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"Bags" and "containers"

-LauraCC (talk) 23:33, 6 July 2024 (UTC)

Support, on the virtue of being sufficiently different from "household tools" and "tools"; a shopping bag is not a tool or a clothing accessory. - AJHalliwell (talk) 16:28, 8 July 2024 (UTC)
Support, but what should this be a subcat of? 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 23:46, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

I suppose we could also create the category "Containers", which I believe I've mentioned before, albeit with less justification ("containers" is also the wikipedia category that has bags as a subcat):

-LauraCC (talk) 23:54, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

So the progression would be Tools>Household tools>Containers>Bags. -LauraCC (talk) 00:42, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Newspapers

See the list @ Newspaper. -LauraCC (talk) 02:59, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

Maybe "Category:Earth periodicals", to capture most magazines. Open to wordsmithing. This seems like it would be a subcategory of Earth literature. - AJHalliwell (talk) 19:21, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Yes, it would. I'm open to either periodicals or a separate magazine category - that list is quite long. -LauraCC (talk) 20:01, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Species history

For all the species/interspecies-specific history pages. Subcat of "History". -LauraCC (talk) 13:09, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

-LauraCC (talk) 18:37, 10 November 2024 (UTC)

Weak support, we'd need to wordsmith a better name, but I understand the intention. Societal histories? Historical topics? Should consider whether American history should be included; answer may be yes, may be no. - AJHalliwell (talk) 19:21, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

"Category:Cultural histories", perhaps. -LauraCC (talk) 20:03, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

In that case, we could add:

-LauraCC (talk) 02:52, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

And/or a "Histories" template with the headers "Species" (e.g. Ferengi), "Planet" (e.g. Earth), "Ethnicity" (e.g. Irish), "Government" (e.g. Federation), and "Inter-species" (e.g. Vulcan-Romulan). -LauraCC (talk) 04:00, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Television shows

From the list of shows and TV genres @Television program. -LauraCC (talk) 20:56, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Suggest just the list of shows to "Category:Earth television" under "Category:Earth arts". Genres can stay as is. - AJHalliwell (talk) 19:21, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Okay. -LauraCC (talk) 20:04, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

There are a few that aren't Earth-based, though: Yrrh Mnrrh, Pog & Dar: Cop Landlords, Name the Winner, Will They, Won't They? -LauraCC (talk) 19:39, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Alternate reality establishments/restaurants

I recently added multiple pages for all the Kelvin Memorial Archive and Starfleet Headquarters restaurants listed in Star Trek Into Darkness, and there's quite a few of these now, plus the Shipyard Bar and Port of San Francisco bar. -LauraCC (talk) 20:11, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

In addition, non-restaurant establishments include the Royal Children's Hospital, Nokia and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. -LauraCC (talk) 21:02, 11 November 2024 (UTC)

Currently, they're in "locations (alternate reality)" but that's also a catch-all for planets, parks, streets, etc, as opposed to businesses/companies. -LauraCC (talk) 16:15, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Chakotay's tribe members

Subcat of Category:Chakotay's tribe, given the recent influx of tribe member names from Star Trek: Prodigy, and given that not all of these individuals resided on Trebus, so "Trebus inhabitants" wouldn't suffice. -LauraCC (talk) 23:29, 15 November 2024 (UTC)

We currently have individuals, objects, and concepts, all listed in the same category. -LauraCC (talk) 17:15, 23 November 2024 (UTC)

Could probably be implemented by replacing "Category:Humans Category:Chakotay's tribe" and "Category:Chakotay's tribe Category:Humans" with the new category. -LauraCC (talk) 01:57, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

Toys

See Category talk:Games and the list of toys @ toy. -LauraCC (talk) 23:46, 18 November 2024 (UTC)

Vindictaverse

For all settings, characters (holograms and those played by real people), organizations, events, etc that make up the Vindictaverse. -LauraCC (talk) 01:19, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Which would be better? "Category:Vindictaverse" or "Category:Crisis Point"? -LauraCC (talk) 00:48, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Gambling

A subcat of economics and recreation. See the list @gambling for starters. -LauraCC (talk) 03:08, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Aquatic creatures/fish

See the list @ fish. -LauraCC (talk) 03:12, 27 November 2024 (UTC)

Insects

From the list @ User:LauraCC/Insects. -LauraCC (talk) 17:30, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

I've removed some that are actually not insects, if anyone else knows of any I missed, feel free to remove them. -LauraCC (talk) 16:42, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

We have Earth insects already...I guess a lot of the non-Earth ones are only mentioned, not seen, and creature names could be misleading. -LauraCC (talk) 22:56, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Sound(s)

To categorize all the sounds and sound-related pages @ User:LauraCC/Template:Animal vocalizations, sound, sound effects, Onomatopoeia, snoring, screaming (sometimes just a noise, no words), thunder, noise, cough, burp, sneeze, ringtone, Tinnitus, squeal, squeak, creak, rattle (sound), etc. -LauraCC (talk) 19:25, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

The last three in that list currently have no category - they're not communication, because they're noises made by inanimate objects. -LauraCC (talk) 16:48, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Only what would it be a subcategory of? "Physics"? "Energy"? "Communications"? "Science"? -LauraCC (talk) 00:13, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

Earth ground vehicles

A subcat of Earth vehicles and ground vehicles.

-LauraCC (talk) 00:34, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Alternately, we could put all the cars in "Category:Automobiles". Which option is better? -LauraCC (talk) 22:22, 10 March 2025 (UTC)

Storm Front timeline

What would we call a category for things mentioned in the ENT: "Storm Front", "Storm Front, Part II" Nazi-occupied America timeline? There are a lot of cities (Oklahoma City, for instance) whose articles mainly exist because they're territories controlled either by Nazis or Americans, as listed on one particular map. -LauraCC (talk) 20:31, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

We've already got an article for World War II (Temporal War); not sure what a full category for this would get us that italicizing, to denote an alternate timeline, presently doesn't -User:Archer4real 16:07, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Here are the cities in question, for starters:

-LauraCC (talk) 00:10, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

Incredible Tales stories and Incredible Tales contributors

Two categories, one for all stories published in Incredible Tales of Scientific Wonder and one for all the authors who wrote them. There's a table on the magazine's page, but this would be beneficial for those who encounter them via a "random page" click. -LauraCC (talk) 04:46, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Sporting events

All items in "Sports" and "Events".

-LauraCC (talk) 04:08, 15 January 2025 (UTC)

Medical documents/reports

There are probably more that aren't categorized properly yet.

-LauraCC (talk) 00:04, 18 January 2025 (UTC)

Unless these would also fall under "Category:Medical logs", perhaps. -LauraCC (talk) 23:59, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Stationery/art tools

Whatever you call it, listed at User:LauraCC/Art and writing. -LauraCC (talk) 02:23, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Some of the items on the list are art supplies, some are stationery and paper for writing and filing. -LauraCC (talk) 02:27, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Plasma

From the lists @plasma, though might be better as a template. -LauraCC (talk) 00:55, 8 February 2025 (UTC)

Human athletes

A subcategory of "humans" and "athletes".

-LauraCC (talk) 02:19, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

I noticed, alternately, that a lot of these individuals are fighters, so perhaps "martial artists" instead? (Or both). -LauraCC (talk) 21:53, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Symbol redirects

For all redirects to math/science pages consisting of symbols that are made up of non-letter/irregular letter characters, like &, %, $, °, ?, ¢, -, π, œ, *, ∞, =, ÷, +, ✓, √, ↘, ×,—, etc. These redirects are to be used in image transcriptions (e.g. instead of [[asterisk|*]] , just [[*]] ). -LauraCC (talk) 20:47, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Those that are more commonly used (but not easily accessible on a standard keyboard, unlike & and %, which are - not accessible as in "Ctrl+398P@", etc) could also be added to the unencoded section. -LauraCC (talk) 21:32, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Just discovered the advanced symbols drop down, so the suggestion above that I crossed out isn't necessary after all, but the redirect category would still be useful. -LauraCC (talk) 16:11, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

Agency/organization abbreviations

A subcat of abbreviations for all short forms of company and agency names. -LauraCC (talk) 14:52, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Human authors

156 out of 193 pages in "authors". -LauraCC (talk) 15:15, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Support. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 15:17, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

To keep the conversation here instead of moving it to Memory Alpha:Bot requests, can a bot replace all instances of "Category:Humans Category:Authors" and "Category:Authors Category:Humans" with "Category:Human authors"? That should catch most of the pages - any outliers can be manually added (e.g. someone who was categorized as "Human","Medical practitioners" and "Authors", in that order) -LauraCC (talk) 16:37, 25 April 2025 (UTC)

Additional star systems categories

See the lists @ Binary star system and trinary star system. -LauraCC (talk) 16:51, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Don't forget the Quads ha! ‐ Yaroze86 (talk) 16:56, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

I figured I'd start with the two longest lists. Also possibly unary systems if the (as yet unknown) list warrants it. -LauraCC (talk) 16:59, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Based on search results, looks like "unary" systems number 196 (10 result pages), which is more than enough for a category. (Search done when it still said "unary" instead of "single star" - admittedly more unique search term, but incorrect) -LauraCC (talk) 04:04, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

So to clarify, I am requesting "Single star systems", "Binary star systems", and "Trinary star systems" categories. -LauraCC (talk) 16:35, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Space locations by quadrant

For example, "Category:Alpha Quadrant locations", etc. (see Alpha Quadrant for lists) , to be split into aq stars, aq star systems, etc. Given all the new star/star system pages we have whose quadrants are known by virtue of maps. -LauraCC (talk) 14:03, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Support. ‐ Yaroze86 (talk) 22:11, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

Make a note here when the quadrant locations are finalized. -LauraCC (talk) 13:56, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

Causes of death

Subcategory of death. For all the causes of death listed in Category:Punishments, murder, and diseases listed @terminal illness with their own pages. -LauraCC (talk) 18:11, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

Or just "forms of execution" for the punishments. -LauraCC (talk) 14:32, 30 April 2025 (UTC)

Water vehicles

For types of boats and individual boats. -LauraCC (talk) 01:44, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Planets or systems with starbases

Could I get a category for planets and systems that contain starbases? Getting to that point in my chart and would like to notate on my map. ‐ Yaroze86 (talk) 02:41, 11 May 2025 (UTC)

Temporal phenomena

A subcat of Category:Time, for things like Temporal disruption, similar to how Category:Astronomical phenomena is a subcat of Category:Astronomy. -LauraCC (talk) 16:51, 21 June 2025 (UTC)

Children's books and young adult novels

Two separate categories - one for the children's books, and one for the YA novels/novelizations. (I have lists here, but I may have missed some of the titles. Please feel free to add any I neglected.)

-LauraCC (talk) 02:58, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

Alternately, we could put them all in one big category, "Star Trek children's and young adult literature", or "Star Trek juvenile literature". Which is the best alternative? -LauraCC (talk) 01:37, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Roddenberry Archive production staff/performers

For all those involved in Roddenberry Archive work that are listed on MA - musicians, performers, directors, consultants, etc. -LauraCC (talk) 01:46, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Merch series(es)

Subcats of this would be "novel series", "comic series", etc. Frankly, Star Trek Adventures (Modiphius) has enough articles to be a series category of its own. -LauraCC (talk) 03:15, 20 December 2024 (UTC)

Star Trek Online performers

Many Trek alumni reprise their roles or play new ones on STO. It would be a subcat of "Video game performers" (which would still apply to performers who did other video games in addition to STO - they'd fall into both categories). -LauraCC (talk) 21:58, 22 January 2025 (UTC)

How many? I'll probably support this but would like to get an estimate on how much this would cut down the overly-full Category:Video game performers. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:09, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

These names, to start. Looks like a good long list. -LauraCC (talk) 02:43, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

We could also have categories for "Computer game performers" (i.e. solely disc-based PC games) and "Console game performers" (i.e. solely Nintendo, Playstation disc/cartridge-based games). Those who participated in games which are available in both formats could stay in "Video game performers". -LauraCC (talk) 00:53, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Star Trek book series

For book series that aren't made up of novels, such as Little Golden Books (real world), Star Trek Crosswords, Nerd Search, What is the Story of?, and Hidden Universe Travel Guides (probably more), with "novel series" to be a subcat of that. -LauraCC (talk) 02:15, 23 January 2025 (UTC)

CAFTCAD award nominees and winners

Suggesting here as a formality (see my recent edits @Star Trek's awards and honors). -LauraCC (talk) 18:52, 29 January 2025 (UTC)

Support, if our practice is to create categories for all such awards – is it? I don't have time to check right now. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:09, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Seems to be. We already have a couple with two nominees - Category:Online Film Critics Society Award nominees and Category:Artios Award winners.

I would also suggest "Nebula Award nominees". -LauraCC (talk) 22:54, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Split both award winning and nominated categories further

Split significant award categories (Emmy, Academy, etc) for Trek, in order to differentiate between productions (movies/books, etc) people (actors/authors/crew, etc), and production companies that won/were nominated,. Right now, people, shows, and companies are in some of the same categories with each other. -LauraCC (talk) 03:07, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

The smaller ones can remain as-is until they reach a certain threshold. -LauraCC (talk) 20:16, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Support for any award category with more than 200 members. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:09, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

There's some overlap, and some didn't win for the show they performed in, but for production. -LauraCC (talk) 03:01, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Emmy nominees has 261 entries, Emmy winners has 121 entries. Just at a glance, that's the only one I can see that has enough. We could split by film awards, TV awards, and book awards. -LauraCC (talk) 01:36, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

To my way of thinking, "nominees" should refer to people, whereas "nominated productions"/"nominated production companies" would refer to entities. Maybe there's a shorter way to say that, maybe not. -LauraCC (talk) 18:19, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Non-English titles

For items printed in other languages and listed on MA under these non-English titles, like Feuer gegen Feuer and Le Droit selon Star Trek. -LauraCC (talk) 12:48, 7 March 2025 (UTC)

Comment I'm not convinced of the value of this, can you compile a list of these so we can see how large this would be? 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:09, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

There's 6 from the 13 book list @ Reference works#International works, many of which are not created pages yet, and:

That's at least nine. I think there might be a few independent ones, too. -LauraCC (talk) 02:32, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Comics#Tokyopop (2006-2009) adds four titles, though the comics themselves are in English. Cross Cult does reprints - dunno if we'd have redirects to the other titles. -LauraCC (talk) 02:52, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

If we include DVDs, there's DIS L'intégrale des saisons 1 & 2 (Blu-ray) and DIS L'intégrale des saisons 1 & '2 (DVD). -LauraCC (talk) 11:57, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

There's also Syndicat des éditeurs de logiciels de loisirs. -LauraCC (talk) 12:54, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

Perhaps non-English pages could be a hidden category, with real-world non-English titled products (books, DVDs, etc) in the non-English titles category. -LauraCC (talk) 12:54, 2 April 2025 (UTC)

Téléportation 2161 - Kirk, Spock et nous. -LauraCC (talk) 00:50, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

Also several non-English Fotonovel titles here. -LauraCC (talk) 03:29, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Star Trek - Animaletti Pericolosi -LauraCC (talk) 00:54, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

Star Trek. La nueva generación. Colmena, Zuflucht -LauraCC (talk) 02:23, 25 September 2025 (UTC)

Large print books

So far, I know of a few: The Return, Redshirts (novel), Up Till Now: The Autobiography, and Born with Teeth: A Memoir. There are probably more. It might be useful to have this as a category to help people who need to read large print to find physical books that are listed on MA available in large print. -LauraCC (talk) 23:54, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Honestly, we could have paperback and hardcover categories, too, except "large print" is closer to audiobooks/ebooks as a distinct format that enables readability, rather than simply the size/texture of the cover. -LauraCC (talk) 01:53, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

Either that or an "accessibility" rw page that lists large print titles, talks about subtitles, captions, audiobooks, described video, etc. -LauraCC (talk) 03:25, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

Performer classifications

"TOS series regulars", "TOS guest stars", "TOS background performers", etc. for all the shows. Worth it, or problematic? -LauraCC (talk) 02:12, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

I know some actors could fall in two or all 3 of these categories for the same show - Jennifer Lien, for instance, playing Kes regularly before leaving and returning for VOY: "Fury". I also know there might be some ambiguity about what constitutes a "background performer". I'm sure we could figure out a definition for our purposes if we don't have one yet. Regulars, at the very least, is fairly straightforward. -LauraCC (talk) 02:20, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

I'll have to consider this a bit more before I support or oppose. If we end up doing this, though, we should only categorize actors at the highest "level" they were at in that show. So Jennifer Lien would just be in VOY series regulars, not VOY guest stars as well. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 05:00, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

After suggesting this, I remembered the nav templates show regular cast, too, but I suppose the same information can be communicated in more than one way.

I suppose we could categorize recurring role performers for those who make frequent appearances as the same character, while not being listed in the opening credits. -LauraCC (talk) 15:30, 17 March 2025 (UTC)

Star Trek short story authors

For authors who contributed short stories to anthologies, particularly (but not limited to) those who haven't written any other Trek fiction. We could do "Star Trek anthology contributors", but this matches "Star Trek novel authors" -LauraCC (talk) 15:44, 22 March 2025 (UTC)

I've created reams of pages for the (formerly) missing SNW anthology contributors, so it'd be quite a big category if created. -LauraCC (talk) 15:56, 23 March 2025 (UTC)

In-jokes

Not sure if this is maintenance or production, but perhaps a (hidden?) category for pages named as in-jokes. -LauraCC (talk) 23:18, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Audio release types

"CDs", "Records" (or to be more specific which type of record perhaps), "Digital audio" and "Audio cassettes", like what there is for VHS, DVDs, Blu-rays, etc. Have these not been done because generally any given title (aside from film soundtracks) is likely to only be available in one format, as opposed to the films themselves, with little difference between included tracks? -LauraCC (talk) 22:03, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Deleted and unused individuals/characters

For all characters who were part of deleted and unused scenes. A subcat of deleted and unused categories. Perhaps with a better name? -LauraCC (talk) 00:11, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

Split novel category

Is there any merit to categorizing novels by their publisher(s), or by author, in the case of prolific Star Trek authors? -LauraCC (talk) 03:00, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

Images of part-human hybrids

See the list @ hybrid - part humans make up the bulk of them. -LauraCC (talk) 17:33, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Not entirely convinced this is necessary, but if so, just "Human hybrids" would be sufficient (as a subcat of Category:Memory Alpha images (Humans)). Though looking at the implementation of the Individual categories, I almost wonder if this does navigation and organization a disservices. Additionally, hasn't there been some disagreement on the use of "hybrids" to refer to individuals? - AJHalliwell (talk) 19:21, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

I don't know what one other word would capture the concept. I suppose you could categorize it as "Partial Humans" (ick). -LauraCC (talk) 20:06, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Support, but as "Category:Memory Alpha images (hybrids)", so for all images of hybrid, not just Human hybrids. A subcat of Category:Hybrids and Category:Memory Alpha images (individuals). Images would only be categorized as such if there isn't a category for that specific individual, so once I create and populate "Category:Memory Alpha images (Spock)", it would be a subcat of the hybrids image category, so individual pics of Spock wouldn't be. Let's wait on this though until I finish up with the individual image category project so we can avoid unnecessary work. I've been meaning to get back to that, so I'll do some work on it right now. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 17:38, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Note: make sure to categorize images of split down the middle Spock and B'Elanna Torres as being "Humans" (SNW: "Spock Amok", "Charades"), "Vulcans", or "Klingons" (VOY: "Faces") as the case may be. -LauraCC (talk) 17:43, 11 January 2025 (UTC)

Actor images

For actors who appear in a myriad of real world images, would it make sense to have the {{Pictured}} template automatically generate a category with (e.g. {{Pictured rw}} Category:Memory Alpha images (William Shatner))? This could be implemented when actors are not in character; for instance, appearing at a convention or being interviewed, etc. -LauraCC (talk) 12:56, 25 November 2024 (UTC)

Support. We'll group these categories together under "Memory Alpha images (real world individuals)", unless someone can think of a better name, and place it under Category:Memory Alpha images. Category:Memory Alpha images (performers) could be a subcat and then contain all the cats for people who are performers, so almost all (or possibly all) of them.
However, I don't think we need a {{pictured rw}} template, since the people in the pic will usually be mentioned in the file description proper, which isn't the case for in-universe pics, thus {{pictured}}. Instead, we can place the categories on the file pages directly.
🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 04:57, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Memory Alpha book articles with missing edition covers

To find books with reprint/edition covers that haven't been uploaded yet for sidebar cover tabs. Is it possible to create this in such a way that it automatically generates? -LauraCC (talk) 01:41, 15 February 2025 (UTC)

Memory Alpha misspelling redirects

A hidden category for all redirects created as a result of a misspelling/alternate spelling of terms and names on a display graphic, sign, or other written display, such as Citation for Conspicuous Gallandry, James R. Kirk, etc. -LauraCC (talk) 14:40, 24 February 2025 (UTC)

Is there a way we could locate these alternate spelling redirects efficiently? Or just add them as we come across them? Feel free to list any you're aware of. -LauraCC (talk) 03:24, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Just noticed "Nausciaa" (Nausicaa) and "Mah Bu" (Mab-Bu), as well. -LauraCC (talk) 17:28, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

Erit/Erib also. -LauraCC (talk) 16:57, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Support. Unfortunately, there's no way to automatically generate a list for this. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:09, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Too bad. Do you know any more? -LauraCC (talk) 00:42, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Found Daffyd ab Hugh, though unlike the others, it's real world. -LauraCC (talk) 00:23, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Adding Moinger. -LauraCC (talk) 17:24, 7 April 2025 (UTC)

Formatting these pages as lists (add all future finds here):

-LauraCC (talk) 23:47, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Individuals by location

"DS9 personnel/visitors species" comes to mind. Probably a lot of the unnamed alien images can fall under this category. But only for those who(se species) aren't named/ID'd any other way - we'd have to hash out the details. -LauraCC (talk) 01:46, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

So something like "Memory Alpha images (individuals of unknown species)" which would then branch to "Memory Alpha images (unknown species on Deep Space 9)", etc. I like it, as a good way to split up the impossible-to-navigate 1,204 images of people of unnamed species. Unless someone can think up a better alternative, support.
For starters, I've tallied up estimates for Enterprise NX-01 (<173), the USS Enterprise (<95), the USS Enterprise-A (<80), the USS Enterprise-D (<151), Deep Space 9 (<173), the USS Voyager (<208), and the USS Cerritos (<163). Later on, I'll go through and weed-out false positives, then we can start by creating categories for any of those that would have at least fifty images. That sound good?
🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 03:16, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Great. We could also do Delta Quadrant unnamed species images for those on planets Voyager crew visit, unless you count those with those that are on Voyager, or possibly "unknown species in Starfleet". I would also add Yorktown from Star Trek Beyond. -LauraCC (talk) 03:21, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, Delta Quadrant is probably a good one. I don't think unknown species in Starfleet would be very useful, at least for now, since it would either be just a collection for a couple sub-categories, or incredibly massive, depending on how we did it. As for Yorktown, that would be no more than 46 images, so I think should wait on that – start with the more populated ones, then move down to the smaller ones if/when it's needed. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 03:31, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

What about categorizing by reality (prime, mirror, and Kelvin, at least)? -LauraCC (talk) 04:42, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

I'd be OK with mirror and/or Kelvin, I'll check how many those have later. As for prime, I suppose I wouldn't mind it, but I'd prefer if we just let everything be directly under the main category for now, then we could work out more detailed organization later if we get too many subcats. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 04:52, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, those two are more likely to be in the sweet spot of just enough to be worth a category, but not so much it becomes overwhelming. -LauraCC (talk) 04:54, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

Memory Alpha images (turbolifts)/(turbolift technology)

For images of turbolifts, turboshafts, etc. -LauraCC (talk) 22:55, 11 March 2025 (UTC)

75 images link to turbolift, and 11 additional images link to turboshaft. -LauraCC (talk) 02:24, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

Subcategories of "spacecraft (location) interiors"

Split into such subcategories as "USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) interiors" (a very commonly seen ship), "Klingon spacecraft interiors", etc. -LauraCC (talk) 14:01, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

Can you count up some of these to give an idea of how much this would trim down Category:Memory Alpha images (spacecraft interiors)? 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:09, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Is there a way to combine a dpl and an rl so you can find which items in a particular category link to a particular page? -LauraCC (talk) 02:22, 20 March 2025 (UTC) 

<dpl>
category=...
linksto=...
</dpl>
I recommend consulting this if you want to find out more about DPL's features. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 02:29, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

It gives me all the Enterprises, though I linked to the 1701. User:LauraCC/Sandbox2. -LauraCC (talk) 02:37, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. As you can see, there's ample justification. That'd take you down 200 and something. -LauraCC (talk) 03:26, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Nexus images

-LauraCC (talk) 04:43, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Most of these are Nexus-induced visions, but a few external views of it as well. -LauraCC (talk) 16:33, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Earth images

-LauraCC (talk) 04:43, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Some of these just mention Earth (like moon.jpg), but probably most show it. -LauraCC (talk) 16:34, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Vulcan planet images

-LauraCC (talk) 04:43, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Some interiors, but mostly outdoors or the planet from space. -LauraCC (talk) 16:35, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Hidden error categories and hidden information categories

To separate categories indicative of formatting errors from those which denote background information, etc. Better titles needed perhaps. -LauraCC (talk) 19:39, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Support, but not just reorganize hidden categories, but the entire Category:Memory Alpha maintenance branch. Basically, "maintenance" should really just be for listing pages that need maintenance, like PNAs, PFDs, etc. But currently, it's for all of the "under-the-hood" stuff on Memory Alpha, including policies and guidelines, help pages, etc., that aren't necessarily in need of maintenance. I'd say the best name for what is currently the "maintenance" category would be "Memory Alpha management" or "Memory Alpha administration". Then, maintenance would be specifically for actual "maintenance" stuff, and would be a subcat of "management"/"administration". This is roughly what they do on Wikipedia, where they call it "administration".
So, in short, I've proposing we rename "Memory Alpha maintenance" to "Memory Alpha management" or "Memory Alpha administration" (which do people prefer?), and then create a new category with the name "Memory Alpha maintenance" as a subcategory of the category that is currently called "Memory Alpha maintenance", and then move pages and categories there as appropriate.
I think this would make that branch of Memory Alpha's category tree easier to navigate, and give it a name that better matches its scope. But, for such a high-level change, we'll need more than a one- or two-person consensus, so if anyone else is reading this and has thoughts, please voice them. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 20:10, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

I favor "Administration" - we already use "administrator" to describe those who run the site, and it begins with a different letter than "maintenance", so easier to differentiate. -LauraCC (talk) 20:14, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Oh, and similarly, errors on "MA Help" pages that exist just to show examples of what such errors look like should not land that page in the error category. Category:Memory Alpha pages with math render errors, for example, includes "MA Help:Parser function - I assume the error is an example. -LauraCC (talk) 15:40, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

Note: this category suggestion pages will also have four sections, up from three, as a result. -LauraCC (talk) 15:52, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

Those categories are auto-generated on pages with those sorts of errors. Eventually, I'll rework the examples to avoid the errors in the first place – in most cases it's sufficient to describe errors rather than demonstrate them, or create a fake mock-up of the error.
And no, this page will not have four sections. As I said, "maintenance" will be a subcat of "administration", so what will happen is that we will rename this section from "Maintenance categories" to "Administrative categories". 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 16:20, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

Okay. -LauraCC (talk) 16:22, 13 April 2025 (UTC)

I think what you are proposing is logical. I think "maintenance" and "administration" are perfectly fine. ‐ Yaroze86 (talk) 14:15, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
I've been discussing this on Discord with sulfur, and they suggested "Memory Alpha site maintenance" and "Memory Alpha potential issues". I'm good to go with those names if no one objects. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 15:47, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

What about "flagged errors", "unresolved errors", or "errors for review"? -LauraCC (talk) 15:59, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Not everything in the category would be "errors". For example, I wouldn't describe PNAs as "errors". 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 16:46, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Ah. Substitute some other word then, "issues" if you like. -LauraCC (talk) 17:07, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Screen test images

Sub-category of Category:Memory Alpha images (costumes and makeup). I counted 32 images labeled as being from screen tests. -LauraCC (talk) 01:09, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

Category:Memory Alpha images (Starship Library magazine covers)

Suggesting here after the category was already created by @TanookiMike (talk • contribs). How many such covers are there, in addition to these three? -LauraCC (talk) 13:37, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

Category:Memory Alpha images (androids) split

The upcoming character category for Data will split off a large number of these images, but image categories for "Soong-type androids", "Coppelius androids", and possibly "Mudd androids", might be in order. -LauraCC (talk) 14:12, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

Hosts vs guests

Moved from Category talk:Guests

Enough of a difference between hosts and guests to have separate categories or nah? -LauraCC (talk) 02:47, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Well, hosts definitely shouldn't be categorized as guests, which isn't happening AFAIK. Support a category for hosts; either just for podcast hosts ("Category:Podcast hosts") or for both podcast and aftershow hosts, in which case I'm not sure what to call it. Perhaps "Star Trek hosts"? 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 01:02, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
Currently, it looks like many hosts are uncategorized, while guests are sorted in categories by series. Dunno if there are enough hosts per series to split by series (e.g. "WAW hosts", etc.) LauraCC (talk) 01:10, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
No, definitely aren't enough per show for individual categories for each show. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 01:23, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
Are there enough to have both "Podcast hosts" (aka "podcasters")/guests and "Aftershow hosts"/guests under a category for "Companion show production staff"? LauraCC (talk) 18:32, 20 September 2025 (UTC)
No, only three aftershow hosts. I think "Star Trek hosts", for both aftershows and pocasts, is good enough, so support that and oppose anything else, for now. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 00:18, 6 October 2025 (UTC)

With Khan we also have podcast performers (though until there are other drama podcasts, "KHA performers" will suffice). -LauraCC (talk) 19:06, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Genetics

For the following pages relating to DNA and genes:

-LauraCC (talk) 14:45, 18 September 2025 (UTC)

Support. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 22:37, 5 October 2025 (UTC)

Recreated/reproduced images

Assuming that no such category exists and the discussion at Forum:Recreation maps and charts in canon articles. ends with keeping them as files on MA, a category for all such recreations. Possibly to be automatically added by the "image art reproduction" template. LauraCC (talk) 00:08, 4 October 2025 (UTC)

Support, regardless of that forum's outcome, since we'll still have all the logo and rank recreations even if we get rid of the maps. Call it "Category:Memory Alpha file reproductions", complimenting Category:Memory Alpha files as citations. And it should be added by {{image cite}}, not {{image art reproduction}}. 🖖 Mr. Starfleet Command (talk • contribs) 18:45, 5 October 2025 (UTC)