Starters Wiki:Category policy

What are categories?
Categories are groups of articles on related topics. At the bottom of an article, you will see a box containing the categories to which that article has been assigned. Simply click any of these categories to go to the corresponding category page. From there you can browse other articles on the same topic, or navigate through the category tree to find other related categories

How are categories organized?
Most categories have a number of other categories listed as subcategories. These are listed in a special section of the category page, which appears above the list of articles belonging to the category. Click on these subcategories to navigate through the category tree to find more specific groups of articles.

Similarly, you may want to navigate in the other direction, to find more general groups of articles ("parent categories"). These are listed in the box at the bottom of a category page, just like on an article page.

To go directly to the top of the category structure, see Category:Browse. To browse all categories alphabetically, go to Special:Categories.

Articles
To add a category to an article, click on the option to "Add category" at the bottom of an article page. Existing categories will be suggested or you may create a new category. Articles may be characterized based on such criteria as:


 * subject matter or topic, e.g. Weapons
 * which media they appear in, e.g. Starters
 * past or present affiliation with a particular group or geographic location

Place some thought into categorizing new articles or recategorizing existing ones. The system works best when the most specific subcategories possible are used. Do not place an article into both a child and parent category as this goes against the intent of the category system and is completely redundant and unnecessary. If you see that an article is not located in a specific category, get an idea of how the existing categories it is part of are organized first before adding the category you have in mind to the article, as it may already be covered by a subcategory or two that the article is part of.

Major characters that have more comprehensive articles may have a category devoted to them. Subpages of the articles are placed into these character categories, which are are themselves added into the appropriate categories.

Images
Categorize images depending on the source of the image. The category coding can be placed into the body of the file description during the upload process or it can be added later after the image has been uploaded. All uploaded images can be found at Images.