I freely admit I have an issue with fictional categories. I find them somewhat in the face of what categorisation was intended to do, or at least my thoughts on what it was intended to do, which was to classify as unambiguously and as relevantly as possible. I'm prompted into this steam-letting by the discovery that Schrödinger's cat is categorised as a fictional cat. I'm half tempted to slap a citation needed on that one. It's an interesting conundrum which for me highlights the issues with categorising fictional elements. It's a problem I guess we at the comics project face more than some, although not as often as others. It has been a battle avoiding category bloat on Batman especially. The problem is where to stop. We have characters by nationality, which to me seems absurd since you find Mandarin (comics) nestling in Category:English people because his mother was English. Now sidestepping the fact that a fictional character doesn't exist, let alone have a mother, how can we know this character identifies as English? Gosh darn it's a tricky beast. One day I'll write an essay on the matter. Apologies for ranting. Now, can someone set up a bot which will add or remove Schrödinger's cat to the fictional cat category every other day please.
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