October 16 |
Category:Lua String-based templates | rename. – | October 31 |
Category:Madonna (entertainer) | procedural close because the category page has not been tagged to give notice of this discussion, thus the only people commenting below were here because they happened to be browsing CFD for other reasons. In any case, the discussion below shows no consensus, which is not surprising as it is only months since the previous nomination, and no new rationale was put forward by | October 27 |
Category:Magazines reestablished in 2010 | merge | October 12 |
Category:Major League Soccer over-the-air television broadcasters | keep. (non-admin closure) | October 16 |
Category:Male superheroes | no consensus. The applicable global consensus is at WP:EGRS (specifically WP:CATGENDER) and WP:OVERCAT (specifically WP:NONDEF and WP:OCEGRS), which, summed up, state that an intersection category, such as "gender + superhero" (e.g., Category:Male superheroes), should only exist if, according to WP:RS, the intersection is a "defining characteristic" of the article subject. There was no consensus reached in this discussion as to whether any of these category intersections were defining. Some editors pointed to the sources compiled at Superhero#Female superheroes and villains as establishing that "female + superhero" was a defining intersection per RS. Editors in favor of deleting or merging these categories did not address these sources, e.g. with a source analysis evaluating specific sources, or with any counterarguments for why these sources do not establish a defining intersection. This, alone, might be enough to close the CFD of Category:Female superheroes as "keep". However, editors by and large did not address whether these sources establish that being a female superhero is defining for every female superhero or only some female superheroes, e.g. the specific publishers' sub-categories (Marvel Comics female superheroes, DC Comics female superheroes, etc.). Also unaddressed was whether the sources establish that "gender + superhero" was defining generally, or only specifically "female + superhero", e.g. whether the RSes that putatively establish "female + superhero" as defining also establish "male + superhero" (or other genders) as defining. There was little or no discussion about whether one group of gender categories should be treated differently than another. In other words: there was little or no discussion about splitting up this bundled nomination and treating the individual categories differently. As such, even though the argument that female+superhero was a defining intersection was not rebutted, there was no consensus reached about what that means, e.g. does that mean keep Category:Female superheroes and delete the rest (as one editor suggested), or keep all the female categories and merge/delete the rest, or something else. No prejudice to a renomination, but I suggest editors consider whether they want to have a more general discussion about sub-categorizing superheroes (or fictional characters generally) by gender (which should not be done via CFD, but probably via RFC at some appropriate page), or whether they want to discuss merging/deleting these categories specifically, or just some subset of these categories (in which case a new CFD should be more specific about merge targets, and also address any sources that editors point to as establishing defining intersections, or, if the argument is that they should be deleted and not merged, explain why). (non-admin closure) | October 10 |
Category:Manga authors navigational boxes | rename. – | October 24 |
Category:Manitoba communities with large francophone populations | rename to Category:Manitoba communities with majority francophone populations. The decision on whether to keep/delete the category is pretty heavily contested, but it's also pretty clear that the current name isn't quite appropriate either. No consensus defaulting to keep doesn't seem to be the best close here. No prejudice towards a deletion discussion about the cat on its own merits in the future | October 22 |
Category:Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | rename to Category:Mecklenburg-Vorpommern | October 31 |
Category:Members of the Optical Society | partial merge to Category:Optica (society) for sub-categories only, purge remaining biographies (who for the record are Vadim Backman, Charles K. Kao & Charles Elwood Mendenhall). – | October 24 |
Category:Mental and behavioural disorders | rename. – | October 27 |
Category:Mental health law in Canada | upmerge | October 28 |
Merged WikiProject/Task Tracking Categories | no action yet. These categories may be renamed in due course under WP:G6. – | October 20 |
Category:Monroe White Sox | delete (non-admin closure) | October 7 |
Category:Muhajir people | no consensus. The objection carries some weight, and a stronger consensus would be desirable for a move, especially as there are multiple like-named sub-cats which have not been nominated. – | October 22 |
Category:Muhajir | delete, but the consensus is not a strong one, so Disperse and disambiguate. I suggest that the contents be manually dispersed within Category:Human migration, and the category page be disambiguated.– | October 22 |
Category:Multi-level marketing companies based in Utah | keep but remove table (non-admin closure) | October 17 |
Category:Multiplayer and single-player video games | no consensus (non-admin closure) | October 5 |
Category:Multiple choice | delete | October 8 |
Category:Musically Cross-Dominant Wikipedians | delete (non-admin closure) | October 30 |
Category:National Football League primary television stations | keep. (non-admin closure) | October 16 |
Category:National Hockey League over-the-air television broadcasters | keep. (non-admin closure) | October 16 |
Category:Nepalese film singers | merge (non-admin closure) | October 3 |
Category:Nepalese lyricists | keep. After 27 days discussion there is no support for the nomination. In the discussion only the nominator is arguing in favour of the move | October 27 |
Category:New England Revolution broadcasters | delete (non-admin closure) | October 16 |
Category:Nicknames in basketball | keep | October 29 |
Category:Nicknames of kings | delete. – | October 30 |
Category:Nine-cylinder engines | rename Category:Two-cylinder engines to Category:Twin-cylinder engines, keep the rest (non-admin closure) | October 3 |
Category:Objects | keep. Withdrawn by nominator, no other support. (non-admin closure) | October 18 |
Category:Objects | no consensus | October 26 |
Category:Obscenity controversies in opera | double merge (non-admin closure) | October 14 |
Category:Optical connectors | soft delete (non-admin closure) | October 19 |
Category:Optical signal connectors | delete (non-admin closure) | October 20 |
Category:Optical wireless communication | delete (merging is not needed, the content is already in Category:Optical communications) (non-admin closure) | October 18 |
Category:Organizations formed by merger | delete | October 11 |
Category:Ottoman emigrants to England | rename to Category:Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to the Kingdom of England, and nominate siblings for speedy renaming likewise. – | October 25 |
Category:Overseas Indian restaurants | merge. – | October 13 |
Category:Panzer commanders | keep | October 7 |
Category:Paraguayan musical groups by genre | merge/delete (non-admin closure) | October 22 |
Category:Parkhotel Valkbenburg Continental Team | rename (non-admin closure) | October 31 |
Category:People from the Collectivity of Saint Martin | rename to Category:Saint Martinois people ("Alt 1"). – | October 21 |
Category:People who known as Liberator | delete (non-admin closure) | October 1 |
Category:Planned cities in England | delete. – | October 22 |
Category:Poe family | rename (non-admin closure) | October 19 |
Professional wrestling fake nationalities | rename. – | October 13 |
Category:Psychiatric disease and disorder templates | rename to Category:Mental disorder templates | October 27 |
Category:Psychiatric diseases and disorders | merge. I will redirect the old page. – | October 22 |
Category:Psychiatric institutions | merge to Category:Psychiatry organizations. Since the medical organizations category tree contains hospitals, the merge is not completely inappropriate. It may be better to split the professional associations to another category instead | October 22 |
Category:Psychiatric instruments: geriatric psychiatry | delete. – | October 10 |
Category:Psychiatric terminology | delete. – | October 21 |
Category:Psychiatry awards | merge to Category:Psychiatry profession and Category:Medicine awards. The other parent Category:Psychology awards also seems perfectly valid, so I am going to merge it there too. – | October 21 |
Category:Reality by type | keep (non-admin closure) | October 18 |
Category:Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1944–1989) & Category:Recipients of the Virtuti Militari (1943–1989) | no consensus | October 10 |
Category:Red Western actors | delete (non-admin closure) | October 15 |
Category:Renaissance architecture in Romania | no consensus. – | October 29 |
Category:Reptiles of Niger | merge. – | October 29 |
Category:Rich Farmbrough's Dictionary of National Biography contributor templates | delete. I have listed the contents at | October 17 |
Category:Roman Catholic churches in Nicosia | rename to Category:Roman Catholic churches in Nicosia, Sicily | October 5 |
Category:Roman Catholic priests in New Spain | rename. – | October 12 |
Category:Roman consuls dying in year of consulship | rename to Category:Roman consuls who died in office. There is no consensus to delete this category | October 15 |
Rulers of Sicily | merge to Category:Counts of Sicily | October 2 |
Category:Rulers of Württemberg | rename but keep C15 and split its contents to 2 new sub-cats. – | October 23 |
Safavid governors | merge. – | October 27 |
Category:Seattle Sounders FC broadcasters | delete (non-admin closure) | October 16 |
Category:Segments from Fantasia | delete both (non-admin closure) | October 11 |
Category:Serbian pop-folk singers | rename to Category:Serbian folk-pop singers. – | October 28 |
Category:Shaurya Chakra | delete (non-admin closure) | October 24 |
Category:Silent Western (genre) film stubs | delete (non-admin closure) | October 4 |
Category:Socialist feminists by nationality | keep. (non-admin closure) | October 14 |
Category:Songs written by Mike Leeson | no consensus (non-admin closure) | October 25 |
Category:South Louisiana Pipeliners | delete (non-admin closure) | October 5 |
Category:Southern Mongol sportspeople | merge. I checked and all members are already in the target Category:Sportspeople from Inner Mongolia. – | October 27 |
Category:Sports in Okemos, Michigan | delete (non-admin closure) | October 6 |
Category:Sports in Plymouth, Minnesota | merge (non-admin closure) | October 5 |
Category:Sports teams in Morgan City, Louisiana | merge (non-admin closure) | October 5 |
Category:Star Plus original programming | rename. – | October 24 |
Category:Star Utsav original programming | procedural close, the category has already been deleted (non-admin closure) | October 25 |
Category:Symptoms and signs: General | merge | October 7 |
Category:Tajik singers | selectively merge then delete. Some biographies might justifiably be added to Category:Tajik-language singers or Category:Tajikistani singers. – | October 20 |
Category:Television award winners | keep. (non-admin closure) | October 19 |
Category:Television shows set in Imperial Beach, California | merge (non-admin closure) | October 6 |
Category:Television shows set in West Covina, California | merge (non-admin closure) | October 5 |
Template:Typ-stub | rename template. – | October 4 |
Category:Templates for general use | delete as WP:SOFTDELETE, i.e. this may be reversed if someone finds that it is useful after all. – | October 17 |
Category:Tennis players of Lebanese descent | merge. – | October 30 |
Category:Termination of employment for refusing a COVID vaccine | delete (non-admin closure) | October 19 |
Category:Territorial entities by type | keep. – | October 22 |
Category:Texian | Disperse and delete. – | October 22 |
The Far Side of the Leith | keep and instead do Option B, i.e. rename Category:Lands of Transleithania (1867—1918) to Category:Lands of the Kingdom of Hungary (1867–1918), and merge Category:Transleithania (1867—1918) to Category:Kingdom of Hungary (1867–1918). The Transleithania categories are not tagged but have been recently created by the nominator, so there is no need to tag them and relist this. – | October 26 |
Category:TheGrio affiliates | delete without prejudice to renaming Category:Light TV affiliates to Category:TheGrio affiliates in that other discussion (non-admin closure) | October 25 |
Category:Thibodaux Senators | delete (non-admin closure) | October 7 |
Category:Toyfinity | delete (non-admin closure) | October 12 |
Category:Trains that appeared in Chuggington | Speedy deleted as G4 by Izno | October 21 |
Category:Treatment by psychiatric diagnosis | rename | October 7 |
Category:Turkish female radio singers | merge. I will also add Behiye Aksoy, Semahat Özdenses and Hamiyet Yüceses to the other parent Category:Turkish radio people, but the radio aspect does not seem so defining for Safiye Ayla, Zehra Bilir or Kudsi Erguner. – | October 28 |
Category:Uniclinic Atlético Clube players | rename. This CFD should have been closed speedily; it is strange that it has been left open for so long. The old category will be redirected per WP:Category redirects that should be kept. – | October 17 |
Category:University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | merge. – | October 28 |
Category:University of Notre Dame faculty | Withdrawn by nom. — | October 21 |
Category:Urban 13 universities | delete | October 18 |
Category:User apc | rename, but WP:SOFTDELETE -1, -2 and -4 until needed. – | October 22 |
Category:Utopists | partial diffuse to Category:Authors of utopian literature, and perhaps to others like it if these appear justified, although none such have been suggested; then move subcats up into parent, and delete what is left. – | October 27 |
Category:Venezuelan protests (2014–present) | keep (non-admin closure) | October 31 |
Category:Vertebrates of Niger | merge. However, it will be empty after Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2021_October_29#Category:Reptiles_of_Niger. – | October 28 |
Category:Victims of the RMS Titanic | rename back to Category:Deaths on the RMS Titanic, from which it was moved without discussion in 2014. "RMS Titanic" is currently used in all categories on this topic, so "RMS" should not be dropped on this one alone. – | October 24 |
Category:Wikipedia Librarians | manual merge to Category:Wikipedian librarians | October 22 |
Category:Wikipedian Graphic designer | speedy merge C2A. – | October 21 |
Category:Wikipedian members of the Society for Neuroscience Wikipedia Initiative | keep. – | October 21 |
Wikipedians by individual person | delete (non-admin closure) | October 26 |
Category:Wikipedians who have received a Co-op invitation | delete. – | October 30 |
Category:Wikipedians who like Cocotama | delete (non-admin closure) | October 21 |
Category:Wikipedians who like Football | delete.– | October 26 |
Category:Wikipedians who like Ghost in the Shell | delete (non-admin closure) | October 21 |
Category:Wikipedians who like Marvel Comics | delete (non-admin closure) | October 30 |
Category:Wikipedians who like the Beatles | delete (non-admin closure) | October 24 |
Category:Wikipedians who like Valvrave the Liberator | delete (non-admin closure) | October 21 |
Category:Wikipedians who listen to music | delete (non-admin closure) | October 24 |
Category:Wikipedians who support transgender rights | delete. – | October 26 |
Category:Wilderness Areas of Florida | rename | October 4 |
Category:Wives of Tiberius | merge. – | October 30 |
Category:World conquest games | merge to Category:Wargames. The guy who suggested doing the same for 3 of the 4 subcats can open their own CfD. (non-admin closure) – | October 22 |
Category:Ştefan Protopopescu | speedy rename C2A, C2E. – | October 18 |