User blog:Nerdvana/Why Categories are Good...

I've been told that the "Representation of..." categories are being phased out. I think that is a mistake but I'm not an admin. I'm not arguing with them about this, just want to express my opinion and since the blog section is for that I figure I can put that here.

Navigating a site that covers multiple continuities can always be confusing so, IMNSHO, it is better to give multiple ways to do this. Categories, which take up little to no space on the wiki, are an excellent way to do this and is my preferred way. So while there are disambiguation pages and they also serve as a navigational aid some wiki users prefer to use categories for it. It saddens me that (from my perspective) Turtlepedia is crippled in the lack of categories for characters who appear in a multitude of continuities.

This is just my two cents and is not meant to be an active (argumentative) critique of management's decision on the topic.