User blog:Wildoneshelper/My reasons to put "artillery", "cavalry" categories into units riding elephants

I'm going to list out the reasons why such categories should be included in order to prevent an edit war.

Firstly, the page mentioned it is a cavalry, infantry or artillery, but the category does not mention it is a cavalry, infantry or artillery. This gives an impression to the readers that the page is INCOMPLETE. Although using subcategories kind of solve the problem, but this method is indirect. Some readers only give a first glance to the page without clicking on anything.

Secondly, Age of Empires series games seem to use cavalry, infantry or artillery as a big category. If you read manuals from Age of Empires games, especially Age of Empires 3 (the original one), you can see every unit is categorized under this big category. I see no reason why some pages do not even include these categories. Same with above, creating subcategories cause inconvenience, which can mislead readers. I also see some elephant units also have the big category, but some don't. It is quite misleading though.

Thirdly, categories should follow the multipliers of the game, which means there should be a category under light infantry, heavy infantry, melee cavalry etc. In this way, readers can know which kind of units receive this kind of damage from another unit. For example, Pikeman does x3 damage to Light Infantry. Although there is a page for light infantry, but "light infantry" should be a category rather than an article. This also reduces stub pages because category pages ought to be short in length. Take Dragoon as another example, this time "melee cavalry" is a page with no examples. Which units are "melee cavalry"? A category should help with this. You may say "cavalry" should apply to this, but "cavalry" is a big category as I mention above, and includes other types of cavalry too. For me, I would add "melee cavalry" category into those units with this feature.

Lastly, I see this wiki is MEAN on categories. Remember categories should not be concise, because one unit can have a lot of features. In other wikis I edit, one page ought to have ten or more categories. Every category is useful in my opinion. Therefore, I would even agree to have a category called "Units", "Semi-artillery". For me, I think the wikis should have all the categories which the multiplier has mentioned. Concision can cause inconvenience. Therefore, it is good to have at least 7 categories in a page.

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