Thread:Luxartisan/@comment-27869316-20190602165430/@comment-5785681-20190609211744

Those pesky links now work. Thanks for fixing it. Wikis are strange.

For the record, I shouldn't have said "unnecessary" subcats but rather, "additional" subcats, meaning "High School Students" and "University Students," but you've addressed that and I agree that there isn't a pressing need for them to become cats or subcats at all. I just wanted to be sure we weren't overlooking them.

And what I mean by a straight indexing of the Characters page is what every other category does with listings -- a basic listing of the pages that belong to the category. I realize it's not very exciting, visually, but it has merit for the reasons previously given - both for Users and the Wiki itself. As a category page, it doesn't matter when or where the character appeared. The purpose of the Primary Category page is to list ALL the characters in the series - period. I get what you were attempting but we can only do so much to organize things and the new Top Nav does that beautifully.

On the other hand, I think a page called "Characters by Affiliation" is a cool page to have. A highlighted link to it can be right on our Main Page and with some judicious tweaking, it can work as a Subcat within "Characters" all by itself. I'm thinking it should include every character in the series in some way so that every character has a niche, eliminating the catch-all of "General," "Misc" and "Others." Possible new affiliations? The original ISC, Iwatobi HS Swim Club, the new Iwatobi HS Swim Club, Iwatobi Community, Tokyo Community, etc. Even High School Students and University Students could have a place there. There are lots of ways to include every character. Yes, it's uber-work if we're going to do it, but it's also a potential project.

I'm thinking out loud here bc I like the page's basic idea, just not as the layout for the "Characters" Primary Category page. I hope this makes my crazy thought process clearer, but maybe not. Then again, maybe yes?

Angelle ( Talk ) 21:17, June 9, 2019 (UTC)