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title="Βικιπαίδεια:Κατηγορίες, κατάλογοι και πρότυπα πλοήγησης – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βικιπαίδεια:Κατηγορίες, κατάλογοι και πρότυπα πλοήγησης" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categor%C3%ADas,_listas_y_plantillas_de_navegaci%C3%B3n" title="Wikipedia:Categorías, listas y plantillas de navegación – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Wikipedia:Categorías, listas y plantillas de navegación" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%87%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%8C_%D9%81%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%E2%80%8C%D9%87%D8%A7_%D9%88_%D8%A7%D9%84%DA%AF%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C_%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C" title="ویکی‌پدیا:رده‌ها، فهرست‌ها و الگوهای ناوبری – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ویکی‌پدیا:رده‌ها، فهرست‌ها و الگوهای ناوبری" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%84%ED%82%A4%EB%B0%B1%EA%B3%BC:%EB%B6%84%EB%A5%98,_%EB%AA%A9%EB%A1%9D_%EB%B0%8F_%EB%91%98%EB%9F%AC%EB%B3%B4%EA%B8%B0_%ED%8B%80" title="위키백과:분류, 목록 및 둘러보기 틀 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="위키백과:분류, 목록 및 둘러보기 틀" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kategori,_daftar,_dan_templat_navigasi" title="Wikipedia:Kategori, daftar, dan templat navigasi – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Wikipedia:Kategori, daftar, dan templat navigasi" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A7:%D8%AA%D8%B5%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%88_%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA_%D9%88_%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8" title="ويكيبيديا:تصانيف و لست و قوالب – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ويكيبيديا:تصانيف و لست و قوالب" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B7%80%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%B4%E0%B7%93%E0%B6%A9%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%8F:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates" title="විකිපීඩියා:Categories, lists, and navigation templates – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="විකිපීඩියා:Categories, lists, and navigation templates" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0:%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B5,_%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8_%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D1%88%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8" title="Википедија:Категорије, спискови и навигациони шаблони – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Википедија:Категорије, спискови и навигациони шаблони" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%97%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81,_%E0%B0%9C%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A4%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81,_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B8_%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9F%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%81" title="వికీపీడియా:వర్గాలు, జాబితాలు, వరుస పెట్టెలు – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="వికీపీడియా:వర్గాలు, జాబితాలు, వరుస పెట్టెలు" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>తెలుగు</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a 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title="Wikipedia:List of guidelines">Notability</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> <a href="/wiki/Help:Searching#Administrative_namespaces" title="Help:Searching">Search</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="mw-inputbox-centered" style=""><form name="searchbox" class="searchbox mw-inputbox-form" action="/wiki/Special:Search" id="style-searchbox"><div class="cdx-text-input"><input class="mw-inputbox-input mw-searchInput searchboxInput cdx-text-input__input" name="search" placeholder="" size="20" dir="ltr"/></div><input type="hidden" value="deepcat:"Wikipedia guidelines"" name="searchfilter"/><br/><input type="hidden" name="ns4" value="1" id="mw-inputbox-ns4-style-searchbox0.649754937809" checked=""/><br/><input type="submit" name="fulltext" value="Search for a guideline" class="cdx-button"/><input type="hidden" value="Search" name="fulltext"/></form></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Guideline_list" title="Template:Guideline list"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Guideline_list" title="Template talk:Guideline list"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Guideline_list" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Guideline list"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Wikipedia offers several ways to group articles: <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization" title="Wikipedia:Categorization">categories</a></b>, <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stand-alone_lists#Specialized_list_articles" title="Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists">list articles</a></b> (including item lists, as well as topical <a href="/wiki/MOS:GLOSSARIES" class="mw-redirect" title="MOS:GLOSSARIES">glossary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Indexes" title="Wikipedia:Indexes">index</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Outlines" title="Wikipedia:Outlines">outline</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Timeline" title="Wikipedia:Timeline">timeline</a> articles), <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lists" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists">other lists</a></b> including <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Embedded_list" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Embedded list">embedded lists</a>, and <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Navigation_template" title="Wikipedia:Navigation template">navigation templates</a></b> (of which <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_series" title="Wikipedia:Article series">article series</a> boxes are one type). The grouping of articles by one method neither requires nor forbids the use of the other methods for the same informational grouping. Instead, each method of organizing information has its own advantages and disadvantages, and is applied for the most part independently of the other methods following the guidelines and standards that have evolved on Wikipedia for each of these systems. </p><p>Accordingly, these methods should <i><b>not</b></i> be considered in conflict with each other. Rather, they are <a href="/wiki/Synergy" title="Synergy">synergistic</a>, each one complementing the others. For example, since editors differ in style, some favor building lists while others favor building categories, allowing links to be gathered in two different ways, with lists often leapfrogging categories, and vice versa. This approach has resulted in two main link-based systems of navigating Wikipedia. <i>See the navigation menu at the top of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents" title="Wikipedia:Contents">Wikipedia:Contents</a>, and see <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_categories" title="Category:Wikipedia categories">Category:Wikipedia categories</a>.</i> Many users prefer to browse Wikipedia through its lists, while others prefer to navigate by category; and lists are more obvious to beginners, who may not discover the category system right away. Therefore, the "category camp" should <i>not</i> delete or dismantle Wikipedia's lists, and the "list camp" shouldn't tear down Wikipedia's category system—doing so wastes valuable resources. Instead, each should be used to update the other. </p><p>At the same time, there may be circumstances where <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">consensus</a> determines that one or more methods of presenting information is inappropriate for Wikipedia. For instance, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization">the guideline on overcategorization</a> sets out a number of situations in which consensus has consistently determined that categories should not be used. A regularly occurring outcome at <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CFD" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CFD">WP:CFD</a> for some deleted categories is to <i>listify</i>, because there are cases where lists are appropriate while categories may not be (e.g. <a href="/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measurement" title="List of unusual units of measurement">List of unusual units of measurement</a> exists as a list, but not as a category <a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:Unusual_units_of_measurement&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Unusual units of measurement (page does not exist)">Category:Unusual units of measurement</a>). </p><p>Category workers, list builders and <a href="/wiki/Portal:Contents/Outlines" class="mw-redirect" title="Portal:Contents/Outlines">outline builders</a>, and series box designers all endeavor to develop comprehensive networks of links for navigating the encyclopedia. Because of this, increasingly, multiple entries to fields of knowledge are being provided. Take "symphonies", for example: </p> <ul><li><i>Categories</i>: <a href="/wiki/Category:Symphonies" title="Category:Symphonies">Category:Symphonies</a></li> <li><i>Lists</i>: <a href="/wiki/List_of_symphonies_with_names" title="List of symphonies with names">List of symphonies with names</a></li> <li><i>Navigation Templates</i>: <a href="/wiki/Template:Symphonies_by_number_and_name" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Symphonies by number and name">Template:Symphonies by number and name</a></li></ul> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Overlapping_categories,_lists_and_navigation_templates_are_not_considered_duplicative" data-mw-thread-id="h-Overlapping_categories,_lists_and_navigation_templates_are_not_considered_duplic"><span id="Overlapping_categories.2C_lists_and_navigation_templates_are_not_considered_duplicative"></span><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Overlapping_categories,_lists_and_navigation_templates_are_not_considered_duplic"></span>Overlapping categories, lists and navigation templates are not considered duplicative<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Overlapping_categories,_lists_and_navigation_templates_are_not_considered_duplic"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overlapping categories, lists and navigation templates are not considered duplicative"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:NOTDUP"></span><span id="WP:NOTDUPE"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTDUP&redirect=no">WP:NOTDUP</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTDUPE&redirect=no">WP:NOTDUPE</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <p>It is neither improper nor uncommon to simultaneously have a category, a list, and a navigation template that all cover the same topic. These systems of organizing information are considered to be complementary, not inappropriately duplicative. Furthermore, arguing that a category duplicates a list (or vice versa) at a deletion discussion is not a valid reason for deletion and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:ATA" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ATA">should be avoided</a>. Redirects of list articles to categories are highly discouraged: list articles should take the place of the redirect. </p><p>Consider that lists may include features not available to categories, and building a rudimentary list of links is a useful step in improving a list. Deleting these rudimentary lists is a waste of these building blocks, and unnecessarily pressures list builders into providing a larger initial commitment of effort whenever they wish to create a new list, which may be felt as a disincentive. When deciding whether to create or avoid a list, the existence of a category on the same topic is irrelevant. </p><p>Below is a comparison of how these techniques group information and the advantages and disadvantages of each. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Categories" data-mw-thread-id="h-Categories"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Categories"></span>Categories<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Categories"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Categories"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization" title="Wikipedia:Categorization">Wikipedia:Categorization</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization">Wikipedia:Overcategorization</a></div> <p>Compared to a list, a <b>category</b> may have both advantages and disadvantages. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Category:Pop_singers" title="Category:Pop singers">Example of a category page</a>. Every page in the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_namespace" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Article namespace">article namespace</a> should have at least one category. Categories should be on major topics that are likely to be <i>useful</i> to someone reading the article. For example: </p> <dl><dd><table style="border:1px solid #BBB; padding: 6px"> <tbody><tr> <td>Article:</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson" title="Michael Jackson">Michael Jackson</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Green checkmark" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Symbol_confirmed.svg/20px-Symbol_confirmed.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Symbol_confirmed.svg/30px-Symbol_confirmed.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Symbol_confirmed.svg/40px-Symbol_confirmed.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span> Useful category:</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Category:American_pop_singers" title="Category:American pop singers">Category:American pop singers</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X symbol" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Symbol_unrelated.svg/20px-Symbol_unrelated.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Symbol_unrelated.svg/30px-Symbol_unrelated.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Symbol_unrelated.svg/40px-Symbol_unrelated.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span> Not useful:</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Category:Musicians_whose_first_name_starts_with_M&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:Musicians whose first name starts with M (page does not exist)">Category:Musicians whose first name starts with M</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></dd></dl> <p>A category is probably inappropriate if: </p> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> It is possible to write a few paragraphs or more on the subject of a category in an article or elsewhere.</li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Red X" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/13px-Red_x.svg.png" decoding="async" width="13" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/20px-Red_x.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/ba/Red_x.svg/26px-Red_x.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600"/></span></span><span style="display: none;">N</span> If a reader visited the article via the category and it does not relate to the category subject.</li></ul> <p>An article will often be in several categories. However, restraint should be exercised, as categories become less effective when an article is given numerous categories. </p><p>An article should usually not be in both a category and its subcategory. For example, <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office" title="Microsoft Office">Microsoft Office</a> is in <a href="/wiki/Category:Microsoft_software" title="Category:Microsoft software">Category:Microsoft software</a> and should not also be in <a href="/wiki/Category:Software" title="Category:Software">Category:Software</a>—except when the article defines a category as well as being in a higher category. For instance, <a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a> is in both <a href="/wiki/Category:States_of_the_United_States" title="Category:States of the United States">Category:States of the United States</a> and <a href="/wiki/Category:Ohio" title="Category:Ohio">Category:Ohio</a>. This exception is understood in that if an article exists before a category is created on the same subject, it should not cause the article to be removed from any of its existing categories. </p><p>Exceptions should also be considered when the article's subject has relevance to the parent category that is not expressed by the subcategory's definition. For example, if <a href="/wiki/Category:People_executed_by_guillotine_during_the_French_Revolution" title="Category:People executed by guillotine during the French Revolution">Category:People executed by guillotine during the French Revolution</a> is the only subcategory of <a href="/wiki/Category:People_of_the_French_Revolution" title="Category:People of the French Revolution">Category:People of the French Revolution</a>, it would not be appropriate to remove major figures of the French Revolution solely based on the means of their death. </p><p>Categories appear without annotations, that is extra information associated with a particular piece of information, so it is important to maintain a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">neutral point of view</a> (NPOV) when creating or populating categories. Unless it is self-evident and uncontroversial that something belongs in a category, it should not be added to that category. The <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization_of_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Categorization of people">categorization of people</a> requires further considerations, for instance to categorize by characteristics of the person and not characteristics of the article. </p><p>An exception to the above rules is the <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_maintenance" title="Category:Wikipedia maintenance">Category:Wikipedia maintenance</a>, which is not part of the encyclopedia. This category contains <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_an_article%3F" title="Wikipedia:What is an article?">non-article pages</a> or groups articles by status rather than subject. It is intended to be temporary. </p><p>Every category should be a subcategory of another category. The top of the articles category hierarchy can be accessed at <a href="/wiki/Category:Main_topic_classifications" title="Category:Main topic classifications">Category:Main topic classifications</a>. If a suitable parent category likely exists but cannot be found, adding the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Uncategorized" title="Template:Uncategorized">Uncategorized</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> tag is advisable. The category will then appear at <a href="/wiki/Special:UncategorizedCategories" title="Special:UncategorizedCategories">Special:Uncategorizedcategories</a>. </p><p>Categories have <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SORTKEY" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SORTKEY">sort keys</a> like other pages, although they are used in a more flexible manner. </p><p>For articles without any stable category, the <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Uncategorized" title="Template:Uncategorized">Uncategorized</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> tag can be used to draw attention to them, either on its own or in the format {{uncat|date=November 2024}}. There is also an automatically updated list at <a href="/wiki/Special:UncategorizedPages" title="Special:UncategorizedPages">Special:Uncategorizedpages</a> that displays uncategorized or stubbed articles; however, it updates only once every few days and lists only 1,000 articles at a time. Therefore, it is preferable to explicitly place an <span class="nowrap">{{</span><a href="/wiki/Template:Uncat" class="mw-redirect" title="Template:Uncat">uncat</a><span class="nowrap">}}</span> tag if there is uncertainty about how an article should be categorized. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Advantages_of_a_category" data-mw-thread-id="h-Advantages_of_a_category-Categories"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Advantages_of_a_category-Categories"></span>Advantages of a category<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Advantages_of_a_category-Categories"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Advantages of a category"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:AOAC"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:AOAC&redirect=no">WP:AOAC</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <ol><li>Auto-linking: Creating a link to a category on an article page results in a corresponding link to that article being visible on the category page.</li> <li>Multi-directional navigation: A category can contain multiple subcategories, and can also be part of several categories. Categories are organized within Wikipedia into a web of knowledge starting with <a href="/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_categories" title="Category:Wikipedia categories">Category:Wikipedia categories</a>.</li> <li>Exploratory browsing: Categories are beneficial for readers who wish to explore Wikipedia content.</li> <li>Less spam: Less susceptible to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:LINKSPAM#External_link_spamming" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:LINKSPAM">external linkspam</a> than other types of pages, because only Wikipedia articles can be members of categories.</li> <li>Unobtrusive presence: Relatively unobtrusive in that they generally don't distract from the flow of the article.</li> <li>Search functionality: Search can use the <i>incategory</i> parameter to exclude or include all pages in that category. Subcategories are not included, but multiple terms can be added.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Disadvantages_of_a_category" data-mw-thread-id="h-Disadvantages_of_a_category-Categories"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Disadvantages_of_a_category-Categories"></span>Disadvantages of a category<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Disadvantages_of_a_category-Categories"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Disadvantages of a category"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:DOAC"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:DOAC&redirect=no">WP:DOAC</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <ol><li>Can't be edited directly to add or remove entries. This must be done at the bottom of each article to be included or excluded from the category.</li> <li>Categories only show <i>the page name</i> of each page being categorized. So while the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:CAT#Category_description" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:CAT">category description</a> of the category may provide broader information, individual category members cannot be annotated with descriptions or comments, so they give no context or elaboration for any specific entry.</li> <li>There is no provision for referencing any specific entry, to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:V" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:V">verify</a> a page meets a category's criteria of inclusion.</li> <li>Entries are arranged in alphabetical order only (though you can control the alphabetization). They cannot be organized into sections and subsections on a single page, each with its own descriptive introduction.</li> <li>Can be difficult to maintain: <ol><li>A category with hundreds of items cannot be moved except by editing hundreds of articles (though a <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests" title="Wikipedia:Bot requests">bot</a> can help)</li> <li>Tracking changes to a category is difficult because a category's edit history does not show when entries were added or removed from the category. So there is no easy way to tell when an article is removed from a category—it simply <i>disappears</i> with no indication that it was ever there in the first place. Wikipedia's watchlist feature does enable a user to watch a category for category membership changes.</li></ol></li> <li>Does not support other forms of tracking, such as adding <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Red_link" title="Wikipedia:Red link">red links</a>. (Red links are useful as gap indicators and as task reminders to create those articles.) However, stubs can be added to categories.</li> <li>Alternative names for the same item can be included only by including <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">redirects</a> in the category.</li> <li>It is not obvious to new users that categories exist, how to add items to them, how to link new categories into existing schemes, nor how to deal with point of view (POV) concerns.</li> <li>Categories are not shown in mobile view.</li> <li>Display of items in a category is limited to 200 on a page. To see the full contents of a category with more members than this, multiple pages need to be viewed.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Lists" data-mw-thread-id="h-Lists"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Lists"></span>Lists<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Lists"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Lists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lists" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stand-alone_lists" title="Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists">Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists</a></div> <p>Compared to a category, a <b>list</b> may have both advantages and disadvantages. </p><p>Example of a list: <a href="/wiki/List_of_dog_breeds" title="List of dog breeds">List of dog breeds</a> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Advantages_of_a_list" data-mw-thread-id="h-Advantages_of_a_list-Lists"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Advantages_of_a_list-Lists"></span>Advantages of a list<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Advantages_of_a_list-Lists"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Advantages of a list"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:AOAL"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:AOAL&redirect=no">WP:AOAL</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <ol><li><b>Good for exploratory browsing</b> of Wikipedia.</li> <li>Often <b>more comprehensive</b> because each is maintained from a centralized location (at the page itself). <ul><li><i>See the top end of the list hierarchy at <a href="/wiki/Lists_of_topics" class="mw-redirect" title="Lists of topics">Lists of topics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lists_of_basic_topics" class="mw-redirect" title="Lists of basic topics">Lists of basic topics</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_overviews" class="mw-redirect" title="List of overviews">List of overviews</a>, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_glossaries" class="mw-redirect" title="List of glossaries">List of glossaries</a>.</i></li></ul></li> <li>Can be <b>formatted in many different ways</b>, to improve the presentation of the contents of the list. <ul><li>For example, several levels of a hierarchy may be included in a list, or the list may have multiple columns, each of which can be a basis for the user to sort the list.</li></ul></li> <li>Can be <b>built and maintained by editing a single page</b>, whereas filling a category requires the editing of multiple pages.</li> <li>Can be embellished with <b>annotations</b> (further details). <ul><li>For example, a list of soccer world championship teams can include with each entry when each championship was won, whom the champions defeated, who their coach was, etc.</li></ul></li> <li><b>Included in searches of Wikipedia</b>. Being in the main namespace, lists are included by default in Wikipedia searches. Their content is also searched by Google and other search engines.</li> <li>Can be referenced to justify the inclusion of listed articles.</li> <li><b>Can include unlinked items</b> <ul><li>For example, <a href="/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Franz_Schubert" title="List of compositions by Franz Schubert">List of compositions by Franz Schubert</a>, or, if appropriate, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RED" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RED">red links</a>. See <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Write_the_article_first" title="Wikipedia:Write the article first">WP:Write the article first</a>.</li></ul></li> <li><b>List items can be manually sorted</b> using a variety of methods. An article can appear several times or in different ways in the same list.</li> <li><b>List items can be linked to specific sections of articles</b>.</li> <li><b>Can include invisible links to discussion pages</b>, so that clicking on "related changes" will include those (Format: [[Talk:Omphalology| ]]); the list itself can also be included by linking it to itself, e.g. by linking the bold-faced phrase in the lead: <code>'''This is a [[list of compositions by Franz Schubert]]'''...</code></li> <li>Can be more <b>easily edited by newbies</b> who are less familiar with <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:How to edit a page">Wiki markup language</a>.</li> <li><b>Images</b> can be interspersed throughout a list.</li> <li>Templates (such as navigation boxes) can be included as portions of a list.</li> <li>An embedded list, one incorporated into an article on a topic, <b>can include entries which are not sufficiently notable</b> to deserve their own articles, and yet may yet be sufficiently notable to incorporate into the list. Furthermore, since the notability threshold for a mention is less than that for a whole article, you can easily add a mention to a list within an article, without having to make the judgment call on notability which you would need to make if you were to add a whole article—if someone else feels that it is notable enough, they can always linkify the mention and create an article anyway.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Disadvantages_of_a_list" data-mw-thread-id="h-Disadvantages_of_a_list-Lists"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Disadvantages_of_a_list-Lists"></span>Disadvantages of a list<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Disadvantages_of_a_list-Lists"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Disadvantages of a list"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:DOAL"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:DOAL&redirect=no">WP:DOAL</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <ol><li><b>No auto-linking.</b> Every article links to its categories in a consistent way, but lists may be more difficult to discover because not every article listed links to it, and each may choose to link to it in a different way. Attempting to enforce crosslinks from articles in the category is error-prone, makes editing the list taxing, and counteracts the ease-of-editing benefits lists otherwise enjoy.</li> <li><b>Less comprehensive hierarchy.</b> The category system has an extensive and detailed hierarchy to facilitate browsing by increasing specialization, while lists of lists are relatively rare and are not deeply nested.</li> <li><b>Complex automated processing.</b> Lists are more difficult to process automatically using bots, because they may contain prose that contains links to items that are not in the list itself, and it is necessary to parse the page wikitext to extract listed items instead of using a specialized API as categories do.</li> <li><b>No automatic sorting.</b> Editors have to manually determine where an entry belongs, and add it there. Often editors will simply add new items to the bottom of the list, reducing the list's effectiveness. This disadvantage can be overcome by placing the list in a <a href="/wiki/Help:Sortable_tables" title="Help:Sortable tables">sortable table</a>.</li> <li><b>Can become bogged down</b> with entries that cannot be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:RS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:RS">reliably sourced</a> and do not meet the requirements for inclusion in the encyclopaedia.</li> <li>Some topics are so broad that a list would be unmanageably long and effectively unmaintainable. <ul><li>For example, a list of all people from a particular country who have Wikipedia articles</li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Navigation_templates" data-mw-thread-id="h-Navigation_templates"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Navigation_templates"></span>Navigation templates<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Navigation_templates"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Navigation templates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="WP:NAVBOX"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:NAVBOX"></span><span id="WP:SIDEBAR"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NAVBOX&redirect=no">WP:NAVBOX</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:SIDEBAR&redirect=no">WP:SIDEBAR</a></span></li></ul></div></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main page: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Navigation_template" title="Wikipedia:Navigation template">Wikipedia:Navigation template</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect#Bypass_redirects_in_navigational_templates" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">Wikipedia:Redirect § Bypass redirects in navigational templates</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_series" title="Wikipedia:Article series">Wikipedia:Article series</a></div> <p><b>Navigation templates</b> are a grouping of links used in multiple related articles to facilitate navigation between those articles in Wikipedia. Navigation templates are generally presented in one of two formats: </p> <ul><li>Horizontal, placed at the bottom of articles and also called <i><b>navboxes</b></i></li> <li>Vertical, often found at the top-right corner of articles and called <i><b>sidebars</b></i></li></ul> <p><a href="/wiki/Help:Editing#Wiki_markup" title="Help:Editing">Wiki markup</a> documentation for navigation templates at different levels of specificity includes <a href="/wiki/Template:Navbox/doc" title="Template:Navbox/doc">Template:Navbox/doc</a>, <a href="/wiki/Template:Sidebar/doc" title="Template:Sidebar/doc">Template:Sidebar/doc</a>, and, at the top or bottom of the template, <a href="/wiki/Template:Navbar/doc" title="Template:Navbar/doc">Template:Navbar/doc</a>. </p><p>Each <a href="/wiki/MOS:LINK" class="mw-redirect" title="MOS:LINK">link</a> should clearly be identifiable as such to our readers. In general, text colors should be consistent with <a href="/wiki/Help:Link_color" title="Help:Link color">Wikipedia text color defaults</a>, so links should be <span style="color:#0645AD;">blue</span>; dead links should be <span style="color:#cc2200;">red</span>; and <span style="color:#cc2200;">red</span> and <span style="color:#0645AD;">blue</span> should not be used for other (non-link) text. However, specific navbox guidelines for color of text and background other than the defaults are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:MOSTEXT#In_navboxes" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:MOSTEXT">available</a>. </p><p>Navigation templates are particularly useful for a small, well-defined group of articles; templates with a large number of links are not forbidden, but can appear overly busy and be hard to read and use. Good navboxes generally follow most or all of these guidelines: </p> <ol><li>All articles within a template relate to a single, coherent subject.</li> <li>The subject of the template should be mentioned in every article.</li> <li>The articles should refer to each other, to a reasonable extent.</li> <li>There should be a Wikipedia article on the subject of the template.</li> <li>If not for the navigation template, an editor would be inclined to link many of these articles in the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:SEEALSO" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:SEEALSO">See also</a> sections of the articles.</li></ol> <p>If the collection of articles does not meet these criteria, the articles are likely loosely related. A list, category, or neither, may accordingly be more appropriate. </p><p>Do not rely solely on navboxes for links to articles highly relevant to a particular article, or override the "image=" field to illustrate something from the article. Navboxes are not displayed on the <a href="/wiki/Help:Mobile_access" title="Help:Mobile access">mobile website for Wikipedia</a>, which accounts for around half of readers. (See Phabricator ticket <a href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124168" class="extiw" title="phabricator:T124168">T124168</a> for progress on the mobile issue.) </p><p>Navigation templates located in the top-right corner of articles (sometimes called a "sidebar" or "part of a series" template) should be treated with special attention, because they are so prominently displayed to readers. The collection of articles in a sidebar template should be fairly tightly related, and the template should meet most or all of the preceding guidelines. If the articles are not tightly related, a footer template or navbox, located at the bottom of the article, may be more appropriate. The placement of sidebars in an article lead is discouraged by <a href="/wiki/MOS:LEAD" class="mw-redirect" title="MOS:LEAD">MOS:LEAD</a> (though they may be permitted on a case-by-case basis – <a href="/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/991238102#Sidebars_(navboxes)_should_NOT_be_used_in_the_lead" title="Special:PermanentLink/991238102">November 2020 RfC</a>). </p><p>The article links in a navigation template should be grouped into clusters, by topic, or by era, etc. Alphabetical ordering does not provide any additional value to a category containing the same article links. For example, see <a href="/wiki/Template:General_physics" title="Template:General physics">Template:General physics</a> which has articles grouped into related sub-topics. </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:BIDI"></span><span id="WP:BIDIRECTIONAL"></span><span id="WP:LINKBACK"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BIDI&redirect=no">WP:BIDI</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:BIDIRECTIONAL&redirect=no">WP:BIDIRECTIONAL</a></span></li><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:LINKBACK&redirect=no">WP:LINKBACK</a></span></li></ul></div></div><p><span class="anchor" id="WP:BIDIRECTIONAL"></span><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"></p><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For bidirectional text, see <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Text_formatting#Mixed_right-to-left_text" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting">Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Text formatting § Mixed right-to-left text</a>.</div><p>Every article that <a href="/wiki/Help:Transclusion" title="Help:Transclusion">transcludes</a> a given navbox should normally also be included as a link in the navbox, so that the navigation is bidirectional. </p><p>The use of navigation templates is neither required nor prohibited for any article. Whether to include navboxes, and which to include, is often suggested by <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject">WikiProjects</a>, but is ultimately determined through <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">discussion and consensus among the editors</a> at each individual article. Per the bidirectionality principle above, this may also affect inclusion of a particular article in a navigation template. If a disagreement should arise, please centralize discussion at the article talk page, not that of the template (which may be <a href="/wiki/Help:Watchlist" title="Help:Watchlist">watchlisted</a> mostly only by template coders). </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:PERFNAV"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:PERFNAV&redirect=no">WP:PERFNAV</a></span></li></ul></div></div><p><span class="anchor" id="WP:PERFNAV"></span>Avoid adding performances of entertainers into the navboxes for the productions that they appeared in, or crew members into navboxes for the productions they worked on. This includes, but is not limited to actors/actresses, comedians, television/radio presenters, writers, composers, etc. This avoids over-proliferation of navigation templates at the bottom of performers' articles, and avoids putting <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:UNDUE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:UNDUE">undue weight</a> on certain performances of an entertainer over others. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1252059228"></p><div class="module-shortcutanchordiv"><span id="WP:FILMNAV"></span></div><div class="module-shortcutboxplain noprint" role="note"><div class="module-shortcutlist"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcut</a></div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:FILMNAV&redirect=no">WP:FILMNAV</a></span></li></ul></div></div><p><span class="anchor" id="WP:FILMNAV"></span>Filmographies (and similar) of individuals should also not be included in navboxes, unless the individual concerned could be considered a primary creator of the material in question. This avoids over-proliferation of individuals' navboxes on each production's article, and avoids putting <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:UNDUE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:UNDUE">undue weight</a> on the contributions of certain individuals over others. </p><p>Finally, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links" title="Wikipedia:External links">external links</a> should not be included in navigation templates. <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">Sources</a> may be included in the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_documentation" title="Wikipedia:Template documentation">template documentation</a> (a <noinclude> section that is visible only after viewing the template itself, but not upon its transclusion). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Advantages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Advantages-Navigation_templates"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Advantages-Navigation_templates"></span>Advantages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Advantages-Navigation_templates"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Advantages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li>Provides a consistent look and navigation system for related articles.</li> <li>Faster to navigate than a category.</li> <li>Gives immediate information to equivalent elements</li> <li>For presenting a series of articles in a <i>chronological</i> order, a template is often most appropriate. Example: <a href="/wiki/Template:Princess_Royal" title="Template:Princess Royal">Template:Princess Royal</a> (there are two Marys and two Annes in that list, which makes the chronological way of presenting these princesses an asset to a merely alphabetically ordered presentation of these same names). For very long chronological series, it is preferable to use <a href="/wiki/Template:Succession_box" title="Template:Succession box">succession boxes</a>, which only show the elements of the series immediately preceding and succeeding the article.</li> <li>They provide an organized resource for readers who went through an article in some broad topic to find other articles on the same broad topic, rather than making those readers "go fish" for articles wiki-linked in the text or in the "See also" section.</li> <li>Mitigates large "See also" sections, potentially duplicated and out-of-sync among related articles</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Disadvantages" data-mw-thread-id="h-Disadvantages-Navigation_templates"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Disadvantages-Navigation_templates"></span>Disadvantages<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Disadvantages-Navigation_templates"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Disadvantages"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li>Not shown to readers using the mobile web site.</li> <li>Does not provide a consistent look and navigation system between different topics—there is no single format across all navigation templates.</li> <li>If simple, can often be replaced with a category. It also can be difficult to give more detail than a category can give without the box becoming unmanageably large.</li> <li>Can become ugly or seem pointless, e.g. by unsightly coloring schemes, size, number of them on the same page, etc. For this reason article series boxes need to be self-evident, while they can't contain much text for definitions or explanations.</li> <li>Inclusion of article links or subdivisions in a template may inadvertently <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NPOV" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NPOV">push a point of view</a>. It may also incorrectly suggest that one aspect of a topic or a linked example is of <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:UNDUE" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:UNDUE">more, less, or equal importance to others</a>; be used to advertise obscure topics in prominent places; or assert <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:OWN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:OWN">project proprietorship</a>. Templates can go to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Templates for discussion">Wikipedia:Templates for discussion</a> if they appear to push a POV. Trying to remedy this by adding more templates might lead to the disadvantage described in the previous point.</li> <li>On the other hand, may not give the reader enough clues as to which links are most relevant or important when this would not be controversial</li> <li>Can take up too much space for information that is only tangentially related</li> <li>Includes the full list of links in every article, even though often many of the links are not useful in some of the articles</li> <li>Due to size, the use of multiple nav templates may take up too much space on one article, which could lead to a POV-tainted choice as to which to include. This can be minimised by setting all or most templates on a page to autocollapse, hiding most of their content until activated.</li> <li>Templates are not included in search results by default, which makes it hard for readers and editors to find them.</li> <li>They implicitly assume that readers who went through an article in some broad topic will want to read other articles on the same broad topic, rather than articles wiki-linked in the text or in the "See also" section.</li></ol> <p>Sidebars have some specific issues and should be treated with special attention, because they are so prominently displayed to readers: </p> <ol><li>The large chunk of highly visible screen space might be better used for images or essential information.</li> <li>They might be perceived as fencing off a subject as the "territory" of a particular scholarly area.</li> <li>The collection of articles in a sidebar template should be fairly tightly related, and the template should meet most or all of the preceding guidelines. If the articles are not tightly related, a navbox may be more appropriate.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Examples" data-mw-thread-id="h-Examples-Navigation_templates"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Examples-Navigation_templates"></span>Examples<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Examples-Navigation_templates"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Examples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Example templates include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:Spain_topics" title="Template:Spain topics">Template:Spain topics</a> (medium-sized horizontal template)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Philosophy_topics" title="Template:Philosophy topics">Template:Philosophy topics</a> (large horizontal template)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Philosophy_sidebar" title="Template:Philosophy sidebar">Template:Philosophy sidebar</a> ("Part of a series on ..." vertical template)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Policy_list" title="Template:Policy list">Template:Policy list</a> (a small vertical template)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renault#External_links" title="Renault">Renault § External links</a> (several horizontal templates at the bottom of an article)</li></ul> <p>Some unusual templates include: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Template:Administrators%27_noticeboard_archives" title="Template:Administrators' noticeboard archives">Template:Administrators' noticeboard archives</a> (a vertical template)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Noticeboard_links" title="Template:Noticeboard links">Template:Noticeboard links</a> (a horizontal template sometimes positioned at the top)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Template:Harry_Potter" title="Template:Harry Potter">Template:Harry Potter</a> (an example of organizing voluminous, 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title="Template talk:List navbox"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:List_navbox" title="Special:EditPage/Template:List navbox"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Lists_in_Wikipedia" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lists" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists">Lists in Wikipedia</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Style</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lists" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists">Lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lists_of_works" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists of works">Lists of works</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Stand-alone_lists#Style" title="Wikipedia:Stand-alone lists">Stand-alone lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Set_index_articles" title="Wikipedia:Set index articles">Set index articles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(lists)" title="Wikipedia:Naming conventions (lists)">Naming conventions (lists)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility#Lists" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility">Accessibility/Lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Pro_and_con_lists" title="Wikipedia:Pro and con lists">Pro and con lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_dos_and_don%27ts" title="Wikipedia:List dos and don'ts">List dos and don'ts</a> (information page)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Content</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Lists" title="Wikipedia:Contents/Lists">Wikipedia:Contents/Lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_list_criteria" title="Wikipedia:Featured list criteria">Featured list criteria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">WikiProject Lists</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rationale</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Categories, lists, and navigation templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_versus_lists" title="Wikipedia:Categories versus lists">Categories vs. lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_in_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia">Lists in Wikipedia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists_within_articles" title="Wikipedia:Lists within articles">Lists within articles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Listcruft" title="Wikipedia:Listcruft">Listcruft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Write_the_article_first" title="Wikipedia:Write the article first">Write the article first</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Existing lists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_lists" title="Wikipedia:Featured lists">Featured lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:AllPages/List_of" title="Special:AllPages/List of">List of lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special:AllPages/Lists_of" title="Special:AllPages/Lists of">Lists of lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists" title="List of lists of lists">List of lists of lists</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Templates</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Lists" title="Wikipedia:Template index/Lists">Template index/Lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:List_templates" title="Category:List templates">Category:List templates</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Assistance</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:List" title="Help:List">Help:List</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Wikipedia_key_policies_and_guidelines_(?)" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_policies_and_guidelines" title="Template:Wikipedia policies and guidelines"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Wikipedia_policies_and_guidelines" title="Template talk:Wikipedia policies and guidelines"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Wikipedia_policies_and_guidelines" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Wikipedia policies and guidelines"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Wikipedia_key_policies_and_guidelines_(?)" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Wikipedia key <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines">policies and guidelines</a> <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Wikipedia's policies and guidelines are developed by the community to describe best practices, clarify principles, resolve conflicts, and otherwise further our goal.">(?)</span></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars" title="Wikipedia:Five pillars">Five pillars</a></b> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules" title="Wikipedia:Ignore all rules">Ignore all rules</a></b></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Content <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="defines the scope of the encyclopedia and the material that is suitable for it">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">Verifiability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research" title="Wikipedia:No original research">No original research</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">Neutral point of view</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not" title="Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not">What Wikipedia is not</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons" title="Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons">Biographies of living persons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights" title="Wikipedia:Copyrights">Copyright</a> (<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_violations" title="Wikipedia:Copyright violations">Copyright violations</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Image_use_policy" title="Wikipedia:Image use policy">Image use</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_titles" title="Wikipedia:Article titles">Article titles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#0077A4;"><abbr title="Guidelines"><span style="font-size:120%">G</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability" title="Wikipedia:Notability">Notability</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Autobiography" title="Wikipedia:Autobiography">Autobiography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">Citing sources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">Reliable sources</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources_(medicine)" title="Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources (medicine)">Medicine</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_include_the_full_text_of_lengthy_primary_sources" title="Wikipedia:Do not include the full text of lengthy primary sources">Do not include copies of lengthy primary sources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Plagiarism" title="Wikipedia:Plagiarism">Plagiarism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_create_hoaxes" title="Wikipedia:Do not create hoaxes">Don't create hoaxes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Fringe_theories" title="Wikipedia:Fringe theories">Fringe theories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Patent_nonsense" title="Wikipedia:Patent nonsense">Patent nonsense</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links" title="Wikipedia:External links">External links</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Conduct <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="describes how editors can successfully collaborate and what behavior is acceptable">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility" title="Wikipedia:Civility">Civility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">Consensus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Harassment" title="Wikipedia:Harassment">Harassment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism" title="Wikipedia:Vandalism">Vandalism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules" title="Wikipedia:Ignore all rules">Ignore all rules</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_personal_attacks" title="Wikipedia:No personal attacks">No personal attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content" title="Wikipedia:Ownership of content">Ownership of content</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring" title="Wikipedia:Edit warring">Edit warring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Dispute_resolution" title="Wikipedia:Dispute resolution">Dispute resolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry" title="Wikipedia:Sockpuppetry">Sockpuppetry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:No_legal_threats" title="Wikipedia:No legal threats">No legal threats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Child_protection" title="Wikipedia:Child protection">Child protection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Paid-contribution_disclosure" title="Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure">Paid-contribution disclosure</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#0077A4;"><abbr title="Guidelines"><span style="font-size:120%">G</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith" title="Wikipedia:Assume good faith">Assume good faith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest" title="Wikipedia:Conflict of interest">Conflict of interest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disruptive_editing" title="Wikipedia:Disruptive editing">Disruptive editing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_disrupt_Wikipedia_to_illustrate_a_point" title="Wikipedia:Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point">Do not disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Etiquette" title="Wikipedia:Etiquette">Etiquette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Gaming_the_system" title="Wikipedia:Gaming the system">Gaming the system</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers" title="Wikipedia:Please do not bite the newcomers">Please do not bite the newcomers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Courtesy_vanishing" title="Wikipedia:Courtesy vanishing">Courtesy vanishing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Responding_to_threats_of_harm" title="Wikipedia:Responding to threats of harm">Responding to threats of harm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Talk_page_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines">Talk page guidelines</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Signatures" title="Wikipedia:Signatures">Signatures</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Deletion <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="explains the processes by which pages, revisions, and logs may be deleted">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="P" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy" title="Wikipedia:Deletion policy">Deletion policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Proposed deletion">Proposed deletion</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_deletion_of_biographies_of_living_people" title="Wikipedia:Proposed deletion of biographies of living people">Biographies</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion">Criteria for speedy deletion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Attack_page" title="Wikipedia:Attack page">Attack page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Oversight" title="Wikipedia:Oversight">Oversight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Revision_deletion" title="Wikipedia:Revision deletion">Revision deletion</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Enforcement <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="explains the various means by which standards may be enforced">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="P" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators" title="Wikipedia:Administrators">Administrators</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Banning_policy" title="Wikipedia:Banning policy">Banning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Blocking_policy" title="Wikipedia:Blocking policy">Blocking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy" title="Wikipedia:Protection policy">Page protection</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Editing <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="documents the various protocols about style and grouping">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_policy" title="Wikipedia:Editing policy">Editing policy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#0077A4;"><abbr title="Guidelines"><span style="font-size:120%">G</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_size" title="Wikipedia:Article size">Article size</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Summary_style" title="Wikipedia:Summary style">Summary style</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Be_bold" title="Wikipedia:Be bold">Be bold</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Disambiguation" title="Wikipedia:Disambiguation">Disambiguation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Hatnote" title="Wikipedia:Hatnote">Hatnotes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Broad-concept_article" title="Wikipedia:Broad-concept article">Broad-concept article</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Make_technical_articles_understandable" title="Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable">Understandability</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;">Style</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style">Manual of Style</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Contents" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Contents">Contents</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Accessibility">Accessibility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">Dates and numbers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Images" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Images">Images</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Layout" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout">Layout</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lead_section" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lead section">Lead section</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking">Linking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Lists" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Lists">Lists</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;">Classification</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Categories, lists, and navigation templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization" title="Wikipedia:Categorization">Categorization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Template namespace">Template namespace</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;">Project content <span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="protocols related to administration">(?)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="G" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color:#0077A4;"><abbr title="Guidelines"><span style="font-size:120%">G</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Project_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Project namespace">Project namespace</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide">WikiProjects</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_pages" title="Wikipedia:User pages">User pages</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes" title="Wikipedia:Userboxes">User boxes</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Subpages" title="Wikipedia:Subpages">Subpages</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:6.9em;text-align:left;;background: #dddddd;color:inherit;"><abbr title="Wikimedia Foundation">WMF</abbr> <abbr title="official policies and statements of the Wikimedia Foundation">(?)</abbr></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="P" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left; font-weight: normal; background: #e6e6e6;color:inherit;"><b><span style="color:#118811;"><abbr title="Policies"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></abbr></span></b></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Universal_Code_of_Conduct" class="extiw" title="wmf:Policy:Universal Code of Conduct">Universal Code of Conduct</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use" class="extiw" title="wmf:Terms of Use">Terms of Use</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policies" class="extiw" title="wmf:Policies">List of policies</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy" class="extiw" title="wmf:Friendly space policy">Friendly space policy</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Licensing_policy" class="extiw" title="wmf:Resolution:Licensing policy">Licensing and copyright</a></li> <li><a href="https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy" class="extiw" title="wmf:Privacy policy">Privacy policy</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;;font-weight: normal;"><div> <ul><li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:List of policies and guidelines">List of all policies and guidelines</a></b> <ul><li><b><span style="color:#118811;"><span style="font-size:120%">P</span></span></b>: <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_policies" title="Wikipedia:List of policies">List of policies</a></b></li> <li><b><span style="color:#0077A4;"><span style="font-size:120%">G</span></span></b>: <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_guidelines" title="Wikipedia:List of guidelines">List of guidelines</a></b></li></ul></li> <li><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Principles" title="Wikipedia:Principles">Summaries of values and principles</a></b></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Wikipedia_categorization" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Wikipedia_categorization_navbox" title="Template:Wikipedia categorization navbox"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Wikipedia_categorization_navbox" title="Template talk:Wikipedia categorization navbox"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Wikipedia_categorization_navbox" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Wikipedia categorization navbox"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Wikipedia_categorization" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Wikipedia categorization</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Guidelines</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization" title="Wikipedia:Categorization">Categorization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_names" title="Wikipedia:Category names">Category names</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Categories, lists, and navigation templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization">Overcategorization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorizing_articles_about_people" title="Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people">Categorizing articles about people</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:People_by_year" title="Wikipedia:People by year">People by year</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization/Sorting_names" title="Wikipedia:Categorization/Sorting names">Categorization/Sorting names</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorizing_redirects" title="Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects">Categorizing redirects</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_categories" title="Wikipedia:User categories">User categories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization/User_categories" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization/User categories">Overcategorization/User categories</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Help pages</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Categories" title="Help:Categories">Basic help for readers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Basic help for editors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Categories" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Categories">FAQ for readers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization">FAQ for editors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Container_category" title="Wikipedia:Container category">Container categories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorizing_portals" title="Wikipedia:Categorizing portals">Categorizing portals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_classification_templates" title="Wikipedia:Category classification templates">Category classification templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Category_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Template index/Category namespace">Template index/Category namespace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:PetScan" title="Wikipedia:PetScan">PetScan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Discussions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion">Categories for discussion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Speedy" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Speedy">Categories for discussion/Speedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/All_current_discussions" title="Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/All current discussions">Categories for discussion/All current discussions</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Projectspace essays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_are_different_from_articles" title="Wikipedia:Categories are different from articles">Categories are different from articles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_versus_lists" title="Wikipedia:Categories versus lists">Categories versus lists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorising_fictional_characters_by_attribute" title="Wikipedia:Categorising fictional characters by attribute">Categorising fictional characters by attribute</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_write_articles_using_categories" title="Wikipedia:Do not write articles using categories">Do not write articles using categories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization/Intersection_of_location_and_occupation" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization/Intersection of location and occupation">Overcategorization/Intersection of location and occupation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_workflow" title="Wikipedia:Wiki workflow">Wiki workflow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Plants/Description_in_year_categories" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Plants/Description in year categories">WikiProject Plants/Description in year categories</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Userspace essays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/User:DexDor/Terminology_categories" title="User:DexDor/Terminology categories">DexDor/Terminology 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