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Categories for discussion (CfD) is where the renaming, merging or deletion of categories – i.e. pages in the Category namespace – is discussed and action decided. Stub types templates are also discussed here.
Categories are used to organize pages and aid the browsing of related articles. For instructions as to how to use this page, perform cleanup maintenance or request speedy deletions or renamings, see "How to use CfD" below. The policies meant to guide category renaming may be found at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories).
Unless a change to a category is non-controversial – e.g. prompted by vandalism or duplication – please do not amend or remove the category from pages before a decision has been made.
Categories that have been listed for more than seven 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.
When a category is renamed or merged with another category, it is usually helpful to leave an instance of the {{Category redirect|...}} template on the category's former page. See "Redirecting categories" below for more information.
Contents
- 1 Scope
- 2 Current discussions
- 3 How to use CfD
- 4 Speedy renaming and merging
- 4.1 Speedy criteria
- 4.1.1 C2A. Typographic and spelling fixes.
- 4.1.2 C2B. Enforcing established Wikipedia naming conventions and practices.
- 4.1.3 C2C. Bringing a category into line with established naming conventions for that category tree, or into line with the various "x by y", "x of y", or "x in y" categorization conventions specified at Wikipedia:Category names.
- 4.1.4 C2D. Facilitating concordance between a particular category's name and a related page's name.
- 4.1.5 C2E. Author request.
- 4.2 Add requests for speedy renaming and merging here
- 4.3 Ready for deletion
- 4.1 Speedy criteria
- 5 Categories possibly emptied out of process
Scope
CfD is only intended for discussions where an editor already has a clear action proposal in mind. For general brainstorming on how to improve the category system, good places for discussion include Wikipedia talk:Categorization, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Categories, and the talk pages of any WikiProjects relevant to the content covered by the categories in question.
Current discussions
Discussions awaiting closure
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 23 (18 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 22 (6 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 21 (7 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 20 (8 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 19 (2 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 18 (4 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 17 (2 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 16 (2 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 15 (1 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 14 (1 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 13 (9 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 11 (3 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 8 (1 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 7 (1 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 December 4 (2 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 November 30 (1 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 November 29 (2 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 November 28 (2 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 November 26 (1 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 November 24 (1 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 November 22 (2 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 November 21 (4 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 November 15 (1 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 November 1 (2 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 October 28 (1 open)
- Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2016 June 8 (1 open)
List of individual discussions awaiting closure see here.
How to use CfD
Procedure
To list a category manually 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 beginning of the category text of every category to be discussed. (The tags belong on the categories' main pages rather than their talk/discussion pages.)
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Create the CFD section.
Follow the instructions in the comments (visible during edit), to copy and paste the template shown. All categories are specified without the
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Once you have previewed your entry, please make sure to add your signature after your proposal.
After nominating: Notify interested projects and editors
While it is sufficient to list a category for discussion at CfD (see above), nominators and others sometimes want to attract more attention from and participation by informed editors. All such efforts must comply with Wikipedia's guideline against biased canvassing.
To encourage participation by less experienced editors, please avoid Wikipedia-specific abbreviations in the messages you leave about the discussion, link to any relevant policies or guidelines, and link to the CfD discussion page itself. If you are recommending that an category be speedily deleted, please give the criterion that it meets, such as "C1" for unpopulated categories C2C "Bringing a category into line with established naming conventions for that category tree".
- Notifying related WikiProjects
WikiProjects are groups of editors that are interested in a particular subject or type of editing. If the article is within the scope of one or more WikiProjects, they may welcome a brief, neutral note on their project's talk page(s) about the CfD.
It may also be helpful to post a message on the talkpage of a related article, like Protein family for Category:Protein families. You can use {{Cfdnotice}}
for this.
- Notifying substantial contributors to the category
While not required, it is generally considered courteous to notify the good-faith creator and any main contributors of the category and its talkpage that you are nominating for discussion. To find the creator and main contributors, look in the page history or talk page. You can use {{Cfd-notify}}
to inform the creator of the category, and {{Cfdnotice2}}
for all other editors.
At this point, you've done all you need to do as nominator. Sometime after seven days have passed, someone will either close the discussion or, where needed, "relist" it for another seven days of discussion. (That "someone" may not be you, the nominator.)
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 implemented to all affected pages.
Also, consider adding any categories you nominate to your watchlist. This will help ensure that your nomination tag is not mistakenly or deliberately removed.
Twinkle
The use of Wikipedia:Twinkle greatly facilitates CfD nominations. To install Twinkle, go to "my preferences", the "Gadgets" tab, the "Browsing" section and check "Twinkle ...". Use the now-installed "XfD" (Nominate for deletion) tab while viewing the page to be deleted or renamed.
Users without accounts and users with new accounts
Users without accounts (unregistered users) may nominate and comment on proceedings, just as in Articles for Deletion (AfD).
Redirecting categories
It is our general policy to delete categories that do not have articles in them. (Rationale: 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 sorting.)
However, some categories frequently have articles assigned to them accidentally, or are otherwise re-created over and over. But categories cannot be redirected using "hard" redirects: #REDIRECT[[target]]. (See Wikipedia:Redirect#category for the technical details.)
Instead, we use a form of "soft redirects" to solve the issue. You can "create" a category redirect by adding {{Category redirect|target}}
to the category page. Bots patrol these categories and move articles into the "redirect" targets. Notice that it's not a redirect at all as a wiki page; it's bots that virtually make them redirects.
In particular, we set up category redirects at the former category name when we convert hyphens into en dashes or vice versa (e.g. Category:Canada-Russia relations → Category:Canada–Russia relations). It is also helpful to set up redirects from forms with plain letters (i.e. characters on a standard keyboard) where the category names include diacritics.
You can see a list of redirected categories in Category:Wikipedia soft redirected categories.
Closing
When closing CfDs, document their results (e.g. with links to CfD page history) on the talk pages of the affected categories, if not deleted. If deleted, document the deletion decision in the deletion edit summary. See {{cfd top}}.
Special notes
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 {{Cfdnotice}} for this.
If a category is only used as generated by a template (e.g. Category:Foo Stubs to correspond with Template:Foo-stub), and that template is deleted by a regular WP:TFD process, then the category can be deleted as well as long as it was nominated along with the template, or mentioned early in the discussion.
Speedy renaming and merging
Categories may be listed for speedy renaming or speedy merging if they meet one or more of the criteria specified below. They must be tagged with {{subst:cfr-speedy|New name}}
so that users of the categories are aware of the proposal. A request may be processed 48 hours after it was listed if there are no objections. This delay allows other editors to review the request to ensure that it meets the criteria for speedy renaming or merging, and to raise objections to the proposed change.
Categories that qualify for speedy deletion (per Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion, e.g. "patent nonsense", "recreation", categories that have been empty for seven days) can be tagged with the regular speedy tags, such as {{db|reason}}
, and no delay is required to process these. Renaming under C2E can also be processed instantly as it is a variation on G7.
Contested requests become stale, and can be un-tagged and de-listed, after 7 days of inactivity. Optionally, if the discussion may be useful for future reference, it may be copied to the category talk page, with a section heading and {{moved discussion from|[[WP:CFDS]]|2=~~~~}}
. If the nominator wants to continue the process, they need to submit the request as a regular CfD in accordance with the instructions here.
Speedy criteria
The category-specific criteria for speedy renaming, or merging are strictly limited to:
C2A. Typographic and spelling fixes.
- Correction of spelling errors and capitalization fixes. Differences between British and American spelling (e.g. Harbours → Harbors) are not considered errors; however if the convention of the relevant category tree is to use one form over the other then a rename may be appropriate under C2C. If both spellings exist as otherwise-identical category names, they should be merged.
- Appropriate conversion of hyphens into en dashes or vice versa (e.g. Category:Canada-Russia relations → Category:Canada–Russia relations).
C2B. Enforcing established Wikipedia naming conventions and practices.
- Expanding abbreviated country names (e.g. U.S. → United States).
- Disambiguation fixes from an unqualified name (e.g. Category:Washington → Category:Washington (state) or Category:Washington, D.C.).
C2C. Bringing a category into line with established naming conventions for that category tree, or into line with the various "x by y", "x of y", or "x in y" categorization conventions specified at Wikipedia:Category names.
- This should be used only where there is no room for doubt that the category in question is being used for the standard purpose instead of being a potential subcategory.
- This criterion should be applied only when there is no ambiguity or doubt over the existence of a category naming convention. Such a convention must be well defined and must be overwhelmingly used within the tree. If this is not the case then the category in question must be brought forward to a full Cfd nomination.
- This criterion will not apply in cases where the category tree observes distinctions in local usage (e.g. Category:Transportation in the United States and Category:Transport in the United Kingdom).
- Renaming a topic category to match its eponymous page (e.g. Category:The Beatles and The Beatles).
- This applies only if the related page's current name (and by extension, the proposed name for the category) is unambiguous, and uncontroversial – either because of longstanding stability at that particular name or because the page was just moved after explicit consensus to rename was reached at a page move discussion. If the page names are controversial or ambiguous in any way, then this criterion does not apply.
- This criterion also does not apply if there is any ongoing discussion about the name of the page or category, or if there has been a recent discussion concerning any of the pages that resulted in a no consensus result.
C2E. Author request.
- This criterion applies only if the author of a category requests or agrees to renaming within six months of creating the category.
- The criterion does not apply if other editors have populated or changed the category since it was created. "Other editors" includes bots that populated the category, but excludes an editor working with the author on the renaming.
- A nomination to merge or rename, brought forward as a full CfD, may be speedily closed if the closing administrator is satisfied that:
- The nomination clearly falls within the scope of one of the criteria listed here,
- And no objections have been made within 48 hours of the initial nomination.
- If both these conditions are satisfied, the closure will be regarded as having been as a result of a speedy nomination. If any objections have been raised then the CfD nomination will remain in place for the usual 7-day discussion period, to be decided in accordance with expressed consensus.
Add requests for speedy renaming and merging here
If the category and desired change do not match one of the criteria mentioned in C2, do not list it here. Instead, list it in the main CFD section.
If you are in any doubt as to whether it qualifies, do not list it here.
Use the following format on a new line at the beginning of the list:
* [[:Category:old name]] to [[:Category:new name]] – Reason ~~~~
This will sign and datestamp an entry automatically.
Remember to tag the category with: {{subst:Cfr-speedy|New name}}
A request may be completed if it is more than 48 hours old; that is, if the time stamp shown is earlier than 03:29, 29 December 2016 (UTC). Currently, there are 57 open requests (. )
Current nominations
- Category:People from Lota to Category:People from Lota, Chile – C2D Lota, Chile Le Deluge (talk) 23:03, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Easter and history to Category:Historicity and origin of the Resurrection of Jesus – C2D per Historicity and origin of the Resurrection of Jesus. Marcocapelle (talk) 21:35, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Ferries in Brandenburg to Category:Ferries of Brandenburg – C2C. Rathfelder (talk) 20:57, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Works about National Economies to Category:Works about economies by country – C2C per Category:Economies by country. Marcocapelle (talk) 20:52, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:First Ladies of Malta to Category:Spouses of the President of Malta – C2D Spouse of the President of Malta Le Deluge (talk) 19:22, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:People from Sevan to Category:People from Sevan, Armenia – C2D Sevan, Armenia (as opposed to Sevan, Iran) Le Deluge (talk) 18:54, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:People from Tenancingo (México) to Category:People from Tenancingo, State of Mexico – C2D Tenancingo, State of Mexico Le Deluge (talk) 18:42, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Reptiles of Comoros to Category:Reptiles of the Comoros – C2C Category:Fauna of the Comoros Le Deluge (talk) 18:23, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:National Express Group companies to Category:National Express companies – C2D align with article renaming. Bvillage (talk) 01:39, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Anti–corruption activist to Category:Anti-corruption activists – C2A, recently-created duplicate with misformatted name Redrose64 (talk) 17:07, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Indian Children rights Activist to Category:Indian children's rights activists – C2A, recently-created duplicate with misformatted name Redrose64 (talk) 17:01, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Municipalities of Nova Scotia to Category:Municipalities in Nova Scotia – C2C, emptied it in favour of new cat boldly first before remembering to formally come here first... the only one at Category:Municipalities in Canada by province or territory using "of" rather than "in" Hwy43 (talk) 10:20, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
- Comment I have tagged the category now, so this should be processed based on this post's timestamp. Armbrust The Homunculus 13:49, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Inhabited localities of the Republic of Bashkortostan to Category:Populated places in Bashkortostan – C2B: per Bashkortostan/Category:Bashkortostan also C2C: "populated places" is used throughout category structure rather than "inhabited localities" Armbrust The Homunculus 12:50, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Columns to Category:Columns (periodical) – article is Column (periodical) Good Ol’factory (talk) 10:21, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Research Triangle, North Carolina to Category:Research Triangle – C2D per Research Triangle Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:10, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Media in the Research Triangle, North Carolina to Category:Media in the Research Triangle
- Category:Radio stations in the Research Triangle, North Carolina to Category:Radio stations in the Research Triangle
- Category:People from the Research Triangle, North Carolina to Category:People from the Research Triangle
- Category:Universities and colleges in the Research Triangle, North Carolina to Category:Universities and colleges in the Research Triangle
- Category:Tulsa Metropolitan Area to Category:Tulsa metropolitan area – C2A/C2D per Tulsa metropolitan area Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:04, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Western Michigan to Category:West Michigan – C2D per West Michigan Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:02, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Wilmington, North Carolina metropolitan area to Category:Cape Fear (region) – C2D per Cape Fear (region) Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:01, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Yellowstone to Category:Yellowstone Caldera – C2D per Yellowstone Caldera Good Ol’factory (talk) 03:01, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Youngstown–Warren–Boardman, OH–PA metropolitan area to Category:Youngstown–Warren–Boardman metropolitan area – C2D per Youngstown–Warren–Boardman metropolitan area Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:58, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Colorado Eastern Plains to Category:Eastern Plains – C2D per Eastern Plains Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:49, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Members of the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly (2007-2008) to Category:Members of the Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly – article is Ecuadorian Constituent Assembly, without the date range Good Ol’factory (talk) 15:08, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
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- Oppose, there was a Constituent Assembly from 1997 to 1998 as well, that's why I originally incorporated the date range. See Asamblea Constituyente de Ecuador de 1997 y 1998 . Crispulop (talk) 16:51, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
- If the date range is included, the dates need to be separated by an endash rather than a hyphen. Good Ol’factory (talk) 02:38, 29 December 2016 (UTC)
- Oppose, there was a Constituent Assembly from 1997 to 1998 as well, that's why I originally incorporated the date range. See Asamblea Constituyente de Ecuador de 1997 y 1998 . Crispulop (talk) 16:51, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Opposed nominations
- Category:Hisar, India to Category:Hisar (city) – C2D: per Hisar (city). Armbrust The Homunculus 15:10, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Buildings and structures in Hisar, India to Category:Buildings and structures in Hisar (city)
- Category:Hospitals in Hisar to Category:Hospitals in Hisar (city)
- Category:Education in Hisar, India to Category:Education in Hisar (city)
- Category:Schools in Hisar, India to Category:Schools in Hisar (city)
- Category:Universities and colleges in Hisar, India to Category:Universities and colleges in Hisar (city)
- Category:Neighbourhoods in Hisar, India to Category:Neighbourhoods in Hisar (city)
- Category:Organisations based in Hisar, India to Category:Organisations based in Hisar (city)
- Category:People from Hisar, India to Category:People from Hisar (city)
- Category:Tourism in Hisar, India to Category:Tourism in Hisar (city)
- Category:Archaeological sites in Hisar, India to Category:Archaeological sites in Hisar (city)
- Per below, WP:PLACEDAB prefers countries to generic words as disambiguators, so if anything the article should be renamed in line with the category hierarchy.Le Deluge (talk) 13:57, 20 December 2016 (UTC) Update - it looks like the article was moved without discussion from Hisar, India in October 2015 in an attempt to distinguish from Hisar District, but in general Indian cities/districts seem to fit the old format.Le Deluge (talk) 14:04, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Research institutes in Hisar to Category:Research institutes in Hisar, India – C2B/C2C Category:Hisar, India Le Deluge (talk) 15:45, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
- Oppose Main article is at Hisar (city). Armbrust The Homunculus 15:04, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
- WP:PLACEDAB prefers countries to generic words as disambiguators, so if anything the article should be renamed in line with the category hierarchy.Le Deluge (talk) 13:57, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
- Hisar (Lok Sabha constituency) is also in India. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:08, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
- A Lok Sabha constituency could only be in India. There seems to be a general ability to cope with the city taking a geographical identifier and then derivatives not needing to be dabbed if there's an obvious primary topic - see eg Carlisle, Cumbria and Carlisle (UK Parliament constituency) for a UK example, and it seems common with Indian districts. In this case if you look at Hisar dab page, we've got a major city in an English-speaking country with a population of 300k versus some villages in Iran and a military acronym. It's pretty obvious what geographical derivatives are attached to.Le Deluge (talk) 14:22, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
- Another way of looking at it is that the city is clearly the primary meaning of Hisar, India, so there's no reason that it should not be name of the article for the city, even if it is not 100% unambiguous. This would be in line with the normal way that article names work. Good Ol’factory (talk) 14:33, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
- @Good Olfactory:Feel free to make a move request for the city's article; otherwise, I se non reason to do this move. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:51, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
- I was speaking neither in opposition nor in support of the nomination for the categories. I was commenting on the discussion related to the article name. It sounds to me like there might be some support for changing the article name back. Some reasons to perhaps not proceed in renaming the category immediately above, however, are (1) it has been formally opposed by another user, and (2) there are nominations on this same page, relating to the same city, which are proposing something different than what is being proposed for this one. It sounds to me like it all needs to go to a full category discussion, absent an RM on the article. Good Ol’factory (talk) 04:02, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
- @Good Olfactory:Feel free to make a move request for the city's article; otherwise, I se non reason to do this move. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 03:51, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
- Another way of looking at it is that the city is clearly the primary meaning of Hisar, India, so there's no reason that it should not be name of the article for the city, even if it is not 100% unambiguous. This would be in line with the normal way that article names work. Good Ol’factory (talk) 14:33, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
- A Lok Sabha constituency could only be in India. There seems to be a general ability to cope with the city taking a geographical identifier and then derivatives not needing to be dabbed if there's an obvious primary topic - see eg Carlisle, Cumbria and Carlisle (UK Parliament constituency) for a UK example, and it seems common with Indian districts. In this case if you look at Hisar dab page, we've got a major city in an English-speaking country with a population of 300k versus some villages in Iran and a military acronym. It's pretty obvious what geographical derivatives are attached to.Le Deluge (talk) 14:22, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
- Hisar (Lok Sabha constituency) is also in India. Armbrust The Homunculus 14:08, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
- WP:PLACEDAB prefers countries to generic words as disambiguators, so if anything the article should be renamed in line with the category hierarchy.Le Deluge (talk) 13:57, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
- Oppose Main article is at Hisar (city). Armbrust The Homunculus 15:04, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Educational organisations based in Saudi Arabia to Category:Educational organisations in Saudi Arabia – C2C. Rathfelder (talk) 22:54, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- Category:Educational organisations based in the United Kingdom to Category:Educational organisations in the United Kingdom
- Category:Educational organisations based in Northern Ireland to Category:Educational organisations in Northern Ireland
- Category:Educational organisations based in New Zealand to Category:Educational organisations in New Zealand
- Category:Educational organisations based in London to Category:Educational organisations in London
- Category:Educational organisations based in Egypt to Category:Educational organisations in Egypt
- Category:Educational organizations based in the United States to Category:Educational organizations in the United States
- Category:Educational organizations based in the Czech Republic to Category:Educational organizations in the Czech Republic
- Category:Educational organizations based in Taiwan to Category:Educational organizations in Taiwan
- Category:Educational organizations based in Punjab to Category:Educational organisations in Punjab
- Category:Educational organizations based in Nigeria to Category:Educational organizations in Nigeria
- Category:Educational organizations based in Israel to Category:Educational organizations in Israel – C2C. Rathfelder (talk) 22:39, 10 December 2016 (UTC)
- Oppose – C2C supports 'based in' per Category:Organizations by country (a format decided by cfd in 2006). Oculi (talk) 00:33, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- It was probably meant as C2C per the convention in Category:Educational organizations by country. Armbrust The Homunculus 08:00, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
- There are a much larger number of categories of the form "Educational institutions in Foo", "Educational institutions established ..." etc. I have no strong view either way, but I think there should be consistency.Rathfelder (talk) 16:21, 14 December 2016 (UTC)
- Oppose – C2C supports 'based in' per Category:Organizations by country (a format decided by cfd in 2006). Oculi (talk) 00:33, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
On hold pending other discussion
- None currently
Moved to full discussion
- None currently
Ready for deletion
Check Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion for out of process deletions. In some cases, these will need to be nominated for discussion and the editor who emptied the category informed that they should follow the WP:CFD process.
Once the renaming has been completed, copy and paste the listing to the Ready for deletion section of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual.
Categories possibly emptied out of process
Note. Categories listed here will be automatically moved to Category:Candidates for speedy deletion after 96 hours.
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