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Categorizing artwork by subject

In many cases, several images exist for a given subject. For example, File:Sarenrae religious symbol.webp and File:Sarenrae portrait.jpg both relate to the deity Sarenrae, so they both belong to Category:Images of Sarenrae. Additionally, some images belong in multiple subject categories. Thus, File:Sarenrae religious symbol.webp belongs in both Category:Images of religious symbols and Category:Images of Sarenrae.

You can use more general categories, such as ancestry and class for NPCs and creature type. When in doubt, use the broadest possible categorization and someone else can categorize it more specifically if necessary.

When there is more than one artwork for an NPC, for instance, in the case of the iconics, descriptive categories, such as Category:Images of humans, can quickly become cluttered. To avoid this, it is preferable to have just one image of that person to represent them in parent categories—their primary artwork—with the rest of their images categorized only in that person's individual category. Thus, Category:Images of Valeros is vast but Category:Images of iconics, Category:Images of fighters, Category:Images of humans, and Category:Images of Chelaxians only have one image of Valeros. Additionally, they also all include Category:Images of Valeros as a subcategory for people wanting more Valeros.

To effect this, fully categorize the primary artwork of an NPC, say Bob, into all his appropriate categories using the keyword = parameter: ancestry, class, etc. starting with keyword1 = Bob. Then, add all those categories to Category:Images of Bob. Thereafter, any new art should be placed into Category:Images of Bob using keyword1 = Bob and none of the others. It is perfectly fine to add any categories for novel elements in the artwork, such as something carried by the individual rarely seen in other portraits.

If a new fact about an NPC is discovered later, for instance, that Bob is a Taldan, be sure to add that new category, to the primary artwork (using keywordn = Taldans) and to Category:Images of Bob (using Category:Images of Taldans).