Thread:ZackLEGOHarryPotter/@comment-366087-20150927011842

Haya Zack. I asking for your help in dealing with the complete removal of the following unnecessary and default-level category:Humans, category:Sons, category:Grandsons, category:Daughters, category:Granddaughters, and most of the categories with "Living" in it, like Category:Living Heroes.

These are "default" categories because they apply to *everyone* who is a living breathing character. We don't need categories which apply to *everyone*. Remember what Syndrome said in The Incredibles about being Super? "When *everyone* is super… no one will be." Same principle here, categories which apply to everyone lose their purpose and specialness. In real life when you met a person, you don't have to wonder if they are 1) human, 2) alive, 3) someone's (grand)son or (grand)daughter, do you? No! Why? Because these are things which all living persons share.

Now, if you met an *animal*, then you automatically know 1) not human 2) alive, 3) IS a "son" or "daughter" (plus "grands" as well). See? Only "human" does not apply and thus we need to know what type of being it is. Categories are necessary when they are NOT something we take as default. We need to be told when a character is not-human, not-alive, etc.

I've already deleted the categories, BUT they still have pages pointed to them. To REMOVE these categories completely WE have to go to each article and edit them to REMOVE the categories from their lists. There are so many I can not do this alone.

So I'm asking your help as admin-in-training. In turn you can get others to not only *help*, but to stop adding to them.

Please and thank you. 