User blog:MDGeistMD02/Categories, Phase II

The first week of category clean-up has progressed quite well.

Over 25 unneeded and/or redundant categories have been eliminated. I am now turning my focus to clean-up of the site while continuing to remove unnecessary categories.

Thank you to all of the editors here who have helped by not adding additional redundant categories whilst I was in the process of getting rid of the first batch; it made my work considerably easier. I appreciate it. :)

- Geist

- January 25th-26th: did a good amount of house cleaning and removed both articles and categories that were marked for deletion. An additional 25+ articles and 35+ categories (most of which had nothing on them) have been deleted.

- January 27, 2016: removed misspelled category Batman: Assult on Arkham Characters

- January 28, 2016: removed all articles from and eliminated the following categories: Killed by Amanda Waller, Killed by Bane, Killed by Black Mask, Killed by Deadshot, Killed by Henry Adams, Killed by Dr. Young, Killed by Poison Ivy, Killed by Killer Croc, Killed by Hugo Strange, Killed by Professor Pyg, Killed by Quincy Sharp, Killed by Ra's al Ghul, Killed by Red Hood, Killed by Two Face, killed by Zsasz, Killed by the Arkham Knight, Killed by the Joker, Killed by the Riddler, Killed by Harley Quinn, Killed by the Penguin, and Killed by the Scarecrow.

Several of these categories had only one entry, and some were redundant such as Red Hood and Arkham Knight. Also, certain pages such as Thugs, TYGER, and Gotham City Police Department had multiple categories listed which was often confusing.

I left all of the pages that had these categories under the blanket category, Deceased; the rest of these categories were unnecessary.

- January 28, 2016: Removed the unneeded category Cannibals. I also removed the categories Action Figures and Collectibles. They were both used on the exact same page and that was it. I therefore removed them and put the article under Merchandise.

- January 28, 2016: Removed all articles from, and eliminated the category Possibly Deceased. Several articles linked had both Deceased and Possibly Deceased added to them, thus causing confusion.

- January 29, 2016: Removed the unneeded categories, User and Userpage.

- January 30, 2016: Removed the articles from Villain and Minor Villain, both of which were redundant categories.

- January 31, 2016: Removed the articles from and eliminated the following categories: Hallucinations, Cured, and Gases, the latter of which was spelled incorrectly anyway.

- February 1, 2016: Removed articles from and eliminated the following categories: DC Direct, Detective (both only had one entry each), and Comics which was redundant since there was a Comic Books category.

- March 1, 2016: Removed articles from and deleted the following categories: Killed by Firefly, Killed by Calendar Man, Killed by Mr. Freeze, Killed by Shiva.