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 ==Subcategories==
-Categories themselves can also be specified to belong to another category. When displaying the page of a category to which other categories belong, a separate automatically generated, alphabetical list of subcategories is also produced.
+A subcategory is a category belonging to another category. Subcategories are useful when a contributor wants to group pages by an event date. For example, <nowiki>[[</nowiki>Category:Great_Mozilla_Conference<nowiki>]]</nowiki> can be a main category while each event year should be a subcategory.
-For example you could edit <nowiki>[[</nowiki>Category:Soccer<nowiki>]]</nowiki> and add the link <nowiki>[[</nowiwki>Category:Sports<nowiki>]]</nowiki>. The Soccer category is now a subcategory of the Sports category.
+===How to Create a Subcategory===
+In the edit mode of a main category page, declare a category as you would on a regular content page. Once saved, the main category page will now display its new subcategory and the pages belonging to that subcategory.
 =How to Use Categories=