User blog:RRabbit42/Better definitions for categories

I have made an effort on several wikis to clean up problems that have been ongoing for several years. Another problem that's in this group is that the categories are being misused because those categories don't fit.

For example, a character is called a murderer or mass murderer because they wanted someone killed, but that person wasn't actually killed. Plus the character didn't commit the attempted killing themselves.

Other examples:
 * "Child-abuser". Most of the time, the child was put in some kind of danger, but not specifically abused.
 * "Failure-intolerant". With these kinds of characters, you make a small mistake and they kill you.But most of the ones being called this aren't that strict.
 * "Serial killer". The character may have killed more than one person, but in order to be considered a serial killer, it has to be shown that they planned out the murders to fit the criteria for selecting their victims.
 * "Spoiled brat". People who are spoiled brats usually throw temper tantrums when they don't get what they want, but most characters where this is added don't do that.
 * "Sadists". Do we see the character deliberately acting sadistically towards another character? Or do we put this on the character simply because they're not nice? Many times, it's the latter.
 * "Animal Cruelty". This is another "they weren't nice" category that's used instead of in cases where the character was shown specifically committing cruelty towards an animal, such as beating them or leaving them tied up in a storm.

Other categories are really vague, like "abusers". Okay, abuser of what? How? "Provoker". Who did they provoke, how did they provoke them, and why? "Destroyer". What did they destroy, how did they destroy it and why? The rest of the page never says.

Using a gun occasionally doesn't make you a "gunman". A gunman is a person who uses it frequently and is their primary weapon that they use.

There are other misuses and abuses of categories, like using them instead of writing sentences to show how that category would apply. That and the above lead to cases where there's dozens of categories on the page. Ernst Stavro Blofeld currently has over one hundred categories.

That's WAY too many. It makes categories  USELESS .

We need to get back to the point where categories had meaning and weren't being plastered on the pages.