Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-366087-20160126100400/@comment-366087-20160130044040

There are also faaaaaarrrrr too many Cats being tagged to articles. Aren't many of them subcategories?. In most of my wikias, especially where I'm sole admin, rule is if a subCat applies, do not use the parent-Cat. For example, only use "Character" if none of the subCats apply. For here that might be the Warlords>Dark Lord type of strata. If one is an X, then of course every layer above is included.

Also, there are no need for what I call default-level Categories. For example:
 * Living or Alive — every character is presumed Alive until we are told they are not
 * Son and Daughter — every biological character is someone's son or daughter, even if we never see or know of them. That's just a fact of biological life
 * Includes Grandson and Granddaughter, etc.
 * Human — every character is presumed to be human, until we are told otherwise.
 * [chuckle] had an issue in one of the ET, Extra-Terrestrial wikias where someone kept wanting to tag characters as "Human" and "Alien". Well, there's just one alien on the entire planet, and every other character is human, making both categories completely unnecessary! A Cat of 1 is unneeded and a Cat of virtually every page also loses meaning.

Instead what we need are Cats which tell us something important about an article. Parents (as opposed to Mother and Father because "Male" and "Female" covers gender) is a life-role not every character has, so that is far more important than "son or daughter", etc. Deceased, Undead and varied related conditions, all info we need to know more than who is Alive and Living, etc.