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Adding Categories edit
No problem on giving some tips, Wiki takes a bit of time to get used to, but pretty intuitive after that. To actually add a category to your article, you just type[[Category:American jazz clarinetists]] or whatever, within those brackets, at the bottom of your article.
Of course, it's important to make sure that such category actually exists first. A couple ways to do that. Maybe pick a similar article and see where it is: if I wonder where to file "Royal Enfield" a motorcycle manufacturer, I can look up "Harley Davidson" and see that there is indeed a Category "Motorcycle manufacturers", as opposed to "Companies producing motorcycles" or "Motorcycle companies."
Alternately, like with your German plaza article, you could go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Germany, see that there's a "Geography of Germany" section, and follow that until you find where the particular city is filed, or maybe a category called "streets in Germany."
You can use multiple categories, but try and have each category be as precise as is reasonable. That is, file "Toad in the Hole" under "British cuisine" rather than "England", "Food", "British culture", etc. All those categories ultimately lead to "British cuisine", so might as well put the article in the precisest category.
Hope this helps. Proper categorization and wiki-linking really ties all the Wikipedia articles together, allowing people to jump from article to article with ease. It makes every article you write a lot more accessible.
If you get interested in how the whole categorizing process works, it's kind of fun to go to WP:UNCAT and figure out where to file the "lost" articles. Neat little way to kill 10 minutes and run across some really interesting stuff lost in the depths of Wiki.
Hope this helps. MatthewVanitas (talk) 18:43, 1 February 2009 (UTC)