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Option A

Arabian Peninsula
This category is for articles about fauna native to the Arabian Peninsula (Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen).

Option B

The Arabian Peninsula (with links to categories for neighboring regions)
This category is for articles about fauna native to the Arabian Peninsula (Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen).

Option C

This category is for articles about fauna native to the Arabian Peninsula (Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen).
Links to categories for fauna of neighboring regions
Western Asia
North Africa Arabian Peninsula
Indian Ocean

Option D

This category is for articles about fauna native to the Arabian Peninsula (Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen).


CFD?

etc

Current


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:

Categories


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


2018


Categorization of plants/animals by geography

See User:DexDor/BioGeoCat


Category:Birds of the Yucatán Peninsula Great curassow

Categories to be CFDed

2020

2019

2017

Ship/survivors

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 aircraft by war‎ (2 C)
OK

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"

Sports venues

Category:1928 Summer Olympic venues was CFDed.

Locations by fictional association

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

Mountains on the Appalachian Trail etc

Plant common names

Category:Māori plant common names was CFDed with listify result

Words

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

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.

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#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"

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):

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.

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