Classic WoW Wiki talk:Cat Team/Projects

= Character/NPC category restructuring = Sign me up!
 * --Fandyllic 11:25 AM PST 28 Dec 2005


 * I was thinking we should pick certain ranges of the alphabet to split up... I was foolishly starting from -A-, but I think I'll start from -Z- and work backwards alphabetically, instead.
 * We should have people who join the effort pick ranges of the alphabet to work on when we get more volunteers.
 * --Fandyllic 4:56 PM PST 28 Dec 2005

=Character Reformatting= I am considering dissolving the individual Warcraft Characters categories in favor of just keeping all characters from all games within the parent Characters category. This would help reduce category clutter.. so the proposed category structure would look like this: Let's see some two cents. --Anticrash 11:41, 16 Dec 2005 (EST)
 * Category:NPCs
 * Category:Instance Characters
 * Category:Trainers
 * Category:Vendors
 * Category:Characters (All characters exclusive to content other than the books or WoW, i.e., the games)
 * Category:Book Characters


 * I'd like to see "Category:Quest Givers" added under Category:NPCs. There are some importance NPCs, like Nat Pagel and Dirge Quikcleave who are sort of like trainers since they give artisan training after completing a quest, but not really. They also aren't vendors or instance characters, but still more than run-of-the-mill NPCs.
 * --Fandyllic 6:02 PM PST 20 Dec 2005


 * We could do something like:
 * Category:Characters (as a parent category)
 * Category:Instance Characters
 * Category:Trainers
 * Category:Vendors
 * Category:Quest Givers
 * Category:Game Characters (for characters from Warcraft I through III, plus expansions)
 * Category:Book Characters (for all book, comic, and RPG characters)
 * --Anticrash 22:31, 20 Dec 2005 (EST)


 * Okay. So Category:NPCs goes away?
 * --Fandyllic 10:04 AM PST 25 Dec 2005


 * Category:Characters (as a parent category, not assigned to any articles)
 * Category:NPCs (assigned to all NPCs appearing in-game)
 * Category:Instance Characters
 * Category:Trainers
 * Category:Vendors
 * Category:Quest Givers
 * Category:Game Characters (for characters from Warcraft I through III, plus expansions)
 * Category:Book Characters (for all book, comic, and RPG characters)

--Anticrash 10:00, 28 Dec 2005 (EST)

root
For a while I've been wondering what the root category for the whole thing is. Any Ideas? I've tried to make one at Category:Blizzard Entertainment. [[User:CyberSkull|Dread Lord C y b e r S k  u  l  l  ✎☠]] 06:11, 18 Dec 2005 (EST)
 * It just occurred to me! Category:Root or Category:/ ! [[User:CyberSkull|Dread Lord C y b e r S k  u  l  l  ✎☠]] 06:14, 18 Dec 2005 (EST)


 * You can consider Special:Categories to be the root. --Anticrash 10:00, 28 Dec 2005 (EST)

Dec 27, 2005: this project appears to be completed. If others agree, this page could be retired. --Hammersmith


 * I don't know what you mean about this project appearing to be completed.. are you thinking about API categories? There are hundreds of uncategorized API articles cluttering the system. Look at Special:Uncategorizedpages to see what this project refers to. --Anticrash 09:51, 28 Dec 2005 (EST)


 * Yes, I did mean the API Categories. When I followed the link Special:Uncategorized_Pages as suggested on the front page, it gave an error. Fortunately your reply had the correctly spelled link which works. (It doesn't include a _). So, now I know what the project is to do and I fixed the article typo also. --Hammersmith Dec 29 '05 Aust