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These are resolved (but interesting) issues from Categories for Deletion.

Note: This page is meant to be organized by topic, to make things easier to find. The topics (which are not mutually exclusive) may be somewhat arbitrary.

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Contents 1 Untidy dump 1.1 Category:Athletics stadia from (September 1st) 1.2 category:entrepreneur 1.3 category:corporate leaders 1.4 Category:Mountains in Greece 1.5 Category:National parks 1.6 Category:Puerto Rican playwrights 1.7 Category:Cities in Hungary 1.8 Categories of star classes 1.8.1 Category:Type-D stars 1.8.2 Category:Type-N stars 1.8.3 Category:Type-R stars 1.8.4 Category:Type-W stars 1.9 Category:Triumph automobiles 1.10 Category:Botanist active in South America 2 "By country" categorization 3 Economics 4 Education 5 Geography 6 Military 7 History 8 Politics and government 8.1 Category:Terrorism 9 People 10 Transportation 11 Science and technology 12 Spelling and usage 13 Sports 14 Religion and philosophy 15 Wikipedia 16 Entertainment 17 Misc

[edit] Untidy dump

[edit] Category:Athletics stadia from (September 1st)

[edit] category:entrepreneur

On the one hand this is a duplicate of the much more widely used category:entrepreneurs. On the other, if there is to be a broader category about entrepreneurship, which is what the contents seem to imply is the intention, it should be called category:Entrepreneurship. I will create the latter in due course. Wincoote 00:14, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Can't we merge category:entrepreneur and category:businesspeople into category:entrepreneurs (after fixing the capitalization problem first), and then move the non-people articles into category:Entrepreneurship? -Kbdank71 14:59, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • I like that suggestion. --Laura Scudder 22:53, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Of course we can't. Huge numbers of important business people are not entrepreneurs. The latter is a subcategory of the former. Wincoote 14:42, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
    • And yet you propose to delete corporate leaders, saying it's a duplicate of business people. -Kbdank71 15:26, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Entrepreneur and entrepeneurs have the same meaning and should be merged. Seems to me we should strive for consistency in the use of plural for all people-related categories. --Leifern 14:59, 2005 Apr 1 (UTC)
• Merge Category:Entrepreneur into Category:Entrepreneurs and forget the "Entrepreneurship" nonsense and leave "business people" out of it. If it is about entrepreneurs and their activities, it belongs in the entrepreneurs category, just as much as listing individuals who might be given this tag. Gene Nygaard 16:04, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Merge Category:Entrepreneur into Category:Entrepreneurs. If there were enough articles about starting businesses to justify a category:Entrepreneurship, then that should be a separate category. But the individuals should be categorized as "Entrepreneurs". Category:businesspeople is clearly different. -Willmcw 23:49, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] category:corporate leaders

Like my other nominations below this is an unhelpful and little used duplication of category:businesspeople. If this is deleted, I will find better homes for those articles which are not about individuals. Wincoote 00:26, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. -Kbdank71 15:22, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Duplicates category:businesspeople and category:entrepreneurs. Plus, it's a vague category. Many companies have a chairman of the board, a CEO, a COO, etc. Are all of those leaders? What about someone who shows leadership from a subordinate role? -Willmcw 19:11, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Mountains in Greece

Rename to Category:Mountains of Greece for consistency with the naming convention of Mountains of Foo. RedWolf 07:36, Apr 2, 2005 (UTC)

• Support - well-established convention; in Category:Mountains by country, the only other exceptions are Category:Mountains and hills of the United Kingdom and Category:Mountains, peaks and hills in Hong Kong. (Perhaps there should be a Category:Mountains of the United Kingdom, but certainly the HK example ought to either be renamed to Category:Mountains, peaks and hills of Hong Kong or broken into Category:Mountains of Hong Kong and something like Category:Peaks and hills of Hong Kong. If anybody is really interested there are five peaks in Hong Kong that would fit the Encyclopædia Britannica definition of "mountain" - a height of 610m, although that doesn't seem to be a strict convention on WP - see List of mountains, peaks and hills in Hong Kong) --VivaEmilyDavies 17:06, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:National parks

Should be merged with subcategories of Category:National parks by country (moving in from Category:Protected areas by country after a previous WP:CFD vote was clarified - I originally misinterpreted the decision). -- Beland 02:12, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Agree. There aren't any NPs that aren't in a country are there?--ZayZayEM 04:05, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• I think the word national gives us a clue there... :) agree. Grutness|^hello? 10:20, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • I beleive there are at least three that are in more than one country, but I don't suppose that matters. Wincoote 13:45, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • If you follow the reasoning of all these pro/anti China categories then China has no national parks. (Course, I think that's ridiculous, just sayin') SchmuckyTheCat 20:06, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • Many of the statistics compiled by the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics do not cover Hong Kong and Macao. :-D — Instantnood 05:40, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
  • (response to Grutness) There's a matter of name. In the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and some other parts of the world, the term "country park" is used instead. — Instantnood 05:40, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
    • You miss my point, which was replying to ZayZayEM. If a park is a national park then by definition it must be in a nation. Doesn't matter what they're called in other parts of the world. Grutness|^hello?
• Don't understand the proposal. What gets lost in the merger? What name/names are kept? I think that Category:National parks with the country categories under it and eliminating Category:National parks by country would be good. Multinational ones would also logically fit into each relevant subcategory (in unusual cases could be in the supercategory if necessary). It seems pretty redundant to include both "national" and "by country". Maybe not strictly so, but people going to "national parks" won't be surprised to see it subdivided by country, and should actually expect it since this isn't the type of thing that each country normally has only one of. Gene Nygaard 18:01, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment: Sounds logical, and to me, "natural reserves" or "protected areas" sound more all-encompassing. There is at least one airport serving three States on the border, and the airport itself is on the soil of two States (Switzerland and France). It is categorised in three [[category:Airports of Foo]] categories. — Instantnood 05:40, Mar 26, 2005 (UTC)
    • No, Category:Protected areas covers all parks and other types of protected areas. Category:National parks just covers national parks and is a subcategory of protected areas. So currently we have Protected areas <-- National parks by country and Parks <-- National Parks. The proposal is to make Protected Areas <--- National parks and eliminate National Parks by country as unneccessary. I support this. I would also like to see Category:United States parks moved to Category:Protected areas of the United States by state. Rmhermen 14:48, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Puerto Rican playwrights

I have already moved all the entries to Category:Puerto Rican dramatists and playwrights to put it more in line with the rest of the entries under Category:Dramatists and playwrights by nationality. Ganymead 06:32, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Delete - the consistency is welcome. --VivaEmilyDavies 23:10, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Comment: Should the same be done to category:Canadian dramatists and playwrights]] and category:Canadian playwrights? — Instantnood 06:09, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Cities in Hungary

This was previously put up for a vote here. There was no consensus as to what an alternative would be, so I'm renominating this for an alternative. My thoughts are, we could go with 1. Category:Cities and towns in Hungary and Category:Villages in Hungary, 2. Category:Cities, towns and villages in Hungary, or 3. Category:Municipalities in Hungary. Those seemed to be the best ideas from the earlier discussion. -Kbdank71 22:06, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• 2 - Cities, towns and villages in Hungary -Kbdank71 22:06, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• 2 - Cities, towns and villages in Hungary -Adam78 23:07, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• 2 - Cities, towns and villages in Hungary--NightMonkey 23:57, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
• 4 - Cities and towns in Hungary and towns includes all villages--and even if you don't like my idea, put that serial comma in if you use Category:Cities, towns, and villages in Hungary --Gene Nygaard 03:16, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• 2 - Cities, towns and villages in Hungary – Alensha 19:51, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Everything but 1. I support one single category for all populated places in Hungary, be it Cities in Hungary, Towns in Hungary, Cities and towns in Hungary or Cities, towns and villages in Hungary. BTW Gene, the serial comma is a subject of debate. Markussep 12:49, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Categories of star classes

• NOTE: If these categories are deleted, then Category:Stars by spectral type will be incomplete. 132.205.15.43 21:20, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Type-D stars

White dwarf stars stars are class D stars. There is also Category:White dwarfs making this category obsolete. This category is has only a redirect.--Jyril 21:36, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as a matter of clean-up. Courtland 00:08, 2005 Mar 29 (UTC)
• KEEP because it aids in navigation for those who are not astronomers, but would look in Category:Stars by spectral type . 132.205.15.43 00:46, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • comment — perhaps a Star classification terminolgy article, almost an embellished list, could be added to Category:Stars_by_spectral_type to assist in this matter. I am sensitive to the needs of non-experts in general, but I thought deletion of the category did not unduly handicap them. Courtland 01:22, 2005 Mar 30 (UTC)
  • Delete. Presumably, a non-astronomer wouldn't know a Type-D star from a hole in the ground. -Kbdank71 18:35, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • COMMENT a non-astronomer would see type D or class D in various star articles and when navigating around WikiPedia might want to look up some more. The articles might be from say SPACE.COM or something. 132.205.45.148 19:25, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
      • Comment. Perhaps, but if they wanted to read an article about a Type D star, they'd have to go to White dwarf, which, oddly enough, doesn't mention "Type D" once. This is just a category. -Kbdank71 20:06, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
        • It is worth mentioning. That article should also include information on classification of different types of white dwarfs.--Jyril 20:27, Mar 31, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete But move to list-- I think it's important to not simply wipe away indexing by the more technical naming convention. siafu 18:08, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Type-N stars

• KEEP because it aids in navigation for those who are not astronomers, but would look in Category:Stars by spectral type . 132.205.15.43 00:49, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. How is an empty category going to help anyone? -Kbdank71 18:35, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • It exists as a categoryredirect and that works for navigation purposes as well. 132.205.45.148 19:27, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)** It exists as a categoryredirect and that works for navigation purposes as well. 132.205.45.148 19:27, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Type-R stars

Stellar spectral types N and R have been combined to type C so these categories are redundant. They are also empty.--Jyril 21:36, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

• KEEP because it aids in navigation for those who are not astronomers, but would look in Category:Stars by spectral type . 132.205.15.43 00:49, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. How is an empty category going to help anyone? -Kbdank71 18:35, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • It exists as a categoryredirect and that works for navigation purposes as well. 132.205.45.148 19:27, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Type-W stars

Wolf-Rayet stars are class W stars. There is also Category:Wolf-Rayet stars making this category obsolete. This category is empty.--Jyril 21:36, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete as an matter of clean-up. Courtland 23:57, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
• KEEP because it aids in navigation for those who are not astronomers, but would look in Category:Stars by spectral type . 132.205.15.43 00:49, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. How is an empty category going to help anyone? -Kbdank71 18:35, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • It exists as a categoryredirect and that works for navigation purposes as well. 132.205.45.148 19:26, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Triumph automobiles

Redundant with correct Category:Triumph vehicles. SFoskett 19:05, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

• Delete The reason that it isn't being used is probably that it is in American English. Wincoote 22:47, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Keep and delete Category:Triumph vehicles. Using Wincoote's logic, why isn't it Category:Ford automobiles? Should the existing Category:Ford vehicles include all farm tractors sold under by Ford the "Ford" brand? They are vehicles, are they not? So are Honda motorcycles and Volvo skid-steer loaders, are they not? Gene Nygaard 23:47, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
  • I can't follow this argument, which may be self-contradictory, but it is advocating a breach of the policy that British English has equal status. If this user's concerns are to be addressed, it should be Category:Triumph cars and Category:Triumph motorbikes if required (or "motorcycles" if that is standard). His suggestion is an example of U.S. linguistic imperialism. Wincoote 00:59, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
    • I don't even buy your interpretation that this would be proper in British English. Vehicles is too broad a term. Furthermore, vehicles is common in American English as well, so I haven't the foggiest idea what that argument is involves. In American English, motor vehicles (and in a Department of Motor Vehicles in some states, for example) isn't usually applied to farm tractors and construction machinery, but vehicles certainly includes them. And what's this "Equal Statud" nonsense? Your argument would also mean that American English has equal status, wouldn't it? And then the logical conclusion would be that characterizing something as American English is most certainly not a legitimate argument for changing it, wouldn't it? Talk about self-contradictory!! Gene Nygaard 01:21, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
      • British English is preferred for articles about British topics, and American English for American topics. This is not "nonsense"; it is one of Wikipedia's best known policies. By extension the same should apply to categories.Wincoote 05:13, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

1. Automobiles are neither a "British topic" nor an "American topic", and most manufacturers are neither. Many are multinational.
2. Automobiles is a narrower and more appropriate term in both British English and American English so I have no idea what your point is there. An 1885 Triumph bicycle is a vehicle, as is a Red River ox cart. Gene Nygaard 09:14, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• • Delete. Changing my vote now that it has been clarified that the "correctness" doesn't involve two words intended to have the same meaning, and that Triumph motorcycles belong in this category as well. If kept, the automobiles category should be as a subcategory of the vehicles category, but that would not appear to be necessary. Gene Nygaard 14:12, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. It is inconsistent with the 70+ other '[Manufacturer] vehicles' categories we already have.--Hooperbloob 04:27, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete I don't follow this as an American/British distinction; we both use the terms "automobiles" and "vehicles" with those spellings. I advocate remaining consistent with the existing standard, as cited by Hooperbloob. siafu 05:21, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Not everything needs to be an argument about American vs British. As for vehicles vs automobiles, if consensus does indeed go for vehicles, then Gene, I'd fill it up with vehicles: cars, trucks, motorcycles, tractors, etc. If they are a vehicle, they belong in the category, period. If people just want cars, then it should be named something else. -Kbdank71 21:51, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'll be starting the Red River ox cart article shortly; they are quite interesting vehicles. Meanwhile, I have found a few others to add to the various "vehicles" categories. Gene Nygaard 02:15, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• We had this exact same argument recently over another category (Car or Automobile or Vehicle), though I don't remember exactly what the category name was (someone here is bound to remember it though). The decision them was that motor vehicle was a perectly accepatable term used both in the US and in the rest of the English speaking world. Don't see why the same decision can't be applied here. Grutness|^hello? 08:54, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• Looks like you've been snookered out of an argument there. Obviously nobody went with that idea. I don't find any categories about "motor vehicles". Gene Nygaard 16:59, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• ...in which case, I've no idea why the decision wasn't implemented. If that is - for some reason - not a viable option, I vote to retain the "vehicles" category and delete the "automobiles" one. Grutness|^hello? 01:32, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Botanist active in South America

Self-nomination. Singular not plural. My typo, sorry. Please delete. VivaEmilyDavies 02:06, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

wellformed and in use category name = Category:Botanists active in South America

• Even without the typo, I suspect this category will get nominated for deletion. This topic is better served by a list. RedWolf 04:53, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as a matter of clean-up. Courtland 05:26, 2005 Apr 5 (UTC)
• Delete, but keep Category:Botanists active in South America until somebody gives convincing arguments against it. / u p p l a n d 09:02, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "By country" categorization

The following is an attempt to collect discussions and precedents involve the question of formatting for country- or culture-specific categories, especially those taking place after January 15, 2005. (E.g. "Lakes of X", "Xian lakes", "Lakes in X", "X lakes", etc.) Note that ther may be other, similar precedents listed under other categories on this page.

• April 7, 2005: Category:Cinema by country subcats changed from "Fooian cinema" to "Cinema of Foo". Discussion
• April 7, 2005: Category:Weapons by country subcats changed from "Fooian weapons" to "Weapons of Foo". No opposition.
• April 1, 2005: category:Northern Ireland people deleted and contents merged into Category:People from Northern Ireland. See discussion.
• March 29, 2005: Category:Japanese sports deleted and contents merged into Category:Sport in Japan. See discussion.
• March 24, 2005: Category:Cities in Hungary kept. Proposition was opposed by large margin, but no consensus as to what an alternative would be. See discussion.
• March 24, 2005: Category:Northern Irish sportspeople renamed. See discussion.
• March 18, 2005: Category:Shooters by country deleted. See discussion.
• March 18, 2005: National parks by country renamed. See discussion.
• March 18, 2005: "Fooish political parties" changed to "Political parties in Foo". See discussion.
• March 15, 2005: Category:Quebec actors kept. See discussion.
• March 14, 2005: Olympic <x> of the U.S.A. categories renamed. See discussion.
• March 14, 2005: Snooker players by country categories renamed. See discussion.
• March 13, 2005: Category:Russian and Soviet aerospace found deleted. Empty category, counter to naming convention. Nominated by Aranel followed by no discussion and no dissent.
• March 13, 2005: Category:Russian and Soviet aerospace companies found deleted. Counter to naming convention. Nominated by Aranel followed by no discussion and no dissent.
• March 13, 2005: Category:Russian and Soviet attack aircraft,Category:Russian and Soviet military aircraft,Category:Russian and Soviet bomber aircraft and Category:Russian and Soviet fighter aircraft deleted. See discussion.
• March 12, 2005: Category:Korean political parties deleted. Found childless. Equivalent North Korea and South Korea categories already exist.
• March 12, 2005: Category:United States companies deleted. See discussion.
• March 11, 2005: "By Country" categories cleaned up and conventions established for standard country names. See discussion.
• March 8, 2005: Category:Political parties of the People's Republic of China redirected. See discussion.
• March 8, 2005: Category:Insurance companies of the People's Republic of China redirected. See discussion.
• March 4, 2005: Category:U.S. newspapers deleted. See discussion.
• Libraries: "Libraries in X" is preferred. See discussion.

[edit] Economics

• "Economy of CountryName" is preferred to "CountryNamian economy".

[edit] Education

• March 5, 2005: Category:Universities in Alberta deleted. Empty, no discussion.
• March 4, 2005: Category:Public Schools in England deleted. See discussion.
• November 26, 2004: Category:High Schools in Singapore was deleted and contents were merged to Education in Singapore; discussion
• October 2, 2004: Category:Education_in_Washington was kept as a parent to Category:Washington_public_education and Category:Universities and colleges in Washington, with potential for growth.
• October 2, 2004: Category:Elementary schools where students have to wear uniforms was deleted (not a useful division of Category:Elementary schools).

[edit] Geography

• April 8, 2005: Lakes of Foo --> Lakes in Foo was Opposed as Lakes of Foo is the established naming convention for geographical features. See discussion.
• April 7, 2005: Category:Towns and Cities in Armenia renamed to Category:Cities and towns in Armenia. See discussion.
• April 7, 2005: Category:Lakes by country moved from Fooish lakes to Lakes in Foo. See discussion, Round 2.
• March 30, 2005: Category:London Rivers deleted. See discussion.
• March 25, 2005: Category:Lakes by country kept. See discussion, Round 1
• March 24, 2005: Category:British rivers renamed into Category:Rivers of Great Britain and Category:Rivers of the United Kingdom. See discussion.
• March 24, 2005: Category:Rivers of Hong Kong kept. See discussion.
• March 23, 2005: Category:English rivers renamed to Category:Rivers of England. See discussion
• March 21, 2005: Category:London River Crossings and Category:Bridges in London merged into Category:Bridges and tunnels in London. See discussion.
• March 8, 2005: Category:Lists of streets:List of Karditsomagoula's streets deleted. See discussion.
• March 5, 2005: Category:Thalassery deleted. See discussion.
• March 4, 2005: Category:World Heritage Sites in the Ukraine deleted. See discussion.
• March 4, 2005: Category:London Districts deleted. See discussion.
• February 27, 2005: Category:Airports of Taiwan was kept. See discussion.
• January 28, 2005: Category:Tokyo Prefecture deleted as better served by Category:Tokyo. Category:Cities in Tokyo Prefecture deleted as better served by Category:Cities in Tokyo.
• January 27, 2005: Category:Canada-place stubs was renamed to Category:Canada geography stubs to fall in line with naming conventions used for other geography stub categories. See discussion.
• January 27, 2005: Category:Ireland-place stubs was renamed to Category:Ireland geography stubs to fall in line with naming conventions used for other geography stub categories.
• January 17, 2005: Category:Landforms cleaned up. See discussion.
• January 16, 2005: Several Irish categories were fixed. See discussion.
• January 16, 2005: Category:Swedish forests was renamed to Category:Forests of Sweden for naming consistency. RedWolf 03:02, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)
• Category:Lakes of Cambodia has been kept. See Category talk:Lakes of Cambodia. RedWolf 23:07, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)
• December 14, 2004: Category:Birmingham was kept although the existing articles were moved to Category:Birmingham, Alabama. See discussion. RedWolf 21:31, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)
• December 20, 2004: Category:Alaska boroughs was kept and Category:Boroughs in Alaska was deleted. Alaska boroughs are most similar to counties in other states; the convention for counties is "STATE counties". See Category talk:Alaska boroughs.
• December 3, 2004: Category:North Carolina places deleted. See discussion.
• December 3, 2004: Category:Scandinavia was kept. It does not precisely duplicate Category:Nordic countries because Scandinavia and the Nordic countries overlap but are not precisely identical.
• November 23, 2004: Category:Newspapers in Washington was kept. (Category:Newspapers of Washington state was redirected.) Since Washington, D.C. is referred to as Washington, D.C., disambiguation is not necessary.
• November 19, 2004: Several Slovakian categories were renamed to Slovak. See discussion.
• "Cities in CountryName" is preferred to "Cities of CountryName".
• "Towns in CountryName" is preferred to "Towns of CountryName".
• "Cities and towns in CountryName" is preferred to "Towns and cities of CountryName" or "Towns and cities in CountryName".
• Category:Japanese towns was moved to Category:Towns in Japan. "Towns in X" is the preferred format for towns (assuming that a distinction between towns and cities, etc., exists).
• Category:Ohio county namesakes was deleted. This would be more appropriate as a list.
• Category:Denver_metropolitan_area was kept as a parent to Category:Denver, Colorado (the latter is a subset of the former).
• September 6, 2004: Category:Continental Europe was deleted (practically duplicates Category:Europe).
• September 3, 2004: Category:Cities in the Netherlands was kept and Category:Dutch cities was deleted. The preferred format for cities is "Cities in X".
• August 21, 2004: Category:Literature from Birmingham, England was deleted (vaguely defined and overly specific).
• August 19, 2004: Category:Hamlets in New York was kept. Consensus not entirely clear, but it is a common (and potentially useful), if not entirely official, designation.
• August 14, 2004: Category:Towns in Pennsylvania was kept, although there is only one actual incorporated town in Pennsylvania. See [1].
• August 12, 2004: Category:Towns in Florida was kept. (Florida distinguishes between cities and towns, see [2].)
• August 1, 2004: County categories containing only the article on the county - the general consensus was to keep the categories (since they should grow), but to avoid creating them en masse before they are needed. A summary of how this works:

Here's the simple rule: communities get cross-categorized by the type of municipality they are (i.e., Category:Cities in Ohio, Category:Villages in Ohio) and the county they are in. I've seen at least one instance of further subdivision of Cities in _____ County, but I think this is unnecessary, it hinders the purpose of grouping all cities in a state together and all places in a county together, it and simply won't work in rural counties that may only have a handful of communities. Postdlf 05:53, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Military

• March 28, 2005: Category:Italian armored vehicles found deleted. No discussion to preserve.
• March 28, 2005: Category:Armored personnel carriers found deleted. No discussion to preserve.
• March 12, 2005: Category:U.S. military in the 20th century found deleted. Empty and redundant with Category:U.S. military history 1900-1999. Nominated by Aranel; no discussion to preserve.
• March 12, 2005: Category:U.S. military history 1900 and on found deleted. Empty and redundant with Category:U.S. military history 1900-1999. Nominated by Aranel; no discussion to preserve.
• March 8, 2005: Category:Military terms deleted. See discussion.
• March 5, 2005: Category:U.S. military deleted. See discussion.
• March 5, 2005: Category:World War II veterans deleted, replaced by Category:American World War II veterans (and other individual countries).
• November 28, 2004: Category:Weapons by name was deleted (redundant, "by name" is inherent to categories). See discussion.
• August 19, 2004: Airforce categories (for individual nations) - the consensus was to delete categories containing only one article. The discussion is archived at Category talk:Air forces.

[edit] History

• February 15, 2005: Category:Fooish military history → Category:Military history of Foo. See discussion.
• February 13, 2005: Category:Historical museums renamed to Category:History museums. See discussion.
• January 9, 2005: Category:Czech monarchs deleted. See discussion.

[edit] Politics and government

• April 8, 2005: Category:1555 in law renamed to Category:1550s in law. See discussion.
• April 6, 2005: Category:Coup d'états renamed to Category:Coups. See discussion.
• March 30, 2005: Category:American administrative case law found deleted. No opposition or discussion.
• March 9, 2005: Category:Nova Scotia MHAs deleted. See discussion.
• February 17, 2005: Category:Political parties by nationality renamed to Category:Political parties by country.
• January 24, 2005: Category:Corruption in Poland deleted as considered POV. See discussion.
• January 16, 2005: Category:Kings of Persia deleted. See discussion.
• January 7, 2005: Category:Oil for Food deleted. See discussion.
• December 17, 2004: Category:Election_results and subcategories were deleted. Election results currently go in "Category:Elections in X" rather than "Category:Election results in X".
• December 16, 2004: Category:Government in Hawaii was moved to Category:Government of Hawaii. For state governments in the United States, at least, "Government of X" is the preferred format.
• December 8, 2004: Category:U.S. presidential cabinet members was deleted as being redundant. See discussion.
• November 21, 2004: Category:Traitors was deleted (POV, more suitable to a list which can be annotated) and the information retained at Treason#List_of_alleged_traitors.
• November 21, 2004: Category:Political parties by name and subpages were deleted (this isn't how categorization works—categories are automatically alphabetical).
• November 21, 2004: Category:Occupation of Palestine deleted. See discussion.
• November 16, 2004: Category:Nigerian political parties and Category:Nigerese political parties deleted. See discussion.
• September 16, 2004: Category:Liberal leaders in the United States was deleted as inherently POV. See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Liberal leaders in the United States.
• September 26, 2004: Category:Liberal leaders and all subcategories were deleted as POV. (More specific categories, such as Category:Leaders of the Liberal Party of Canada, were kept.) See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Liberal leaders.
• October 6, 2004: Category:Liberal parties was kept. 4 clear keep votes and only one clear delete. The other categories under Category:Political parties by ideology are not disputed (currently). See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Liberal parties.

[edit] Category:Terrorism

Moved back to CFD, passed consensus. Discussion now to see what replacement cat will be. See discussion for archive.

[edit] People

The policies at Wikipedia:Categorization of people may post-date some of these decisions.

• April 10, 2005: Category:Fraternities deleted → duplicate of Category:Student fraternities.
• April 9, 2005: Category:English dramatists and playwrights kept. See discussion.
• April 9, 2005: Category:Miscellaneous engineers deleted. See discussion.
• April 8, 2005: Category:Brooklyn Tip-Top players duplicate of Category:Brooklyn Tip-Tops players.
• April 5, 2005: Category:Writers who have killed themselves deleted. See discussion.
• April 4, 2005: Category:People associated with University of Chicago, Category:People associated with Northwestern University, Category:People associated with Columbia University, Category:Stanford University people deleted. Better served by lists.
• April 4, 2005: Category:Male Actors was deleted. See discussion.
• April 2, 2005: Category:Professionals by nationality renamed to Category:Occupations by nationality.
• April 2, 2005: Category:Sportspeople by country renamed to Category:Sportspeople by nationality.
• April 1 2005: Category:Pornographic Stars found deleted. No objections noted.
• April 1 2005: Category:Early music composers found deleted. No objections noted.
• March 30, 2005 Category:Business leaders kept. See discussion.
• March 30 2005: category:industrialists and subcats. Little used duplicates of category:businesspeople and subcats. No objections or comments were made.
• March 29 2005: category:British jurists to replaced with category:British legal professionals. See discussion.
• March 24, 2005: Category:Hong_Kong_sociologists was kept. See discussion.
• March 21, 2005: Category:Female chess players deleted and put into a list. See discussion.
• March 18, 2005: Category:Loonies deleted. See discussion.
• March 18, 2005: Category:Misers deleted. See discussion.
• March 18, 2005: Category:Compulsive Hoarders deleted. See discussion.
• March 18, 2005: Category:Eccentrics deleted. See discussion.
• March 15, 2005: Category:Doctors found deleted. Redundant with Category:Physicians and unused; nominated by MisfitToys followed by no comment and no objections.
• March 15, 2005: University people categories moved to lists. See discussion.
• March 15, 2005: Category:Soviet people kept. See discussion.
• March 15, 2005: Category:Australian Aborigines deleted. See discussion.
• March 13, 2005: Category:British playwrights deleted. See discussion.
• March 11, 2005: 14 empty Jews categories deleted. See discussion.
• March 6, 2005: Category:Italian Canadians deleted. Empty and duplicated by Category:Italian-Canadians.
• March 5, 2005: Category:Americans deleted. See discussion.
• March 5, 2005: Category:University of Notre Dame people deleted. See discussion.
• March 5, 2005: Category:People of New York deleted. See discussion.
• March 5, 2005: Category:Alleged U.S. war criminals deleted. See discussion.
• March 5, 2005: Category:2006 births deleted. See discussion.
• March 5, 2005: Various Oscar-winner categories were kept. See discussion.
• March 4, 2005: Category:Scientology lawsuits deleted. See discussion.
• March 4, 2005: Category:Publically Homophobic People deleted. See discussion.
• February 19, 2005: Category:Bisexual-related topics Category:Lesbian-related topics and Category:Gay-related topics deleted. No discussion found here.
• February 15, 2005: Category:Italian-American sporting legends was deleted as over-categorization. See discussion.
• February 12, 2005: Category:Ashlee Simpson deleted. See discussion.
• February 7, 2005: Category:English science fiction writers was kept. See discussion.
• January 20, 2005: Category:Long Hair people was deleted. See discussion. RedWolf
• January 15, 2005: Category:English zoologists added to resolved. See discussion.
• January 15, 2005: Category:Wiccans deleted in favour of Category:Wiccan people. See Category talk:Wiccan people. RedWolf
• January 14, 2005: Several "photographers by nationality" categories seem to have been kept. See discussion.
• January 14, 2005: Category:Residents of Birmingham, England deleted. See discussion.
• January 14, 2005: Category:Prime Ministers deleted in favour of Category:Prime ministers. See Category talk:Prime ministers. RedWolf
• January 10, 2005: Category:Jewish Russian people deleted. See discussion.
• January 10, 2005: Category:Jews kept. See discussion.
• January 10, 2005: Category:The Greatest Canadian was deleted in favor of full list on The Greatest Canadian.
• January 7, 2005: Category:Arabic poets was kept. A technical issue prompted it to be listed when it really wasn't needed. See discussion. RedWolf
• December 19, 2004: Category:Palestinian children killed by Israelis deleted. See discussion.
• December 10, 2004: Category:Mute recording artist deleted. See discussion.
• November 28, 2004: Category:Christians deleted. See discussion.
• November 20, 2004: Several Comics people categories were merged. See discussion.
• September 29, 2004: Categories for cricketers by skill and country were deleted as unnecessarily specific, with Category:Cricketers by skill and Category:Cricketers by nationality used instead.
• September 27, 2004: Category:Spin doctors was deleted as POV.
• September 12, 2004: Category:Deaths by year, Category:Births by year, and subcats were kept, see Wikipedia_talk:People_by_year/Delete.
• August 14, 2004: Category:African Americans was kept with 4 votes to keep and 4 votes to delete. See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:African Americans.
• August 2, 2004: Category:Gay people was deleted and its contents, as appropriate, merged to List of famous gay, lesbian or bisexual people. See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Gay people.
• August 2, 2004: Category:Notable South Africans was merged into Category:South African people and deleted
• Category:United States presidential candidates successfully decided on an inclusion policy and has been kept.
• Category:Goddesses of Dungeons & Dragons and Category:Gods of Dungeons & Dragons were merged into Category:Deities of Dungeons & Dragons.
• Category:American conservatives was deleted as POV
• Category:Neoconservatives was deleted as POV
• Category:Conservatives was deleted as POV
• Category:British conservatives was deleted as POV
• Category:Fictional gods and Category:Fictional goddesses were merged into Category;Fictional deities. See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Fictional gods and Category:Fictional goddesses.
• Category:Gay icons was kept after two discussions. See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Gay icons.
• Category:Olympic athletes and subcategories were deleted in favor of Category:Olympic competitors. See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Olympic athletes.
• Category:World War II veterans was kept. See Category talk:World War II veterans.
• Category:Diarists by nationality and subcategories were kept. See discussion.
• Category:Gay or lesbian politicians was deleted. See discussion.
• Category:Social justice was kept after a non-consensus 4-3 Delete on CFD followed by a non-consensus 6-4 Delete on vfd. See category talk page.
• Category:Ancient Peoples was merged with Category:Ancient peoples. Ancient Peoples is currently pending deletion. See discussion.

[edit] Transportation

• March 26, 2005: Category:Leeds Railways renamed. See discussion.
• March 14, 2005: Category:Italian Aircraft manufacturers deleted. Duplicate of Category:Italian aircraft manufacturers.
• March 14, 2005: Category:Interstate Highways in Alaska deleted. See discussion.
• March 14, 2005: Interstate Highways in Foo categories kept. See discussion.
• March 9, 2004: Category:New York City Subway stations with unique names deleted. See discussion.
• January 17, 2004: Category:Maryland State Highways deleted. See discussion.
• January 14, 2004: Category:New Jersey Highways deleted. See discussion.
• January 14, 2004: Category:Virginia State Highways deleted. See discussion.

[edit] Science and technology

• April 1, 2005: Category:Celestial dynamics found deleted. No opposition.
• April 1, 2005: Category:Manufacturing stubs found deleted with no opposition; superceded by Category:Industry stubs.
• March 25, 2005: Category:Hiv found deleted. No opposition.
• March 25, 2005: Category:Childhood disorders renamed to Category:Childhood psychiatric disorders. No opposition.
• March 25, 2005: Category:Miscellaneous disorders renamed to Category:Miscellaneous psychiatric disorders. No opposition.
• March 14, 2005: Category:Disorders deleted. discussion
• March 11, 2005: Category:Planetology move to Category:Planetary science. discussion
• March 11, 2005: Category:Combinatorial principles deleted. See discussion.
• March 11, 2005: Category:To do, Science deleted. See discussion.
• January 20, 2005: Category:Specialisms of medicine renamed to Category:Medical specialties. See discussion.
• January 16, 2005: Category:Fish by nationality deleted. See discussion.
• December 28, 2005: Category:Paediatrics renamed to Category:Pediatrics. See discussion.
• December 14, 2004: Category:List of galaxies was deleted. Galaxy articles belong in more specific sub-categories of Category:Galaxies. See discussion.
• December 14, 2004: Category:List of stars was deleted and its contents were moved to sub-categories of Category:Stars. See discussion.
• December 1, 2004: Category:Automata was kept as a subcategory of Category:Computational models. See discussion.
• November 11, 2004: Objects in the extrasolar system and subcategories. See discussion.
• October 31, 2004: Category:Strongly-typed programming languages and Category:Weakly-typed programming languages were deleted (this is not a useful distinction, see Strongly-typed programming language).
• September 15, 2004: Category:Popular_programming_languages was deleted (inherently POV).
• September 15, 2004: Category:Compiled_programming_languages and Category:Interpreted_languages were deleted because (aside from being empty), programming languages (at least) usually can be both compiled and interpreted.
• September 7, 2004: Category:Life was deleted (confusingly named, see Category:Biology, Category:Origin of life, and Category:Tree of life instead).

[edit] Spelling and usage

• April 1, 2005: Category:People From Baltimore deleted. Replaced with Category:People from Baltimore. No opposition.
• March 6, 2005: Category:Spies by Period was deleted. Replaced with Category:Spies by period
• March 4, 2005: Category:Cardiovascular disease was deleted. See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Cardiovascular disease.
• February 17, 2005: Category:Disability studies was deleted. See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Category:Disability studies.
• December 3, 2004: Category:Pages containing IPA was kept. Discussion is located here Category talk:Pages containing IPA.
• US/U.S./United States : See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/US vs U.S.. According to the Manual of Style, U.S. is preferred over US. It may be appropriate to write out United States in some cases.
• Category:Colour was deleted as redundant with Category:Color. Both spellings are equally acceptable in articles, but for categories, it is necessary to make a choice. In this case, Category:Color was in existence first and has precedence.

[edit] Sports

• April 7, 2005 Category:Negro league baseball players deleted. No discussion; one vote for deletion.
• March 25, 2005 Category:New York Giants deleted. See discussion.
• Category:Golf clubs; Category:Golf courses; category:Golf courses, Canada; Category:British golf clubs; Category:Canadian golf clubs; and Category:British golf courses. All empty, or will be when the database is updated. No objections were made to combining into category:Golf clubs and courses and its sub-cats. Wincoote 19:27, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Category:Major League catchers was deleted and Category:Major league catchers kept. According to MisfitToys, "The lower-case usage is appropriate when referring to "the major leagues" as opposed to the governing entity "Major League Baseball".
• In general, plural forms of team names are preferred. For example, Category:Chicago Colts players, not Category:Chicago Colt players (the latter was deleted).

[edit] Religion and philosophy

• April 7, 2005 Category:Kanchi_Shankaracharyas deleted. No opposition.
• March 8, 2005 Category:Churches of Ontario deleted. See discussion.
• March 8, 2005 Category:Clerics by nationality deleted. See discussion.
• March 4, 2005 Category:Austrian Jews (alphabetical order) deleted. See discussion.
• March 4, 2005 Category:Jewish deleted. See discussion.
• March 4, 2005 Category:Prominent Jews deleted. See discussion.
• February 10, 2005: Category:Possible successors to Pope John Paul II was deleted. Consensus was this was better served by a list. See discussion.
• December 23, 2004: Category:Thealogy was kept as a redirect to Category:Theology. The former term is sometimes used, but the terms are close enough that two categories are unnecessary (and somewhat confusing).
• November 25, 2004 Category:Bible stories deleted. See Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Bible stories.
• November 21, 2004 Category:Advocacy deleted. See discussion.
• August 1, 2004: Category:Theosophists and Category:Theosophist organizations were deleted (too specific) and their contents were merged to Category:Theosophy.
• August 1, 2004: Satanist subcategories: Category:Satanist gods, Category:Satanist organizations, Category:Satanist texts, and Category:Satanists were deleted (too specific) and merged into Category:Satanism.
• June 27, 2004: Category:Left-Hand_Path and Category:Right-Hand_Path were deleted (vague and POV) with useful contents merged to Left-Hand Path and Right-Hand Path.

[edit] Wikipedia

• April 10, 2005: Category:Active Wikipedia votes deleted. No opposition.
• March 21, 2005: Category:Alternative medicine stubs was kept. See discussion.
• March 21, 2005: Category:Economic Stubs renamed to Category:Economics and finance stubs. See discussion.
• March 11, 2005: Category:Images of people with little clothing and Category:Images containing nudity were kept. See discussion.
• January 10, 2005: Category:Main page deleted. See discussion.
• December 18, 2004: Category:Wikipedian_journalists was kept. Category:Wikipedians and sub-categories are acceptable for user pages. Discussion moved to Category talk:Wikipedian journalists.
• September 11, 2004: Category:GFDL images was kept.
• September 3, 2004: Category:Unusual articles was deleted (POV and self-referential, see Wikipedia:Unusual articles instead).
• August 28, 2004: Category:A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature was kept as a temporary aid to editors and added to Category:Cleanup (now Category:Wikipedia cleanup).

[edit] Entertainment

• April 10, 2005 Category:Computer and video games by name deleted.
• April 8, 2005 Category:1 hit wonders deleted. See discussion.
• April 6, 2005 Category:A albums kept even with 1 article. See discussion.
• April 4, 2005 Category:2010 movies found deleted. See discussion.
• March 30, 2005 Category:Mortal Combat found deleted. No opposition.
• March 30, 2005 Category:Middle-earth horses found deleted. No opposition or discussion.
• March 28, 2005 Category:Locations in the EverQuest universe, Category:Luclin, Category:EverQuest cities, Category:EverQuest dungeons, and Category:EverQuest zones deleted. No opposition.
• March 11, 2005 Future years in film categories kept. See discussion.
• March 8, 2005: Category:Monty Python musicals deleted. See discussion.
• March 7, 2005 Category:Musical fiction found deleted. See discussion.
• February 10, 2005: Category:Pokémon and Digimon deleted and former two categories restored. See discussion.
• February 2, 2005: Category:Playstation games deleted due to existing Category:PlayStation games. See discussion.
• January 18, 2005: Category:Fair games was deleted. See discussion. RedWolf 05:50, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)
• January 14, 2005: Keep Category:Silverchair and Category:Silverchair_albums but delete Category:Silverchair members. The discussion has been moved to Category talk:Silverchair.
• January 14, 2005: Category:Lemon Jelly albums has been kept. See discussion at Category talk:Lemon Jelly albums.
• January 14, 2005: Category:Cheech and Chong Movies was renamed and deleted. See discussion.
• January 7, 2005: Category:ProSiebenSat1 (tv networks) was deleted. No objections or comments while listed. RedWolf 04:20, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)
• December 28, 2004: Category:Proprietary games was deleted. See discussion. RedWolf 00:43, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC)
• December 5, 2004: Category:Unfair games was deleted. See discussion RedWolf 04:11, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Misc

• April 19, 2005: Category:Dewey Decimal Classification deleted. See final part of discussion
• April 11, 2005: Category:Milli Vanilli deleted.
• April 10, 2005: Category:Binary digits, Category:Ternary digits, Category:Hexadecimal digit and Category:Roman numeral symbol, Category:Digits deleted. See discussion.
• April 8, 2005: Category:Buzzwords kept. See discussion.
• April 7, 2005: Category:Cocaine deleted. No discussion; 1 vote for deletion.
• April 7, 2005: Category:Orders of magnitude (numbers) found deleted. No opposition.
• April 7, 2005: Category:Potato varieties. No discussion; 1 vote for deletion.
• April 7, 2005: Category:Indefinite large numbers found deleted. No opposition.
• April 6, 2005: Categories of Numbers were all deleted. See discussion.
• April 6, 2005: Category:Places in Hong Kong kept. See discussion.
• April 5, 2005: Category:Doctor Who planets kept. See discussion.
• April 5, 2005: Category:Harry Potter parodies renamed. See discussion.
• April 1, 2005: Cities in the United States kept. See discussion.
• March 31, 2005: Category:Peak Oil renamed to Category:Peak oil. See discussion.
• March 28, 2005: Category:High schools in Washington, DC deleted as a duplicate of Category:High schools in the District of Columbia.
• March 26, 2005: Something by country - Strongly opposed. See discussion
• March 21, 2005: Category:Youth organisations of Singapore deleted. See discussion.
• March 20, 2005: Category:Places and its subcats were deleted. See discussion.
• March 18, 2005: Category:Analogy articles deleted. See discussion.
• March 18, 2005: Category:Tourist attractions in California was kept. See discussion.
• March 15, 2005: Category:Castles in America deleted. See discussion.
• March 15, 2005: Category:Literary Suicides deleted. See discussion.
• March 13, 2005: Category:Turbans deleted. No notable discussion.
• March 12, 2005: Category:Japanese Translation requests deleted. See discussion.
• March 9, 2005: Category:Native American languages kept. discussion.
• March 8, 2005: Category:Health fraud deleted. See discussion.
• March 6, 2005: Category:Precedents and examples deleted. See discussion.
• March 4, 2005: Category:Embezzlement deleted. Empty, no discussion.
• February 28, 2005: Category:FunBrain.com and Category:FunBrain arcade categories deleted. See discussion.
• February 27, 2005: Category:Wonders of the World deleted. See discussion (plus previous discussion).
• February 18, 2005: Category:Campus organisations merged into Category:Student societies. See discussion.
• February 8, 2005: Category:Books by title and its subcategories. Consensus was to delete all the subcats as MediaWiki software can now manage large categories better. See discussion.
• February 1, 2005: Category:Possibly offensive images was deleted as POV. See discussion.
• January 21, 2005: Category:World was deleted. See discussion.
• January 18, 2005: Category:Languages of Gambia renamed to Category:Languages of the Gambia. See discussion.
• January 16, 2005: Category:Copyright Expired Encyclopedias renamed to Category:Public domain encyclopedias. See discussion.
• January 14, 2004: Category:Autobiography (album) deleted. See discussion.
• January 11, 2005: Category:Steam locomotives was kept. See discussion. RedWolf 00:36, Jan 28, 2005 (UTC)
• January 9, 2005: Category:British misuse of drugs act deleted. See discussion.
• January 9, 2005: Category:Pro-Life deleted. See discussion.
• January 8, 2005: Category:Fortune Global 500 deleted. See discussion.
• January 8, 2005: Category:Fastener deleted in favour of Category:Fasteners. No objections. Note that the category cannot currently be deleted due to block compressed revisions but has been placed on CSD. RedWolf 18:12, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)
• January 7, 2005: Category:2004 Indian Ocean earthquake victims deleted. See discussion.
• January 2, 2005: Category:Supermarkets in the United Kingdom was deleted without proper procedure. See discussion. RedWolf 04:29, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)
• December 21, 2004: Category:The Cantos was deleted (topic better suited to a list). See discussion.
• December 20, 2004: Category:Megatokyo deleted. See discussion.
• December 19, 2004: Category:Stub was kept. See Category talk:Stub. RedWolf 17:52, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)
• November 7, 2004: Category:Seven Sisters schools deleted. See discussion.
• November 3, 2004: Category:Parental discretion advised deleted. See discussion.