Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Administrator instructions

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Administrator instructions for Categories for discussion:

Every day, the day page (that is, [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/Year Month Day]]) more than five days old should be added to the Closing in progress list at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working#Closing discussions. The decision to keep or delete a category is to be implemented only after the discussion for that category has been closed.

1. If it may take significant time to assess the debate and/or do the closing edits, consider first editing the discussion section for the category and adding {{Closing}} just after the section header, to notify others that a close of the particular discussion is in progress. This helps to avoid edit conflicts during the close.
2. Determine whether or not a rough consensus to delete or rename has been reached. See: Deletion guidelines for administrators.
3. After the category's section header, add:

   {{subst:cfd top}} '''result'''. ~~~~

   (where result is usually either Delete or Keep)

   If the debate was about a user category, then use {{subst:ucfd top}} instead of {{subst:cfd top}}.

4. Remove {{Closing}} if you added it earlier.
5. At the end of the category's section, but before the next category's section header, add:

   {{subst:cfd bottom}}

6. If the decision is Keep (including any variant such as "Redirect" or "No Consensus"):
   1. Add a link on the category's talk page to the discussion sub-page.
      • The template {{cfdend}} is recommended for this, so add one of:

      {{cfdend|section heading|date=date of nomination|result=result}}

      {{cfdend|date=date of nomination|result=result}}

      {{cfdend|date=date of nomination}}

      (the default section heading is the category name, so that parameter may be omitted entirely)

      (the default result is "Keep", so that parameter may be omitted)

      • If the discussion failed to reach consensus, then the category is kept by default, but the decision should generally include a reference to the lack of consensus, in order to minimize ambiguity and future confusion.
   2. Remove {{cfd}} or other CfD template from the category (be sure the CfD Category is also removed).
   3. If the page becomes a redirect, remember to fix double-redirects.
7. If the decision is Delete, Merge, or Rename:
   1. List it under the appropriate section of Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working, or Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/User if it was a user category. Be sure to include the link to the CFD day page above the listing. If you are a non-admin, the /Working page is protected, so please do not close discussions that require any of the above 3 actions.
   2. To rename a category, copy the introductory text and paste it to the new category name. If the category has a talk page the talk page can be moved to the new name. Also, any significant history of the category introductory text should be pasted into the new category talk page.
   3. All references to the category in articles (and other pages) must be changed to the new name, or removed, as the case may be. A variety of bots have at times been able to help with this task.
   4. After all instances of the category used in pages have been removed, the category can be deleted by an administrator.
8. If the proposal includes an addition or change to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories) which has consensus, make the indicated change to the consensus page.

This relies on the discretion and common sense of the user closing a debate. If you disagree with a decision, please discuss it with that user.

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After closing the discussion, the page will look like this:

[edit] Category:example category

or this:

[edit] Category:example user category