Highschool of the Dead Wiki talk:Manual of Style

Categorization guidelines?
I noticed that a lot of the pages on the wiki are over-categorized - they appear both in the parent categories and the subcategories, so basically a page will appear more than once in a category tree vs. just once in the most specific subcategory. This makes the categories more diffuse instead of focused. I have done a lot of work with Wikimedia Commons, so this view is influenced by how the category system is intended to work there: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Categories.

E.g., MP5SFK is categorized under both Weapons and Guns. Guns is already a subcategory of Weapons and with the MP5 in the Guns category, it is already included in the Weapons category. Putting it into the parent category is thus redundant. --BrokenSphere 22:21, May 27, 2011 (UTC)

I understand what you're saying and completely agree. I created most of the pages on here, but I generally only put one category on each page. Over time, other users expanded the trees. I haven't bothered trying to reorganize them since we don't have a guideline for categories. If you want, you can add a Category section to the MOS based on what you said above. You can also start fixing some of the category trees if you want. I don't want to ask you to do too much, but, as you may have noticed, we're a bit shorthanded here.Turambar  01:35, May 28, 2011 (UTC)