Category talk:Therengia

Ooookies, the categories for Therengia are many! And I think they keep multiplying. What are we going to do with all the NPCs in this category? Are they the families located in Therengia? If so... the category needs to be changed to something more descriptive. Or the Great Houses of Therengia needs to be turned into a category.--Naeya ^(talk) 21:55, 7 December 2007 (CST)

A lot of the Great Houses do not have the number of NPCs associated with it either actual or mentioned in history to warrant a category in my opinion. In the talk:Theren it was pointed out that having categories and articles was acceptable, but what happens when you have so little content? In the case of some families you have maybe one NPC and then the information derived out of the Morzindaen book.

I see the individual family getting a category created, a blip of info on them, in that blip a reference to Great Houses of Therengia, and then calling it good. We just don't have enough information to warrant long detailed histories that require their own article in my opinion.Maje 22:13, 7 December 2007 (CST)

I think having NPCs tagged according to province isn't going to be very helpful for us and it will, ultimately, just clutter up the category. Since NPCs can (and do) move around, a province affiliation is a pretty weak category (unlike, say, Elf). As for characters with strong province affiliations, such as Vorclaf, we can expect the article to make that very obvious. To be honest, I don't see much use for the category at all. --Basselope 00:20, 8 December 2007 (CST)

Well what I was getting at, is basically what Basselope posted. If there are individual NPCs in a family, I say 2+, make the family article into a category, put the NPCs in that category (eg Category:House Theren or Category:Theren (though I prefer the former. If, however, there are no members of the family here on Elanthipedia, leave it as an article. I propose changing Great Houses of Therengia to a Category, removing the list of houses of course, in favor of putting the individual house articles or categories in that category. Zip, zam, boom, we're done.

But yes, I agree that categorizing NPCs just by Province is not necessary and will become overly cumbersome. The fact that they are in a House category (since most are defined by their houses in their descriptions) will give evidence enough of their home province. Let me know if my meaning isn't clear now.--Naeya ^(talk) 00:38, 8 December 2007 (CST)