As in many larger categories, we turned it off to suggest that new editors start in a smaller category. That makes life much easier for the new editor, until he made himself comfortable with our editing system. Editing rights for (additional) larger categories can be requested later, using our internal system.
431 listings is much too large for a beginnerThis appeared to be a small category to me
Please remember that a category automatically includes all subcategories. Which in this case - as jimnoble already pointed out - sums up to 431 listings.This appeared to be a small category to me. Can you give me an example of a small category similar to this one?