Forum:Categories, Subcategories, and Sub-Subcategories?

I want to include Categories, Subcategories, and SubSubcategories into my template. Basically the user fills out the template and it will automatically add Tags to the page where appropriate using if statements.

Say for example the categories are Pets, Dogs, Retriever. If I am working on the Retriever page, I'd want Retriever to go into Dogs, and Dogs into Pets. This works:

I'm not sure how add the Subcategories or Subsubcategories though. Any help? Adam weiler 22:07, August 24, 2011 (UTC)
 * Put  into   and Dogs into Pets. I think this is what you're asking. –  Jä  zz  i  22:10, August 24, 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I'm an administrator at Brickipedia and I have a problem with sub categories and edit tracks. On Brickipedia we recently created an edit track for the category, 'Minifigures'. In this category we have sub-categories such as 'Minifigures introduced in 2011'. When you edit an article at Brickipedia that has the category 'Minifigures introduced in 2011' and not the category 'Minifigures', the edit doesn't count towards the 'Minifigures edit track'. Please can someone help explain why? Thanks, kind regards. 17:13, September 4, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah is there any way of viewing an entire category, ie all the articles from all the subcategories in that category, as well as articles in that category? If not, I hate the way subcategories work--Acer4666 18:28, September 4, 2011 (UTC) 18:39, September 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * No. You can have all the sub-categories in one category but you can't have all the articles from the sub-categories in the main category.
 * That will be the reason your articles that are in a subcategory of minifigures (but not in the minifigures category) are not showing in the minifigures edit track, surely?
 * I think there should be a way to see what I am asking for above. Clearly, Adam Weiler (above) wants to be able to see a list of Dogs, which should include all the articles in the retriever category (because they are dogs). On wiki 24, we are forced to put "characters" AND "Day 1 characters" onto character articles because of this. It leads to either a vague, general category system with not many categories, or a wiki full of overcategorisation--Acer4666 19:26, September 4, 2011 (UTC)


 * You can have all articles in a subcategory and the main category. What puts the article in a category (main or otherwise) is just having the wikitext category markup in the article source. The only thing that makes a subcategory a subcategory is that it has another category markup in its source, so it will show up as a subcategory of a category. -- Fandyllic (talk &middot; contr) 4 Sep 2011 3:11 PM Pacific


 * Yes but I'm saying that putting articles in subcategories and all parent categories leads to a massive ugly list of russian-doll style categories at the bottom of every article. There should be a way to view all subcategories together in one list, which I guess would require dpl or whatever that is--Acer4666 22:18, September 4, 2011 (UTC)