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If you find a category that isn't supported by text in the article, check the history tab for vandalism. If you don't see any, then you can either remove the category, or add a template to point out the problem. If you remove the category, make sure your edit summary clearly says what category you're removing, and why.
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.
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.
Disable any categories by inserting a colon before the word "Category", e.g. change [[Category:Living people]] to [[:Category:Living people]], or by using the {{Draft categories}} template. Non-free content cannot be included in draft articles, per Wikipedia's policy on where non-free media is allowed. Any desired non-free content should be ...
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.
After the member articles and sub-cats have been moved, delete the category. Sometimes there is a request, or it may be helpful anyway, to leave a redirect at the category page. Standard redirects do not work with categories; instead, use {{Category redirect}}. If there is a talk page associated with the category, delete or redirect it too.
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.