Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people

This page documents an English Wikipedia editing guideline. It is a generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to follow, though occasional exceptions may apply. Any substantive edit to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page.

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This page in a nutshell: Categorizing by ethnicity, gender, religion, sexuality, or disability should be done only as appropriate.

This guideline concerns the categorization of biographical articles about people. This includes:

• All articles named after a person or a group of persons. (This includes split-outs of such articles – see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) § Several articles treating the same person).
• All categories where such biographical articles could be expected to be located.