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Main categories and sub categories
Just now I listed the Species category under a couple of other categories, which at least makes it look, in this overview page, like it's a sub category under those then main categories. But I came to think now that perhaps such display in this manually created overview should reflect actual relationships of sub and main categories. I mean, I hadn't actually categorized the Species category in those other categories where I listed it under (and indented) now.
But a category can, just like articles can, be categorized in other categories, and also in multiple other categories (I assume). That way it's quite possible to actually create a structure where a category is a sub category under several then main categories, where it seems to belong. (For that matter it might even be possible to make two categories mutually be sub categories under each other, which might be silly or such, but, anyway, I just thought of it right now and so wanted to just mention it..) Optimist 01:49, 29 April 2008 (CDT)
I tried to add a category
I thought I had the code right, but Human Space Flight just has a little problem on the page. Please point out what I did wrong.
Thanx........
Anxietydisorder 22:37, 20 September 2008 (CDT)
- Anxietydisorder,
- I think I understand. You're trying to create a new category. Thing is, if you happen to be familiar with tags, I think it's probably helpful to think of categories as tags, as opposed to as folders. A new category is created by, so to say, simply stating that it exists. The way to do that, is, which may be a bit confusing (it certainly took me a while to realize what I was actually doing all those times I categorized a page), is to simply link to the category page or, to put in it a way that's just as accurate, list of pages that have the same categorization. The page does in no way have to exist -- you simply link to it, and then the category is 'brought into being'. I think I'm fairly right when I say this can be confusing.
- In a way it's not primarily the category page that's linked to, but rather the (currently existent or non-existent) list of pages with that categorization that you will be linking to. So, if you write a page called "Anxietydisorder" and you want to put that page in the category "Users", that's done by writing a link to "Category:Users", in the way you have probably done before, like this
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[[Category:Users]]
- When you do that, you don't actually create a page -- which is also why the link has red font color, since the page is still empty, like links to other pages that don't exist yet also have red font color. By linking to a category, you simply state that this page is in that category, and then 'magically' you have now created that category.
- Whether you, or someone else, writes actual page content in that category's page actually doesn't matter at all as far as the category existing. There can be two hundred pages in a category, and the link to the category will still be red if there's no page content or description written yet -- but clicking the red link will still bring up the list of the 200 pages (the category description part of the page, which appears on top, will be empty, and, as you know, the pages are listed below the page content or description text (if there is one)).
- So, to conclude: if you want to create a new category, simply pretend it already exists, and then it will. Fantastic. :-) It's a little bit like The Secret. lol :-) This page right here is simply a somewhat more 'presentable' category overview, than the automatically generated list here. The purpose of this page -- at least after I started to edit it a bit -- is now partly also to give a kind of visual presentation of main categories and sub categories, like in a tree structure, or such (those relationships are not shown in the automatically generated category list which simply lists the categories alphabetically). Anyway, if this reply was a bit unclear, or you have any questions about this or anything else here, feel free to ask me or others. Keep up the good work. --Optimist 23:49, 20 September 2008 (CDT)
