User blog:Mikemacdee/Too Damn Many Categories

I feel like the categories on this site must have been written by a kid with no sense of restraint and too much time on his hands. The purpose of having categories is to organize the articles on a wiki into distinct groups. When you have almost as many categories as articles, this ceases to function.

Many of the categories seem completely unnecessary and superfluous. Gangsters is a necessary and distinct category: any villain with ties to organized crime, whether it's a street gang or the mafia. Many villains are gangsters, but still more are not, so it's a useful tag. By contrast, Murderer is a pointless tag: most of the villains listed on this site would fall into that category, hence it serves absolutely no purpose. You may as well have a "Douchebag" category while you're at it. Other categories could easily be merged together: Cults and Cult Leaders could be merged into Cultists. And then there's categories absolutely nobody would come to the site searching for, like "Acid Users." Seriously? Acid Users? Do internet users really need an easy way to view every character who ever used acid attacks, of all things?

I urge the admins to remove any category from the wiki that does not apply to a distinct subset of villain types, and merge any that can be merged together to reduce clutter. I also urge them to merge any sets of articles pertaining to different character adaptations into a single article: the Joker does not need a dozen separate articles on any site. The wiki already has too many badly-written articles without site clutter adding to the mess.