PinoyVeggie

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February 2014

Hello, I'm Jim1138. I noticed that you recently removed all content from Utan, with this edit, without explaining why. In the future, it would be helpful to others if you described your changes to Wikipedia with an edit summary. If this was a mistake, don't worry, I restored the page's content. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Jim1138 (talk) 02:12, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Utan is a all vegetable dish in the Philippines served over rice that contains vegetables not commonly available in the USA. Do a image search on Bing for "Utan Philippines". PinoyVeggie (talk) 02:23, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

I said "don't blank the page". What's all that stuff you left on my talk page got to do with that request? Jim1138 (talk) 02:37, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

I did not blank the page. I left a stub for the creation of an article for the all vegetable dish of the Philippines called "Utan". PinoyVeggie (talk) 02:56, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

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Utan

I've looked at the article and added a few categories for you (I probably would have done so right off the bat, if I'd found the article manually instead of editing it inside an automated batch.) Generally for a food item, the most appropriate categories are Category:Philippine cuisine (or the adjective for whatever other country the dish originates from, such as Japanese or Canadian or Egyptian or whatever), and then "Ingredient dishes" for the main classes of ingredients (in this case I picked Category:Vegetable dishes and Category:Rice dishes).

For future reference, if you need to pick categories for a new article in the future, there's no one place where you can consult a list of all the possible categories that exist on Wikipedia — rather, what you should do is check our articles on similar or related topics (a similar dish, etc.) to see where they're categorized and whether the same categories are suitable for your article or not. (Judging by your username I'm guessing that your primary interest is going to be in vegetable dishes from the Philippines, so those three categories I just listed for you are probably the ones you're going to want to use most often — but if you start expanding out of that area of interest, that's the process that will help you figure out where to put other articles.)

But it's also not a task that you're required to do personally — since Wikipedia is a collaborative project, if you just can't figure out where to categorize an article it's perfectly okay to just put it in the uncategorized articles queue by adding {{uncategorized}} at the bottom, so that somebody else who knows more about the categorization system can find it for you.

Hope that helps a bit. Bearcat (talk) 17:45, 1 March 2014 (UTC)