Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-2217381-20180617151723/@comment-2217381-20180618033345

Reguyla wrote: If I understand your question correctly, all categories should have a parent category and lead somewhere. You could have all articles just fall under a main category or have the articles fall under sub categories that then roll up to the parent. You could, if you wanted to, have the articles show up in the parent and in a subcat and that does happen sometimes but I would recommend trying to avoid doing that. I'm not sure you did understand my question correctly, but perhaps it was too vague. Here's another try:

We have a category called "Characters" which has a subcategory called "Characters by Residence" which has a subcategory "Characters from Beetleburg", or, more graphically:
 * Characters
 * Characters by Residence
 * Characters from Beetleburg

I believe all of our categories, subcategories, and category pages are formed and formatted correctly.

A character named Agatha Heterodyne is in the category "Characters from Beetleburg", as you can see by looking at her page or the category page for "Characters from Beetleburg". But Agatha is not in the category "Characters", nor does she show up on the category page for "Characters". 'My understanding was that the Agatha Heterodyne page should'' show up on the "Characters" category page, since it is in a subcategory of a subcategory of that category. Is this incorrect?'''

If pages in subcategories, sub-subcategories, etc., are not displayed on a top -level category page, then is there any way to make all pages that are in the child, grandchild, etc., of a category show up on the category page for that category, short of assigning both the parent and child (grandchild, etc.) category to the page in question. (If I understood you correctly, you are recommending that we don't do this, but I am not sure.)

It seems to me that all characters should be listed on the "Character" page, so if Wikia doesn't allow pages to display all members of all descendant categories, as well as the category for that page, I am disappointed.