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If you can't find the category link in the article's wikitext, it must be coming from a template. Finding that template, and perhaps changing it (for example, to delete the category from the article), is a five-step process: 1. Click the "edit this page" tab. Don't click a section edit link; click the tab at the top of the article. 2.
Pages that are proposed for deletion are listed in the subcategories of Category:Proposed deletion by date of tagging. Any editor may patrol the category to check that pages are correctly nominated, and either endorse the PROD by adding {} or remove the PROD tag. You are encouraged to give an explanation whenever you endorse or remove a PROD.
This places the article in a corresponding category, and gives instructions on how to proceed. Any editor who disagrees may change the template to "Contested proposal for deletion", and should present the counter-argument on the talk page. This moves the article to a second category.
Categories help readers to find, and navigate around, a subject area, to see pages sorted by title, and to thus find article relationships. Categories are normally found at the bottom of an article page. Clicking a category name brings up a category page listing the articles (or other pages) that have been added to that particular category.
If an article has an "incorrect" or "inappropriate" category, remove that category from the article, and replace it (if applicable) with a more correct category. Even if an article may occupy the grey areas of a category's inclusion criteria, that is not a valid reason to keep the article in a category.
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.
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Read the article's talk page, which may provide reasons why the article should or should not be deleted. Check that what you wish to delete is an article. Templates, categories, images, redirects and pages not in the main article space (including user and Wikipedia namespace pages) have their own deletion processes separate from AfD.