Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories

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This project has been set up to help manage the categories of Wikipedia and improve them. The goal is to categorize all articles in a way that is consistent with the guidelines at Wikipedia:Categorization.

Discussions about categorization policy happen at Wikipedia talk:Categorization. That page is also the place for solving specific issues related to category organization.

To delete, merge, or rename categories, see Wikipedia:Categories for discussion.

Please direct all talk to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Categories if you would like to help or comment on the project.

A task force is being organized to deal with categorizing articles that are uncategorized. See /uncategorized.

1 Current projects
2 Current discussions
3 Participants
4 Useful pages

[edit] Current projects

Please list any categorization projects you are planning or are in the process of working on. Include your name and date and describe what you are/will be doing. See also: Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention

User:Circeus: I am currently sorting category:Birds down into orders and families whenever possible. Will move on to plants when done. Have done:
User:Carcharoth: I have largely finished sorting Category:Disasters while trying to avoid getting confused by Category:Natural hazards. It has been a useful exercise to see how these categories work in practice. I would appreciate any feedback either at the talk page for this project or my talk page. Carcharoth 19:00, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
User:Tompw: I have compiled a list of catergories that contain themselevs in some way. I feel this is not good practice, especially when a catergory contains itself explicitly (eg Arctic animals). See my user page for the list (or copy it elsewhere if you think that'd be more useful). Tompw 22:40, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
User:Nagle: I've just finished synchronizing List of hardcore punk bands with Category:Hardcore punk groups, by tagging all listed articles with the category. I plan to make the existing list a redirect to the category. This was an experiment to see how well it would work. The list turned out to be about 60% in sync with the categories. --John Nagle 18:21, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
User:Museumfreak:I'm trying to find articles that should go in Category:Public Health and move them there, and in many cases plan to write or expand them as lots of them are stubs, as well as try to think up a meaningful subcategory system. Please help! Museumfreak 01:35, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
User:epolk:I am currently sorting through Category:Government of the United States and recating items that have been miscategorized. I am also doing alpha sorting on the many items that end up under U for United States. Epolk 22:41, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
User:SamuelWantman, After discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categorization, I am creating categories for language related occupations such as writers, singers, film directors, etc... See the subcategories of Category:Occupations by language 08:05, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
User:TonyTheTiger, I have spent the better part of the week overhauling Category:Families according to the layout seen on the right side of User:TonyTheTiger#Categories Created. In particular, I have created Category:Families by profession, Category:Families by religion, & Category:Families by ancestry to supplement the already existant Category:Families by nationality. TonyTheTiger 17:04, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
User:Strangerer: I am working on Category:Images by subject, which has been listed as in need of attention since 4 December 2006! It seems many images are categorized haphazardly or not categorized at all, creating a huge problem for Special:Uncategorized images. I became interested in this category after attempting to spot images not tagged with copyright indications, but it is so overpopulated that it's not useful for this purpose. Many images are categorized haphazardly, or there is a "Category:Images of whatever" listed in "Category:Whatever" but not in an images parent category. I'd like it to be easier to both spot potential copyright problems and make it easier to find images that may already exist on Wikipedia by starting with Category:Images by subject. --Strangerer (Talk | Contribs) 11:42, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Current discussions

Please list any pages where discussions about categorization are taking place. Please date the entry and add your name.

Category titles
I've started a discussion about some reforms for the Categories for Discussion page (WP:CFD). Please take a look here. Thanks. -- Samuel Wantman 10:34, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
I've tried to start discussions about categorization in Category talk:People and Category talk:Lists. --JeffW 19:01, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
I propose another sub-cat for Cat:Films based on books by author : Cat:Films based on Agatha Christie books, as it seem nearly all her works have been adapted, some more than once. Please feel free to comment over at Category talk:Films based on books by author. Her Pegship 23:16, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
Discussion at Category talk:Activists on categorizing activists and more generally people involved in movements. Historical discussion started at Category talk:Animal rights movement (which consolidated activists and other movement-related topics into one category) ... moved to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Animal rights#Animal rights subcats and #Adding my 2cents ... then moved to Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 January 5#Category:Animal rights activists. --lquilter 00:19, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
Discussion and vote on using the term Human settlements, Human communities or Human settlements and communities at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (settlements)#Settlements SilkTork 15:22, 25 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Participants

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Greg Robson 21:31, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC) Project founder
Urthogie 03:31, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Pioneer-12 22:58, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Circeus 03:08, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC) Mostly as a constant and unrelented categorist. I'll be glad to help assisting regularizing categorization.
smoddy 30 June 2005 20:50 (UTC) I plan to tackle cricket's abomination, but would be happy to go further afield. smoddy 30 June 2005 20:50 (UTC)
Quinobi 30 June 2005 20:58 (UTC) |top down, ad hoc bottom up any way that works!
R adiant _>|< July 7, 2005 13:46 (UTC)
∞Who ?¿? 08:32, 15 July 2005 (UTC) Overall categorization schemas. I started with all image, X-Men and comics categories. Now for the rest of the tangled web. :)
interested and annoyed party who finds tooooo many uncategorized articles wherever he looks Courtland 01:57, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
Maurreen (talk) 15:40, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
Splash 21:52, 5 August 2005 (UTC) I meant to sign here ages ago.
Barista | a/k/a マイケル | T/C 08:37, 14 August 2005 (UTC) - Did you know Wikipedia has over 68,000 categories. I hope to pare down some of the redundant and/or underpopulated catgories.
Noakesey 12:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC) Beginner who's obsessed with organising other people's information!
siafu 04:03, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
Courtland 12:17, 5 September 2005 (UTC) — addition of categories to uncategorized articles
Carcharoth 22:18, 8 September 2005 (UTC) Currently working on Category:Disasters which was a disaster but is looking better now. Still learning, but would appreciate any comments.
Steve block talk 19:21, 10 September 2005 (UTC) Probably in helping to standardise, although any other areas I could be useful, let me know.
Mushroom 17:22, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Ze miguel 10:24, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
Paul 02:14, 10 December 2005 (UTC) Classifying information is my drug.
Quaque 00:18, 25 December 2005 (UTC) There are a large amount of uncategorized articles out there. I hope to help reduce these.
Jake 04:57, 27 December 2005 (UTC) I started with Category:Computing, and just kept following links... working on Category:American people and Category:Ancient Romans now... try to get as much as possible across the board subsorted
Suryoyo 00:16, 30 December 2005 (UTC) - Im more interested on history of middleeast.
Tetraminoe 11:23, 30 December 2005 (UTC) -- Cleaning up Florida-related categories is a focus of WikiProject Florida. I play with categories a lot besides that. And I keep a list of categories I've created. So I really like categories.
__earth 16:08, 2 January 2006 (UTC) - Taking up everything that falls under Category:Southeast Asia. Wish me luck because it's huge!
Semiconscious 11 January 2006 - Putting empty categories up for deletion, standardizing category names and descriptions, etc.
Peter McGinley 12:02, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Crystallina 06:25, 29 January 2006 (UTC) - Mainly been doing music-related articles, although I'd be glad to branch out.
Can't sleep, clown will eat me 11:28, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Waggers 16:21, 14 February 2006 (UTC) - I've been adding categories to uncategorized articles for a little while; I'll continue to do this, but I'm also interested in cleanup
bmills 16:51, 14 February 2006 (UTC) — Fixing Category:Computer science and related categories (crossover with WP:COMPSCI).
Kbdank71 18:58, 14 February 2006 (UTC) Mainly working cleanup on WP:CFD.
Waitak 14:17, 17 February 2006 (UTC) Category:Underutilized crops and related.
Samuel Wantman 07:58, 9 March 2006 (UTC). Mainly work on categorization and classification policy.
Adding cats to articles without cats Wh e re ^(talk) 01:36, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
--WilliamThweatt 21:18, 23 March 2006 (UTC)Been working on organizing the Languages categories. Starting to sort, tag and organize AustroAsiatic Languages.
--Paleorthid 15:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC) Soil science categories. Developing schema is posted on soil science category talk page.
—Viriditas | Talk 06:45, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
ProveIt ^(talk) 21:08, 14 April 2006 (UTC) I've been working on the Uncategorized Categories list.
--Vir 02:09, 30 April 2006 (UTC) I'm interested in general categorization schemes.
Museumfreak 15:49, 16 May 2006 (UTC) Thought I'd add myself because I add cats to articles without cats and am doing cleanup and reworking of Category:Public Health
JennyRad 15:52, 1 June 2006. Have been categorising cheeses and books and am looking at other categories to assist on.
Epolk 17:51, 2 June 2006 (UTC) - I will categorize anything but I regularly patrol the Category:Government of the United States
Recury 17:28, 7 June 2006 (UTC) Mostly Category:Auto racing right now, but will probably work on some of the other automobile-related and sports-related categories later where needed.
Robert Moore 14:28 15 June 2006 (UTC) I usually work on articles or categories involving Dance music, bus transit systems, radio stations, TV show and TV stations.
Brz7 | Brz7 20:54, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
Zorbl e k (talk) 10:44, 25 June 2006 (UTC) I do miscellaneous categorizing, but I'm especially interested in making sure that categories are linked logically.
GilliamJF 07:49, 16 August 2006 (UTC) Actively working with categories on this Wikipedias in other languages.
SynergeticMaggot 19:19, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
utcursch | talk
User:DGG I'm trying to get various library and publishing topics into places that make sense.
Jdclevenger 22:13, 30 September 2006 (UTC) General work, pretty random really. A strong interest in food articles.
Daniel. 08:06, 19 October 2006 (UTC) General work, with strong interest in Anime, Manga and Comics.
Nehrams2020 22:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC) - I'm always adding categories to films and will continue to do so.
Hemlock Martinis 07:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC) - I'll be going through Category:Categories requiring diffusion and diffusing the articles in those categories. Current projects include Category:European Union and Category:Lists of office-holders.
Fishal 15:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC): I guess I like categorizing things.
TonyTheTiger I have just overhauled Category:Families. TonyTheTiger 17:07, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
SMcCandlish [talk] [contrib] ツ 03:24, 23 November 2006 (UTC) — Working heavily on fixing up the categorization of pool/billiards/snooker articles.
—EdGl 01:59, 29 November 2006 (UTC) I categorize articles without a category.
Delta Tango • Talk 13:03, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Always liked categorization, and will always continue categorizing.
MChew 15:26, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Working on biographical categorization at present, but will always add as many categories as I feel suitable to non or under categorized articles
Obina 10:15, 4 January 2007 (UTC) I am currently adding categories to articles - Very interesting as it often leads me to improving or sometimes proposing deletion.
lquilter 23:07, 6 January 2007 (UTC) - Librarian; interested in categorization generally. Mostly working within people, legal topic, awards, fiction, and fictional works categories.
Sue H. Ping 14:47, 7 January 2007 (UTC) Interested in helping clean out the backlog of articles that don't have categories
Melanochromis 15:34, 16 January 2007 (UTC) Interested in cleaning up and maintaining fish and fishkeeping categories. Will also help with other subjects as needed.
Lesnail 16:23, 20 January 2007 (UTC) Enjoys categorizing things.
El on ka 22:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC) - Identification of uncategorized articles, and tagging them accordingly
Stardust8212 02:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC) Working the uncategorized task force, specifically uncategorized people
Richiar - categories and portals and their relationship with articles have been very confusing for me, so if I learn about them, I can help. Areas-design and organization of categories and their relationships to each other, articles and portals
Flubeca 16:31, 19 February 2007 (UTC) - Since I was already helping with this. I thought "Why not add my name to the list?"
SilkTork 13:23, 24 February 2007 (UTC) - I love it.
WillyFourEyes 17:43, 9 March 2007 (UTC) I like categorization. I'm going to try and add categories to articles relating to video games and cartoons, my areas of "expertise".
Lenoxus 16:30, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Bencherlite 02:42, 26 March 2007 (UTC) correct categorization of musicians, dealing with overcategorization of people