Board Thread:Admin Discussion/@comment-4146635-20130519051154/@comment-5384369-20130519133133

And now to categories for each page..... There are way too many categories added on some pages. I mean, I can understand how some of them fit, but a lot of them are just rephrased or just the plural version. I will admit that I probably added most of the junk categories that are on there in the first place. I mean, based on Violet’s logic (and a little of my own), if there is more of one thing like a picture, then just use the plural. So of course that reduces some of the categories. I mean, I think that a page should have about 3 lines of categories, that’s plenty, but because it also involves earning a badge, that’s why categories have grown so much. Which brings me to my next point; this is actually a very difficult situation considering it also involves a badge. If we try to limit what you can and can’t add, it partially takes away edits and the chance of earning a badge. I’m trying not to brag here, but I do know that I have earned more category badges than anyone on this wiki. That’s mostly because I added those junky categories that probably weren’t even needed (I’ll mention that later). So, is it really fair for new users to have a lesser chance than I had? It’s kind of a “Well, they did it” situations. Going onto what I said before, if we do chose to do something about the categories, we should really define what an unnecessary category is and what isn’t. Obviously, some of them are really easy to tell. But some of them aren’t. I mean, I probably contributed to half of the ones that aren’t even needed, really. Personally, because I think that for categories like “Picture this” and “picture that” or “Image this” and “Image that” should go on the gallery pages only (or not at all). That’s what is mainly taking up most of the space. Also, what a lot of users can do is just add a certain picture and they can add more categories to that page. For example, on the Ally Dawson page, just add a picture of Auslly and it opens the page up to Austin Moon Categories. I think a really good Idea would be to remove the categories that are have at the bottom, only leave the categories that relate to the whole page, and for each “section”, add the categories that are needed. That might decrease the amount of categories, but I really don’t know. I also think a good idea would be, whenever someone creates a category, they add a description. Like the gallerybox that is added on each gallery page. Just make a categorybox, (I guess) it would just say the name of the category, and any other side notes would go at the bottom of it. I think this could help because that way people could actually reference to that so they know what page they can actually add it on. And, then there really wouldn’t be an excuse to adding unnecessary categories. If we just want to make this simple, just have about 10 categories per page. If we really want to have a tighter hold on categories, due to the wiki growing and a lot of categories have already been created, should we just make like a talk page for those who want to create a category, it would just have to be approved first... [http://samandcat.wikia.com/wiki/Sam_and_Cat_Wiki:Layout_guide I thought this page could come in handy too. Just look at the categorization section…]