Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24800939-20190724011416/@comment-1487274-20190806110115

KalKent wrote: I'm of the opinion that family categories shouldn't be a thing to begin with.

While more work having to manually update it on each page, the relatives sections on characters' infoboxes are good enough, and are more informative with things like relations and living status, than with categories which only state members and nothing more. I think family categories are useful for big, messed up families like Summers, Howlets, etc. that have dozens of members in the main reality and countless descendants in other realities. Actually, the messed Summers family was the thing that brought me into comics, I loved all these countless relatives and how pretty much every major family is related to Summers in one reality or another. And it was all thanks to Category:Summers Family that I've learned about them.

But I think family categories should be trimmed down to be useful and informative, instead of turning them into disambiguations.

As for small families, like, for example Category:Williams Family (Riri) the categories might be really excessive. It is basically just a list of all versions of Riri Williams with addition of her parents from the main reality. In this case, information in the relatives section in the infobox is more than enough.