Thread:Mandodweeb/@comment-104549-20190804160652

I just removed every category you added to Naastau most recently: "Treasure hunters", "Republic soldiers", "Separatist soldiers", "Arms dealers", "Freedom fighters", and "Businessmen". I removed them all for the same reason: they don't exist.

Take a look at the Categorization Policy. Simply typing words into the category space as you're posting or editing an article doesn't create a category. A full list of all SWFanon's many, many categories may be found here. Per the Categorization Policy, "[o]nly pre-established in-universe categories (or out-of-universe categories for articles about fan fiction) and specially created categories to fit a certain fan series constitute legitimate categories". In other words, you can create categories to fit your fan fiction (see, e.g., a creation of mine here), but otherwise, the only valid categories (aside from user-based categories, e.g. Articles by Sakaros) are pre-established ones for the Star Wars universe (usually, though not always, guided by Wookieepedia). It is extremely unlikely that a category we need doesn't already exist; always check first, and make sure it doesn't exist under another name (e.g. Slicers is a category, and includes the concept of "Hackers", which is not). If a category doesn't exist and you think we need it, ask yourself to how many characters it applies; there should never be a "category of one". If you think we need it and it applies to at least a handful of characters and it's a broadly applicable category (not one unique to your creations), feel free to ask Sav or myself for guidance.

Tackling your recent additions, you have about an even split between "genuinely doesn't exist" and "exists, but by a different name":
 * "Treasure hunters" doesn't exist.
 * "Republic soldiers" is properly Galactic Republic military personnel
 * "Separatist soldiers" is properly Separatist military members
 * "Arms dealers" doesn't exist
 * "Freedom fighters" falls under Rebels. We had a whole discussion about this elsewhere, but the gist is that "freedom fighters" adds a subjective dimension to what should be an objective analysis.  Note that that's distinct from Freedom Fighters, a category specific to an organization of the same name.
 * "Businessmen" is properly Businesspeople.

As a courtesy to you, I've added the proper categories I just discussed. That's a one-time deal, though. In the future, make sure your articles are properly categorized. If you don't know if a category exists, type it in the search bar; if nothing pops up, it doesn't exist.

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