Thread:Byfield/@comment-246292-20131207030740/@comment-220364-20131207235806

It may just be a different intention of using the categories for races.

For me, the Race/Appearance and Race/Image categories can be a starting point. If I go from the Race article to the /Appearance or /Image category by the on-page link, I'm doing so to see where characters, named or unnamed, from that race appeared or to get a larger idea of what they look like than is given by the article. If the categories are just limited to the unnamed characters, at best it's going to be of little use. In some cases it's going to be empty and useless. Tagging the race into all of the images would create overload in some, if not most, cases. (IIUC, it just will not happen for appearances since only the character appearance will be retained, so that's a non-starter.) Bringing the character /Appearances and /Images categories in as sup-cats brings in the the information so it can be searched without over burdening the Race categories.