Forum:How do you delete categories?

Does anyone know? It says you can do it in the help section, so I'm guessing you must be able to, right? Cheers.

Steve.


 * You can delete a category like any other page if you're an admin on the wiki, however if you're replacing it with a new category or there are still a lot of pages in it, you need to edit those pages and either change or remove the category manually. -- 12:28, May 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks, but how exactly do I do it? When I tried deleting the catagory just like any other page, everything in the category got deleted, but the category is still there, so I obviously haven't deleted it properly. I'm new, and I'm not exactly the sharpest knife in the drawer anyway, I don't even understand the difference between deleting something manually and deleting it in some other non-manual way, sorry. Truth be told, that doesn't even make sense to me. Yeah, I feel pretty simple right now, heh heh, don't you worry about that. So where exactly do you have to go to delete them, or could you link me to the part in the guide that tells you how to do it 'cos I can't find it? I tried asking the staff how to do it, but I don't know if I even did that right 'cos I just got another welcome message that said I can ask for help here, so I don't know if that was a reply or if they just haven't had time to reply yet, and that was just a random message. To be honest, I'm starting to think I might have bitten off more than I can chew here anyway. I mean, obviously, I knew there would be a ridiculous amount of research to do, years of it, but I just kind of assumed this part would be easy - - like a one second job each time, but it's just annoying me now really. Is it possible to delete the whole thing if I later decide I'm not really up to the challenge? Cheers.


 * Steve.


 * If you press delete on a category page and delete it, if there are still pages that call that category, it will be considered a "Wanted" Category, meaning that pages exist for that category, but the category page itself doesn't exist. If you delete the category, it doesn't delete the pages inside it, they still exist.


 * As for the category in question, Category:Characters, that category only has one page in the category. The category page itself however is full of "Wanted" Pages (or red link pages, pages which don't yet exist), but those pages aren't considered in the category, because they haven't been created yet.


 * You have a couple of options, if you're wanting to get rid of the category entirely but want to keep that list of pages on the category page, you'll need to create those pages. If you want to keep the category, create those pages, and put them in the category, you'll need to place on each of those pages that you make that is a character page, then the category will start to fill up.


 * Let me know what exactly you want to do and I'll help you out the best I can.


 * Regards. -- 19:36, May 25, 2010 (UTC)


 * Actually, I think that'll help quite a bit, cheers. I think what I really want to do, seeing as I've hardly done anything yet, is to start again from scratch, and plan out how I'm going to do it better. Is there a quick way of just deleting all of the pages? Also, how do you rename categories? One more thing, do the messages on this forum get deleted eventually, or can I refer to them indefinitely? Cheers.


 * Steve.


 * If you want to start completely over with this, you can delete Category:Characters and remove the category link from Scrimmpedia - Phantasm Wiki|this page. Then you'll have a clean slate.


 * And the forums here stay intact, so you can reference them for as long as you wish. -- 20:28, May 25, 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, I don't know how to remove a category link. Is there anyway to give me a link to where this is all explained in the help guide? At this rate I'll be on here every day rather than doing the research. Also, as I said before, I would like to know if it is possible to delete the entire thing because it would be an embarrassment to Phantasm if this was left for the world to see in all of its half-assed glory. I don't understand why I couldn't set the thing up first, rather than having to just throw an empty wiki out there and update it as quickly as I possibly can, when I don't know how to use the site, and much is left open to interpretation to beginners in the guide. You should be able to experiment with your own wiki's layout before it goes public, right? Wrong, I guess, but why not? That's what I don't get. Cheers.

Steve.

EDIT: Also, the category FILMS has no pages, yet I cannot delete it. Clearly, I am missing something.


 * Nobody own wikis on Wikia.
 * Bein an administrator of a wiki because you started it or adopted it doesn't mean you have to do all the work by yourself before someone comes by and think « pff.. this wiki suck ». That will happen anyway.
 * A few years ago i started a wiki on Wikia wich now has more that 10000 pages and people still come by saying it suck.
 * Thoses peoples doesn't seems to understand that it take a lot of contributors for a wiki to suck less. One of them even said « i'll come back when you site will be finished ».
 * That said, to remove a category on a page, you need to look at the source wiki code and remove something that look like.
 * That's all. — TulipVorlax 23:13, May 25, 2010 (UTC)