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- Buildings (6 members)
- Candidates for deletion (2 members)
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- Community (4 members)
- Content (9 members)
- Copyright templates (12 members)
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- Documentation templates (3 members)
- Food (22 members)
- Food Production buildings (6 members)
- Formatting templates (10 members)
- Game mechanics (19 members)
- Game tools (10 members)
- Hidden categories (10 members)
- Housing buildings (4 members)
- Icon templates (73 members)
- Images (6 members)
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- Infobox templates (1 member)
- Legal notices (3 members)
- Media (2 members)
- Navigation templates (1 member)
- Notice templates (13 members)
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- Pages with broken file links (1 member)
- Professions (21 members)
- Resource Production buildings (9 members)
- Resources (14 members)
- Screenshots (2 members)
- Storage buildings (4 members)
- Stubs (1 member)
- Template documentation (27 members)
- Templates (17 members)
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- Town Services buildings (6 members)
- Transportation buildings (4 members)
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- User groups (18 members)
- User images (1 member)
- Videos (1 member)
- Wiki maintenance (14 members)