Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-25041817-20150826091610/@comment-5918438-20160104073425

I did not notice this discussion was up when I renamed the lot. The discussion can now be found at Category talk:People from the real world encountered by the Doctor.

My own personal opinion is that the categories should stay. There's tonnes of precedent for finding more specific ways to categorise people from the real world.

I disagree with MystExplorer, who said "we have enough" of those categories—there are a lot of people in the DWU from the real world, and if we don't have enough more specific categories, we're left with hundreds and hundreds of pages directly in category:People from the real world. I say, if there's at least 3 pages for it and it's more specific, go for it!

If your concern is for the quantity of subcategories directly in the parent category—one thing that can definitely be worked on is a more streamlined system of categories within PFTRW, where a lesser amount of categories are directly in there, with more specific ones within. It's also important to create more subcategories within those subcategories so that, again, we don't end up with too many pages in one large category when it's simply not necessary for it to be so.