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ViewsPlanningWiki:Proposed categoriesFrom PlanningWikiRevision as of 13:40, 29 August 2009; view current revision
←Older revision | Newer revision→ This page is to list suggested broad categories for PlanningWiki articles. For general guidelines, see the Wikipedia Categorization page.
[edit] When to use categoriesCategories help users find information, even if they don't know that it exists or what it's called. Every page in the article namespace should belong to at least one category. Categories should be major topics that are likely to be useful to someone reading the article.
Questions to ask to determine whether it is appropriate to add an article to a category:
If the answer to either of these questions is no, then the category is probably inappropriate. Note that it is always appropriate to add articles to categories that fit into well established taxonomies. [edit] Guidelines[edit] Some general guidelines1. Categories are mainly used to browse through similar articles. Make decisions about the structure of categories and subcategories that make it easy for users to browse through similar articles. 2. An article will often be in several categories. Restraint should be used as categories become less effective the more there are on any given article. 3. Check to see where siblings of the article reside. If there are few if any articles in a category, the article probably belongs in one of the subcategories. 3. Articles should be placed in categories with the same name. However, the article and the category do not have to be categorized the same way. The article can also be placed in categories populated with similar articles. The category can be put into categories populated with similar subcategories. 4. There are often occasions when articles might ideally be moved from a category to two or more of its subcategories, but not all of the subcategories exist. In such cases consider creating the additional subcategories, but if you decide not to do so, leave the articles in the parent category for the time being. 5. Bend the rules above when it makes sense, but only if no other solution can be found. 6. Categories appear without annotations, so be careful of neutral point of view when creating or filling categories. Unless it is self-evident and uncontroversial that something belongs in a category, it should not be put into a category. A list might be a better option. 7. If you don't know where to put an article, don't worry about it. Instead of adding a category, use the Template:Tl tag to bring attention to the article. Editors who love to categorize articles will find a good home for your article. [edit] Categories do not form a treeEach Wikipedia article can appear in more than one category, and each category can appear in more than one parent category. Multiple categorization schemes co-exist simultaneously. In other words, categories do not form a strict hierarchy or tree structure, but a more general directed acyclic graph. Nevertheless, parts of the category graph will be tree-like, and it may be convenient to think of parts of the category graph as being like multiple overlapping trees. When applying the guidelines above, consider each tree to be independent of the overlapping trees. A person browsing through a hierarchy should find every article that belongs in that hierarchy. This can lead to a good deal of debate as to what the hierarchies actually are. To clarify the structure of the hierarchy and help people browse through it, you can add a classification to each category. [edit] Proposed category schemePlease feel free to add to this list. Remember the guidelines above.
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