User blog:Inferno Pendragon/Categories

as we are aware many categories are being deleted and although I fully support clean-up I must admit I do not support the destruction of potentially useful categories which anger the community - I will admit freely I may of contributed to some of this unrest in the past and some admins may not like me for "turning against" them but just listen to me.

In the past categories which I found controversial were dealt with by what I felt was a fair system - a Vote For Deletion table on its talkpage, users could vote over the course of a month and if the category was deemed useless it was destroyed.

I know we want to get rid of spam and redundancy, that can be done without asking permission but what I'd hate to see is valid categories being deleted and the excuse being that they were not big or notable enough.. some categores will grow with time if you give them the chance and many users who contribute well may become embittered at what they see as rampant deletion.

We don't want category abuse but we don't want to become rampant in deleting our content either.