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When nominating a category on WP:CFD, add this template to the main article's talk page to notify users of the category's nomination.

Usage
On the talk page add:

If the CfD section name is different from the category name (e.g. when nominating several categories at once), add this:

Example:

will produce:

Also will add the article to Category:Categories for discussion notices.

You can be more specific (which helps reduce some editors' feeling of alarm, if it's just a rename or merge!) by using one of the following:
 * renaming
 * merging
 * deletion

Template wrappers and  do this for you automatically.

You can also specify the target of a rename or merge (just the category name without the "Category:" part (this can't handle complex cases like a three-way merge):


 * renaming, New category name
 * merging, Redundant category name

and will also pass this parameter, and have mnemonic to and with aliases for them, respectively: