User blog comment:LucidPigeons/Category Cleanup/@comment-2059440-20160301032550/@comment-366087-20160305223920

Really? This morning? On this wikia, or another? What were the specifics? Where were you and what were you looking for that you used a Category search? Was it a wikia where you're an active member of the local community like you are here, or were you just visiting to get some information on a topic you don't normally hang out at? Why did you need to perform a Cat search?

Most visitors will not care about the Tags, only what the article tells them. They will not call up a page, scroll to the very bottom, and use the categories down there to divine what they want to know instead of reading the article. Most will not bother to click on cat links to determine what they are and mean.

Most visitors are unlikely to open a category page to search for others except perhaps in the broadest of senses. Like maybe Franchises. Who else is a Marvel villain? Who else is a Green Arrow Villain, or from the Arrowverse? Etc. But once you start getting down to the types of x a character does or uses, chances are they've already read it in the article—provided the article is well-rounded and informative.

Sure, most in this community care about these things. They're livin' and breathin' it. But the average visitor coming to find out the information compiled and distilled here will not.

No more so, I dare say, than any of us not in the printed journalism trade care should a newspaper/magazine/digest article care to find articles overflowing with purely journalistic phraseology.

Or think about other wikias where you are not an active member of the local community… how often do you bother with the cat-tags?

Ultimately our "product" is not for *us*… it's for those coming here seeking information.