Forum:Categories - How to use them

How to use the categories
If we discuss how to use the categories here, and make a decision, we can then write an article on how to use categories (Psychology_Wiki:Guide_to_using_categories) and make sure everyone knows how to do it.

I've just checked Special:Categories and we currently have 3,124 categories. These have mostly been copied over from Wikipedia. I'd estimate we have added about 100 more categories since then.

I will try and go through this list tonight and see which ones we would like to keep. I will add the appropriate templates to these pages and once they have something on them, they will appear as Blue links in the above list.

My initial estimates suggest we need to keep about 10% of the categories, so thats 300ish, which is a manageable list.

Cleaning them up

 * user:Sannse is Wikia staff and she has a bot or two (automatic scripts) that can help us clean. I'll keep you all posted on that.


 * We can go through manually too. If you are cleaning an article and it has unwanted categories, please remove them and mark your edit summary removed cats  Remember, after tonight the unwanted ones will be red, the wanted ones will appear blue.


 * In the meantime, any articles we copy from Wikipedia MUST have unnessesary links removed. Links to dates, places, and general non-psychology topics are unneeded and clutter our index.

Creating New Categories

 * We need to create categories for each of our main Sections (see the browsebar & navigation bars at top and sides of most pages)
 * Not sure what to do here yet, please add Ideas.

Using them to Index

 * Once we have created new categories, we can use them to help structure the site better.
 * User:Jaywin is the man to ask about categories of categories.