Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-5842470-20131217023629/@comment-5142578-20140102072406

While I by no means find categories useless, I don't think they should be considered so "necessary" that an article gets deleted for just not having them. I mean, I really only see a few uses for categories.

1) Finding other articles that are similar. For example, if one person is looking at a character that has the "Weapon users: Karambits" category, they might be interested in seeing if anyone else uses that said weapon. (good luck with that, as I have the only character on the SFW who uses a karambit so far).

2)Making a quick identification of key elements of the character. For example, just going to the categories (if the user put them in) would quickly let you identify the character's species, gender, aligment, weapons, etc. without even reading the article.

3)Finding other characters made by the same user. This use is similar to the first one I mentioned, but only in the fact that it identifies other articles created by the same user. For example, the category "Ryushusupercat's characters".

So, are categories useful? Certainly. But should they be considered so important and necessary that a page should be marked for execution simply because it contains no (or not enough) categories? Probably not.

(By the way, when we say "categories" we ARE talking about the little categories that appear at the bottom of each article, right? I just want to make sure we're not talking about categories as in the headings within an article that identify certain traits such history, personality, strengths, etc. )