User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-44988386-20200416234118/@comment-33762526-20200510035103

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-44988386-20200416234118/@comment-33762526-20200510035103 It's good to see most here seem on the same page in that at least on the matter that some type of categorisation in this regard is both helpful to readers and supported by DWU sources. It's a start :P

The how is an entirely different matter.

Thoughts on sub-categories for sexuality? Should we have them, and if so with what scope? Is it sufficient for a male character to explicitly stated he's only interested in men, knowing that is the definition of gay as stated in the DWU (Seeing I being one source for that), or must they be described with that specific word?

What of going the way of Category:Jargon, slang and colloquialisms and putting multiple roughly synonymous descriptors under one category (like gay and homosexual)?

What of Time Lord sexuality? Should someone like Trave, who has a husband during one of their male incarnations, be included?

I'd like to suggest, regardless of the specific route ultimately taken, that these category pages include a description that outlines the parameters under which a page can be included. Maybe something that also refers readers to the page Queer representation in Doctor Who for more information on the topic, particularly stuff that was discussed by those involved in production but not explicitly stated in a story. I'm thinking something along the lines of the description to Category:The Doctor's romances, that gives examples of what pages don't quite fit the bill for the category.