Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-5842470-20131217023629/@comment-1272757-20131217034732

Monk the Cat wrote: Ryushusupercat wrote:

Gamedezyner wrote:

Kagimizu wrote: Categories are a requirement BECAUSE they make it easy to find articles. If an article isn't categorized properly (or at all), then you're required to actively search for the article or know its name. Without categories an article can easily fall through the cracks, just gaining dust or being abandoned completely. When was the last time anyone actually searched for an article by categories on this wiki? I have sometimes...

Going to point out that a good article would probably have them, anyways. Also, you can type in a part of the name in the "search" bar and it pops up any close to it. There is also the looking through the creator's info for the character.

And if a bad article doesn't have them and doesn't get marked properly? There's also the fact that some people may not list every single one of their characters beyond having them categorized; I know that's what I do. If there was no incentive for categories then people who don't know better just wouldn't use them. And that could allow bad articles to slip by, with no means of finding them besides pure luck through random pages.