User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1432718-20180626025359

The title says it all: should we remove the "main enemy" field from story infoboxes?

A long time ago we deleted all categories that tried to define enemies and allies of the Doctor (located at Forum:What makes an ally and an enemy? for anyone interested in reading it). These categories were removed for violating the basic principle of category naming: that category names must be "clear and unassailable", to quote User:CzechOut. Well, the same thing applies to infoboxes - we don't allow disputed information in infoboxes.

Aside from being unable to define exactly who/what an "enemy" is, we also cannot really define "main" - it's something that would differ from editor to editor. And we can't get rid of the word "main" and just leave "enemy", because that would lead to a long string of (debatable) characters as "enemy". So we have some editors adding names and other editors removing them. Obviously, we can't all agree on who are and aren't enemies.

Another problem is that it's just too tempting for new users to fill up this field when they start editing. Just like was stated in the category thread, even if we agree on a definition, we'll still have to clean up after new users who are unaware of the definition.