Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-24859393-20160622043612/@comment-366087-20160622184310

Let me explain my position.

The 8-point (plus neutrals) "alignment compass" is highly useful, effective, and informative *inside articles* and infoboxes. Articles ARE where all the important and relevant information about any Wikia page's topics should be.

However, FOR TAGGING purposes, we don't need 8+ points. *This* wikia doesn't even need to use the full basic-4+ point compass. And goddess-help us, don;t even think about the 16-point compass…

See, your thought processes are stuck in "category tags need to be AS INFORMATIVE as possible", when they don't. Tags should be supplementary and used mainly for the broadest strokes possible.

We don't need to use tags to tell people that this character is Lawful Neutral or that one is Neutral Evil. That is the job of the articles to do. For tagging purposes those characters will lean toward either "Neutral" or "Lawful", and of course "Evil" is understood for all on this wikia.

We just need tags to aid in searches. A search of "Neutral" will bring up both Lawful Neutral and Neutral Evil.

Thing is, if we leave 2-word alignment labels in place, sure as gravity someone will want to use aspects of the entire 8-points and we'll see more "Chaotic Good" and "Neutral Good" when they are like anti-heroes and should not be on VW.

This minimalist approach is the same reasoning why we'll no longer be tagging villains to EVERY hero they've faced—which with the comics-originated with up to 80+ years of stories—can be redonculously long. So instead villains are to be tagged with the Hero they either *originated* with, or are most commonly associated with. With ARTICLES filling out the rest of the proper and needed information.

So we don't need the 8-point system, and we don't need 2/5s of the 4-point system FOR TAGGING.