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{{PD Help Page}}

To add an article to a category put the following at the end of the page you are editing...

<nowiki>[[Category:{Name}]]</nowiki>

where {Name} is the name of the category you want to add it to. Any number of category tags may be added to the page - the page will be listed in all of them.

You can also specify an additional {Sort} parameter that dictates where the page will appear, alphabetically, within the category. This is achieved by using the following markup:

<nowiki>[[Category:{Name}|{Sort}]]</nowiki>

So for example, to add this page to the 'Help' category, you would use:

<nowiki>[[Category:Help|Categories]]</nowiki>

Note that we used 'Categories' as the sort parameter. Without this the page would be listed under 'H' for 'Help:Categories', instead of under 'C', which is more useful. Other situations where you might want to use the sort parameter is when you have articles about people that are titled as <code>FirstName LastName</code> but within the category you want them listed as <code>LastName, FirstName</code>.

Another way to sort the article in the correct letter without the namespace is

<nowiki>[[Category:Help|{{PAGENAME}}]]</nowiki>

This is extremly helpful when using templates which include a category tag.

''Note: the {sort} parameter does '''not''' affect how the page title is displayed within the category listing, just how it is ordered. In the above example, the link to this page will still be 'Help:Categories', and not 'Categories' as you might expect!''

{{Languages|Help:Categories}}
[[Category:Help|Categories]]

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 {{PD Help Page}}
-To add an article to a category put the following at the end of the page you are editing...
+You can categorize pages and files by adding one or more '''Category''' {{#ifeq:Category|{{ns:category}}||'''({{ns:category}})'''}} tags to the content text. These tags create links at the bottom of the page that take you to the list of all pages in that category, which makes it easy to browse related articles.
- <nowiki>[[Category:{Name}]]</nowiki>
+== Summary ==
-where {Name} is the name of the category you want to add it to.  Any number of category tags may be added to the page - the page will be listed in all of them.
+When a page belongs to one or more categories, these categories appear at the bottom of the page (or in the upper-right corner, depending on the [[Help:Preferences|skin]] being used).
-You can also specify an additional {Sort} parameter that dictates where the page will appear, alphabetically, within the category. This is achieved by using the following markup:
+The category pages themselves contain 2 parts :
- <nowiki>[[Category:{Name}|{Sort}]]</nowiki>
+To assign a category to a page, simply add the link "<nowiki>[[</nowiki>Category:''Category name'']]" to the page's wikitext. The usual place to add it is at the bottom of the page.
-So for example, to add this page to the 'Help' category, you would use:
+To link a category page within a page as a normal wiki link (without adding the page to the category), prefix the link name with a colon.  For example: <nowiki>[[</nowiki>:Category:Not in this category]]
- <nowiki>[[Category:Help|Categories]]</nowiki>
+New categories can be [[Help:Starting a new page|created]] before assigning any page to it, in the same way as any other regular page.
-Note that we used 'Categories' as the sort parameter.  Without this the page would be listed under 'H' for 'Help:Categories', instead of under 'C', which is more useful.  Other situations where you might want to use the sort parameter is when you have articles about people that are titled as <code>FirstName LastName</code> but within the category you want them listed as <code>LastName, FirstName</code>.
+Individual wikis may have their own top-level categories, such as [[wikipedia:Category:Contents|Category:Contents]] in Wikipedia.
-Another way to sort the article in the correct letter without the namespace is
+For a complete list of all categories which have at least one page, see [[Special:Categories]].
- <nowiki>[[Category:Help|{{PAGENAME}}]]</nowiki>
+For a complete list of all created/edited categories, including the ones that don't have any page, see [[Special:Allpages/Category:]] (note the colon at the end).
-This is extremly helpful when using templates which include a category tag.
+==Adding a page to a category==
-''Note: the {sort} parameter does '''not''' affect how the page title is displayed within the category listing, just how it is ordered.  In the above example, the link to this page will still be 'Help:Categories', and not 'Categories' as you might expect!''
+ <nowiki>[[</nowiki>{{ns:category}}:'''''Name''''']]
-{{Languages|Help:Categories}}
+Any number of {{ns:category}} tags may be added to the page and the page will be listed in all of them. {{ns:category}} tags are usually added at the very bottom of the page for the convenience of other editors.
 [[Category:Help|Categories]]

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