Thread:AnnabellRice/@comment-3406131-20180405101321/@comment-16461120-20180405184316

We talked about it in a couple different places, but never came to a community consensus on geopolitical entities, and it was mostly just you and I agreeing that they're complicated.

I still think that maybe the best solution was a specific template and set of rules for "civilizations," but my main annoyance is about mixed usage with no established consistency, i.e. if they're considered countries, then they don't belong in the characters section, yet I couldn't find a single example where alien empire usage was intended as a country; meanwhile, if they're organizations, then they need a reality designation and don't belong in the locations section, and if they're neither, then they don't belong on either template.

Anyway, I messaged Jasonmaia so that hopefully they'll stop erroneously tagging things to be moved when at most they should be split, though I honestly don't agree with moving anything to the Ideaverse without proper citation.