Help:Categories

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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.

Categories for articles on cameras

Categories aren't only used for articles on cameras, but as the overwhelming majority of articles here are on cameras we'll look at these.

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 although Leicaflex is in

(and others), Minolta SR-1 is in

(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 if such a category seems helpful)
  • a category for the camera maker (if such a category seems helpful)

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

and the Vitessa folder would have the following:

These articles could imaginably be put in various other categories; for example, the former could be 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 Sony Alpha DSLR-A100 goes to "Category:Digital SLR" and is not listed under "Category:SLR". This general rule is sometimes broken; for example, cameras from the former East Germany are considered by most people as being German as well, so are listed in both.

Creating new categories

Please think very carefully before creating a new category. If you create one and you or others later decide that it is unsuitable, or is better renamed, a lot of work will have to be done. If in any doubt, propose the new category in one or more relevant talk pages and wait to see what reaction there is to your proposal.

In the absence of a conclusion

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