Wowpedia:Category policy

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This page is an official policy on Wowpedia. This policy has wide acceptance among editors and is considered a standard that all users should follow. Feel free to propose any changes to this policy, but please make sure that changes you make follow the official process and reflect consensus on the discussion page before you put them into practice. Any big changes need to be Adopted or Decreed to be enforced as policy. See Wowpedia:Policies for an overview of Wowpedia policies. See Category:Policies for a list of proposed and adopted policy articles.

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Category naming

When adding a category to the below list, please observe the following guidelines:

1. Please keep the first letter of the first word capitalized, but none of the rest:
   • Right: Category:Rubber duckies
   • Wrong: Category:rubber duckies
   • Wrong: Category:Rubber Duckies
   • Exception: Proper names, such as specific places, people, or things, can be capitalized. However, this should appear rarely in the category system - if you are in doubt, leave uncapitalized.
2. Categories should usually be plural:
   • Right: Category:Boxes
   • Wrong: Category:Box
3. In cases where the category might be confused with another one, you should add the parents name to it.
   • Example: there is a Category:Druid item under Category:Classes, and there is a Category:Druid under Category:Talents. Therefore, the one that would be parent to the other (Category:Druid (Class) would not fit in Category:Druid Talents, but Category:Druid Talents would fit in Category:Druid (Class) ) becomes the old name.
   • Right: Category:Druids - Referring to class
   • Right: Category:Druids (Talents)
   • Wrong: Category:Druids (Class)
   • Wrong: Category:Druids - Referring to talents
4. Only make categories for the most general of things - for instance, a Category:Air Elementals is redundant at this point - there are less than 10 pages that would go in the category.
   • A good rule of thumb is that if it is not listed on this list and you want to create it, it should have 15 or so already existing articles that would fit within it. Else, it probably isn't needed. If those few pages absolutely need to be linked among one another, you should add a 'see also' section at the bottom of them with links to eachother. (See Help:Template for helpful information about using templates for this!)
   • Sometimes there is a specific reason that a category with less than 15 articles would still be listed here - for instance, a Category:Classes is a kind of given, even though it would have only 9 articles.
   • Exceptions: Some categories will have very few or no articles but will serve as parents to other categories, for instance Category:Classes holds only 9 articles, but is parent to many categories (a talent sub-category for each class like Category:Druid talents, a abilities sub-category for each class such as Category:Druid abilities, and other sub-categories) - in this case it need not have many or even any articles in it.

Category page content

1. Substantive content should not be included on a category page, but placed on a separate article page.
   • e.g., Category:Cooking and Cooking
   • Please note that redirects from regular articles to category pages will not work properly.
2. The category page should contain only a precise description of what sort of articles belong in that category.
   • Describe what sort of articles do not belong, as well as the sort that do belong.

List of categories that need to be fixed

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List of all categories (by policy)

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