Category talk:Characters

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Should we add sub-categories for the different universes? Lianamir 00:29, February 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * That's not a bad idea, since there are a good number of character pages from different settings now. If we want to get really crazy, we could start marking character pages with both their appropriate Place and Alien. It would make cross-referencing such things easier in the future when this place is ginormous. Tabard (talk) 01:50, February 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * Can't figure out how to make a subcategory and Help is not helpful. Added Literature to a couple pages, but don't know how to stick that under Aliens. Lianamir 02:10, February 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * Oh! And Re: making subcats, the way I've been doing it is to add a page or whatever to a category, then go to that category page, and add the "top" category to that category page's categories. (Can I say "category" a few more times? :p) You can look at the currently existing subcategory pages under Aliens, for instance, to see what I mean. Tabard (talk) 02:20, February 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * Thank you! You are brilliant. Lianamir 02:24, February 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * Hmm. Actually, looking at it again, I'm trying to figure out how it would work without causing too many redundancies, since there are pages, but not sub/categories for the individual settings/aliens. We could make them, but then you've basically got the same list in two places (the page itself, and the cat/subcat page). Maybe have a standard byline+links to start the initial summaries on character the pages that says something to the effect of "$CHARACTER is a/n $ALIEN from $PLACE in the $UNIVERSE universe." ? Tabard (talk) 02:11, February 7, 2012 (UTC)


 * It's only redundant if we actually list every wikified alien on their appropriate race page. Which we could, but that's a lot of updating work to keep it up-to-date versus a category like on wikipedia that just says Ai-Naidari Characters, for example. I don't know though. Just wondering which would be better or whether it matters.Lianamir 02:18, February 7, 2012 (UTC)