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If you have a proposal for a better name for the category or for a wider re-arrangement of the categorization scheme; or if you have a concern that may apply to several members of the category (such as if the category violates one or more sections on this page, Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people, Wikipedia:Overcategorization, or other ...
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.
Articles about people should be categorized cautiously. Unlike the body of the article, the various category choices for people can focus on, in most cases, what are common and unrelated attributes such as place of birth and gender, instead of emphasising the reason for their inclusion. See Wikipedia:Categorization of people for guidelines.
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 operas). Be careful to choose the right one ...
Category:Wikipedia backlog links to many categories with articles that need to be worked on. 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.
This is a maintenance category, used for maintenance of the Wikipedia project. It is not part of the encyclopedia and contains non-article pages , or groups articles by status rather than subject. Do not include this category in content categories.
Category (mathematics), a structure consisting of objects and arrows; Category (topology), in the context of Baire spaces; Lusternik–Schnirelmann category, sometimes called LS-category or simply category; Categorical data, in statistics
The uppermost category in the hierarchy is Category:Contents. From here all other categories branch out, including those that are used for the maintenance of Wikipedia. If an entry in a category is shown in italics it is a redirect to an article of a different name or a section of an article that contains information about that particular subject.