User blog comment:Jester of chaos/Knight of Cerebus - Should it Stay or Go/@comment-366087-20160217183642

I shall reiterate that there are far too many categories being tagged to pages and appearing at the bottom of pages. Far more than most wikias utilize.

The mass of Cats at the bottom is almost indecipherable because most people subconsciously refuse to deal with "wall of text". Especially when it is filled with buzzwords and terms they may not be familiar with—not every visitor is fully conversant with TVT (which we say we're *not* TVT). So to have an understanding of what each Category *is*, they have to click on links to find out. Most won't.

In addition, the over-use of category-as-tags fosters one-line articles because "why write paragraphs explaining what this character is about… just tag them with all these categories". Without so many categories, editors adding pages are more or less *forced* to write more 1 or 2 lines, to explain *why* a character changes the tone of their franchise instead of simply tagging "KoC" as if EVERYONE KNOWS what that means.

I ask again, who *really* uses these categories? Who opens a page like KoC to go looking for other KoC's?

Now, something like "DC Villains" is one thing, because a visitor is more prone to seek a listing of other DC villains, especially writers and artists. Or female villains. Or how many villains are parents. But how many of them are likely to ask "who else is a 'knight of Cerebus'?"

There should be virtually zero argument as to if a character is in a category or not. Unless there is an AU-version involved, a character Cat'd as a Female is obviously a Female. There are very few cases where pages need to be locked because contributors will Edit War about that.

So consider the purpose of this wikia. Is it just a place for villain-savvy-only editors, or is it supposed to be a resource for visitors needing to know more about certain characters?

Don't get me wrong, *some* wikias ARE meant mainly for a small, closed-knit and insular community which those outside their specialty-niches have little reason to go to.

I suspect that is not the purpose or nature this wikia is meant to fill.