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Willow "Danielle" Rosenberg"

Since hardly no one even realizes that "Danielle" is Willow's middle name, we need to make sure people aren't using this over and over again in articles. It could be said perhaps once on her main article, but that's it. Fan's know her simply as "Willow Rosenberg". QueenBuffy 20:40, December 9, 2017 (UTC)

SO many and TOO many categories

Hey everyone. Let's get a handle on all these categories. I just went through and found things like: "Buffy Comics" and "Buffy comics" on the same exact article. I cleaned them up, so now there is just "Buffy comics". We need to make sure we're not just making up categories. If anyone thinks a new category needs to be made, PLEASE let us admins and Bureau's discuss first. Also, we're going to start adding a single comic category to any article that pertains to something from a comic. I was reading something the other day and was like "I don't remember that episode"... and realized it was talking about something from a comic book. We need to make sure articles like that are categorized separately from the series. Hope this makes sense. :) I think we may just use "Buffy comics" and "Angel comics" for things like weapons or spells that are used in comic books, since that category is already made and we don't need to add anymore. QueenBuffy 21:25, December 9, 2017 (UTC)

Guys this is crazy... we have "demons" and "demon species" as two categories. Why are there two?! They are the exact same thing. This is out of hand. I think we should pull up an entire list of categories to see what we're dealing with. lol QueenBuffy 22:55, December 9, 2017 (UTC)

"Demon species" pertain to types of demons, whereas "Demons" (in its current use) is an umbrella category that contains "Demon species" AND individuals that are demons. Personally, I feel like "Demons" should just include the individuals instead of individuals+species, but then again if we follow that, we'd still need an umbrella term for both. FTWinchester (talk) 23:25, December 9, 2017 (UTC)

I'm taking a look at all comic related categories, it seems so far that they're more confusing due to the number of articles related to the comics than an excess of categories. Although, there are indeed some articles outside their own categories, which I'm correcting right now. I don't know yet what should be done with vaguely named categories such as "Buffy comics", their intention is not clear. I used to apply it on articles about comic issues under the Buffy the Vampire Slayer title, similarly to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes", but there are so many comics that I don't know how useful this category can actually be. For now I think it's better to be maintained until it's created a proper category for these articles ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer single issues"?) and other parallel pertinent categories ("Fray comics", "Spike comics"). Ellesy (talk) 23:47, December 9, 2017 (UTC)

Exactly, like I said, this is just wayyyy overwhelming to me. lol Oh, and I still don't see how "demon species" and "demons" were both made into two different categories. lol QueenBuffy 00:27, December 10, 2017 (UTC)

About a category for comic-related articles, I don't get the necessity. It'd be like a distinction for articles that have any information from Angel for those who doesn't have the intention to watch the show. And a little absurd considering how the comics have talked about everything from the series, we'd end up including almost every article. For example, I noticed you added the article "Old One" to the category "Comic Canon", but it's a creature that was mentioned in "Welcome to the Hellmouth", and the comics just continued to add stories about it. It would be safer to assume the comics have mentioned every character and creature. I think knowing that a character has a lot of canon information from the comics wouldn't be helpful during the reading of an entire article, having a source for each information should be enough.

On the demon/species thing, "Anya Jenkins" was a demon, "Vengeance demon" is a type of demon. The first would be categorized among other demon individuals, and the second among other demon species. It would be redundant to differentiate if we didn't have this much of articles about demons (440) and demon species (232). If it's necessary, changing the category "Demons" to "Demon individuals" would make this difference clear.

Ellesy (talk) 01:08, December 10, 2017 (UTC)

Just replaced the categories "Angel & Faith comics" and "Angel & Faith Comics" for the already existing category "Angel comics", since, despite the title change, the Angel & Faith comics are a continuation to Angel as much as After the Fall, and the return to the original title with Angel Season Eleven just corroborates it.

I'm about to replace the category "Willow comics " with also already existing "Buffy comics ", since these comics were publishing directly under the Buffy the Vampire Slayer title, as featured in the covers. Also, the inclusion of "Willow & Tara" stories as "Willow comics" was already a stretch.

I don't know if there'll be anything else to rearrange after this, but, as suggested by QueenBuffy , when I'm finished I'll list the categories used in comics, how they're supposed to work, and why would their use be relevant.

Ellesy (talk) 04:02, December 10, 2017 (UTC)