Category Pages
As you work on adding good categories to articles, youâll encounter category pages like the one in Figure 17-1, and as a reader, youâll find them useful for getting to articles youâre interested in. But thereâs more to category pages. Theyâre created and managed by editors, and, like all other pages at Wikipedia, there are times when you, as an editor, can edit them to improve them. This section explains what you need to know.
Hierarchy: The Categorizing of Category Pages
Every category page should have at least one parentâa higher-level category. (The exception, of course, is the category page at the very top of the hierarchy.) Or, to put it differently, every category page but the very highest (shown in Figure 17-5) should be within a subcategory of at least one higher-level category.
Figure 17-5. The highest category in Wikipediaâthe only category that doesnât belong to a higher categoryâis Category:Contents. It has seven subcategories and (not shown) one page that belongs to the category but isnât in a subcategory, the page Wikipedia:Contents.
Figure 17-6 shows a category page that itself is assigned five categories.
Figure 17-6. The category page Algerian media has five parent categoriesâone is a cleanup category; the other four are higher ...
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