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

Today, I created a whole group of categories under the new [[:category:individuals by religion]]. A tree containing those categories can be found below.

<div id=box>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? {{user:CzechOut/Sig}}{{User:CzechOut/TimeFormat}} 16:24: Wed 05 Jun 2013</span></div>