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[edit] Conventions and Wiktionary-specific settings
Each page is typically in at least one category. It may be in more, but it may be wise not to put a page in a category and also in a more general category.
Each category, except one top-level category, (Category:Fundamental in this wiki), is typically in at least one higher level category.
Check the conventions here at Wiktionary:Categories and make yourself familiar with the categories in use before assigning pages and subcategories to categories and before creating new categories.
For category names the usual rules for case-sensitivity of page names apply: they are case-sensitive for all characters, but in most projects the first character is case-insensitive. So be aware that you create a new category if the capitalization beyond the first character is not the same.
In Wiktionary, all topic categories begin with a capital letter (i.e. an article is included in Category:Foods and not Category:foods. For language-specific categories, it is often preferable to add to a category such as Category:fr:Slang, with the fr being in lowercase, but at the moment there are no rules, and sometimes they are put into similar categories beginning with a capital letter. Compare Category:French interjections and Category:zh:Interjections.
