User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-15964625-20130821204117/@comment-188432-20130902171637

No. SMW provides a much better way of handling all this. All you're looking to do is create lists of what novels Leela is in. The much more flexible way of doing what you want is to simply change the infobox templates to allow for collection of data about the companions in the stories.

The reason Benny warrants her own category about her publications is because she's a series lead. I mean, it's a fundamental construct of the wiki that you have articles grouped by what "show" they're in. Benny is as much a "show" as SJA, Torchwood, or Doctor Who. (Also, you need that category to run a part of the Game of Rassilon, but that's secondary.)

We absolutely don't want the huge category bloat that would ensue by following the model you've laid out for every single companion.

Unless they physically strip SMW from us — which they haven't, yet — the best plan for finding out which stories Leela appeared in is to do what we currently do with the Doctors and just integrate it all into the infoboxes so that we can ask questions like, "Which PDAs feature the First Doctor?" and get: