Category talk:Images
I just wanted to start a talk page here to avoid confusion or needless work for people adding or changing image categories. Also, as this is a very broad topic and concept, likely to be a long term WIP, any major changes or updates to image categorisation can be documented here for reference and guidance. Llamageddon (talk) 14:37, 27 September 2023 (CEST)
Supercategories and Subcategories
The foundation for this was the result of a concerted effort by Harakoni to start organising all wiki images into categories for easier searching and uploading by wiki editors.
- 'Supercategories' refers to categories that are intended to only contain other categories, as is the case with the article page being discussed here, Category: Images.
- 'Subcategories' refers to categories that are contained within a supercategory but are intended to contain links to pages on the wiki, rather than other categories.
- Due to necessity or pragmatism, the lines between these two category types can be flexible. For instance, adding an image to 'Category: Images' temporarily, if the correct category is unknown or doesn't exist, is preferable to uploading it without a category.
The main goal is to have most images under specific subcategories of a related supercategory. The intended result of this is that images can have a single specific category on their page, whilst still being sorted and navigable under related supercategories, such as:
- Game files such as "Faded" and "Unfaded" tooltips, and Icons being individual subcategories of the "Images" supercategory.
- Specific item images being able to be sorted according to their item categories:
In the above example, an uploaded image file of the icon for a piece of light armour can be given the single category of 'Light Armour Icons' and still nominally and functionally be under all the preceding categories as well.
An added benefit to all this is that it often makes it a lot easier to reorganise categories without needing to individually edit hundreds of pages (you can just change what supercategory a given subcategory is subordinate to. Llamageddon (talk) 15:19, 27 September 2023 (CEST)