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This page is waiting to be archived by an administrator. Please do not edit the contents of this page. The following will be confusing as I haven't gone through and read it to make sure it makes sense. So bare with me: Categories should be easy to navigate and ideally work well. I propose a revamp of some categories, based around this sort of category tree below: Browse Brickipedia Maintenance Users Forums Templates and so on LEGO Sets Set by reference number Sets by type Sets by theme Minifigures Minifigures by theme Minifigures by year Viedo game only minifigures Themes Parts Images Images by theme The other image categories we have, such as user files Years Upcoming Now, obviously this diagram is not complete, still a WIP, and makes no sense to most of you, so I'll bullet point my thoughts: Our categories are messy. Categories shouldn't be messy. I want to basicly start at the top and work through, eliminating and messing around with our categories. Ensure our categories are consistent and aren't misused Make it easier to find stuff. So I propose the following: Do not place sets straight into year and theme categories. We currently put minifigures and stuff into "<theme> minifigures" and "Minifigures introduced in <year>" - Why not do the same for sets? It makes the categories tidier, separates sets from other general articles such as sub-themes or what not, and also allows more in depth. - E.g., 2011 books, Star Wars merchandise. This would also help separate actual sets from other crap. Rename some categories Mainly, turn "Parts introduced in <year>" to "<year> parts". It makes it easier to use/add and goes along with my proposal to change sets to "<year> sets" and "<theme> sets". Okay, I'll give an example. To Ninjago! Well, Category:Ninjago. Go look at it. It is a mix of sets, lists, articles, merchandise, clothes and books. Surely, it would be better to seperate this up to aide navigation. Creating categories Ninjago sets, Ninjago books, Ninjago merchandise and Ninjago clothing (well, those last two could be merged) would allow the main category to just be the main lists (and some online games). Also, separate categories for books by theme would unclutter the book category. Basicly, this would be a lot of work and would probably take up to the next Christmas to be done. But, it would really sort this place out, because since 2007, our category policy hasn't really existed. Any good database needs a good organization on categories. (And if you haven't read this, at least just comment agreeing, because I only wrote this all out because I figured doing this without informing would be too big a change to do, but if no one responds, I'll go ahead) ~ CJC 17:25, December 23, 2012 (UTC) I actually understood everything you said- you must be doing something wrong. :P Anyhow, support; I've been thinking along similar lines for a while now. -Cligra Join the redlink war! Lol, I figured no one would as I was just sort of writing ideas as they came to me :P ~ CJC 17:51, December 23, 2012 (UTC) I support. I've been waiting to do something like this myself. --Czech 21:34, December 23, 2012 (UTC) Parts introduced in <year> --> <year> parts... do you also mean Minifigures introduced in <year> --> <year> minfigures? Jag 21:47, December 23, 2012 (UTC) Yep. Keep it consistent. ~ CJC 21:51, December 23, 2012 (UTC) Support. Looks great, and, yeah, a lot of these ideas probably would be good to implement for larger themes like Ninjago. --BrickfilmNut (talk) 21:52, December 23, 2012 (UTC) I haven't completely read all of this, but support for now, will read it better when I have more time. @"We currently put minifigures and stuff into "<theme> minifigures" and "Minifigures introduced in <year>" - Why not do the same for sets?" (We did, then Ajr randomly changed it one day :P Or maybe it wasn't Ajr, it was someone though) NightblazeSaber 22:11, December 23, 2012 (UTC) I read this a few days ago, but if you want me to support, sure. Stormbringer Empire791 (talk) 22:16, December 23, 2012 (UTC) Impossible for you to have read this a few days ago, I only created it a few hours ago :P ~ CJC 22:24, December 23, 2012 (UTC) Support I like the idea. Jeyo Lord VladekTalk The Forge 22:47, December 23, 2012 (UTC) http://lego.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special%3ACategoryTree&target=Browse&mode=categories&dotree=Show+tree ~ CJC 12:53, December 24, 2012 (UTC)