User talk:Mick E. Talbot

Category:Lincolnshire Wildlife
is not a good idea - by this logic we could flood articles like beetle with thousands of categories for individual localities. They would not help categorizing the beetle article at all. Instead of adding categories, use lists of items with wikilinks to relevant articles. Materialscientist (talk) 05:17, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Please  stop  adding Category:Lincolnshire Wildlife to articles

My initial thought was that you were vandalizing numerous articles, but I note you have only been on Wikipedia for 3 days, and it appears you do not fully understand how categories work.

Firstly - the page Category:Lincolnshire Wildlife

This should not have any pictures, and the text on it will be automatically generated. You should not add anything to this page yourself. You seem to be confusing a category with an article. Although there is an article on Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust there is no article on Lincolnshire Wildlife in general, and I suspect this is what you were trying to do.

I will remove the text and pictures from Category:Lincolnshire Wildlife in a day or so, to allow you time to copy it to your sandbox. Beware, however, that Wikipedia is not lots of things, please see WP:NOT. These include that it is not an indiscriminate collection of information, not a directory, a repository of links, images, or media files. Please do not start a list of every plant and/or animal ever found in Lincolnshire - that will simply be deleted.


 * Categories in general

Please read Categorization

Categories are a hierachical list, a list in order of importance, and Lincolnshire wildlife comes a very long way down that list. Categories such as Category:Orders of insects are not a sub-branch of Lincolnshire wildlife, whilst Category:Palearctic fauna has nothing to do with Lincolnshire wildlife at all. Your article on Lincolnshire wildlife could be a member of a few categories, but not a lot, and certainly not the other way round.

If you need further advice, please contact me - Arjayay (talk) 12:13, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

British Trust for Ornithology
Before adding a category to an article, as you did to British Trust for Ornithology, please make sure that the subject of the article really belongs in the category that you specified according to Wikipedia's categorization guidelines. Categories must also be supported by the article's verifiable content. Categories may be removed if they are deemed incorrect for the subject matter. Thank you.

In addition to inserting the incorrect category, please do not remove the clearly correct category - the very subject of the article