User blog comment:Shadow125787/Opinions, Categories, and so forth/@comment-4536066-20120506063752

"Some of these categories are just completely un-necessary and nonsensical"

Was reminded of this earlier today. I can't help but think that a lot of the categories are becoming ridiculously redundant. Editors seem to basically be treating these as keyword tags, which I think might be a sort of warped idea of their purpose. My recent favorite examples of this are the trio of "humor, meme, trolls" categories. They pretty much all describe the same thing - that the article is meant to be more entertaining than informative or really useful - yet someone felt the need to put all three in. Also, the new "biography" category. This seems to be applied exclusively to character threads, which is okay, except that every good character thread is basically just an extended character bio, making the "biography" category totally synonymous with the "character" category and, therefore, both redundant and totally pointless.

I think I'm starting to see why you were wigging out over categories back when you posted this. There are still so many threads that could stand to be written on this wiki, and good helpful ones at that. If these folks are just labelling articles with categories for the wiki badge, I wish they would get their counts up by actually making pages and categorizing them...