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Use the Wikipedia titling conventions of no unnecessary capital letters or abbreviations, i.e. use [[Category:Category examples]] instead of [[Category:Category E.g.]]. If the category collects articles, then avoid the word List in the name of the category, and use plurals, e.g. Category:Popes.
Example: [[Category:Example|*]] Those articles are typically called "History of example", "Types of example", "List of example" or similar. Leading articles —a, an, and the—are among the most common reasons for using sort keys, which are used to transfer the leading article to the end of the key, as in {{DEFAULTSORT:Lady, The}}.
Compared to a list, a category may have both advantages and disadvantages. Example of a category page. Every page in the article namespace should have at least one category. Categories should be on major topics that are likely to be useful to someone reading the article. For example:
Topic categories – categories of articles relating to a particular topic, such as Category:Geography or Category:Paris. Set-and-topic categories – categories that are combinations of the two above types. Universal categories – categories used to provide a complete list of articles which are otherwise normally divided into subcategories.
These categories are intersection of two (or perhaps three) other index categories. The articles placed in these categories should also usually be in the parent categories. This is often not currently the case in English Wikipedia. The template provides links to the parent categories. An example of this type is Category:American silent films.
The MediaWiki software maintains tables of categories, to which any editable page can be added. To add a page to a category, include "[[Category:Category name]]" or "[[Category:Category name|Sortkey]]" in that page's wiki markup. The categories to which a page belongs appear in a box at the bottom of the page.
This category is not in use because it has an ambiguous title. For academic papers, see Category:Academic journal articles . For newspapers, see Category:Newspapers .
Categories (along with other features like cross-references, lists, and infoboxes) help you to find information, even if you don't know what exists or what it's called. The following list of categories of Wikipedia's coverage parallels our other lists by topic.