Board Thread:Policies/@comment-16461120-20160405024130/@comment-16461120-20160405214932

Copeinator123 wrote: Just to clarify, by Separated we mean currently married but not together, correct? Yes. Mrkermit wrote: AnnabellRice wrote: I'd like to see the removal of the autogeneration of incorrect categories from nonexistent Marital Statuses in favor of "Category:Marital Statuses Needing Correction" whenever anything besides Single, Engaged, Married, Separated, Divorced, or Widowed is entered. That's the only way to get autocategorization to work and we should fix it. We still have field MaritalStatus2 for further explanations. However, Dating should also be an option if it's categorized at all. Strictly taken, only marital statuses are Single and Married and I don't see much difference from e.g. Separated. I don't have any strong opinions about value of these categories anyway but character shouldn't be categorized to both Single and Dating. Category Dating Characters should be used as describing marital status in a broader sense and not as character's behaviour. If character is Married and Dating, category is used wrongly. Dating has no legal standing as a Marital Status; meanwhile, the other six do, and again, legally speaking, anyone unmarried and Dating is in fact also Single. That being said, I believe Category:Dating Characters is sort of a pointless category and thus I'm not sure losing it would be such a bad thing.

Lastly, I tested a gibberish Marital Status, "Banana", and it does in fact presently autogenerate "Category:Banana characters", so regardless of whether or not the module ultimately accepts six words as valid or seven, it needs to be limited.