I too find the proposed policy really non-intuitive. I honestly do not get how it is even useful to have these kinds of categories or why there is this fixation on having as few categories as possible. Can anyone offer some practical examples of when/how these types of categories would be useful? A Star Trek cat that includes only main fandom pages and character/pairing pages seems to me like it would just be replicating the information already on the Star Trek page. It sounds more like a portal than a category.
I had assumed that a fandom category would apply to everything relating specifically to that fandom, i.e. fanworks & glossary terms as well as characters/pairings/main fandom page. But this would obviously only be useful if you could look at two (or more) categories at once, that is, [Fandom] + [Fiction Writing] or whatever. Assuming this is possible, you would also have to have cats for characters & pairings. Otherwise, I like Frogspace's suggestion.
(Requests for categories for Characters & Pairings, as well as Tropes, Doujinshi and Zine Publishers are already on the Bug Tracking. I think these are all needed as soon as possible. Also, I agree with ratcreature that more people cats, i.e. Fanwriter, Vidder, Reccer, etc, are necessary.)
I realise going back and adding new cats to thousands of pages etc could be very tiresome if it is not possible to automate, but in the long run not having useable categories is going to be a bigger problem.
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I had assumed that a fandom category would apply to everything relating specifically to that fandom, i.e. fanworks & glossary terms as well as characters/pairings/main fandom page. But this would obviously only be useful if you could look at two (or more) categories at once, that is, [Fandom] + [Fiction Writing] or whatever. Assuming this is possible, you would also have to have cats for characters & pairings. Otherwise, I like Frogspace's suggestion.
(Requests for categories for Characters & Pairings, as well as Tropes, Doujinshi and Zine Publishers are already on the Bug Tracking. I think these are all needed as soon as possible. Also, I agree with ratcreature that more people cats, i.e. Fanwriter, Vidder, Reccer, etc, are necessary.)
I realise going back and adding new cats to thousands of pages etc could be very tiresome if it is not possible to automate, but in the long run not having useable categories is going to be a bigger problem.