Wikipedia:WikiProject Orders, decorations, and medals/Category Policies

Category:Orders, decorations, and medals - the main category
The main category for this topic is Category:Orders, decorations, and medals. This category encompasses all orders, decorations, and medals that are issued or awarded as part of national honours systems. However, in most cases, articles about medals or decorations should not be placed directly in this category. Within Orders, decorations, and medals there are national sub-categories. If you have an article about a particular order, decoration, or medal then look for the nation's sub-category and place it there. Only articles of pan-national importance or those relating to the topic itself should be placed directly into the Orders and decorations category.

If you cannot find an appropriate national sub-category then feel free to start one yourself. New national categories should be named according to this pattern: Orders, decorations, and medals of XXX (where XXX is the conventional short form of the country concerned). This new category should be sub-categorised under both Category:Orders, decorations, and medals and Category:XXX (where XXX is once more the name of the country concerned).

The national sub-categories
Each national sub-category takes the form Orders, decorations, and medals of XXX. All nations which have attributable orders, decorations, and medals should have them placed within their individual sub-category.

In cases where there are few articles on a country's medals, it is appropriate to categorise articles directly into this national sub-category. However, once coverage expands, the following scheme of internal categorisation ought to be used:

Category:Orders, decorations, and medals
 * ___ Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of XXX (non-federal country)
 * . . |___ Category:Orders of XXX - any suggestions for the name?
 * . . |___ Category:Civil awards and decorations of XXX
 * . . | . . |___ Category:Police long-service awards of XXX - example of type of awards
 * . . | . . |___ ...etc...
 * . . |___ Category:Military awards and decorations of XXX
 * . . . . . |___ Category:XXX campaign medals
 * . . . . . |___ Category:Long-service awards of the XXX armed forces
 * . . . . . |___ ...etc...
 * ___ Category:Orders, decorations, and medals of ZZZ (federal country)
 * . . . |___ Category:Federal orders of ZZZ - 'Federal' or appropriate national term
 * . . . |___ Category:Federal civil awards and decorations of ZZZ
 * . . . | . . |___ ...etc, as per non-federal...
 * . . . |___ Category:Federal military awards and decorations of ZZZ
 * . . . | . . |___ ...etc, as per non-federal...
 * . . . |___ Category:Provincial orders of ZZZ - Provincial/State/etc - adopt usage of country concerned. ZZZ = country
 * . . . | . . |___ ...articles on orders from each province/state...
 * . . . | . . |___ ...or, if provincial/state orders are more extensive, categorise:...
 * . . . | . . |___ Category:Provincial orders of YYY - YYY = province/state
 * . . . |___ Category:Provincial civil awards and decorations of ZZZ
 * . . . | . . |___ ...articles on awards from each province/state...
 * . . . | . . |___ ...or, if provincial/state awards are more extensive, categorise:...
 * . . . | . . |___ Category:Provincial civil awards and decorations of YYY - YYY = province/state
 * . . . |___ Category:Provincial military awards and decorations of ZZZ - 'state' awards are to members of 'federal' armed forces
 * . . . . . . |___ ...articles on awards from each province/state...
 * . . . . . . |___ ...or, if provincial/state awards are more extensive, categorise:...
 * . . . . . . |___ Category:Provincial military decorations and awards of YYY - ie those of each state/province
 * . . . | . . |___ ...articles on orders from each province/state...
 * . . . | . . |___ ...or, if provincial/state orders are more extensive, categorise:...
 * . . . | . . |___ Category:Provincial orders of YYY - YYY = province/state
 * . . . |___ Category:Provincial civil awards and decorations of ZZZ
 * . . . | . . |___ ...articles on awards from each province/state...
 * . . . | . . |___ ...or, if provincial/state awards are more extensive, categorise:...
 * . . . | . . |___ Category:Provincial civil awards and decorations of YYY - YYY = province/state
 * . . . |___ Category:Provincial military awards and decorations of ZZZ - 'state' awards are to members of 'federal' armed forces
 * . . . . . . |___ ...articles on awards from each province/state...
 * . . . . . . |___ ...or, if provincial/state awards are more extensive, categorise:...
 * . . . . . . |___ Category:Provincial military decorations and awards of YYY - ie those of each state/province
 * . . . . . . |___ ...or, if provincial/state awards are more extensive, categorise:...
 * . . . . . . |___ Category:Provincial military decorations and awards of YYY - ie those of each state/province

Each of these categories can be omitted as appropriate, ie US has no federal or state orders, therefore no need to include category, etc. Likewise, in a federal system, some of the 'provincial' categories can be omitted if they do not apply - ie. Canada has no provincial military awards, they all come from the federal government.

WP:ODM Internal Categories
This Project also has certain categories dedicated for its internal use. The main category is Category:WikiProject Orders, decorations, and medals. This is the main repository for pages, images, templates, and sub-categories connected with the WikiProject. It is not intended for articles - only for Project pages. If you create an orders or medals-related template, or a Project-wide image, etc, then feel free to categorise it here.

Within Category:WikiProject Orders, decorations, and medals there are three notable sub-categories:


 * Category:Order, decoration, and medal stubs
 * All articles which have been tagged with the Project stub, orders-medals-stub, are listed here.


 * Category:WikiProject Orders, decorations, and medals participants
 * An automatically generated list of all editors who have placed the Project userbox, User WP ODM, on their user page. If you wish to register yourself in this category, without using the userbox, then feel free to include yourself directly under this category.


 * Category:WikiProject Orders, decorations, and medals articles
 * An automatically generated list of all articles which have been tagged with the Project banner, WPODMBanner.


 * Category:WikiProject Orders, decorations, and medals templates
 * All templates related to the WikiProject—whether intended for internal Project use or for addition to articles—are to be placed here.