categories help

[Super Monkey]

Does anyone know how to delete categories and creat new ones?



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[Bill 9000]

Ulp! Good question. Great Rao, HELP!!

[The Starchild]

A category is just like an article.  If you want to have an entry be in a new category, just do it.

Then click on the category link from your article, and type some text in the edit page so that it'll work.

The only tricky part is that once you've saved the new category, you have to log out and back in again in order for it to work for you, otherwise you'll keep getting sent back to the edit page.

You guys should really read the user's guide, it's all in there...

[Super Monkey]

I did read it, I didn't find it anywhere.

How do you create just a new category without creating a new entry?

How do you delete a category?

[The Starchild]

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Category

I think categories only exist if an article claims to be a member of that category.  Maybe if you remove all references to it, it goes away?

How can a category exist if there are no articles in it?

[Super Monkey]

Some that need to be deleted:

http://superman.nu/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Enties&action=edit

and

http://superman.nu/wiki/index.php?title=Category:People:&action=edit

If anyone knows how knock yourselves out

[The Starchild]

"Enties" and "People:" are listed as categories because there is some article somewhere that claims to be in those categories.  

I removed them by finding the articles that had the typos.  Lucy Lane had a line that read [[Category:Enties]] and another article had [[Category:People:]].  Once these were both corrected, the categories disappeared.

[Super Monkey]

thank you