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AstrologyNotes Astrological Knowledge Base
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Keeping AstrologyNotes organized, readable, searchable and generally easier to use is a daunting task. It requires the dedication of all AstrologyNotes authors, and it is not the sole job of any one person or group of people. When a new article is created, the author can place it in the right category and section (this is best done through the use of category templates). If this is not possible, the author could post a list of their newly created links on an Administrator's talk page and asked for assistance. This benefits both AstrologyNotes and the author, because their articles will be more noticeable and complement the rest of the site.
When creating a new article, please take some time to determine the best category. A list of categories is described in Template:Category templates (shown at the end of this article). We have designed a very easy way to insert a category along with all the associated menus and headers. For example, if your article is called Foobar and the best category for it is Foo, you simply add the template Foo to the top of your article. This process is more thoroughly described below.
Note that some categories may be confusing. For example, birth and biographical data about people belongs in category People or one of its subcategories, but an interpretation on a person's birth chart belongs in category [[Category:PeoplePersonal Interpretations|Personal Interpretations.
If your article is in the Reference section, please link it from the Glossary of astrological terms.
If your article adds an additional item to an existing list of items, update the list. For example, if there is a menu or list template for asteroids and you add an article for an asteroid not already on the list, go to the template page and add it.
AstrologyNotes is now organized by category templates, which insert into each article page the appropriate categories, headers and navigation that is associated with that category. All existing categories should have an associated template, if not you can create one or email an Administrator to create one for you.
This should be a good change which will make things much more clean, organized and easy to set up, once people get used to it.
Whenever you make a new page you should be able to simply add one template at the top to include the main category and all headers and menus that go with that category. For example, suppose I add a page for the planet Jupiter. I know this page should go in the (Planet category). I place the template {{Planet}} at the top of the article page for Jupiter, and this template puts the article in the Planet category by inserting the link [[Category:Planet]]). However, it also inserts the header for the Planet category, and the menus associated with Planets. Note templates have double curly brackets, whereas categories by themselves are placed with regular wiki links.
The category templates all have the same name as their associated category. To place an article in a particular category, you insert the template with the same name as that category. For example, to place article X in category Y, you would insert template Template:Y.
Please do not add additional categories that are already in the parent tree of the template category. Consider our previous example of the article page Jupiter. Jupiter is inside the Planet category which is itself within the Point category, which is inside the Common Elements category. The author should not add either of those two parent categories to the Jupiter page because that would be messy and the category pages would be full of redundant links making it harder to find things. Note that redundant categories do NOT make the article easier to find either by searching or by browsing.
If the author wants to add an additional category they can do so by adding a normal category link. Going back to our example, suppose we want to add a category called Benevolent points to the Jupiter article. We could add that category by placing [[Category:Benevolent points]] in the article source. Since the category Benevolent points does not already exist in the parent tree of the category Point, it is not included in the template and it would need to be added.
The procedure to create these templates is as follows:
The template {{Category templates}} should be updated whenever a new category template is created. It is shown below.
Category Template Trees
Main name space (all articles)
| Template | Function |
| {{Reference}} (view) | Adds template Reference header and puts page in category Reference |
| __ {{History}} (view) | Adds template Reference header and puts page in category History |
| __ {{Traditions}} (view) | Adds template Reference header and puts page in category Traditions |
| __ {{Branches}} (view) | Adds template Reference header and puts page in category Branches |
| __ {{Methods}} (view) | Adds template Reference header and puts page in category Methods |
| __ {{Tools}} (view) | Adds template Reference header and puts page in category Tools |
| __ __ {{Astrology software}} (view) | Adds template Reference header and puts page in category Astrology software |
| __ __ __{{Freeware}} (view) | Adds template Reference header and puts page in category Freeware |
| __ {{Common Elements}} (view) | Adds template Reference header and CommonElements and puts page in category Common Elements |
| __ __{{Point}} (view) | Adds templates Reference header and Chartpoints and puts page in category Point |
| __ __{{Planet}} (view) | Adds templates Reference header, Chartpoints and Planets and puts page in category Planet |
| __ __{{Fixed star}} (view) | Adds templates Reference header, Chartpoints and puts page in category Fixed star |
| __ {{Online books}} (view) | Adds template Reference header and Booklist and puts page in category Online books |
| __ __{{Ancient texts}} (view) | Adds template Reference header and Booklist and puts page in category Ancient texts |
| __ __ __{{Tetrabiblos}} (view) | Adds template Reference header and Menu-Tetrabiblos and puts page in category Tetrabiblos |
| __ {{Organizations}} (view) | Adds template Reference header and puts page in category Organizations |
| __ __{{Schools}} (view) | Adds template Reference header and puts page in category Schools |
| {{Interpretations}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category Interpretations |
| __ {{Predictive interpretations}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category Predictive interpretations |
| __ __{{Transits}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category Transits |
| __ __{{Progressions}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category Progressions |
| __ __{{Returns}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category Returns |
| __ __{{Horary interpretations}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category Horary interpretations |
| __ __{{Electional interpretations}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category Electional interpretations |
| __ {{Natal interpretations}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category Natal interpretations |
| __ __{{Sign interpretations}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category Sign interpretations |
| __ __{{House interpretations}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category House interpretations |
| __ __{{Aspect interpretations}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category Aspect interpretations |
| __ __{{Personal Interpretations}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category Personal Interpretations |
| __ __{{Event Interpretations}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category Event Interpretations |
| __ {{Group interpretations}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category Group interpretations |
| __ __{{Synastry interpretations}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category Synastry interpretations |
| __ __{{Composite interpretations}} (view) | Adds template Interpretations header and puts page in category Composite interpretations |
| {{Research}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Research |
| __ {{Data}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Data |
| __ __ {{Events}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Events |
| __ __ __{{Events by year}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Events by year |
| __ __ __{{Events by month}} (view) | Adds templa_te Research header and puts page in category Events by month |
| __ __ __{{Events by day}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Events by day |
| __ __{{People}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category People |
| __ __ __{{Statesmen and Politicians}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Statesmen and Politicians |
| __ __ __{{Royalty}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Royalty |
| __ __ __{{Actors and Actresses}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Actors and Actresses |
| __ __ __{{Musicians}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Musicians |
| __ __ __{{Authors}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Authors |
| __ __ __{{Philosophers}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Philosophers |
| __ __ __{{Architects}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Architects |
| __ __ __{{Scientists}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Scientists |
| __ __ __{{Artists}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Artists |
| __ __ {{Charts}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Charts |
| __ {{Research articles}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Research articles |
| __ __{{Original research}} (view) | Adds template Research header and puts page in category Original research |
| {{Essays}} (view) | Adds template Essays header and puts page in category Essays |
| __ {{General essays}} (view) | Adds template Essays header and puts page in category General essays |
| __ {{Interpretive essays}} (view) | Adds template Essays header and puts page in category Interpretive essays |
AstrologyNotes name space
| Template | Function |
| {{AstrologyNotes}} (view) | Adds template AstrologyNotes header and puts page in category AstrologyNotes |
Help name space
| Template | Function |
| {{Help}} (view) | Adds template AstrologyNotes header and puts page in category Help |
Template name space
| Template | Function |
| {{Template groups}} (view) | Adds template AstrologyNotes header and puts page in category Template groups |
MediaWiki name space
| Template | Function |
| {{MediaWiki groups}} (view) | Adds template AstrologyNotes header and puts page in category MediaWiki groups |
Image name space
| Template | Function |
| {{Image groups}} (view) | Adds template AstrologyNotes header and puts page in category Image groups |
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