Forum:Category Policy Proposal

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I have noticed that many articles don't have a category. I think they should be deleted in a certain amount of time. Like the article's maker will be notified and asked to add a category in about 3 days. If the category is not added, the article will be deleted. I know there are little active users here. I think, this week should be dedicated to adding categories to articles. I think that if this proposal goes ahead, NEW articles made after this proposal goes ahead (if it does) will be deleted if it has no category after 3 days. Ones made before the proposal goes ahead, won't be deleted and should be fixed up by this community. Arav (talk) 09:10, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

This proposal will start from the 5th of July to the 11th of July.

Support

This will make this Wiki more efficient. Arav (talk) 09:10, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Oppose

Sorry, I know I must be seeming really disagreeable over the past few days, but I'm actually going to oppose this. When an article is created without a category, it's usually the job of someone more familiar with the wiki and the existing categories to add one. An Other category can always be a fallback for particularly difficult pages, but I don't think we should delete useful articles simply because we don't know where to put them (like B.O.B., although we kind of proposed a category for that and other things like cauldrons and Chuffy, but have yet to create it). Granted, a few of those uncategorized pages aren't very useful at all and could probably be deleted. I probably just didn't bother adding the template when I saw them because it was kind of obvious. Jimbo-Jambo

Comments

That is actually a good point. Jimbo, I don't care if you oppose lots of my ideas. It's your opinion and that's counts :) . If this proposal gets 2 other oppose votes, I will oppose aswell. Also please vote by putting this # Arav (talk) 00:07, 6 July 2008 (UTC)