Board Thread:Manual of Style/@comment-1865969-20150630173345

(Sorry for the wall of text. I'm not very good at concision.)

I've only been back on this wiki for a few weeks, and I've noticed a lot of category additions, that is people adding new categories to pages. Some of these categories are pre-existent, but a majority are newer and also so specific that only one or two pages really apply.

The list of banned categories is useful. I've tried to go in and delete these as categories on some pages, but the category page itself on some of them still exist. I'm not entirely sure what to do with those pages, though some I've commented in their respective "talk" pages that I recommended them for deletion.

Anyway, back to the banned categories: you have "Female characters" listed as banned (currently 37 pages are tagged as such) but not "Male characters"; we also have "Females" and "Males" as categories, so there's a bit of redundacy there. Additionally, someone recently added the category "Children" to a lot of pages while we also already have "Kid Characters".

I guess what I'm looking for is a suggestion of consistency in what categories to ban and which types of new categories to immediately undo. I have an Excel list of all the current categories (and current pages as of today in case that will help anything) that I compiled in lieu of something better to do at work today. I know categories is a less important facet of the wiki compared to strengthening and filling the informational part of the pages, but I'm still trying to get my feel around the writing before I start making big informational contributions. 