Category talk:Inhabitants

I am strongly of the opinion that this category should be called "People" instead, since not all articles about people are articles about 'characters' but all articles about characters are articles about people. To me, 'character' refers to someone who plays a plot role in a novel or computer game, but not necessarily someone who is mentioned in a source book. Still, these people deserve to be documented here. Fw190a8 00:01, 19 January 2007 (UTC)


 * No objections? Great! I'll begin the move. Fw190a8 02:50, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I think thats a good idea. Also I would suggest splitting them up into two main categories. One canon and one non-canon section for the people from the games and so forth. Johnnyriot999 21:06, 16 March 2007 (UTC)


 * I don't think every category needs to be split up into subcategories. We've already got categories like "Non-canonical" that such characters belong to separately. What's next, creating a subcategory for "Non-canonical" called "Characters"? I think it's enough for an article to belong to several categories without those categories having subcategories for each other. And the canonicity division isn't meaningful with the characters that have both kind of versions. "Inhabitants", in turn, is problematic because not everyone clearly belongs somewhere. But it's usually clear that someone belongs to "Characters" at least.
 * I'm not sure what to say about the category "People" here, except that I don't think "Characters" is an inappropriate term for any fictional person. Ville V. Kokko 07:20, 10 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I have to disagree with this statement: "Inhabitants", in turn, is problematic because not everyone clearly belongs somewhere. As you can see from all the existing subcategories of Category:Inhabitants, including every location and creature type a person/character/inhabitant can exist within, every inhabitant can be clearly included somewhere. It's because of this that I am very in favor new inhabitant form of categorization, but then again I favor many subcategories. As for the non-canon bits, I really dont care THAT much, it just seems they should be categorized differently from articles that are 100% legit. Johnnyriot999 08:08, 10 April 2007 (UTC)


 * My concern with the term "Characters" is that it implies a detachment from the game world, but the rest of the articles are written from an in-game standpoint, ie "Waterdeep is a metropolis" rather than "Waterdeep is a fictional metropolis in the Forgotten Realms". The problem with "People" is that it doesn't really describe individuals of certain races such as dragons. I appreciate Ville V. Kokko's concerns about having too many categories, and I think that some of them look really empty at the moment, but suppose you were looking for Wizards in general. It's slightly more trouble to click on Wizards, then on 1st level wizards to find what you're looking for, but you will find it. If they're all in one large category called Wizards, there's no way of telling which of them are 1st level, so you would potentially have to go through all of them! I don't believe there needs to be a "non-canon" category, because I find it unlikely anyone would be specifically looking for non-canon articles, especially since there are already categories for Baldur's Gate II, etc. Fw190a8 08:53, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Move
Can I get an okay to begin the move of all these articles exclusively within the various subcategories of Category:Inhabitants? Johnnyriot999 04:33, 10 April 2007 (UTC)


 * I think you should just go ahead. If there are any strong objections which lead to a change in consensus, the articles can move category again. Fw190a8 08:53, 10 April 2007 (UTC)