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This one is something that's been bothering me for 10 years... we have a category that is called category:"Real" people with quotations (a typographic "ugh", in my opinion), and an out-of-POV descriptor -- since we describe the "reality" of Star Trek as a "reality" it is contradictory to imply that "reality" we live in is "Real" and that Star Trek is implied to not be "real" (or an "unreality" rather than the prime "reality"/alternate "reality" we refer to them as.
As a minor quibble about aesthetic, and also a question of accuracy in the descriptor, there a lot of real people articles and therefore it would be difficult to re-name without a solid plan.
I'd like to suggest a solid plan.
Wikipedia describes articles about living people as "biographical", so I'd like to enact a plan to use this terminology.
We could either forego a "meta" notation, or make this a meta category category:Memory Beta biographical articles or category:Memory Beta biographies, or something like this
If we chose to not access a solid POV notation by omitting a meta category descriptor, we could just call these category:Biographies or category:Biography with the proviso that only people who "really" existed to us in the "real-world" (that were references in POV in Star Trek) would be listed.
I'm open to some other suggestions as long as they address the concerns presented here. - Captain MKB 17:05, February 20, 2016 (UTC)
- Additionally, this would open us to marking these articles for liability purposes. A great many of the real people in Star Trek might still be alive and Wikipedia adds a disclaimer about what the articles are allowed to say about a living person. We certainly want to paint a picture of how Stephen Hawking or George W. Bush were mentioned or seen in Star Trek, but we also want to avoid coloring a picture of them using unsourced info or opinions (which is why Wikipedia has their people articles set up as such). -- Captain MKB 17:12, February 20, 2016 (UTC)
- An exceptionally simple plan would be to merge this category with category:people. -- Captain MKB 15:26, February 27, 2016 (UTC)
Anyone have any input? I'm very close to making a move to enact this suggestion -- Captain MKB 14:54, April 16, 2016 (UTC)