Age of Empires Series Wiki:Categorization

This page explains how categories are used at the Age of Empires Series Wiki. It establishes our house style to help editors maintain a consistent category system which promotes clarity and structure. Users who are unfamiliar with the process of categorization should see Help:Categories page for more information.

Adding categories

 * Every article must be categorized. If you create a new article, do not forget to add categories to it. If you don't know which categories to add, add the tag, so someone else can do it.
 * All categories that describe the subject of the article are fundamentally justified to be added.
 * Avoid redundancies when adding categories to articles, i.e. if a subcategory is already assigned, then the head category of that category is redundant. Example: The 'Cavalier' is in the category 'heavy cavalry', so adding the head category 'cavalry' to the article is redundant and wrong.

Other remarks

 * Campaign categories are only added to the respective campaign pages and their scenarios.
 * Every article that is not universal but game-specific is assigned the respective game and, if applicable, expansion categories.
 * If available through normal gameplay, every unit, building, technology, god, and god power is assigned the respective Age category.
 * Civilization categories are exclusive for Age of Mythology and Age of Empires III. Features exclusively available to them are assigned to the respective categories.

Renaming and changing categories

 * Categories cannot be renamed. To change the name of a category, the old category must be deleted from every article, and the new one must be added to every article. Usually, this requires a lot of single edits, which is why these changes are best made by bots.
 * If you wish to change the name of a category, feel free to contact an administrator for help.

Creating categories

 * If you add a category to an article that does not already exist, do not forget to create the respective category page. That is best done by just clicking on the category (once the edit that added the category is saved).
 * The category page just briefly mentions the group of pages that belong there, e.g. All infantry units go here.
 * Category pages must also be categorized. Their categorization follows the same pattern as categories for content pages.

Category names

 * Categories are named in plural form.
 * When naming categories, avoid using capital letters, e.g. Naval technologies, not Naval Technologies. Proper names (like Ages or game names) are still written with capital letters.
 * In game-specific categories, the name of the game is not abbreviated, e.g. Civilizations (Age of Empires), not Civilizations (AoE).