All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XVIII

[GethN7]

Hmmmmm...

As near as I can tell, this page is a manually-maintained copy of this autogenerated page.

Is there any reason to keep both?

The Index Index allows us to keep things collated manually, the latter page simply keeps track of all categories, but lacks the drill-down features or manual editing of the other. The former makes doing jobs for cleanup easier because we can narrow them down via the subcategorization, while the latter just lists all categories no matter what without the built-in drill-down of the manual page.

The latter is also generated by the software without any human input, which means it would exist without any categories at all. A truly accurate count of all categories that are relevant to our site mission can only be reliably checked through the manual page, the autogenerated one includes categories that are for maintenance, or generated by certain extensions that may not exist once they are removed.

In that case, we had better start using subcategories.

Already do. See the arrows next to categories in the Index Index? If it's blue, it means that category has subcategories. In fact, our trope/work pages do this by default. Unlike TV Tropes, MediaWiki was designed for allowing fine grained drill-down to narrow things to a specific range of items based on category tags since day one.