There seems to be a need for a spiders category and an identifying spiders subcategory under Pets and Animals.
Currently we have only Spider Control under Pests and Arachnid Pets under Pets and Animals and these categories do not seem adequate to hold:
And all of the spider identification articles listed in wikihow.com/Identify-Spiders
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Anna
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I started having a look around at open category requests, with a focus on the larger potential categories (see here
for reasoning about why - for now, at least, prioritizing the bigger ones).
That in mind, I dug into the two closest categories here: Arachnid Pets and Spider Control. It seems like some of the confusion for categorizers/editors (and probably readers, too!) is that some of these topics aren’t “either/or” on the pets and pests front. Also, folks in the Categorizer might well be looking for “spider” and then not see the Arachnid Pets choice. We needn’t necessarily have a distinction between spiders in general and spiders as pets, since we don’t on several other animal categories, I think?
So I took a little shift from what you originally suggested and instead adjusted Arachnid Pets as a whole, to https://www.wikihow.com/Category:Spiders-and-Other-Arachnids
It seems to me that a general spider under Bugs/Pets&Animals would work well (including identification stuff - which in theory could be its own category, but if we’re going with a higher new category threshold for now, I’d say let’s hold off on that - might be good for readers browsing around, not to have to dig too deeply). Then if the title is more specific along the lines of killing/eliminating/etc, it could go under Spider Control, under Pest Control.
I’ll do some reshuffling to that end. For the most part, I’m thinking of putting the identify topics under “Spiders and Other Arachnids” but if folks feel that these should be under Spider Control as well, we can categorize any or all of those articles as both, instead. I’ll close for now but feel free to post a-fresh or reopen if there’s more we should do here.
