Feed The Beast Wiki:Category overhaul project

Welcome to the Category overhaul project.

Goals

 * To remove all pages in top-level categories, or categories in the category.
 * To encourage and implement use of more descriptive categories.
 * To (re)move all categories with non-descriptive names.
 * To improve the various lists of categories to help users find useful categories for both viewing and editing purposes.

Progress

 * Phase 1:
 * Phase 2:

Phases
The category overhaul is organized into two different phases, due to the project's size.

Phase 1
In this phase we will be replacing and re-evaluating the usage of certain categories. New categories, such as, are created and implemented into relevant pages.

This phase will also remove the usage of categories with too broad descriptors in articles. However, these categories are fine and will be kept when they have subcategories that are used for actual content. This is different from the other parts of phase 1 as these categories are not being completely removed from the wiki.

Phase 1 will remove all top-level category pages. Categories that only have one category,, or other top-level categories, should never have articles in them. Instead they should only contain sub-categories. As such, the pages in these categories will be recategorized to use sub-categories.

Phase 1 will officially be complete when the category hierarchy template is overhauled.

Phase 2
In this phase we add additional categories to all the pages and articles on the wiki. This phase is in semi-effect, in that new pages should be created with all relevant categories, unlike what the old policy allowed for.

We will also document what types of pages belong in the category, like Wikipedia does. See Creating category pages on Wikipedia.

Project Members
The primary user contributing to this project is, though any willing user is encouraged to contribute. In case the user is not 100% positive what they are using, they should first contact.

Discussion
For discussion and background information on the project, please see the Staff's Noticeboard.