Thread:Ursuul/@comment-30270234-20170207125405

Ursuul, we never discussed categories, and from this point of view each wiki is different, so things can get quite complex.

The way I've learned, which is how things were done on Twilight Saga wiki (I've been one of the four or five important editors there, as User:Ngebendi and User:MinorStoop), is that each page should be categorized with the barest minimum of categories, of which there might be a pretty number: Harry Dresden is a main character, a wizard, and he appeared in Storm Front - well, I've counted 34 categories on Dresden's page (!). These are the low level categories, and you can't do it randomly; they've got to be relevant to the page.

Then there are the higher-level categories: a wizard is a practitioner, which in turn is a human, and they also need to be thought out quite well. Top category is The Dresden Files.

It is useful to order categories on pages in a logical way (role in the series, species born in, organizations belonging to, books appearing in), always the same, so one can easily find and check them, if needed.

At this point, one can choose: 1) pages should be added to the absolutely lowest categories relevant to them (here, Twilight Saga wiki) or 2) one can add all the relevant categories to a page, whichever ranking they've got (Honorverse wiki).

All of this to say that "Side Jobs" is not a lowest-level category, except for the Side Jobs page. For everything else that appears in the anthology (stories, characters, etc.), this category is one step higher, and is mediated by a story-related category.

What decision is taken depends very much on who's maintaining the wiki; I've chosen alternative #1 because it's what I know and understand; I'm open to suggestions, but I need to think them out first. :) 