Forum:Can I remove the word Category in a Category title?

Please have a look at this: http://thethreekingdoms.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Wei

As you can see I'm using the Category not only as a redirect, but also as an article. I was wondering if it is possible to remove the word 'Category' from 'Category:Wei' at the top of the page. -- Zantam03 21:06, March 1, 2010 (UTC)


 * No, as that's part of the namespace's name. What you can do, though, is use something like this to make the title look different. You would put to make the title appear as Wei, but it'd still actually be Category:Wei. - Brandon Rhea  (talk) 01:11, March 2, 2010 (UTC)

thanks for the link and reply. I did what you said and experimented a bit with the examples shown in the link but they don't seem to work for me... how come? It just says Template:Title instead of actually changing the title... -- Zantam03 01:22, March 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * The magic word now work on Wikia.
 * But i never used it to mask a namespace, yet. — TulipVorlax 03:35, March 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * only works for casing, like with iPhone. You can't use it for this scenario. -- 03:50, March 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * There is a setting that enables you do to that (e.g: change the display title) - but Wikia refuses to enable it. --Zapwire (talk/blog/edits) 13:21, March 2, 2010 (UTC)

Alright, I guess I have to stick with 'Category:Wei' then.. Thanks anyway -- Zantam03 11:29, March 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * Wait - you can, Brandon gave the instructions to do so. You can change the page's display title with that template.  Wjxhuang,  the 888th Avatar  {Talk} 05:46, March 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Well, due to personal interest I tried to add that template (including the related javascript for Common.css) into my own wiki, although it didn't really have any effect. Any idea what is missing?  ( C rynsos Talk 13:17, March 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * You have a couple of options Zantam:


 * Use a user written template with a JavaScript script to remove it on the fly
 * Request from us to unlock DISPLAYTITLE to let remove it using a magic word
 * But if this is something that tends to be an issue a lot, consider whether it might be simpler to put this information in the main namespace and not the Category namespace. You can always put on the category page to include it there.


 * --DaNASCAT 15:24, March 3, 2010 (UTC)


 * Although there's nothing that really prohibit the use of categories pages in that manner, i also think that the text need to be on it's own article. When visitor do a search, reasult only give page from the main space by default. But maybe Zantam has a good reason to do like he does ? — TulipVorlax 03:16, March 4, 2010 (UTC)

Well I just like it that way. My Wiki is about Three Kingdoms and Wei was one of those kingdoms. Under the text you get the redirects to the characters of the kingdom. So, everything's on one page. I like that. And when I type 'Wei' in the searchbar I get redirected straight to the category. -- Zantam03 08:06, March 4, 2010 (UTC)