Thread:Zeon1/@comment-104549-20190615204438/@comment-4072803-20190616003519

To be perfectly honest, categories are a huge afterthought for me when it comes to making pages (there have been a few times when I've forgotten them entirely). But these rules seem pretty reasonable and cut down on the clutter I've experienced on other wikis, so I've no real problems with them. I'll do my best to keep them in mind and try to use them. There is one potential hiccup I might see: given the amount of categories needed (even with the rules in place), it seems that it might be hard to tell if there's a more fitting category (I wouldn't have known about hackers being included in the Slicers category [logic aside for the sake of this pointing out], for example, without doing the research beforehand). It's not that I expect you to provide a comprehensive list in that much detail, but it does seem like it'd be a common issue that might come up under this sort of system.

As for the con artist category, I lean towards it. Aside from Wookiepedia using it, I'd also argue that the Criminal label, while convenient in its own way, seems to be an example of the '"Jedi Master" replacing the general "Jedi" category' sort of case. If that can be avoided, then I have a potential argument from a more personal perspective of the case: criminals, typically speaking, break laws or are in violation of them to some degree. In the setting of my story, however, law and order does not exist; there's no functioning legal body to enforce such a thing in any capacity. If laws don't exist, then I think it would be very hard to break them and therefore as a class of person a 'criminal' would be hard to define, if they could even exist at all in that scenario. That basically leaves only the moral violation aspect of con artistry, and in that case we rarely call such individuals 'criminals' (except where law and morality intersect, like murder). What we do call them, however, are labels connected to that moral violation -- someone who lies is a liar, for example.

Of course, that's more an argument for why I personally would like to use this category (which might be a tad bit OCD-driven and without much logical substance), or at least why Criminal shouldn't be used in place of it. But I'm willing to abide with the powers that be on this one. Categories aren't so important to me that I'd lose any sleep over which ones my specific characters have, haha.

Anyway, apologies for my own substantial text dump, and thanks for the help and offer of more should it be needed!