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Category:Creatures is in serious need of some organisation. There's a lot of redundancy to be found in it. I'm not entirely sure redundancy is a bad thing, though. A lot of creatures are currently hidden in the Ministry of Magic divisions categories (Category:Beasts, Category:Beings, Category:Spirits), and aren't listed in the the main Category:Creatures category. I think it would probably be most helpful to cross-list creatures in both Category:Creatures as well as in the applicable division categories.

Do we also know the division types for all of these creatures? I don't remember most of these ever being explicitly described as beasts, for instance. Seems more like speculation/inference. Starstuff (Owl me!) 21:12, March 11, 2016 (UTC)

As a general rule of thumb (at least for me): we want users to find the information "quickly". So we should avoid having "too many" categories, but at the same, there should be enough categories to avoid "overarching". An overarching category is just a general category without being divided enough. The less pages in a category, the more likely a user will find what they want.
I tend to have a single overarching category for a "topic" area, then divide that up per "subtopic" as needed (if needed, the subtopic can be divided into further subtopics.
Over at the Homeworld Wiki (where I'm a crat), I personally took an opportunity to completely redo the category system there, as many of the categories were pretty overarching and not definitive enough. I believe this has helped users there to find the information they need in an efficient manner, but I recognise that this wiki may not want to have tons of small categories or subdivide things too much. --Sajuuk 21:22, March 11, 2016 (UTC)
I created Category:Creatures by classification to contain Category:Beasts, Category:Beings, etc., in order to get those out of Category:Creatures and help make it a little less labyrinthine. A solution to the current crowdedness of Category:Creatures might be to create Category:Creatures by species, and move all the articles and categories dedicated to specific creatures into that. Starstuff (Owl me!) 21:37, March 11, 2016 (UTC)
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