User blog comment:Sarah Manley/Videos on Wikia/@comment-188432-20120928011149/@comment-188432-20120929235321

I think some, maybe even most, will.

But I think the video system — even back in the old days — has robbed w:c:tardis of a "natural" category. See, it's entirely because videos are automatically placed in Category:Videos that we've had to go to longer-than-ncessary category names. Instead of just Category:Prose, Category:Comics, Category:TV, Category:Audios and Category:Videos, we had to go for the longer tardis:Category:Direct-to-video stories, which then meant we had to add "stories" to everything else for naming to be symmetrical. So our category names are rather unnecessarily longer because an administrative category is impinging on our contentual categories.

And I would imagine on a music site, Category:Videos could have an ambiguous meaning, too. I mean, wouldn't you want to write articles about the videos? Say you have a Michael Jackson wiki. Wouldn't the page "Thriller (video)" — as distinguished from "Thriller (single)" and "Thriller (album) — be most logically put into a category about the making and reception of the video? I mean, sure, you could make a new category called "Music videos", but why go with the longer name?  And if autosuggest gave them both "Videos" and "Music videos", which would the novice editor choose to put "Thriller (video)" into?

Also, you should be aware — and maybe you are — that the word "video" has an ordinary meaning in British English of "that thing you went to Blockbuster to rent in the 1990s". In other words, it has a meaning roughly equivalent to the way we Americans use "VHS" or "tape". It refers to a media format. There are plenty of Brit-themed wikis that would naturally use Category:Videos to distinguish from Category:DVDs, if they had that chance.

I think at the very least, wikis should be given the power to name the category that is automatically stamped on video uploads, and automatically linked from the RVM. If I could change the auto-category name at w:c:tardis, I absolutely would.

Depending on your subject matter, Category:Videos is just too broad a name. It's an administrative category and it should therefore have a name that people aren't going to accidentally use — or want to use — for something else.