User talk:GrampaSwood/UserpagePolicy

Category mangling

To prevent userspace drafts/sandboxes from appearing in main space categories, I recommend a practice I picked up in Wikipedia Draft: space.

Placing a colon at the begining of a category link prevents the page from being in the category, but instead makes a link to the category's page.

With the colon in place, a red link would show any problem with the link; for example:

[[:Category:Wiki cap owners]] appears as Category:Wiki cap owners allowing the user to preview the error.
[[:Category:Wiki Cap owners]] appears as Category:Wiki Cap owners

M I K A D O 282 ⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙ ⊙⊙ ⊙⊙ (Contact Mikado282 (SM)) | (contribs) (Help Wanted!) 18:59, 28 May 2023 (UTC) 19:19, 28 May 2023 (UTC)

I saw you made the change. I just noted that the same technique is recomended on Policy. I suppose you will update that part when you commit.

M I K A D O 282 ⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙ ⊙⊙ ⊙⊙ (Contact Mikado282 (SM)) | (contribs) (Help Wanted!) 02:13, 30 May 2023 (UTC)

To organize or keep track of your user pages and sandboxes, you may create a user category that may only be used in your user space:

Prefix the category User and your Wiki username, followed by a meaningful suffix.
Your user name may be made posessive.

Creating the category page, you must add it to the Category:User categories or another one of of your own user category.
User categories may be added to no other category save those mentioned.
Categories that don't follow this naming scheme may be deleted without warning.
Otherwise, user categories should comply with the general rules for categories.
Obnoxious categories may be deleted by GrampaSwood.

There might not be any great contribution to the wiki, here, but it could be a means for new editors to practice with categories.

M I K A D O 282 ⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙⊙ ⊙⊙ ⊙⊙ (Contact Mikado282 (SM)) | (contribs) (Help Wanted!) 02:11, 30 May 2023 (UTC)