User blog comment:LucidPigeons/Category Cleanup/@comment-2059440-20160301032550/@comment-1969141-20160306182709

Why so surprised? Yes I did, on this very wiki. Like I always do, and always did for the six years since I started writing and editing articles here. You make it sound like an oddity. I used to read articles in their entirety, then I click on categories whose name perk my interest, before reading the definition and browsing the list to find villains I knew or learn about new ones.

Then I started editing and made a point of knowing all categories' definition to be able to weed out the ones that were flooded by entries that did not fit. And believe me, I've been dedicated to the task.

Categories are indeed tools, and search tools, but not only. They are complementary to the article and the list is meant as a short summary to the article as a whole. I would say, knowing categories help understanding villains better.