Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-1969141-20160509151208/@comment-366087-20160518180129

What I'm comparing is the practice of category tagging and how VW is over doing it.

When you observe the WikiActivity, cats are being added and deleted, the summaries defending why *this* cat or *that* cat does or does not apply. Because editors are more concerned with tags than actually writing good and informative articles which would make most of the tags unnecessary and redundant.

Invariably the argument of categories as a search tool comes up. So compare against how such important search tools are used by other wiki-based sites.

So then argument swings back to "But that's how we know how *bad* they are". No. Tags are primarily for organization, not for relating informational details. Most Visitors want to read articles not masses of categories. They want to read more than the fact a character is categorized as a Child Murderer. They want to find out how they are a child murderer. Who was the child murdered. Why did they murder the child? How did they murder the child? When did they murder the child, in which episode, installment, or act of the franchise?

Context. THAT is what tells us how bad they are, how vile a villain they are.

Redeemed? How? Why? How and When did the redemption happen? Start?

Villains Wiki should be an encyclopedic source of information all about Villainous Characters for all who bother to visit. Not a game of Category-trumping for and by the community which hangs out here.