[WikiEN-l] Main & Sub Categories

[Rich Holton]

Marc Riddell wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just entered the cause of death and Category: Lung cancer deaths to the
> Article on Illinois Representative Charles Arthur Hayes. His name now
> appears in that Category, but not in the Category: Cancer deaths. Shouldn't
> he appear in this Category also since cancer is what he died from? It seems
> the only way to accomplish this is to include both Categories in his
> Article. However, when I have done this in the past, in other similar
> situations, I have gotten a whole lot of grief. What gives?
> 
> Frustrated.
> 
> Marc Riddell
> 

Marc,

I can tell you that there is no mechanism in the software to implicitly 
include articles in categories, such as you seem to want. If you want an 
article in a category, you must specifically place the category tag on 
that article.

Note, however, that many templates do include the necessary tag to place 
an article that uses that template into one or more category.

On the other hand, if you mean "should" as a desired behavior, that's 
another discussion altogether.

-Rich