Forum: The Situation Room > Category changes
As Acer wrote me, I really need to get some community feedback on the category changes I've been making - just because they seem logical to me doesn't mean they are to everyone else, or that they couldn't use some input. Also I have some new ideas I wanted to bounce off y'all:
- Locations - basically the changes I've been making, with categories for seasons/books (Day 1 locations, Day 2 locations, etc.) and one for Mentioned locations. Was going to split the mentioneds into separate seasons like for characters, but there's a number of pages like Iraq that would get unnecessarily cluttered.
- More descriptive categories for actual places - Buildings, Residences, Addresses, etc. The locations categories have been massively lacking in my opinion compared to the ones for Characters; there's enough of each to justify it, I think.
- I'd like to rename CTU characters to something more in-universe, like "CTU employees" or "CTU personnel." I don't know if "characters" is used for other groups like the FBI but I would change those too. Something that could be done with the bot.
- I don't think there should be a distinction between Category:Retired U.S. military personnel and U.S. military personnel; there's no precedent for it anywhere else on the site. Instead I would have one category, United States military personnel, with subcategories for United States Army personnel, United States Navy personnel, etc.
That's all for right now. In general I want to expand on the pretty generic categories we've had since the beginning, as there are enough articles to start specializing. Thoughts? --Pyramidhead (talk) 00:33, June 13, 2013 (UTC)
- This is great stuff, bud, glad you brought it up for extra input. I don't have much to really add, but here's my 2 cents anyways:
- Sounds good!
- Agreed!
- This is a good idea; I do personally prefer "CTU personnel" over "employees". If you use the bot, please just make sure it doesn't jumble the current order of categories, or that it eliminates the alphabetical sorts such as |Sikes, Randall if one exists.
- I do disagree on this one, because some characters are known during their appearances as active players in the military apparatus, and others, it was totally in their past. For example, in my opinion if we had a "Marines" category for Joe Prado, it would totally be misrepresenting the character and the article. This is why I find the "Retired" category so useful. Blue Rook talk contribs 03:57, June 14, 2013 (UTC)