Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1468708-20160720021201/@comment-1468708-20160720144220

Do keep in mind that Special:Categories is a special page. As such, most readers won't even bother looking at it; and those who would like to browse by category would be better off if they were to use Special:CategoryTree.

With the "remove the "UK/U.S." prefix in some categories" proposal, I want to avoid possible instances like this one: Category:Australian contestants from Western Australia. I'm pretty sure that the intro paragraphs and contestant infoboxes are enough to let a reader know a contestant's country of origin.

With the "season/series" capitalization prolem, even if it is a minor concern, it does cause some problems, most notably double categories such as Category:£32,000 winners from Series 4 (UK)‏‎ and Category:£32,000 winners from series 4 (UK). Renaming categories is a tedious process (hint: it cannot be done directly), so this is one thing that should be standardized soon. Otherwise, we will have to deal with more and more categories that would need to be eventually renamed.

With the date format issue, I do believe that we should respect the country's most popular date format (e.g. US: July 20, 2001; UK: 20 July 2001). The on‏‎ly thing I'm still unsure of is how to deal with contestants whose runs span more than one day (examples including Peter Lee, Ingram Wilcox, Judith Keppel, Rob Mitchell, David Honea, Ed Toutant). These pages all show different ways of representing date ranges, and ideally should be condensed down to one unique format.

With the U.S. Primetime/Syndicated seasons problem, I believe it is a bit tedious and unnecessary to have the 14 syndicated seasons labelled with (Syndicated), knowing full well that the Primetime version is not coming back any time soon and that the Syndicated version is the version currently airing. I think it should be the other way around (labelling the Primetime versions with (Primetime) and leaving the Syndicated versions the way they are).

Anyway, if you've got any other ideas, suggestions, or concerns, please do post them down below.