User:Plasmic Physics/Categories for discussion


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Categories for discussion (Cfd) is where deletion, merging, and renaming of categories is discussed. Categories are used to organize other pages and aid browsing of related articles.

Unless the change is non-controversial (such as vandalism or a duplicate), please do not remove the category from pages before the community has made a decision.

Categories that have been listed for more than seven days are eligible for deletion, renaming or merging when a rough consensus to do so has been reached or no objections to the nomination have been raised.

When a category is renamed or merged with another category, it may be helpful to use the template at the old category title.

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Special notes
Categories relating to stub articles should not be nominated here. If a group nomination of several similarly-named categories includes one or more stub categories, it is usual for non-stub categories to be nominated here, only once a decision has been reached on the non-stub types. As stub category names usually - though not always - follow permanent category naming, resulting changes to stub categories would frequently be considered as speediable.

When nominating a category, it's helpful to add a notice on the talk page of the most-closely related article. Doing so would not only extend an additional courtesy, but possibly also bring in editors who know more about the subject at hand. You can use for this.

If a category is only used as generated by a template, and that template is deleted, then the category can be deleted as well as long as it was nominated along with the template, or mentioned early in the discussion.