Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5825217-20131020030042/@comment-24077689-20131120233242

LOLSKELETONS wrote: All entity-related categories are subcategories of Beings since Category:Entities was deleted. Beings is also not very clearly defined in my opinion. It seems that if the entity is "mysterious" enough to elude a specific label, it is put in Beings. That includes entities that may or may not be human, and sometimes even those that clearly are. The fact that it frequently overlaps with other entity-related categories doesn't help, either.

Perhaps creating an entities sub-section of the genre listing would be better than putting them all under beings, since making it a category didn't work (people were constantly adding it to pages when it was supposed to only serve as a directory for entity-related categories).

In any case, I would have agree that serial killers are not really 'beings' in the sense that they are usually unambiguously human. On the other hand, trying to think of a way to organize these categories is giving me a migraine, so I'm doing it this way for the time being. "Being" and "entity" are synonyms regardless. I feel like breaking it down further than that is really the way to go. Because, as we said, grouping serial killers with beings (or entities) is contradictory at best. As far as beings goes we have deities, poltergeists, demons, etc. etc. all of whom are exclusive subdivisions unable to be classified elsewhere. Maybe don't make entities a tag in its own right, so people DONT tag it, and use it more as a heading.