Overview categories

This page attempts to give an overview of all the categories used in this wiki and to delineate / explain their respective relations. If you're adding pages or images to the wiki, you're asked to assign them a category, and it would be really nice if you take this overview into account :)

There's also a page that lists all the categories used in this wiki. You can find that page here: list of all categories. If you want to check how a specific category is used, you can consult the category tree. When you enter a category in the search field on that page, you'll see all its parents and all its children.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask! Suggestions for improvement are most welcome, too :-)

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Why use them at all?
Categories are used to group pages with similar content, thereby making it easier to connect the information gathered in the wiki. For instance: at the bottom of the page Winterfell, you'll see a link that says Category: Castles. If you click on that, you'll get a list of all the castles in the wiki. At the bottom of that page, there's yet another category link: the Castles turn out to be part of a bigger group, the Category: Geography. If you click on that, you'll see that Geography is subdivided into many categories, such as cities and Category: Islands. Neat, huh?

That's why each page and each image should be labelled with at least one subcategory or one overall category.

How do I do it?
Don't worry, much of the work is done for you! Many of the templates used in the wiki automatically tag a page with the appropriate category. For instance: when used, the cast template automatically adds Category: Actor to a page, and any new actor page automatically becomes part of its overall Category: Crew. The only thing left for you to do, is to manually add a fitting subcategory, e.g. is this actor's Status: Active, [:Category:Status: Not hired|Status: Not hired]], or [:Category:Status: Role ended|Status: Role ended]]?

As a rule of thumb, you only need to add the lowest subcategory to a new page and the rest of the category tree gets added by itself.

To label a page or image, you go to the bottom of the page and click on the box Add category. Start typing, and the available categories will pop up. Select one of them, hit 'enter'; then select 'Save'. Done!

Subcategories should be labelled with at least one overall category. Basically, this means that you're grouping categories within an overall category. For instance: images are subdivided into images of actors, images of characters etc.; all these subcategories are part of the overall category 'Image Galleries'.
 * To make a category part of an overall category: go to the subcategory page - for instance: Image (Location) - and click on 'Add category'. Then select the appropriate overall group, hit 'enter' and say 'Save'.

There are three groups of categories:
 * Production categories (actors, crew, promotional videos etc);
 * Series categories (characters, geography, culture, history etc);
 * Wiki categories (site maintenance, help, stub articles etc).

Overwiew
+-- Status: Active +-- Actor ---| +-- Crew ---|                       +-- Status: Not hired |              +-- Director             | |              |                        +-- Status: Role ended Production --+              +-- Production staff |              |             |               +-- Writer |            |             |               +-- Video +-- Publicity --| |              +-- Image (Promotional) |            |             |               +-- Season 1 +-- Episodes +-- Seasons | +-- Season 2 +-- Episodes |                               +-- Season X +-- Episodes

Characters

 * The overall category here is Characters.
 * Each character gets an extra category, to show its status: Alive, Unsure, or Dead.
 * The category Characters itself is a subcategory of the overall category Game of Thrones (TV Series).

Geography

 * The overall category here is Geography.
 * Every Geography page should also be placed into one subcategory. If no subcategory really fits, please use Locations.

Image Galleries

 * Please note: do not use the category 'Image' for a page or image; it is an overall category. Be more specific!