Board Thread:Policies/@comment-16461120-20160405024130/@comment-10473115-20160406211924

Undoniel wrote: There's just a little glitch: no punctuation between the two category added in the first field. How can a character have multiple marital statuses?

I agree that relationships should be mainly represented on article body. However, when we are talking about autocategorization, we also have to decide how we want categorization to work. Part of the problem is that we haven't discussed much about basic principals of categorization so I try to explain my thoughts little further with the risk of repeating myself. First of all categorization should always help readers to navigate or have some value on researching or site maintenance. It should be based on subcategorized logical groups.

So we shouldn't care at all about Federal law of the U.S. Especially if it regards cohabiting people with mutual children as singles and people who are just telling that they are engaged as more in a relationship. That also means that characters should only be in one of marital status categories. Dating characters isn't a very descriptive name but in the category page it's stated as characters in a committed relationship. On broader sense that is a marital status and therefore should be equal with others. If it's moved to Trivia category populated by characters who are dating different people, it has no value for us and should be deleted.

I'm not going to defend Dating category unless someone else makes a good argument for it. It could be deleted, but if it's there, it should also be autocategorized to prevent characters with multiple marital statuses.