Editing Help:Categories for people

The SABR Encyclopedia defines categories to organize articles about people who had particular roles within baseball, as well as significant roles outside the game.

The preferred way to place a person article in any of these categories is to use the indicated template, which should be placed in the pagetext for the person.  The template handles making sure to assign the main article to the category, and not the subpage.  In addition, some templates define additional fields which can be used to store more information about the person's role, and/or may take other actions (such as displaying a box) in addition to placing the person in the category.


== Roles within baseball ==

{| class="prettytable"
! Category !! Template !! Description
|-
| [[:Category:Hall of Famers]] || [[:Template:person-hall-of-famer]] || Was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
|}

== Roles in sports other than baseball ==

{| class="prettytable"
! Category !! Template !! Description
|-
| [[:Category:Pro football players]] || [[:Template:person-pro-football-player]] || Played professional football.
|-
| [[:Category:Pro basketball players]] || [[:Template:person-pro-basketball-player]] || Played professional basketball.
|-
| [[:Category:Olympians]] || [[:Template:person-olympian]] || Played in the Olympics (in a sport other than baseball).
|}

== Roles in society at large ==

{| class="prettytable"
! Category !! Template !! Description
|-
| [[:Category:Actors]] || [[:Template:person-actor]] || Actors, whether stage or screen.
|-
| [[:Category:Authors]] || [[:Template:person-author]] || Authors.  Includes authors who wrote about baseball only; should not include people whose only writing credits were autobiographies and/or ghostwritten works.
|-
| [[:Category:Politicians]] || [[:Template:person-politician]] || People who served in elective office.
|-
| [[:Category:Veterans]] || [[:Template:person-veteran]] || People who served in active duty in the armed forces of a country (U.S. or other).
|}