Talk:Elsepeth

I'm putting this question here because it's a good example, but it's a question that impacts the entire wiki. What's our rule for categorizing things? Specifically, should a page be in:

• a) the lowest-level category possible?

or

• b) should it be in ALL levels of category?

Example: Elsepeth is currently in Category:Demons,Category:Fiend, and Category:Outsider. But shouldn't she also be in Category:Monster and Category:NPC as well (option b)? OR rather, should she ONLY be in Category:Demons (which should actually be Category:Demon, but let's move on for the moment.) Since all Demons are Fiends and all Fiends are Outsiders and all Monsters, Demons is the lowest-level subcategory. (option a) For the record, this (option a) is how wikipedia does it.

What's the difference? you may ask. Well, it impacts how the category pages look, whether Elsepeth appears on the Category:Fiend page, for example. And it impacts how the pages themselves look (which categories appear on the bottom of the page.) While it is kind of nice to see all the Fiends on the category page, it's kind of overwhelming to see all the monsters on the Category:Monster page, isn't it?

(Whether all Monsters are NPCs is another question, by the way. My opinion: no. NPC should be a label applied to specific individuals, which can be in addition to a creature-type. Plains Cat should be a monster, but not an NPC, for example. And if Monster were a subcategory of NPC, it would be. All creature species should however be subset of Monster, which might have to be renamed to Creature or something like that. (lest regular Humans be called Monsters. Which is OK for Vlad Drakov, but kinda weird for Van Richten, no?)

Discuss.... -- Gonzoron 15:23, 8 February 2010 (UTC)