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How to create a category

Let us say you have thought of a new category you want to place some articles in. To create this new category, go to one of the pages that you wish to put there, and add a category tag naming the new category to the end of the article, like this:

[[Category:Category name]]

...where in place of category name you type the actual name of the category. When you save the page, the category should appear on the bottom line of the page. If it is indeed a new category, it will turn up in red. But this does not mean there is no such category: it might exist but with a slight difference in naming. Before you create a new category, make sure it does not already exist. In a new browser window, click on Special pages in the toolbox menu on the left side of your screen. Then click on All pages. Pick Category from the Namespace dropdown menu, and then enter the name of the category. Look over the index for synonymous categories.

Once you are sure your new name is good to go: Click on the redlink, and then click on the article creation link provided in the instructions that appear on your screen.

You will need to put a parent category on the new page, and then save the page. Going forward you can put your newly named category at the bottom of pages that you wish to add your new category to. Categories with too few pages in them are usually nominated for deletion.

To add this auto-updating template to your user page, use
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A barnstar for you!

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The Resilient Barnstar
Thanks for your well referenced updates. You do a great job here! Anir1uph | talk | contrib 05:16, 2 August 2012 (UTC)


A Barnstar For You

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The Resilient Barnstar
You're doing wonderfully. My deepest respect to you for your resilience. You have become a productive editor, and a real asset to the project. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:14, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
This editor is a
Journeyman Editor
and is entitled to display this Service Badge.

and you deserve this:

The Working Wikipedian's Barnstar
For making 8,428 edits, 99.09% of which were to the mainspace. Very, very few editors can claim such a high percentage. You are a most valued editor. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 11:24, 25 November 2012 (UTC)

John Mooney's Page

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Hi,

I read an article in the Economist recently that had a bit in about John Mooney, and when I looked at his page on Wikipedia I noticed that you had made a lot of edits to the page, so as someone who has an interest in him, I thought I;d ask your advice before updating his page. Basically, given his statements on his past troubles with mental health, I was wondering whether it was worth mentioning. My perspective is that I think that to have been so open is a very courageous thing, and I think he deserves credit for doing so, especially in the light of cricket's long-standing problems in that area. But I'm concerned that in mentioning it in some depth on his page, might seem like oblique criticism, which is the opposite of what I intend.

I'm happy to do the work, but I was just looking for someone else's perspective. Have you any thoughts?

Fulleraaron (talk)