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'''No individual article pages should link to this one. [[:Category:Floor 500]] should remain composed of only four subcategories.'''

'''[[:Category:Time-Space Visualiser]]''' is by far the largest of the subcategories. It contains the vast majority of articles present on this wiki. All categories and pages within it contain information written from an [[Tardis:point of view|in-universe perspective]]. That is, they are written on topics that have to do with the ''narrative "reality"'' of ''Doctor Who'' and its spin-offs. Such articles are easy to spot, because they're written in the past tense and tend to treat their subjects as "real" things that once existed. Note that this category includes information about ''[[Doctor Who]]'', ''[[Torchwood (TV series)|Torchwood]]'', ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', ''[[K9 and Company]]'' and ''[[K9 (TV series)|K9 (2009)]]'' — and almost all licensed spin-off material arising therefrom.

Finally, there's '''[[:Category:The Hub]]''', which is an administrative category for things that help the wiki function. Most of the things that get put in this category do so automatically, because a little piece of code makes it happen. Unless you really start editing the structure of this wiki, though, chances are you'll never peek inside this folder.

No article should be tagged as being in more than one of these four main categories. An article can — theoretically — belong to an unlimited number of subcategories, but all these subcategories must be a part of only one of the four main categories. For instance, a thing cannot be both non-canonical ''and'' a part of the ''Doctor Who'' universe. Nor can it be both in the real world and in-universe.

This last assertion may be harder to grasp. If you have a category like [[:category:People from the real world]] — which tags real-life people like [[Charles Dickens]] who have appeared in ''Doctor Who'' — you may believe that such a category belongs both within [[:Category:Real world]] and [[:Category:Time-Space Visualiser]]. In fact, though, the article [[Charles Dickens]] is written from an in-universe perspective. That is, it's about Dickens' relevance to the history of ''that'' universe, not our own. Thus, the category '''only''' belongs in [[:Category:Time-Space Visualiser]]. Such cases, though, are rare. Most of the time, it's perfectly obvious which main category should house an article.

Despite the general desire to keep things only in one of the four categories, there are a couple of very specific exceptions, both having to do with [[:Category:Merchandise]]:

As a general rule, we've tried to make the distinction between real world and in-universe categories easy. Take, for instance, broadcasters. There are brodcasters in the Whoniverse, like [[AMNN]]. And there are broadcasters in the real world, like [[BBC America]]. Clearly, they shouldn't be in the same category, but somehow the word "broadcaster" will probably appear in the two separate categories that these articles require. Generally, it works like this:

:Unmodified nouns name subcategories within [[:Category:Time-Space Visualiser]], and if it's in [[:Category:Real world]], it's prefaced with the words "Real world". Thus [[:Category:Broadcasters]] is about broadcasters within the ''Doctor Who'' universe, whereas [[:Category:Real world broadcasters]] is for broadcasters that actually exist. The odd exception is for noting real life things that appear within the fictional world of ''Doctor Who'' — and thus become a part of the Whoniverse — which we'll discuss next.