Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-25428589-20150815164438

So, I'm bringing up an old subject, that for one reason or another, stopped being talked about when it was first talked about.

It concerns the PokéMon, "Lost Episodes" and Theory categories. Specifically, the comments made on their talk pages here, here and here by.

For anyone who can't be bothered to click those links, here is what Skelly suggested at the PokéMon category: To keep the Pokepastas separate from the rest of the pages on the site, I was thinking of making it so this category cannot be added together with any category except for the following:
 * Historical Archive (for really old pokepastas)
 * Memes (for Lavender Town pastas. Also, well-known individual pokepastas)
 * Poetry (for Hypno's Lullaby)
 * Theory

Thinking of doing this for some other categories to, i.e. Lost Episodes. Thoughts? LOLSKELETONS (talk) 18:36, January 29, 2015 (UTC)

At the other two, something similar was suggested.

Separating Pokemon, Lost Episodes and Theory from other categories makes sense - to quote Skelly, "most people looking through, say, Ghosts aren't looking for stories about Lavender Town or dead pokemon." Having exclusivity for these categories would stop this issue.

The major drawback of doing something like this was that the RC would be flooded with Poképastas (many of which are very low quality, in comparison to the rest of our content). However, since now exists, this could now be done in a way that will keep them out of the recent changes/wiki activity (since bot edits don't show up there). Additionally, the bot could perform this task, saving a lot of effort on our part, with regards to having to update a ton of pages.

So to clarify, this proposal is to make PokéMon, "Lost Episodes" and Theory exclusive categories (other categories have to be removed if they are added to a page) other than a few exceptions. Please leave your votes below. Additionally, if you disagree with the bot performing this task, feel free to vote on that as well. Thanks :)

 