Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24841732-20140428202821

We all agree the Creepypasta Wikia's (This place ya doofus) categories suck. Like, a lot. I've been thinking of ways we can overhaul this system, but it ain't going to be easy.

First things first, new, more general categories.


 * Phobias - Any pasta that plays on your deepest fears, be it Arachnophobia, Claustrophobia, of Fangirlaphobia.


 * Places - Any pastas that involve a specific place, be it Haunted House or Spooky Graveyard.


 * Murderers - Any pasta involving a non-supernatural killer


 * Entities - Any pasta involve anything supernatural


 * Items and Artifacts - Any pasta involving a certain object.


 * Classic - Creepypasta classics. Even the bad ones.


 * Holders - Any pastas that are part of the Holders series


 * PoTM - For any pasta that won the PoTM


 * Mental Illness - For any pasta involving insanity of some kind or another.


 * Suggested Reading - Pastas that admins have deemed worthy.


 * Marked for Review - Pastas that could use some more seasoning.


 * Delete Now - This sucks, delete it.


 * Old (better name, please) - Any stories written by the likes of Lovecraft, Poe, or other popular horror writers.

Feel free to suggest other categories or revise ones I came up with. Make sure they stay general, though. No more than 20 categories should be needed.

Now, for the lovely task of implementing these new categories. The only idea I have is the use of a bot.

One way we could use the bot is have it look for anything that fall under this categories, then place it in one.

Example:

current tags: cryptid, places.

new tags: Entities, Places.

How it could do this is look for anything that fall under entities. Beings, Cryptids, Deities, then remove those categories and place it in Entities. If you guys have any other ideas, please leave them in a reply.

 