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 1. Summary:

The Wikimedia Commons category system provides guidelines for categorizing Wikipedia articles. Categories help classify articles and facilitate easy navigation for users. The guidelines emphasize maintaining a consistent category structure, meaningful grouping, avoiding overlapping categories, using specific names, and considering the scope and purpose of categories. They also suggest addressing issues related to article categorization, such as adding subcategories or separate categories when a single document covers multiple topics, and using automated tools for categorization and regular review to ensure category accuracy. In other words, the Wikimedia Commons category pages provide an effective method for editors to categorize articles.

2. Interesting point:

It is interesting to note that naming conventions for categories are divided into general conventions and special conventions. General conventions include applying standard article naming conventions, deciding between singular and plural names for categories, avoiding abbreviations, and not explicitly stating the category structure in the name. Special conventions include being cautious when categorizing articles, as topic categories are singular while collection categories are plural, including "WikiProject" in the names of all WikiProject categories, and adding the prefix "Wikipedia" (without a colon) to categories used for Wikipedia administration to prevent confusion with content categories.

3. Discussion point:

How to better classify articles?