Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5825217-20131020030042/@comment-5825217-20131023011830

Raidra wrote: Could you imagine? "The minutes from the last meeting show that we postponed the discussion on the referendums to add Angst and Maiming categories..."

Would a Drugs and Poisons category be splitting hairs? A pro would be that a lot of stories would fit there. A con would be it might have to be a category because it would be too broad to be a subcategory. I mean, there would be Science Pastas, Mental Illness pastas, Homicide pastas, Suicide pastas, etc. that could fit here. Also, what about a general Medical category? We could have subcategories like Diseases, Mental Illness, etc. Would that be appropriate or too much of a catch-all? Raidra (talk) 13:06, October 22, 2013 (UTC) You seem to have pinpointed one issue of the debate here - broad categories. Drugs/Poisons could probably be a subcategory, but I'd have to get some more feedback before I add it. A general Medical category may be useful for things that don't fit under Diseases or Mental Illness.

LOLSKELETONS wrote:

Prince Weaver wrote: hmm, a good idea, dude.

but there is another category i have been wondering about, under the "admin only" section. the "completed" category.

could someone explain what the exact function of this category actually is? It's supposed to be for pages that "require no further editing", and are protected to prevent editing. This has its benefits, as we function more like a library than traditional wikis. The main issue right now is that many of these pages are not completely devoid of errors. And then there's all the pages not in complete that are indefinitely locked for whatever reason—usually high vandalism risk (or sometimes just for minor, non-persistent vandalism, which is stupid but seemed to happen a lot in the past). Once I get around to figuring out how exactly to clean this up I'll add it.

J.G.Hoag wrote: I have a question.

Where do you categorize Folklore (vampires, shapeshifters, etc.) if they don't fit in Beings, Cryptids, Monsters, Demon/Devil, or Reality? Since that's what is sounds like by reading the descriptions of these categories. I totally forgot to add Myths & Legends, whoops. A folklore story would be under the category of Legends. (I'll add those in now.)

'''Okay, so I had an idea that might be useful for organization and pasta classification...categories and their subcategories should be linked, meaning that if one subcategory is picked the category is automatically added. Provided the category is relevant to the subcategory, this shouldn't be a problem (e.g. adding a Dismemberment tag would also add in Death; adding in a Diseases tag would also add a Medical tag).'''