Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Archive debates/2019 January index

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The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.

Category Decision Discussion_log
(State of) Palestine Option A January 14
Category:14th-century humanists delete. ~ January 10
Category:14th-century literary critics delete (non-admin closure) January 28
Category:1780s establishments in Michigan Territory merge (non-admin closure) January 25
Category:17th-century academics Merge January 9
Category:2013 IPC Alpine Skiing World Championships merge (non-admin closure) January 27
Category:21th-century military history speedy delete (non-admin closure) January 19
Category:8th-century Sasanian monarchs delete. —  January 13
Category:Abbasid humanists delete. ~ January 10
Category:Abolitionist movements split (non-admin closure) January 18
Category:Academic journal categories containing exclusively redirects keep. Good arguments were made by both sides, but participants overwhelmingly preferred the arguments against deleting the categories.
However, please note that I have have not attempted to evaluate the consensus on the alternative proposal by @
January 31
Category:African pangolins rename. Unopposed after 11 days. The editor who uses the pseudonym " January 26
Category:African-American football quarterbacks relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 February 26#Category:African-American football quarterbacks. ~ January 3
Category:African-American Ivy League academics delete. —  January 2
Category:African-American Ivy League alumni delete. —  January 2
Category:Airfields in Ukraine merge (non-admin closure) January 25
Category:Albums arranged by John Fogerty Delete January 21
Category:Almighty Vice Lord Nation delete (non-admin closure) January 31
Category:Amadlozi Brenda Fassie Album delete (non-admin closure) January 7
Category:American labor unionists Rename January 21
Category:Animal media delete based primarily on the strong arguments that derive roughly from
WP:OVERLAPCAT
. ~
January 19
Category:Annecy Cristal winners delete. —  January 22
Category:Anthropomorphic geographic features Delete January 25
Category:Archaeological sites of medieval Anatolia withdrawn (non-admin closure) January 26
Category:Archbishops of Western Europe rename to Category:Archbishops of Orthodox parishes of Russian tradition in Western Europe. ~ January 5
Architecture by country Rename per revised proposal January 12
Category:Armenian parliament shooting merge. (non-admin closure) January 20
Category:Articles by WikiProject no consensus (non-admin closure) January 7
Category:Articles created via the Article Wizard Delete January 6
Category:Articles needing help Merge January 14
Category:Articles with Synthlisten delete (non-admin closure) January 22
Category:Artists by Japanese record label keep. ~ January 29
Category:Asian-American novels relisted at WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 March 19#Category:Asian-American_novels January 2
Category:Autism quackery Keep and rename to Category:Autism pseudoscience or equivalent. The argument that the existence of a category for this concept is itself an NPOV violation clearly does not have consensus. Evidence has been provided of the existence of pseudoscientific practices and beliefs related to autism, and substantial previous consensus exists for analogous categories. The misapplication of this category to specific individuals may constitute a BLP violation, but that is an issue that needs to be addressed by fixing those pages, not by deleting the category. There is therefore no consensus to delete. The arguments to keep are mostly about the validity of the category as a concept. There is little support for the argument that "quackery" is a neutral, non-pejorative term, in contrast to several reasoned arguments that "quackery" is unnecessarily prejudicial and colloquial. That term therefore needs to be replaced in the name of this category. "Category:Autism pseudoscience" has the strongest support, but an equivalent term would be acceptable. January 6
Category:Azonto delete (non-admin closure) January 21
Category:Bakul Institute of Superhard Materials research fellow merge to Category:Ukrainian scientists January 3
Category:Basilicas in Barcelona merge per nom. ~ January 8
Category:Battles won by Indigenous peoples of the Americas listify. ~ January 2
Category:Bicycle gangs merge (non-admin closure) January 26
Category:Biotechnology companies disestablished in 1996 merge for now as stating see C20 category for disestablishments before 2001. – January 28
Category:Bismarck monuments Rename (
WP:NAC
).
January 24
Category:Body swapping in fiction Rename January 28
Category:Book awards merge (non-admin closure) January 27
Bridges by city in Ukraine keep.
(non-admin closure)
January 12
Category:Bridges completed in the 1883 speedy delete. (non-admin closure) January 19
Category:British princesses by marriage Rename without prejudice to any deletion discussion if that is the outcome of the husbands category January 5
Category:Bryn Athyn College delete (non-admin closure) January 31
Category:Bubbles Rename January 14
Category:Buddhism in Seoul no consensus January 9
Category:Canadian expatriates in foreign political positions delete January 19
Category:Capacitive touchscreen mobile phones relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 February 25#Category:Capacitive touchscreen mobile phones. ~ January 2
Category:Case reports journals no consensus to delete, therefore rename. – January 20
Category:Cat lover culture merge to Category:Cats in popular culture. Taken in tandem with the discussion below, that seems to be the outcome which best reflects the mood of the discussion January 19
Category:Cat media merge to Category:Cats in popular culture. Taken in tandem with the discussion above, that seems to be the outcome which best reflects the mood of the discussion January 19
Categories by century Rename/merge January 25
Category:Catholic Church in Rodrigues merge/delete per nom. ~ January 9
Category:Chemical education Merge January 21
Category:Christian anarchists by denomination merge. – January 20
Category:Christian anarchists by nationality merge. – January 20
Category:Christian denominations active in Germany relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_February_26#Category:Christian_denominations_active_in_Germany. ~ January 4
Category:Christian education in Norway withdrawn. ~ January 1
Category:Christian feminists Rename January 24
Category:Christianity in Bangkok delete. ~ January 11
Category:Christianity in New Zealand by city keep. ~ January 11
Category:Christianity in Pakistan by administrative unit Merge January 16
Churches by city (Europe, 1 merge target) merge all per this concurrent CfD with similar arguments. ~ January 5
Churches by city (Europe, dual merge) merge all. As this is the most thorough discussion on these church nominations, and the arguments made across several of them are the same, I am taking this one as "authoritative" for the moment. While BHG's arguments have merit, it seems clear that they were not convincing to other editors here. In particular, several other editors reasonably argued that they do not see any substantial potential for growth in these categories. ~ January 5
Churches by city (France) merge all per this concurrent CfD with similar arguments. ~ January 3
Churches by city (Italy, 1 merge target) merge all per this concurrent CfD with similar arguments. ~ January 4
Churches by city (Italy, dual merge) merge all per this concurrent CfD with similar arguments. ~ January 4
Churches by city (miscellaneous countries, 1 merge target) merge all. ~ January 7
Churches by city (other continents, dual merge) no consensus. This differs from recent nominations of churches because a few categories here currently do have several articles in them. This likely either needs to be split out further to achieve a clear result or individual attention needs to be paid to each category. ~ January 7
Churches by city (Spain) merge per nom. ~ January 2
Churches by city (United States) merge all per nom, and per other recent similar CfDs. ~ January 6
Commons category tracking speedy delete. Tracking categories now empty because tracking has been restructured looks to me like a
WP:G6
issue
January 2
Communes of the Metropolitan City of Rome rename to Category:Municipalities of the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. ~ January 18
Category:Converts from Judaism to Hinduism rename (non-admin closure) January 23
Category:Coptic billionaires delete. – January 23
Category:Corporatism task force articles no consensus (non-admin closure) January 15
Category:Countries of the Indian Ocean rename (non-admin closure) January 20
Country-specific art films already included in the main category no consensus. This nomination is somewhat malformed, which I think has caused general confusion around this nomination. Rather than relisting and letting that confusion stand, I am making this close without prejudice against speedy renomination, provided such a nomination is formatted as-is standard. Feel free to ask on
WT:CFD
(or my user talk) if you need help formatting a nomination. ~
January 14
Category:Crimes committed by illegal immigrants delete. —  January 24
Czech small town delete. ~ January 1
Category:Dance-pop artists Rename January 19
Category:Departments of the University of Dublin, Trinity College merge to
(non-admin closure)
January 20
Category:Diana, Princess of Wales memorials Rename (
WP:NAC
).
January 24
Category:DtBPageS delete (non-admin closure) January 4
Category:Ducal Lithuanian people merge (non-admin closure) January 26
Category:Dutch academic researchers purge and merge. ~ January 5
Category:Dutch academics speedy close / withdrawn. The correct nomination is on the next day's page January 4
Category:Dáil constituencies in the Republic of Ireland (historic) withdrawn by nominator January 12
Category:Eastern Catholicism in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth reverse merge. ~ January 10
Category:Easy listening artists Rename January 19
Category:Ecozones Rename January 20
Category:Egyptian Premier League footballers rename per nom. There is a clear consensus that this should be "players", not "footballers". The arguments for renaming this to "Players in the Egyptian Premier League" to avoid ambiguity are not without merit, but they have been countered by arguments that the wider category tree treats similar categories as the nominator suggested. No prejudice against a wider nomination of all potentially ambiguous categories involving national-specific "Premier Leagues". ~ January 2
Category:Elections not won by the popular vote winner delete. —  January 12
Category:Encounters in Pakistan delete (non-admin closure) January 3
Category:Endemic fauna of Swaziland rename (non-admin closure) January 19
Category:Endemic regions delete (non-admin closure) January 27
Category:Euryhaline fish genera Delete January 15
Expatriates from Georgia (country) Option A January 20
Category:Famous animals of Huntsville, Alabama Upmerge to Category:Individual animals in the United States January 6
Category:Festivals in Former Yugoslavia relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_March_4#Category:Festivals_in_Former_Yugoslavia. ~ January 16
Festivals
soft delete. (non-admin closure
)
January 28
Category:Fictional organizations designated as terrorist Merge. (non-admin closure) ― January 6
Category:First events Delete January 4
Category:Fly fishing target species delete. I have left a dump of the category's current contents at WT:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 January 19#Fly_fishing_target_species. And no, I haven't made it a list article, because that requires sources etc ... and when I have previously created bare list articles of category contents, they have just sat around unsourced until deletion. But anyone who wants to create a proper list can do use the dump as a starting point January 19
Category:Former populated places in Palestine (region) rename, as the arguments against the usual convention (using current polity) are not finally persuasive. The sub-cat Category:Villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict is a valid but unusual category, and IMHO should remain parented by categories for former populated places in both Israel & State of Palestine, among others. – January 31
Category:Former Sri Lankan Roman Catholics merge. ~ January 13
Category:FPGA device rename to Category:Field-programmable gate arrays. ~ January 5
Category:France–Israel topics delete (non-admin closure) January 14
Category:Freshwater protostomes merge (non-admin closure) January 30
Category:Games created using AGS Rename January 11
Category:Gangs in Pittsburgh merge (non-admin closure) January 27
Category:Geologists from Germany delete (non-admin closure) January 12
Category:Georgian opera singers delete January 12
Category:Government-owned companies of China no consensus without prejudice against a fresh nomination of the entire tree of Category:Government-owned companies by country. (non-admin closure) January 19
Category:Government-owned companies of China relisted, see here. (non-admin closure) January 7
Category:Ha*Ash delete (non-admin closure) January 17
Category:Hairston family (baseball) delete (non-admin closure) January 7
Category:HBCU alumni Merge. (non-admin closure) ― January 6
Category:Hijabophobia selective merge. – January 24
Category:History of Catholicism in Spain don't rename. ~ January 18
Category:Husbands of British princesses Delete January 11
Category:I/O Chips rename to Category:Input/output integrated circuits. ~ January 5
Category:Iceage delete (non-admin closure) January 4
Category:Independent Eastern Orthodox denominations relisted at WP:CFD 2019 March 10#Category:Independent_Eastern_Orthodox_denominations January 23
Category:India political party color templates delete (non-admin closure) January 3
Category:Indian beatboxers dual merge to Category:Beatboxers and Category:Indian hip hop singers. ~ January 4
Category:INED delete. I will add the parent categories to the main article (non-admin closure) January 14
Category:Infinite Zero albums delete (non-admin closure) January 22
Category:Institute of History of Ukraine research fellow merge. The category looks empty to me, so I just deleted it January 3
Category:Insurgents
soft merge and remove the subcat from the hierarchy. (non-admin closure
)
January 13
Category:Invasive plant species relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_March_4#Category:Invasive_plant_species. ~ January 17
Category:Israeli revolutionaries delete. Per John Pack Lambert, no merge is necessary. The rename suggestion of the target category is noted, but it would need its own nomination, as that category wasn't nominated. ~ January 12
Category:Ivorian newspapers rename as nominated. (non-admin closure) January 30
Category:Ivy League academics Delete. ― January 3
Category:Japanese-American internment books rename. ~ January 1
Category:Japanese-Canadian internment Renamed to
WP:C2D
does not seem to apply here
January 2
Category:Jewish Roman Empire politicians delete. ~ January 9
Category:Jews and Judaism in Ankara delete. —  January 3
Category:John F. Kennedy memorials Rename January 24
Category:Kickstarter-funded animated films merge (non-admin closure) January 19
Category:Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies research fellows merge to Category:Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies people January 3
Category:Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies research fellow merge to Category:Ukrainian academics January 3
Category:Least concern biota of California Delete January 11
Category:LGBT Marxists delete (non-admin closure) January 7
Category:Lists of British animals Rename to Category:Lists of animals of the British Isles January 27
Category:Lists of monuments and memorials in Samara Oblast merge. ~ January 2
Category:Lithuanian churches delete. ~ January 1
Category:Live at The Fillmore albums Merge January 7
Category:Marshals of the Bar Confederation Merge January 8
Category:Mathematical objects keep (non-admin closure) January 23
Category:Megan Fox Delete January 10
Category:Military units and factions of the Syrian Civil War relisted, see here January 17
Category:Miniature wargames relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_March_1#Category:Miniature_wargames. ~ January 5
Category:Miyazaki, Miyazaki Rename January 13
Category:MNL48 delete (non-admin closure) January 25
Category:Modern primitive movement relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_March_4#Category:Modern_primitive_movement. ~ January 17
Category:Montreal Jazz delete (non-admin closure) January 26
Category:MOS Integrated Circuits Rename January 5
Category:MTV Award winners delete (non-admin closure) January 3
Category:Mumble rap delete (non-admin closure) January 29
Category:Naked Music albums Delete January 25
Category:National People's Party Rename January 17
Natural history of California by region no consensus.. I had to think about this one overnight, because while there is clearly no support for the massive overcategorisation created by @ January 30
Natural history of California by region relisted, see here January 22
NCAA Men's Division I Final Four basketball players by year and subcategories 1939–present No consensus January 20
Category:New South Wales Stations/Wharves with map delete. ~ January 2
Norniron pre-Norniron merge/delete per nom. Under the protection policy, we cannot creation-protect pages for this reason, but future creations could be deleted per this CfD result without need for an additional nomination. ~ January 9
Category:Now Is the Time (Brenda Fassie album) delete (non-admin closure) January 7
Category:Oligarchy task force articles no consensus (non-admin closure) January 15
Category:Organizations based in Oman keep. Additionally, the later proposal of renaming the defunct organi(z/s)ations subcategory is now moot, since it was renamed via speedy renaming.
(non-admin closure)
January 20
Category:Paid contributors/No listed employer speedy delete by RHaworth per
G8
. — 
January 29
Category:Palestinian Christian communities no consensus.
(non-admin closure)
January 31
Category:Palestinian researchers procedural close, the category has been deleted by January 3
Category:Parishes in Johore rename, in fact, Category:Parishes in Johore has already been moved to Category:Mukims of Batu Pahat rendering this discussion moot. But I'm formally closing this discussion. January 8
Patriot Bowl delete (non-admin closure) January 20
Category:Pediculariidae rename, in fact the renaming has already been implemented. (non-admin closure) January 8
Category:People educated at King's College School, Wimbledon Rename January 27
Category:People involved in controversies about women in science and technology delete. —  January 1
Category:People of Celtic descent relist, see here. (non-admin closure) January 31
Category:Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust Rename January 8
Category:Personal relationships by individual Rename January 25
Category:Picture books by Sheila Hamanaka delete (non-admin closure) January 21
Places of worship by city (miscellaneous countries) upmerge all per rationale of previous nomination. ~ January 1
Category:Politics and violence delete (non-admin closure) January 20
Category:Populated places in Adamawa Rename January 8
Category:Portuguese-language Brazilian telenovelas merge to Category:Brazilian telenovelas January 12
Category:Potebnia Institute of Linguistics research fellow merge to Category:Ukrainian academics January 3
Category:Programming language documentation delete (non-admin closure) January 23
Category:Projects by year of disestablishment keep without prejudice against speedy renomination, so long as it is more complete. Pinging Marcocapelle. ~ January 1
Province of Rome relisted at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2019_March_10#Province_of_Rome. ~ January 18
Category:Psycho films rename (non-admin closure) January 17
Category:Public health education relisted at WP:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 March 19#Category:Public_health_education January 25
Category:Radom Confederation delete. ~ January 2
Category:Real Madrid presidents Renamed to
(non-admin closure)
January 13
Category:Reboot Universe delete (non-admin closure) January 31
Category:Recipients of the Haakon VII 70th Anniversary Medal delete January 26
Category:Recipients of the Order of Gabriela Silang delete (non-admin closure) January 27
Category:Recreational sublabial drugs rename (non-admin closure) January 12
Category:Reformed State churches in Switzerland relisted at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 March 4#Category:Reformed State churches in Switzerland. ~ January 10
Category:Religion in the British Empire keep.
(non-admin closure)
January 19
Renaming Australian shadow cabinets categories Rename January 8
Category:Retired YouTubers delete (non-admin closure) January 13
Category:Revived fictional characters delete. To assist anyone who wants to make a list article, I have listed the category's contents at WT:Categories for discussion/Log/2019 January 28#Revived_fictional_characters January 28
Category:Ror delete (non-admin closure) January 16
Category:Savoy Conference keep January 30
Category:Scandals in Northern Ireland keep (non-admin closure) January 9
Category:Scottish expatriate sportspeople in England speedy delete per
WP:G7
. Created in error by me as part of an AWB run while diffusing expatriate sportspeople. Thanks for spotting it, @
January 5
Category:SDN48 delete (non-admin closure) January 25
Category:Shinty stadiums rename to Category:Shinty venues, without prejudice to a fresh nomination for renaming to Category:Shinty venues in Scotland as suggested later in the discussion. (non-admin closure) January 6
Category:Small Isles, Inner Hebrides rename to Category:Small Isles, Lochaber. This option, while not favoured by everyone, is at least acceptable according to most participants in the discussion. Other options were more persistently opposed January 20
Category:Snap elections delete. – January 23
Category:Sniper video games relisted, see here (non-admin closure) January 1
Category:Social Darwinist Wikipedians delete. I am also deleting January 30
Category:Software engineering professionalism merge (non-admin closure) January 17
Category:Songs from Spider-Man soundtracks Rename January 9
Category:Songs in memory of Kurt Cobain delete. Recategorise the one actual article, then delete the category January 22
Category:Songs with violin delete (non-admin closure) January 17
Category:Space program of Ireland rename (non-admin closure) January 6
Category:Space program of South Africa no consensus per the larger issues in this category scheme. See the exchange involving Nyttend/Grutness below. ~ January 6
Category:Space program(me) of Malaysia no consensus per the larger issues in this category scheme. See the exchange involving Nyttend/Grutness below. ~ January 6
Category:Spacecraft by year of decommissioning keep with no prejudice against a more complete speedy renomination, same as above. ~ January 1
Category:Sports venues in State of Jefferson region delete. —  January 24
Category:Stadiums in St. Louis merge (non-admin closure) January 5
Category:Standardized tests for Medicine rename Category:Standardized tests for Medicine to Category:Standardized tests in healthcare education January 24
Category:State-owned enterprises of China out-of-process move reverted. New discussion listed below January 7
Category:Stateless people from Thailand dual merge to Category:Stateless people and Category:Thai people. ~ January 3
Category:Students of K. Pattabhi Jois delete (non-admin closure) January 25
Television series based on singers and musicians Rename January 17
Category:Thai Chinese rename (non-admin closure) January 14
Category:Thai male triple jumpers keep (non-admin closure) January 24
Category:The Twilight Zone Guest Appearances delete. —  January 2
Category:Tragedy anime and manga delete. —  January 16
Category:Tragedy video games delete (non-admin closure) January 16
Category:Tropical house singers merge, while there is no majority in this discussion the closure is based on weight of argument. (non-admin closure) January 7
Category:True Range Multilateration speedy delete (non-admin closure) January 18
Category:UNESCO Creative Cities Network Delete January 9
Category:University of Kharkiv researchers delete January 3
Category:Unsupported IPAc-cmn transclusions delete (non-admin closure) January 28
Category:Uploaded with UploadWizard Delete January 20
Category:UPN affiliates rename. ~ January 19
Category:US officers of Georgian descent delete (non-admin closure) January 13
Category:Veterans Law rename to Category:Veterans' affairs law in the United States January 17
Category:Victorian-era naval ships no consensus. There was no support deleting the top category alone ... and while there was support for deleting some or all of the subcats, those subcats were never tagged. So they can't be deleted. And even though this discussion has been opened for 6 weeks since the nominator (@ January 30
Category:Volleyball clubs disestablished in 2018 merge (non-admin closure) January 4
Category:Wicket-keepers Delete January 10
Category:WWE Hall of Fame (1994) inductees merge. While the numbers are even here, the strength of arguments is rather clearly in favor of a merge. Editors who voted "keep" successfully argued that being in the WWE Hall of Fame is defining, but none attempted an argument about why being inducted specifically in a given year is defining. The argument related to the size of a combined category is extremely weak; a category with 191 articles is downright typical. The unrefuted arguments in favor of a merge are supported strongly by our guidelines. ~ January 4
Category:X86 Supercomputers rename. ~ January 2
Category:Zen Circus albums keep. Withdrawn, band article has been resurrected and seems likely more album articles will be created, rendering my original rationale invalid. ♠ January 29