Forum:Category Major Overhaul

Hi everyone,

It has come to my attention that the categories are a disaster. They're for the most part totally useless because of several reasons:


 * They have little value as a category because they have 0 or 1 article in them each;
 * They are overspecialized in particular worlds when they don't have to be;
 * They aren't even categorized properly;
 * The articles themselves are categorized in too many ways to be useful.

Please help out with Project:Category Major Overhaul !!! This will make the site a lot more navigable and will improve your and others' experience on this site. Although I started this project, I'll need your help with:


 * Marking empty, useless, or pointless categories as such with  . The list of categories is here; use this as your base of operations.
 * Re-categorizing pages. For now, the only categories should be world (project) categories and the following:


 * 1) Category:Creatures (any article on races, species, animals, plants, aliens, etc.)
 * 2) Category:Individuals (any article on a unique individual)
 * 3) Category:Events (any article on wars, events, etc)
 * 4) Category:Settlements, Category:Places, Category:Regions, Category:Planets, etc.
 * 5) Category:Organizations
 * 6) Category:Technologies
 * 7) Category:Timelines

In some cases a project has gotten big enough to warrant subcategories. If that's the case, you can let them, but only if their subcategories have 2 or more articles. Single-article worlds should get their own categories.

If you see the following category calls, please delete them:


 * 1) Category:Private conworlds
 * 2) Category:Orphan

Also, please help switch Category:Conworlds to Category:Worlds. It sounds better!

Thank you very much for your participation in the project! I'll be giving a token of appreciation to anyone who puts in effort for this project :)

At any rate, this is what I've been doing just now. If you have concerns or disagree with the project's aims, please put it in writing below. Tel Loiryn 01:14, 29 August 2008 (UTC)