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This category was nominated for deletion on 18 October 2006. The result of the discussion was no consensus.

This category was nominated for deletion on 23 June 2007. The result of the discussion was keep.

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Why not index character pages?

I'm curious as to the rationale for removing the listings for Legion of Super-Heroes characters from the index. I was informed that it was done in accordance with a consensus reached on the subject but I've been unable to locate any documentation of said consensus or the reasoning behind it, and it makes no sense to me for Legion characters to be excluded from the Legion index.

Please explain?

MagnoWiki 19:02, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The long and the short of it? In general the "Member of Foo", "Supporting character of Foo", and "Opponent of Foo" cats were creating massive clutter in the category section of article and POV arguments about which article should get which tags. The general consensus that was reach out of the various CfDs was to use lists instead of cats for membership rosters, supporting cast lists, and opponent lists. This also allowed for annotation/citation for the inclusions.

That has stretch to cover cats like this one as per the comments in the latest CfD. Planets, fine; items, ok; story arcs, yup; comic book, if that's what the article is really about; teams, maybe; lists, definitely; characters, no.

And yes, that means the recent spate of characters added to the cat should be removed before the cat gets CfDed a 3rd time on the grounds it's consistently being used to circumvent consensus.

- J Greb 19:53, 24 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I added some characters to this category yesterday and was reverted. That was my own fault for not reading this Talk page, but the category description is simply "Articles relating to the Legion of Super-Heroes". If character pages are not to be indexed here, the description really needs to be more explicit. I would also question why individual characters are not categorized here, while there are entries for The Tornado Twins and The Fatal Five (for example). The distinction between individuals and duos/teams is clear, but the rule is not. HalJor (talk) 16:11, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please see the relevant section of the Wikiproject: Comics Editorial Guidelines for clarification. The reasons behind the decision are explained there in great detail. Nutiketaiel (talk) 17:05, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]