Category talk:Weapon items

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Category problem

I don't understand why every weapons are considered as weapons excepted Bows, Repeaters and Summoners weapon items. Why there is not a category for explosives, swords, spears, ... ? And other (like Holy water) -- Dinoxel discussion 09:38, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Honestly I think proper categorization fell by the wayside over time. I've always thought it kind of odd how this wiki eschews wiki-based categorization in favor of big lists of stuff, but that's how it is. Many pages are only even in categories because templates automatically place them there. Unfortunately, the questions about hovering and flying that you asked Chris and I recently are an example of why it's hard to do anything about it- as it is now, much of the information is user-created by definition, and that information is used to determine the category things go into by templates.
Weird thing is, it's not even that it's easier like this- just difficult to actually get organized enough to put a concerted effort towards changing it. Gearzein (talk) 17:29, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
I'm reorganizing French categories. Do you know which templates add pages directly to category (Except item/armor/(de)buff infobox) ?
I don't understand why it's not easy to reorganized ? You have just to replace on every pages you want to change the category (example with Dark Lance, change Weapon to Spear in | type = and create a new category (:Spears) which will be inside the category:Weapon items). Sorry for my english. -- Dinoxel discussion 12:45, 19 March 2015 (UTC)