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This category is for articles about names and sub-categories relating to names. Personal names are listed in Category:Given names, family names in Category:Surnames.
For reference, see List of sovereign states, List of dependent territories, and the following list. In category naming, country names should not be abbreviated (except to the extent that they are already in their respective article titles – for example, "United Kingdom", but not "UK" or "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland").
Given names which have been used by individuals (historical and fictitious). Use template {{ Given name }} to populate this category. (However, do not use the template on disambiguation pages that contain a list of people by given name.)
This category is for lists of names. For lists of people, things etc that share a name see Category:Set index articles. Subcategories. This category has the following ...
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.
Note that in many instances a topic category and a set category have similar names, the topic category being singular and the set category plural. For example, Opera is a topic category (containing all articles relating to the topic), while Operas is a set category (containing articles about specific operas). Be careful to choose the right one ...
Grouping articles into a category is not the same as making a list of articles. To edit a list of articles, you edit the list directly; but to place articles into a category, you edit an article and insert a category tag by placing [[Category:<category name>]] in the body of the text. This adds those articles as a list on the category's page.
A good category name is accurate and neutral, and, as much as possible, defines the category's inclusion criteria in the name itself. Important: Moving non-conventionally categorized pages to another category name (see {{Category redirect}}) imposes an additional overhead – an edit for every categorized page and subcategory.