Angry Video Game Nerd Wiki:Categorization

The goal of the  category system  is to provide navigational links to all pages on Nerdapedia in a hierarchy of categories which editors and readers, knowing essential characteristics of a topic, can browse and quickly find sets of pages on topics that are defined by those characteristics.

How to create a category?
Categories should be created when they can encompass a significant number of relevant articles. If someone wishes to contest the relevance of a newly created category, they can do so on its talk page or on the forum.

Naming conventions

 * Standard article naming conventions apply; in particular, do not capitalize regular nouns except when they come at the beginning of the title.
 * Names of topic categories should be singular, normally corresponding to the name of an article. Examples: "Angry Video Game Nerd", "Cinemassacre".
 * Names of set categories should be plural. Example: "Games".

Categorizing pages
Each categorized page should be placed in all categories to which it logically belongs. This means that if a page belongs to a subcategory of C (or a subcategory of a subcategory of C, and so on), then it should also be placed into C if and only if C would also logically and directly apply to the page. For example:


 * The Nerd is placed in Category:Characters.
 * Nostalgia Critic would not be placed in Category:Films.

Classifying characters
Nerdapedia classifies characters that appear in the series included in the franchise as main, major or minor characters. The criteria for inclusion in each classification is set out below.