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== Talk:Military-industrial complex#RfC pejorative  ==

I wanted to try closing an RfC, but since this is the first time I would be doing that, I wanted to run it by some other people first to see if I’m understanding the assignment correctly. 


My proposed closure of [[Talk:Military–industrial complex#RfC pejorative]]:


Proper policy-based, good-faith arguments were made on all sides of this RfC, despite low participation and LLM interventions which were already collapsed and could be ignored in the writing of this summary.

There has been no opposition to option D while there was significant opposition to either B or A, while C had very little support. The use of the term “usually” in A was criticised and supporters of A agreed to use “often” instead. 

This leads me to conclude a consensus exists for a modified version of D, which uses a milder qualifier of the frequency of use than “frequently”. It would then be “The phrase ''Military-Industrial Complex'' is often used to criticize…”, the support for which is greater than for any other option.

(Personal note: I generally use -ise, but in this summary, the quoted phrase, being a '''literal''' fragment meant for use in the article text, which uses American English, obviously needs to use -ize despite the summary including the phrase ‘use of “usually” in A was criticised’ as well.) 

[[User:Slomo666|Slomo666]] ([[User talk:Slomo666|talk]]) 23:35, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
:I'm not sure about this close (especially the part about dropping "frequently"), but I can't come up with something better either, so perhaps the best course of action is to try it and see what happens. <small>Oftentimes such [[WP:CT/AP|ContentiousTopics/AmeriPolitcs]] (which only applies to post-1992 ones, broadly construed)–related topics should be closed by an administrator, but since the discussion wasn't heated at all [[WP:IAR|I'll ignore that rule]].</small>{{pb}}I'd wait for one more editor to chime in before you follow my (potentially dangerous) advice, though. [[User:Aaron Liu|<span class="skin-invert" style="color:#0645ad">Aaron Liu</span>]] ([[User talk:Aaron Liu#top|talk]]) 00:00, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
::Thanks for your comment. I had not even considered this was within the American Politics Ctop. [[User:Slomo666|Slomo666]] ([[User talk:Slomo666|talk]]) 16:52, 3 March 2026 (UTC)
:I haven't looked at the discussion, and you might want to pick a different discussion anyway, since it's an [[WP:AP2]] article.  But whether you try to summarize this or not, you might want to consider the value of a "consensus against" statement, rather than a "consensus for" statement.  Sometimes, ruling things out is as important as ruling them in. [[User:WhatamIdoing|WhatamIdoing]] ([[User talk:WhatamIdoing|talk]]) 03:12, 4 March 2026 (UTC)