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[edit] Cat for books/novels made into films?

Is there a category for books or novels that have been made into films? I can't seem to find it. If anyone knows, please message me on my talkpage. Thanks. --Cybercobra (talk) 00:59, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Dashes in category names

Please see here. Comments, ideas, and suggestions would be welcome. Thank you, –BLACK FALCON ^(TALK) 22:44, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] C's P's and F?

Could anyone explain what F denotes in the new category listings? I can see that C denotes subcategory, P denotes page (such as an article page). What is F? I just saw this type of listing, rooted in the Contents/Categories portal, such as Category:Fundamental.

It was useful to me to see that there are 124 subcats of the Fundamental cat.

I put a watch on this page to see if there will be an answer. Thank you, --Ancheta Wis (talk) 16:02, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I presume that F stands for Files (i.e. images, sound files, etc.)--Kotniski (talk) 16:28, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Hard redirects

The RFC on switching to hard redirects is now open; please see WP:Hard category redirects and discuss on that talk page.--Kotniski (talk) 08:49, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Template:CatDiffuse

{{CatDiffuse}} has been nominated for deletion. See WP:TFD at Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2009 October 28

70.29.209.91 (talk) 19:11, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Category Mergers

There's an issue on category mergers being discussed at Template_talk:Merge#Instruction_creep

70.29.209.91 (talk) 20:08, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Templates that auto-categorize

Feedback wanted from anyone interested in template programming and categorization.

Some templates add categories to the pages they are used on. This unfortunately also means they usually add categories to pages where they are only tested or demonstrated. So we have a how-to guide about how to avoid this problem. And some templates also need to use different categories in different namespaces, which can be tricky to do. So now we have made a meta-template that will make it much easier to handle categorization in templates. Here's the relevant links:

{{cat handler}} – The new template. We'd like some feedback on this template and its documentation before we deploy it. Comments and questions are very welcome on its talk page.
Wikipedia:Category suppression – The how-to guide. There's a discussion on its talk page about which parameters we should standardise for category suppression, more comments would be welcome there. By the way, some of the methods in that guide will probably become outdated once we deploy the above template.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Category Suppression – Personally I think a WikiProject for only category suppression is a bit overkill, but the project is going to widen its scope so perhaps it is okay. See its talk page.

Oh, and please don't start a discussion here, instead use the talk pages of the above pages.

--David Göthberg (talk) 01:38, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] User:Sailorsaurus

Sailorsaurus (talk · contribs) has been making many categories lately and recategorizing many pages as well. A few fell under my area of interest and I've depopulated them (merely because they are extremely esoteric and made as subcategories of another category that he made). I figured I should bring it to the attention of the categories project.—Ryūlóng (竜龙) 09:15, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Header template question.

Just wondering, but is there a template that, when placed on a category page, produces text akin to "This category contains x pages"?

Thanks,

- J Greb (talk) 01:20, 27 November 2009 (UTC)