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Categories for discussion/Old unclosed discussions


 * Uncategorized articles - https://tools.wmflabs.org/dplbot/cat/uncategorized_articles.php

CFD?
etc
 * Category:Critics of Lamarckism
 * Category:Garden pests
 * Category:Disused trilobite generic names
 * Category:Railway stations with vitreous enamel panels
 * Category:Discovered cryopreserved organisms
 * Category:CS1
 * Category:Miscellaneous Vancouver articles
 * Category:MPs for rotten boroughs
 * Category:Cartoon controversies
 * Categories_for_discussion/Log/2020_January_23
 * Category:Natural monuments in Germany
 * Category:Cultural monuments of Slovenia
 * Category:Recipients of Engineers Australia engineering heritage markers

Current

 * Category:Animal rescue groups - Text says it's about pets...


 * Remove some pages from Category:Pejorative terms for people.


 * Category:Scheduling class cfd
 * Category:Mathematical kinds (grouping)
 * Category:Category (grouping) cfd
 * Category:Mathematical classifications
 * Category:Travel classes
 * Category:Class (grouping) cfd
 * Category:Mankind (grouping)
 * Category:Humankind (grouping)
 * Category:Kind (grouping) cfd
 * Category:Assignment operations
 * Category:Equivalent units cfd
 * Category:Future supercontinents
 * Category:Future entities
 * Category:Former cratons
 * Category:Former supercontinents
 * Category:Equivalence classes
 * Category:Equivalence operations redir
 * Category:Equivalence cfd
 * Category:Distance
 * Category:Nullary operations cfd
 * Category:Unary operations cfd
 * Category:Simplifications cfd

Namespace-Category analysis

 * Category:Articles has been repurposed (to cover admin related to articles, but couldn't that include all wp admin?) - either reverse that (after discussion) or make corresponding changes to NSCat.
 * Keep using category intersection to spot anomalies and fix them - e.g..
 * Fully resolve (RFC?) (not) categorizing templates as articles.
 * Investigate whether an edit filter or a bot (like DPL Bot) could be used to detect/prevent/fix edits (e.g. to talk pages) that add a category tag.
 * To be fixed:
 * Files for upload/September 2016

Categories

 * See Categories_for_discussion/Log/2017_May_18
 * Improve wording of Template:Template category - e.g. other namespace, not in content cats (Oct 2017) ?
 * Database reports/Self-categorized categories

Category:Fauna of Andorra Category:Fauna of Lithuania Category:Fauna of Latvia Category:Fauna of Estonia

2018

 * Category:Fish of Europe - Move articles down to freshwater etc subcats

Categorization of plants/animals by geography
See User:DexDor/BioGeoCat

Category:Birds of the Yucatán Peninsula Great curassow

2020

 * Category:Health facilities that treated Ebola patients
 * Category:Quarantine facilities designated for the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic
 * Category:Glottonyms
 * Category:Car bombs

2019

 * Category:Microfungi
 * Category:Subarctic
 * Category:Worms of New Zealand - Category:Worms is a disambiguation category and the article says "Worms are many different distantly related animals that typically have ....".
 * Category:Endangered species of the British Isles
 * Category:Art Deco ships etc e.g. see RMS Olympic
 * Category:Tyrannoraptora
 * Category:Rebellious princes
 * Category:Recipients of grants/fellowships from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
 * Category:Jewish Australian academics (That it was created without any parent categories is an indication the intent was more to label than to categorize.)
 * Category:Seas of Africa - e.g. see Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_December_3
 * Category:Criminal activities by perpetrator
 * Category:Cold water fish - e.g. Apache trout

2017

 * Category:People associated with Westminster Abbey - see Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_January_24

Ship/survivors

 * Category:Ships lost with all hands (CFD was no consensus)
 * Category:Ships sunk with no fatalities

Category:People by occupation
"Category:Waitresses" (was deleted by CFD).

Category:Military equipment by war
Mosin–Nagant is a good example of how many wars a weapon can be used in.

One problem with these categories is that an editor might see that an article is in (for example) Category:World War II artillery of the United Kingdom and assume (not unreasonably) that the category is for weapons used by the UK in WWII - they then go and place the article in categories for other countries.


 * Examples of CFDs:

Falklands War weapons, Military equipment of the Iraq War‎, Military equipment of the Korean War‎, Military equipment of the Kosovo War‎, Military equipment of the Spanish Civil War‎, Military equipment of the Second Sino-Japanese War‎, Military equipment of the Vietnam War‎, Military equipment of the Gulf War‎ , Military equipment of the Second Boer War‎ + CFD Feb 16


 * To be considered


 * Category:Military equipment of the Cold War‎ (8 C, 12 P)


 * Category:Military equipment of World War I‎ (19 C, 7 P)


 * Category:Military equipment of World War II‎ (26 C, 22 P, 1 F)


 * Category:Military aircraft by war‎ (2 C)


 * OK
 * Category:Ships by conflict‎ (18 C)

Category:Military aircraft by war‎
In WP we don't generally categorize mass-produced items by either who uses them (countries, armed forces etc) or when/where they were used (e.g. in a particular conflict). This is because some some types (e.g. CH-47) could be in dozens (possibly hundreds) of such categories (Mosin–Nagant is a non-aviation example). In other words we don't usually consider usage to be a defining characteristic. For example "Category:Military aircraft of the Korean War" was deleted. However there are many military aircraft of the World War I/II era for which it would not be totally unreasonable to begin an article with something like "The Avro Lancaster was the RAF's main heavy bomber during World War II. It was also used ..." - i.e. it's not so easy to show that usage isn't a defining characteristic. Thus we currently have hundreds of aircraft types categorized in Category:Military aircraft by war - a category structure that is not mentioned at WP:AIR/C. That category comes up in discussions from time-to-time (e.g. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft in late June 2013). We could accept these categories (i.e. modify WP:AIR/C to cover them), take them to CFD now (but I think that's likely to face opposition), or work to replace them by lists/categories (i.e. take them to CFD when it can be shown that they are not needed).

Note: This only affects articles about aircraft types; it may be reasonable to categorize an article about an individual aircraft by events that it's notable for.

Similar issues may arise in other parts of the Category:Military equipment by war tree, but that's outside the scope of this discussion.

It may well be that the Category:Military aircraft by war categories were created in the early days of WP when only the most prominent aircraft had articles.

Templates and lists can be more flexible than categories.

Phasing out "modern"

 * Category:Modern weapons

Sports venues
Category:1928 Summer Olympic venues was CFDed.
 * Category:Olympic cycling venues - The Olympics are not a WP:DEFINING characteristic for subjects such as Amsterdam and Stone Mountain so articles about such subjects should be removed from this category. The category would then no longer contain all the Olympic cycling venues and the list article (List of Olympic venues in cycling) would serve readers better. This is a test case as similar logic could be applied to many other categories in Category:Sports venues by competition.


 * Subcats of Category:Sports venues by competition - see Category:1928 Summer Olympic venues CFD.

Locations by fictional association
"Category:Robin Hood locations" was CFDed 10/5/2013
 * Category:Places in the Ramayana and Category:Kingdoms in the Ramayana
 * Category:Locations associated with Arthurian legend was CFDd in 2013 with a NC result (and later renamed)
 * Category:Locations in the Iliad - was CFDd in 2013 with a NC result

Mountains on the Appalachian Trail etc

 * Category:Mountains on the Appalachian Trail - CFD
 * (Other cats listed in this CFD)

Plant common names
Category:Māori plant common names was CFDed with listify result


 * Category:Plant common names contains Category:Berries...

Words

 * Category:Australian Aboriginal words and phrases

Cars by race
Category:24 Hours of Le Mans race cars - CFD

Category:Mille Miglia some of the articles in the category don't even mention it

Sacred sites

 * Category:Sacred mountains (CFDd on 11/5/2013 - no consensus)
 * Category:Sacred sites and subcats

Acronyms and initialisations
(after purging) Rationale: The distinction between acronyms/initialisms/abbreviations these isn't clear (e.g. see ????). This merge may reduce the rate at which pages (e.g. dab pages) are placed in the category inappropriately.
 * Upmerge Category:Acronyms to Category:Abbreviations
 * Upmerge Category:Initialisms to Category:Abbreviations

Remove the word "present" from category name

 * Rename Category:War in Afghanistan (2015–present) to ??? - CFD (no consensus)

Important Bird Areas
Category:Important Bird Areas CFD (it and?) all its subcats - start by testing with Antarctica article ? There are some list articles that may need to be upmerged The somewhat similar (albeit much smaller) Important Plant Areas category was deleted by this CFD.

Motorsport HoF
Category:West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame inductees For information: There is a much more comprehensive list in the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame article. Previous CFDs for motorsport HoFs include this.

University associations
Category:Universities_and_colleges_by_association

COP#N
Example re WP:COP: Clint Eastwood "He worked at a number of jobs, including lifeguard, paper carrier, grocery clerk, forest firefighter, and golf caddy." (Sep 2013)

Categories that are dubious re "defining"
Some examples of categories that (at least last time I looked at them) appeared to contain mainly articles that are inappropriate for that category (i.e. it's not a defining characteristic of the subject):
 * Category:The Leading Hotels of the World (there's already a list article)
 * Category:United States Marine Corps equipment
 * Category:Terminology
 * Category:Symbols of Vermont, Wisconsin ...
 * Category:Jamaican cuisine
 * Category:Survival skills, Category:Scoutcraft, ...
 * Films set in - e.g. see Talk:There%27s_Something_About_Mary

Dabs/SIAs
Example that was SIA, but named dab Polar-class icebreaker (disambiguation)

Example re SIA: Konkan (disambiguation)

Example: Tropical Storm Alice

Category:Disambig-Class Ships articles

Misc
Category:Television series revived after cancellation

Category:Board game gameplay and terminology

Category:Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ship names

Portal:Contents/Glossaries

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alma_Zack&diff=prev&oldid=804991669 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karine_Nahon&diff=prev&oldid=805353030

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AKevin_Olusola&type=revision&diff=765218494&oldid=765206253

Category talk:I Ching is in I Ching cat.