User blog comment:LucidPigeons/Category Cleanup/@comment-2059440-20160301032550/@comment-366087-20160305181216

In all honesty, when was the last time *you* opened a Category page, on any wikia or wikipedia, with the intention to use it as a search tool.

I don't mean for site maintenance purposes or edits to the page itself… as a search tool. Last time *I* did was sometime prior to 2010 as I searched wikipedia for a specific movie using "movies of 200x". Finally found it in 1998 ;P

Magic is magic. On this wikia ALL characters using any form of it is Evil or Dark regardless of how the actual magic itself may be classed or drawn upon. In fact, with less categories on any given topic, the *easier* searches become because how many visitors, if they are using cats for searches, know the differences between "normal" magic used by an evil person, or "dark/black" magic used by an evil person?

Instead of having to do a search of 2 or more cats, they'd only have to search ONE to hit their result.

As for using Cats as Tags… Keep in mind that if you give people too many choices, they will use all they can and sometimes more than they should.