Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Categorization (section)

===User pages <span class="anchor" id="Categorizing user pages"></span><span class="anchor" id="USER"></span><span class="anchor" id="USERS"></span><span class="anchor" id="USERNOCAT"></span> ===
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[[Wikipedia:User pages|User pages]] are not articles and thus do not belong in ''content categories'' such as [[:Category:Living people|Living people]] or [[:Category:Biologists|Biologists]]. Similarly, [[#Draft]] versions of articles should be kept out of content categories. Also, do not [[Help:Transclusion|transclude]] articles into your user pages, as this will result in the page being included in all the article's categories.

However, user pages ''can'' be placed in '''user categories''' – subcategories of [[:Category:Wikipedians]], such as [[:Category:Wikipedian biologists]] – which assist collaboration between users. And certain [[WP:SP|user sub-pages]] that are non-article drafts, are permitted in [[#PROJCATS|project categories]], like [[:Category:User essays]]. 

A list of article-space categories with user pages, is maintained at [[WP:Database reports/Polluted categories|Database reports/Polluted categories]].