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:Need to be defined. Categories are just articles with a listing of their members below them. Able to be created (and modified) by anyone. The only reason you need to call in an admin is if one needs to be deleted, which is particularly rare for categories. Usually there's considerable thought that goes into a category before it is created and added to a bunch of pages, and the only way to "get rid of it" is to remove the cat reference on ALL members of that category, in addition to deleting the category page itself. *whew* I bet that's more than you cared to know about it... but there you have it. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:41, 23 March 2007 (CDT) | :Need to be defined. Categories are just articles with a listing of their members below them. Able to be created (and modified) by anyone. The only reason you need to call in an admin is if one needs to be deleted, which is particularly rare for categories. Usually there's considerable thought that goes into a category before it is created and added to a bunch of pages, and the only way to "get rid of it" is to remove the cat reference on ALL members of that category, in addition to deleting the category page itself. *whew* I bet that's more than you cared to know about it... but there you have it. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:41, 23 March 2007 (CDT) | ||
I want to know everything I can. :) I do understand generally how Categories work, I just wanted to call someone in to make sure they weren't orphans, unneeded, etc. Thanks! [[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] 14:44, 23 March 2007 (CDT) | I want to know everything I can. :) I do understand generally how Categories work, I just wanted to call someone in to make sure they weren't orphans, unneeded, etc. Thanks! [[User:JubalHarshaw|JubalHarshaw]] 14:44, 23 March 2007 (CDT) | ||
:Ah. Well that is a [[Battlestar Wiki talk:Categories|whole different conversation]]. I'm actually a little bit disillusioned on cats right now, as I'm not sure how many people REALLY use them to navigate, but I just wanted you (and everybody reading) to know that YOU have the power. (Yes, even you, if you'd just create a login and start editing). Actually there's a particular category discussion of note on that page where I proposed applying subcategories of the characters category to the RDM series like the [[:Category:One-Shot Characters (TOS)|one shot characters for TOS]] has. --[[User:Steelviper|Steelviper]] 14:56, 23 March 2007 (CDT) | |||
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Seeing a few redlinked categories on this page: Category:Production Companies, Category:Production Companies (RDM), Category:TV Channels ... just an FYI. Not sure if these are not used, need to be defined, redundant, etc, so I'll let an admin handle it. JubalHarshaw 14:16, 23 March 2007 (CDT)
- Need to be defined. Categories are just articles with a listing of their members below them. Able to be created (and modified) by anyone. The only reason you need to call in an admin is if one needs to be deleted, which is particularly rare for categories. Usually there's considerable thought that goes into a category before it is created and added to a bunch of pages, and the only way to "get rid of it" is to remove the cat reference on ALL members of that category, in addition to deleting the category page itself. *whew* I bet that's more than you cared to know about it... but there you have it. --Steelviper 14:41, 23 March 2007 (CDT)
I want to know everything I can. :) I do understand generally how Categories work, I just wanted to call someone in to make sure they weren't orphans, unneeded, etc. Thanks! JubalHarshaw 14:44, 23 March 2007 (CDT)
- Ah. Well that is a whole different conversation. I'm actually a little bit disillusioned on cats right now, as I'm not sure how many people REALLY use them to navigate, but I just wanted you (and everybody reading) to know that YOU have the power. (Yes, even you, if you'd just create a login and start editing). Actually there's a particular category discussion of note on that page where I proposed applying subcategories of the characters category to the RDM series like the one shot characters for TOS has. --Steelviper 14:56, 23 March 2007 (CDT)