Forum:Category project

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In the prior War Room forum it was closed due to "Action has been taken to reduce redundancy in categories.", however I feel the categories could still use more work to make them easier to navigate. In the prior forum I put forward some tree ideas for categories, I feel we should create a tree for all the Spaces, while Filespace is being looked at I feel many of the Mainspaces are being ignored. I also feel categories are seemingly just being used to group random things together, but don't contain a master group. Looking at the Call of Duty 4 page shows it to be somewhat of a mess. A far simpler tree could be as follows.

• Games
  • Call of Duty 4
    • Single Player
      • Single Player Levels
      • Cut Single Player Levels
    • Multiplayer
      • Multiplayer Levels
      • Cut Multiplayer Levels
      • Multiplayer ranks
    • Perks
    • Killstreaks
    • Weapons
    • Images
    • Sound Files
    • Etc.

(Note: This is still somewhat beta, but is the closest to complete of a tree I can create.)

Crazy sam10 • Talk

13:40, September 12, 2012 (UTC)

Discussion

This is how category trees should be done, in all honesty - really there is no alternative to this, so I would support this being noted down somewhere in a guideline or policy.      20:47, September 11, 2012 (UTC)

Support-I agree with CoD4, and I also feel like a guideline or a policy should tell us on how categorization is branched. Argorrath _{おしゃべり}23:13, September 11, 2012 (UTC)

Support - Per COD4. --Bats a.k.a Rarity Filly  01:17, September 12, 2012 (UTC)

Support - Per Callofduty4. --MLGisNot4Me ^talk 07:26, September 12, 2012 (UTC)

Support - Per CoD4. Joseph Tan ^{l talk l edit count l contribs l} 14:36, September 12, 2012 (UTC)

Support - Per CoD4. Madnessfan34537 http://i.imgur.com/lL5xjBH.png 02:20, September 13, 2012 (UTC)

Support - Per CoD4. http://i.imgur.com/VwuEI.pngSXe Fiend · talkhttp://i.imgur.com/VwuEI.png02:57, September 13, 2012 (UTC)

Support - Although I truly fail to see a problem with the current category format, I think this one would work better. DarkMetroid567^Talk 00:53, September 16, 2012 (UTC)

Support - Thanks Sam. Per OP and Cawd4.

Vera ^{Talk to me.}

09:42, September 17, 2012 (UTC)

Support - per all N7 TC 08:42, September 20, 2012 (UTC)

The more complete-y Category tree

• Games
  • Call of Duty 4
    • Single Player
      • Single Player levels
      • Cut Single Player levels
      • Transcripts
    • Multiplayer
      • Multiplayer Maps
      • Cut Multiplayer Maps
      • Multiplayer Ranks
      • Killstreak Rewards
      • Gametypes
    • Weapons
      • Primary Weapons
      • Secondary Weapons
      • Single Player Weapons
      • Weapon Attachments
      • Weapon Camos
    • Equipment
      • Lethal Equipment
      • Tactical Equipment
    • Perks
      • Tier 1 perks
      • Tier 2 perks
      • Tier 3 perks
    • Characters
      • USMC Characters
      • SAS Characters
      • Spetsnaz Characters
      • OpFor Characters
      • Miscellaneous Characters
    • Vehicles
      • Tanks
      • Jeeps
      • Helicopters
      • Jets
    • Music
    • Images – (This will be linked to the image projects categorising efforts)
    • Achievements
    • Videos
      • Teaser Trailer Videos
      • Walkthrough Videos
      • Demonstration Videos

(Note, all these will start with thier games prefixes, so Call of Duty 4 Primary Weapons) Master Categories are to stay off the pages. Ergo an M4A1 would be only be categorised as Call of Duty 4 Primary Weapons, it would not need the CoD4 and Weapons category.

This is what I have written up. Certain games may need some alterations in obvious places. However it should be malleable enough to change.

Crazy sam10 • Talk

13:44, September 14, 2012 (UTC)

Seems good to me. Conqueror of all Zombies (talk) 03:42, September 16, 2012 (UTC)

Its good, easy for use, and gives very defining ways of categorizing. Seems good. Argorrath _{おしゃべり}04:13, September 16, 2012 (UTC)

Per all of the people down here. Bats a.k.a Rarity Filly  14:56, September 17, 2012 (UTC)

Project

Due to the overhauling required, I am proposing this become a project to enable the transition to be far simpler and quicker.

Crazy sam10 • Talk

14:14, September 22, 2012 (UTC)

As something that cannot be done in a single afternoon and requires a lot of effort to complete, I support this becoming a long term Project in my capacity as someone who turns Project into a proper noun.

Vera ^{Talk to me.}

19:54, September 22, 2012 (UTC)

Support-I agree with Verantha. Since this cannot be done in a single afternoon and will take awhile it would be best for this to be a long term project. Argorrath _{おしゃべり}19:57, September 22, 2012 (UTC)

Support - I definitely agree with Verantha/Argo here, this is better as a long-term project than something we can just throw around as a guideline and hope for the best.      13:35, September 23, 2012 (UTC)

Support Per CoD4. --Bats a.k.a Rarity Filly  14:03, September 23, 2012 (UTC)

Support Per all. http://i.imgur.com/VwuEI.pngSXe Fiend · talkhttp://i.imgur.com/VwuEI.png 18:11, September 23, 2012 (UTC)

Support - Per Panz. Twig _(Talk) 03:59, September 25, 2012 (UTC)