Difference between revisions of "Help:Categorization"

Revision as of 15:43, 25 March 2020

Here are some notes I made in the old days, about categorizing new articles. Ryan W 14:43, 24 September 2011 (UTC)

Check regularly, since Special:NewPages only goes back 30 days.

Bugs: Anything involving Things should be in Category:Gameplay or a subcategory. Anything involving rendering, line-of-sight issues, or "2.5D vs 3D" physics should be in Category:Doom engine.
Disambiguation pages should only be in Category:Disambig.
Editing tutorials should be in one editing category and maybe one other category (e.g. textures, new features, audio).
Images should be in one category for their licensing status and one category for their subject matter. IIRC some people have suggested being very strict about this, e.g. Category:Errors and bugs shouldn't contain images, but now I can't find the discussion. Noting it here because if it's true, it definitely belongs in the proposed guideline. Ryan W (living fossil) 15:42, 25 March 2020 (CDT)
IRC channel articles should only be in Category:IRC, because the content of an IRC channel is inherently random.
People: If indelibly associated with a specific community activity, like speedrunning or port programming, they can go in that category as well as Category:People.
Source port articles may be in Category:Source ports even if also in a more specific subcategory, for easier navigation.
Templates should only be in Category:Templates or one subcategory.

title
year of release
port requirement (vanilla, limit removing, Boom compatible, ZDoom, ...)
is it a megawad, episode WAD, or single-level WAD?
is it a total conversion or partial conversion?
is it a Cacoward winner (including supplementary awards and the 10 Years features)?
is it a multiplayer-only WAD?
is it a member of a WAD series lacking its own article?
is it a texture pack?
is it another kind of resource-only WAD?
is it a joke WAD?
is it a demonstration WAD for an editing tutorial (here or elsewhere)?
Category:Events if it is the result of a competition

title (happens automatically if you use the "name=" parameter in Template:Map)
author (one category per person)
map slot if part of a multi-map WAD (happens automatically with Template:Map)
game title if part of a commercial release (should be automatic when a navbox is used)
is it a secret level?
is it a stock level whose console counterpart also has an article?

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 * '''Disambiguation pages''' should only be in [[:Category:Disambig]].
 * '''Editing tutorials''' should be in one editing category and ''maybe'' one other category (e.g. textures, new features, audio).
-* '''Images''' should be in one category for their licensing status and one category for their subject matter.
+* '''Images''' should be in one category for their licensing status and one category for their subject matter.&nbsp; '''<small>IIRC some people have suggested being very strict about this, e.g. [[:Category:Errors and bugs]] shouldn't contain images, but now I can't find the discussion.&nbsp; Noting it here because if it's true, it definitely belongs in the proposed guideline. [[User talk:Ryan W|Ryan W]] ''([[User:Ryan W|living fossil]])'' 15:42, 25 March 2020 (CDT)</small>'''
 * '''IRC channel''' articles should only be in [[:Category:IRC]], because the content of an IRC channel is inherently random.
 * '''People:''' If indelibly associated with a specific community activity, like [[:Category:Speedrun|speedrunning]] or [[:Category:Source ports|port programming]], they can go in that category as well as [[:Category:People]].