Category talk:Maintenance

Subdivide categories
Seeing as there are many categories here, and there will only be even more in the future, I would propose to divide most of the categories into subcategories. To make it easier to tell which are subcategories and which are maintenance categories, subcategories would have a sort key of "*".

Some ideas would be:
 * "Article maintenance" for categories dealing with the content of articles, such as Category:Verify or Category:Stub.
 * "Template maintenance" for categories dealing with the content of templates, such as Category:Templates with no documentation (currently only two categories, but it could get more, such as a category for deprecated templates)
 * "File maintenance" for categories related to files needing work, such as Category:Broken images‎ or Category:Images violating copyright‎.
 * "Errors" for categories related to improper template parameters and other template errors, such as Category:Missing achievement or Category:Pages with script errors
 * "Article classification" for categories containing pages where there is not a goal to empty the category or the category cannot be emptied without further information or development. Some examples are Category:Upcoming, Category:Conjecture‎, Category:Outdated‎, and Category:Soft redirects
 * "Pending action" for categories about pending requests such as deletion, moving, splitting, etc.

– KnightMiner  t/c 23:17, 4 April 2015 (UTC)


 * : Bringing this back up again since the category now has 70 subcategories and is rather cluttered. In addition, I think some of the categories can be combined (e.g. Category:AutoUnsigned template used incorrectly and Category:Unsigned template used incorrectly, "Testing needed" with "Verify", etc).


 * Some categories also seem to be broken or unused (e.g. Category:Fixme doesn't seem to be used anywhere and was only mentioned twice in talk pages); and Category:History uses deprecated header has nothing even though Special:WhatLinksHere/R has quite a few results (from history template using deprecated headers). - Sonicwave ( talk )  18:42, 24 May 2018 (UTC)


 * . Started organization in my my sandbox, and will try to finish later today (I'll be busy within the next few users though).-- Madminecrafter12 Orange Glazed Terracotta.png to meLight Blue Glazed Terracotta.png 19:01, 24 May 2018 (UTC)