Category talk:Minor Human Race

A number of the groups listed on this page are not minor human races. Some a variant human races. Some are races in the sense we use it on Earth today, but which the Imperium does not (Subrace?). Some are purely ethnic groups (like the Irklan).

I'd like to suggest introducing a new category that would include these non-MHR groups. I'm not sure what to call it. Maybe 'Ethnic group'?

I'm still getting ito the swing of things, so I'm not quite sure of the etiquette here. It seems like a big thing to introduce unilaterally (Besides, I don't know how to set up a category). Opinions?

Rancke 13:07, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

This is probably a case of insufficent imagination on our part. We're pretty lax, given the number of contributers, about making changes, even what seem like major ones. You want to split off the "Variant Human race" and the "Human ethnic group" categories, and did you want to split it any further?

I think 'Variant Human race' is sufficiently different that it deserves a category of its own (MHRs were scattered by the Ancients 300,000 years ago; VHRs were geneered by someone within historical times).

'Human Ethnic group' is also quite different, and there are quite a lot of them, too.

The one I'm dubious about is 'Subrace'. Apart from the Solomani, I can't think of any other examples than the three Iltharan ones. Also, ISTR a mention somewhere that the Vilani originally thought that the Terrans were a coalition of MHRs because they weren't used to a single race being as diverse as the Solomani were. So we'd end up with a category with only three entries.

Rancke 15:33, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Creating a category involves add the [[Category: Variant Human race]] to the bottom of the page. Or adding "Variant Human race" to the {{LE[N]}} template. Save the page. This will have a red link in the category grouping at the bottom of the page. Click on it to get an edit page for the category, add some text to describe the category and save the page.

On wiki with more contributers, the usual policy about making changes affecting more that a few pages is exactly what you've done. Add a note to an appropirate talk page, and the interested people vote yes or no. So I vote yes.

Tjoneslo 14:30, 13 April 2007 (UTC)