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Category:Wikipedia categories in need of attention

This page is for suggesting categories that need work. This might be when:

  • There are too many articles in a given category, so subcategories need to be created and articles sorted among them.
  • An existing categorization scheme has become problematic, messy, or hard to navigate, and needs to be refactored.
  • Articles are classified according to Scheme A, but need to be cross-referenced by Scheme B. (For example, "by date" vs. "by type" subcategory schemes.)
  • Links or titles are malformed

To add a category here, visit it, click the "edit" tab, and add the tag {{cleancat}} to the category, which will display the following text:

This category is in need of attention.
Improve it in any way you see fit. When the issues regarding this category have been resolved, remove this notice and the listing, but please do not remove this notice until the categorization has been fixed.

Add your comments about why it needs cleanup to its talk page.

Some more categories needing cleanup are also listed below.

Table of contents

Related pages

  • For more information on categories, see Wikipedia:Categorization.
  • To start browsing categories, see Category:Categories.
  • Wikipedia:Categorization policy is a bold proposal to make WP categorization more consistent and stable.

Organizational problems

  • Category talk:Religion – The suggestions here just need implementing. — Beland 22:49, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Category:Television – There are too many articles in the top level. — Beland 22:49, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
  • Here the Ohio category already also includes such things as state nature reserves that are part of the state park system, so the category name is either to broad or too narrow. If state forests are not part of the state park system (as they are not, for example in Oregon), then they should probably have a separate category for themselves. — Decumanus 19:33, 2004 Nov 1 (UTC)
  • Category:Chemistry – Lots of individual articles that need to be categorized. They are taking up too many links (there seems to be a maximum of 200 per page) so you can't see all the subcategories. linas 09:30, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
    • You can see the subcats, you just need to look at the next 200 articles to start to see the rest. I don't like this arrangement either, but it seems like a programming issue more than a categorization issue.  — Mwanner 13:11, May 14, 2005 (UTC)
  • Category:Telecommunications – far too many articles on the top level, the subcategories are not particularly well organised either. --the wub (talk) 11:19, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Malformed titles and links

Sometimes articles link to non-existent or malformed categories. If this can be taken care of just by fixing links in the articles (the link displays red) then the categories below can just be fixed and de-listed. If it requires actually deleting a category (the link shows blue) then it needs to be fixed and then listed on WP:CFD.

  • It would be nice if Categories showed in Previews, so that one could fix malformed categories without committing to the edit (doing a Save Page) first. — Mwanner 21:13, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

Extra spaces in link pages

These just need to be fixed on the article page. MediaWiki masks these errors so readers don't notice them.

(all fixed for now)

Character problems

These can't be fixed until non-ASCII characters can appear in category names.

Links from private space

Detected 9 Feb 2005

Tagged categories

If subcategories do not appear below, please use this link.


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