Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-34326521-20140409145157/@comment-34326521-20140415180859

Solember wrote: I did. You soap boxed me there. And that's dumb. You highlighted this page. It is relevant to this topic. So I posted here. Okay, here are a couple of question: What is the benefit of Rule 1? and How would you define the goals of these rules? (what is their purpose?) One of the points is to limit the categories on the wiki, as they're cluttering it. In addition, there were no rules for categories, so they went largely unmonitored unless they were just plain vandalism. This way, users know what they should and shouldn't create when it comes to categories.

Categories should be as broad as possible for the first reason above. Why have a category for "Males" and another for "Male Characters"? The only difference is that the former will include real people, while the latter won't. In addition, there's already a "Cast and Crew" category, so the difference is pointless.