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Hi Mathmitch7, Thanks for your query. I'd suggest starting with a close look at the categories that *already* exist and see how they're organized. See:
Many templates include category declarations in their transcludable text, for the purpose of placing the pages containing those templates into specific categories... However, it is recommended that articles not be placed in ordinary content categories using templates in this way. There are many reasons for this: editors cannot see the category in the wikitext; removing or restructuring the category is made more difficult (partly because automated processes will not work); inappropriate articles and non-article pages may get added to the category; sort keys may be unavailable to be customised per category; ordering of categories on the page is less controllable; and the "incategory" search term will not find such pages.
Always room for further development/ refinement of categorization for a family of articles, but starting with a logical category hierarchy structure, and implementing it with finesse, article by article, results in a more well-organized -- and useful! -- set of categories. By contrast, transcluding categories via a NavBox would result in all articles automatically being placed in the root/ main category, which is less helpful, not to mention the various 'endless loops'. The "what links here" feature works just fine... Kind regards, DA Sonnenfeld (talk) 16:52, 9 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
