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Category policies/guidelines[]
Moved over from Sonny With a Chance Wiki talk:Policy.
For quite awhile, we've been needing policies/guidelines to help users understand the proper way to use categories. I'd like to suggest these policies/guidelines:
Policies and guidelines[]
- An article's topic has to fit within any category in which it's placed. For example: Falling for the Falls does belong in the category Episodes, because the article's topic is the episode Falling for the Falls. However, you would not want to put that same article in the Characters category, because the article is about an episode, not a character.
- Categories named after a character, a person, or an episode are not allowed. It's ok to have an image category for an episode or a prominent character (e.g. Category:Fast Friends images), but a category entitled, for instance, "Sonny Munroe", "Doug Brochu", or "Sketchy Beginnings" would not make sense, because the name of the category is not specific enough.
- Categories related to specific relationships are too subjective and, therefore, are not allowed. For example, a category entitled "Channy episodes" would be too subjective because what constitutes a Channy episode is a matter of opinion.
- Some categories were created for organizing stuff other than articles. If a category has the word "images" at the end of its title, it should not contain any articles, because it was created for organizing image files. For example, Category:Fast Friends images should contain only images, no articles. Similarly, the category Videos should only contain video files, no articles.
- At present, we don't have any categories that are appropriate for adding userpages to, so please do not place your userpage in any category.
- Do not add an article, image, video, etc. to a category if it is already in that category. This simply creates clutter that someone else will have to clean up later.
Tips[]
- Adding images to categories - When you add an image to an image category, you should do it the same way you'd add an article to a category: Go to the image file page, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and press the "Add category" button on the bottom of the Categories box. When you're done, the box should include the name of the category you added.
(The WRONG way to add an image to a category is to go to the category's page and add the image there. You must do it on the image file page, or it will not work properly.) - Adding sections to categories - When editing a section of an article, it may look like you have the capability to add that section to a category, but it will not work--it will instead add the whole article to the category. Thus, please do not add a section to a category unless the whole article belongs in that category and does not already belong to that category.
(I may revise these suggestions further.) Please give feedback and offer any suggestions you may have for additional guidelines. :) ---Zukogray 23:44, January 14, 2011 (UTC)
- I think these all sound very good. :) I only have one question, is there anyway that we can post instructions on how to put an image into an image category? I've noticed that quite a few people have been adding the images directly to the image category page as opposed to going to the image page and putting it in the appropriate image category. I don't know if that made any sense. But, anyway, I think these should clear up a lot confusion. Bestwithbreadsticks 04:28, January 28, 2011 (UTC)
- Oh, good idea. I'll work on figuring out the best way to explain that. ---Zukogray 02:11, January 29, 2011 (UTC)
- Ok, I'm adding some stuff to the above post, including that suggestion (I thought of a few other things I thought it might be helpful to include). Do the additional items look ok? ---Zukogray 11:33, February 2, 2011 (UTC)
- That sounds great! That should clear up quite a bit of confusion on here. :) Bestwithbreadsticks 15:08, February 2, 2011 (UTC)
- Ok, I'm adding some stuff to the above post, including that suggestion (I thought of a few other things I thought it might be helpful to include). Do the additional items look ok? ---Zukogray 11:33, February 2, 2011 (UTC)
- Okeydokey then, since no one else has joined the discussion, I'm gonna go ahead and offer everyone the chance to vote. You can vote for or against these policies, or you can vote that we take more time to discuss them. February 9 is the deadline to vote. No more votes will be accepted after the end of that day (UTC).
- As for my vote, I vote in favor of the suggested policies. ---Zukogray 04:37, February 3, 2011 (UTC)
- I also vote in favor of the suggested policies. They appear to be working well. Bestwithbreadsticks 04:50, February 3, 2011 (UTC)
- Alrighty, as one can see, these policies are now official. :) Thanks for your input, Breadsticks! If anyone wants to suggest changes, you can do so on this talk page. ---Zukogray 04:41, February 10, 2011 (UTC)