User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130605193451

User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130605193451 Today, I created a whole group of categories under the new category:individuals by religion. A tree containing those categories can be found below.

Individuals by religion

Buddhists

Christians

Cult members

Deons

Followers of Amdo

Followers of Ishtar

Followers of Kroll

Followers of the Eternal Machine

Hindus

Jews

Mayans

Members of Pilgrim

Members of the Church of the Papal Mainframe

Members of the Lazarus Intent

Muslims

Sevateem

Sikhs

Sun-singers of Akhet individuals

Tesh

CzechOut expressed here that this was a complicated matter that should be brought to the community.

His original message was:

I think you need stop and bring it to the forum whether we want to start going down the road of religious classification of individuals. Category:Leaders of the early Christian church is one thing, because that's actually a cat about an organisation. Actually identifying people by their religion is getting into a sensitive territory. Yes, we do have some stories that deal with Catholic/Protestant conflicts, but how finely do we want to take it? Does the fact that there's a wedding in a Christian church in Father's Day mean those people are Christians? I think I'd be more comfortable if we kept the category away from the general area of belief and more towards people who were officially a part of a church (or the heads of church-dominated states). I think Category:Protestants could swiftly become a matter of great speculation, and thereby fall foul of T:CAT NAME. Don't forget, too, that a lot of people fought on the Catholic or Protestant side not because it was their actual religious preference, but because the style of government a particular leader represented was to their liking. And, yanno, whatcha gonna call Henry VIII, since he "converted" (to be super-generous to him) mid-life?
czechout<staff /> ☎ ✍  16:24: Wed 05 Jun 2013

The rest of the conversation can be found here and here. Does anyone have any comments on this matter before I continue working on these categories?