Help:Category Reapportionment Disclosure

Categories are meant to assist in the organization of articles, so it would be only logical that articles actually be user friendly and consistent.

What and Whatnot

 * Ships do not count as weapons.
 * Weapons can either be plasma based, laser based, or ballistic; they cannot be more than one of these at once. Since the weapon template is starting to be used more widely on the wiki, this category should be gradually decreasing.
 * A character's categorization with a faction should be consistent with their affiliation upon their time of death, or the most recent RP involving said character.
 * Not every ship every named character owns is a "Capital Ship," only those that lead a fleet or battle group can be classified as such.
 * Ships are not vehicles, and vehicles are not ships. Ships can be referred to as "Vessels," but not vehicles. Vehicles operate in-orbit/ground side, while vessels cruise in space
 * If it can house an army, it's a carrier vessel. If it can house a crew and a few soldiers, it is NOT a carrier vessel.
 * Refrain from grouping named material (e.g. Sheening Dagger) with the general article about the object (Phantom, in this case).
 * NPC means "Non-player Character," so any character up for grabs classifies as such. If you don't want somebody else controlling this character, don't add it to the NPC category.
 * "Supporting Character" is a useless category that will soon be removed; do not add any more articles to this category.
 * Factions are not characters.
 * Something must be a named character to be classified as either protagonist or antagonist.
 * A character cannot be both antagonist and protagonist.

Future Improvements

 * "Weapons" is an extremely broad category, and should be replaced with more narrow terms
 * Establish a category for "Deceased."
 * Separate the vehicles and weapons of a faction into two categories
 * Decide on whether to use the word "Planet" or "World."