Thread:Wardie1993/@comment-104549-20180705224428

Let's talk about The Bonny White Flag.

The article itself seems fine; in fact, I'm impressed by your ability to conjure up lyrics, since I have had trouble doing so myself. The issue is the categories. You may want to reference the Categorization Policy repeatedly as we go along.
 * 1) Let's start with your categories Patriotic Songs and Anthems of Confederate Earth, Confederate States of Earth, Earth (Wardie1993), and Songs of Separatist Earth. Of those four, only one actually exists; the others are just empty pages with pages assigned to them.  By "exists" I mean has text like "This catergory is for articles relating to anthems and patriotic songs of the Confederate States of Earth and related governments, e.g. Patriotic Songs and Anthems of Confederate Earth".  A couple issues:
 * 2) If you make a category, it needs to have a description.
 * 3) Don't make more categories than you need. "Patriotic Songs and Anthems of Confederate Earth" and "Songs of Separatist Earth" seem more or less interchangeable; I'd recommend axing the former and sticking with the latter, but the opposite works just as well.  It's not immediately clear what the purpose of "Earth (Wardie1993)" is; without a description, it's hard to give you advice.  "Confederate States of Earth", as long as it gets a relevant description, can probably stay.
 * 4) Every category must, itself, be in a category. "Songs of Separatist Earth", your only category with a description, doesn't have a category.
 * 5) Remember that, if a bunch of related categories apply to an article, only the most specific one should be used. For example, if talking about a Jedi Knight, the proper category would be Jedi Knights, not the more general Jedi (and definitely not the hopelessly general Individuals).  Looking at it another way, "Jedi Knights" is in the category "Jedi", and "Jedi" is in "Individuals by occupation", which is in "Individuals".  Basically, if you can follow the chain of categories up from the one you're applying, nothing higher in the chain should be added to your article.
 * 6) Here's how this applies to you. On "The Bonny White Flag", you have (leaving out your personal categories) "Anthems", "Songs", and "Music".  "Anthems" is in the category "Songs", which is itself in "Music".  Applying the above principle, "Songs" and "Music" need to go; "Anthems" can stay, except...
 * 7) If you keep "Patriotic Songs and Anthems of Confederate Earth", I assume that'll be categorized in "Anthems" itself, which means "Anthems" will have to go too. If you keep "Songs of Separatist Earth", that would probably be categorized in "Songs", which means "Songs of Separatist Earth" and "Anthems" could both be applied to "The Bonny White Flag"; they're at the same rung in the category chain, so they can both stay.
 * 8) Finally, note the final section of the Categorization Policy regarding user-based categories. Two points here.
 * 9) First, the syntax of your category User:Wardie1993 (which, coincidentally, also doesn't exist) is wrong. The category should be "Articles by Wardie1993".
 * 10) Be careful that you don't wind up creating categories that amount to just more iterations of "Articles by Wardie1993". Something like "Songs of Separatist Earth" is fine, because that's a legitimate subset of articles within the universe you created; I did something similar here.  Just keep it in mind.

This is a lot of information, so I'll give you a couple days to read it and make the necessary corrections across your articles. If you have any questions or need clarification, reply to this message. 