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For more information, see Wikipedia:Categorization § Categorizing user pages.

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Naming conventions

See also: Wikipedia:Category names
  • Names and descriptions of user categories are subject to the same rules and restrictions as userbox content.
  • The name of a category should be clear about its scope and purpose and should generally follow the naming convention of fellow members of a parent category. See Category:Wikipedians by interest for an example.
  • A user category should have an indication it is a user category. "Indications" include, but are not limited to: "Wikipedians", "WikiProject", or a name of a Wikipedia-specific organization or grouping. For example, Category:Wikipedian mathematicians, not Category:Mathematicians. Babel-specific user categories are an exception to this, and instead should follow that convention by having the same name as the Babel-specific userbox, i.e. Category:User (language code)[(-level)]. A category that complies with this point is Category:User ar-3, for level-3 speakers of Arabic.
  • If in the userbox content, the verb (see Wikipedia:Userboxes#Content) is one of preference (enjoys, likes, loves, etc.), replace it with a more specific verb when selecting the category name. For example, "This user enjoys J. R. R. Tolkien" could be categorised as Category:Wikipedians who read J. R. R. Tolkien.

Categorization

See also: Category:Wikipedians (category tree)

Overcategorization

This section is transcluded from Wikipedia:Overcategorization/User categories. (edit | history)

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Syntax for including a user category in a userbox

See also: Help:Category § Putting pages into categories, and Wikipedia:Userboxes
REMEMBER: Userboxes should NOT automatically include categories by default.

The following example is from {{User WikiProject Film}}: 

{{userbox
| id = [[File:Video-x-generic.svg|43x43px|WikiProject Film]]
| id-c = #FFFFFF
| info = This user {{#ifeq:{{lc:{{{1|}}}}}|coordinator|is a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Coordinators|'''coordinator''']]|is a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Participants|member]]}} of<br>'''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Film|WikiProject Film]]'''.
| info-c = #C0C0C0
| info-a = center
| usercategory = WikiProject Film participants
| nocat = {{{nocat|}}}
}}<noinclude>{{documentation}}
<!-- Add cats and interwikis to the /doc subpage, not here! -->
</noinclude>
  • <includeonly> and <noinclude> should be on the same line as the closing parentheses (}}) to prevent extra spacing from appearing when grouping userboxes on userpages.
  • Enclosing a category in <includeonly> tags will only categorise pages on which the userbox is transcluded. To show the userbox in that category, use {{User category}} or {{Your userbox name|nocat=}}. Remember to set the sort key as {{PAGENAME}}.
  • Enclosing a category in <noinclude> tags will only categorise the userbox.

See also

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Notes

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