Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Categorization (section)

=== Creating the category ===
After you have determined an appropriate category name for the category, next try to find a suitable place for the new category. (For example, categories of people should be in the [[:Category:People|tree of "people" categories]].) Please see [[#Category tree organization]] for more information on this.

Once you have determined where to categorize this new category, you should be ready to create the new category. 

To create a category:
# Add a page to the intended category. Do this by editing that page, and add the name of the new category: (e.g.:&nbsp;{{code|[[Category:New category name]]}}&nbsp;)
#* {{Anchor|CATORDER}}{{Shortcut|MOS:CATORDER}}By convention, categories are placed at the end of the wikitext, but before any [[Wikipedia:Stub|stub]] templates, which transclude their own categories. 
#* [[#Eponymous categories|Eponymous categories]] should appear first. Beyond that, the order in which categories are placed on a page is not governed by any single rule (for example, it does not need to be alphabetical, although partially alphabetical ordering can sometimes be helpful). Normally the most essential, significant categories appear first. <!-- There is currently no [[WP:CON|consensus]] about the order in which categories should be placed at the bottom of an article. -->
# Save your edit. The as-yet-undefined category name will now appear as a [[Wikipedia:Red link|red link]] in the category list at the bottom of the page.
#* {{Anchor|CATREDLINK}}{{Shortcut|WP:CATREDLINK}} A page should never be left with a non-existent ([[Wikipedia:REDLINK|redlinked]]) category on it. Either the category should be created, or else the link should be removed or changed to a category that does exist.
# Next, click on that red link, which brings you to the new category page to create. 
# Finally, at the bottom of the category page, simply add the parent category (e.g.:&nbsp;{{code|[[Category:Parent category name]]}}&nbsp;), which should usually be a [[hypernym]] of the subcategory. This will add the new category into the appropriate parent category. 
{{n.b.}} If something goes wrong, double check to see if you followed the steps properly and check if the wikitext is correct. For example, if the category fails to list in the parent category, the wikitext should be <nowiki>[[Category:Parent category name]]</nowiki>, not <nowiki>[[:Category:Parent category name]]</nowiki>.