Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25956839-20160829093743/@comment-27510501-20160902102927

I'm someone who has been adding Categories recently to the new series, Special Events, and cars when they come out. I also use the Categories from time-to-time to navigate.

My thoughts are that there are too many categories at the moment, a lot of which I don't find very useful given the information available in some of the major rr3 wiki pages. For example, how useful are the "Cars A-Z", "Cars A-K", and "Cars L-Z" categories given the pages with easily readable tabulated cars lists? (Especially since they are sorted by manufacturer?)

Personally, I also find the categories like "Low Grip Cars" not very helpful, because what is the definition of "Low Grip"? Even so, categories such as "150-199 Speed Cars" (which have a defined range - on base car stats presumably) I personally do not find very helpful - in this case because I don't find the information relevant to the game or how I play it. Given my cars are all fairly well upgraded, these types of categories have limited relevance even as general sources of info.

I think categories like "Pure Stock Challenge" have potential to be quite useful and helpful, as they can provide a useful "filter" to see which cars and circuits are in a given series. But some discipline would be needed to keep the category links to a minimum - for example, I don't think there is much point in having "Nissan" and "Nissan Silvia" both added to "Pure Stock Challenge" ("Nissan" is kind of redundant in that example in my opinion.)

i suspect that many of the categories date from early days in the wiki. With the increasing level of information and the ever improving evolution of the info is presented on this wiki, many of these existing categories could be done away with.

In summary, I think categories have potential, but I think the numbers and types of categories need some careful consideration and a full-blown "make-over". They would also need a degree of discipline in their on-going maintenance to prevent becoming "tangled up" again.

My two cents! :)