User talk:CrazyElk

Categories/subcategories
You wrote: I've noticed that you have contributed to many of the Michigan-themed articles, many of which I have likewise connected myself. For these and other reasons you seem to be an appropriate person to whom I might direct my question.

My question concerns the relationship between sub-categories and categories, or more specifically, articles tagged with a sub-category and its relationship to the parent category. If, for example, I tag an article with the sub-category People from Saginaw, Michigan will that article also appear automatically on the page for the parent category People from Michigan or should I also add a category tag for the parent category?

If you could provide me with some guidance in this matter, I would be grateful.

This is a very murky area of categorization, involving several lengthy discussions on various pages including Wikipedia talk:Categorization/Categories and subcategories, Wikipedia talk:Categorization, and Wikipedia talk:Category. Categorization/Categories and subcategories is the most succinct distillation of current practices.

Regarding the specific situation you mention, my personal opinion is that persons should only be in the lower level category (unless they truly have some notability that rises to state-wide significance--though of course there are many cases in which there are no appropriate subcategory, so these would also go into the parent category). Regarding your question, articles in a subcategory, such as Category:People from Saginaw, Michigan do not automatically appear in the parent category. The subcategory appears on the parent category--but, due to a quirk in WikiMedia software, the subcategories are alpha-sorted in the same way as the articles in the parent category. What this means is that categories containing many articles, a subcategory may not show up on the first page of the parent category--a reader needs to scroll to a subsequent page to see the subcategory to be able to drill down into the subcat. older ≠ wiser 16:43, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks! --Ipoellet (talk) 14:45, 20 June 2008 (UTC)


 * Thank you very much for updating the license on this image. I've gone ahead and moved the image over to the Commons. Thanks! Ipoellet (talk) 17:39, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

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