ka3jjz
Wiki Admin Emeritus
I'm almost done - a few more things to do (one more state - Wisconsin- remains, plus a few odds/ends to clean up) and Phase 1 is a wrap. Another week or two, and we should be good to go
Time to start thinking about some consolidation - there are a few places where this would clean up some redundancies and simpliify things.
A. Create a new 'Aviation' Super category, and under that, use Air Shows (Air Show Frequencies may well be redundant and unnecessary), Airports, Civil Aviation, Military Aviation and Air National Guard. We'd clean out Air Traffic Control, Aircraft Monitoring, and Milcom (along with their children). It's certainly cleaner, grammatical and KISS. There will be overlap, but that's the nature of the beast.
B. Make a new super category of 'Military Information' (or something similar) to house the various branches of the military.
C. There is a great deal of overlap between Recreation and Attractions. I would suggest combining them into one called 'Recreation OR Attractions' - since or includes a logical AND, we'd condense this topic and remove the redundancy. There will undoubtedly be some overlap into the Sports Events and Organizations category, but it too is the nature of the beast. Some Attractions are themselves organizations (and don't forget to include Businesses and Business Frequencies)
D. I think we have 2 mis-named categories - I'm pretty sure 'US Land Management' should be 'US Bureau of Land Management' - similarly, 'US Reclamation' should be 'US Bureau of Reclamation'
E. This is very much off in the distance, and not quite related, but very much needs to be done. Both the FTO and RID/UID Lists categories have gotten rather large and unwieldy. If these were to be broken out by state, then those links can be posted in the state pages. Once I'm done with my first sweep, each state is going to have both a conventional and trunked topic that will be moved to the top (see the Alabama article for an example)
Thoughts? Mike
Time to start thinking about some consolidation - there are a few places where this would clean up some redundancies and simpliify things.
A. Create a new 'Aviation' Super category, and under that, use Air Shows (Air Show Frequencies may well be redundant and unnecessary), Airports, Civil Aviation, Military Aviation and Air National Guard. We'd clean out Air Traffic Control, Aircraft Monitoring, and Milcom (along with their children). It's certainly cleaner, grammatical and KISS. There will be overlap, but that's the nature of the beast.
B. Make a new super category of 'Military Information' (or something similar) to house the various branches of the military.
C. There is a great deal of overlap between Recreation and Attractions. I would suggest combining them into one called 'Recreation OR Attractions' - since or includes a logical AND, we'd condense this topic and remove the redundancy. There will undoubtedly be some overlap into the Sports Events and Organizations category, but it too is the nature of the beast. Some Attractions are themselves organizations (and don't forget to include Businesses and Business Frequencies)
D. I think we have 2 mis-named categories - I'm pretty sure 'US Land Management' should be 'US Bureau of Land Management' - similarly, 'US Reclamation' should be 'US Bureau of Reclamation'
E. This is very much off in the distance, and not quite related, but very much needs to be done. Both the FTO and RID/UID Lists categories have gotten rather large and unwieldy. If these were to be broken out by state, then those links can be posted in the state pages. Once I'm done with my first sweep, each state is going to have both a conventional and trunked topic that will be moved to the top (see the Alabama article for an example)
Thoughts? Mike
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