Thread:Catfishperson/@comment-25565811-20160208142403

Hello Catfishperson!

I made the Rhudaur Hillman Village-page. After creating it, I noticed, that you wanted to do it. Sorry, I did not want to steal it from you! We had a similar thought simultaneously. Read more here.

I noticed also, that you are giving out a lot of categories. I think this is crucial for structuring the huge amount of info included in the wiki.

On the other hand, we've got be careful, to keep the number of categories low. So think about if it's really necessary to categorize everthing, like your "super cute" category, that User:Beijing1000 deleted.

Also, we've got to think about which categories to give out for which pages. I often deleted some categories from pages, if they appeared on category pages, where they did not belong to.

Examples:
 * Kebab belongs to Category:Food and Drink, the Kebab Stand not, as it is a device to produce food, but no food item itself. You'll find the stand via a link, when you check how the food is made.
 * Rhudaur Hillman Village clearly belongs to Category:Village, but with the Category:Houses, I am not sure, as it is made of houses, but not a house itself.

You might think, that's not so important, but if we give out too much categories for the pages, they would clog up the category pages. Check the Category:Food and Drink category for things that do not belong there and remove the category from these pages.

As it comes to the category pages themselves, I like those you made, and I think they are extremely useful. Thank you for those!

They should contain all the basic info that is shared by all the category members. You can also explain what the category should be used for (and also what not).

Check for the Category:Furnace Like page for what I did there. This helps to reduce information on the single forge pages, as we can link there: For more details refer to the forges page ... If Mevans decides to change a detail there (e.g. invent a new fuel, remove auto-feeding, what else?), we've only got to change the category page and not every single forge page (perhaps check them, if something is mentioned there)

As the category pages are quite unhandy to use, I made some redirect pages for those. For example Forge, which just contains a redirect to the category page and some explanation (which shows only up, when you edit the page): This is for easy reference to all forges (including normal furnace, unsmeltery and Hobbit oven). (Not sure, if we should remove the unsmeltery there, as it works somehow different and somehow not.)
 * 1) redirect Category:Furnace Like

Now you can use it like other links: The alloy forge works just like any of the other forges ...

So, if you (and other editors) understand, what I wrote above, and act accordingly, this will become (or should I rather say stay) a very well-structured wiki after all.

Thank you for your patience and again sorry for the Hillmen. 