Category talk:Bots

I'll make an Infobox for these, to catgorize all the info we always see. --Chase-san 09:54, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Should this just contain bot subcategories and not any actual bots? I almost like the idea of having a list of all bots here as well as in any applicable subcategories, but I'm not sure if it's useful or just messy overcategorization. Thoughts? --Voidious 16:22, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Oi, this is VERY late response, however bots should be listed here and in the sub category. They are still bots, even if they are megabots, this way if you know sorta the name of the bot you can find it quickly here if you want, without having to search subcategories for it. Knowing sorta the name of a bot makes this far more useful then the search function. Since that only works if you can spell the name correctly. This is generally how well formed categories are done in wikipedia, and other such wiki. --Chase 03:21, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm in agreement with Chase here. I like the policy wikipedia has with 'distinguished subcategories' (see Wikipedia:Categorization) personally. --Rednaxela 04:17, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Works for me. The last time I tried to find out what the "common wisdom" was for this situation, the best I could find was some MediaWiki people saying that it's redundant / bad form to have stuff categorized in both a category and its parent. But I always wanted to have a master list of all bots, too. I even looked into ways to list every page under "Bots" OR a subcategory. But anyway, yeah, we can just update the Template:Infobox Robot to add the Bots category, should cover most bot pages. --Voidious 16:40, 23 November 2009 (UTC)