Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2018 January index

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Category Decision Discussion_log
Category:100,000,000 view pages delete January 8
Category:1648 Books already deleted per WP:G7. (non-admin closure) January 21
Category:1689 in Great Britain delete, the one article in this category is already in Category:1689 in Scotland. (non-admin closure) January 8
Category:1980s Police detective films merge January 8
Category:2018 births speedy delete per WP:C1. Yes, the 7 day has not expired, but this is only going one way, and there's no point wasting time discussing it January 8
Category:2018 Gujarati films delete. No need to merge, the articles are already in the appropriate merge targets. (non-admin closure) January 2
Category:22/7 members delete January 18
Category:2nd-millennium BC disestablishments in Assyria merge. – January 21
Category:Abdullah Öcalan delete January 18
Category:Administrative territorial entities no consensus. This discussion has been open for 81 days, and relisting generated no further comments, so there's point keeping it open.
There was general unhappiness with the term "administrative territorial entities", but no agreement on what label is best for a set which could be described verbosely as "geographical areas created by humans for political or administrative purposes (e.g. countries, states, counties, provinces, wards, constitencies, civil parishes, raions, oblasts), rather than physically-derived areas (e.g. islands, continents), biologically-science-defined areas (e.g. biogeographic realms/ecozones), or divisions created for other types of human study (e.g. cultural areas, or zones in economic geography)."
Maybe a discussion at WikiProject Geography would help to clarify what terminology is used by English-language geographers, and maybe form the basis of a further CfD?
Pinging the participants, in case my suggestion is any help: @Fayenatic london, Peterkingiron, and Marcocapelle
January 10
Category:African-American Latter Day Saints from Utah merge to both parents January 23
Category:Alaska gubernatorial candidates no consensus. Several editors noted that there are similar categories for about a dozen other states, and no reason was offered for singling out Alaska. A group nomination of all the gubernatorial subcats of Category:American political candidates might produce a consensus one way or the other January 21
Category:Alela Diane delete January 11
Category:Alternative Wikipedia accounts rename January 7
Category:American inline hockey team stubs upmerge template and delete category (non-admin closure) January 16
Category:American labor leaders keep, without prejudice to starting a wider discussion of Category:Trade union leaders. While there are compelling reasons to retain this category (it is part of Category:Trade union leaders, it is a useful container for subcats, there is a significant distinction between union leaders and rank-and-file, etc.), the question about the definition of "leader" in this context is a fair one and remains open ( January 4
Category:Americans who lost children Lost January 20
Category:Anglican churches in Newcastle merge (non-admin closure) January 9
Category:Animal dance delete. Some editors think there may be scope for a narrower category, so I before deletion I will list the category contents at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 January 9#Animal dance January 9
Category:Anthozoa by country merge January 3
Category:Arnold & Porter associates Merge January 17
Category:Arnold & Porter partners Merge January 17
Category:Arnold & Porter people keep January 17
Category:Arnold & Porter delete January 17
Category:Articles of Wiki Academy Albania 2017 withdrawn after cleanup January 5
Category:Artists with only one studio album delete January 25
Category:Artworks depicting Old Testament figures rename Category:Artworks depicting Old Testament figures to Category:Works based on the Old Testament;
rename Category:Artworks depicting New Testament figures to Category:Works based on the New Testament.
Pinging @Fayenatic london, who may wish to tweak parent cats to reflect the broader scope (or maybe it's not needed; I haven't checked)
January 9
Category:Atheist feminism delete (non-admin closure) January 8
Category:Audio book narrators rename January 1
Austrian military physicians Rename January 13
Category:Aviators no consensus January 8
Category:Bandini Automobili keep for now. This is related to ongoing discussions about at the topic at WT:WikiProject Automobiles#Bandini_deletions, and about the nominator at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Ongoing_trolling_by_TenPoundHammer (permalink). When those those discussions have concluded and the dust has settled, a new nomination may have a different outcome January 13
Category:Bangladeshi bureaucrats selectively merge to Category:Bangladeshi civil servants. (non-admin closure) January 1
Category:Belgian politicians of World War II delete. No need to merge, the subcat is adequately parented on its own. (non-admin closure) January 1
Category:Biblical art by medium merge both January 24
Category:Biphobia feminists delete , WP:SNOW. January 18
Category:Birds of Marajó merge January 18
Category:Birds of São Tomé and Príncipe merge all per nominator January 4
Category:Birds of Uttarakhand Merge January 19
Bluefield State Big Blues rename all January 13
Category:Books critical of Donald Trump Merge all January 19
Category:Busan International Comedy Festival delete January 1
Category:Celebrities who lost children delete January 19
Category:Childhood genital surgery close as merge (non-admin closure) January 2
Category:Chilean governors rename (non-admin closure) January 5
Category:Christian South Korean Musicians delete January 5
Category:Christmas by medium Merge January 20
Category:Christmas nomenclature and language relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 1#Category:Christmas_nomenclature_and_language January 21
Category:Christophanies in the Old Testament consensus to delete. And out of curiosity, I checked the category's contents. 5 articles, of which 3 mention the word "Christophany" only in the category list: Daniel 7, Michael (archangel), Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego January 9
Category:Chronicles regarding Lithuania relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 1#Category:Chronicles_regarding_Lithuania January 17
Category:Civic youth organizations disperse among Category:Political youth organizations and possibly other categories in the tree of Category:Youth organizations. @Rathfelder: would you want to go ahead dispersing and could you ping me when the category is empty? (non-admin closure) January 11
Category:Clergy by war no consensus. The 3 categories raised different issues,which caused some confusion. Nominating the categories separately would be more likely to produce consensus January 9
Category:Cloverfield films delete, without prejudice to recreation if and when it can contain more than 3 pages January 11
Category:Comedians from Kettering Merge to Category:People from Kettering and Category:Comedians from Northamptonshire January 18
Category:Companies listed on the Islamabad Stock Exchange
delete as empty: Category:Companies listed on the Islamabad Stock Exchange, Category:Islamabad Stock Exchange, Category:Companies listed on the Lahore Stock Exchange, Category:Lahore Stock Exchange;
merge Category:Karachi Stock Exchange to Category:Stock exchanges in Pakistan;
merge Category:Companies listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange to Category:Companies listed on the Pakistan Stock Exchange
January 1
Category:Companies of the United States disestablished in 2000 delete January 3
Category:Conservative Evangelical Anglican church buildings in England rename the first 4 per nominator. However, the subcats of Category:Anglo-Catholic church buildings in England were neither tagged nor listed, so this discussion cannot count as consensus to rename them or their parent January 8
Category:Craniates merge January 23
Category:Cristozoa merge January 14
Category:Cultural depictions of Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener keep, without prejudice to removing pages which are inappropriately categorised here, e.g. passing mentions rather than actual depoictions January 25
Category:DC Comics weapons no consensus. Categories with only 3 articles are rarely kept at CfD unless part of an established series per WP:SMALLCAT, so a further discussion might produce a different outcome January 5
Category:Dead South Korean Musicians delete January 3
Category:Defiant championships delete January 15
Category:Dhudiya films delete January 22
Category:DJ Mag templates delete (non-admin closure) January 2
Category:Earlestown Bohemians F.C. players keep. Withdrawn by nominator (non-admin closure) January 8
Category:Economics by specialty relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 1#Category:Economics_by_specialty January 12
Category:Educational leadership purge biographies and merge the remainder to Category:Educational administration January 16
Category:Eldar (Warhammer 40,000) delete January 18
Estonian military physicians Rename all January 13
Category:Female diplomats rename. – January 2
Category:Female geologists relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 January 17#Category:Female_geologists January 10
Category:Female geologists rename all January 17
Category:Fictional Canadian superheroes Rename January 14
Category:Fictional characters who can manipulate time and space closed in conjunction with Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2017 December 15#Category:Video game characters who can manipulate time and space.
Taken together, these discussions have two editors with policy-based reasons for deletion, and nobody offering policy-based reasons to keep. We have one editor supporting merger of the video game subcat and one opponent of that merge. However, the issue of merger is moot if fictional characters are not to be categorised by this attribute ... so the result is delete both Category:Video game characters who can manipulate time and space and Category:Fictional characters who can manipulate time and space
January 4
Category:Fictional characters with antisocial personality disorder delete as WP:OR January 3
Category:Fictional characters with extra-sensory perception and communication rename January 13
Category:Fictional characters with narcissistic personality disorder delete as WP:OR January 3
Category:Fictional characters with precognition keep, i.e. do not rename January 9
Category:Fictional characters with sadistic personality disorder delete January 5
Category:Fictional pangolins delete January 10
Category:Fictional pedophiles relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 January 26#Category:Fictional_pedophiles January 13
Category:Fictional Shinto shamans merge (non-admin closure) January 18
Category:Films whose cinematographer won the Best Cinematography Guldbagge Award delete. If anyone feels like making a list, I have listed the category's contents at Wikipedia_talk:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 January 24#Category:Films_whose_cinematographer_won_the_Best_Cinematography_Guldbagge_Award January 24
Category:First Ladies and Gentlemen of Croatia rename (non-admin closure) January 8
Category:Fish of Burkina Faso Merge all January 13
Fooian bureaucrats distribute to Category:Pakistani civil servants, Category:Bangladeshi civil servants and Category:Indian civil servants, as appropriate, recognizing not everyone in the categories is a civil servant January 6
Category:French women judges keep (non-admin closure) January 6
Category:GA-Class Punjabi cinema articles merge ... which in practice means "delete", 'cos the category is empty January 18
Category:Georgetown University Medical Center alumni merge January 15
Category:Governors of Kenya rename to Category:Colonial governors and administrators of Kenya January 6
Category:Growth media Rename Category:Growth media to Category:Cell culture media. Pinging the participants to do any necessary cleanup: @Ajpolino, Soupvector, and SmokeyJoe January 11
Category:Herpetological citizen science merge to Category:Citizen science and Category:Herpetology organizations January 5
Category:Hispanics and Latins in Europe merge (non-admin closure) January 15
Category:Historic centres merge. I can't merge the Wikidata entries as some other-language Wikipedias will still have both. I'll keep the redirect and leave a note on the talk page of both, for what good that may do. – January 21
Category:History of management merge Category:History of management to Category:History of business.
Editors may wish to further refine the categorisation of the two articles currently in the category: Management fad, Scientific management
January 10
Category:Holland & Holland Magnum rifle cartridges rename January 22
Category:Honored artists of Armenia no consensus. The evidence is that this is not actually a WP:SUBJECTIVECAT, but no consensus on whether this is an exceptional award January 8
Category:Hwangmok clan delete (non-admin closure) January 2
Category:Indian film songs keep January 15
Category:International beauty pageants selection beauty pageants rename (non-admin closure) January 18
Category:IP addresses used by Wikipedia users option C January 7
Category:Irish diaspora politicians delete. – January 5
Category:ISKCON Temple in Ahmedabad Merge January 18
Category:ISKCON Youth Forum delete January 10
Category:Israeli volleyball biography stubs delete January 10
Category:Italian football club season templates moot. Cat was deleted as a result of Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2018_January_2#Template:1979–80_in_Serie_A January 3
Category:Jacobite rising of 1689 Merge Category:Jacobite rising of 1689 to Category:First Jacobite rising (1689–92). There is consensus that these 2 categories are duplicates, and should be merged. Proposals were made for other possible renamings or mergers, but they were not listed or tagged and so were not formally part of this discussion January 8
Category:Journey to the West locations merge as nominated. No need for a dual merge, since both articles of this category are also directly in a category in the tree of Category:Fictional locations January 18
Category:Latino/Hispanic Wikipedians rename January 15
Category:Liberal democracies delete January 6
Category:Macropiratidae stubs delete January 9
Category:Magnetoreceptive animals Listify and delete January 21
Category:Mailman School of Public Health faculty merge and redirect to Category:Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health faculty January 8
Category:Mammals of Burma rename January 20
Category:Mammals of South Korea Merge January 20
Category:Mangjeol delete (non-admin closure) January 2
Category:Marvel Comics prisons Merge to Category:Fictional prisons January 18
Category:Masonic Lodges keep January 15
Category:Masonic Lodges  Relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 January 15#Category:Masonic Lodges January 2
Category:Mayors of West Jordan, Utah delete January 9
Category:Medal of Honor stubs rename both category and template January 15
Category:Medical doctors by specialty no consensus.
Yes, this leaves the category with different terminology to its parent. A broader nomination to standardise all (or most) of the category may produce a different outcome
January 9
Medieval years in religion manually merge all. Pinging the nominator @Marcocapelle, who offered to perform the manual merge January 17
Category:Michael Dean Shelton delete January 3
Category:Modern liberal American magazines rename. Articles which are miscategorised may be removed from the category through normal editorial processes January 19
Category:Mohsen.a delete January 22
Monasteries dissolved rename all. – January 2
Category:Monika Kørra delete January 4
Category:Moths of Cape Verde no consensus. There might be consensus for a merge to smaller geographical areas than Sub-Saharan Africa January 20
Category:Music lending libraries merge January 24
Category:Music societies delete January 23
Category:Music video networks merge January 22
Category:Music writers rename all to "[Foo] writers about music", per list below January 24
Category:Muttahida Qaumi Movement MPs rename. – January 4
Category:National Basketball Association music delete January 2
Category:Neighbourhoods of Wola etc relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 1#Category:Neighbourhoods_of_Wola_etc January 22
Category:Pages of Khủng Long delete January 8
Category:Paintings depicting Daniel merge all per revised nomination, without prejudice to re-creating any of them if and when there are more than 5 articles to put in them January 11
Category:Pandalapaka delete January 13
Category:Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler associates merge to Category:Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler people January 16
Category:Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler partners merge to Category:Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler people January 16
Category:Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler people no consensus January 16
Category:Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler delete January 16
Category:Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison associates Merge January 17
Category:Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison partners Merge January 17
Category:Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Rename to Category:Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison people January 17
Category:Pedals keep January 4
Category:People associated with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Merge January 17
Category:People by nationality and status keep. To summarize: "status" may not be the optimal term, but that should be discussed at the level of Category:People by status; nationality is a standard method of subdividing biographical categories—if this should be an exception, that warrants its own nomination of the by-nationality subcats; continent is a relatively common method of subdividing categories—if it is not warranted here, that should be discussed separately; and, lastly, setting up a new category tree of people by nationality or migration status may be worth further discussion, but is outside the scope of this nomination January 1
Category:People from Bowman, South Carolina merge January 12
Category:People from Brunson, South Carolina merge (non-admin closure) January 7
Category:People from McBee, South Carolina merge January 8
Category:Personal finance software delete January 18
Category:Picture books by Arthur Rackham delete January 10
Category:Picture books by Wayne Anderson delete January 1
Category:Pisa-class cruisers of the Hellenic Navy upmerge (non-admin closure) January 13
Category:Placer mining Merge to parents: Category:Mining techniques and Category:Surface mining January 20
Category:Places on the Road of St James delete, based on strength of argument and historical precedent January 7
Category:Post-grunge lit speedy delete per WP:G4 as Recreation of a page that was deleted per a deletion discussion ... and WP:TROUT @OnBeyondZebrax, the creator of both, for ignoring consensus January 10
Category:Psychopathological syndromes no consensus January 9
Category:Punjabi Rajputs delete January 10
Category:Queens regnant of Hungary Merge January 24
Category:Railway stations in Ukraine opened in 2016 merge January 8
Category:Recent years delete January 11
Category:Recipients of the Medal "In Commemoration of the 850th Anniversary of Moscow" Delete January 1
Category:Redirects from trade names Rename. Consensus reached on CFD and RM for the corresponding template. (non-admin closure) January 18
Category:Religious Christmas merge to Category:Christmas January 9
Category:Removal companies of the United Kingdom keep. While not fully discussed, I'll create a category redirect as an editorial action. (non-admin closure) January 3
Category:Road vehicles by country merge Category:Road vehicles in Singapore to Category:Vehicles of Singapore and Category:Road transport in Singapore;
Category:Road vehicles by country to Category:Vehicles by country
January 2
Category:Rock lighthouses of Scotland manually merge to Category:Lighthouses in Scotland and/or its existing subcats. Pinging the nominator @Mangoe to do the merge.
I will also leave a list of the category's current contents at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 January 8#Rock lighthouses of Scotland
January 8
Category:Rocket launches in fiction delete (non-admin closure) January 2
Category:RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta presenters Withdrawn - Issue fixed, No need to let this continue. – January 11
Russia split 1720s, 1910s, 18th and 20th century categories; keep 1721 and 1917 for now, but editors may split them manually; and rename the rest. – January 20
Category:Saltwater fish of Florida merge January 18
Seasonal holidays by hemisphere relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 February 1#Seasonal_holidays_by_hemisphere January 21
Category:Second Foundation delete January 18
Category:Sextet sibling groups merge Category:Sextet sibling groups to parent Category:Sibling groups January 10
Category:SNEP Top Singles Téléchargés number-one singles delete January 1
Category:Songs from Disney's Tarzan no consensus January 9
Category:Spanish language youtubers Keep and rename to Category:Spanish-language YouTubers January 10
Category:Squatting position no consensus January 9
Category:Static IP addresses delete (non-admin closure) January 7
Category:Supertalk Mississippi programs delete January 5
Category:Tanzania Social Support Foundation delete January 14
Category:Television stations in Estonia merge all January 8
Category:Tenured Wikipedians delete (non-admin closure) January 7
Category:Terms claimed to be racist despite non-racist origins delete January 17
Category:The Dreyfuss Group Ltd. delete January 9
Category:The Eighth (United States) delete January 22
Category:The Good Place delete, without prejudice to recreation if and when there is an article on a 3rd season January 17
Category:United States Navy organization no consensus. There might have been a different outcome if @Buckshot06's proposed new structute had been in place, or was clearly explained January 8
Category:Universalizing Religions delete (non-admin closure) January 14
Category:Vaishnava temples in Ahmedabad Merge to Category:Hindu temples in Ahmedabad and Category:Vishnu temples January 18
Valencian Community merge first, delete the others January 12
War in Afghanistan rename/merge all on extended list at Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Log/2018 January 20#War_in_Afghanistan_(belongs_to_this_discussion) January 20
Category:White Alumni of South Africa delete January 17
Category:Wikipedia Cabal decrees merge, by decree of the Cabal January 10
Category:Wikipedia protected pages rename, and re-create later as a parent. @Black Falcon: please go ahead with the plan you have indicated. – January 5
Category:Wikipedia users who received an invite to edit Wikipedia delete January 7
Category:Wikipedia:Twitter delete (non-admin closure) January 8
Category:Wikipedians from Argentina Merge January 15
Category:Wikipedians in Northeast Tennessee merge (non-admin closure) January 7
Category:Wikipedians who contribute to DMOZ delete January 25
Category:Wikipedians who edit exclusively with PC delete January 15
Category:Wikipedians who like SiIvaGunner delete (non-admin closure) January 2
Category:WikiProject Masculinism delete. The nominator @SMcCandlish's stated intent is to delete this along with its subcats. However the subcats were not been tagged or listed, so procedurally this should have been closed as "no action". However, all the subcats were unused apart from the template category containing the project banner, so I WP:G6 speedy-deleted the lot, leaving only this Category:WikiProject Masculinism January 3
Category:WNBL templates moot. The TfD was closed as delete by @Plastikspork, who also deleted the resulting empty category January 6
Category:Women who have been crowned king merge (non-admin closure) January 16
Category:Women's sport competitions at the Olympic Games keep. A consensus reached to approach this in a different manner. January 6
Category:Works set in Kenya delete, and disperse contents to Category:Works about Kenya and Category:Kenya in fiction. (Only 4 items in the category: Category:Films set in Kenya‎, Category:Novels set in Kenya‎, Juma and the Magic Jinn, Out of Africa). I will list the cat at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual January 10
Years and decades up to 1500 in Asian countries merge all per amended nomination, which will merge the Kingdom of Georgia to both Europe and Asia January 13
Years in Christianity (1000 to 1500) merge/delete as nominated. While there wasn't much discussion, the proposal and outcome is consistent with other recent discussions that have formed a consensus to largely eliminate these lightly populated intersections of topics by year January 3
Category:Youth organizations by date of disestablishment delete January 11
Category:Youth organizations disestablished in the 1960s delete January 11