User blog:MDGeistMD02/Categories

Over the past few months there has been an influx of unnecessary additions to the categories on many pages, as well as unnecessary categories themselves.

Some, such as the Destinations category, have been eliminated. Others are going to be.

This will be the beginning of a major clean-up of the site the primary goal of which is to improve our wiki. I am therfore asking all editors to not add unnecssary categories to pages. This will greatly improve the speed with which the category issue can be resolved.

Updates to the category problem, and its resolution(s), will also be posted here to let all editors know the current progress of the situation.

Thank you.

- Geist

Edit:

January 19, 2016 - deleted the Articles for Improvement category as well as all the links to other pages as the category was unnecessary and redundant. Article Stubs fulfills the same premise.

January 19, 2016 - deleted the Expansion and Construction categories, and unlinked all pages to them; they were redundant and unnecessary. Article Stubs fulfills the same premise.

January 19, 2016 - also removed the unnecessary category 2015. There was no reason for this page to exist.

January 20, 2016 - removed all pages linked to Males category. The category Male fulfills this niche.

January 20, 2016 - removed all articles from Bataman: Arkham Knight and Batamn: Arkham Knight. Both categories were misspelled and unnecessary.

January 21, 2016 - removed all articles from Articles to be expanded and deleted the category as Article Stub fulfills the same niche. Also removed all the articles from Articles in need of images and deleted the category as the Imagery category fulfills the same purpose.

January 21, 2016 - removed all articles from (and eliminated) the following categories: Kevin Conroy, Plants, Four Main Gun Types (Gun Quadrico) and Administrators. The first two only had one article in each and were not necessary. The third one was completely unnecessary and redundant. The Administrator category was unnecessary and inaccurate.

January 24, 2016 - removed all articles from and deleted all of the Affiliation category pages. These included the following: Affiliation to Joker, Affiliation to Arkham Knight, Affiliation to Scarecrow, Affiliation to Two-face, Affiliation to Riddler, Affiliation to Anarky, Affiliation to Penguin, Affiliation to Deathstroke, Affiliation to Black Mask, Affiliation to Bane, and Affiliation to Harley.

This also included the misspelt category Affiliaton to Scarecrow.

These categories were completely unnecessary and they weren't balanced properly, making them candidates for deletion.

January 24, 2016 - deleted the category Joker's Right-hand. It only had one article linked to it which was Clayface. The category was unnecessary.