Help:Categories

In Camerapedia, pages are indexed by wiki categories. To know more about what Wiki categories are and how to use them, you can follow this external link to the corresponding help page of Wikipedia.

Camerapedia has its own policy of categorization. Before indexing your page, you can browse through the categories, all the way down from the Root category.

A page about a specific camera model should have the following categories:

• one or more categories for the type of camera
• a category for the country of origin
• one or two categories for the alphabetical index

The "country of origin" is normally that where the design was done: a camera planned in Japan and assembled in Malaysia is thus treated as Japanese.

Japan is a special case: the categories for the type of camera are prefaced by "Japanese". Thus whereas Leicaflex is

• Category: 35mm SLR
• Category: Germany

(and others), Minolta SR-1 is

• Category: Japanese 35mm SLR

(and others).

A page about a specific camera model may also be in the following categories:

• a category for the lens mount (if applicable and of more than trivial interest)
• a category for the camera maker

For example, the Sony Alpha DSLR-A100 will likely have the following categories:

• Category:Japanese digital SLR
• Alpha (this addition of "|Alpha" lists the camera at the right place for "Alpha", not at that for "Sony Alpha")
• Category:Konica Minolta
• Category:Minolta AF mount
• Alpha Dslr-A100
• Category:S

and the Vitessa folder would have the following:

• Category: 35mm rangefinder folding
• Category: Barn door
• Category: Germany
• Category: Voigtländer
• Category: V

The same page could imaginably be put in various other categories, for example in "SLR cameras". However, the general rule is not to put a page in the most specific category, and not to put it in this category and also one or more parents of this category. So the D70 goes to "Category:Digital SLR" and is not listed under "Category:SLR". This general rule is sometimes broken, for exmaple the cameras from the former East Germany are considered by most people as being German as well, so are listed in both.

There are still many points to be discussed about this scheme. Please think for yourself and post new ideas in the discussion page.