Category talk:Wikipedia categories

message: If you add a category to this page, please also add it on Wikipedia:Categorization projects (current)#Top-Level/TOC_Categories and explain it there.
There's now just a link from there to here, so no need to worry about synchronization anymore. -- Beland 00:40, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It is now Wikipedia:Categorization projects (current)#Table of Contents schemes. Brian Jason Drake 11:23, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Old header instructions

message: :Category:Main page has been deleted. See Category talk:Main page [only administrators can see deleted versions at this time Brian Jason Drake 11:35, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is Category:Main page? 

message: How is this category different from :Category:Fundamental? Karol 08:49, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This category is supposed to contain all the categories and articles which represent a categorization scheme.  Category:Fundamental is one of those schemes. -- Beland 17:33, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this needed? 

message: This category contains all but one of the main page categories (the exception is Category:Technology). Why is this? Brian Jason Drake 09:32, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main page cats 

message: I want to create :Category:Categories that are not members of themselves, but I couldn't decide whether or not it should be a member of itself. Can anyone help? —Ashley Y 01:45, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: See Russell's paradox. Brian Jason Drake 00:47, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

text: You have a good sense of humor, ashley. nadav 15:58, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

text: If it wasn't included in it's own category people could think #"ah! this is the only page that doesn't belong in a category...thus this is the top category!" If it was in it's own category and people clicked it repeatedly watching it redirects to the same page each time they click they could think #"This page redirects to itself, either someone has done an error, or this page just doesn't belong to any category, thus I will remove it". After this 'deep thinking' I think that it shouldn't belong to any category, not even itself. Although the main page could belong to the category, the category itself doesn't need to belong to any category. Logictheo 19:49, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New category problem 

message: Hello.  I know that the shortcut policy as listed at WP:SHORT is that shortcuts can only be created for the WP: namespace.  However, CAT:CSD has a shortcut, and I think it would make sense to create a CAT:CAT shortcut that points to :Category:Categories.  Is this allowed?  Lbbzman 16:44, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Appears so.—G.He 01:29, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well when I created my question in January, WP:SHORT was presented as a shortcut policy, and the page said to only link to WP:. I went ahead and created the shortcut after receiving no contrary opinions. WP:SHORT has obviously changed since January. Cheers, Lbbzman 03:56, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shortcut appropriate? 

message: Is this category a parent or a subcategory of :Category: Container categories? It cannot be both. Ottawahitech (talk) 23:59, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Circular category parentage