Thread:PrimalTheGreat3021/@comment-104549-20161231070923

Full disclosure right off the bat: I'm not an admin or a bureaucrat, so none of this has any official consequence whatsoever. I've just been around for a long while, and thought I'd share some insights.

First, I noticed a handful of your pages have what we call "duplicative categories"—the unnecessary inclusion of multiple categories that overlap. For example, your article Brittany of Cyan Squadron originally included the categories "Humans", "Soldiers", and "Clones", along with "Clone troopers", even though, if you look on the "Clone troopers" page, it is already included in the "Humans", "Soldiers", and "Clones" categories. Similarly, you had Megatron (PrimalTheGreat) categorized as "Sith", even though it was also in "Sith Lords", "Sith Juggernauts", and "Sith purebloods". Per the Categorization Policy (final bullet here), pages should have as few categories as possible, and as specific as possible. If one category embraces several others, only put the one. On Nirvana Atashi, I also noticed you had some redundant categories; generally, a character is only categorized by highest rank (so a Jedi Knight would fall under "Jedi Knights", but not also "Jedi Padawans", even if the character was a Padawan before becoming a Knight). I tried to fix these issues where I saw them.

Relatedly, you've added some categories that aren't actually categories at all. For example, "Females" is a category; "Female" is not. Additionally, while "Females" and "Humans" are categories, "Female Humans" is not a category. If you feel a major category is missing—for example, if "Jedi" wasn't a category (NB: it is)—you can of course create new categories. But the Wiki doesn't usually get into minutiae like "Female Humans", "Twi'lek Jedi", "Sith Lords named Bob", and things like that. Only create categories that are truly necessary; otherwise, there are numerous categories already for you to work with (see them all here).

On another note, I noticed your comment here on the article God (ASWS). Personally, I feel a comment like that is in a gray area that flirts with a violation of the Participation Guidelines—specifically the second bullet, "Be civil". You may disagree with an article's approach to the Star Wars universe, and that's fine; the whole beauty of the Wiki is that each of us can take the Star Wars universe in whatever direction he or she wants, regardless of others' takes on it. But insulting someone else's ideas contributes nothing positive and may come across as little more than a personal insult.

Just some thoughts. 