Star Trek Expanded Universe:Category tree

Overview
On a wikipedia, articles are sorted into categories. In order to ensure that these categories will be useful to users of the wiki, this category tree has been established in order to reduce confusion and avoid problems.

Because it is labor-intensive to remove or alter a category name once it exists (categories must be orphaned to be deleted, and they cannot be redirected), all new categories must be approved by a user consensus, similar to the deletion consensus, except in this case the consensus must be reached before you should consider creating a category here on STEU:
 * Star Trek Expanded Universe: Category suggestions - This page is dedicated to consensuses on suggestions for a single category name. You should browse our existing categories and the discussions related to them.
 * Remember also that we want to categorize the article with the correct sort keys.

Provisional categories
As categories are approved, they will be listed in the next section of those two pages. Partially approved categories, marked with  , are listed for discussion on separate sections of the above two pages. They can be browsed through Special:Whatlinkshere/Template:Newcategory, or Category: provisional categories.

Existing categories
While a detailed category structure discussion is still pending, some categories have already been accepted by the community. Articles may be added to these categories:


 * Category:Planets: This is a list category (a category for instances of planets). This means that every planet may (and should) be included in this category. Don't include moons, planetoids, asteroids or other celestial bodies, colonies, cities, lists of planets or other articles related to planets. If the name of the planet contains a Roman numeral, use a sort key in which this numeral is replaced by a double-digit (Example: for Rigel VII).


 * Category:Sectors: This is another list category. Include all sectors; nothing else - no quadrants, zones, areas, regions, systems, no lists of sectors or other articles related to sectors. If the sector is a numbered sector (for example, Sector 63), only use the number as the sort key (Example: )


 * Category:Nebulae: List category. Include all nebulae. No specific sort key.


 * Category:Moons: List category. Include all moons. No specific sort key.


 * Category:Clusters: List category. Include all clusters. No specific sort key.


 * Category:Titles: List category. Include all titles. No specific sort key.


 * Category:Delphic Expanse: (Example) - This is a locational category. Anything (species, planets, terms) relating to the Delphic Expanse area should be listed here. While there is no specific sort key, general sorting rules apply (regarding ship prefix or last-name first for humans).


 * Category:Mirror universe: A category for anything relating to the mirror universe. Only articles directly talking about "mirror universe items" should be listed here. General sorting rules apply.


 * Category:Weapons: A list category for all forms of weaponry, except hand-held weapons, which belong in the subcategory Category:Hand-held weapons. General sorting rules apply.


 * Category:Starships: List category for individual starships. Subcategories for starships of major powers will be created. Others should be added directly to this category. General sorting rules apply, for example ignoring prefixes.


 * Category:Starship classes: List category for all starship classes. General sorting rules.


 * Episodes: List categories for episodes of all fan films or fan fiction "series". General sorting rules apply, regarding articles such as "The" or "A" (Example: )
 * Category:TotSF episodes
 * Category:STUnity episodes
 * Category:Pendragon episodes
 * Category:Fan films
 * Category:Fan fiction

Maintenance categories
We can use categories to help with the regular maintenance task of listing specific articles somewhere ("attention needed", "featured article" etc.) by creating a category and adding it to the relevant template. Use the prefix "Star Trek Expanded Universe: " for all maintenance categories transcluded via template.

Accepted categories

 * Category: Images: Category for all "images" uploaded on this site.
 * Category: Orphaned categories: Maintenance category for all "uncategorized categories".
 * Category: Provisional categories: Maintenance category for all "under discussion categories".
 * Category: Featured articles: For all featured articles. Use via template only.
 * Category: Pages needing attention: Supercategory for "special" PNA categories - also category for PNAs that don't belong on those subcategories. Use via template only.
 * Category: Incomplete articles: For "incomplete" PNAs. Use via template only.
 * Category: Unformatted articles: For "unformatted" PNAs. Use via template only.