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The following is an alphabetical index of decisions made at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.

Category Decision Discussion_log
Category:Agreements by year rename/merge as nominated May 1
Category:American professional video gamers delete (I have made sure that all of the articles are in the appropriate esports category) May 9
Category:Anime series based on light novels delete May 7
Category:Anime series based on novels delete May 7
Category:Anti-transsexualism feminists administrative close; category was speedily deleted by another user May 1
Category:Architecture in Hyderabad, Sindh delete May 9
Category:Articles created or improved by Dundee Oral Health Wikipedia Group 2016 delete May 10
Category:Asphalt series rename to Category:Asphalt (series), by weight of argument May 17
Category:Astronomical Societies in Louisiana delete. I could not identify any necessary merge targets, since the one article in the category was abundantly categorized already May 22
Category:Baluchi language stubs delete; content will be put in Category:Indo-European language stubs May 3
Category:Bangladeshi boxing biography stubs merge May 3
Category:Basic financial concepts merge May 9
Category:Brijwood delete May 5
Category:Buildings and structures in Wilton, Maine dual upmerge May 20
Category:Burial sites of political families of the United States delete all May 17
Category:Burial sites of the Burr family delete May 10
Category:Burial sites of the Rockefeller family delete May 17
Business organisations by country rename. (As suggested, I have changed the S.A. one to the "s" spelling, since the parent category is Category:Organisations based in South Africa. I have assumed that this is non-controversial.) May 9
Category:Butterfly house (conservatory) move to Category:Butterfly houses (non-admin closure) May 2
Category:Cal State Los Angeles Diablos football rename May 11
Category:Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame inductees delete May 14
Category:Categories by art delete. – May 12
Category:Chess films merge May 14
Category:Christian worship practices merge May 7
Category:Classic rock songs delete May 2
Category:Cloud Atlas dual upmerge May 8
Category:Communities on U.S. Route 66 delete May 6
Category:Court systems by country rename. (non-admin closure) ~ May 21
Category:Disciplines delete, without prejudice to a re-created organization under a different name. (I seem to be continually closing category discussions where users have complaints about May 5
Economic disasters by country rename May 15
Category:Economic engineering merge May 8
Economies delete May 5
Category:Educational institutions keep May 18
Category:Energy Globe Award winners delete May 14
Category:Environmental agencies in Thailand withdrawn May 21
Category:Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award winners delete. For information, in case there is a need of further listification, there was currently only Julie Meyer in this category. She wasn't an "overall winner" of that year though May 16
eSports rename May 10
Category:Extinct canid stubs merge May 2
Category:Falsettos delete May 5
Category:Fictional telecom protocols delete May 1
Category:Former members of the Council of the District of Columbia merge May 13
Category:Former members of the District of Columbia Board of Education merge May 13
Category:Fraternities and sororities based in Bay Village, Ohio delete May 11
Category:Ghost towns on U.S. Route 66 no consensus to delete May 6
Category:Good Food Award winners delete May 11
Category:Hero Cities of the Soviet Union delete May 6
Category:Heterodox economics merge May 3
Category:Highest points per country rename May 2
Hindu theology merge May 6
Category:Historic document collections merge May 1
Category:Historical controversies delete, with contents being merged to Category:Controversies. This is without prejudice to a future creation of Category:Historiographic controversies May 1
Category:Historical deletion merge to Category:Historical revisionism (negationism) May 1
Category:Historical documents merge to Category:Documents May 1
Category:Historical works merge, though some of the contents that is merged might be appropriately removed May 1
Category:Hobbyist organizations keep May 10
Category:Home Economics Unit merge May 13
Category:Household behavior and family economics rename May 13
Category:Indian Mystics merge to Category:Indian spiritual teachers May 2
Category:Industry trade groups based in Rajasthan triple upmerge May 9
Category:Irma Black Award winners delete May 8
Category:Japan Prize laureates delete. – May 11
Category:Jordanian religious building and structure stubs rename May 3
Judaic studies no consensus to change "Judaic" to "Jewish", so defaulting to option B. There was a consensus to remove "academia" May 3
Category:Lists of people by proposed medical condition delete if only as redundant to Category:Retrospective diagnosis. This closure is without prejudice against a follow-up nomination of the latter category as possibly being too subjective May 22
Category:Lists of shopping malls in India upmerge to parent categories May 23
Category:Literary forgeries merge to Category:Literary forgeries, but it's evident that more work might be appropriate here. In article space, if some distinction is eventually made between a literary forgery and a literary hoax, then perhaps the category structure could follow. There does seem to be a distinction between the two, though there is overlap. Whether it is a distinction worth recognizing via categorization is a separate issue that will need to be addressed if the distinction is drawn in the article space. May 5
Category:Locality-based schools of economic thought and methodology merge May 2
Category:Lost films of the 1960s rename May 2
Category:Macroeconomics and monetary economics merge May 14
Category:Major modern-day ghost towns selectively merge to Category:Ghost towns or an appropriate subcat of it May 5
Category:Mardi Gras food rename for now, without prejudice to a nomination for deletion, which could be combined with a broader nomination for other categories within Category:Holiday foods May 12
Category:Meatpacking rename. – May 22
Category:Media featuring tall ships delete May 13
Category:Medical outbreaks rename as nominated, without prejudice to a future rename to Category:Outbreaks May 7
Category:Members of the Singapore Women's Hall of Fame delete May 8
Category:Men with moustaches delete May 2
Category:Monetarism merge as discussed May 12
Category:National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees keep May 14
Category:Nationalism by country or region rename May 15
Category:Nigeria Entertainment Awards winners delete May 4
Category:Northern Ireland MLAs 2011– speedy rename (WP:C2C). – May 6
Category:Notable cannon merge to Category:Individual cannons May 9
Category:Novels based on Diablo (series) upmerge to all parent categories May 22
Category:Nowpunk films delete May 16
Category:NSS delete May 20
Category:Orders, decorations and medals of South Africa rename May 9
Category:Pages created by UY4Xe8VM5VYxaQQ delete May 18
Category:Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry rename May 9
Category:Palestinian government keep, but convert to a container category for the various Palestinian governments. May 2
Category:Palmas Pueblo upmerge to Category:Cataño, Puerto Rico May 15
Category:Paris culture Rename all May 15
Category:People associated with the UZH Neuroeconomics-University of Zurich delete May 1
Category:People from Van Buren, Maine keep May 21
Category:People of the Edwardian era delete May 8
Category:Persecution by early Christians rename May 14
Category:Personal Life speedily deleted by May 14
Category:Political parties in Tuva upmerge to Category:Politics of Tuva. Merging to Category:Political parties in Russia was not needed because the one article in the category was already in Category:Defunct political parties in Russia. This closure is without prejudice against starting a new Category:Regional parties in Russia May 22
Category:Political parties of minorities by country rename. – May 22
Category:Post-imperial Latin poets rename for now, since discussed "dispersing" to centuries category was not done. But this can still be done if desired. May 3
Category:Postal history of Palestine rename to Category:Postal history of Mandatory Palestine May 1
Category:Processes delete. – May 11
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Smile delete. (non-admin closure) May 15
Category:Reddit employees rename May 6
Category:Renaissance artefacts merge May 8
Category:Retail markets in Thrissur merge to Category:Retail markets in India May 21
Category:Salvation Army buildings no consensus, with two conflicting naming conventions. Good luck with trying to get the article renamed May 16
Category:Shepshed Charterhouse F.C. players merge May 2
Category:SICOFAA Legion of Merit delete/listify as discussed May 7
Category:Songs from The Phantom of the Opera rename May 17
Category:South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame inductees delete May 15
Category:Space industry merge Category:Space economy to Category:Space industry May 1
Category:Student Organizations in Bangladesh merge to Category:Student organisations in Bangladesh to change capital O into lowercase o. It's not entirely clear whether s should be changed to z but if it should be changed it is recommendable to come up with a wider nomination regarding the whole tree of Category:Organisations based in Bangladesh May 9
Category:Tchernichovsky Prize recipients delete. The recipients are already available in list form at Tchernichovsky Prize, so no need to listify. (non-admin closure) ~ May 21
Category:Telangana poets merge May 17
Category:Television Hall of Fame inductees delete. Already listified at Television Hall of Fame. (non-admin closure) ~ May 21
Category:Television series by Castle Rock Entertainment keep May 8
Category:Television series by Desilu Productions keep May 18
Category:Television series by New Line Television keep May 18
Category:Television series by New World Television keep May 11
Television series by Warner Bros. Television keep May 11
Category:Television series by Warner Bros. Television keep without prejudice against creating an additional sibling and parent category May 6
Category:Tertiary fictional works delete May 9
Category:Thai television shows merge May 3
Timiș County rename to option 1 May 2
Category:Trade organizations based in the United States merge, since the target is older and also conforms to the article name. But if users want to change the article name or propose that the category be renamed, they can do so May 9
Category:Transmetals delete. For now there is no need to merge, all articles are already in a subcat of Category:Transformers characters and having the latter merged requires a new nomination May 14
TSV 1860 Munich rename all (non-admin closure) May 6
Category:Tweenage characters in comics delete May 6
Category:Unfinished films of the 1960s rename May 3
Category:Unreleased films of the 1960s merge to Category:Unreleased films May 3
Category:Volodymyr Ivasyuk and Category:Dmytro Hnatyuk delete May 24
Category:Vosges Rename May 10
Category:Wikipedia possibly unfree files delete May 1
Category:Wikipedia sockpuppets of Kefalonitis94 delete May 24
Category:Wikipedian educators merge May 15
Category:Wildlife sanctuaries in Thrissur district upmerge May 21
Category:Word of the year do not rename, but purge contents so that the contents are Word of the year, Un-word of the year, Word of the year (Germany), Word of the year (Norway), Word of the year (Russia), and Word of the year (Ukraine). Do not include articles on the actual words that were awarded the designations. May 9
Category:Works about astronomy merge Category:Astronomical works to Category:Works about astronomy May 9
Category:Works by John Maynard Keynes rename, but nominated category can be re-created and used as a parent category for the target category when there is a non-book work by Keynes with a WP article May 12
Category:Works in the philosophy of disciplines rename as proposed May 16
Category:WPMIT reviewed possibly unfree media delete. It's empty because, as noted, Wikipedia:Possibly unfree files has been discontinued May 1