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Wikipedia's contents: Categories edit · watch Categories (along with other features like cross-references, lists, and infoboxes) help you to find information, even if you don't know what exists or what it's called.
Example: [[Category:Example|*]] Those articles are typically called "History of example", "Types of example", "List of example" or similar. Leading articles —a, an, and the—are among the most common reasons for using sort keys, which are used to transfer the leading article to the end of the key, as in {{DEFAULTSORT:Lady, The}}.
Use the Wikipedia titling conventions of no unnecessary capital letters or abbreviations, i.e. use [[Category:Category examples]] instead of [[Category:Category E.g.]]. If the category collects articles, then avoid the word List in the name of the category, and use plurals, e.g. Category:Popes.
Compared to a list, a category may have both advantages and disadvantages. Example of a category page. Every page in the article namespace should have at least one category. Categories should be on major topics that are likely to be useful to someone reading the article. For example:
These categories are intersection of two (or perhaps three) other index categories. The articles placed in these categories should also usually be in the parent categories. This is often not currently the case in English Wikipedia. The template provides links to the parent categories. An example of this type is Category:American silent films.
Another common category is a stub category, which contains very short ("stub") articles that need expansion. Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types contains a list of stubs, sorted by topic. Container categories – categories that only contain other categories.
Examples: "Writers", "Villages in Poland". Note that in many instances a topic category and a set category have similar names, the topic category being singular and the set category plural. For example, Opera is a topic category (containing all articles relating to the topic), while Operas is a set category (containing articles about specific ...
Categories are used in Wikipedia to link articles under a common topic and are found at the bottom of the article page. Clicking the category name displays a list of articles in that category, below a list of sub-categories (categories in that category) (if any). Categories allow readers to navigate through Wikipedia and find related articles.