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I'm moving towards trying to clean up tips on searching, so the first job is to make a category for searching. I think I've got my brain around it, but now I've got the urge to make a template to standardise category descriptions.

What do you think of the following? Will it work? Is it worthwhile?

Create Template:CatInfo with wikitext:

 [[Category:{{{parent}}}]]
 '''This [[m:Help:Category|category]] is for tips about {{{name}}}.'''
 
 {{ #if: {{{help|}}}
 |== References ==
 *{{help|{{{help}}}}}
 

Example usage – create Category:Searching with wikitext:

 {{CatInfo|name=searching|parent=Usage|help=pattern.txt}}
 

This would display (I hope):

This category is for tips about searching.

[edit] References

• :help pattern.txt

--JohnBeckett 10:22, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

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If I understandard correctly, this {{CatInfo}} template would serve to write category pages.

Somewhere this is a good idea as it would help have an uniform look accross all category pages. This is useful: everytime I open another category page because I can't never remember whether I've filled them with tips related to xxxx or xxx related tips.

However, I'm afraid some categories are quite unique and may:

• be tied to several help topics,
• have a more complex description ; see Category:Brackets

If it could help people define new (missing and pertinent) categories, why not.

--Luc Hermitte 12:23, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

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OK. I've created Template:CatInfo and have tried it on a couple of categories. See Category:Brackets and Category:Searching.

If there were several help references, you could just add them below the template. However I'm sure you're right and some categories will need custom editing.

--JohnBeckett 05:16, 14 July 2007 (UTC)