Thread:The S/@comment-27634847-20160206012936/@comment-995426-20160207222441

Optimus Primer wrote: Deceased Characters is a category already, and some people don't want to scroll through every incarnation. I, for example, asked this question when I went on the Tang Shen (2012 TV Series) page and clicked the Deceased Characters (2012 TV Series) category page (it was deleted). I only wanted to look at that specific incarnation, not every version of TMNT.

This should be a category for the 2012 series, the 2003 series, MNT Gaiden, IDW, Archie, and Mirage. Yes. Thank you.

The S, we've talked about this before. I know you're really attached to parent category binge browsing, but it's a practical impediment to ordinary users browsing categories. Not only should certain subcategories exist (not categories about hair, but justifiable stuff like deceased characters in specific incarnations that have a good amount of them), but parent categories should not directly contain every entry of their subcategories. Instead, parent categories should have as few direct entries as possible, and instead be an efficient temporary gathering place for recently-placed articles not yet assigned subcategories and still awaiting maintenance. The bonus of that is that it makes Special:CategoryTree work more efficiently, because it's best suited for binge listing of large category trees if each category doesn't have many hundreds of direct entries.