User blog comment:Mikemacdee/Too Damn Many Categories/@comment-1705775-20150321163332

categories are a scourge I've been looking into for years but many users will defend even the most ridiculous categories.. we're still far better than some other wikis but there are many categories I think need to go.

individual species for example is one that violates an ancient rule, does being a "Feline" or "Canine" have anything to do with villainy? no.. just put them under Animal Villain.

species-based categories is one thing I really want to get rid of but too many people will object.

weapon and power-based categories are also something I want rid of because it is so incredibly frustrating to see people add "Omnipotent" then list a billion power-specific categories (Omnipotent suffices, adding any power-based category to something listed "Omnipotent" is redundant to the extreme)

I also want to stop users continually using "Jerk" and "Bully" for malevolent entities, a lot of categories aren't bad.. they are just misused by people who refuse to co-operate with others, which is against wiki spirit but we've put up with it for too long.

TLDR: some of our categories need to go but mostly we need to get stricter of the use of existing ones and installing co-operation rather than the "counter-edit war" mentality of now.