Thread:Tupka217/@comment-27647819-20161201031948/@comment-3361105-20161202174917

Ideally it would work as a "basket" for subcategories (like "female characters" or "jewish characters" etc., but it seems wrong to not have characters in the character category, and only have them in the subcategories. Best just ignore the list of characters contained within, and use the subcategory list above it for navigation.

I feel like that kind of exploration is more for users who have had their fill of surfing, and want a look "under the hood" so to speak.

Also, having subcategories for minorities and such (like "Jewish Characters") has served us well in terms of building good will with those minorities, and for helping academics to write papers based on things like "representation of LGBTQ in comics" or "representation of female villains in comics" etc.

But yeah, Category:Characters is too big to be useful. But getting rid of it doesn't seem like a great plan either.