Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-25041817-20141219234340/@comment-26975268-20150102031536

Some of those categories were created in the past; the matter was discussed in around June (yes, CzechOut was part of that discussion), and we decided that those categories are too ambiguous and thus fail T:CAT NAME.

I mean, define killed. So many of the articles that were in that Doctor category when it briefly existed weren't necessarily "killed" by the Doctor. He might have influenced their deaths, and some people might argue he killed them, but that's just the thing — if it comes to the point where we have to argue about which articles merit inclusion on a case-by-case basis, that category just shouldn't exist. We can't simply monitor it as people continually add people that don't strictly fall under the category description. The Master has countless times "killed" people indirectly, say through other people he controls or manipulates. There are far too many individual cases in the DWU where we'd have to ask, "Okay, did he kill him? Was that really murder?

Even apart from all that, "Individuals killed by natural causes" is a definite no-no. What does that even mean? There is nothing more "natural" about dying from a virus or from heart failure than being eaten by an alien or falling off a spaceship. Besides, you'd have editors saying that, I don't know, Amy and Rory should be in it, when we really don't know what happened at their deaths at all.