Category talk:Female Characters

This category is far too large and general to be of any use to anyone. Oni Dark Link 07:18, October 18, 2017 (UTC)

I also don't see the purpose of male and female character categories. Emperor Hardin (talk) 07:31, October 18, 2017 (UTC)

Someone adding it has already proven that it is of use to someone. On a more important note, a user brought this up in a discussion post and it received some supports, including me. You can also know the exact number of characters present in the series through these 2 categories. -- Khang (talk) 11:14, October 18, 2017 (UTC)

Someone adding it doesn't really prove it's of use. People do just edit to raise their edit count you know. At least that's the only reason I can conceive that categories like this one exist. The basis of that discussion is "It's strange that this thing doesn't exist, should I make it?" "Sure I don't see why not." Personally I question the premisis of that. Is it odd that it's amiss? And what does Heroes even have to do with it? I just don't see how this category would benefit anyone searching for anything. Maybe they have a Fire Emblem character in mind and don't know they're name, they'd still have to trawl through hundreds (thousands?) of pages to find the one they're searching for. Category:Characters With Blond Hair or Category:Characters With Brown Eyes would be more useful than this. If it's only use is to record the number of characters in the series then a characters category would do that just as effectively. But it's not really my place to argue. I'm not an active editor on this wiki. It just seems quite needless to me. Oni Dark Link 14:36, October 18, 2017 (UTC)

I'm aware that some ppl just edit to raise their edit counts, but that's obviously not the case here. (As far as I can see, wikis that have this issue tend to be the ones with Achievements enabled.) "Is it odd that it's amiss?" Then I'd love to hear your explanation for why every other wiki except this has such categories. I can fully understand what works for others doesn't work for you, but does that mean the majority have to obey an individual? No, that's just not how communities work, nor the society. -- Khang (talk) 15:34, October 18, 2017 (UTC)

Does every other wiki though? I'm a bureaucrat of the Zelda wiki and we don't do it there. I also frequent the Final Fantasy and Smash Wikis for information and they don't do it either. Wikipedia itself certainly doesn't do it. What major wikis do? Oni Dark Link 16:04, October 18, 2017 (UTC)

I feel like categories like this will cause flame wars on the wiki. Emperor Hardin (talk) 21:09, October 18, 2017 (UTC)

Nintendo, Marvel, DC, Pokemon, Starwars, Sonic, Cardfight, Resident Evil, Halo, Streetfighters, King of Fighters, Xenoblade... You sure about Wikipedia? While it is an enclopedia, meaning it already had a different structure from this wiki, providing not just info about games but many other hubs such as lifestyle, tv, sports..., it still has categories for genders, even more specific, such as "Male singers", "Male actors", "Female models"... So there you have it. --Khang (talk) 12:02, October 19, 2017 (UTC)

And wouldn't that be the equivalent of listing Male Myrmidons, Female Cavaliers etc? Wikipedia certainly doesn't pointlessly categorize every noteworthy human in existence by gender. Oni Dark Link 20:32, October 19, 2017 (UTC)

Ok, I think I'll drop the debate here, did I ever mention making categories such as "Male Myrmidons, Female Cavaliers, or Characters with Blond Hair, Brown Eyes..." for you to bring up? And you haven't provided an answer to my early point, "why we can't have gender categories while many other wikis had?" You personally can't see its use or use it doesn't mean others can't too. That is all. -- Khang (talk) 11:27, October 20, 2017 (UTC)

I don't see that as much as a point. I see it as pointless on those wikis too. And the Male Myrmidons etc was a counter point to wikipedia's style of doing things. That would at least be more useful than lumping thousands of names together. But really there's no argument here. I have no stakes in this decision. I'm not part of this wikia. It doesn't matter what you do. I do think it's a waste of time however. Oni Dark Link 11:45, October 20, 2017 (UTC)