Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25626-20170728051121/@comment-25626-20170801190447

Ok, I've been able to create a POV template,. If you follow the link and review the template, you will see that it 1) autofills "POV" (duh); 2) places the article into Category:POVs automatically. For an example, see Radnal vez Krobir.

Now, I've tried to edit the infobox historical figure template to allow us to "build" this style of auto-categorization in, but I don't think my templates skills are up to that, plus the story-specific formatting may preclude us from doing so. But, we could have templates like POV for nationalities, religions, occupations. We can do the same thing with the succession box templates, so we can autoinclude there, if we want.

The pros here would be saving work in the future (don't have to list every category again--they'll be automatic) and more consistent harmonization of the categories. Using Stalin, we'd have "Historical Figures" category, followed by any info that was specific to the OTL Stalin, followed TGlad Characters, followed by any uniquely TGlad categories there might be, and on down the line. Reviewing the relevant categories on lengthier articles could be more user-friendly, especially for articles like Stalin, who has 49 categories.

The cons would be that there would need to be many templates, and that there would need to be some OTL/ATL/FW versions; so, lots of work. There might also still need to be categories inserted the old fashioned way. As of right now, I'm not sure if the piping code or some equivalent can be used in this style of template. That would most obviously impact the DOB and DODs. We are specific about years whenever possible in the infobox templates, but the categories are by decade. Piping would be necessary here, or we'd have to enter them in.