Thread:Obi the LEGO Fan/@comment-5776061-20130416175013/@comment-5671588-20130416233242

Wow, this is a long thread.

I should state that categories serve a very direct purpose. They make articles related to each other.

So, we should have categories as few as we can, while still being highly effective. You might think categories are like Tags, which you find on LEGO CUUSOO. But they really aren't. Categories don't assist very much when a person is searching, but with tags, that's their entire purpose.

What the categories do is decide which projects are related. If we have a Kirby project article, a Mario project article, three Zelda project articles, and two Portals project articles; then the categories decide which of these are most related. The category "Videogame" ties these all up. We want bigger categories like these. "Nintendo" includes all but Portals. But it makes sense, it's a little smaller a division but still encompasses a larger amount that other categories would. And it's an important divison it causes.

Now, a category like Zelda only includes three. BUT we want this one because it is so small. It's VERY accurate, and quite helpful. Now, a category like NES... we already have one for Nintendo, and a bigger one above all that: Videogames. NES seems a little unnecessary as it barely makes anything more related which wasn't already related in some way, and it isn't very accurate... you wonder what the point of it is.

I'm sure I've confused you, but this is an important issue when it comes to editing, and it's not exactly simple.