User blog comment:Inferno Pendragon/Categories/@comment-1969141-20120615133502

Indeed Amnestyy created a long list here. There is here a long discussion about which category is worhty of deletion and why and indeed we discussed about a strict minimum for a category, and we agreed to fix it at 20. Then again, nothing is carved in rock and no deletion cannot be reversed. There are inded several categories that are below the minimum but have potential to rise over it.

We reached a consensus of sort to define the deletion-worthiness of a category, (but feel free to add your own grain of salt). Basically this is :

(insert franchise name) Villains : One category per franchise is enough. I myself has deleted "Iscariot members" and "Millenium members" for being redundant with "Hellsing Villains", "Akatsuki" with "Naruto" villains and so on and so forth.

(Insert actor name) played Villains : A more debatable one indeed, but some of us, including myself, think that the actor/actress portraying the villain needs to be mentioned in the presentation and perhaps in the trivia, but not worthy of a category.

Minimum : Currently fixed as 20 or 15.

Relation with the villainous traits : We agreed that a category must be directly related to the villainous aspect of the character: the role in the story the crimes, the personality, the signature powers, the ambition, the fate, we have it and it works, but some recently deleted categories went too far away from it.

Needless details : Categories about clothing style ("Midriff Villains"), weight ("Obese villains"), nationality ("Mexican Villains" and other), sexuality (the infamous "LGBT villains") were deemed pretty useless, since it hardly has to do with villainy.

Too much precision : Sub-categories ("Fighters" > "Martial Artists" for example) are useful but one for every martial art? Or for each animal specy? This one is a large matter of debate though.