Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-4839682-20150311155356/@comment-26291359-20150408223356

Hey guys, I was browsing the wiki and noticed an issue which i raised here Once Upon a Time Wiki talk:Manual of Style. I'll post it here also: Currently, whenever you have a character you add the "Icons|character" template which adds the character to "Category:Characters". This however, is bad practice. Wikipedia and most other wikis have a guideline of NOT placing a page into parent category of another category its already placed in.

Currently, you might have a character as Snow White which is in the categories "Female Characters", "Season 1 Characters", "Season 2 Characters", "Season 3 Characters", "Season 4 Characters", "Once Upon a Time Characters", "Shadow of the Queen Characters" and "Out of the Past Characters" - all of these categories are under "Category:Characters" which makes placing Snow White also in the parent category very much redundant and basically makes the categorization pointless. The same also goes for "Category:Once Upon a Time Characters" as all the season categories are under that category. What I propose is that only categories should be left in the "Characters" and "Once Upon a Time Characters" categories and not any individual page.

Also, regarding the character categories, I have a suggestion of adding new categories based on fairytale. For example: In "Category:Little Red Riding Hood characters" you will find Red Riding Hood, Granny (Enchanted Forest). In "Category:Snow White characters" you will find Snow White, Evil Queen, Prince Charming, Magic Mirror, Huntsman, King Leopold, Eva and the dwarves. Each fariytale will have its own category, with another category for "Category:Original Once Upon a Time characters" (that did not come from the fairytales).The fariytale categories would be nested under "Category:Fairytale characters" which would be nested under "Category:Characters".