Help:Categories

Creating Categories

For easy navigation around the Stamps of the World site all pages should be categorised. To add a page to a category it is as easy as putting the following [[Category:Category_Name]] on the page.

If you create a new category then that category needs to be added to a category until we reach to the top level.

Eg. You add a set of stamps or page to the Castles category. If the category already exists then you're done. If it does not then to help everyone you would also need to add he Castles page to the Thematics category.

Structure:

• Reference Guide
  • Thematics
    • Castles

If the you just create the Castles category without adding it to the Thematics category the structure will be as follows

Structure:

• Castles
• Reference Guide
  • Thematics

Linking to a category

When linking any text on Stamps of the World the markup is [[Pagename|Link text|]] but with categories if you need to add an additional semi-colon before the word category to prevent the current page from becoming part of that category.

[[:Category:Thematics]]