Wikipedia:Categories for discussion
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On this page, deletion, merging, and renaming of categories (pages in the Category namespace) is discussed. Categories are used to organize other pages, and aid browsing of related articles. See How to use this page for the official rules of this page, guidelines for Speedy Deletion and Speedy Renaming, and how to do cleanup. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories) for the policies guiding many renaming decisions, and Wikipedia:Category deletion policy for the policy governing this page.
Unless the change is non-controversial (such as vandalism or a duplicate), please do not remove the category from pages before the community has made a decision.
Categories that have been listed for more than five days are eligible for deletion, renaming or merging when a rough consensus to do so has been reached or no objections to the nomination have been raised.
Deletion of a category may mean that the pages belonging to it (articles, images, etc) are transferred to its parent category, or to another category (newly-made or already existing).
When a category is renamed or merged with another category, it may be helpful to use the {{category redirect}} template at the old category title.
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Current discussions
Discussions awaiting closure
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The contents of this section are transcluded from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working ()
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How to use this page
Procedure
To list a category for deletion, merging or renaming, follow this process:
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Preliminary steps.
Determine whether the category needs deleting, merging, or renaming.
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Edit the category.
Add one of the following tags at the top of the category text of every category to be deleted or renamed.
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Create the Cfd subsection.
Click on to edit the section of CFD for today's entries. Follow the instructions in the comments (visible during edit), to copy and paste the template shown. All categories are specified without the Category: prefix.
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Notes for nominators
It is generally considered civil (but by no means mandatory) to notify the good-faith creator, any main contributors of the category and the relevant wikiprojects that you are nominating the category. To find the main contributors, look in the page history or talk page of the category. On the other hand, interested parties should watchlist categories. When notice is provided to creators, contributor or wikiprojects, it is suggested that the nominator indicate on the nomination that notice was provided and to whom.
Once you have previewed your entry, please make sure to add your signature after your proposal. If nominating a list of entries as a batch below your rationale, it is somewhat neater to place these after the signature (rather than leave the signature dangling at the end of the list, apparently unrelated to your reasons).
Once you have submitted a category here, no further action is necessary on your part. If the nomination is supported, helpful administrators and editors will log the result, and ensure that the change is populated to all affected pages.
Also, consider adding to your watchlist any categories you nominate. This will help ensure that your nomination tag is not removed by a vandal or mistake.
Users without accounts and users with new accounts
Users without accounts (anonymous users) may nominate and comment on proceedings, just as in Articles for Deletion (AfD). Votes from anonymous users or users who have made very few edits may be discounted. See Wikipedia:Sock puppetry and Wikipedia:Suffrage for details.
Redirecting categories
It is our general policy to delete categories that do not have articles in them. Unlike articles, categories are mostly for internal use only. If they don't have any articles, they shouldn't have any links from any articles or any other categories, because they are not useful for navigation and classification.
However, some categories frequently have articles assigned to them accidentally, or are otherwise re-created over and over again. In these cases, we use a form of "soft" redirection.
Categories cannot be redirected using "hard" redirects (#REDIRECT [[target]]) due to limitations in the MediaWiki software. Instead, use {{category redirect|target}}. Helpful bots patrol these categories and move articles into the redirect targets.
You can see a list of redirected categories in Category:Wikipedia category redirects.
Special notes
Categories relating to stub articles should not be nominated here, but should be taken to Wikipedia:Stub types for deletion. If a group nomination of several similarly-named categories includes a stub category, it may be discussed here, but a note should be placed at Wikipedia talk:Stub types for deletion indicating that discussion on it is taking place.
When nominating a category, it's helpful to add a notice on the talk page of the most-closely related article. Doing so would not only extend an additional courtesy, but possibly also bring in editors who know more about the subject at hand. You can use {{cfd-article}} for this.
Speedy renaming and speedy merging
Categories may be listed here if they fall under the criteria specified at Wikipedia:Category renaming and repeated below. Deletion and de-listing may occur after 48 hours if there are no objections. They must be tagged with {{subst:cfr-speedy|new name}} so that users of the categories are aware of the proposal. This delay is to allow for objections over correct spelling, etc. to be made and to ensure that items are not listed here that do not meet the criteria.
Categories that qualify for speedy deletion (per Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion, e.g. "patent nonsense" or "recreation") can be tagged with the regular speedy tags, such as {{db|reason}}, and no delay is required for these.
Speedy criteria
Criteria for speedy renaming or speedy merging are strictly limited to:
- Typographical errors (such as, Brdiges → Bridges).
- Note that differences between British and American spelling (for example, Harbours → Harbors) are not considered errors, but if both exist as otherwise-identical category names, they should be merged.
- Capitalization fixes (such as, characters In harry Potter → Characters in Harry Potter)
- Conversions from singular to plural, or back (such as, Steamship → Steamships)
- Non-conformance with "x by y", "x of y", or "x in y" categorization conventions specified at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories).
- This should only be used where there is no room for any doubt whatsoever that the category in question is being used for the standard purpose instead of being a potential subcategory. It should not be assumed that an incorrectly formatted "radio stations" category was intended to be a "radio" category, or that an incorrectly formatted "archaeological sites" category was intended to be an "archaeology" category.
- Expanding abbreviations for country names: The name of the country should appear as it does in the name of the article about that country (for example, US or U.S. in reference to the United States should be renamed to United States, but this criterion specifically does not apply to renames between the terms "American" and "United States").
When proposing that the category name should be reformatted in addition to one of the speedy criteria, or two or more criteria apply, make a regular nomination rather than a speedy nomination.
Note: If the nominator decides to change a nomination based on comments, simply delete the old nomination and create a new one as long as it still meets the speedy criteria.
Add requests for speedy renaming here
If the category does not match one of the five criteria listed above PRECISELY, do not list it here, but list it in the main section instead. If you are in any doubt as to whether it qualifies, do not list it here. Use the following format:
- * [[:Category:OLD Name]] to [[:Category:NEW Name]] ~~~~
Don't forget to tag the category with {{subst:cfr-speedy|new name}}
Please add new entries at the TOP of the list and sign and datestamp your entries with — ~~~~.
- Category:Schools in Colorado Springs to Chris 22:56, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
- Category:"African Jazz" musicians to
- Category:"African Jazz" musicians by instrument to
- Category:"African Jazz" pianists to
- Category:"African Jazz" saxophonists to
- Categories should not use quotation marks unless they are part of a name (e.g. Category:'N Sync albums). The (genre) portion is included to avoid possible confusion with a category for jazz musicians from Africa. – Black Falcon (Talk) 22:46, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
- Support per a previous discussion, but is this strictly a speedy criteria? I'm not trying to be awkward, I assure you! BencherliteTalk 23:00, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
- Category:Small Business to – Black Falcon (Talk) 22:26, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
- Category:People with Heterochromia to – Black Falcon (Talk) 21:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
- Category:Orthodox Jewish schools for Women to (lower case "w") IZAK 09:25, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
- Category:German historic novels writers to . --Alksub 06:05, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
- Category:Pseudo top-level domains to Tim Q. Wells 19:11, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
- Category:Music From York to Tim! 09:29, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
- Category:Decommissioned Iowa state highways to DandyDan2007 08:35, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
- Children of Category:Armoured fighting vehicles by country. These are speediable to "X of country", per both WP:NCCAT#State-based topics (Military equipment) and WP:NCCAT#Miscellaneous "of country" (Weapons). This has been discussed and reached consensus at WT:WEAPON#Standardizing armoured fighting vehicle categories. Tagging has been requested at User talk:AMbot/requests#Children of Category:Armoured fighting vehicles by country. Affected category changes are listed below. —Michael Z. 2007-09-22 21:50 Z
- I am sorry, but AMbot is unable to fulfill this request to due technical limitations. These categories are, at this time, still untagged. --After Midnight 0001 02:12, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
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- American armoured fighting vehicles →
- Argentine armoured fighting vehicles →
- Belgian armoured fighting vehicles →
- Brazilian armoured fighting vehicles →
- British armoured fighting vehicles →
- Czech armoured fighting vehicles →
- Czechoslovakian tanks →
- French armoured fighting vehicles →
- German armoured fighting vehicles →
- Greek armoured fighting vehicles →
- Israeli armoured fighting vehicles →
- Italian armoured fighting vehicles →
- Polish armoured fighting vehicles →
- Serbian armoured fighting vehicles →
- South Africa armoured fighting vehicles →
- Swedish armoured fighting vehicles →
- Ukrainian armoured fighting vehicles →
- Category:Christianity in the Comoros to Dominictimms 10:12, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
- Category:U.S. civil aircraft to . C5. Note more subcats, related cats, and templates involved--EG subcats of Category:Aircraft manufactured by the United States. 06:30, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- Category:PRC fighter aircraft 2000-2009 to C5. Note templates involved. 06:24, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- Category:PRC airliners 1990-1999 to C5. Note templates involved. 06:24, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- Category:PRC airliners 1980-1989 to C5. Note templates involved. 06:24, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- Category:PRC airliners 2000-2009 to C5. Note templates involved. 06:24, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- Category:U.S. airliners to . C5. Note tons of subcats and templates involved. 06:13, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
Ready for deletion
Once the renaming has been completed, copy and paste the listing to the Ready for deletion section of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual.