Category talk:Elves

Due to the size and unwieldiness of this category, I created a new subcategory, Cat:Individual elves, and began going through the category with the purpose of making things a little more useful.

Reasons:
 * As it was, the size and scope of Cat:Elves makes it less than useful. It functions as both an Inhabitants by race subcategory and a Creatures by subtype/tag category simultaneously; the number of articles in it makes it next to useless.
 * While there are subcategories for the different elven subraces, a number of elves do not have their subrace specified: hence, Cat:Individual elves, to collect all the elven inhabitants and put them somewhere defined.
 * Perhaps the subrace subcats should be categorized beneath Cat:Individual elves? I confess, I had not thought over-much on that subject.
 * We may also need to separate out a Cat:Individual drow... urk.

Categorical definitions:
 * Cat:Elves- immediate articles are creatures with the elf subtype or tag, and elven subraces.
 * Cat:Individual elves- elven inhabitants that do not have a specified subrace.
 * Cat:[Elven subrace]s- elven inhabitants with an specified subrace.

I am posting this for consensus and/or discussion, even though I have already begun work. My apologies for not posting before I began.--SilverTiger (talk) 16:42, September 16, 2020 (UTC)


 * This definitely should have been discussed in the Forum before making all of these changes. Personally I think it just makes a mess of things ... especially if this is done for every race category. Artemaz (talk) 00:55, September 17, 2020 (UTC)


 * First of all I agree that this category should and will only include individual elven people. It is the same organization we use for other races. As far as I can see, category:elves should be a subcategory of category:humanoids, which is itself a subcategory of category:inhabitants by race. The various subraces and other erroneously-placed articles (IMO) placed within should be set into their more appropriate categories. Feel free to offer any ideas for that here.


 * If we need to make a lot of revisions, that can be done fairly easily. In the future please start on the talk page first if for no other reason that to save yourself unnecessary effort SilverTiger. Ruf (talk) 01:04, September 17, 2020 (UTC)