Forum:WoW Item categories


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The World of Warcraft item categories (especially Category:World of Warcraft uncommon items, Category:World of Warcraft common items, Category:World of Warcraft rare items, and Category:World of Warcraft epic items) are too damn huge, to the point of not being navigable or practical. I think we should split it up somehow, probably by item level, and possibly have tooltip automatically categorize these so all we'd have to do is get a bot to remove the existing categories. Thoughts? -- 01:40, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I was thinking to split them up by drop locations, as many of them already are. I know there is a world drop category; have another category for purchaseable, another for instance drops, etc etc? --Sky (t · c · w) 02:04, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Possibly, there would still be a ton in each category. And we'd have to employ Foxbot for that approach, too complex for anything like AWB to handle. -- 02:07, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Not really. We can start off by pulling items from the variety of categories dedicated to instance loot, a la Category:World of Warcraft items by instance. I don't know how to progress from there. --Sky (t · c · w) 02:14, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Mmm, Foxbot tends to fail at world drop items anyway. I think we should probably come up with a more complete list of divisions before actually moving categories around. -- 02:16, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Sure. Most of the world drops have already been categorized in this manner I think, so it isn't so big an issue. --Sky (t · c · w) 02:21, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure I agree with this - bigcat exists to help navigation around large categories. The resulting categories per instance would also be very long - "World of Warcraft Temple of Ahn'Qiraj common items" - quite a mouthful. 12:49, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Not really, since a search on WoWhead gave me 7 results. 12:52, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Bigcat is less logical for navigation than using subcategories. People don't usually look by name when browsing categories, if they know part of the name they use search. -- 12:57, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Kirkburn, you mistake me. I meant, quite simply, "Category:World of Warcraft rare instance drops", not "Category:World of Warcraft rare drops". --Sky (t · c · w) 17:16, 24 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Aha, that does make more sense, and I think I could agree to that :) 17:18, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

As far as I know, this went no further. Is Bigcat sufficient for the job? Do people still want categories broken up? --Eirik Ratcatcher (talk) 23:28, 24 July 2009 (UTC)