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| The article should be left in those categories it would belong to if it had no category of its own; see [[Wikipedia:Categorization and subcategories#Topic article rule]] as well as [[Wikipedia:Categorization#Some general guidelines]]. | | The article should be left in those categories it would belong to if it had no category of its own; see [[Wikipedia:Categorization and subcategories#Topic article rule]] as well as [[Wikipedia:Categorization#Some general guidelines]]. |
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| ==What is the state of categorization?==
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| When trying to categorize an article, it may be difficult to tell into which categories it should be placed. Sometimes when trying to categorize by a field of interest, one intersects with someone else's efforts from another field.
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| Category policies are still being refined by experimentation, discussion, and polls. Categorizations and systems are likely to be discussed and improved upon for a very long time. To be part of the discussion see [[Wikipedia talk:Categorization]].
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| ===Related topics===
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| To allow related articles to be grouped together, and those groupings placed into a hierarchy. For example, both [[Gwalior]] and [[History of Gwalior]] could be in the [[:Category : Gwalior]].
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| There are some natural hierarchies of topics, e.g., placing [[:Category:History of India]] under [[:Category:Asia]] and [[:Category:History]].
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| Topic categories are unlikely to be subcategories of list categories.
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| Currently the software does not allow you to look at [[:Category:People]] and retrieve a list of all articles in sub-categories.
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| ==Why might a category list not be up to date?== | | ==Why might a category list not be up to date?== |
