User talk:Virginiagirl52

People by county in Virginia
Hello, and thanks for editing Category:People by county in Virginia. I removed your addition and thought I should explain why.

A Wikipedia category is not a list of things; it is an index to articles about the subject. Also, more general categories like Category:People by county in Virginia can contain subcategories like Category:People from Wythe County, Virginia which refer to a subset of the topic.

The reason Dickenson County isn't currently in the category is because there are no articles in Wikipedia flagged specifically as being about people from Dickenson County. When this happens, the editor who does so should create Category:People from Dickenson County, Virginia and add it to the category. It can't be done now because there's a automatic process to delete empty categories.

If you have any further questions, feel free to ask them on my talk page. Rklear (talk) 18:20, 7 January 2009 (UTC)