Category talk:Psychology

Categorization of Psychology articles and subcategories
The following guidelines are proposed for categorizing psychology articles and subcategories. They are rules of thumb that should be taken with a grain of salt. Please add to and modify them as you see fit. Rfrisbietalk 20:27, 14 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Articles should not usually be in both a category and its subcategory. For example, an article about "Love" generally should not be placed in both "Psychology" and "Emotion" or one of its subcategories.  The preferred choice is to use the more descriptive subcategory.  (General guidelines)
 * THE TOPIC ARTICLE RULE — When an article is the topic article for a category. Articles should be placed in the category with the same name. However, the article and the category do not have to be categorized the same way. The article belongs in categories populated with similar articles. The category should be put into categories populated with similar subcategories. For an example of this see George W. Bush and Category:George W. Bush. When an article and the subcategory with the same name end up in the same category, the double listing sends the message to the user that there is an article about the topic, and there are also more articles to be found in the subcategory of the same name. It makes it easier to find main topic articles (by eliminating having to go to the subcategory). It also creates a complete listing of articles at the higher level category. It points readers of the topic article to the category and vice versa. (Reasons for duplication)
 * Include subtopic articles for Branches and major Schools of psychology on the main category page. Adding articles like Psychometrics and Psychoanalysis to the main category page, while keeping them in their subcategories helps keep the overall category structure concise, while important articles still are easy to find. Rfrisbietalk 20:43, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup
Hi, I started to organize the subcategories and articles in this category. I did some, but we still need alot of work, I guess especially in the articles. Karol 21:13, 9 October 2005 (UTC)


 * Well, it is more than necessary... I'm afraid this category, which contains quite good articles, has to be worked a lot. Would a project help ? pyl 17:54, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Hum, i gathered several psychoanalyttcal categories. It will be easier to organize psychoanalysis cateogries.. I choosed "psychological schools" but "branches of" is also available. pyl 13:04, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

How to Clean! Befor Cleaning...
Does every article has to be categorised both under the general psychology category and it's sub-categories? Now if you will look for an article about Memory it looks like there isn't one! I also think that the sub-category of Branches of psychology is not needed. We shouldwve put all other sub-categories beneath it....  I'll be glad to help cleaning up this category, but think that we need to decied how to do before wasting alot of time... F16 21:24, 26 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Sure, no doubt. A real brainstorming is needed and a simple talk page won't make it.. Why not to create a psychology wiki project ? I do not participate much on this wiki but i'm volunteer. pyl 21:17, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject
There is a WikiProject Psychology now, as pyl suggested above, you're all welcome to join! I started a discussion on this category and subcategories here, come to think of it I wonder why I didn't discuss it right here instead... /skagedal... 22:12, 9 March 2006 (UTC)


 * We had a similar situation with Category:Education. A summary of what we did is here:  Categorization of Education articles and subcategories. Rfrisbietalk 15:20, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

The Psychology Wiki
Hey everyone, we are working hard on the Psychology Wiki and are trying to raise awareness about it by indiscriminately spamming telling as many interested people about it as we can. We have an enormous amount of articles already, mainly copied from Wikipedia at the moment:( but the eventual aim is that it will be edited by professional and student contributors, as well as including personal experiences of users of psychology services. As such it will eventaully be a very different beast to the kind of content that Wikipedia has. Have a look at my nicely new designed Main Page, or leave a message on the talk page or on my Psychology Wiki talk page.  Hope to hear from you :) Mostly Zen 02:09, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Resources for creating and organizing categories
Many established resources for creating and organizing psychology categories exist. The following list is a start. Please add links to additional resources by country when available. Rfrisbietalk 19:29, 12 March 2006 (UTC) Added category tree. Rfrisbietalk 19:34, 12 March 2006 (UTC) Added NIAAA Thesaurus details. Rfrisbietalk 04:36, 13 March 2006 (UTC) Added DSM and ISCDRHP codes. Rfrisbietalk 14:30, 16 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Wikitools
 * Psychology category tree
 * Psychology search:
 * United States
 * American Psychological Association Topics
 * Education Resources Information Center (ERIC): Thesaurus (Search on "Psychology", etc.)
 * National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Thesaurus Scope Note: Psychology studies mental processes, such as perception, cognition, memory, and emotions, as well as individual behavior.
 * Detailed outline (least detail)
 * Quick hierarchy (more detail)
 * Annotated hierarchy (most detail)
 * Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
 * DSM-IV Codes
 * DSM-IV Codes (alphabetical)
 * International
 * International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems

Category notepad
I started a category notepad for trying out possible psychology category arrangements. Red links show possible new categories or "missing" title articles for categories by the same name. Rfrisbietalk 03:57, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Remove and merge Branches of psychology subcategory
The psychology category is quite sparse at present (19 subcategories). As alphabetized lists, with up to 200 entries on a page, categories can easily grow above 80 subcategories and remain navigable. Because the Branches of psychology subcategory is also sparse, I propose that it be deleted and its contents merged into the more general category. The advantage is that users can navigate to content more quickly (one less click). Nesbit 18:24, 19 March 2006 (UTC)


 * In general, it sounds fine to me, but... The Branches topical articles already are listed under the main category, so navigation to those articles wouldn't change.  That also would put the sub-subcategories, e.g., applied psychology and psychological schools, at the top level.  By the same logic, would you break out those "placeholder" categories as well?  If we do, some less significant articles start showing up on the main page and we likely go over the 200 page-break limit.  At that point, the importance of the main category becomes too diluted and unwieldy, IMHO.  For now, I'd rather have some discussions about how, "Branches" and "Schools" fit together so that their relationships are shown, "major" articles and subcategories make it to the main category page, and "minor" articles and subcategories, don't push the main category over 200 items. Rfrisbietalk 18:45, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Mass removal and Policies
just removed a lot of articles from Category:Psychology that seem to me to be a good fit. Are there psychology-specific categorization guidelines I should read to justify these changes? Sondra.kinsey (talk) 16:18, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

I remove Category:Behavioural sciences and Category:Human behavior and category:neuroscience
-for prevent loops -and for neuroscience : psychology and neuroscience are two separate sphere Zipodu (talk) 16:10, 26 July 2020 (UTC)