Thread:The S/@comment-995426-20160104232418/@comment-995426-20160105054145

Well, we're not the only editors. But you, I and User:KaijuHero seem to be the only ones who bother with editing categories. I've raised the issue before on the forums&mdash;the topic only gets crickets. However, if you mean input from others when it comes to browsing categories, then yeah, I'll see what I can glean.

But I still maintain that having hugely populated parent categories makes it really hard (needle in a haystack hard) to do maintenance work for insufficiently-categorized articles. It imposes a substantial burden on auditing the category. Because of that, those undercategorized articles remain overlooked, and it's harder to find which ones they are so their categorizations can be improved. If the parent category has hundreds of entries, how else can we quickly ascertain which articles are in that parent category but absent from appropriate subcategories? If all the entries are moved to appropriate subcategories, not only can they still be found using Special:CategoryTree, but having fewer entries in each category makes that tool function more efficiently.