Category talk:Ethnic groups

In the instance where a denizen's race/ethnicity is mentioned in the article, should it link to the relevant race article even though troll, dwarf, Tsol'aa, etc. are categorized only as "Adventurer races"? Or should there be articles for these races as they occur in non-adventurer beings categorized in "Humanoid races'? Gnaash 21:17, 6 February 2008 (GMT)

Yes, mentions of adventurer races, even in denizen articles, should be linked, IMO. As for the categorisation issue, Category:Adventurer races is already categorised in Category:Denizens. --Krypton 21:52, 6 February 2008 (GMT)

It occurs to me that the entire Category:Ethnic groups might as well be put in Category:Denizens, as all articles under Category:Humanoid races and Category:Adventurer races are represented in the realms by denizens (in the case of "Humanoid races", denizen representation is even 100%). --Krypton 06:38, 7 February 2008 (GMT)

Hm, I only just now looked at this discussion and I don't think 'adventurers' should be a subcategory of 'denizens', as denizens and adventurers are mutually exclusive. I think it might be erroneous, therefore, to categorize these two based off race since race is not their defining difference (the difference actually being source of 'soul'.) To alleviate this, categorize the Dwarf article, for example, as also part of the denizen category, since Dwarves are both a subgroup of denizens and adventurers. Asara 01:47, 8 February 2008 (GMT)

Wow, that was confusing. To clarify, I don't think ethnic groups should be categorized under denizens, as adventurer races are a subcategory of ethnic groups. Ergo, I don't think 'adventurer races' should be a subcategory of 'denizens' as 'adventurer races' pertain to adventurers. Asara 01:51, 8 February 2008 (GMT)

All adventurer race articles -were- categorised in Category:Denizens at the beginning. But since every adventurer race was categorised in Denizens, I made it less cluttered and just had Category:Adventurer races categorised in Denizens to be all-encompassing. Now it occurred to me that every race in Category:Ethnic groups, "adventurer" or "humanoid", deserves to be categorised in Denizens, so the "one fell swoop" solution would be to just put "Ethnic groups" in the Denizens category. My bet is that the problem lies in the wording more than the categorisation. For instance, both Category:Ethnic groups and Category:Humanoid races mention "humanoid" as a criterion of sorts.. that doesn't make much sense. --Krypton 03:23, 8 February 2008 (GMT)

If you think it helps any, you could categorise "Adventurer races" in Category:Adventurers, too. --Krypton 04:31, 8 February 2008 (GMT)

No, I think current adventurer race -articles- categorized under denizens is quite correct, whereas categorizing "adventurer races" in denizens is not. They imply different things. For example, Dwarf should be categorized as both an adventurer and a denizen race. However, "Adventurer races" in general should not be categorized as denizens. Similarly, "humanoid" is not a differentiating criteria between adventurer and denizen as much as race is not, so that is irrelevant. I don't know if this is any clearer... it's all very clear in my head! Asara 05:24, 8 February 2008 (GMT)

Okay, so I tried to make a picture:

Still kinda confusing... Asara 05:44, 8 February 2008 (GMT)

This argument seems familiar. The races used to be split up differently, with the races seperate from the denizen pages. But someone wanted the races listed under the denizens because there were generic denizens in certain places and then we got into a big confusing mess about whether certain races were sentient races and I got upset because someone was trying to categorize sentient humanoid races as creatures and it all got more messy until Valnurana offered a compromise and I went in and did it by that and then they started getting blurred because people who weren't around for the original argument started doing things their way(is that a long enough run on for everyone?). I still prefer having the denizens limited to unique/named denizens and the races for the various races like the Hanai and the Angai etc with the sentient races separate from the critters but that argument with Delphinus and Trevize where a stupid talking spider, wolf, winged lion, and sun bear got sentience denied as a proof positive classification as a seperator between creatures and sentient races. It's late, I'm rambling, I'm going to stop now and if anyone wants me to clarify at a later time, catch me when I'm coherent and can remember what I'm going to say. Corvax 09:10, 8 February 2008 (GMT)