Category talk:Superheroes
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I would like to delete Category:Superheroes and replace it by Category:Fictional heroes. By extension, other language versions would be replaced as well, such as from "Category:et:Superheroes" to "Category:et:Fictional heroes".
I have the impression that the category for "superheroes" would serve to list only fictional heroes who have superpowers. However, it would be too strict and maybe ambiguous. Would the excessive wealth and genius-level intellect of Batman count as superpowers? On the other hand, my proposed change would unambiguously allow the arguably powerless Zorro and Batman to be listed together with the superpowered Superman and Spider-Man. --Daniel. 08:13, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
- Delete instead. DCDuring TALK 16:23, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
- What DCDuring said.—msh210℠ (talk) 17:01, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
- In the absence of counterarguments, I simply disagree with DCDuring and msh210. --Daniel. 23:10, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
- What DCDuring said.—msh210℠ (talk) 17:01, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
- Delete, since w:Category:Superheroes already does this job of encyclopedic categorization better than this dictionary ever will. Duplication is not merely wasted effort, it is harmful by stealing attention from the better resource. —Michael Z. 2012-01-27 16:02 z
- Delete category Superheroes, moving its content to Category:Fictional characters. Category:en:Superheroes currently has one member: Spidey, and one subcategory Category:en:Batman, which has 6 members. Delete Category:Batman as well, a subcategory of Superheroes. Superheroes and Batman have excessive granularity, IMHO. --Dan Polansky (talk) 14:34, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
- I've deleted Category:Superheroes, moving its contents to Category:Fictional characters as suggested above. - -sche (discuss) 14:29, 2 April 2015 (UTC)