Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy

Speedy renaming and speedy merging

Categories may be listed here if they fall under the criteria specified below. Deletion and de-listing may occur after 48 hours if there are no objections. They must be tagged with {{subst:cfr-speedy|new name}} so that users of the categories are aware of the proposal. This delay is to allow for objections over correct spelling, etc. to be made and to ensure that items are not listed here that do not meet the criteria.

Categories that qualify for speedy deletion (per Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion, e.g. "patent nonsense", "recreation", empty categories (that have been empty for four days) can be tagged with the regular speedy tags, such as {{db|reason}}, and no delay is required for these.

Contested requests can be removed from this list after 48 hours. If the nominator wants to continue the process they need to submit the request as a regular CfD using the instructions above.

Speedy criteria

Criteria for speedy deletion, renaming, or merging are strictly limited to:

From 20 November 2009 to 4 December 2013 the policy page Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion transcluded the criteria for deletion of categories from a discussion page instead of having them directly coded in the policy page. To see the history of that section of the speedy deletion policy during that period, see the editing history of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy/Criteria. For current discussion page for the same material see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy#Speedy criteria.

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 one of the criteria listed above, 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 here

If the category and desired change do not match one of the criteria in C2 listed above, 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:

* [[:Category:OLD name]] to [[:Category:NEW name]] ~~~~

Don't forget to tag the category with {{subst:Cfr-speedy|new name}}

Please add new entries at the top of the list and sign and date stamp your entries with ~~~~.

A request may be completed if it is more than 48 hours old; that is, the time stamp shown is 11:42, 30 June 2024 (UTC) or earlier.

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• Category:Estonian flags to Category:Flags of Estonia C2.C, convention of Category:Flags by country — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 09:11, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Rat carried diseases to Category:Rat-carried diseases C2.A — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 09:09, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Dance companies of Australia to Category:Dance companies in Australia - C2.C. — ξ^xplicit 08:01, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
• Category:English-Romanians to Category:Romanian people of English descent C2.C — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 21:29, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
• Category:French-Romanians to Category:Romanian people of French descent C2.C — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 21:28, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Afro-Romanian people to Category:Romanian people of Black African descent C2.C, standard format of Category:People of Black African descent and most other "national or ethnic descent" categories — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 21:27, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Arica y Parinacota Region to Category:Arica and Parinacota Region C2.A, WP:UE; — rename to replace Spanish "y" with "and", which is the true name of the main article. Ruodyssey (talk) 11:11, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
• Category:War Cemeteries in Italy to Category:War cemeteries in Italy C2.A caps — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 23:11, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Former Toll roads in Australia to Category:Former toll roads in Australia C2.A caps — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 23:09, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Angola martial artists to Category:Angolan martial artists — C2.C per convention of Category:Angolan people and its sub-cats. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:59, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Americans of Swiss-German descent to Category:American people of Swiss-German descent C2.C per standard format selected recently — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 22:41, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Americans of Quechua descent to Category:American people of Quechua descent C2.C per standard format selected recently — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 22:37, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Americans of Native American descent to Category:American people of Native American descent C2.C per standard format selected recently — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 22:37, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Americans of Acadian descent to Category:American people of Acadian descent C2.C per standard format selected recently — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 22:37, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
• Category:Spanish Guamanians to Category:Guam people of Spanish descent C2.C per standard format selected recently; "Guamanian" seems to be reserved for the indigenous inhabitants, the Chamorro people. — Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 22:09, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

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Nominations with objections or that don't meet speedy criteria will be dropped from this list if not taken to a full CfD.

• Category:Convicted book-thieves to Category:Book thieves C2.C, per sibling categories Category:Art thieves and Category:Jewel thieves Shawn in Montreal (talk) 04:22, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
  • I think having "convicted" on all of these may be a good idea for BLP and other reasons. Good Ol’factory ^(talk) 08:58, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
    • Oppose per GO. Much better to retain the word convicted. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:33, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

• Category:National Insitute of Technology Tiruchirapalli alumni to Category:National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli alumni I made a typo while creating this category. Sorry for the trouble. Mgtm7m (talk) 14:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
  • Oppose. Head article is at National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 22:56, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
    • Comment. At first, I just wanted to correct the spelling errors in 'Institute' and 'Tiruchirappalli' but later i thought a comma might be appropriate. I did change the head article title to introduce a comma but another editor reasoned in the edit summary that the official webpage didn't display a comma and changed it back. However, I still think a comma is necessary due to the following:

1. It is a National Institute of Technology located at Tiruchirappalli and its name is just National Institute of Technology. The city name is only necessary to differentiate this institue from other National Institutes of Technology located at various other cities. Also please note that other Institutes of National Importance like the Indian Institutes of Technology have the city name as a integral part of the institue name like IITD, IITM etc. But this is not the case for the NITs.

2. Here's the Act of Parliament that recognized NITs as Institutes of National Importance. It clearly mentions the correct name of all the NITs including the comma.[1]

3. The official webpage is maintained by a webteam made of 3rd and 4th year students[2] and although I am sure that they provide accurate info on the website, a missing comma or punctuation wont be a high priority. In this regard it is better to go by the official communication put out by the administration of the institute like tender advts., recruitment notices etc. like here.[3]and[4]

4. One more important pointer to the exact name of the institute is the official contact address provided by it. It makes it clear whether the institute name includes the city name or not. As can be seen here,[5], it mentions the city name seperately from the institute name viz. Natioanal Institute of Technology. In contrast see IITD address here,[6] where they mention the institute name viz. IITD and then mention the city name, New Delhi seperately.

5. I also propose that the names of cities be removed entirely from some NITs wikipage titles that have been named after eminent persons like Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat for the reason that the names of all these institutes are already unique and dont need the city name to further identify/differentiate them.

P.S :I am not able to bring everything in the same indent. Kindly format them if you can. --Mgtm7m (talk) 21:55, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Ready for deletion

Check Category:Empty categories awaiting deletion for out of process deletions. In most 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.

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