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book</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Introduction?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Introduction">Introduction</a></li> <li>Part I: Editing, creating, and maintaining articles <ul> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Editing,_creating,_and_maintaining_articles/Editing_for_the_first_time?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, creating, and maintaining articles/Editing for the first time">Chapter 1: Editing for the first time</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Editing,_creating,_and_maintaining_articles/Documenting_your_sources?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, creating, and maintaining articles/Documenting your sources">Chapter 2: Documenting your sources</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Editing,_creating,_and_maintaining_articles/Setting_up_your_account_and_personal_workspace?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, creating, and maintaining articles/Setting up your account and personal workspace">Chapter 3: Setting up your account and personal workspace</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Editing,_creating,_and_maintaining_articles/Creating_a_new_article?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, creating, and maintaining articles/Creating a new article">Chapter 4: Creating a new article</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Editing,_creating,_and_maintaining_articles/Who_did_what:_Page_histories_and_reverting?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, creating, and maintaining articles/Who did what: Page histories and reverting">Chapter 5: Who did what: Page histories and reverting</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Editing,_creating,_and_maintaining_articles/Monitoring_changes?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, creating, and maintaining articles/Monitoring changes">Chapter 6: Monitoring changes</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Editing,_creating,_and_maintaining_articles/Dealing_with_vandalism_and_spam?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Editing, creating, and maintaining articles/Dealing with vandalism and spam">Chapter 7: Dealing with vandalism and spam</a></li> </ul></li> <li>Part II: Collaborating with other editors <ul> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Collaborating_with_other_editors/Communicating_with_your_fellow_editors?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Collaborating with other editors/Communicating with your fellow editors">Chapter 8: Communicating with your fellow editors</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Collaborating_with_other_editors/WikiProjects_and_other_group_efforts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Collaborating with other editors/WikiProjects and other group efforts">Chapter 9: WikiProjects and other group efforts</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Collaborating_with_other_editors/Resolving_content_disputes?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Collaborating with other editors/Resolving content disputes">Chapter 10: Resolving content disputes</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Collaborating_with_other_editors/Handling_incivility_and_personal_attacks?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Collaborating with other editors/Handling incivility and personal attacks">Chapter 11: Handling incivility and personal attacks</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Collaborating_with_other_editors/Lending_other_editors_a_hand?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Collaborating with other editors/Lending other editors a hand">Chapter 12: Lending other editors a hand</a></li> </ul></li> <li>Part III: Formatting and illustrating articles <ul> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Formatting_and_illustrating_articles/Article_sections_and_tables_of_contents?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Formatting and illustrating articles/Article sections and tables of contents">Chapter 13: Article sections and tables of contents</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Formatting_and_illustrating_articles/Creating_lists_and_tables?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Formatting and illustrating articles/Creating lists and tables">Chapter 14: Creating lists and tables</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Formatting_and_illustrating_articles/Adding_images?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Formatting and illustrating articles/Adding images">Chapter 15: Adding images</a></li> </ul></li> <li>Part IV: Building a stronger encyclopedia <ul> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Getting_readers_to_the_right_article:_Naming,_redirects,_and_disambiguation?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Building a stronger encyclopedia/Getting readers to the right article: Naming, redirects, and disambiguation">Chapter 16: Getting readers to the right article: naming, redirects, and disambiguation</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Chapter 17: Categorizing articles</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Better_articles:_A_systematic_approach?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Building a stronger encyclopedia/Better articles: A systematic approach">Chapter 18: Better articles: A systematic approach</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Deleting_existing_articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Building a stronger encyclopedia/Deleting existing articles">Chapter 19: Deleting existing articles</a></li> </ul></li> <li>Part V: Customizing Wikipedia <ul> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Customizing_Wikipedia/Customizing_with_preferences?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Customizing Wikipedia/Customizing with preferences">Chapter 20: Customizing with preferences</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Customizing_Wikipedia/Easier_editing_with_JavaScript?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Customizing Wikipedia/Easier editing with JavaScript">Chapter 21: Easier editing with JavaScript</a></li> </ul></li> <li>Part VI: Appendices <ul> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Appendixes/A_tour_of_the_Wikipedia_page?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Appendixes/A tour of the Wikipedia page">Appendix A: A tour of the Wikipedia page</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Appendixes/Reader%27s_guide_to_Wikipedia?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Appendixes/Reader's guide to Wikipedia">Appendix B: Reader's guide to Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Appendixes/Learning_more?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Appendixes/Learning more">Appendix C: Learning more</a></li> </ul></li> </ul> <div class="mw-inputbox-centered" style=""> <form name="searchbox" class="searchbox mw-inputbox-form" action="/wiki/Special:Search"> <div class="cdx-text-input"> <input class="mw-inputbox-input mw-searchInput searchboxInput cdx-text-input__input" name="search" placeholder="" size="50" dir="ltr"> </div><input type="hidden" value="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual" name="prefix"><br><input type="submit" name="fulltext" value="Search the manual" class="cdx-button"><input type="hidden" value="Search" name="fulltext"> </form> </div></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>When you look at the bottom of a Wikipedia article, you see category links. For example, the article <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Copenhagen?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Coat of arms of Copenhagen">Coat of arms of Copenhagen</a></i> has the category links "<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:1661_establishments_in_Denmark?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:1661 establishments in Denmark">1661 establishments in Denmark</a>", "<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Culture_in_Copenhagen?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Culture in Copenhagen">Culture in Copenhagen</a>", "<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:History_of_Copenhagen?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:History of Copenhagen">History of Copenhagen</a>", "<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Danish_coats_of_arms?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Danish coats of arms">Danish coats of arms</a>", "<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Municipal_coats_of_arms_in_Denmark?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Municipal coats of arms in Denmark">Municipal coats of arms in Denmark</a>", and a bunch more category links for each symbol on the coat of arms. Category links are a big help for readers looking for articles related to a topic. Those links are there because editors like you added them. Wikipedia's software doesn't do automatic categorization, and Wikipedia employs no professional categorizers.</p> <p>Adding categories to articles is easy: Just type a few words, add brackets, and publish these changes. The trick is figuring out what category links would provide maximum usefulness to readers, and that's what this chapter shows you. It also explains the other half of the categorization picture—the category pages where category links are listed. You can create and improve upon those pages, too.</p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"> <input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"> <div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span> </div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Fundamentals_of_categorization"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Fundamentals of categorization</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Category_links_in_articles"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Category links in articles</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Adding_categories_to_articles"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">Adding categories to articles</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-4"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#The_basic_category_link"><span class="tocnumber">2.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">The basic category link</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-5"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Category_links_from_templates,_for_maintenance_and_stubbing"><span class="tocnumber">2.1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Category links from templates, for maintenance and stubbing</span></a></li> </ul></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Fixing_category_links_that_come_from_templates"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Fixing category links that come from templates</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Effective_categorization"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Effective categorization</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Finding_the_right_category"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">Finding the right category</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Getting_articles_into_the_right_place_on_a_category_page"><span class="tocnumber">2.5</span> <span class="toctext">Getting articles into the right place on a category page</span></a></li> </ul></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Category_pages"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Category pages</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Hierarchy:_The_categorizing_of_category_pages"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">Hierarchy: The categorizing of category pages</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Changing_the_categories_assigned_to_a_category_page"><span class="tocnumber">3.1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Changing the categories assigned to a category page</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Renaming,_merging,_or_deleting_a_category_page"><span class="tocnumber">3.1.2</span> <span class="toctext">Renaming, merging, or deleting a category page</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Creating_a_new_category"><span class="tocnumber">3.1.3</span> <span class="toctext">Creating a new category</span></a></li> </ul></li> </ul></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Building_out_categories"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Building out categories</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Discussing_categories"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Discussing categories</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Categories, lists, and navigation templates</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </section> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"> <span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span> <h2 id="Fundamentals_of_categorization" data-mw-thread-id="h-Fundamentals_of_categorization"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Fundamentals_of_categorization"></span>Fundamentals of categorization<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Fundamentals_of_categorization"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=1&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Fundamentals of categorization" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span>  </div> <section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <p>When you click one of the category links at the bottom of articles and other Wikipedia pages, you go to a category page. For example, in the article <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Zoltan_Acs?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Zoltan Acs">Zoltan Acs</a></i>, if you click <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:American_economists?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:American economists">Category:American economists</a></i>, you go the page shown in <b>Figure 17-1</b>.</p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/File:Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1701.png?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-file-description"> <noscript> <img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1701.png/424px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1701.png" decoding="async" width="424" height="408" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="674" data-file-height="648"> </noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 424px;height: 408px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1701.png/424px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1701.png" data-width="424" data-height="408" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1701.png/636px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1701.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1701.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a> <figcaption> <b>Figure 17-1.</b> When you go to the page <i>Category:American economists</i>, you see links to 493 articles categorized as being about American economists, plus twenty-six subcategories. Every category page looks like this one, with four parts: some introductory text, possibly with a link or two; a list of subcategories; a list of any pages that belong directly to the category rather than one of its subcategories; and finally the categories to which the category page belongs. </figcaption> </figure> <p>Categories aren't limited to articles. Portal pages, Wikipedia instructional pages, and some user pages, for example, also have categories. Even category pages themselves have categories; in fact, that's a critical part of how the category system works at Wikipedia. (More on that a bit later.)</p> <p>Category pages are the payoff for category links at the bottom of articles—they help readers find other articles about the same topic as the one they were reading. Without category pages, there'd be little point in adding category links to articles. Without category links in articles, category pages wouldn't have any content other than some introductory text.</p> </section> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"> <span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span> <h2 id="Category_links_in_articles" data-mw-thread-id="h-Category_links_in_articles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Category_links_in_articles"></span>Category links in articles<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Category_links_in_articles"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=2&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Category links in articles" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span>  </div> <section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <p>Wikipedia has plenty of category pages, like the one shown in <b>Figure 17-1</b>. These pages become more useful when editors keep adding relevant articles to them. You do that not by editing a category page, but by editing the articles themselves.</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Adding_categories_to_articles" data-mw-thread-id="h-Adding_categories_to_articles-Category_links_in_articles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Adding_categories_to_articles-Category_links_in_articles"></span>Adding categories to articles<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Adding_categories_to_articles-Category_links_in_articles"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=3&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Adding categories to articles" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>You can add a category link to the bottom of an article in two ways: by typing the category link into the article's wikitext (in the edit box), or by adding a template to the wikitext. You do the first for the topical categories that interest readers, such as <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Australian_astronomers?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Australian astronomers">Category:Australian astronomers</a></i>. The second way (with a template) is usually for marking an article as needing cleanup (improvement) work, for example, <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_September_2007&action=edit&redlink=1&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="new" title="Category:Articles lacking sources from September 2007 (page does not exist)">Category:Articles lacking sources from September 2007</a></i>.</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"> <h4 id="The_basic_category_link" data-mw-thread-id="h-The_basic_category_link-Adding_categories_to_articles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-The_basic_category_link-Adding_categories_to_articles"></span>The basic category link<span data-mw-comment-end="h-The_basic_category_link-Adding_categories_to_articles"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=4&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: The basic category link" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Adding a topical category to an article is easy. To add the category <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Category:Toddler_sports&action=edit&redlink=1&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="new" title="Category:Toddler sports (page does not exist)">Toddler sports</a></i> to an article, for example, open that article for editing, and type, near the bottom (more on that in a moment), the text <i>[[Category:Toddler sports]]</i>. Then do the standard stuff: Add an edit summary, preview your edit, and hit 'Publish changes'. The text you typed is exactly how the link appears at the bottom of the article.</p> <p>There's one twist, however: When you preview, <i>you won't see the new category above the edit toolbar</i>, where the rest of the article is displayed. Nor will you see any existing categories for the article above the toolbar. Rather, you have to scroll down, past the edit box, past the insertable wikicode, and past the template list, to the very bottom of the window—that's where you'll see the categories displayed.</p> <div style="background-color: #f8f8f8; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #ccc; overflow: auto; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 1em"> <div style="font-weight: bold;"> Note: </div> <div style="padding-left: 10px;"> Where categories show in preview mode is just an oddity of Wikipedia. <a href="https://translate.google.com/website?sl=auto&tl=en&hl=en-GB&u=https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T12244" class="extiw" title="phabricator:T12244">T12244</a>, which reported this issue in June 2007, doesn't seem to be a priority for the developers, so don't hold your breath that it'll change. </div> </div> <p>New category links always should be added near the bottom of an article's wikicode. You normally edit (add, delete, change) category links by going to the last section of an article and clicking the "edit" link. If you find any category links anywhere other than in the last section of an article, move them.</p> <div style="background-color: #f8f8f8; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #ccc; overflow: auto; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 1em"> <div style="font-weight: bold;"> Note: </div> <div style="padding-left: 10px;"> The only wikitext below the links for categories should be <i>stub</i> templates (used for short articles) Stub templates look like this: <i><span class="nowrap">{{text including "stub"}}</span></i>. </div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"> <h4 id="Category_links_from_templates,_for_maintenance_and_stubbing" data-mw-thread-id="h-Category_links_from_templates,_for_maintenance_and_stubbing-Adding_categories_to_articles"><span id="Category_links_from_templates.2C_for_maintenance_and_stubbing"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Category_links_from_templates,_for_maintenance_and_stubbing-Adding_categories_to_articles"></span>Category links from templates, for maintenance and stubbing<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Category_links_from_templates,_for_maintenance_and_stubbing-Adding_categories_to_articles"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=5&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Category links from templates, for maintenance and stubbing" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>You usually create cleanup or maintenance category links with a template. For example, adding the template <i><span class="nowrap">{{<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Template:Unreferenced?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Template:Unreferenced">unreferenced</a>|date=January 2008}}</span></i> to an article creates an article message box wherever in the article you placed the template, plus it adds the category <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Category:Articles_lacking_sources_from_January_2008&action=edit&redlink=1&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="new" title="Category:Articles lacking sources from January 2008 (page does not exist)">Articles lacking sources from January 2008</a></i> to the bottom of the article. To see the many such templates that you can add to articles, go to <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_maintenance_templates?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Wikipedia maintenance templates">Category:Wikipedia maintenance templates</a>.</p> <p>Stub templates—templates added to very short articles—aren't maintenance templates per se, but they're similar. They similarly change the contents of an article as well as adding one or more categories at the bottom of the article. Consider, for example, the article <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Hulihee_Palace?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Hulihee Palace">Hulihee Palace</a></i>, which includes the template <i><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Template:Hawaii-struct-stub?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Template:Hawaii-struct-stub">Hawaii-struct-stub</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></i> (see <b>Figure 17-2</b>).</p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/File:Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1702.png?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-file-description"> <noscript> <img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1702.png/319px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1702.png" decoding="async" width="319" height="179" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="353" data-file-height="198"> </noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 319px;height: 179px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1702.png/319px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1702.png" data-width="319" data-height="179" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1702.png 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a> <figcaption> <b>Figure 17-2.</b> These templates are in the article <i>Hulihee Palace</i>. They're visible only when you click "edit this page," and then scroll to the bottom of the page. </figcaption> </figure> <p>The template <i><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Template:Hawaii-struct-stub?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Template:Hawaii-struct-stub">Hawaii-struct-stub</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></i> populated the category <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Hawaii_building_and_structure_stubs?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Hawaii building and structure stubs">Hawaii building and structure stubs</a>. That category may be of some use to readers, but its main purpose is to signal to editors that this article needs to be expanded.</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Fixing_category_links_that_come_from_templates" data-mw-thread-id="h-Fixing_category_links_that_come_from_templates-Category_links_in_articles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Fixing_category_links_that_come_from_templates-Category_links_in_articles"></span>Fixing category links that come from templates<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Fixing_category_links_that_come_from_templates-Category_links_in_articles"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=6&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Fixing category links that come from templates" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Occasionally, when you want to change a category shown at the bottom of an article, you can't find that category link in the article's wikitext, even if it's a topical category that normally wouldn't come from a template. If you can't find the category link in the article's wikitext, it must be coming from a template. Finding that template, and perhaps changing it (for example, to delete the category from the article), is a five-step process:</p> <p>1. Click the "edit this page" tab.</p> <dl> <dd> Don't click a section edit link; click the tab at the top of the article. </dd> </dl> <p>2. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, where you'll see the lists of templates used for the page.</p> <dl> <dd> <b>Figure 17-3</b> is an example. </dd> </dl> <p>3. Check a template (open it in a separate window or tab), starting either at the top or with the most likely suspect.</p> <dl> <dd> You'll arrive at a page with the prefix <i>Template:</i>, like <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Template:Registered_Historic_Places?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Registered Historic Places">Template:Registered Historic Places</a></i>. </dd> </dl> <p>4. Click "edit this page" to see the wikitext of the template; see if the category in question is there. If it isn't, try the next template.</p> <dl> <dd> When you do find the category, it will look just like an article wikilink: <i>[[Category:Whatever]]</i>. </dd> </dl> <div style="background-color: #f8f8f8; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #ccc; overflow: auto; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 1em"> <div style="font-weight: bold;"> Note: </div> <div style="padding-left: 10px;"> If the template is protected from editing, you can still see the wikicode by clicking the "view source" tab. But that's generally not worth doing—protected templates are almost always those used in a large number of articles, and those kind of templates don't include article topic categories. </div> </div> <p>5. Usually, the problem is that the category is relevant to the template, but not to articles that the template is in. In that case, put <i><noinclude></i> in front of the category link and <i></noinclude></i> just after it.</p> <dl> <dd> This code tells the software that when the template is put into an article page, the category link should not be. </dd> </dl> <p>When you change a category as described in these steps, the change can take days to show up in the article itself. The reason for the delay is that a given template can be located in thousands of articles. Trying to update all categories immediately could severely affect Wikipedia's servers. So the changes go into a job queue, and the software handles them little by little. Be patient.</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Effective_categorization" data-mw-thread-id="h-Effective_categorization-Category_links_in_articles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Effective_categorization-Category_links_in_articles"></span>Effective categorization<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Effective_categorization-Category_links_in_articles"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=7&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Effective categorization" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Every article should have a category, even if it's the <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Uncategorized_pages?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Uncategorized pages">Uncategorized pages</a></i> category. That's one reason to add a stub template to an article—it puts it into one or more categories. In fact, articles usually have multiple categories, at least one of which should be the relevant category subject. If you see an article with only one category, you usually can improve things by adding more categories.</p> <p>A category's relevance should be immediately apparent. For example, if an article has the category <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Russian_architects?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Russian architects">Russian architects</a></i>, but there's no indication that the subject of the article is either Russian or an architect, then either the category is wrong or the article needs to be expanded.</p> <div style="background-color: #f8f8f8; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #ccc; overflow: auto; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 1em"> <div style="font-weight: bold;"> Note: </div> <div style="padding-left: 10px;"> If you find a category that isn't supported by text in the article, check the history tab for vandalism. If you don't see any, then you can either remove the category, or add a template to point out the problem. If you remove the category, make sure your edit summary clearly says what category you're removing, and why. If you want to mark it as a problem, add the <i><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Template:Unreferenced_category?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Template:Unreferenced category">Unreferenced category</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></i> template immediately after the category link in the wikitext, and make sure your edit summary indicates why you're adding the template. </div> </div> <p>Don't add both a category and its subcategory. For example, <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Golden Gate Bridge">Golden Gate Bridge</a> is in <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Suspension_bridges?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Suspension bridges">Category:Suspension bridges</a></i>, so it should not also be in <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Bridges?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Bridges">Category:Bridges</a></i>. (If you think you've got a valid exception, check at the guideline <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization_and_subcategories?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Categorization and subcategories">Wikipedia:Categorization and subcategories</a>—shortcut: <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:SUBCAT?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SUBCAT">WP:SUBCAT</a>—to see if you're right.)</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Finding_the_right_category" data-mw-thread-id="h-Finding_the_right_category-Category_links_in_articles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Finding_the_right_category-Category_links_in_articles"></span>Finding the right category<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Finding_the_right_category-Category_links_in_articles"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=8&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Finding the right category" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>The real challenge is to find the right categories to add to an article. Some suggestions:</p> <ul> <li>Go as low as possible in the hierarchy of categories. The more specific, the better. To this end, putting an article into a huge category—like <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:People?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:People">People</a></i>—is better than nothing, but not by very much, as <b>Figure 17-3</b> shows. It's unlikely that a reader is going to say "Ah, this article is about a person. I'm really interested in reading about people—let's see what other articles Wikipedia has that are also about people."</li> </ul> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/File:Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1703.png?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-file-description"> <noscript> <img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1703.png/361px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1703.png" decoding="async" width="361" height="361" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="371" data-file-height="371"> </noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 361px;height: 361px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1703.png/361px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1703.png" data-width="361" data-height="361" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1703.png 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a> <figcaption> <b>Figure 17-3.</b> The category <i>People</i> includes a number of subcategories (not shown) plus six individual articles. Two of these are not like the other four—<i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Altun_Bishik?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Altun Bishik">Altun Bishik</a></i> and <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Kailash_Singh_Parihar&action=edit&redlink=1&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="new" title="Kailash Singh Parihar (page does not exist)">Kailash Singh Parihar</a></i>. Both should be in a subcategory. </figcaption> </figure> <ul> <li>If you can think of a similar article (for example, for an article about a ballet star who else is or was a similar star?), check that article to see what category links appear there.</li> <li>If you can't think of a similar article, use a wikilink in the lead paragraph to get you to one. For example, if the first sentence of an article begins "Penalty methods are a certain class of algorithms to solve constraint optimization problems," you could click the link to the article <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Algorithm?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Algorithm">Algorithm</a></i> or to the article <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Optimization_(mathematics)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Optimization (mathematics)">Optimization (mathematics)</a></i>. Once there, look at the links in the article, links to the article (at the far left, click "What links here"), and categories of the article. All of these could lead you to similar articles; the category links might even be useful as is.</li> <li>Be thorough. Think of all the different things a topic may be associated with—geographic area, a historical period, an academic subfield, a certain type of thing (like a food or an ornament), or a special interest topic. The more, the better. Just remember there needs to be some supporting text in the article. For example, the article <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Terracotta?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Terracotta">Terracotta</a></i> has links to the following category pages: <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Ceramic_materials?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Ceramic materials">Ceramic materials</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Pottery?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Pottery">Pottery</a></i>, <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Sculpture_materials?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Sculpture materials">Sculpture materials</a></i>, and <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Terracotta?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Terracotta">Terracotta</a></i>. That last category covers the whole topic of Terracotta—as the most significant article on the topic, the <i>Terracotta</i> article is at the top of the category, but there are many other pages in the category as well.</li> </ul> <div style="background-color: #f8f8f8; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #ccc; overflow: auto; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 1em"> <div style="font-weight: bold;"> <span class="anchor" id="The_CategoryTree_special_page"></span>The CategoryTree special page </div> <p>One of the best ways to find a good category for an article is to start at a higher level category and see what subcategories are available. The easiest way to do that is with the <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Special:CategoryTree?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Special:CategoryTree">CategoryTree</a></i> Special page (<b>Figure 17-4</b>). This special page is a window into Wikipedia's category system, starting wherever you want to.</p> <p>To get to this page, look in the "toolbox" box on the left side of the screen. Click the "Special pages" link, and click Category tree. Then enter a category (for example, <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Australia?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Australia">Australia</a></i>), and click "Show tree." You can either pick a subcategory that's visible, or click a "[+]" indicator to see subcategories under any particular line.</p> </div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/File:Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1704.png?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-file-description"> <noscript> <img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1704.png/439px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1704.png" decoding="async" width="439" height="412" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="526" data-file-height="494"> </noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 439px;height: 412px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1704.png/439px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1704.png" data-width="439" data-height="412" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1704.png 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a> <figcaption> <b>Figure 17-4.</b> The great thing about the <i>CategoryTree</i> Special page is that you don't have to open a bunch of category pages to find good subcategories. You can simply click one here, find (or not find) something you want to add to an article, and then try another category, drilling down as needed—all in one place. </figcaption> </figure> <ul> <li>If you're not sure about a category, either be bold and add it, or use a higher level category that you're sure about.</li> <li>If you want to add a category to an article, and the category doesn't exist yet, don't just add the category link (which will show up as a red link). Instead, go through the process of creating (or at least considering the creating of) a new category, as described in <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Creating_a_new_category">the section about creating a category</a>, one step of which is to <i>search further</i>.</li> </ul> <dl> <dd> A link to a category page that doesn't exist is subject to being summarily deleted, though it may be a while before someone notices. Newly created category pages with a small number of links may be proposed for merger or deletion (see <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Renaming,_merging,_or_deleting_a_category_page">the section about renaming, merging, and deleting categories</a>). Don't create an impromptu, temporary, spur-of-the-moment, best-guess-and-I'll-fix-it-later category; you'll just be wasting your time and the time of other editors. </dd> </dl> <ul> <li>If you don't know what category to add to an article, don't worry about it. Instead of guessing at a category, use the <i><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Template:Uncategorized?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Template:Uncategorized">uncategorized</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></i> template to bring the article to the attention of others. Editors who love to categorize articles will find a category for it.</li> </ul> <dl> <dd> Add the date parameter to the <i><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Template:Uncategorized?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Template:Uncategorized">uncategorized</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></i> template—for example, <i><span class="nowrap">{{Uncategorized|date=February 2025}}</span></i>. (Be careful of the parameter spelling; parameters are <i>never</i> capitalized. If you type <i>Date</i> instead of <i>date</i>, the software will ignore the parameter altogether.) If you don't add this parameter, a bot will do so, adding yet one more edit to Wikipedia and the history of the article. That could obscure other edits, such as vandalism, so don't skip the parameter. </dd> </dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Getting_articles_into_the_right_place_on_a_category_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-Getting_articles_into_the_right_place_on_a_category_page-Category_links_in_articles"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Getting_articles_into_the_right_place_on_a_category_page-Category_links_in_articles"></span>Getting articles into the right place on a category page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Getting_articles_into_the_right_place_on_a_category_page-Category_links_in_articles"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=9&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Getting articles into the right place on a category page" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Suppose you've added a good category to an article page, and you then look at the category page to make sure the new category is there. You find it but in the wrong place: The article is about Jane Doe, and it's in the category page's "J" section, not the "D" section where it belongs. The article is in the wrong place (as far as you're concerned) because the Wikipedia software doesn't understand anything about names of people.</p> <p>You can fix this problem in one of two ways:</p> <ul> <li>You can specify, in a category link, where the title of an article is to be listed within a category page. You do this in a way that looks very much like a piped link: <i>[[Category:Female crime victims | Doe, Jane]]</i>. (The spaces around the "|" symbol are optional.)</li> <li>You can add something that specifies the sorting information ("sort order") for all the categories on the page, rather than doing that link by link. In this example, you just place the following directly above the listed categories in the wikitext: <i>{{<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Category?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Default_sort_key" title="Help:Category">DEFAULTSORT</a>:Doe, Jane}}</i>.</li> </ul> <div style="background-color: #f8f8f8; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #ccc; overflow: auto; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 1em"> <div style="font-weight: bold;"> Note: </div> <div style="padding-left: 10px;"> The word "DEFAULTSORT" is called a <i>magic word</i>, because it does unusual things. One way that magic words can be identified is that they use all capital letters. (For the full list, see the page <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Magic_words?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Magic words">Help:Magic words</a>—shortcut, <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/H:MW?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="H:MW">H:MW</a>.) And technically, though it's surrounded by double curly brackets, it's not a template. </div> </div> <p>Neither of these methods of changing where an article appears on a category page changes the name of the article. The article's name will still be <i>Jane Doe</i>, but it will now be listed in the "D" section, not the "J" section, of a category page. In the best of worlds, all the editors who add a category to an article will add the same sort order (in this case, last name, then first name). If they don't, you should feel free to fix the (hopefully few) category links that don't.</p> </section> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"> <span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span> <h2 id="Category_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Category_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Category_pages"></span>Category pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Category_pages"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=10&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Category pages" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span>  </div> <section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> <p>As you work on adding good categories to articles, you'll encounter category pages like the one in <b>Figure 17-1</b>, and as a reader, you'll find them useful for getting to articles you're interested in. But there's more to category pages. They're created and managed by editors, and, like all other pages at Wikipedia, there are times when you, as an editor, can edit them to improve them. This section explains what you need to know.</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"> <h3 id="Hierarchy:_The_categorizing_of_category_pages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Hierarchy:_The_categorizing_of_category_pages-Category_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Hierarchy:_The_categorizing_of_category_pages-Category_pages"></span>Hierarchy: The categorizing of category pages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Hierarchy:_The_categorizing_of_category_pages-Category_pages"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=11&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Hierarchy: The categorizing of category pages" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Every category page should have at least one parent—a higher-level category. (The exception, of course, is the category page at the very top of the hierarchy.) Or, to put it differently, every category page but the very highest (shown in <b>Figure 17-5</b>) should be within a subcategory of at least one higher-level category.</p> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/File:Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1705.png?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-file-description"> <noscript> <img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1705.png/497px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1705.png" decoding="async" width="497" height="489" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="606" data-file-height="596"> </noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 497px;height: 489px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1705.png/497px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1705.png" data-width="497" data-height="489" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1705.png 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a> <figcaption> <b>Figure 17-5.</b> The highest category in Wikipedia—the only category that doesn't belong to a higher category—is <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Contents?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Contents">Category:Contents</a>. It has 6 subcategories. </figcaption> </figure> <p><b>Figure 17-6</b> shows a category page that itself is assigned five categories.</p> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/File:Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1706.png?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-file-description"> <noscript> <img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1706.png/497px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1706.png" decoding="async" width="497" height="340" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="641" data-file-height="438"> </noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 497px;height: 340px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1706.png/497px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1706.png" data-width="497" data-height="340" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1706.png 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a> <figcaption> <b>Figure 17-6.</b> The category page <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Category:Media_in_Algeria&action=edit&redlink=1&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="new" title="Category:Media in Algeria (page does not exist)">Category:Media in Algeria</a></i> has five parent categories—one is a cleanup category; the other four are higher level topical categories. Put differently, <i>Media in Algeria</i> is a subcategory of five categories, four of them topical and one a cleanup category. </figcaption> </figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"> <h4 id="Changing_the_categories_assigned_to_a_category_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-Changing_the_categories_assigned_to_a_category_page-Hierarchy:_The_categorizing_of_category_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Changing_the_categories_assigned_to_a_category_page-Hierarchy:_The_categorizing_of_category_pages"></span>Changing the categories assigned to a category page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Changing_the_categories_assigned_to_a_category_page-Hierarchy:_The_categorizing_of_category_pages"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=12&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Changing the categories assigned to a category page" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Did you spot the error with the five parent categories in <b>Figure 17-6</b>? The problem is that <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Category:Algerian_culture&action=edit&redlink=1&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="new" title="Category:Algerian culture (page does not exist)">Algerian culture</a></i>, if you check, also has the parent category <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Algeria?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Algeria">Algeria</a></i>. A category page shouldn't have two parents where one parent (<i>Algerian culture</i>, in this case) is itself a subcategory of the other parent (<i>Algeria</i>, in this case). One parent category (<i>Algerian culture</i>) is enough, since someone looking at the higher level category (<i>Algeria</i>) can always find the page by just drilling down.</p> <p>Fixing this categorization error is simple: Open the page <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Category:Media_in_Algeria&action=edit&redlink=1&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="new" title="Category:Media in Algeria (page does not exist)">Category:Media in Algeria</a></i> for editing (<b>Figure 17-7</b>), find the line with <i>[[Category:Algeria|Media]]</i>, and delete that. Then, following the standard procedure, add an edit summary, do a preview (categories show up at the very bottom of the page), and publish the change.</p> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/File:Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1707.png?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-file-description"> <noscript> <img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1707.png/501px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1707.png" decoding="async" width="501" height="247" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="508" data-file-height="250"> </noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 501px;height: 247px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1707.png/501px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1707.png" data-width="501" data-height="247" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1707.png 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a> <figcaption> <b>Figure 17-7.</b> On the category page <i>Algerian media</i>, the line with <i>[[Category:Algeria|Media]]</i> needs to be deleted, since <i>[[Category:Algerian culture]]</i> already leads to that. While you're looking at the wikitext, note that three of the four categories listed have a sort order, which affects where this category page is displayed on the higher level category page (under "A" or "M"). </figcaption> </figure> <div style="background-color: #f8f8f8; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #ccc; overflow: auto; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 1em"> <div style="font-weight: bold;"> Note: </div> <div style="padding-left: 10px;"> You can find category pages without parents (category pages not themselves in a subcategory) by looking at the page <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Uncategorized_categories?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Database reports/Uncategorized categories">Wikipedia:Database reports/Uncategorized categories</a>. This page is a report that's not constantly updated, so if you're not looking at a fresh report, you'll probably find that a lot of the listed pages have either been fixed or proposed for deletion. If you find categorization interesting, you may want to help out here: Every category page but one (<i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Contents?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Contents">Category:Contents</a></i>) should have a parent category. </div> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"> <h4 id="Renaming,_merging,_or_deleting_a_category_page" data-mw-thread-id="h-Renaming,_merging,_or_deleting_a_category_page-Hierarchy:_The_categorizing_of_category_pages"><span id="Renaming.2C_merging.2C_or_deleting_a_category_page"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Renaming,_merging,_or_deleting_a_category_page-Hierarchy:_The_categorizing_of_category_pages"></span>Renaming, merging, or deleting a category page<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Renaming,_merging,_or_deleting_a_category_page-Hierarchy:_The_categorizing_of_category_pages"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=13&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Renaming, merging, or deleting a category page" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>Changing a category assigned to an article or a category assigned to a category page is easy—just a quick edit. By contrast, if you want to rename a category page, you need to go through a longer process; you can't just click the "move" tab, because there is no move tab.</p> <p>Renaming, merging, and deletion of pages in the Category namespace is discussed at <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion">Wikipedia:Categories for discussion</a> (shortcut: <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:CFD?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CFD">WP:CFD</a>). See <b>Figure 17-8</b>.</p> <figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/File:Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1708.png?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-file-description"> <noscript> <img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1708.png/564px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1708.png" decoding="async" width="564" height="418" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="570" data-file-height="422"> </noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 564px;height: 418px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1708.png/564px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1708.png" data-width="564" data-height="418" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1708.png 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a> <figcaption> <b>Figure 17-8.</b> The page <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion">Wikipedia:Categories for discussion</a> is for discussion of renaming, merging, or deleting of categories. </figcaption> </figure> <p>If you think this type of action is needed, follow the instructions on the <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:CFD?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CFD">WP:CFD</a> page. Note that there are sections for non-controversial actions: "<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:CFDS?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CFDS">speedy renaming</a>" (after a wait of 48 hours) and "speedy deletion" (for example, because a category is what Wikipedia calls "patent nonsense," defined as something "unsalvageably incoherent").</p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"> <h4 id="Creating_a_new_category" data-mw-thread-id="h-Creating_a_new_category-Hierarchy:_The_categorizing_of_category_pages"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Creating_a_new_category-Hierarchy:_The_categorizing_of_category_pages"></span>Creating a new category<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Creating_a_new_category-Hierarchy:_The_categorizing_of_category_pages"></span></h4><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=14&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Creating a new category" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div> <p>If the category doesn't exist, you can create one. Whether you <i>should</i> create a new category, however, is another matter. While Wikipedia clearly still needs a lot more articles, it's not clear that it needs a lot more categories for those articles. So, here are some questions to consider before you create a new page:</p> <ul> <li><b>Will the new category have more than a few pages on it?</b> The more pages you can put that fit the category, the more likely the category will survive. A category with just one article belonging to it is likely to have a short life.</li> <li><b>Is the category being added to pages that already have adequate categories assigned to them?</b> As the guideline <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization">Wikipedia:Overcategorization</a> (shortcut: <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:OC?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OC">WP:OC</a>) says, "not every verifiable fact (or the intersection of two or more such facts) in an article requires an associated category. For lengthy articles, this could potentially result in hundreds of categories, most of which aren't particularly relevant." (The essay "Do not write articles using categories"—shortcut <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:DNWAUC?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:DNWAUC">WP:DNWAUC</a>—is also informative on this matter.)</li> <li><b>Is the category name neutral and factual?</b> A category like <i>Shiftless no-good politicians who should be recalled from office</i> is hopelessly non-neutral (see <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">WP:NPOV</a>), not to mention unverifiable (see <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:V?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">WP:V</a>).</li> <li><b>If a category seems obvious, did you thoroughly look for it under a different name?</b> Particularly when you're adding a category to a new or stubby article, don't just assume that if <i>Category:People from New Zealand</i> doesn't exist, and if it fits the article, you should create it. (See <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_Stronger_Encyclopedia/Categorizing_Articles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Finding_the_right_category">the section about finding categories</a> for more detail on finding good categories for articles.)</li> </ul> <p>If you decide to create a new category, you do that by creating a category page, exactly as you would any other page. Just type the name (for example, <i>Category:Some new article category that Wikipedia needs</i>) into the search box, and click Go. When the software tells you no such page exists, click the "Create the page" link, type some introductory information about the category, and publish the page.</p> <div style="background-color: #f8f8f8; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #ccc; overflow: auto; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 1em"> <div style="font-weight: bold;"> Note: </div> <div style="padding-left: 10px;"> Alternatively, you can first add a not-yet-created category to an article, which creates a red link. When you click the red link, you'll see the "Create this page" option. Click it, and then follow the rest of the procedure in the prior paragraph. </div> </div> <p>There's one clear exception to the general rule that you should always be hesitant to create a new category: when a lot of articles (say, over a hundred) are in a non-cleanup category that has no subcategories, or are in a category when no applicable subcategories for them exist. In such a case, creating additional subcategories, and moving articles out of the category and into a subcategory by editing article pages, is a good thing to do.</p> </section> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"> <span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span> <h2 id="Building_out_categories" data-mw-thread-id="h-Building_out_categories"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Building_out_categories"></span>Building out categories<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Building_out_categories"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=15&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Building out categories" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span>  </div> <section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> <p>Suppose you've found a good category for an article you're working on, and when you get to the category page, you're surprised that there aren't many more articles listed there. Consider your surprise an opportunity to improve Wikipedia. You can take up the challenge to make the category page a much better place for readers to go.</p> <p>WikiProject members do this type of work all the time. They look for articles encompassed by their project, and then add WikiProject templates to article talk pages and categories to articles. You don't have to be a member of a WikiProject, however—just someone who realizes how useful categories are to both readers and editors.</p> <p>There are significant advantages to working from a category page outward, looking for articles to add. Use existing articles to get clues to similar topics, both by reading the article text and following internal and external links in the articles. If you're fairly knowledgeable on the topic of a category, so much the better; you've probably got a lot of good ideas about articles to look for.</p> </section> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"> <span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span> <h2 id="Discussing_categories" data-mw-thread-id="h-Discussing_categories"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Discussing_categories"></span>Discussing categories<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Discussing_categories"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=16&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Discussing categories" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span>  </div> <section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/File:Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1709.png?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-file-description"> <noscript> <img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1709.png/322px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1709.png" decoding="async" width="322" height="178" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="328" data-file-height="181"> </noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 322px;height: 178px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1709.png/322px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1709.png" data-width="322" data-height="178" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1709.png 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a> <figcaption> <b>Figure 17-9.</b> Want to mention a category within a comment you're making on a discussion page? If so, either add a colon just before the word <i>Category</i>, or use the <i><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Template:Cl?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Cl">cl</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></i> template. Both choices display the category name where you typed it, within your comment, and neither will put the discussion page they're on into a category. </figcaption> </figure> <p>Here's a puzzle that new editors often encounter: How do you mention a category on a discussion page? If you type <i>[[Category:WhatevertheCategoryis]]</i>, you've just put the discussion page into that category, and the category name itself won't show up where you typed it. It'll show up at the bottom of the page, which isn't very helpful. Wikipedia has two different ways to display the category link where you want it: Add a colon just before the word <i>Category</i>, or use the <i><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Template:Cl?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Cl">cl</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></i> template, as shown in <b>Figure 17-9</b>.</p> <p>If you're looking at a category page for articles, and find talk or user or other pages listed there as well, it's worth taking a quick look at these other pages to see if you can fix the problem with a judicious insertion of a colon. Sometimes you shouldn't (for example, a draft article in user space probably isn't hurting anything if it's being worked on and already has a category), and sometimes you can't easily insert a colon (if the category is embedded in a template, for example). But often the mislisted page is just a simple mistake by an editor that can be easily fixed.</p> </section> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"> <span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span> <h2 id="Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates" data-mw-thread-id="h-Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates"><span id="Categories.2C_lists.2C_and_navigation_templates"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates"></span>Categories, lists, and navigation templates<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/w/index.php?title=Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Building_a_stronger_encyclopedia/Categorizing_articles&action=edit&section=17&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Edit section: Categories, lists, and navigation templates" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span>  </div> <section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/File:Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1710.png?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-file-description"> <noscript> <img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1710.png" decoding="async" width="440" height="448" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="440" data-file-height="448"> </noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 440px;height: 448px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1710.png" data-width="440" data-height="448" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a> <figcaption> <b>Figure 17-10.</b> If this list of economists looks familiar, it's because it's also Figure 14-6 (see <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Formatting_and_illustrating_articles/Creating_lists_and_tables?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Formatting_alternatives" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Formatting and illustrating articles/Creating lists and tables">the section about formatting list articles</a>), and because <b>Figure 17-1</b> earlier in this chapter, showing the category page <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Economists?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Economists">Economists</a></i>, has almost the same set of links in it. Lists and categories can overlap considerably, but each has strengths and weaknesses. </figcaption> </figure> <p>Categories are not the only way to provide readers with an organized approach that ties a group of articles together. Lists and navigation templates both can do the same thing. For example, <b>Figure 17-10</b> is a list that essentially does the same thing as the category shown in <b>Figure 17-1</b> (see <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual/Formatting_and_illustrating_articles/Creating_lists_and_tables?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB#Lists_as_separate_articles" title="Help:Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Formatting and illustrating articles/Creating lists and tables">the section about list articles</a>).</p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/File:Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1711.png?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-file-description"> <noscript> <img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1711.png/440px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1711.png" decoding="async" width="440" height="164" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="563" data-file-height="210"> </noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 440px;height: 164px;" data-mw-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1711.png/440px-Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1711.png" data-width="440" data-height="164" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Wikipedia-The_Missing_Manual_1711.png 1.5x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </span></a> <figcaption> <b>Figure 17-11.</b> Shown is the navigation template titled <i>Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics: List of Laureates</i>. This navigation template appears in an article when the template <i><span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Template:Nobel_Prize_in_Economics?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Nobel Prize in Economics">Nobel Prize in Economics</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span></i> is added to the article's wikitext. Navigation templates are appropriate for relatively short lists (the one shown has about sixty links). Navigation templates are also appropriate only when membership in a list is very clear. <i>Prominent British politicians</i>, for example, would not be good for a navigation template, since "prominence" is on a continuum. Even if everyone agreed on relative prominence, the cut-off point for being in or not in the navigation template is still arbitrary. </figcaption> </figure> <p>You've probably seen the third option—navigation templates—but you may not be familiar with the label. <b>Figure 17-11</b> shows a navigation template for winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.</p> <p>The guideline <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates">Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates</a> (shortcut: <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:CLN?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CLN">WP:CLN</a>) discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each of these three ways of providing navigation among articles. It also notes that "When developers of these redundant systems compete against each other in a destructive manner, such as by nominating the work of their competitors to be deleted simply because they overlap, they are doing Wikipedia a disservice." In short, there's room on Wikipedia for editors to offer readers multiple ways to get around; no single approach is as good as a mix of all three; and editors who believe their approach is superior should direct their efforts at improving what they favor, to offer something even better to readers, rather than trying to convince other editors that their approach is inferior.</p> <div style="background-color: #f8f8f8; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid #ccc; overflow: auto; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 1em"> <div style="font-weight: bold;"> Note: </div> <div style="padding-left: 10px;"> Search engines do notice category pages. In Google, for example, the page <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Economists?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Economists">Category:Economists</a></i> was the fourth result of a search on "economists" (with results limited to pages on the English Wikipedia). The article <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/List_of_economists?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="List of economists">List of economists</a></i> was the second result. (<i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Economist?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Economist">Economist</a></i> was first, <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Economics?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Economics">Economics</a></i> was third). </div> </div> <p>If categorizing articles intrigues you, one place to look is <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_category_cleanup?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Wikipedia category cleanup">Category:Wikipedia category cleanup</a> and its subcategories.</p> <p>Also consider joining <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Categories?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories">WikiProject Categories</a></i> (shortcut: <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:CATP?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CATP">WP:CATP</a>). 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title="Help:Directory">Wikipedia help pages</a> </div></th> </tr> <tr> <td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"> <div> <ul> <li><b>Visit the <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Teahouse">Teahouse</a></i> or the <i><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Help_desk?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Help desk">Help desk</a></i> for an interactive <abbr title="questions and answers">Q & A</abbr> forum.</b></li> </ul> <hr> <ul> <li><b><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:FAQ">FAQs</a></b> <b><abbr title="This is a list of frequently asked questions about using and contributing to Wikipedia.">(?)</abbr></b></li> <li><b><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Reference desk">Reference desks</a></b> <b><abbr title="Works like a library reference desk. Ask a question here and Wikipedia volunteers will try to answer it.">(?)</abbr></b></li> <li><b><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Noticeboards?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Noticeboards">Noticeboards</a></b> <b><abbr title="Pages where editors can ask questions and request assistance from people who are familiar with the policies and guidelines covered by each individual board.">(?)</abbr></b></li> <li><b><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Cheatsheet">Cheatsheet</a></b> <b><abbr title="For a list of the most commonly used Wiki markup and templates.">(?)</abbr></b></li> <li><b> <a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Directories_and_indexes?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Directories and indexes">Directories</a></b> <b><abbr title="For a list of Wikipedia's directories and indexes.">(?)</abbr></b></li> </ul> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:About?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:About">About Wikipedia</a> <abbr title="Wikipedia's governess and customs">(?)</abbr></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="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Administration?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Administration">Administration</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Purpose?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Purpose">Purpose</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Five pillars">Principles</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">Policies and guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">What Wikipedia is not</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:General disclaimer">Disclaimer</a> (<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Advice_for_parents?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Advice for parents">parental advice</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Request_directory?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Request directory">Making requests</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Who_writes_Wikipedia%3F?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Who writes Wikipedia?">Who writes Wikipedia?</a></li> </ul> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Reader%27s_index_to_Wikipedia?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Reader's index to Wikipedia">Help for readers</a> <abbr title="Concerns and questions readers may have about Wikipedia">(?)</abbr></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://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers">FAQ</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_book_creator_status?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia book creator status">Books</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Copyright?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Copyright">Copyright</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Glossary?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Help:Glossary">Glossary</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Mobile_access?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Mobile access">Mobile access</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Navigation?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Navigation">Navigation</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Other_languages?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Other languages">Other languages</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Searching?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Searching">Searching</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Student_help?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Student help">Students</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Viewing_media?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Viewing media">Viewing media</a></li> </ul> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia">Contributing<br> to Wikipedia</a> <abbr title="Overviews and resources needed to comprehend, comment on, and edit">(?)</abbr></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="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Guidance_for_younger_editors?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Guidance for younger editors">Advice for young editors</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoiding_common_mistakes?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Avoiding common mistakes">Avoiding common mistakes</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Etiquette?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Etiquette">Etiquette</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Simplified_Manual_of_Style?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Simplified Manual of Style">Simplified Manual of Style</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Simplified_ruleset?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Simplified ruleset">Simplified rule-set</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Ignore all rules">"Ignore all rules"</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:The_rules_are_principles?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:The rules are principles">"The rules are principles"</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Styletips?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Styletips">Style-tips</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Tip_of_the_day?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Tip of the day">Tip of the day</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Your_first_article?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Your first article">Your first article</a> (<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_wizard?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Article wizard">article wizard</a>)</li> </ul> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Getting_started?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Getting started">Getting started</a> <abbr title="Introductions and tutorials">(?)</abbr></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://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Why create an account?">Why create an account?</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Introduction?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Introduction">Introductions by topic</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Graphics_tutorials?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Graphics tutorials">Graphics tutorials</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Pictures?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Pictures">Picture tutorial</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC/Tutorial?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:IRC/Tutorial">IRC <span style="font-size:85%;">(live chat)</span> tutorial</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User_guide?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:VisualEditor/User guide">VisualEditor user guide</a></li> </ul> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Dos_and_don%27ts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Dos and don'ts">Dos and don'ts</a> <abbr title="Wikipedia policies, guidelines, and formatting standards in bullet points">(?)</abbr></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="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Accessibility_dos_and_don%27ts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Accessibility dos and don'ts">Accessibility</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Biography_dos_and_don%27ts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Biography dos and don'ts">Biographies</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons_dos_and_don%27ts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons dos and don'ts">Biographies (living)</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization_dos_and_don%27ts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Categorization dos and don'ts">Categorization</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus_dos_and_don%27ts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Consensus dos and don'ts">Consensus</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_dos_and_don%27ts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Talk dos and don'ts">Discussions</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation_dos_and_don%27ts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation dos and don'ts">Disambiguation</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_dos_and_don%27ts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Image dos and don'ts">Images</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Lead_dos_and_don%27ts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Lead dos and don'ts">Leads</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Linking_dos_and_don%27ts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Linking dos and don'ts">Links</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:List_dos_and_don%27ts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:List dos and don'ts">Lists</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:References_dos_and_don%27ts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:References dos and don'ts">References</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Table_dos_and_don%27ts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Table dos and don'ts">Tables</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_title_dos_and_don%27ts?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Article title dos and don'ts">Titles (of articles)</a></li> </ul> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_how-to?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Wikipedia how-to">How-to pages</a> and<br><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_information_pages?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Category:Wikipedia information pages">information pages</a> <abbr title="Topic specific informative and instructional pages">(?)</abbr></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://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_appealing_blocks?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Guide to appealing blocks">Appealing blocks</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Guide_to_deletion?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Guide to deletion">Article deletion</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Category?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Category">Categories</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Citations_quick_reference?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Citations quick reference">Citations/references</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">Referencing for beginners</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Citation_Style_1?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Citation Style 1">Citation Style 1</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Cite_errors?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Cite errors">Cite errors</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:References_and_page_numbers?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:References and page numbers">References and page numbers</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Convert?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Convert">Convert</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Diff?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Diff">Diff</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Editing?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Editing">Editing</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Minor_edit?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Minor edit">Minor edit</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Edit_toolbar?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Edit toolbar">toolbar</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Edit_conflict?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Edit conflict">edit conflict</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Find_sources?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Find sources">Find sources</a></li> <li><a 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href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Logging_in?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Logging in">Logging in</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Merging">Merging</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Page_name?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Page name">Page name</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:How_to_move_a_page?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:How to move a page">Renaming pages</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Redirect?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Redirect">Redirect</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Reset_password?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Reset password">Passwords</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Email_confirmation?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Email confirmation">Email confirmation</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Reverting?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Reverting">Reverting</a> <ul> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Simple_guide_to_vandalism_cleanup?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Simple guide to vandalism cleanup">Simple vandalism cleanup</a></li> </ul></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Talk_pages?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Talk pages">Talk pages</a> (<a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Archiving_a_talk_page?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Archiving a talk page">archiving</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Archiving_(plain_and_simple)?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Archiving (plain and simple)">simple archiving</a>)</li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:User_contributions?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:User contributions">User contributions</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:WP_search_protocol?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:WP search protocol">WP search protocol</a></li> </ul> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wiki_markup?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wiki markup">Coding</a> <abbr title="Wikitext information consists of the syntax used to format a page">(?)</abbr></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="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Wikitext?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Wikitext">Wiki markup</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Barchart?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Barchart">Barcharts</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Calculation?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Calculation">Calculations</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Special_characters?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Special characters">Characters</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Columns?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Columns">Columns</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Elevation?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Elevation">Elevation</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Hidden_text?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Hidden text">Hidden text</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:HTML in wikitext">HTML</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:List?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:List">Lists</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Magic_words?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Magic words">Magic words</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Musical_symbols?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Musical symbols">Music symbols</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Section?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Section">Sections</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Sound_file_markup?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Sound file markup">Sounds</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Table?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Table">Tables</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Template?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Template">Templates</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Transclusion?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Transclusion">Transclusion</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:URL?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:URL">URL</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Help:Visual_file_markup?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Help:Visual file markup">Visual files</a></li> </ul> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align:center;;width:1%"><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Directories_and_indexes?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Directories and indexes">Directories</a> <abbr title="Wikipedia's directories and indexes">(?)</abbr></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://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_abbreviations?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Wikipedia abbreviations">Abbreviations</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Contents">Contents</a> <small>(Encyclopedia proper)</small></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Department_directory?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Department directory">Departments</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Editor%27s_index_to_Wikipedia?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Editor's index to Wikipedia">Editor's index</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Essay_directory?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Essay directory">Essays</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Index?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Index">FAQs</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Glossary?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Glossary">Glossary</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_guidelines?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:List of guidelines">Guidelines</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Contents?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Contents">Manual of Style </a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:List of policies">Policies</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Maintenance?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Maintenance">Tasks</a></li> <li><a href="https://en-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wikipedia:Tips?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB" title="Wikipedia:Tips">Tips</a></li> <li><a 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