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Contents

1 Intro and Instructions

1.1 High-level categories
1.2 Obsolete categories
1.3 Underpopulated categories
1.4 Geographical locations
1.5 Tree of Life

2 Manually detected

3 Automatically detected

3.1 Semi-automated suggestions
3.2 Old orphans under discussion
3.3 Detected 15 Nov 2004

3.3.1 Empty 15 Nov 2004

3.4 Detected 26 Nov 2004

4 Ignoring

Intro and Instructions

This is a category for categories that need parenting. (For projects related to categorizing articles, see Wikipedia:Categorization projects (current). May we recommend Articles that need manual categorization (by topic) if you just want to help categorize articles.)

Someone who has a good idea where these should go should edit them. It might be a good idea to try to follow any guides in Wikipedia:Categorization or Wikipedia:Category or Lists of articles by category.

High-level categories

Legitimately top-level categories should be added to Category:Fundamental so they will not show up on automated scans, and to make a canonical list for reference and editing.

Obsolete categories

Categories that were created by mistake or which have been or should be merged into a more appropriate category should usually be deleted after they are empty. To do this, edit the category and add the text {{cfd}} at the top of the file. Then make an entry on the page Wikipedia:Categories for deletion. Note that categories that are red do not need to be deleted. As long as they have zero subcategories and zero articles, they are effectively gone from the system.

Underpopulated categories

Categories that have been de-orphaned and need to be populated with existing articles rather than deleted can be added to Category:Underpopulated categories.

Geographical locations

You may wish to start hunting for parents for place-names at Category:Geography.

Tree of Life

Articles and categories regarding plants and animals belong in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life; those needing help should be listed in Category:ToL cleanup.

Manually detected

The following are subcategories of this category, but have not been listed on WP:CFD.

Automatically detected

User:Beland occasionally runs scripts on database dump to detect orphaned categories. (User:ssd and User:Anthony_DiPierro also have automated tools to generate candidates for this page.) Unresolved orphans are dumped below, sorted by date of detection, the number of subcategories and articles at the time of detection (this is the number in parentheses), and then alphabetically.

Categories at the top of the list (high numbers) are likely to be needed, popular with readers, and probably just need to be categorized appropriately. (But be sure to check that the orphaned category shouldn't be merged with an existing category instead.)

Categories at the bottom of the list (low numbers) are likely to be misspellings or redundant with an existing category. In this case, move the articles and subcategories to the right place, and nominate the category for deletion.

Blue links below have description-text (but no parents, unless recently fixed), and the red ones don't (but they do have member articles or subcategories).

Please delete orphans from this list when they are fixed. This will help avoid duplication of effort.

Semi-automated suggestions

Some articles have suggestions from Pearle's deredundize.pl. Beland tries to remove obviously incorrect suggestions. The numbers next to the problem categories show the number of subcategories and articles at the time of detection.

The first number in the suggestion, if any, shows how many words the suggestion shares with the problem orphan (this is the one followed by the colon). The second number shows how many total subcategories + articles there are in the suggested category.

Many of the suggestions are incorrect, but they are usually better than starting from Category:Fundamental every time. Thank you to all the humans who make the final decisions to add, merge, or find a better home.

Old orphans under discussion

Category:Modern_armored_fighting_vehicles (1)

There is discussion under Category:Tanks on how to classify. Once that is resolved this can be parented following those guidelines. -- Sortior 22:58, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

Category:Turing_Award_Laureate - "Redirected" using template:seecat

Use Template:Categoryredirect instead? -Aranel ("Sarah") 22:49, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Also see User talk:Docu -- Rick Block 04:46, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Category:Former_Dream_Job_contestants_(non-winners) (13)

I have nominated 2 of the contestants for deletion. If folks vote for deletion. I will nominate rest, then nominate the whole category. --Sortior 22:06, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

Category:Forbes_World's_Richest_People
- nominated for deletion, see WP:CFD -- Rick Block 19:07, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Detected 15 Nov 2004

Apologies for this dump being rather late and somewhat rough. All the kinks in handling special characters and templates haven't quite been worked out yet. -- Beland 10:16, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

(15) Category:Bachelor
- nominated on WP:CFD →Sortior 03:39, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
(3) Category:Woman -- see Category talk:Woman
(2) Category:Artificial_lakes -- see User talk:Angela

(1) Category:Carl_Barks
(1) Category:Carnegie_Mellon
(1) Category:Catholic_Political_Parties
(1) Category:Central_North_Island
(1) Category:Christian_missions
(1) Category:Cipher
(1) Category:Cities_in_Hokkaido_prefecture
(1) Category:Coalitions
(1) Category:Cocktails_with_pisco
(1) Category:Cocktails_with_whisky
(1) Category:Cognitive_psychology
(1) Category:Cold_War_assault_rifles
(1) Category:Concurrency
(1) Category:Connectivity
(1) Category:Conservationists
(1) Category:Cultural_Studies
(1) Category:Denver_County,_Colorado
(1) Category:Dessert
(1) Category:Dinasties
(1) Category:Directories
(1) Category:Dramatists
(1) Category:Dwarves_albums
(1) Category:Earth_science
(1) Category:East_Yorkshire
(1) Category:Ergonomics
(1) Category:Fabaceae
(1) Category:Fasion_design
(1) Category:Female
(1) Category:Fictional_people
(1) Category:Film
(1) Category:Film_history
(1) Category:Flight
(1) Category:Fourth_albums
(1) Category:Free_Energy
(1) Category:French_club_teams
(1) Category:GPS
(1) Category:Game_design
(1) Category:Geognosts
(1) Category:Geography_of_Brazil
(1) Category:Geography_of_Nigeria
(1) Category:Geography_of_Palestine
(1) Category:Invasive_species
(1) Category:Invention
(1) Category:Irish_art
(1) Category:Irish_laws
(1) Category:Irish_scientists
(1) Category:Islamic_thought
(1) Category:Israeli_student
(1) Category:Italian_actors_and_actresses
(1) Category:Italian_companies
(1) Category:Italian_guitarists
(1) Category:Italian_literature
(1) Category:Italian_theatre_actors
(1) Category:Java
(1) Category:John_Bedini
(1) Category:Kannada_poets
(1) Category:Karaikudi
(1) Category:Kings
(1) Category:Kurds
(1) Category:Lakes_of_Britain
(1) Category:Languages_of_Central_African_Republic
(1) Category:Large_equestrian_dogs
(1) Category:Largest
(1) Category:Latvian_cuisine
(1) Category:List_of_most_expensive_paintings
(1) Category:Lists_of_Nintendo_characters
(1) Category:Lists_of_video_game_characters
(1) Category:Low-cost_carrier
(1) Category:Madeira
(1) Category:Madeiras
(1) Category:Manga_artist
(1) Category:Massively_Multiplayer_Online_Social_Games
(1) Category:Mayor_of_Girona
(1) Category:Mayors_of_Puigcerd?
(1) Category:Medicine-stubs
(1) Category:Mexican_Artists
(1) Category:Mexican_bands
(1) Category:Midlothian
(1) Category:Modding
(1) Category:Montreal_Expo_field_personnel
(1) Category:Mountains_of_Texas
(1) Category:Multimedia
(1) Category:Music_groups
(1) Category:Mystery_authors
(1) Category:NBA
(1) Category:Nagano
(1) Category:National_parks_South_Australia
(1) Category:Neurological_disorders
(1) Category:Noisecore
(1) Category:North_East_Lincolnshire
(1) Category:Northern_Irish_sport
(1) Category:Notable_publication_in_evolutionary_biology
(1) Category:Novel
(1) Category:Nuclear_land_based_missiles
(1) Category:Open-source_software
(1) Category:Orders_of_magnitude_(density)
(1) Category:Orthodontics
(1) Category:Pacific_Ten_Conference
(1) Category:Pacific_typhoon_seasons
(1) Category:Palynology
(1) Category:Parapsychology
(1) Category:Parental_discretion_advised
(1) Category:Parliamentarism
(1) Category:Pastries
(1) Category:Patents
(1) Category:People_from_Michigan
(1) Category:People_who_have_the_same_birthday_as_Barry_Manilow
(1) Category:Personality_psychology
(1) Category:Perthshire
(1) Category:Peruvians
(1) Category:Peter_Lindemann
(1) Category:Phobos
(1) Category:Poetics
(1) Category:Polish_cities
(1) Category:Politics_of_China
(1) Category:Politics_of_Israel
(1) Category:Politics_of_Japan
(1) Category:Porn_actress
(1) Category:Porn_mag
(1) Category:Portsmouth
(1) Category:Portugese_poets
(1) Category:Portugese_writers
(1) Category:Proof_techniques
(1) Category:Publishers
(1) Category:Puerto_Rican_sportpeople
(1) Category:Pulitzer_Prize_for_fiction_winners
(1) Category:Quality
(1) Category:RTS
(1) Category:Radiant_Energy
(1) Category:Railways
(1) Category:Rape_victims
(1) Category:Rectors_of_the_University_of_Louvain
(1) Category:Religions
(1) Category:Riksdag
(1) Category:Roads_in_Greece
(1) Category:Rubiaceae
(1) Category:Russian_Orthodoxy
(1) Category:SNK
(1) Category:San_Francisco_Giant_field_personnel
(1) Category:San_Francisco_Giant_players
(1) Category:Saratoga,_California
(1) Category:Saskathewan_elections
(1) Category:School_Girl_Motor
(1) Category:Schools_of_art
(1) Category:Self_help
(1) Category:Senators_by_country
(1) Category:Serology
(1) Category:Sherlock_Homes_short_stories
(1) Category:Sinai_and_Palestine_Campaign
(1) Category:Singles_by_Space
(1) Category:Sitka_City_and_Borough,_Alaska
(1) Category:Sky_One
(1) Category:Slovak
(1) Category:Slovenes
(1) Category:Software_development
(1) Category:Soul_food
(1) Category:Soviet_Navy_submarines
(1) Category:Soviet_civil_aircraft
(1) Category:Stirlingshire
(1) Category:Student_Newspapers
(1) Category:Student_fraternities
(1) Category:Students'_Unions
(1) Category:Sturmcafe
(1) Category:Sultan_of_Sokoto
(1) Category:Supernatural
(1) Category:Superreal_number
(1) Category:Surf_music
(1) Category:Swordsmen_by_nationality
(1) Category:Syrian_goddesses
(1) Category:Taboo_activities
(1) Category:Tahitians
(1) Category:Television_stations_in_Missouri
(1) Category:Tenor
(1) Category:The_Former_Yugoslav_Republic_of_Macedonia
(1) Category:The_Netherlands
(1) Category:Tom_Petty_&_the_Heartbreakers_albums
(1) Category:Toolsandmods
(1) Category:Train_routes
(1) Category:Transportation_in_the_Faroe_Islands
(1) Category:Transvestites
(1) Category:Travellers
(1) Category:Treble_Charger_albums
(1) Category:Tudor
(1) Category:Type_3_encryption_algorithms
(1) Category:U.N.K.L.E._albums
(1) Category:U.S._Artists
(1) Category:U.S._European_Command
(1) Category:U.S._Pacific_Command
(1) Category:U.S._Sculptors
(1) Category:U._S._Artists
(1) Category:UK_Government_images
(1) Category:UNIX
(1) Category:US_ethnic_groups
(1) Category:US_television_personalities
(1) Category:Ulster_Cycle
(1) Category:Union_navy_ships
(1) Category:United_States_songwriters
(1) Category:United_States_third_political_parties
(1) Category:Universal_Structures
(1) Category:Urban_planners
(1) Category:Vampire:_The_Requiem
(1) Category:Victorian_Era
(1) Category:Vietnam_war
(1) Category:Villages_of_Cambridgeshire
(1) Category:WW2_politics
(1) Category:Warcraft_characters
(1) Category:Wario_characters
(1) Category:Water_Transport
(1) Category:Weekly_Wikipedia_translations
(1) Category:Whimsy
(1) Category:Wiki_Awards
(1) Category:Window_manager
(1) Category:Workplace_hazards
(1) Category:World_War_2_films
(1) Category:World_War_II_helicopters
(1) Category:World_records
(1) Category:Wuppertal
(1) Category:Xbox_peripherals
(1) Category:Yakutat_City_and_Borough,_Alaska
(1) Category:Yugoslavian_people_by_occupation
(1) Category:Yukon_railways

Empty 15 Nov 2004

Detected 26 Nov 2004

(coming soon)

Ignoring

The following are listed here so that they will be ignored by automated scans. It would be nice if it was no longer necessary to do so. -- Beland 23:13, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Category:Βiology linked from: User:Node_ue/sandbox
Category:Awesome_people -> Only linked from User:Daesotho
Category:Test1992 -> Linked to only from User:SimonLyall/test
Category:Test -> Only linked from User:Phil Boswell/Redirect Test 2
Category:This -> Only linked from User talk:Lee M
Category:Elite -> Only linked from User:Abelson
Category:Language-family_languages -> Linked from template Wikipedia:WikiProject Language Template.
Category:People_who_run_faster_than_you -> Only linked from User:Daesotho (we should really tell him to stop doing this. JesseW 08:18, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC))