Help:About Categories
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Categories are the backbone of the Jackcentric wiki. They act both as tags and as a navigational structure. With the exception of talk pages and user subpages, all pages in the wiki should be in at least one category, and fanwork pages should be in several categories. A page's categories are all listed in the lightly shaded box near the bottom of the page. (For instance, this page is in Category:Help.) You can click any category to visit that category's own page and see a list of all wiki entries in that category. Since all categories (except the top-level Category:Contents) are themselves subcategories of something else, you can also click on a category's parent and child categories to move up and down through the navigational tree.
You can see an alphabetical list of all our categories here, or you can browse the tree by starting at Category:Contents. The tree has four main branches: About the Wiki, About the Fandom, About Jack, and the Fanworks Index. About the Wiki is where you'll find all the help files, templates, site policies, and general community organizing. About the Fandom and About Jack are pretty self-explanatory, though since Jackcentric isn't supposed to be an encyclopedia, they will be fairly small branches. If you want to create a page pointing to a particular Jack-focused community or website, though, About the Fandom is the place to put it. If you want to write about some particular facet of Jack's life or universe, it should probably go in the TARDIS wiki instead, but it would be appropriate to put a page in About Jack pointing to information elsewhere. The "Browse stories" link near the top of the sidebar will take you directly to the top of the Fanworks Index, which is where you'll probably spend most of your time. All our fanwork listings live there, along with the many subcategories that organize them.
A category page consist of four sections. The text area at the top is editable just like any other page; it will often be empty, but may contain information about how to use that particular category. Its parent categories are also editable and appear in the box at the bottom just like a normal page's categories. In between those two sections, though, are what makes a category page special. If a category has subcategories, the wiki will generate an automatic list of those subcategories that appears directly below the text area. And below that, the wiki will generate a dynamic alphabetized list of all pages in that category.
All category pages exist in the Category: namespace, which means they are licensed for modification and distribution under Creative Commons. Anyone can add categories to fanwork pages; however, please do not edit the category pages themselves if you wish to retain control of your work. Please see our copyright policy for more information.
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