# NetHackWiki:Categories

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A category is an automatic list of existing wiki pages, useful to both wiki editors and readers; it is useful for exploring wiki pages that have already been created.
To add a page to a category, put a link like [[Category:Articles]] at the bottom of the page. (You could put it anywhere, but the bottom is best.) To only make normal link, such as Category:Articles, use [[:Category:Articles]] with an extra colon before "Category". To move a page to a different category, edit the page and replace the [[Category:...]] tag with the one that you want to use.
By convention, categories are named like articles, except that they tend to be plural nouns.

Contents

1 Category descriptions
2 Sortkeys
3 List of categories
4 See also

Category descriptions
If you try to edit a category page, you will only be able to edit the category description that appears above the list of articles. To actually change the list of articles, you need to edit the individual articles and adjust their category links.

Sortkeys
Each category page lists its pages in alphabetical order under first letter. It is possible to change this using sortkeys.
For example, normally everything in Category:Potions would be under "P", because all of the articles start with "potion of": potion of enlightenment, potion of see invisible, and the others. However, using sortkeys, we can put the potion of enlightenment under "E" and that of see invisible under "S". The following code belongs at the bottom of its respective article:

[[Category:Potions|Enlightenment]]
[[Category:Potions|See invisible]]
List of categories
Current categories include the following. There might already be new categories that are not in this list. You can also look at the current category tree using Special:CategoryTree (if your browser supports it).

Category:Articles root category for everything and miscellaneous
Category:Community for articles about 3rd party events, creations, etc.;
Category:Acronyms acronyms and initialisms, mostly redirects
Category:Dudley's dungeon
Category:Literature
Category:Notable people
Category:Patches
Category:Public servers
Category:Spoiler files for preserved spoiler texts
Category:Tournaments
Category:Usenet
Category:Utilities
Category:Websites
Category:Development for C/UNIX/coding articles
Category:Games for articles on other related games
Category:History for articles on past versions
Category:Items
Category:Amulets
Category:Armor
Category:Body armor
Category:Cloaks
Category:Gloves
Category:Helms
Category:Shields
Category:Artifacts
Category:Artifact weapons
Category:Quest artifacts
Category:Unique items
Category:Comestibles
Category:Dwarvish items
Category:Elven items
Category:Item attributes
Category:Materials
Category:Potions
Category:Rings
Category:Scrolls
Category:Spellbooks
Category:Tools
Category:Wands
Category:Weapons
Category:Levels
Category:Special rooms
Category:Dungeon features
Category:Traps
Category:Dungeon branches
Category:Planes
Category:Quests
Category:Sokoban
Category:Special levels
Category:Licenses
Category:NGPL
Category:CWI
Category:Monsters
Category:Monster attacks
Category:Monster attributes
Category:Monster mechanics
Category:Monster spells
Category:Unique monsters
Category:Pets
Category:Religion
Category:Gods
Category:Source code for annotated source code
Category:Annotations
Category:Bugs
Category:Deferred features
Category:Hack 1.0 source code
Category:NetHack 1.3d source code
Category:NetHack 1.4f source code
Category:NetHack 2.2a source code
Category:NetHack 2.3e source code
Category:NetHack 3.0.0 source code
Category:NetHack 3.1.0 source code
Category:NetHack 3.2.0 source code
Category:NetHack 3.3.0 source code
Category:NetHack 3.4.0 source code
Category:Spellcasting
Category:Monster spells
Category:Spellbooks
Category:Spells
Category:Spell schools
Category:Strategy for strategies: boulder fort, nurse dancing...
Category:Cheating
Category:Conducts
Category:Untracked conducts
Category:User interface
Category:ASCII for ASCII characters
Category:16x16 tiles for tile graphics
Category:Commands
Category:Messages
Category:Options
Category:Extended commands
Category:Variants for variants of vanilla NetHack
Category:NetHack brass
Category:Extended commands of NetHack brass
Category:Items of NetHack brass
Category:SLASH'EM for things added to SLASH'EM but not in vanilla
Category:SLASH'EM items
Category:SLASH'EM monsters
Category:SLASH'EM races
Category:SLASH'EM roles
Category:SporkHack for things added to SporkHack but not in vanilla
Category:UnNetHack for things added to UnNetHack but not in vanilla
Category:NetHackWiki for managing this wiki
Category:Candidates for deletion
Category:Disambiguation disambiguation pages
Category:Featured articles
Category:Function templates
Category:Logical color templates
Category:Images
Category:Fair use
Category:GFDL
Category:Screenshots
Category:Link templates
Category:Pages to be merged
Category:Rodney for content from Rodney
Category:Skill tables for pages generated by NetHackWiki:Skill table generator
Category:Stubs for pages marked {{stub}}
Category:Your character
Category:Attributes
Category:Properties
Category:Races for player races
Category:Roles for player roles (classes)
Category:Encyclopedia pages converted to Template:Encyclopedia
Only create a category page if the category contains at least one page or two subcategories, and if the category has the potential to contain several pages or subcategories.

See also
All pages (Category namespace)
Special:Categories list of all categories