Familypedia:Categories

This page contains ideas and principles for creating and linking categories. Ideas for changing it are best added to the discussion page until we have a reasonable consensus among active contributors, because changing category linkages can have wide repercussions that may reduce the wiki's usefulness in unforeseen ways.

At the time of writing, our top-level category had the following "child" (ie 2nd-level) subcategories:


 * Category:Given Names - listings and meanings and other information


 * Category:Help (which has its own whole separate namespace starting at Help:Contents)


 * Category:Lists of People by Surname - currently contains 31 categories, starting with "Adams Surname", but there will be thousands more, and we will organise systems for easy access by initial letter


 * Category:Lists of Unlinked Individuals - people who have no relatives elsewhere in the wiki at present; groupings can be geographical to help with possible matching


 * Category:Surnames - a couple of subcategories and a few articles, not yet differentiated; we may use this differently in future; most lists or categories should be in one of the two listed above


 * Category:Templates - (not in the technical sense: just useful models for simplifying the process of creating and linking pages)