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San Francisco television anchors
Hi there! Thank you for your work creating and populating Category:San Francisco television Anchors.

There are just two style issues I'd like to point out: I've addressed both of them already, but just for your greater knowledge, the next time you create a category:


 * Except for the first word in a category or article title, or a proper noun, each word should be lowercased according to Wikipedia style. So I'm going to request a speedy move to Category:San Francisco television anchors, lowercasing "anchors."
 * When you add an article to a category, you should make sure that either the category exists already - or, if it's a category someone could reasonably expect to find, but hasn't yet been created, you should at the very least nest it inside of one other category within Wikipedia's existing category tree. (That category would become the new category's parent, and your new category its child; a child can have an unlimited number of parents as long as its content applies.) You do this by editing the category's page itself, and just adding the parent category or categories there. Otherwise, the category is an "orphan" category, disconnected from the grander scheme of organizing all the articles in Wikipedia by content. Also, if it isn't nested and there's nothing describing the category on its category page, the category appears as a redlink, and no category should. So I'm adding it to Category:Broadcast news analysts (the traditional Wikipedia category for news anchors), and Category:San Franciscans. (Are there any of them who may not have have lived or worked in San Francisco proper? Just maybe, then, it should go in Category:People from the San Francisco Bay Area instead - thoughts?)

Lots more about categories on Category and related pages, and Manual of Style can be a great general resource.

Again, thanks for your work on this! Cheers. :) Samaritan 00:11, 30 March 2006 (UTC)