The Sims Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive 1
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The Sims Categories
Continued from User:Narc/Categories Project
I figured we should put this here since I foresee a problem should we not get this issue solved very soon. I am personally suspending all category creations until we vote on our laid out plan. This way everyone as a community knows what to do and is not doing their own thing. One weeks worth discussion and two weeks to vote on the issue is going to be our set time plan.
Issue: The category system needs fixing. It's very unorganized and messy.
(DO NOT COPY AND PASTE, RATHER EDIT YOUR IDEAS INTO)
The proposed category system is as followed:
- Sims Wiki (this is our super-category, the mother of all categories; everything is rooted here)
- Sims Games (this category is the root of the "games" tree as noted above; in this tree, we categorize things by the games it's in)
- The Sims
- The Sims Base Game
- Livin' Large
- (etc.; one category for each expansion pack)
- The Sims 2
- The Sims 2 Base Game
- University
- (etc.; one category for each expansion pack)
- Stuff Packs
- Holiday Party Pack
- (etc.; one category for each stuff pack)
- The Sims
- Simology (this category is the root of the "simology" tree; it categorizes by aspects of a sim's life)
- Aspirations
- Careers
- NPCs
- Talent Badges
- Skill points
- Motives
- Life Stages
- Life States
- Aliens
- Interactions
- Sims
- (what we already have here except the Premade Sims category)
- Images
- Sim Images
- Sims 2 snapshots
- Sims 1 Snapshots
- Game Screenshots (For other game's screenshots)
- Wiki Images
- Box Art
- Logo
- Templates
- Blank
- Stubs
- Disambiguation
- Featured Articles
- Games (for all other Sim games)
- Community
- Websites
- EA Games (I think the Maxis category should be integrated into this one)
- (more? Your input is required)
- Sims Games (this category is the root of the "games" tree as noted above; in this tree, we categorize things by the games it's in)
Comments
I have added all the categories that I believe are available as of now (all the ones I believe should be kept) as well as inserted ideas. Realize when you are discussing these are the exact titles we want to name these categories. They are to be used as more efficient and to enable better searching. Time is of the essence people and by Monday, March 24, 2008 I hope to be voting on this issue. Thanks for your time, I know this is a long topic! If anyone thinks of anything to be added please do! Makiah (talk) 22:53, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
- I'll unfix the stuff in Simology, but what i want know is, how is any of that different then the stuff in "Games Systems" --Uberfuzzy 23:03, 17 March 2008 (UTC)?
- Personally I don't like the Game Systems category because if I was a person looking for things to do with the sims such as aspirations I would not look under Game Systems. That's why we want to better the category system. I thank you for fixing that. The categories listed above would be the only ones we have so if anything is important it should be added! But again Uberfuzzy I believe you have some good ideas and can add them! Makiah (talk) 09:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- I want to get rid of the Premade Sims Category. While I know there is an enormous amount of articles there I would like to move them to instead just the Sims Category. All the Sims in the Sims category are premade anyway...so it's kinda pointless. I know it's a big project but I'm willing to take it on (even if by myself). I also added some more categories to the category tree: Sims 1 Snapshots, Game Screenshots, and Aliens (which a user created today and I think it would be stupid to delete). Makiah (talk) 17:48, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
- I wanted to make note that this will not effect category creation in the future. So like people won't have to vote on making a new category or whatever. But obviously if a category doesn't seem to fit, I or someone else will delete it and it will be just like the delete a page thing. If there is no other input by tonight I will be putting it up to a vote. Makiah (talk) 14:48, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- Under, there are two articles, Buy Mode and Build Mode. I would like to create categories for them as well. "Buy Mode" or "Objects" would have descriptions of objects using the Template:Object and "Build Mode" or "Building" would have descriptions of the various tools, cheats, maybe even tips. A morris 01:39, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
- I wanted to make note that this will not effect category creation in the future. So like people won't have to vote on making a new category or whatever. But obviously if a category doesn't seem to fit, I or someone else will delete it and it will be just like the delete a page thing. If there is no other input by tonight I will be putting it up to a vote. Makiah (talk) 14:48, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
- I want to get rid of the Premade Sims Category. While I know there is an enormous amount of articles there I would like to move them to instead just the Sims Category. All the Sims in the Sims category are premade anyway...so it's kinda pointless. I know it's a big project but I'm willing to take it on (even if by myself). I also added some more categories to the category tree: Sims 1 Snapshots, Game Screenshots, and Aliens (which a user created today and I think it would be stupid to delete). Makiah (talk) 17:48, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
- Personally I don't like the Game Systems category because if I was a person looking for things to do with the sims such as aspirations I would not look under Game Systems. That's why we want to better the category system. I thank you for fixing that. The categories listed above would be the only ones we have so if anything is important it should be added! But again Uberfuzzy I believe you have some good ideas and can add them! Makiah (talk) 09:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Categories Voting
First thing I would like to apologize to the community because I forgot to put the vote up on time. Alright so we will be voting on a Categories plan that allows the community to be on the same page. The plan is that whatever category is not in it will be deleted and the other ones moved so they are branches of whatever category tree they are listed under. This will not hinder Category creation however when creating a category it must have a proper branch (be a category of a category) and have a significant number of articles.
The proposed category system is as followed:
- Sims Wiki (this is our super-category, the mother of all categories; everything is rooted here)
- Sims Games (this category is the root of the "games" tree as noted above; in this tree, we categorize things by the games it's in)
- The Sims
- The Sims Base Game
- Livin' Large
- (etc.; one category for each expansion pack)
- The Sims 2
- The Sims 2 Base Game
- University
- (etc.; one category for each expansion pack)
- Stuff Packs
- Holiday Party Pack
- (etc.; one category for each stuff pack)
- The Sims
- Simology (this category is the root of the "simology" tree; it categorizes by aspects of a sim's life)
- Aspirations
- Careers
- NPCs
- Talent Badges
- Skill points
- Motives
- Life Stages
- Life States
- Aliens
- Interactions
- Sims
- (what we already have here except the Premade Sims category)
- Images
- Sim Images
- Sims 2 snapshots
- Sims 1 Snapshots
- Game Screenshots (For other game's screenshots)
- Wiki Images
- Box Art
- Logo
- Templates
- Blank
- Stubs
- Disambiguation
- Featured Articles
- Games (for all other Sim games)
- Community
- Discussions
- Websites
- EA Games (I think the Maxis category should be integrated into this one)
- (more? Your input is required)
- Sims Games (this category is the root of the "games" tree as noted above; in this tree, we categorize things by the games it's in)
Because of my own negligence the voting is now set to end April 10th, 2008. Makiah (talk) 01:49, 28 March 2008 (UTC)