Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-32704847-20200504234907/@comment-32704847-20200506001006

Thank you guys. I wasn't expecting to get this much of help.

First, I'd like to clarify a term I used on OP. When I said that descriptions of category pages commonly overlap what we find on an article of the same name, I was refering to the hole content of these pages. That is, category pages basically have a list of items belonging to that category. And articles with that same name, can have much more stuff, like the description of all generic behaviors found on that group of items, but the main section of these articles are almost always a list of the items belonging to that group (as I said, sometimes inside comparative tables, with/without icons, important stats, and short description). This content usually overlaps on the main and category namespaces.

But as Andrewds1021 and Fandyllic have brought the importance of automated categorization methods, I now understand that producing lists on both namespaces shouldn't necessarily mean a duplicated effort on doing the same thing.

More important, now I'm more inclined to think that I might had misunderstood the 2018 categories update. I mean, saying "Categories now hold as much weight or more as landing pages in search engine results as articles do", does not mean they have the same function. As I understood from Hollowness post, categories remain an alternative way to navigate across the wiki, more like the main page, the top menu, the search bar, and nav templates. Just to give you an example of my confusion: I had already redirected a couple of articles to the category page, and transfered all their content to the category namespace, to avoid what I was considering a "duplicated content". But as I made these decisions, things were getting weirder, for example: we do not have comments on categories.

You have clarified the presumptions that were confusing me.