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Wikipedia:Categorization
Introduction to categorization.
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (categories)
Discusses naming conventions for categories.
Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates
Discusses the three different ways to group and organize articles.
WikiProject Categories-related pages
/uncategorized
Taskforce page for categorizing and patrolling for uncategorized articles.
Category:Wikipedia categorization
Category page listing our project pages.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/Current subprojects
WikiProject Categories subprojects.
Category:WikiProjects
Category page containing list of WikiProjects and helpful resources.
Category:Category needed
Category containing articles that need categorization.
Category:Uncategorized pages
Category containing pages that need categorization.
Special:UncategorizedPages
Special page for uncategorized pages.
Uncategorized Categories
Special page for uncategorized categories.
Advanced resources
Wikimedia stats:Category Overview Index
Dumps of the category tree.
Wikipedia:Database_reports#Categories
Page containing generated reports about categories.
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion
Where deletion, merging, and renaming of categories is discussed.
Miscellaneous
Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting
Similar WikiProject for stubs.
Portal:Contents
Browse Wikipedia's contents.
Portal:Contents/Overviews
Browse Wikipedia's contents overviews.
Wikipedia:Categories are different from articles
Wikipedia:Categories vs lists
Wikipedia:Categorising fiction
Wikipedia:Do not write articles using categories
Wikipedia:Overcategorization/Intersection of location and occupation
User:Alan Liefting/Essays/On categorisation
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Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates
Wikipedia:Lists
Wikipedia:Lists (stand-alone lists)
Wikipedia:Embedded list
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works)
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (long lists)
Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies)
Wikipedia:Pro and con lists
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. External links section has free HTML-to-wiki converters.
User:Hyacinth/How to use tables
Wikipedia:When to use tables
Help:Sorting
. All about automatic sorting of table rows.
Rejected proposals
Wikipedia:Overlistification
Wikipedia:Proposed guideline for lists of people by ethnicity, religion, and other cultural categorizations
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Wikipedia:Lists in Wikipedia
Wikipedia:Listcruft
Wikipedia:Write the Article First
- one solution to cruft-y red links in lists
Creating A Better List
- A User Essay
Wikipedia:Lists within articles
Stubs
List of stub types
How to name stubs
Guide to stubbing
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List of infoboxes
List of templates used in infoboxes
Templates
List of templates
List of navigational templates
List of citation templates
Wikiprojects & article series
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List of article series
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List of "magic words"
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Most ideas are bad
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Wikipedia in brief
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The world will not end tomorrow
Write the article first
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Adjectives in your recommendations
AfD is not a war zone
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Essays on notability
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Existence ≠ Notability
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Make stubs
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No big loss
No one cares about your garage band
No one really cares
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Notability cannot be purchased
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Notability is not a matter of opinion
Notability is not relevance or reliability
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Obscurity ≠ Lack of notability
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Other stuff exists
Pokémon test
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Solutions are mixtures and nothing else
Subjective importance
What notability is not
Wikipedia is not here to tell the world about your noble cause
General notability guideline
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