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(This is still far from perfect, but I think it's a significant improvement on what we had and having the page at least reasonably functional before birthday stuff starts seems like a good idea.)
 
== The Category System==
At the bottom of the article, you will notice a list of categories. These are a way for us to group related articles to make them easy to search for. For example, most articles have a series category, eg [[:Category: Mistborn]] which includes all articles about content in the Mistborn books, and is included as a navigation box at the bottom, eg {{t|mistborn}}
 
The infobox at the top of most articles also has information which will include that article in a number of different categories. For example, the <nowiki>{{t|character}}</nowiki> template for a Mistborn character will add [[:Category: Characters]] and [[:Category: ScadrianScadrians]], which is a collection of all characters on the planet [[Scadrial]]. If we know that the character is an [[Allomancer]] (for example), the infobox will have a row that looks like this:
<nowiki> |abilities = {{t|tag+|Thug}} </nowiki>
which adds the [[:Category: Allomancers]] to the article, and also adds a link to the [[Pewter]] page. This can get tricky at times, so we are working on a help page to explain it in more detail. In the mean time, if you see an issue with categories that you aren’t sure how to fix, contact [[User:fbstj|Joe]] and he will be happy to help.
 
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