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Sorry, I wasn't clear, I've been to the wiki, I just didn't see anything called "categories". Checking it out further, it looks as if it's not a separate type of entry, but it's an entry describing a category that other entries can be associated with.
So yes, why not have an entry which cross-references LBGT characters?
Is there some way of accessing the list of categories? If not, a page with them might be a good thing too.
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quote:Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad: I've been toying with having a category on the wiki "LGBT characters". Of course in the 31st Century LMB-verse a person's sexual orientation or identity is fairly irrelevant, but open inclusion has been one of the hallmarks of this group since a time when it did matter. What do people think?
I think it's a valid addition, but I might think about not using "characters" because it seems that one of the overall conceits of the wiki is that it's written in such a way as to not imply a fictional setting.
Maybe something like "LGBT heroes" or even just "LGBT people".
The guide to categorization for those demographics on the "real" Wikipedia:
only cautions against the "LGBT people" category because it could be too large, but I wouldn't think we would have that problem given the relatively small number of articles we're talking about.
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The problem with "people" is it implies humanity. Rockhopper Lad is gay, but he is not human. Perhaps "LGBT heroes" and "LGBT villains", both of which are subcategories of "LGBT sentients"?
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Yeah, that makes sense. I just checked on Wikipedia and that's how they did it as well - subcategories for heroes and villains.
The "sentients" label doesn't seem like the most graceful terminology, but I'm really at a loss to come up with any other word that would be inclusive of both human and non, so... ... works for me.
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You might say "LGBT" and leave it at that. Or otherwise, "personalities" doesn't really imply which species.
Thanks for the link X-0! I suggest a link to that page in the navigation sidebar. As a casual browser, it would be the first thing I'd want to see.
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I think "LGBT individuals" may be the best solution. Thanks for the input.
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quote:Originally posted by Exnihil: It's been a while since I added anything to the Wiki, so I put up a new page today for the chain of LMB nemeses called Middlefinger:
I knocked out 5 of the 11, and will probably finish the others up over the weekend. I had forgotten how fun the Wiki was!
Awesome Ex! To think this all started with off-topic run on joke between Eyrk and I, first with Starfinger and then with Middlefinger! Then I went back and added them throughout LMB continuity.
I totally LOVE that you did this!
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I did a little tinkering with the categories. Based on what Ex said above, I renamed "Deceased characters" to "Deceased individuals", with the subcategories "Deceased heroes" and Deceased villains". A few characters who were ambiguous as to whether they were heroes on villains were placed directly in the "individuals" category.
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For anybody that read the "Project Möbius" origin story I wrote for Exnihil last spring but found the non-linear story telling to be too much, I crunched it down into a (mostly) linear wiki article (with cool retro pics) here:
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LMB Fun Fact: The name "N'Chaka" comes from the Mercurian name of Leigh Brackett character Eric John Stark!
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Leigh Brackett? The wife of Legion scribe Edmund Hamilton? EDE, you are way cool!
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Good choice Rockhopper, "individuals" is the perfect solution (except in cases of colony-beings like Swarm ).
Not to suggest going back to "people", but I just had a thought-- in a century where society is made up of many civilized species, "person" and "people" would no longer be synonymous with "humans" anyway.
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It probably wouldn't be, Shiny, but then we're not in that century yet.
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