User blog:Jhonevans/Category Overhaul

It has come to my attention that this wiki is full of obsolete, nuances that should be purged. There are various examples of categories that should be eliminated. I'd like the admins to contribute ideas and suggestions on what changes should be made to our categories, look at the following list to see existing categories:

http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Special%3ACategories

There are various reasons why a category would be eligible for deletion and here's some reasons (just examples):


 * Nuances - "Real World books", "Real world books"
 * subtle punctual changes creates sloppy wiki mapping


 * Redefining/review - "Actors"
 * contains real life actors and Simpsons actors


 * Inappropriate - "Black characters"
 * (I'm aware the term Black has become more widely accepted, but to some it may still be derogatory and also seems rather unprofessional. Furthermore, do we have a 'yellow' or 'white' category? No and we shouldn't. Race discrimination is archaic).


 * Inconsistencies - "Blonde Characters"/"Black-haired characters"/"Blue-haired characters"
 * There is no "Brown-haired Characters
 * Punctuation inconsistencies plague this wiki. My main concern is how rarely people capitalize article titles, despite them being TITLES and commanding thereby deserving appropriate punctuation.


 * Unused or easily replaceable - "Boxes"
 * Objects covers this easily.


 * Ambiguous or unnecessary - "Homer Simpsons"/"Homer Simpsons episodes"
 * This are too non specific and unnecessary. What exactly does it mean to add "Homer Simpsons" to an article, that he's somehow related? I feel like these simple character name categories should be eradicated. As far as the "Homer Simpsons episodes" category, considering he is a main character who is central to almost every episode it's just a throw away category to encourage Badge spam.

So these are the breadth of categories we should list below and remove (that I could think of right now, add more if needed).

COMPILE A LIST BELOW FOR DISCUSSION.

I'll organise Ferbot to do this (RRabbit42) because this task will be a waste of time to embark manually, so please don't start making changes before a consensus has been reached. --Jhonevan&#39;s signature. (talk) 22:06, January 3, 2014 (UTC)