User talk:Colinhallsbt2

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Hello, Colinhallsbt2, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:


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Categories
Hello. Regarding some recent contributions of yours, it seems you have some misconceptions about how categorization works. I noticed you attempted to add an item (a category page you created for a person without a WP article) directly to a category which would be the parent. This caused what is known as a parent/child or parent/subcat relation miscategorization. In other words, you did it the wrong way around.

In Wikipedia, we do not add articles to a category by editing the category page, we add them by editing the individual articles' pages and linking the category from there. Please see FAQ/Categorization For newer editors, it's understandably a counter-intuitive system.

Category pages are not intended to be exhaustive lists. In fact, they are not really lists at all, in the sense they only display subjects with Wikipedia pages. They are navigation aids; merely groupings of related, existing English Wikipedia pages. For further detailed information, please see Help:Category and Categorization.

Also, the category you created Category:Gil Prescott should be deleted as we don't even have an article for that person. I have tagged it WP:C1 for now.

Let me know if you need any assistance or have any questions. Cheers! -- DB 1729 talk 16:27, 18 October 2022 (UTC)