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

Hello there, I do really apologize for going against the flow, but I feel forced to add my two cents... And I really fear that the merging is going too far.

Do not get me wrong, I am not against merging categories, and axing the far too many useless ones, I hope that I made it clear during the discussions on this forum. But I feel that we need to merge only categories that are close, and not go overboard. Merging for the sake of merging would lead to problems. We all saw in the discussion that what categories should be merged is quite subjective...

Categories are meant to be clear and concise, about a precise characteristic of the villains. You all know that categories in the current state of our wiki are endlessly flooded by entries that do not fit. I have been struggling against it ever since I was honored by the title of admin and before, and believe me, it is very, very, very hard and tedious to weed out, especially since users keep sticking to their interpretation of the categories instead of the definition on its page.

I really fear that merging too much categories would turn them into a dumping ground for everything and anything remotely related would increase the problem thousandfold. (I already had to take Darth Vader out of "Magic" for instance.)

I am not saying that the new categories that were created must be deleted, of course not. But as I said in some discussion page, some entries should be kept separate, or deleted. 