Sagan 4 Alpha Wiki:Guide to categorizing articles

So you submitted a new species and you filled out all the info correctly. This will explain how to deal with the red link categories.

Introduction
At the bottom of the page you have several red links leading to categories that this species was placed in (due to my coding skills with Template:Species). Red links point to categories that haven't been created (and therefore are unorganized). Blue links link to categories that have already been created. An example of one of the more obnoxious examples:



This is a lot of stuff, but luckily there is a hierarchy to categories, and so all of those fall into one of a few different types:


 * Species
 * This category has already been made, it is the general category where you will be able to find any and all species that ever existed on Sagan 4 organized alphabetically. This will always be blue
 * Extant/Extinct
 * These categories have already been made. It sorts species based on whether they still exist.  These will always be blue
 * Species by ______
 * There will be one of these categories for each "creator" in sagan 4. It is where you can find all the species a particular person made.  These will be blue if someone already made the category, but it will be red otherwise.  For info on these, see here
 * Week __
 * There will be one of these categories for each week sagan 4 exists. One of these categories will need to be made once a week.  For info on these, see here
 * Generation ___
 * There will be one of these categories for each generation of sagan 4. One of these categories will need to be made once a generation.  For info on these, see here
 * (Biome) of week __
 * There will be one of these categories for each inhabited biome each week. Several of these will need to be made every week.  For info on these, see here
 * Descendant of __
 * There will be one of these categories for each species that has decedents. Several of these may need to be made each generation.  For info on these, see here
 * Taxonomy related
 * One of these will exist for each level of taxonomy that exists, they will match text listed in the "Taxonomy" part of the infobox for the species. There will likely be a lot of these, likely several made every generation.  For info on these, see here

"Species by" categories
When you click these links you will need to create the category. When the page opens you'll be greeted with a text box. This goes in the text box:

You simply replace "NAME" with the name of the creator. For the example above you'd put.

This will put your new category in this category.

"Week" categories
When you click these links you will need to create the category. When the page opens you'll be greeted with a text box. This goes in the textbox:

You simply replace "##" with the number of the week. For the example above you'd put.

This will put your new category in this category.

"Generation" categories
When you click these links you will need to create the category. When the page opens you'll be greeted with a text box. This goes in the textbox:

You simply replace "###" with the number of the generation. For the example above you'd put.

This will put your new category in this category.

"(Biome) of week" categories
When you click these links you will need to create the category. When the page opens you'll be greeted with a text box. This goes in the textbox:

In this case, you replace "BIOME" with the name of the Biome. You also replace "##" with the week of that category. You also replace "#" with the week of that category. For example, for category:Huggs Swamp of week 7 you'd put. Be sure to note that for the "##" you put a 0 before single digit weeks, and you don't do that for the "#". Yes, there is a method to my madness and it's not particularly important why right now ;).

When you are done, it's possible you will have another red link in your new category. For the Huggs Swamp example, it'd look like this:



For the first link (a biome) see here for the second (a week), see here.

"Descendant of " categories
When you click these links you will need to create the category. When the page opens you'll be greeted with a text box. This goes in the text box:

You simply replace "NAME" with the name of the ancestor. For the example above you'd put.

This will put your new category in this category.

"Biome" categories
When you click these links you will need to create the category. When the page opens you'll be greeted with a text box. This goes in the text box:

Yeah, that's it.

This will put your new category in this category.

Taxonomy categories
When you click these links you will need to create the category. When the page opens you'll be greeted with a text box. This goes in the text box:

You replace "NAME" with the name of the higher level of taxon. For example if you were looking into Protosagania and were creating the category Sagamoeboidea you would put  because Sagamoeboidea is a phylum within the kingdom Protobia. If you are making a category for a new domain. Simply put in the text.

Other questions
Feel free to comment on this guide and leave new questions on the talk page and I'll keep this updated with new info.

Mason11987 T - T:S 23:23, 8 July 2007 (MDT)