Add [[Category:Avery Name Study]] as plain text.

Question

I want to add the following to the AVERY name study which I've seen on other studies: [To add a profile to the Avery Name Study, insert [[Category:Avery Name Study]] after Biography.]

But the [[Category:Avery Name Study]] doesn't show up obviously because it's being translated as just adding the page to the Category name. How do I add [[Category:Avery Name Study]] as just plain text with no coding within it?

Comments

One way is to put

<nowiki>[[Category: Avery Name Study]]</nowiki>

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The categories that you add using the normal coding method now appear at the bottom of profile, free-space, and category pages:

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/806792/did-you-see-that-categories-now-appear-at-the-bottom-profiles

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Putting that text in the body of the profile would seem to be aimed at getting around the burying of categories at the bottom of the page?

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Using the colon before the word Category (and withing the double brackets that create an internal link) creates a link to the category, but does not add the page to the category.

Using the <nowiki> coding will allow you to add plain text, without a link and without adding the page to the category.

To add the profile or free-space page to the categorized group, you still must use the normal category coding method (i. e. use the category picker formatting button).

It's simply a question of your goal.

Answer 1

To create a regular link, you add a colon before the word Category:

[[:Category:Avery Name Study]]

Or as RJ mentioned, you can use <nowiki></nowiki> tags around a text area to show all of the data between those tags without the text being executed or read by the server.

Comments

I've been wondering what the : before word category was for.