Difference between revisions of "Help:Categories"

Categories help keep Coppermind organized by grouping pages with related content. Every article, template, and file should be categorized. It is important to categorize everything correctly, as categories are one of the primary ways that an article can be found. Articles should be able to be found from the main ''series categories'' (as listed on the main page) or through the main ''content categories'' onin the sidebar on the left.

The categories for any given page are listed at the bottom of a page in a box. Note that categories are more like tags than folders. Pages will belong in multiple categories--usually at least three, as weyou'll see below. The more, the merrier!

Category pages are titled <code><nowiki>Category:NAME</nowiki></code>, where <code>NAME</code> is the specific category name. A category page should begin with a description of what the category incorporates. The rest of the page will fill in automatically with any subcategories, followed by all articles, files, and templates that are tagged with this category. Create subcategories by categorizing a category page--for example, ''Category:Elantris'' is categorized into ''Category:Books''.

Many templates will automatically categorize the article they are placed in. This includes infoboxes, navboxes, and many other commonly used templates. For example, the {{t|book}} infobox template, used at the start of any book article, will automatically put the article into ''Category:Books''. No need to do it manually. We'll cover templates on the [[:Help:Templates]] page.

A page can be manually categorized by putting the namesname of any desired category page(s) in double brackets: <code><nowiki>[[Category:NAME]]</nowiki></code>. These tags should be placed ''at the very end of an article''! They should be the last item in the "Notes" section. as mentioned on the [[:Help:Guidelines#Article_Structure|Help:Guidlines]] page.

The book/series identifier is ''automatically added'' by the [[:Help:Templates#Navigation_boxes|navbox]] template, which should be located at the bottom of these articles.

There are teneight, mutually exclussiveexclusive ''high level content categories''. Every article belongs in one (and only one) of these teneight categories. They're the teneight categories you see listed under "Categories" in the sidebar at the left. They are:

The high level content category is ''automatically added'' by the [[:Help:Templates#Information_boxes|infobox]] template, which should be located at the very top of these articles.

''Quality tags'' indicate the quality and completion level of every page. These are very useful to editors, because they are an easy way to determine which articles need more attention.

Quality tags must be added in the "Notes" section of an article (see [[Help:Guidelines#Article_Structure|Help:Guidelines]]), directly between the <code><nowiki><references /></nowiki></code> tag and the navbox. They are added using special templates; the four you should know about are:

; <span title='This article is a stub'>&#x25D4;</span> Stub {{t|stub}}

; <span title='This article is still missing information'>&#x25D2;</span> Partially Complete {{t|partial}}

; <span title='This article is nearly complete'>&#x25D5;</span> Nearing Completion {{t|complete}}

; <span title='This article is complete' style='color: green;'>&#x26AB;&#xFE0E;</span> Complete {{t|complete}}