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===Non-diffusing subcategories===
{{Shortcut|WP:CAT#NON-DIFFUSE|WP:ALLINCLUDED|WP:DUPCAT}}
Not all subcategories serve the "diffusion" function described above; some are simply subsets which have some special characteristic of interest, such as [[:Category:Best Actor Academy Award winners|Best Actor Academy Award winners]] as a subcategory of [[:Category:Film actors|Film actors]]. They provide an exception to the general rule that pages are not placed in both a category and its subcategory: there is no need to take pages out of the parent category ''purely'' because of their membership of a non-diffusing subcategory. (Of course, if the pages also belong to other subcategories that do cause diffusion, then they
Non-diffusing subcategories should be identified with a template on the category page:
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{{Anchor|Sort order|SORTKEY}}
==Sort keys==
{{shortcut|WP:SORTKEY}}{{redirect|WP:Sorting|sorting of tables|Help:Sortable tables}}
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