Board Thread:Policies/@comment-220364-20130830011923/@comment-220364-20130901201256

Yes and no.

Personally, yes, I can see that swaths of categories that are pointless. From housing single items to collecting minutia like hair color. I can see how they can be viewed as pointless.

However, I can also see that the basic community this wiki caters to does tend to be the ones, in varying degrees, looking for things to be put into sets, for those sets to be complete, and for category application to be complete. There are those that want to have a list of all the red-heads, or members of a specific team, or from a particular setting, or whatever.

In this case, I'm looking at it as splitting a larger grouping - stuff featured in stories from a specific continuity - in to smaller, easier to visually search chunks - character (already there), items, and locations. To me this seems reasonable under the categorization schema in place in that it allows a user to look up similar things. That said, if from the level of running the site there is no problem with the items and locations being categorized in the top continuity categories, OK, no big problem. If, at that level, it's determined that the "Universe" parameter in the non-character templates is more trouble than its worth and these things need not be categorized by continuity, then also OK, no problem.

As I said up thread, I see little that is lost if the parameter and categorization of these things by continuity goes away. It's just the current method is the one I'm least comfortable with.