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

Image edit

Option A edit

Arabian Peninsula

Option B edit

The Arabian Peninsula (with links to categories for neighboring regions)

Option C edit

Links to categories for fauna of neighboring regions
Western Asia
North Africa	Arabian Peninsula
	Indian Ocean

Option D edit

CFD? edit

etc

Current edit

Namespace-Category analysis edit

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. [1].
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:
- Wikipedia:Files for upload/September 2016

Categories edit

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

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

2018 edit

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

Categorization of plants/animals by geography edit

See User:DexDor/BioGeoCat

Category:Birds of the Yucatán Peninsula Great curassow

Categories to be CFDed edit

2020 edit

2019 edit

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 Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2013_December_3#Category:Countries_bordering_water_bodies
Category:Criminal activities by perpetrator
Category:Cold water fish - e.g. Apache trout

2017 edit

Category:People associated with Westminster Abbey - see Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_January_24#People_associated_with_cathedrals

Ship/survivors edit

Category:People by occupation edit

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

Category:Military equipment by war edit

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 edit

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" edit

Category:Modern weapons

Sports venues edit

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 edit

"Category:Robin Hood locations" was CFDed 10/5/2013

Mountains on the Appalachian Trail etc edit

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

Plant common names edit

Category:Māori plant common names was CFDed with listify result

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

Words edit

Category:Australian Aboriginal words and phrases

Cars by race edit

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 edit

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

Acronyms and initialisations edit

(after purging)

Upmerge Category:Acronyms to Category:Abbreviations
Upmerge Category:Initialisms to Category:Abbreviations

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.

Remove the word "present" from category name edit

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

Important Bird Areas edit

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 edit

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 edit

Category:Universities_and_colleges_by_association

COP#N edit

Example re WP:COP#N: 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" edit

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):