Board Thread:Announcements of the Fanon Wiki/@comment-26834200-20151009020105

"Males" and "females" are the only categories involcing gender that we need. Gendered categories do not need to be mixed with those that describe age, career, etc. It leads to many possibilities.



And so on. It's like in good old algebraic probabilities: Say one bag (ex: gender) has a bunch of marbles, each differently colored to represent a segment of the gender spectrum.

The other bag (ex: academics) also has differently colored marbles, each representing another position at Akademi High. One of these marbles is labeled "students", for example.

The system Horizon, Crystal, and I have suggested is simple: We have one category for each marble alone. However, this wiki's categories are a mess, to put it simply. Many useless categories are flooding pages, while important ones are ignored because nobody brings them up.

The categories such as "female students" mix these bags. One marble is taken from the "gender" bag and one from the "status" bag. This doesn't add category possibilties; Itmultiplies them. But the categories formed out of each two marbles are too much. They only restate information over and over again, so much that it can be considered spam. Extra clarification is nice; It adds detail to the wiki.

But multiplication is too much. That's why we need to use a simpler system. If a mixed category is considered important enough by the wikia, we can add it, such as deriving "_____'s OCs" from the "OCs" category. But other than those few, mixed categories are too much.



What do you think of the simplified system? Do you agree that there shouldn't be any "mixed" categories unless the whole wiki has a say, and only if the majority says yes?  