Thread:Ms.HamatoAlexander/@comment-232990-20190509123747/@comment-995426-20190509145639

(I am not an administrator or moderator, but I'll chime in.)

She's speaking of overcategorization. For the most part, if an appropriate category like "Antagonists (Rise of the TMNT)" also has "Antagonists" as its parent category, don't add both categories to articles. There are case-by-case exceptions, though, such as the Brooklyn Bridge (location) being in "Non-fiction locations in Manhattan", "Non-fiction locations in Brooklyn" and in "Non-fiction locations in New York City". The first two of the three categories have the third category as a parent category, but it's appropriate for that article because it's a landmark that crosses borough boundaries within the wider New York City.

But as for the badges you can earn, it really does depend on how articles are caregorized or already categorized. As you make edits to antagonist articles, you'll earn tallies towards scoring antagonist-related article badges, along with a number of points affecting your ranking on the leaderboard. I have a lot of badges (I was #1 on the board for a while, but I've slipped to #2), but one area where I have virtually no badges is in toy articles, because I don't care about the junk Playmates has been peddling for years. And I'm happy with having few or none of those badges. :)

All that said, there's nothing about badges that affects your actual standing at the wiki. They're just bragging rights points, not redeemable for anything except bragging, and even that is optional.