TechInfoDepot:Categories for discussion

Categories for discussion (Cfd) is where deletion, merging, and renaming of categories (pages in the Category namespace) is discussed. Stub types templates are also discussed here. Categories are used to organize other pages and aid browsing of related articles. See How to use this page for the official rules of this page, guidelines for Speedy Deletion and Speedy Renaming, and how to do cleanup. See TechInfoDepot:Naming conventions (categories) for the policies guiding many renaming decisions.

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 Category redirect template at the old category title. See below for more.

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 * Previous 8 to 21 days
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Special notes
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 Cfd-article for this.

Categories that should exist but are missing articles or subcategories should be added to Category:Underpopulated categories using Popcat.

If a category is only used as generated by a template (e.g. Category:Foo Stubs to correspond with Template:Foo-stub), and that template is deleted by regular WP:TFD or WP:SFD process, then the category can be deleted as well as long as it was nominated along with the template, or mentioned early in the discussion.

Categories possibly emptied out of process
Note. Categories listed here will be automatically moved to Category:Candidates for speedy deletion after 96 hours. Note. Due to limits of the software, all contents of the category may not be displayed. View the category directly to see all contents.