Thread:Weast Weasel/@comment-4643078-20181103233236

Hi, I noticed you added the 'mustelids' category to two character pages. I guess the thing is, it just seems like a super specific category, and I'm not sure we have a need for it, at least not yet. It's just that we don't even have a 'mammals' category yet, which mustelids fall under. I could see having categories for what most people would consider to be the 'main' groups of animals, - like mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects - something like that?

But I think there could be such a thing as getting too specific...for one thing it can get pretty complicated. Just for example, Roxy isn't a mustelid to begin with. She's a raccoon, and while raccoons and weasels both belong to the larger superfamily Musteloidea, mustelids belong to the subcategory Mustelidae, that include weasels but not raccons (raccoons belong to a different subcategory called Procyonidae). And erm, well, you can see how complicated this can get when using hyper-specific scientific categories. ^^' Since it seems like we only have one character who fits the mustelids category at the moment (Jimmy Bumples), I'll probably remove it for now. But if you think we should have categories for different types of animals, I don't think that's a bad idea, I just think it should be scaled back a bit to just the main 'groups' of animals that most people know of. And maybe bringing it up in the forum or making a blog post about it to see what other people think about it first would be good to do also. 