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Category Mayhem

I found no common discussion page, so I post it here.
I have noticed, that we have literally tons and tons of useless categories. I didn't bother to count, but we easily top 300. We have categories for every freakin' sort of Mechs, Tanks, Battle Armors and Characters. Now the military commands are coming, adding at least 30 more. But we still lack a category like "title", "rank" or "profession". My proposals:

1. Creation of a page which lists all categories in a hierarchy-tree/diagram. (This can be reduced to the most important ones. If we list "Inner Sphere Commands" we don't need "Lyran Commands". If we list "Clan Commands" we don't all 20 individual Clan Commands.) Mechs, Tanks, Factions, Characters, Commands, Products, Merchandising...
2. Weeding out categories until we are down to ~250.
3. Unifying and standardizing the two dozen "article has to be reviewed"-categories. --Detlef 15:30, 22 March 2009 (PDT)

Since we have no limit on what articles can be included, I find it difficult and artificial to impose a numerical limit on the number of categories. I'm not sure what your problem is with having lots of categories. Obviously they are not useless, or they never would have been created in the first place. Since you have specifically called out categories that are attached to projects, I think it would be best for you to specify which categories you want to get rid of/limit on the appropriate WikiProject talk page. Just so you know, there is Special:Categories, but my impression is that you want something more organized. --Scaletail 16:49, 23 March 2009 (PDT)