Template:Category handler/blacklist

Actual code of this blacklist:

</noinclude>{{if pagename
<!-- Start of blacklist -->

| Main Page = hide   <!-- Don't categorise the main page -->

<!-- Don't categorise on centralised cascade page or its subpages -->
| Wikipedia:Cascade-protected items/+ = hide

<!-- Don't categorise userboxes in their own "template space" -->
| User:UBX/+ = hide 
| User talk:UBX/+ = hide 

| Wikipedia:Template messages/* = hide   <!-- Don't categorise on its subpages -->

| /archiv* = hide   <!-- Don't categorise on /archive pages -->

<!-- End of blacklist -->
| page = {{{page|}}}   <!-- Never change this one, see the doc -->
}}<noinclude>

Template documentation

This is the {{Category handler/blacklist}} sub-template.

Do not use this template directly, use {{Category handler}} instead. This template is called from {{Category handler}}, see user documentation there.

But if you came here to see or update the category suppression blacklist, then you are in the right place.

Updating the blacklist

This template contains a blacklist of the pages and page types where templates should not auto-categorise. This blacklist is used by {{category handler}} to decide when not to categorise. To update the blacklist, edit this template.

This template uses if pagename to do the pagename-detection, thus see if pagename for the syntax to use for the blacklist rules.

When this template is placed on a page that should not categorise, then it should return "hide". And when placed on any other page it should return an empty string.

Technical details

Currently this template is only called from {{Category handler}}, and indirectly from all templates that use {{category handler}}. But in the future this template might also be directly called from other templates similar to {{category handler}}. This means we can update the category suppression blacklist in one place.