Brickipedia:Category Guidelines
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The following has been set up due to a recent influx in adding categories, many of which were not complying to the past standard. If you wish to add a category, please follow the below guidelines until an official policy is created. The page is currently still under construction
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List of template catgeories not to add 
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The following categories are added to automatically by templates, and should not in any circumstances be manually added to an article. It is extremely important not to add the categories listed in bold to an article, and continually doing so after a warning may result in a block.
- Category:Article discussions - Placing {{talkheader}} at the top of a talk page will add this category
- Category:Articles in need of expansion - {{expand}} should be used
- Category:Articles that don't have images in their infoboxes - Automatically generated by infobox templates, such as {{set}} and {{minifigure}}
- Category:Articles that need to be Brickified - {{brickify}} should be used
- Category:Articles that need to be rewritten - {{rewrite}} should be used
- Category:Articles that use descriptions from LEGO.com - Use {{quoteLEGO.com}} appropriately
- Category:Articles which use content from BIONICLEsector01 - Use {{biosector01}}
- Category:Articles which use content from Wikipedia - Use {{wikipedia}}
- Category:Articles which use text from other sources - Use {{excerpt}}
- Category:Articles with conjectural titles - Use {{conjecture}}
- Category:Articles with red bricks - Use {{redbricks}}
- Category:Articles with sections that need cleanup - Use {{Cleanup-S}}
- Category:Disambiguation Pages - Use {{disambig}}
- Category:Improvement drive - Use {{ID/page}}
- Category:LEGO Shop - Needs field in {{external info}} filled out with "yes", ie |shop = yes
- Category:Numberless sets - Automatically generated by {{Set}}
- Category:Unknown Price - Added automatically via {{set}}
- Category:Upcoming Minifigures - Use {{Future minifigure}}
- Category:Upcoming sets - Use {{Future set}}
- Category:Upcoming themes - Use {{Future theme}}
- Category:Upcoming video games - Use {{Future videogame}}
- Category:Video game only minifigures - Use {{nonLEGOminifigure|videogame}}
- Featured, Class 1/Good, Class 2/Complete, Class 3, Class 4 and Class 5 Articles - Should only be used appropriately by Crown Knights. Automaticly generated by {{Rating}}
- Any categories listed in the Category:Sets by piece count (eg Category:Sets with xxxx to xxxx pieces) - Automatically generated by {{Set}}
Set articles Edit
Categories on set articles should include:
- A category of the theme (or subtheme) the set is in. This should be the lowest level theme the category is involved in, the one which is the most specified. For example, Star Wars sets should be categorized into Category:Star Wars, but not Category:Space
- A category of the item number range the set is in, for example, Category:8000 sets
- A category of the year's release, eg Category:2001
The following categories are also permitted, if applicable:
The following categories should not be added to set articles:
- Category:Sets (this is a supercategory)
- Piececount categories such as Category:Sets with 1500 to 1999 pieces, as they are automatically added via the piececount entered into the infobox
Set articles also include Key Chains, Magnets and similar, so all sets using a {{Set}} template.
Minifigure articles Edit
Categories on minifigure articles should include:
- A category that the article is from, eg Category:Star Wars minifigures. This should be the lowest level theme the category is involved in, the one which is the most specified. For example, Star Wars sets should be categorized into Category:Star Wars minifigures, but not Category:Space minifigures
- A category of when the minifigure was first introduced, eg Category:Minifigures introduced in 2001
Minifigure articles should not include the following categories:
- Theme categories, eg Category:Star Wars
- Year categories, eg Category:2001
- Category:Minifigures (this is a supercategory)
Theme articles Edit
Should contain:
- If the theme is a subtheme, a category of the subtheme's immediate supertheme.
- The year the theme was introduced, eg Category:Themes introduced in 2001
Should not contain:
- Year categories, eg Category:2001
Part articles Edit
Should contain:
- The year the part was introduced, eg Category:Parts introduced in 2001
Should not contain:
- Year categories, eg Category:2001
Review articlesEdit
Review articles should not have any categories manually added to them- all categories are correctly added with the correct code surrounding by the appropriate review page and user review templates.
Year articles Edit
Should contain:
- Category:Years
- A year category, eg Category:2001
File articles Edit
Should contain:
- Theme image categories, eg Category:Star Wars Images
Should not contain:
- Theme categories, eg Category:Star Wars
- Theme Minifigure categories, eg Category:Star Wars minifigures
- Setnumber categories, eg Category:3000 sets
- Year categories, eg Category:2001
- Piececount categories such as Category:Sets with 1500 to 1999 pieces
- A category of when the minifigure was first introduced, eg Category:Minifigures introduced in 2001
- Category:Sets (this is a supercategory)
- Category:Minifigures (this is a supercategory)
Categories which should not be created Edit
- Duplicate categories
- "In-universe" catgeories, such as "Category:Jedi", or "Category:Villains".
