User talk:DownNdirty

Categories
Sadly there is no real simple way to merge categories, unless through the use of a bot. The category in question would have to be removed and replaced manually to get the same effect. Though the reason those two categories are separate to begin with was to make it easier to navigate between pages that were only about a nation and pages that were specially about a person. All nation pages automatically get "Category:Member of..." from the nation infobox template. Due to this, and the fact the "Category:Member of New Pacific Order" category was becoming somewhat large, the "Category:People of the New Pacific Order" category was created to make it easier to navigate between pages that were not solely nation pages and instead just pages about the person. Though I can see how the categories may become somewhat redundant when a page contains info on both the nation and the person.

In regards to how the category comes from the template. In a template categories can be added using several different methods, including one of several tags. Examples of these would be the  and  tags (without the "." at the end of each tag of course). When the includeonly tags are in a template the item within them will be only included on pages where the template is used (i.e. a category for all pages the template is used on) while the noinclude tag will cause the item to be only included on the template page itself (i.e. a category for only the template).

In the case of the nation infobox template it is done using the qif template which checks to see if a parameter is in the template and if it is then it adds the item. In this case if an alliance affiliation is on the nation infobox then it adds the "Member of..." category using the alliance name entered into the alliance affiliation parameter.

Hope that helps. Lol pie 16:23, 24 February 2009 (UTC)