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class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Category description</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Category_description-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Additional_considerations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Additional_considerations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>Additional considerations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Additional_considerations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Categorizing_pages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Categorizing_pages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Categorizing pages</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Categorizing_pages-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Categorizing pages subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Categorizing_pages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Articles" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Articles"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Articles</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Articles-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Eponymous_categories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Eponymous_categories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1.1</span> <span>Eponymous categories</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Eponymous_categories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Articles_with_eponymous_categories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-4"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Articles_with_eponymous_categories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1.1.1</span> <span>Articles with eponymous categories</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Articles_with_eponymous_categories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Files" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Files"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.2</span> <span>Files</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Files-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Wikipedia_administrative_categories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Wikipedia_administrative_categories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.3</span> <span>Wikipedia administrative categories</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Wikipedia_administrative_categories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-User_pages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#User_pages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.4</span> <span>User pages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-User_pages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Draft_pages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Draft_pages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.5</span> <span>Draft pages</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Draft_pages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Template_categorization" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Template_categorization"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Template categorization</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Template_categorization-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Categorization_using_templates" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Categorization_using_templates"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span>Categorization using templates</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Categorization_using_templates-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Hiding_categories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hiding_categories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7.1</span> <span>Hiding categories</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hiding_categories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Redirected_categories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Redirected_categories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7.2</span> <span>Redirected categories</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Redirected_categories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sort_keys" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sort_keys"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Sort keys</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sort_keys-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Category_tree_organization" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Category_tree_organization"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Category tree organization</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Category_tree_organization-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Category tree organization subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Category_tree_organization-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Subcategorization" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Subcategorization"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Subcategorization</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Subcategorization-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Diffusing_large_categories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Diffusing_large_categories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.1</span> <span>Diffusing large categories</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Diffusing_large_categories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Non-diffusing_subcategories" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Non-diffusing_subcategories"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1.2</span> <span>Non-diffusing subcategories</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Non-diffusing_subcategories-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Category_cleanup_templates" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Category_cleanup_templates"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Category cleanup templates</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Category_cleanup_templates-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Inappropriate_categorization" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Inappropriate_categorization"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Inappropriate categorization</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Inappropriate_categorization-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-See_also-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle See also subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-For_browsing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#For_browsing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>For browsing</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-For_browsing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-For_maintenance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#For_maintenance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.2</span> <span>For maintenance</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-For_maintenance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D8%AA%D8%B5%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81" title="ويكيبيديا:تصنيف – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ويكيبيديا:تصنيف" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A7%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A3%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%A8" title="ৱিকিপিডিয়া:শ্ৰেণীবিভাজন – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="ৱিকিপিডিয়া:শ্ৰেণীবিভাজন" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipediya:Kateqoriyala%C5%9Fd%C4%B1rma" title="Vikipediya:Kateqoriyalaşdırma – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Vikipediya:Kateqoriyalaşdırma" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%A8%D8%A4%D9%84%D9%85%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D9%84%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D9%85%D9%87" title="ویکی‌پدیا:بؤلمه‌له‌مه – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="ویکی‌پدیا:بؤلمه‌له‌مه" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B7%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%B6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%A3%E0%A7%80%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%A3" title="উইকিপিডিয়া:বিষয়শ্রেণীকরণ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="উইকিপিডিয়া:বিষয়শ্রেণীকরণ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%88%D1%82%D1%8B%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%83" title="Википедия:Категориялаштырыу – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Википедия:Категориялаштырыу" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Башҡортса</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%8B%D1%8F:%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8F" title="Вікіпедыя:Катэгарызацыя – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Вікіпедыя:Катэгарызацыя" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D1%8D%D0%B4%D1%8B%D1%8F:%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%8F" title="Вікіпэдыя:Катэгорыя – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Вікіпэдыя:Катэгорыя" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80" title="विकिपीडिया:श्रेणी – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="विकिपीडिया:श्रेणी" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B8" title="Уикипедия:Категории – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Уикипедия:Категории" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kategorizacija" title="Wikipedia:Kategorizacija – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Wikipedia:Kategorizacija" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Rummadi%C3%B1" title="Wikipedia:Rummadiñ – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Wikipedia:Rummadiñ" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquip%C3%A8dia:Categoritzaci%C3%B3" title="Viquipèdia:Categorització – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Viquipèdia:Categorització" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kategorisasyon" title="Wikipedia:Kategorisasyon – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Wikipedia:Kategorisasyon" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedie:Kategorizace" title="Wikipedie:Kategorizace – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Wikipedie:Kategorizace" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kategorier" title="Wikipedia:Kategorier – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Wikipedia:Kategorier" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Klassifiseren" title="Wikipedia:Klassifiseren – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="Wikipedia:Klassifiseren" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Davvisámegiella</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kategorien" title="Wikipedia:Kategorien – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Wikipedia:Kategorien" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipeedia:Kategoriseerimise_kord" title="Vikipeedia:Kategoriseerimise kord – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Vikipeedia:Kategoriseerimise kord" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%B9%CF%80%CE%B1%CE%AF%CE%B4%CE%B5%CE%B9%CE%B1:%CE%9A%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%AF%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7" title="Βικιπαίδεια:Κατηγοριοποίηση – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βικιπαίδεια:Κατηγοριοποίηση" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorizaci%C3%B3n" title="Wikipedia:Categorización – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Wikipedia:Categorización" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%8C" title="ویکی‌پدیا:رده‌بندی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ویکی‌پدیا:رده‌بندی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Conventions_sur_les_cat%C3%A9gories" title="Wikipédia:Conventions sur les catégories – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Wikipédia:Conventions sur les catégories" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ronnaghys" title="Wikipedia:Ronnaghys – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Wikipedia:Ronnaghys" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categor%C3%ADas" title="Wikipedia:Categorías – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Wikipedia:Categorías" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E5%88%86%E9%A1%9E" title="Wikipedia:分類 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="Wikipedia:分類" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>贛語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%B5%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%95%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%AA%E0%AB%80%E0%AA%A1%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%AF%E0%AA%BE:%E0%AA%B6%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%B0%E0%AB%87%E0%AA%A3%E0%AB%80" title="વિકિપીડિયા:શ્રેણી – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="વિકિપીડિયા:શ્રેણી" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ગુજરાતી</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%84%ED%82%A4%EB%B0%B1%EA%B3%BC:%EB%B6%84%EB%A5%98" title="위키백과:분류 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="위키백과:분류" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8E%D5%AB%D6%84%D5%AB%D5%BA%D5%A5%D5%A4%D5%AB%D5%A1:%D4%BF%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%A5%D5%A3%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%A6%D5%A1%D6%81%D5%AB%D5%A1" title="Վիքիպեդիա:Կատեգորիզացիա – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Վիքիպեդիա:Կատեգորիզացիա" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A3" title="विकिपीडिया:श्रेणीकरण – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="विकिपीडिया:श्रेणीकरण" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:Kategorije" title="Wikipedija:Kategorije – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Wikipedija:Kategorije" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categoria" title="Wikipedia:Categoria – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Wikipedia:Categoria" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Interlingua</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiuto:Categorie/Categorizzazione" title="Aiuto:Categorie/Categorizzazione – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Aiuto:Categorie/Categorizzazione" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%A7%D7%98%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94" title="ויקיפדיה:קטגוריה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ויקיפדיה:קטגוריה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%A3" title="ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ವರ್ಗೀಕರಣ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ವರ್ಗೀಕರಣ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%95%E1%83%98%E1%83%99%E1%83%98%E1%83%9E%E1%83%94%E1%83%93%E1%83%98%E1%83%90:%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94%E1%83%92%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%96%E1%83%90%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="ვიკიპედია:კატეგორიზაცია – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ვიკიპედია:კატეგორიზაცია" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Klassys" title="Wikipedia:Klassys – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Wikipedia:Klassys" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%AEk%C3%AEpediya:Kategor%C3%AEkirin" title="Wîkîpediya:Kategorîkirin – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Wîkîpediya:Kategorîkirin" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicipaedia:De_categoriis" title="Vicipaedia:De categoriis – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Vicipaedia:De categoriis" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedija:Straipsni%C5%B3_kategorizavimo_taisykl%C4%97s" title="Vikipedija:Straipsnių kategorizavimo taisyklės – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Vikipedija:Straipsnių kategorizavimo taisyklės" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Kateg%C3%B3ri%C3%A1k" title="Wikipédia:Kategóriák – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Wikipédia:Kategóriák" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0:%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Википедија:Категоризација – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Википедија:Категоризација" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A3%E0%B4%82" title="വിക്കിപീഡിയ:വർഗ്ഗീകരണം – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="വിക്കിപീഡിയ:വർഗ്ഗീകരണം" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A3" title="विकिपीडिया:वर्गीकरण – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="विकिपीडिया:वर्गीकरण" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D8%AA%D8%B5%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81" title="ويكيبيديا:تصنيف – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ويكيبيديا:تصنيف" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kategori" title="Wikipedia:Kategori – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Wikipedia:Kategori" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%9D%E1%80%AE%E1%80%80%E1%80%AE%E1%80%95%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%92%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9A%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8:%E1%80%80%E1%80%8F%E1%80%B9%E1%80%8D%E1%80%81%E1%80%BD%E1%80%B2%E1%80%81%E1%80%BC%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8" title="ဝီကီပီးဒီးယား:ကဏ္ဍခွဲခြင်း – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="ဝီကီပီးဒီးယား:ကဏ္ဍခွဲခြင်း" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorie%C3%ABnschema" title="Wikipedia:Categorieënschema – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Wikipedia:Categorieënschema" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%A3%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A3" title="विकिपिडिया:श्रेणीकरण – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="विकिपिडिया:श्रेणीकरण" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E3%82%AB%E3%83%86%E3%82%B4%E3%83%AA%E3%81%AE%E6%96%B9%E9%87%9D" title="Wikipedia:カテゴリの方針 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="Wikipedia:カテゴリの方針" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipediya:Turkumlashtirish" title="Vikipediya:Turkumlashtirish – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Vikipediya:Turkumlashtirish" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%AA%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%A1%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%86:%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BC%E0%A9%8D%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%A3%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%A8" title="ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ:ਸ਼੍ਰੇਣੀਕਰਨ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ:ਸ਼੍ਰੇਣੀਕਰਨ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%DA%A9%D9%8A%D9%BE%DB%90%DA%89%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D9%88%DB%90%D8%B4%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B2%DB%90" title="ويکيپېډيا:وېشنيزې – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="ويکيپېډيا:وېشنيزې" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kategorien" title="Wikipedia:Kategorien – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Wikipedia:Kategorien" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kategoryzacja" title="Wikipedia:Kategoryzacja – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Wikipedia:Kategoryzacja" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Categoriza%C3%A7%C3%A3o" title="Wikipédia:Categorização – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Wikipédia:Categorização" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorisire" title="Wikipedia:Categorisire – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Wikipedia:Categorisire" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rmy mw-list-item"><a href="https://rmy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipidiya:Shopni" title="Vikipidiya:Shopni – Vlax Romani" lang="rmy" hreflang="rmy" data-title="Vikipidiya:Shopni" data-language-autonym="Romani čhib" data-language-local-name="Vlax Romani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Romani čhib</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Википедия:Категоризация – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Википедия:Категоризация" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorisation" title="Wikipedia:Categorisation – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Wikipedia:Categorisation" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kategorizimi" title="Wikipedia:Kategorizimi – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Wikipedia:Kategorizimi" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Catigur%C3%ACa" title="Wikipedia:Catigurìa – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Wikipedia:Catigurìa" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%B4%E0%B7%93%E0%B6%A9%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%8F:%E0%B6%B4%E0%B7%8A%E2%80%8D%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%80%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%9C%E0%B6%9A%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%AB%E0%B6%BA" title="විකිපීඩියා:ප්‍රවර්ගකරණය – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="විකිපීඩියා:ප්‍රවර්ගකරණය" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories" title="Wikipedia:Categories – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Wikipedia:Categories" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DA%AA%D9%8A%D9%BE%D9%8A%DA%8A%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A" title="وڪيپيڊيا:زمري بندي – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="وڪيپيڊيا:زمري بندي" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Kategoriz%C3%A1cia" title="Wikipédia:Kategorizácia – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Wikipédia:Kategorizácia" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:Kategorizacija" title="Wikipedija:Kategorizacija – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Wikipedija:Kategorizacija" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%BE%DB%8C%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D9%BE%DB%86%D9%84%DB%8E%D9%86%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%86" title="ویکیپیدیا:پۆلێنکردن – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ویکیپیدیا:پۆلێنکردن" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0:%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Википедија:Категоризација – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Википедија:Категоризација" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedija:Kategorija" title="Wikipedija:Kategorija – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Wikipedija:Kategorija" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kategorisasi" title="Wikipedia:Kategorisasi – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Wikipedia:Kategorisasi" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sunda</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Luokittelu" title="Wikipedia:Luokittelu – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Wikipedia:Luokittelu" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Strukturering" title="Wikipedia:Strukturering – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Wikipedia:Strukturering" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE:%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D" title="விக்கிப்பீடியா:பகுப்பாக்கம் – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="விக்கிப்பீடியா:பகுப்பாக்கம்" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%A2%D3%A9%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%BB%D3%99%D2%AF" title="Википедия:Төркемләү – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Википедия:Төркемләү" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Татарча / tatarça</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%97%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%A3" title="వికీపీడియా:వర్గీకరణ – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="వికీపీడియా:వర్గీకరణ" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%9E%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%A2:%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B1%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%94%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B9%E0%B9%88" title="วิกิพีเดีย:การจัดหมวดหมู่ – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="วิกิพีเดีย:การจัดหมวดหมู่" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B0:%D0%93%D1%83%D1%80%D3%AF%D2%B3%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D3%A3" title="Википедиа:Гурӯҳбандӣ – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Википедиа:Гурӯҳбандӣ" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikipedi:Kategorilendirme" title="Vikipedi:Kategorilendirme – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Vikipedi:Kategorilendirme" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F:%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%96%D1%8F" title="Вікіпедія:Категоризація – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Вікіпедія:Категоризація" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%BE%DB%8C%DA%88%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%B2%D9%85%D8%B1%DB%81_%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%8C" title="ویکیپیڈیا:زمرہ بندی – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="ویکیپیڈیا:زمرہ بندی" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juto:Categorie/Categorixasion" title="Juto:Categorie/Categorixasion – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="Juto:Categorie/Categorixasion" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vèneto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Th%E1%BB%83_lo%E1%BA%A1i" title="Wikipedia:Thể loại – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Wikipedia:Thể loại" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E5%88%86%E7%B1%BB" title="Wikipedia:分类 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="Wikipedia:分类" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>吴语</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yi mw-list-item"><a href="https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%B0%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D6%BC%D7%A2%D7%93%D7%99%D7%A2:%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%98%D7%A2%D7%92%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%96%D7%90%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%A2" title="װיקיפּעדיע:קאטעגאריזאציע – Yiddish" lang="yi" hreflang="yi" data-title="װיקיפּעדיע:קאטעגאריזאציע" data-language-autonym="ייִדיש" data-language-local-name="Yiddish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ייִדיש</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E5%88%86%E9%A1%9E" title="Wikipedia:分類 – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="Wikipedia:分類" data-language-autonym="粵語" data-language-local-name="Cantonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>粵語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:%E9%A0%81%E9%9D%A2%E5%88%86%E9%A1%9E" title="Wikipedia:頁面分類 – Chinese" lang="zh" hreflang="zh" data-title="Wikipedia:頁面分類" 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The <b>central goal</b> of the category system is to provide <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking">navigational links</a> to pages in Wikipedia within a hierarchy of <i>categories</i>. Using essential, <i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DEFINING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DEFINING">defining</a></i> characteristics of a topic, readers can browse and quickly find sets of pages on topics that are defined by those characteristics. </p><p>For proposals to delete, merge, or rename categories, follow the instructions at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion">Categories for discussion</a>. Please use it before undertaking any complicated re-categorization of existing categories or mass creation of new categories. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="NC"></span> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Naming_conventions" data-mw-thread-id="h-Naming_conventions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Naming_conventions"></span>Naming conventions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Naming_conventions"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_names" title="Wikipedia:Category names">Wikipedia:Category names</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable relarticle mainarticle selfreference noprint">This section is <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcluded</a> from <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization/Naming" title="Wikipedia:Categorization/Naming">Wikipedia:Categorization/Naming</a>. <span class="plainlinks" style="font-style: normal; font-size:85%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categorization/Naming&action=edit">edit</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categorization/Naming&action=history">history</a>)</span></div> <p>When naming a category, be particularly careful to choose an accurate and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Naming" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">neutral</a> name. Moving non-conventionally categorized pages to another category name (see <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Category_redirect" title="Template:Category redirect">Category redirect</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>) imposes an additional overhead – an edit for <i>each</i> article and subcategory. Also, try to avoid names that are too long or too short. Short, straight-forward names are preferred for categories, though it may be necessary at times to deviate from this principle for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PRECISION" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:PRECISION">clarity</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TITLEDAB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TITLEDAB">disambiguation</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="General_conventions" data-mw-thread-id="h-General_conventions-Naming_conventions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-General_conventions-Naming_conventions"></span>General conventions<span data-mw-comment-end="h-General_conventions-Naming_conventions"></span></h3></div> <ul><li>Names of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TOPICCAT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TOPICCAT">topic categories</a> should be singular, normally corresponding to the name of a Wikipedia article. Examples: "<a href="/wiki/Category:Law" title="Category:Law">Law</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Category:France" title="Category:France">France</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Category:Hillary_Clinton" title="Category:Hillary Clinton">Hillary Clinton</a>".</li> <li>Names of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SETCAT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SETCAT">set categories</a> should be plural. Examples: "<a href="/wiki/Category:Writers" title="Category:Writers">Writers</a>", "<a href="/wiki/Category:Villages_in_Poland" title="Category:Villages in Poland">Villages in Poland</a>".</li> <li>Note that in many instances a topic category and a set category have similar names, the topic category being singular and the set category plural. For example, <a href="/wiki/Category:Opera" title="Category:Opera">Opera</a> is a topic category (containing all articles relating to the topic), while <a href="/wiki/Category:Operas" title="Category:Operas">Operas</a> is a set category (containing articles about specific operas). Be careful to choose the right one when categorizing articles.</li> <li>Do not write <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Category_tree_organization">the category structure</a> in names. Example: "<a href="/wiki/Category:Monarchs" title="Category:Monarchs">Monarchs</a>", not "People – Monarchs". This includes creating categories that are subpages of other categories.</li> <li>Choose category names that can stand alone, independent of the way a category is connected to other categories. Example: "<a href="/wiki/Category:Geography_terminology_stubs" title="Category:Geography terminology stubs">Geography terminology stubs</a>", not "Terminology" (a subcategory of "<a href="/wiki/Category:Geography_stubs" title="Category:Geography stubs">Geography stubs</a>").</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Categories_for_articles" data-mw-thread-id="h-Categories_for_articles-Naming_conventions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Categories_for_articles-Naming_conventions"></span>Categories for articles<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Categories_for_articles-Naming_conventions"></span></h3></div> <ul><li>Standard article <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions">naming conventions</a> apply; in particular, use <a href="/wiki/Sentence_case" class="mw-redirect" title="Sentence case">sentence case</a>, do not use <a href="/wiki/Title_case" title="Title case">title case</a>. Specifically, do not <a href="/wiki/Capitalization" title="Capitalization">capitalize</a> regular nouns except when they come at the beginning of the category name.</li> <li>When naming, use words and phrases which exist in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verifiable</a> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sources</a> (particularly for <a href="/wiki/Outline_of_technology#Branches_of_technology" title="Outline of technology">technical subjects</a>), so that those sources may be used to support inclusion of information.</li> <li>Avoid <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Abbreviations" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Abbreviations">abbreviations</a>. Example: "<a href="/wiki/Category:Military_equipment_of_World_War_II" title="Category:Military equipment of World War II">Category:Military equipment of World War II</a>", not "Category:Military equipment of WW2". However, <a href="/wiki/Acronym" title="Acronym">acronyms</a> that have become the official, or generally used, name (such as <a href="/wiki/Category:NATO" title="Category:NATO">NATO</a>) should be used where there are no other conflicts. Exceptions to this should be explained in the <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Category_description">category description</a>.</li> <li>Avoid <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization#Subjective" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization">subjective adjectives</a> such as <i>famous</i>, <i>large</i>, or <i>beautiful</i> in category titles.</li> <li>When a topic requires <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles#Disambiguation" title="Wikipedia:Article titles">disambiguation</a>, any category eponymously named for that topic should include the same form of disambiguation, even if no other articles are likely to have an <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:EPON" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:EPON">eponymous category</a>.</li> <li>If there are more than a few <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stand-alone_lists" title="Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists">lists</a> in a particular subject area, it may be appropriate to create a specific subcategory that contains only the list pages and no other types. <ul><li>As an example <a href="/wiki/Category:Countries" title="Category:Countries">Category:Countries</a> contains the subcategory "<a href="/wiki/Category:Lists_of_countries" title="Category:Lists of countries">Category:Lists of countries</a>", which in turn contains the list pages "<a href="/wiki/List_of_Soviet_Republics" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Soviet Republics">List of Soviet Republics</a>", and "<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population" class="mw-redirect" title="List of countries by population">List of countries by population</a>".</li> <li>When placing list pages in such a category, use a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SORTKEY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SORTKEY">sort key</a> to adjust the page title to exclude the starting words "List of", or all lists would appear under "L". For example, when adding List of Soviet Republics to the category, using <code>[[Category:Lists of countries|Soviet Republics]]</code> and will make it be sorted in the S section. See also <a href="/wiki/Category:Lists" title="Category:Lists">Category:Lists</a>.</li></ul></li> <li>Naming guidelines for subcategories of <a href="/wiki/Category:Stub_categories" title="Category:Stub categories">Category:Stub categories</a> are listed at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Stub_sorting/Naming_conventions#Stub_categories" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Naming conventions">Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Naming conventions § Stub categories</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Project_categories" data-mw-thread-id="h-Project_categories-Naming_conventions"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Project_categories-Naming_conventions"></span>Project categories<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Project_categories-Naming_conventions"></span></h3></div> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Wikipedia_administrative_categories">Categories used for Wikipedia administration</a>, are disambiguated by <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prepend" class="extiw" title="wikt:prepend">prepending</a> with the word "Wikipedia" (no colon) if this is needed to prevent confusion with content categories. For example, <a href="/wiki/Category:Inactive_project_pages" title="Category:Inactive project pages">Category:Inactive project pages</a> (where no confusion is likely), but <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_tools" title="Category:Wikipedia tools">Category:Wikipedia tools</a> (as distinct from the content category <a href="/wiki/Category:Tools" title="Category:Tools">Tools</a>).</li> <li>All <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject">WikiProject</a> categories should have "WikiProject" (or "WikiProjects") as part of the name. Note that this does not apply to the names of categories that projects might create for the use of assessments. In these cases, the advice given in <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide/WikiProject#Project_categories" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide/WikiProject">Project Categories</a>, which conforms to <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_1.0_assessments" title="Category:Wikipedia 1.0 assessments">Category:Wikipedia 1.0 assessments</a> is advised, though not mandatory.</li> <li>For geographical <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Requested pictures">photo requests</a>, the category name should be "Wikipedia requested photographs in xxx" as in [[Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in England]]; see <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_by_location" title="Category:Wikipedia requested photographs by location">Category:Wikipedia requested photographs by location</a>.</li> <li>For categorization in userspace, see <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#User_pages">Wikipedia:Categorization § User pages</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_categories#Naming_conventions" title="Wikipedia:User categories">Wikipedia:User categories § Naming conventions</a>.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="CREATECAT"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Creating_category_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Creating_category_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Creating_category_pages"></span>Creating category pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Creating_category_pages"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:CREATECAT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CREATECAT&redirect=no">WP:CREATECAT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Help:Category</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:HotCat" title="Wikipedia:HotCat">Wikipedia:HotCat</a></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="BEFORECAT"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Before_creating_a_new_category" data-mw-thread-id="h-Before_creating_a_new_category-Creating_category_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Before_creating_a_new_category-Creating_category_pages"></span>Before creating a new category<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Before_creating_a_new_category-Creating_category_pages"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:BEFORECAT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BEFORECAT&redirect=no">WP:BEFORECAT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main pages: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates" title="Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates">Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization">Wikipedia:Overcategorization</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Help:Sortable_tables" title="Help:Sortable tables">Help:Sortable tables</a></div> <p>Categories are not the only means of enabling users to browse sets of related pages. And categories have <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_series_boxes#Disadvantages_of_a_category" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and series boxes">several disadvantages</a>, including that categories only show <i>the page name</i> of each page being categorized, therefore: </p> <ul><li>While the <a href="#Category_description">category description</a> may provide broader information, individual category members cannot be annotated with descriptions or comments, so they give no context or elaboration for any specific entry.</li> <li>There is no provision for referencing any specific entry, to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verify</a> a page meets a category's criteria of inclusion.</li></ul> <p>So, consider whether a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LIST" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Wikipedia:LIST">list</a> would be more appropriate for such a grouping of pages. Lists would also be more useful where it is important to see dates, for example, a <a href="/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates" title="List of Nobel laureates">list of Nobel laureates</a>. And can provide options for sorting the entries. </p><p>Also, consider whether the category might be considered category clutter. Please see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization">Wikipedia:Overcategorization</a>, for more information on this. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Choosing_a_name_for_the_category" data-mw-thread-id="h-Choosing_a_name_for_the_category-Creating_category_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Choosing_a_name_for_the_category-Creating_category_pages"></span>Choosing a name for the category<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Choosing_a_name_for_the_category-Creating_category_pages"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="#Naming_conventions">§ Naming conventions</a></div> <p>A good category name is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Naming" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">neutral</a>, and defines the category's inclusion criteria in the name itself, as much as possible. </p><p>Important: When choosing a name for the category, please be sure a similar category does not exist. </p> <dl><dd>For example: You might want to add a subcategory for people to <a href="/wiki/Category:Mexicans" title="Category:Mexicans">Category:Mexicans</a>. Before creating that category, try to find it under a similar name. By starting at <a href="/wiki/Category:People_by_nationality" title="Category:People by nationality">Category:People by nationality</a>, you will discover that Mexicans are placed in <a href="/wiki/Category:Mexican_people" title="Category:Mexican people">Category:Mexican people</a>.</dd></dl> <p>Note: <a href="#Eponymous_categories">Eponymous categories</a> (categories whose name and topic is the same as an article, such as a category named after a person) should only be created if enough directly related articles exist. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Creating_the_category" data-mw-thread-id="h-Creating_the_category-Creating_category_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Creating_the_category-Creating_category_pages"></span>Creating the category<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Creating_the_category-Creating_category_pages"></span></h3></div> <p>After you have determined an appropriate category name for the category, next try to find a suitable place for the new category. (For example, categories of people should be in the <a href="/wiki/Category:People" title="Category:People">tree of "people" categories</a>.) Please see <a href="#Category_tree_organization">#Category tree organization</a> for more information on this. </p><p>Once you have determined where to categorize this new category, you should be ready to create the new category. To create a category, </p> <ol><li>Add a page to the intended category. Do this by editing that page: <ol><li>At the bottom, add the name of the new category, (e.g.: <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">[[Category:New category name]]</code> )</li> <li>Save your edit. The as-yet-undefined category name will now appear as a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Red_link" title="Wikipedia:Red link">red link</a> in the category list at the bottom of the page.</li></ol></li> <li>Next, click on that red link, which brings you to the new category page to create.</li> <li>Finally, at the bottom of the page, simply add the parent category (e.g.: <code class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-text mw-content-ltr" style="" dir="ltr">[[Category:Parent category name]]</code> ), which should usually be a <a href="/wiki/Hypernym" class="mw-redirect" title="Hypernym">hypernym</a> of the subcategory. This will add the new category into the appropriate parent category.</li></ol> <p><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="Nota bene"><img alt="Nota bene" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/23px-Ambox_important.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/35px-Ambox_important.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Ambox_important.svg/46px-Ambox_important.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="40" data-file-height="40"/></span></span><span style="display:none">*</span> If something goes wrong, double check to see if you followed the steps properly and check if the wikitext is correct. For example, if the category fails to list in the parent category, the wikitext should be [[Category:Parent category name]], not [[:Category:Parent category name]]. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="CATDESC"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Category_description" data-mw-thread-id="h-Category_description-Creating_category_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Category_description-Creating_category_pages"></span>Category description<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Category_description-Creating_category_pages"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:CATDESC"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CATDESC&redirect=no">WP:CATDESC</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Sometimes, a common-sense guess based on the title of the category isn't enough to figure out whether a page should be listed in the category. So, rather than leave the text of a category page empty (containing only parent category declarations), adding a <a href="#Articles_with_eponymous_categories">main article</a> which describes the topic, can help with that. </p><p>However, only linking to a Wikipedia article explaining the title is often not sufficient as a description for a category. It can be helpful – to both readers and editors – to include a clear description of the category, indicating what pages it should contain, how they should be subcategorized, and so on, and linking to one or more pages as background information. </p><p>In such cases, the desired contents of the category should be described on the category page, similar to how the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LSC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LSC">list selection criteria</a> are described in a stand-alone list. The category description should make direct statements about the criteria by which pages should be selected for inclusion in (or exclusion from) the category. This description, not the category's name, defines the proper content of the category. Do not leave future editors to guess about what or who should be included from the title of the category. Even if the selection criteria might seem obvious to you, an explicit standard is helpful to others, especially if they are less familiar with the subject. </p><p>The description can also contain links to other Wikipedia pages, in particular to other related categories which do not appear directly as subcategories or parent categories, and to relevant categories at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_sister_projects" title="Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects">sister projects</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Commons">Commons</a>. Another technique that can be used is described at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Classification" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Classification">Wikipedia:Classification</a>. Like <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">disambiguation</a> pages, category pages should not contain either citations to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources">reliable sources</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links" title="Wikipedia:External links">external links</a>. </p><p>Various templates have been developed to make it easier to produce category descriptions; see <a href="/wiki/Category:Category_namespace_templates" title="Category:Category namespace templates">Category namespace templates</a>. There are hatnote templates including <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Category_main_article" title="Template:Category main article">Category main article</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> and <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Category_see_also" title="Template:Category see also">Category see also</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>; others are listed at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Hatnote#Categories" title="Wikipedia:Hatnote">Wikipedia:Hatnote#Categories</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Additional_considerations" data-mw-thread-id="h-Additional_considerations-Creating_category_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Additional_considerations-Creating_category_pages"></span>Additional considerations<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Additional_considerations-Creating_category_pages"></span></h3></div> <p>Categories may have hundreds of members, displayed over many pages, with, at most, only 200 category entries on a single category page. To make navigating large categories easier, a table of contents can be used on the category page. The following templates are some of the ways of doing this: </p> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Category_TOC" title="Template:Category TOC">Category TOC</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> – adds a complete table of contents (Top, 0–9, A–Z)</li> <li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Large_category_TOC" title="Template:Large category TOC">Large category TOC</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> – adds a complete table of contents with five subdivisions for each letter (Aa Ae Aj Ao At)</li> <li>Consider using <code><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:CatAutoTOC" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:CatAutoTOC">CatAutoTOC</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></code> which uses the appropriate TOC for the number of pages on a category page.</li></ul> <p>Likewise, a maximum of 200 subcategories are displayed at a time, so some subcategories may not be immediately visible. To display all subcategories at once, add a category tree to the text of the category page, as described at <a href="/wiki/Help:Category#Displaying_category_trees_and_page_counts" title="Help:Category">Help:Category § Displaying category trees and page counts</a>. </p><p>Category pages can have <a href="/wiki/Help:Interlanguage_links" title="Help:Interlanguage links">interlanguage links</a> in the "Languages" list in the left sidebar (in the default skin), linking to corresponding categories in other language Wikipedias. To edit these on <a href="/wiki/Wikidata" title="Wikidata">Wikidata</a>, click on the "Edit links" link at the end of the languages list. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="CATSPECIFIC"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Categorizing_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Categorizing_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Categorizing_pages"></span>Categorizing pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Categorizing_pages"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:CATSPECIFIC"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CATSPECIFIC&redirect=no">WP:CATSPECIFIC</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Category_explanation.ogv/220px--Category_explanation.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="179" data-durationhint="343" data-mwtitle="Category_explanation.ogv" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Category_explanation.ogv"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/Category_explanation.ogv/Category_explanation.ogv.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="590" data-height="480"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Category_explanation.ogv" type="video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"" data-width="640" data-height="520"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/Category_explanation.ogv/Category_explanation.ogv.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="178" data-height="144"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/Category_explanation.ogv/Category_explanation.ogv.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="296" data-height="240"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/Category_explanation.ogv/Category_explanation.ogv.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="444" data-height="360"/><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/93/Category_explanation.ogv/Category_explanation.ogv.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="444" data-height="360"/></video></span><figcaption>A screencast showing how to categorise pages and explaining the usage of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:HOTCAT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:HOTCAT">HotCat</a></figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Categorization dos and don'ts">Wikipedia:Categorization dos and don'ts</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorizing_redirects" title="Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects">Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects</a></div> <p>Every Wikipedia page should belong to at least one category, except for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Talk page">talk pages</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">redirects</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:User page">user pages</a>, which may optionally be placed in categories where appropriate. Each categorized page should be placed in all of the <em>most specific</em> categories to which it logically belongs. This means that if a page belongs to a <a href="#Subcategorization">subcategory</a> of C (or a subcategory of a subcategory of C, and so on) then it is <i>not</i> normally placed directly into C. For exceptions to this rule, see <a href="#Eponymous_categories">§ Eponymous categories</a> and <a href="#Non-diffusing_subcategories">§ Non-diffusing subcategories</a> below. </p><p>While it should typically be clear from the name of an existing category which pages it should contain, the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CATDESC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CATDESC">text of the category page</a> may sometimes provide additional information on potential category contents. One way to determine if suitable categories already exist for a particular page is to check the categories of pages concerning similar or related topics. Another way is to search existing category names as described <a href="/wiki/Help:Searching" title="Help:Searching">here</a> (top of page). </p><p>Since all categories form part of a <a href="#Category_tree_organization">tree-like hierarchy</a>, do not add categories to pages as if they are <a href="/wiki/Tag_(metadata)" title="Tag (metadata)">tags</a>. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="PARENTCAT"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Articles" data-mw-thread-id="h-Articles-Categorizing_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Articles-Categorizing_pages"></span>Articles<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Articles-Categorizing_pages"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:PARENTCAT"></span><span id="WP:GRANDPARENT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PARENTCAT&redirect=no">WP:PARENTCAT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:GRANDPARENT&redirect=no">WP:GRANDPARENT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorizing_articles_about_people" title="Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people">Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For category types to avoid, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization">Wikipedia:Overcategorization</a>.</div> <p>Apart from certain exceptions (i.e. <a href="#Eponymous_categories">eponymous categories</a> and <a href="#Non-diffusing_subcategories">non-diffusing subcategories</a> – see below), an article should be categorised under the <em>most specific</em> branch in the category tree possible, without duplication in parent categories above it. In other words, articles should rarely be placed in both a given category and any of its sub- or parent (super-) categories. For example, the article "Paris" need only be placed in <a href="/wiki/Category:Cities_in_France" title="Category:Cities in France">Category:Cities in France</a>, <i>not</i> also in <a href="/wiki/Category:Populated_places_in_France" title="Category:Populated places in France">Category:Populated places in France</a>. Because the first category (cities) is in the second category (populated places), readers are already given the information that Paris is a populated place in France by it being a city in France. </p> <p><span class="anchor" id="V"></span><span class="anchor" id="Verifiable"></span><span class="anchor" id="Verifiability"></span><span class="anchor" id="CATV"></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"></p><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:CATV"></span><span id="WP:CAT#V"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CATV&redirect=no">WP:CATV</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CAT&redirect=no#V">WP:CAT#V</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Categorization of articles must be <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verifiable</a></b>. It should be clear from verifiable information in the article why it was placed in each of its categories. Use the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Unreferenced_category" title="Template:Unreferenced category">Unreferenced category</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template if you find an article in a category that is not shown by sources to be appropriate or if the article gives no clear indication for inclusion in a category. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="POV"></span><span class="anchor" id="NPOV"></span><span class="anchor" id="CATPOV"></span><span class="anchor" id="POVCAT"></span><span class="anchor" id="Neutral"></span><span class="anchor" id="N"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:CATPOV"></span><span id="WP:POVCAT"></span><span id="WP:CAT#N"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CATPOV&redirect=no">WP:CATPOV</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:POVCAT&redirect=no">WP:POVCAT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CAT&redirect=no#N">WP:CAT#N</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Categorization must also maintain a <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">neutral point of view</a></b>. Categorizations appear on article pages without annotations or referencing to justify or explain their addition; editors should be conscious of the need to maintain a neutral point of view when creating categories or adding them to articles. Categorizations should generally be uncontroversial; if the category's topic is likely to spark controversy, then a list article (which can be annotated and referenced) is probably more appropriate. For example, a politician (not convicted of any crime) should not be added to a category of notable criminals. </p> <p><span class="anchor" id="Defining_characteristics"></span><span class="anchor" id="Defining"></span><span class="anchor" id="D"></span><span class="anchor" id="DEF"></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"></p><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:CATDEF"></span><span id="WP:CAT#D"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CATDEF&redirect=no">WP:CATDEF</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CAT&redirect=no#D">WP:CAT#D</a></span></li></ul></div></div><p>The <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DEFINING" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DEFINING">defining</a></b> characteristics of an article's topic are central to categorizing the article. A defining characteristic is one that <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliable sources</a> <i>commonly</i> and <i>consistently</i> refer to<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in describing the topic, such as the nationality of a person or the geographic location of a place. For example, <i>Italian</i> and <i>artist</i> are defining characteristics of <a href="/wiki/Caravaggio" title="Caravaggio">Caravaggio</a>, because virtually all reliable sources on the topic mention them, so that article is included in categories such as <a href="/wiki/Category:Italian_Baroque_painters" title="Category:Italian Baroque painters">Category:Italian Baroque painters</a>. </p><p>Be sure to include categories for all defining characteristics. For non-defining characteristics, editors should use their judgment to choose which additional categories (if any) to include. For example, <a href="/wiki/Caravaggio" title="Caravaggio">Caravaggio</a> is included in the non-defining category of <a href="/wiki/Category:Deaths_from_sepsis" title="Category:Deaths from sepsis">Category:Deaths from sepsis</a>. </p><p>Particular considerations for categorizing articles: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="MOS:CATORDER"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MOS:CATORDER&redirect=no">MOS:CATORDER</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <ul><li>By convention, category declarations are placed at the end of the wikitext, but before any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stub" title="Wikipedia:Stub">stub</a> templates, which transclude their own categories.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="CATORDER"></span><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:EPONYMOUS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:EPONYMOUS">Eponymous categories</a> should appear first. Beyond that, the order in which categories are placed on a page is not governed by any single rule (for example, it does not need to be alphabetical, although partially alphabetical ordering can sometimes be helpful). Normally the most essential, significant categories appear first.</li></ul> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:CATREDLINK"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CATREDLINK&redirect=no">WP:CATREDLINK</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <ul><li><span class="anchor" id="CATREDLINK"></span> An article should never be left with a non-existent (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:REDLINK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:REDLINK">redlinked</a>) category on it. Either the category should be created, or else the link should be removed or changed to a category that does exist.</li> <li>Categorization should not be made by the <i>type</i> of an article. A biographical article about a specific person, for example, does not belong in <a href="/wiki/Category:Biography_(genre)" title="Category:Biography (genre)">Category:Biography (genre)</a>.</li> <li>Articles on fictional subjects should not be categorized in a manner that confuses them with real subjects. <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Category_see_also" title="Template:Category see also">Category see also</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> is useful for interlinking examples of real-world and fictional phenomena.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="EPON"></span><span class="anchor" id="OCEPON"></span><span class="anchor" id="EPONYMOUS"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Eponymous_categories" data-mw-thread-id="h-Eponymous_categories-Articles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Eponymous_categories-Articles"></span>Eponymous categories<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Eponymous_categories-Articles"></span></h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:EPON"></span><span id="WP:OCEPON"></span><span id="WP:EPONYMOUS"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:EPON&redirect=no">WP:EPON</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:OCEPON&redirect=no">WP:OCEPON</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:EPONYMOUS&redirect=no">WP:EPONYMOUS</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Category:Eponymous_categories" title="Category:Eponymous categories">Category:Eponymous categories</a> and <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_categories_named_after_people" title="Category:Wikipedia categories named after people">Category:Wikipedia categories named after people</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the overuse of the word "eponymous" on Wikipedia, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TITULAR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TITULAR">WP:TITULAR</a>.</div> <p>A category that covers exactly the same topic as an article is known as the <b>eponymous category</b> for that article (e.g. <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> and <a href="/wiki/Category:New_York_City" title="Category:New York City">Category:New York City</a>; <a href="/wiki/Mekong" title="Mekong">Mekong</a> and <a href="/wiki/Category:Mekong_River" title="Category:Mekong River">Category:Mekong River</a>; <a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln" title="Abraham Lincoln">Abraham Lincoln</a> and <a href="/wiki/Category:Abraham_Lincoln" title="Category:Abraham Lincoln">Category:Abraham Lincoln</a>). </p><p>Eponymous categories should not be created unless enough directly related articles or subcategories exist. However, this should not be done simply to reduce the number of categories displayed in an article. </p><p>An eponymous category should have only the categories of its article that are relevant to the category's content. For example: </p> <ul><li>Both <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> and <a href="/wiki/Category:New_York_City" title="Category:New York City">Category:New York City</a> fit well in <a href="/wiki/Category:Cities_in_New_York_(state)" title="Category:Cities in New York (state)">Category:Cities in New York (state)</a>.</li> <li>The article <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> is in <a href="/wiki/Category:Populated_places_established_in_1624" title="Category:Populated places established in 1624">Category:Populated places established in 1624</a>, but this category is not necessarily relevant to the content of <a href="/wiki/Category:New_York_City" title="Category:New York City">Category:New York City</a>, so it should not be used on the eponymous category.</li></ul> <p>Individual <a href="/wiki/Category:Works_by_creator" title="Category:Works by creator">works by a person</a> should not be included in an eponymous category but should instead be in a subcategory such as <a href="/wiki/Category:Novels_by_Agatha_Christie" title="Category:Novels by Agatha Christie">Category:Novels by Agatha Christie</a>. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="CATMAIN"></span><span class="anchor" id="MAIN"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Articles_with_eponymous_categories" data-mw-thread-id="h-Articles_with_eponymous_categories-Eponymous_categories"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Articles_with_eponymous_categories-Eponymous_categories"></span>Articles with eponymous categories<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Articles_with_eponymous_categories-Eponymous_categories"></span></h5></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"WP:CATMAIN" redirects here. For the template, see <a href="/wiki/Template:Category_main_article" title="Template:Category main article">Template:Category main article</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:CATMAIN"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CATMAIN&redirect=no">WP:CATMAIN</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <ul><li>The article itself should be a member of the eponymous category. It should be sorted with a space, so that it appears at the start of the category listing (see <a href="#Sort_keys">§ Sort keys</a> below).</li> <li>The article should be listed as the main article of the category using the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Category_main_article" title="Template:Category main article">Category main article</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template.</li> <li>Articles with an eponymous category may be categorized in the broader categories that would be present if there were no eponymous category (e.g. the article <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> appears in both <a href="/wiki/Category:France" title="Category:France">Category:France</a> and <a href="/wiki/Category:Countries_in_Europe" title="Category:Countries in Europe">Category:Countries in Europe</a>, even though the latter category is the parent of the former category). Editors should decide by consensus which solution makes most sense for a category tree. There are three options:</li></ul> <ol><li>Keep both the eponymous category and the main article in the parent category. This is used in <a href="/wiki/Category:Countries_in_Europe" title="Category:Countries in Europe">Category:Countries in Europe</a> to allow that region's country articles to be navigated together.</li> <li>Keep just the child article. This is used in <a href="/wiki/Category:British_Islands" title="Category:British Islands">Category:British Islands</a>, to prevent a loop.</li> <li>Keep just the eponymous category. This is used for <a href="/wiki/Category:Farmers" title="Category:Farmers">Category:Farmers</a> in <a href="/wiki/Category:People_by_occupation" title="Category:People by occupation">Category:People by occupation</a>. Such "<i>X</i> by <i>Y</i>" categories sometimes cover a limited navigational set, not a topic (see <a href="#Category_tree_organization">§ Category tree organization</a> below), thus there is no logical article content.</li></ol> <p>If eponymous categories are categorized separately from their articles, it will be helpful to make links between the category page containing the articles and the category page containing the eponymous categories. The template <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Related_category" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Related category">Related category</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> can be used for this. An example of this set-up is the linked categories <a href="/wiki/Category:American_politicians" title="Category:American politicians">Category:American politicians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_categories_named_after_American_politicians" title="Category:Wikipedia categories named after American politicians">Category:Wikipedia categories named after American politicians</a>. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="FILECAT"></span><span class="anchor" id="Images"></span><span class="anchor" id="Files/images"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Files" data-mw-thread-id="h-Files-Categorizing_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Files-Categorizing_pages"></span>Files<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Files-Categorizing_pages"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:FILECAT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:FILECAT&redirect=no">WP:FILECAT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Images#Image_description_pages" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images § Image description pages</a></div> <p>Category tags should be added to <a href="/wiki/Help:Files" title="Help:Files">file</a> pages of files that have been uploaded to Wikipedia. When categorized, files are not included in the count of articles in the category, but are displayed in a separate section with a thumbnail and the name for each. A category can mix articles and images, or a separate file/image category can be created. A file category is typically a subcategory of the general category about the same subject, and a subcategory of the wider category for files, <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_files" title="Category:Wikipedia files">Category:Wikipedia files</a>. To categorize a new file when uploading, simply add the category tag to the <a href="/wiki/Help:Edit_summary#File_upload_summary" title="Help:Edit summary">upload summary</a>. </p><p>Freely licensed files should be uploaded to, and categorized on, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:COMMONS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:COMMONS">Wikimedia Commons</a>, instead of uploading and categorizing on Wikipedia. Existing freely licensed files should usually be moved from Wikipedia to Commons, with a mirror page automatically remaining on Wikipedia. (For an example of one such mirror page, see <a href="/wiki/File:Niederwald_memorial_2.JPG" title="File:Niederwald memorial 2.JPG">here</a>.) Categories should not be added to these Wikipedia mirror pages, because doing so creates a new Wikipedia page that is subject to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SD#F2" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SD">speedy deletion</a>. Exceptions to this principle are made for mirror pages of images that are nominated as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures" title="Wikipedia:Featured pictures">featured pictures</a> and for those that appear on the Wikipedia <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Template:Did_you_know" title="Template:Did you know">Did You Know?</a> column. </p><p>Images that are used in Wikipedia that are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Non-free_content" title="Wikipedia:Non-free content">non-free or fair use</a> should not appear as thumbnail images in categories. To prevent the thumbnail preview of images from appearing in a category, __NOGALLERY__ should be added to the text of the category. In such cases, the file will still appear in the category, but the actual image preview will not. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Non-article_and_maintenance_categories"></span><span class="anchor" id="Maintenance_categories"></span><span class="anchor" id="Contents_category"></span><span class="anchor" id="Content_category"></span><span class="anchor" id="Administrative_category"></span><span class="anchor" id="PROJCATS"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wikipedia_administrative_categories" data-mw-thread-id="h-Wikipedia_administrative_categories-Categorizing_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Wikipedia_administrative_categories-Categorizing_pages"></span>Wikipedia administrative categories<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Wikipedia_administrative_categories-Categorizing_pages"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:PROJCATS"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PROJCATS&redirect=no">WP:PROJCATS</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administration#Data_structure_and_development" title="Wikipedia:Administration">Wikipedia:Administration § Data structure and development</a></div> <p>A distinction is made between two types of categories: </p> <ul><li><b>Administrative categories</b>, intended for use by editors or by automated tools, based on features of the current state of articles, or used to categorize non-article pages.</li> <li><b>Content categories</b>, intended as part of the encyclopedia, to help readers find articles, based on features of the subjects of those articles.</li></ul> <p>Administrative categories include <b>stub categories</b> (generally produced by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stub" title="Wikipedia:Stub">stub</a> templates), <b>maintenance categories</b> (often produced by tag templates such as <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Cleanup" title="Template:Cleanup">cleanup</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> and <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Fact" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Fact">fact</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>, and used for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Maintenance" title="Wikipedia:Maintenance">maintenance</a> projects), <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject">WikiProject</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Assessment" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Assessment">assessment categories</a></b>, and <b>categories of pages in non-article <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Namespace" title="Wikipedia:Namespace">namespaces</a></b>. </p><p>Article pages should be kept out of administrative categories if possible. For example, the templates that generate WikiProject and assessment categories should be placed on talk pages, not on the articles themselves. If it is unavoidable that an administration category appears on article pages (usually because it is generated by a maintenance tag that is placed on articles), then in most cases it should be made a <b>hidden category</b>, as described in <a href="#Hiding_categories">§ Hiding categories</a> below. </p><p>There are separate administrative categories for different kinds of non-article pages, such as <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Template">template</a> categories, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation_page_categories" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation page categories">disambiguation page categories</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_namespace" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia namespace">project page</a> categories etc. </p><p>In <i>maintenance categories</i> and other <i>administrative categories</i>, pages may be included regardless of type. For example, in an error tracking category it makes sense to group templates separately, because addressing the errors there may require different skills compared to fixing an ordinary article. For sorting each namespace separately, see <a href="#Sort_keys">§ Sort keys</a> below. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="User_namespace"></span><span class="anchor" id="Categorizing_user_pages"></span><span class="anchor" id="USERNOCAT"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="User_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-User_pages-Categorizing_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-User_pages-Categorizing_pages"></span>User pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-User_pages-Categorizing_pages"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:USERNOCAT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:USERNOCAT&redirect=no">WP:USERNOCAT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_categories" title="Wikipedia:User categories">Wikipedia:User categories</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages#Categories,_templates_that_add_categories,_and_redirects" title="Wikipedia:User pages">Wikipedia:User pages § Categories, templates that add categories, and redirects</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages" title="Wikipedia:User pages">User pages</a> are not articles, and thus do not belong in <i>content categories</i> such as <a href="/wiki/Category:Living_people" title="Category:Living people">Living people</a> or <a href="/wiki/Category:Biologists" title="Category:Biologists">Biologists</a>. They can however be placed in <b>user categories</b> – subcategories of <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedians" title="Category:Wikipedians">Category:Wikipedians</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedian_biologists" title="Category:Wikipedian biologists">Category:Wikipedian biologists</a> – which assist collaboration between users. </p><p>Similarly, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SP" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SP">user subpages</a> that are draft versions of articles should be kept out of content categories, but are permitted in non-content or project categories, like <a href="/wiki/Category:User_essays" title="Category:User essays">Category:User essays</a>. If you copy an article from mainspace to userspace and it already contains categories, wrap them inside <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Draft_categories" title="Template:Draft categories">Draft categories</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>, remove them, or <a href="/wiki/Help:Hidden_text" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Hidden text">comment them out</a>. Restore the categories when you move the draft back into article space. Two scripts are available to help with these tasks: <a href="/wiki/User:DannyS712/Draft_no_cat" title="User:DannyS712/Draft no cat">User:DannyS712/Draft no cat</a> and <a href="/wiki/User:DannyS712/Draft_re_cat" title="User:DannyS712/Draft re cat">User:DannyS712/Draft re cat</a>. </p><p>Also, do not <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transclude</a> articles into your user pages: this will result in the user page being included in all the article's categories. </p><p>At <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Polluted_categories" title="Wikipedia:Database reports/Polluted categories">Database reports/Polluted categories</a>, a list of affected categories is maintained. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="DRAFTNOCAT"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Draft_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Draft_pages-Categorizing_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Draft_pages-Categorizing_pages"></span>Draft pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Draft_pages-Categorizing_pages"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:DRAFTNOCAT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:DRAFTNOCAT&redirect=no">WP:DRAFTNOCAT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Drafts#Preparing_drafts" title="Wikipedia:Drafts">Wikipedia:Drafts § Preparing drafts</a></div> <p>Drafts, no matter whether in the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Drafts" title="Wikipedia:Drafts">draft namespace</a> or <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Userspace" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Userspace">your userspace</a>, are not articles, and thus do not belong in content categories such as <a href="/wiki/Category:Living_people" title="Category:Living people">Living people</a> or <a href="/wiki/Category:Biologists" title="Category:Biologists">Biologists</a>. If you copy an article from mainspace to draftspace or your userspace and it already contains categories, then disable those categories. This can be done either by inserting a colon character to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_link_to_a_category" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:How to link to a category">link to each category</a> (e.g. change <code>[[Category:Biologists]]</code> to <code>[[:Category:Biologists]]</code>), or by wrapping them in <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Draft_categories" title="Template:Draft categories">Draft categories</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> (e.g.<code>{{draft categories|1=[[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Biologists]]}}</code> etc.). After you move the draft into article space, remove the leading colons to re-enable the categories. If using the draft categories template, the categories will automatically work as normal in mainspace, but the template should be removed. The same system may be used in a new draft to list the categories it may have when moved to mainspace. </p><p>Two scripts are available to help with these tasks: <a href="/wiki/User:DannyS712/Draft_no_cat" title="User:DannyS712/Draft no cat">User:DannyS712/Draft no cat</a> and <a href="/wiki/User:DannyS712/Draft_re_cat" title="User:DannyS712/Draft re cat">User:DannyS712/Draft re cat</a>. </p><p>Drafts may be placed in the appropriate subcategories of <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_drafts" title="Category:Wikipedia drafts">Category:Wikipedia drafts</a>. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="TEMPLATE"></span><span class="anchor" id="TEMPLATES"></span><span class="anchor" id="TEMP"></span><span class="anchor" id="T"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Template_categorization" data-mw-thread-id="h-Template_categorization-Categorizing_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Template_categorization-Categorizing_pages"></span>Template categorization<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Template_categorization-Categorizing_pages"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:CAT#T"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CAT&redirect=no#T">WP:CAT#T</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Template:Documentation" title="Template:Documentation">Template:Documentation</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Template namespace">Templates</a> are not articles, and thus do not belong in <i>content categories</i>. It is however a recommendation to place them in <b>template categories</b> – subcategories of <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_templates" title="Category:Wikipedia templates">Category:Wikipedia templates</a> – to assist when looking for templates of a certain type. For example, <a href="/wiki/Template:Schubert_string_quartets" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Schubert string quartets">Template:Schubert string quartets</a> is categorized under <a href="/wiki/Category:String_quartets_by_composer_navigational_boxes" title="Category:String quartets by composer navigational boxes">Category:String quartets by composer navigational boxes</a>, which should be a subcategory of <a href="/wiki/Category:Music_navigational_boxes" title="Category:Music navigational boxes">Category:Music navigational boxes</a> (type) but <a href="/wiki/Template:Schubert_string_quartets" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Schubert string quartets">Template:Schubert string quartets</a> should <i>not</i> be categorized under <a href="/wiki/Category:Franz_Schubert" title="Category:Franz Schubert">Category:Franz Schubert</a> or <a href="/wiki/Category:String_quartets" title="Category:String quartets">Category:String quartets</a> (content). </p><p>It is usually desirable that pages using a template are not placed in the same categories as the template itself. To avoid this, the category for the template should be placed on the template's documentation page, normally within a <code class="nowrap" style=""><includeonly><span class="nowrap">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Sandbox_other" title="Template:Sandbox other">Sandbox other</a>|...}}</span></includeonly></code> block; if there is no documentation page, the category for the template may be placed on the template itself, within a <code class="nowrap" style=""><noinclude>...</noinclude></code> block. When a <code class="nowrap" style=""><noinclude>...</noinclude></code> block is the last item in the template code, there should be no spaces or new lines between the last part of the template proper and the opening <code class="nowrap" style=""><noinclude></code> tag. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="TEMPLATECAT"></span><span class="anchor" id="TCAT"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Categorization_using_templates" data-mw-thread-id="h-Categorization_using_templates-Categorizing_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Categorization_using_templates-Categorizing_pages"></span>Categorization using templates<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Categorization_using_templates-Categorizing_pages"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:TEMPLATECAT"></span><span id="WP:TCAT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:TEMPLATECAT&redirect=no">WP:TEMPLATECAT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:TCAT&redirect=no">WP:TCAT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Many <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_messages" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Template messages">templates</a> include category declarations in their transcludable text, for the purpose of <a href="/wiki/Category:Tracking_categories" title="Category:Tracking categories">placing the pages containing those templates into specific categories</a>. This technique is very commonly used for populating certain kinds of administration categories, including stub categories and maintenance categories. See <a href="/wiki/Template:Infobox_roller_coaster" title="Template:Infobox roller coaster">Template:Infobox roller coaster</a> for an example that only adds a category by manufacturer if it exists, and otherwise uses a hidden category. </p><p>However, it is recommended that articles not be placed in ordinary <i>content</i> categories using templates in this way. There are many reasons for this: editors cannot see the category in the wikitext; removing or restructuring the category is made more difficult (partly because automated processes will not work); inappropriate articles and non-article pages may get added to the category; <a href="#Sort_keys">sort keys</a> may be unavailable to be customised per category; and ordering of categories on the page is less controllable. </p><p>When templates are used to populate administration categories, ensure that the code cannot generate nonsensical or non-existent categories, particularly when the category name depends on a parameter. Also, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_suppression" title="Wikipedia:Category suppression">Category suppression</a> for ways of keeping inappropriate pages out of template-generated categories. </p><p>Category declarations in templates often use <code>{{PAGENAME}}</code> as the sort key, because this overrides any DEFAULTSORT defined on the page. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="HIDDENCAT"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Hiding_categories" data-mw-thread-id="h-Hiding_categories-Categorization_using_templates"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Hiding_categories-Categorization_using_templates"></span>Hiding categories<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Hiding_categories-Categorization_using_templates"></span></h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:HIDDENCAT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:HIDDENCAT&redirect=no">WP:HIDDENCAT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Categories#Hidden_categories" class="extiw" title="mw:Help:Categories">mw:Help:Categories § Hidden categories</a></div> <p>In cases where, for technical reasons, administration categories appear directly on articles rather than talk pages, they should be made into <b>hidden categories</b>, so that they are not displayed to readers. This rule does not apply to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stub" title="Wikipedia:Stub">stub</a> categories or "uncategorized article" categories – these types are <i>not</i> hidden. </p><p>To hide a category, add the template <code>{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_category" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Wikipedia category">Wikipedia category</a>|hidden=yes}}</code> to the category page (the template uses the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Magic_word" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Magic word">magic word</a> <code>__HIDDENCAT__</code>). This also places the page in <a href="/wiki/Category:Hidden_categories" title="Category:Hidden categories">Category:Hidden categories</a>. </p><p>A logged-in user may elect to view all hidden categories, by checking "Show hidden categories" on the "Appearance" tab of <a href="/wiki/Special:Preferences" title="Special:Preferences">Preferences</a>. Notice that "hidden" parent categories are never in fact hidden on category pages (although they are listed separately). </p><p>Hidden categories are listed at the bottom when previewing. All users of the desktop version can see hidden categories for a page by clicking "Page information" under "Tools" in the left pane, or by editing the whole page with the source editor. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Redirected_categories" data-mw-thread-id="h-Redirected_categories-Categorization_using_templates"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Redirected_categories-Categorization_using_templates"></span>Redirected categories<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Redirected_categories-Categorization_using_templates"></span></h4></div> <p>Do not create inter-category redirects. See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion#Redirecting_categories" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion">Wikipedia:Categories for discussion § Redirecting categories</a> for the policy, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect#Category_redirects" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">Wikipedia:Redirect § Category redirects</a> for the technical details. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Sort_order"></span><span class="anchor" id="SORTKEY"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Sort_keys" data-mw-thread-id="h-Sort_keys"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Sort_keys"></span>Sort keys<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Sort_keys"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:SORTKEY"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SORTKEY&redirect=no">WP:SORTKEY</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"WP:Sorting" redirects here. For sorting of tables, see <a href="/wiki/Help:Sortable_tables" title="Help:Sortable tables">Help:Sortable tables</a>.</div> <p><b>Sort keys</b> are sometimes needed to produce a correct ordering of member pages and subcategories on the category page. For the mechanics, see <a href="/wiki/Help:Category#Sorting_category_pages" title="Help:Category">Help:Category § Sorting category pages</a>. </p><p>Categories of people are usually sorted by last name rather than first name, so "surname, forename" sort keys are used (as in "Washington, George"). There are many other rules for sorting people's names; for more information, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NAMESORT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NAMESORT">WP:NAMESORT</a>. </p><p>Other sort key considerations (in no particular order): </p> <ul><li>In English Wikipedia, sort order merges (ignores) case and diacritics. For example, "Baé", "Båf", "BaG" would be sorted in that order.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The main article/s of a category, if existent, should get sorted with a space as key so that it/they appear(s) at the very top of the category. Example: <code>[[Category:Example| ]]</code> Those articles are typically homonymous or at least synonymous to their category. Furthermore, other general articles that are highly relevant to the category should be sorted with an asterisk as key so that they also appear at the top of a category but beneath the main article/s. Example: <code>[[Category:Example|*]]</code> Those articles are typically called "History of example", "Types of example", "List of example" or similar.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Article_(part_of_speech)" class="mw-redirect" title="Article (part of speech)">Leading articles</a>—a, an, and the—are among the most common reasons for using sort keys, which are used to transfer the leading article to the end of the key, as in {{DEFAULTSORT:Lady, The}}. Please also apply these sort keys to deliberate misspellings of these words, <i>e.g.</i> "da" or "tha" for "the", as well as foreign language leading articles, such as "el" or "der" (but beware of non-article words that have the same spelling, e.g. that translate as "at" or "one"). However, leading articles in foreign-language-derived names which are no longer translated in English are not subject to this rule; e.g. the sort key for <a href="/wiki/El_Paso" class="mw-redirect" title="El Paso">El Paso</a> should be left as the default value (i.e. no {{DEFAULTSORT}} required).</li> <li>Spell out abbreviations and characters used in place of words so that they can be found easily in categories. For example, the sort key for <a href="/wiki/Mr._Bean" title="Mr. Bean">Mr. Bean</a> should be {{DEFAULTSORT:Mister Bean}} and <a href="/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a> should be sorted {{DEFAULTSORT:Dungeons And Dragons}}. An exception is the times sign (×) as in "Men's 4 × 100 metre" relay; use the letter x in this case.</li> <li>Landforms (and similar) that have noun prefixes such as <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Mull" title="Isle of Mull">Isle of Mull</a> should have the noun sorted after as {{DEFAULTSORT:Mull, Isle of}}. However, this isn't usually done for settlements and administrative divisions; for example, while <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Wight" title="Isle of Wight">Isle of Wight</a> uses {{DEFAULTSORT:Wight, Isle of}}, the categories for the county/district are sorted "Isle of Wight". Also for settlements such as <a href="/wiki/Isle_of_Wight,_Virginia" title="Isle of Wight, Virginia">Isle of Wight, Virginia</a> the prefix isn't moved.</li> <li>Hyphens, apostrophes and periods/full stops are the only punctuation marks that should be kept in sort values. The only exception is the apostrophe in names beginning with <i>O<span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span></i>, which should be removed. For example, <a href="/wiki/Eugene_O%27Neill" title="Eugene O'Neill">Eugene O'Neill</a> is sorted {{DEFAULTSORT:Oneill, Eugene}}. All other punctuation marks should be removed. (Commas can be added when re-ordering words, as in the previous example.)</li> <li>Entries containing numbers sometimes need special sort keys to ensure proper numerical ordering. For example, IX comes before V in alphabetical order, so <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_IX" title="Pope John IX">Pope John IX</a> might have a sort key "John 9". To get the correct sort order zero padding may be required, thus the <i>actual</i> sort key in this case is "John 09" this ensures that <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_IX" title="Pope John IX">Pope John IX</a> sorts before <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_X" title="Pope John X">Pope John X</a> – if we ever get to the hundredth Pope John, we would need to use three digits "John 009". Also note that numbers which include separators (such as commas or periods) will only have the part of the number before the first separator considered by the sorting algorithm. So <a href="/wiki/10,000_Maniacs" title="10,000 Maniacs">10,000 Maniacs</a> might have a sort key "10000 Maniacs". It is important to stick to the same system for all similar entries in a given category.</li> <li>Systematic sort keys are also used in other categories where the logical sort order is not alphabetical (for example, individual month articles in year categories such as <a href="/wiki/Category:2004" title="Category:2004">Category:2004</a> use sort keys like "*2004-04" for April). Again, such systems must be used consistently within a category.</li> <li>In some categories, sort keys are used to exclude prefixes that are common to all or many of the entries, or are considered unimportant (such as "List of" or "The"). For example, in <a href="/wiki/Category:2004" title="Category:2004">Category:2004</a> the page <a href="/wiki/2004_in_film" title="2004 in film">2004 in film</a> would have the sort key "Film", and in <a href="/wiki/Category:2004_in_Canada" title="Category:2004 in Canada">Category:2004 in Canada</a> the page <a href="/wiki/2004_Canadian_federal_budget" title="2004 Canadian federal budget">2004 Canadian federal budget</a> would have the sort key "Federal Budget".</li> <li>Use other sort keys beginning with a space (or an asterisk or a plus sign) for any "List of ..." and other pages that should appear <i>after</i> the key article and <i>before</i> the main alphabetical listings, including "Outline of" and "Index of" pages. The same technique is sometimes used to bring particular subcategories to the start of the list.</li></ul> <dl><dd>Sort order of characters <i>before</i> numbers and Latin alphabet (0–9, A–Z) is (partial list):</dd> <dd><b><code>! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 0 9 : ; < = > ? @ [ \ ] ^ _ ` A Z a z { | } ~ É é —</code></b></dd> <dd><i>See also:</i> <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Sorting#Sort_modes" class="extiw" title="meta:Help:Sorting">Meta:Help:Sorting#Sort modes</a> for more information.</dd></dl> <ul><li>Sort keys may be prefixed with <a href="/wiki/Greek_letters" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek letters">Greek letters</a> to place entries <i>after</i> the main alphabetical list. The following letters have special meaning by convention: <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/%CE%A3" class="mw-redirect" title="Σ">Σ</a>" (capital sigma) is used to place <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stub" title="Wikipedia:Stub">stub</a> categories at the end of subcategory lists. ("µ" (<a href="/wiki/Mu_(letter)" title="Mu (letter)">mu</a>) was previously used, but the capital version "Μ" was confusing.)</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/%CE%92" class="mw-redirect" title="Β">β</a>" (beta, displays as capital, "Β") is for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:*" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:*">barnstars</a>.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/%CE%94" class="mw-redirect" title="Δ">Δ</a>" (delta) is for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Documentation" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Documentation">documentation</a>, where sorting by Latin D is undesirable.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/%CE%99" class="mw-redirect" title="Ι">ι</a>" (iota, displays as "Ι") is for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Images" title="Wikipedia:Images">Wikipedia images</a>.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/%CE%A1" class="mw-redirect" title="Ρ">ρ</a>" (rho, displays as "Ρ") is for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Portal" title="Wikipedia:Portal">portals</a>.</li> <li><span class="anchor" id="Tau"></span>"<a href="/wiki/%CE%A4" class="mw-redirect" title="Τ">τ</a>" (tau, displays as "Τ") is for <a href="/wiki/Help:Template" title="Help:Template">templates</a>. Keep in mind, template categories should not be added to content categories per <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CAT#T" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CAT">WP:CAT#T</a>.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/%CE%A5" class="mw-redirect" title="Υ">υ</a>" (upsilon, displays as "Υ") for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Userbox" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Userbox">user templates</a>.</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/%CE%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Ω">ω</a>" (omega, displays as "Ω") is for <a href="/wiki/WikiProject" title="WikiProject">WikiProjects</a>.</li></ul> <dl><dd>Similar to the handling of Latin letters, if the sort key is or begins with a lower case Greek letter, then the capital Greek letter will be displayed in headings on category pages. Items whose sort keys begin with lowercase letters will appear beneath corresponding capital letters. Several of these resemble Latin letters B, I, P etc., but they will sort after <a href="/wiki/Z" title="Z">Z</a>.</dd> <dd><b>Note</b>: Not all of these types are suitable for inclusion in <i>content categories</i>. For one-type categories, such as <i>template categories</i>, Greek letter grouping is not useful.</dd></dl></li> <li>If a page is to be given the same sort key in all or several of its categories, the <code>{{DEFAULTSORT}}</code> <a href="/wiki/Help:Magic_words" title="Help:Magic words">magic word</a> should be used. Per <a href="/wiki/MOS:ORDER" class="mw-redirect" title="MOS:ORDER">MOS:ORDER</a>, this is placed just before the list of category declarations. Default sort keys are sometimes defined even where they do not seem necessary—when they are the same as the page name, for example—in order to prevent other editors or automated tools from trying to infer a different default.</li></ul> <p><span class="anchor" id="TREE"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Category_tree_organization" data-mw-thread-id="h-Category_tree_organization"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Category_tree_organization"></span>Category tree organization<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Category_tree_organization"></span></h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:CAT#TREE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:CAT&redirect=no#TREE">WP:CAT#TREE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Category-diagram.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Category-diagram.png/300px-Category-diagram.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="152" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Category-diagram.png/450px-Category-diagram.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Category-diagram.png/600px-Category-diagram.png 2x" data-file-width="1254" data-file-height="636"/></a><figcaption>Partial view of Wikipedia's category system from 2007. Arrows point from category to subcategory.</figcaption></figure> <p>Categories are organized as overlapping "<a href="/wiki/Tree_structure" title="Tree structure">trees</a>", formed by creating links between inter-related categories (in mathematics or computer science this structure is called a <a href="/wiki/Partially_ordered_set" title="Partially ordered set">partially ordered set</a>). Any category may contain (or "branch into") <b>subcategories</b>, and it is possible for a category to be a subcategory of more than one "parent" category. (A is said to be a <b>parent category</b> of B when B is a subcategory of A.) <sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is one top-level category, <a href="/wiki/Category:Contents" title="Category:Contents">Category:Contents</a>. All other categories are found below this. Hence every category apart from this top one must be a subcategory of at least one other category. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Topic_category"></span><span class="anchor" id="Topic_categories"></span><span class="anchor" id="TOPICCAT"></span><span class="anchor" id="Set_category"></span><span class="anchor" id="Set_categories"></span><span class="anchor" id="SETCAT"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:TOPICCAT"></span><span id="WP:SETCAT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:TOPICCAT&redirect=no">WP:TOPICCAT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SETCAT&redirect=no">WP:SETCAT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>There are two main kinds of category: </p> <ul><li><b>Topic categories</b> are named after a topic (usually sharing a name with the Wikipedia article on that topic). For example, <a href="/wiki/Category:France" title="Category:France">Category:France</a> contains articles relating to the topic <a href="/wiki/France" title="France">France</a>.</li> <li><b>Set categories</b> are named after a class (usually in the plural). For example, <a href="/wiki/Category:Cities_in_France" title="Category:Cities in France">Category:Cities in France</a> contains articles whose subjects are cities in France. A category may be explicitly labeled as such using the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Set_category" title="Template:Set category">Set category</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template.</li></ul> <p>Sometimes, for convenience, the two types can be combined, to create a <i>set-and-topic</i> category (such as <a href="/wiki/Category:Voivodeships_of_Poland" title="Category:Voivodeships of Poland">Category:Voivodeships of Poland</a>, which contains articles about particular voivodeships as well as articles relating to voivodeships in general). </p><p><span class="anchor" id="SUBCAT"></span><span class="anchor" id="SUPERCAT"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Subcategorization" data-mw-thread-id="h-Subcategorization-Category_tree_organization"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Subcategorization-Category_tree_organization"></span>Subcategorization<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Subcategorization-Category_tree_organization"></span></h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:SUBCAT"></span><span id="WP:SUPERCAT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SUBCAT&redirect=no">WP:SUBCAT</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SUPERCAT&redirect=no">WP:SUPERCAT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Binary_tree_structure.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Binary_tree_structure.svg/300px-Binary_tree_structure.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="180" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Binary_tree_structure.svg/450px-Binary_tree_structure.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Binary_tree_structure.svg/600px-Binary_tree_structure.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="300"/></a><figcaption>A tree structure showing the possible hierarchical organization of an encyclopedia</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tree_product_pract.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Tree_product_pract.svg/220px-Tree_product_pract.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="59" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Tree_product_pract.svg/330px-Tree_product_pract.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Tree_product_pract.svg/440px-Tree_product_pract.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="160"/></a><figcaption>Items may belong to more than one category, but normally not to a category and its parent (there are, however, exceptions to this rule, such as <a href="#Non-diffusing_subcategories">non-diffusing categories</a>). An item may belong to several subcategories of a parent category (as pictured).</figcaption></figure> <p>If logical membership of one category implies logical membership of a second (an <a href="/wiki/Is-a" title="Is-a">is-a</a> relationship), then the first category should be made a subcategory (directly or indirectly) of the second. For example, <a href="/wiki/Category:Cities_in_France" title="Category:Cities in France">Cities in France</a> is a subcategory of <a href="/wiki/Category:Populated_places_in_France" title="Category:Populated places in France">Populated places in France</a>, which in turn is a subcategory of <a href="/wiki/Category:Geography_of_France" title="Category:Geography of France">Geography of France</a>. </p><p>Many subcategories have two or more parent categories. For example, <a href="/wiki/Category:British_writers" title="Category:British writers">Category:British writers</a> should be in both <a href="/wiki/Category:Writers_by_nationality" title="Category:Writers by nationality">Category:Writers by nationality</a> and <a href="/wiki/Category:British_people_by_occupation" title="Category:British people by occupation">Category:British people by occupation</a>. When making one category a subcategory of another, ensure that the members of the subcategory really can be expected (with possibly a few exceptions) to belong to the parent also. Category chains formed by parent–child relationships should never form closed loops;<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that is, no category should be contained as a subcategory of one of its own subcategories.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> If two categories are closely related but are not in a subset relation, then links between them can be included in the text of the category pages. </p><p>Except for <a href="#Non-diffusing_subcategories">non-diffusing subcategories</a> (see below), pages for subcategories should be categorised under the <em>most specific</em> parent categories possible. </p><p>Sometimes proper subcategorization requires the <a href="#Creating_category_pages">creation of new categories</a>. </p><p>Note also that as stub templates are for maintenance purposes, not user browsing (see <a href="#Wikipedia_administrative_categories">§ Wikipedia administrative categories</a> above), they do <i>not</i> count as categorization for the purposes of Wikipedia's categorization policies. An article which has a "stubs" category on it <i>must</i> still be filed in the most appropriate content categories, even if one of them is a direct parent of the stubs category in question. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="DIFFUSE"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Diffusing_large_categories" data-mw-thread-id="h-Diffusing_large_categories-Subcategorization"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Diffusing_large_categories-Subcategorization"></span>Diffusing large categories<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Diffusing_large_categories-Subcategorization"></span></h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:DIFFUSE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:DIFFUSE&redirect=no">WP:DIFFUSE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"WP:DIFFUSE" redirects here. For conflicts, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Diffusing_conflict" title="Wikipedia:Diffusing conflict">Wikipedia:Diffusing conflict</a>.</div> <p>Although there is no limit on the size of categories, a large category will often be broken down ("diffused") into smaller, more specific subcategories. For example, <a href="/wiki/Category:Rivers_of_Europe" title="Category:Rivers of Europe">Category:Rivers of Europe</a> contains no articles about specific rivers directly, they are all in subcategories. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="Metacategories"></span><span class="anchor" id="META"></span>A category may be diffused using several coexisting schemes; for example, <a href="/wiki/Category:Albums" title="Category:Albums">Category:Albums</a> is broken down by artist, by date, by genre etc. <b>Metacategories</b> may be created as ways of organizing schemes of subcategories. For example, the subcategories called "<i>Artistname</i> albums" are not placed directly into <a href="/wiki/Category:Albums" title="Category:Albums">Category:Albums</a>, but into the metacategory <a href="/wiki/Category:Albums_by_artist" title="Category:Albums by artist">Category:Albums by artist</a>, which itself appears in Category:Albums. (See <a href="/wiki/Category:Categories_by_parameter" title="Category:Categories by parameter">Category:Categories by parameter</a>) </p><p>It is possible for a category to be only partially diffused—some members are placed in subcategories, while others remain in the main category. </p><p>Information about how a category is diffused may be given on the category page. Categories which are intended to be fully broken down into subcategories can be marked with the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Category_diffuse" title="Template:Category diffuse">category diffuse</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template, which indicates that any pages which editors might add to the main category should be moved to the appropriate subcategories when sufficient information is available. (If the proper subcategory for an article does not exist yet, either create the subcategory or leave the article in the parent category for the time being.) </p><p>To suggest that a category is so large that it ought to be diffused, or substantially diffused, into subcategories, you can add the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Overpopulated_category" title="Template:Overpopulated category">overpopulated category</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template to the category page. </p><p><span class="anchor" id="ALLINCLUDED"></span><span class="anchor" id="DUPCAT"></span> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Non-diffusing_subcategories" data-mw-thread-id="h-Non-diffusing_subcategories-Subcategorization"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Non-diffusing_subcategories-Subcategorization"></span>Non-diffusing subcategories<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Non-diffusing_subcategories-Subcategorization"></span></h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:ALLINCLUDED"></span><span id="WP:DUPCAT"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:ALLINCLUDED&redirect=no">WP:ALLINCLUDED</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:DUPCAT&redirect=no">WP:DUPCAT</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>Not all subcategories serve the "diffusion" function described above; some are simply subsets which have some special characteristic of interest, such as <a href="/wiki/Category:Best_Actor_Academy_Award_winners" title="Category:Best Actor Academy Award winners">Best Actor Academy Award winners</a> as a subcategory of <a href="/wiki/Category:Film_actors" title="Category:Film actors">Film actors</a>. 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 <i>purely</i> 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 will not appear in the parent category directly.) </p><p>Non-diffusing subcategories should be identified with a template on the category page: </p> <ul><li>The <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Non-diffusing_subcategory" title="Template:Non-diffusing subcategory">Non-diffusing subcategory</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> templates should be used for subcategories that are non-diffusing, like <a href="/wiki/Category:American_novelists_of_Asian_descent" title="Category:American novelists of Asian descent">Category:American novelists of Asian descent</a>.</li> <li>The <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:All_included" title="Template:All included">All included</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> can be used for categories where all child articles of a certain type are in the parent, like <a href="/wiki/Category:Presidents_of_the_United_States" title="Category:Presidents of the United States">Category:Presidents of the United States</a> or <a href="/wiki/Category:Mountains_of_Switzerland" title="Category:Mountains of Switzerland">Category:Mountains of Switzerland</a>.</li></ul> <p>Subcategories defined by gender, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality should almost always be non-diffusing subcategories. The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorizing_articles_about_people" title="Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people">Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people</a> guideline outlines the rules on these categories in more detail. </p><p>Note that some categories can be non-diffusing on some parents, and diffusing on others. For example, <a href="/wiki/Category:British_women_novelists" title="Category:British women novelists">Category:British women novelists</a> is a non-diffusing subcategory of <a href="/wiki/Category:British_novelists" title="Category:British novelists">Category:British novelists</a>, but it is a diffusing subcategory of <a href="/wiki/Category:Women_novelists_by_nationality" title="Category:Women novelists by nationality">Category:Women novelists by nationality</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Category_cleanup_templates" data-mw-thread-id="h-Category_cleanup_templates"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Category_cleanup_templates"></span>Category cleanup templates<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Category_cleanup_templates"></span></h2></div> <ul><li>Article with insufficient categories <ul><li><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Improve_categories" title="Template:Improve categories">Improve categories</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template indicates that the article needs additional or more specific categories. It is recommended that this template be placed at the <i>bottom</i> of the page, where readers will look for the categories.</li></ul></li> <li>Article with too many categories <ul><li>Use <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Recategorize" title="Template:Recategorize">Recategorize</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template when there are too many categories. Put this template <i>on the top</i> of articles.</li></ul></li> <li>Category unknown <ul><li>If you're not sure where to categorize a particular page, add the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Uncategorized" title="Template:Uncategorized">uncategorized</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> template to it, and other editors (such as those monitoring <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Categories/uncategorized" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized">Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized</a>) will help find appropriate categories for it.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Inappropriate_categorization" data-mw-thread-id="h-Inappropriate_categorization"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Inappropriate_categorization"></span>Inappropriate categorization<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Inappropriate_categorization"></span></h2></div> <p>Anyone may edit an article and remove a questionable categorization. If an article has an "incorrect" or "inappropriate" category, remove that category from the article, and replace it (if applicable) with a more correct category. </p><p>Even if an article may occupy the grey areas of a category's inclusion criteria, that is not a valid reason to keep the article in a category. If a particular article does not fit the inclusion criteria of a category, <i>then the article simply should not be added to it</i>. </p><p>If categorization of any particular page is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:DR" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DR">disputed</a>, please <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CON" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CON">discuss</a> the categorization on the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:TALK" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:TALK">talk page</a> of the page in question. If the category seems reasonable, but questionable in some cases, consider whether you can solve (part of) the problem by writing a clearer <a href="#Category_description">#Category description</a>. </p><p>If you have a proposal for a better name for the category or for a wider re-arrangement of the categorization scheme; or if you have a concern that may apply to several members of the category (such as if the category violates one or more sections on this page, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorizing_articles_about_people" title="Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people">Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization">Wikipedia:Overcategorization</a>, or other Wikipedia <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">policies and guidelines</a>), you can participate in, or post a new, discussion about the category. </p><p>Category talk pages are not always widely <a href="/wiki/Help:Watchlist" title="Help:Watchlist">watched</a>. Consider whether you can <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Canvassing#Appropriate_notification" title="Wikipedia:Canvassing">invite more potentially interested people</a> to take part in a discussion, such as by discussing it at a relevant <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject">WikiProject</a>, or at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Categories" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories">Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories</a>. Another option could be to nominate the category for discussion at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion">Wikipedia:Categories for discussion</a>, or if the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_names" title="Wikipedia:Category names">category name</a> has an obvious typographical error, you can list it for speedy renaming at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Speedy" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy">Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy</a>. </p><p><i>See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Howto" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Howto">Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Howto</a> for instructions on how to use the templates for: <b>deletion</b> (<span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Cfd" title="Template:Cfd">cfd</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>), <b>renaming</b> (<span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Cfr" title="Template:Cfr">cfr</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>), or <b>merging</b> (<span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Cfm" title="Template:Cfm">cfm</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span>).</i> </p><p>If you are in a content dispute, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution" title="Wikipedia:Dispute resolution">Wikipedia:Dispute resolution</a> for what to do next. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="See_also" data-mw-thread-id="h-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-See_also"></span>See also<span data-mw-comment-end="h-See_also"></span></h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:Categorization dos and don'ts">Wikipedia:Categorization dos and don'ts</a> (information page summarizing key points of this guideline)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_suppression" title="Wikipedia:Category suppression">Wikipedia:Category suppression</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Categories" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories">Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories</a></li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Categorist_Wikipedians" class="extiw" title="m:Association of Categorist Wikipedians">m:Association of Categorist Wikipedians</a></li> <li><a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Sorting" class="extiw" title="m:Help:Sorting">m:Help:Sorting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_essays_about_categorization" title="Category:Wikipedia essays about categorization">Category:Wikipedia essays about categorization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization">Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Gadget-Cat-a-lot" title="Help:Gadget-Cat-a-lot">Help:Gadget-Cat-a-lot</a>, script for moving subcategories between categories</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Maintenance" title="Wikipedia:Maintenance">Wikipedia:Maintenance</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="For_browsing" data-mw-thread-id="h-For_browsing-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-For_browsing-See_also"></span>For browsing<span data-mw-comment-end="h-For_browsing-See_also"></span></h3></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PetScan" title="Wikipedia:PetScan">Wikipedia:PetScan</a> (formerly CatScan)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Classification" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Classification">Wikipedia:Classification</a> (category tree jumping)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_intersection" title="Wikipedia:Category intersection">Wikipedia:Category intersection</a> (ability to find articles that are in more than one category)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:Categories" title="Special:Categories">Special:Categories</a> (lists all existing categories alphabetically)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:CategoryTree" title="Special:CategoryTree">Special:CategoryTree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_categories" title="Category:Wikipedia categories">Category:Wikipedia categories</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="For_maintenance" data-mw-thread-id="h-For_maintenance-See_also"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-For_maintenance-See_also"></span>For maintenance<span data-mw-comment-end="h-For_maintenance-See_also"></span></h3></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Special:MostLinkedCategories" title="Special:MostLinkedCategories">Special:MostLinkedCategories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:UncategorizedFiles" title="Special:UncategorizedFiles">Special:UncategorizedFiles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:UncategorizedPages" title="Special:UncategorizedPages">Special:UncategorizedPages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:UnusedCategories" title="Special:UnusedCategories">Special:UnusedCategories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:WantedCategories" title="Special:WantedCategories">Special:WantedCategories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_combinatorics" title="Wikipedia:Category combinatorics">Wikipedia:Category combinatorics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports#Categories" title="Wikipedia:Database reports">Wikipedia:Database reports#Categories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Category_link_with_count" title="Template:Category link with count">Template:Category link with count</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_categorization_navbox" title="Template:Wikipedia categorization navbox">Template:Wikipedia categorization navbox</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Notes" data-mw-thread-id="h-Notes"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Notes"></span>Notes<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Notes"></span></h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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The most noticeable difference is that UCA groups characters with diacritics with their non-diacritic versions. See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Categorization/Archive_16#OK_to_switch_English_Wikipedia's_category_collation_to_uca-default?" title="Wikipedia talk:Categorization/Archive 16">Wikipedia talk:Categorization/Archive 16 § OK to switch English Wikipedia's category collation to uca-default?</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_149#Sorting_in_categories_unreliable_for_a_few_days" title="Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 149">Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 149 § Sorting in categories unreliable for a few days</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mathematically speaking, this means that the system approximates a <a href="/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph" title="Directed acyclic graph">directed acyclic graph</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This condition can be formulated in terms of <a href="/wiki/Graph_theory" title="Graph theory">graph theory</a> as follows: the directed graph that has the categories as vertices and the parent-child relationships as edges should be <i><a href="/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph" title="Directed acyclic graph">acyclic</a></i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">There is an exception to this for maintenance purposes. 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guidelines are developed by the community to describe best practices, clarify principles, resolve conflicts, and otherwise further our goal.">(?)</span></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars" title="Wikipedia:Five pillars">Five pillars</a></b> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules" title="Wikipedia:Ignore all rules">Ignore all rules</a></b></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Content <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="defines the scope of the encyclopedia and the material that is suitable for it">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">Verifiability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research" title="Wikipedia:No original research">No original research</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">Neutral point of view</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">What Wikipedia is not</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons" title="Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons">Biographies of living persons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights" title="Wikipedia:Copyrights">Copyright</a> (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violations" title="Wikipedia:Copyright violations">Copyright violations</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy" title="Wikipedia:Image use policy">Image use</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles" title="Wikipedia:Article titles">Article titles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#0077A4;"><abbr title="Guidelines"><span style="font-size:120%">G</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability" title="Wikipedia:Notability">Notability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Autobiography" title="Wikipedia:Autobiography">Autobiography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">Citing sources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">Reliable sources</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources_(medicine)" title="Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)">Medicine</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_include_the_full_text_of_lengthy_primary_sources" title="Wikipedia:Do not include the full text of lengthy primary sources">Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Plagiarism" title="Wikipedia:Plagiarism">Plagiarism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_create_hoaxes" title="Wikipedia:Do not create hoaxes">Don't create hoaxes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Fringe_theories" title="Wikipedia:Fringe theories">Fringe theories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Patent_nonsense" title="Wikipedia:Patent nonsense">Patent nonsense</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links" title="Wikipedia:External links">External links</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Conduct <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="describes how editors can successfully collaborate and what behavior is acceptable">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility" title="Wikipedia:Civility">Civility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">Consensus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Harassment" title="Wikipedia:Harassment">Harassment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism" title="Wikipedia:Vandalism">Vandalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules" title="Wikipedia:Ignore all rules">Ignore all rules</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks" title="Wikipedia:No personal attacks">No personal attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content" title="Wikipedia:Ownership of content">Ownership of content</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring" title="Wikipedia:Edit warring">Edit warring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution" title="Wikipedia:Dispute resolution">Dispute resolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry" title="Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry">Sockpuppetry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_legal_threats" title="Wikipedia:No legal threats">No legal threats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Child_protection" title="Wikipedia:Child protection">Child protection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Paid-contribution_disclosure" title="Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure">Paid-contribution disclosure</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#0077A4;"><abbr title="Guidelines"><span style="font-size:120%">G</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume good faith">Assume good faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest" title="Wikipedia:Conflict of interest">Conflict of interest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disruptive_editing" title="Wikipedia:Disruptive editing">Disruptive editing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_disrupt_Wikipedia_to_illustrate_a_point" title="Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point">Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Etiquette" title="Wikipedia:Etiquette">Etiquette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Gaming_the_system" title="Wikipedia:Gaming the system">Gaming the system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers" title="Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers">Please do not bite the newcomers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Courtesy_vanishing" title="Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing">Courtesy vanishing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Responding_to_threats_of_harm" title="Wikipedia:Responding to threats of harm">Responding to threats of harm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines">Talk page guidelines</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Signatures" title="Wikipedia:Signatures">Signatures</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Deletion <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="explains the processes by which pages, revisions, and logs may be deleted">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="P" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy" title="Wikipedia:Deletion policy">Deletion policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Proposed deletion">Proposed deletion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion_of_biographies_of_living_people" title="Wikipedia:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people">Biographies</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion">Criteria for speedy deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Attack_page" title="Wikipedia:Attack page">Attack page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight" title="Wikipedia:Oversight">Oversight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Revision_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Revision deletion">Revision deletion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Enforcement <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="explains the various means by which standards may be enforced">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="P" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators" title="Wikipedia:Administrators">Administrators</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Banning_policy" title="Wikipedia:Banning policy">Banning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy" title="Wikipedia:Blocking policy">Blocking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy" title="Wikipedia:Protection policy">Page protection</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Editing <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="documents the various protocols about style and grouping">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_policy" title="Wikipedia:Editing policy">Editing policy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#0077A4;"><abbr title="Guidelines"><span style="font-size:120%">G</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_size" title="Wikipedia:Article size">Article size</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Summary_style" title="Wikipedia:Summary style">Summary style</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold" title="Wikipedia:Be bold">Be bold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">Disambiguation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Hatnote" title="Wikipedia:Hatnote">Hatnotes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Broad-concept_article" title="Wikipedia:Broad-concept article">Broad-concept article</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Make_technical_articles_understandable" title="Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable">Understandability</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;">Style</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">Manual of Style</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Contents" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Contents">Contents</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility">Accessibility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">Dates and numbers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Images" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images">Images</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Layout" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout">Layout</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lead_section" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section">Lead section</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking">Linking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lists" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists">Lists</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;">Classification</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates" title="Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates">Categories, lists, and navigation templates</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Categorization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Template namespace">Template namespace</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Project content <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="protocols related to administration">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="G" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#0077A4;"><abbr title="Guidelines"><span style="font-size:120%">G</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Project namespace">Project namespace</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide">WikiProjects</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages" title="Wikipedia:User pages">User pages</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes" title="Wikipedia:Userboxes">User boxes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Subpages" title="Wikipedia:Subpages">Subpages</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;;background: #dddddd;color:inherit;"><abbr title="Wikimedia Foundation">WMF</abbr> <abbr title="official policies and statements of the Wikimedia Foundation">(?)</abbr></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="P" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal; background: #e6e6e6;color:inherit;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Universal_Code_of_Conduct" class="extiw" title="wmf:Policy:Universal Code of Conduct">Universal Code of Conduct</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use" class="extiw" title="wmf:Terms of Use">Terms of Use</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policies" class="extiw" title="wmf:Policies">List of policies</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy" class="extiw" title="wmf:Friendly space policy">Friendly space policy</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy" class="extiw" title="wmf:Resolution:Licensing policy">Licensing and copyright</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy" class="extiw" title="wmf:Privacy policy">Privacy policy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;;font-weight: normal;"><div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines">List of all policies and guidelines</a></b> <ul><li><b><span style="color:#118811;"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></span></b>: <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies" title="Wikipedia:List of policies">List of policies</a></b></li> <li><b><span style="color:#0077A4;"><span style="font-size:120%">G</span></span></b>: <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:List of guidelines">List of guidelines</a></b></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Principles" title="Wikipedia:Principles">Summaries of values and principles</a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Wikipedia_categorization" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_categorization_navbox" title="Template:Wikipedia categorization navbox"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Wikipedia_categorization_navbox" title="Template talk:Wikipedia categorization navbox"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Wikipedia_categorization_navbox" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Wikipedia categorization navbox"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Wikipedia_categorization" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Wikipedia categorization</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Guidelines</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Categorization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_names" title="Wikipedia:Category names">Category names</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates" title="Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates">Categories, lists, and navigation templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization">Overcategorization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorizing_articles_about_people" title="Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people">Categorizing articles about people</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:People_by_year" title="Wikipedia:People by year">People by year</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization/Sorting_names" title="Wikipedia:Categorization/Sorting names">Categorization/Sorting names</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorizing_redirects" title="Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects">Categorizing redirects</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_categories" title="Wikipedia:User categories">User categories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization/User_categories" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization/User categories">Overcategorization/User categories</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Help pages</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Categories" title="Help:Categories">Basic help for readers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Basic help for editors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Categories" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Categories">FAQ for readers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization">FAQ for editors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Container_category" title="Wikipedia:Container category">Container categories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorizing_portals" title="Wikipedia:Categorizing portals">Categorizing portals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_classification_templates" title="Wikipedia:Category classification templates">Category classification templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Category_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Template index/Category namespace">Template index/Category namespace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PetScan" title="Wikipedia:PetScan">PetScan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Discussions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion">Categories for discussion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Speedy" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy">Categories for discussion/Speedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/All_current_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/All current discussions">Categories for discussion/All current discussions</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Projectspace essays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_are_different_from_articles" title="Wikipedia:Categories are different from articles">Categories are different from articles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_versus_lists" title="Wikipedia:Categories versus lists">Categories versus lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorising_fictional_characters_by_attribute" title="Wikipedia:Categorising fictional characters by attribute">Categorising fictional characters by attribute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_write_articles_using_categories" title="Wikipedia:Do not write articles using categories">Do not write articles using categories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization/Intersection_of_location_and_occupation" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization/Intersection of location and occupation">Overcategorization/Intersection of location and occupation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workflow" title="Wikipedia:Wiki workflow">Wiki workflow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Plants/Description_in_year_categories" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Description in year categories">WikiProject Plants/Description in year categories</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Userspace essays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:DexDor/Terminology_categories" 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