User blog:Jiskran/To categorise, or not to categorise

As I wander the deserted corners and orphaned pages of the wiki, ferreting out forgotten characters and lost memoranda, I find myself returning time and again to the "Categories" page, to update or fix something.

As a request to users here in general, could I ask people not to create a category until they have, let's say, a minimum 3 members for the group? It will make checking the list much quicker and easier.

Also, before you create a new category, can you try some parts of your key word(s) and see if anything is offered automatically, as in some places we have extreme repetition and redundancy. An example would be the "First Years" concept, as we also have "1st Years", "First Year" and "First years", simply because people generated a new category without checking.

We have, and need, a lot of categories, but for people to find what they are looking for, it will help if one idea isn't scattered over an unnecessary number of variations.