Thread:Valkerone/@comment-29644557-20190702040859/@comment-14660436-20190703201123

At the moment, I don't know. I might have brought up a similar point to this with a few of the other admins on Discord around the time this system was introduced, since it'd only make sense if villains that we know for a fact are always going to be Pure Evil would get instantly approved (a few of the ones you mentioned come to mind). But we didn't seem to come to a proper conclusion or finalize a decision.

For now, it seems the only way for articles to get the approval template is through proposals, which could help in the future as a line of defense for a villain's status as PE in the event someone wanted to do a removal proposal. We also can't really slap the template on every page with the category, because for all we know, there are probably a few articles on the Wiki that only have the category on their pages due to deliberate category spam. In the mean time, I'll think about bringing this topic up again.