Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working

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If process guidelines are met, move categories to the appropriate section here to prepare to delete.

Before deleting a category, please ensure that it is empty.

Please help keep this page clean! Listings that have already been dealt with need to be removed quickly.

Discussions awaiting closure

List of links to individual open discussions (>7 days old): Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Old unclosed discussions
Full text of all open discussions (>7 days old): Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/All old discussions
List of days with open discussions (>7 days old): included below from Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Awaiting closure

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 23 (33 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 22 (12 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 21 (6 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 20 (1 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 19 (1 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 18 (4 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 16 (3 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 14 (4 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 13 (3 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 12 (1 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 10 (1 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 7 (1 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 2 (1 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 October 25 (1 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 October 24 (1 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 October 23 (2 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 October 21 (1 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 October 19 (1 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 October 13 (1 open)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 October 10 (1 open)

Closing procedure

Bot

JJMC89 bot III (contribs · logs · docs) processes the requests on this page. It currently checks for new work at 17 and 47 minutes past the hour, however it may be in the middle of processing a large run at that time and hence not start another run.

Process

The working page must have full (sysop) edit protection.
The bot can only recategorize when a page is categorized using category syntax ([[Category:Foo]]).

The bot iterates over each section of the page using the section header to determine the mode.
Within a section the bot iterates over each line if wikitext.
- Each line consists of three parts: prefix, wikilinks/templates, and suffix. Everything else is ignored.
  - All wikilinks on the line
    - They must be to a CfD page or a category. The bot will not process the rest of the section if any other wikilink is found.
    - If a CfD link does not contain a section, the bot will attempt figure it out based on the linked CfD page.
  - Configured templates can be used to link categories. All other templates are ignored.
  - The prefix is the plain text at the beginning of the line.
    - The prefix on a line with a CfD link applies to all lines until the next CfD link.
    - If the prefix contains "NO BOT" (case sensitive), the bot will not queue it. (These should be placed on WP:CFD/W/M instead.)
  - The suffix is the plain text at the end of the line.
    - The suffix on a line with a CfD link applies to all lines until the next CfD link unless that line has a suffix.
If a CfD link was found and there is at least one category link is on the line, the bot will queue the request.
After queueing the entire page, the bot will remove any conflicting requests and requests involving disambiguation categories from the queue and then check and process the remaining requests.

Bot work

If the category needs to be split among multiple destination categories, requires template editing, or requires editing the documentation subpage of templates, or any other special circumstances that require manual review, list it at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual rather than here.

If a category or group nomination has over 5,000 members to be updated by bot, list it at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Large.

Speedy moves

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy

None currently

Move

Bot information

The bot moves the category to a target category without leaving a redirect and removes the {{cfx full}} template.
If the prefix contains "REDIRECT" (case sensitive), then the bot will leave a redirect.
Checks:
- The current category cannot be the move target.
- There must be one move target on the line.
- If the current category is a redirect, then the target must exist.
- The target must not be a redirect.

None currently

Merge then delete

Bot information

The bot merges the category to one or more target categories and deletes the empty category.
If the prefix contains "REDIRECT" (case sensitive) and there is a single merge target, then the bot will redirect the category to the target using {{category redirect}} instead of deleting it and add {{old CfD}} to the talk page.
Checks:
- The current category cannot be a merge target.
- There must be one or more merge targets on the line.
- All merge targets must exist and not be a redirect.

Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2025 November 20

Empty then delete

Bot information

The bot removes the category from all pages and deletes the empty category.
Checks:
- There must be one category on the line.

None currently

Retain

Bot information

The bot removes the {{cfx full}} template and adds {{old CfD}} to the talk page.
If the suffix does not contain the discussion action and result for {{old CfD}}, the bot will attempt figure them out based on the linked CfD page.
On the working page, the action/result must be one of the following.
- no consensus (for|to) action
- not action
- keep (The action is assumed to be delete.)
Checks:
- There must be one category on the line.
- There must be an action and result (on the line or bot detected).

Old by month categories with entries

This section lists old maintenance categories that should be empty but are not. This can result from reversions of pages, incomplete nominations, bot errors, backlogs or pending manual work.

Category:Categories for discussion from September 2025 (39) – started with 876 to be processed
Category:Categories for discussion from October 2025 (759) – started with 2075 to be processed