Wikipedia talk:Category suppression

message: This discussion has been moved to the talkpage of .
--David Göthberg (talk) 04:58, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  About ((cat handler)) 

message: Hello, first I would like to say excuse me if I am posting this in the wrong place.
I am an administrator over at the Wizard 101 Wiki and I have a small question about category suppression. I am working on a simple infobox that auto populates categories. However I want to be able to suppress certain categories if one of the parameters is filled in as "No". I am still slightly new at creating Info boxes and I searched the Internet for a few hours now trying to figure out how I can accomplish this. If someone could please point me to a page that explains how to use category suppression inside of an Info box then I would be most appreciative. 
Thank you for taking the time to help.
I will be checking this page for a response or you could leave a message on my talk page located here. One again, thanks.
Wizard101Admin (talk) 08:54, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question Regarding Category Suppression 

message: So using  is preferred? I say: never ever use a negative question. It is a mental tripline (and non-intuitive at best). It is legalanguge too, or do not you think that it can not be excluded that it is not so? Better is: . -DePiep (talk) 22:20, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: For those templates that can categorize the page on which they are used (e.g. userbox templates) the normal situation (i.e. on hundreds of user pages) is that the template should categorize. It's only in unusual cases that the categorization needs to be suppressed. Thus (in most/all cases) the default should be not to suppress the categorization. DexDor (talk) 22:15, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  nocat=true? is bad 

message: The normal approach for suppressing categories in templates is now to add a 'demo' parameter.  This needs to be covered in this howto. John Vandenberg (chat) 01:34, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: John, that's not a method I've seen used much (if at all) - can you provide an example of such a template? Afaics most/all of the CATSUP page is still correct so I'm not sure it really needs an 'outdated' warning on it. DexDor (talk) 22:20, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: See Template:Userspace linking templates wikitext.  The page is looking better now after . John Vandenberg (chat) 23:50, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: But those templates don't normally categorize anyway (afaics, they only categorize if misused) and few/none of them mention a "demo" parameter in their documentation. If I was showing an example of how to use such a template I'd use (for example)  () (which needs no category suppression) rather than  (which would categorize) or . I've tried looking into these templates, but they are nested many times and :Template:Userlinks (for example) makes no mention of a "demo" parameter - how's it supposed to work? (for example, why does  not suppress the category?). In other words, I think "demo" needs a better explanation and example of use before being added to this page. DexDor (talk) 05:26, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated 

message: Shouldn't this be a help page, i.e. in the namespace "Help", instead of "Wikipedia"?--Ideophagous (talk) 13:57, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help page is better?