Editing Help:Categorising pages (section)

==Categorising a page==
To categorise a page, write the category name as a link:

:<kbd><nowiki>[[Category:IBM keyboards]]</nowiki></kbd>

Confusingly, this syntax '''does not''' create a link; instead, it places the page into the specified category!

Also bear in mind that categorisation cannot be checked by edit preview; to verify that the category exists as expected, temporary convert it to a link (see section below) and make sure that the category link shows up in blue/purple instead of red. Then remove the colon from the category "tag" before saving your changes.

Category "tags" can occur anywhere on the page, including inside any template; for example, the template invocation <kbd><nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki></kbd> adds <kbd><nowiki>[[Category:Stubs]]</nowiki></kbd> to the page at the point where <kbd><nowiki>{{stub}}</nowiki></kbd> is written (usually at the top of the page) along with the visible message that the page is a stub. Conventionally, the list of categories is placed at the bottom of the page, one per line.