Thread:BlueFrackle/@comment-24002856-20200520032059/@comment-1197011-20200627164809

I think we can agree that defining what qualifies as a fantasy version of Earth and what doesn't is not easy. That's part of the reason why being lenient and allowing ambiguous cases on both ASW and NACW is the best approach to this, in my opinion; even though I often have to deal with people complaining that X or Y "is clearly alien!" or "don't belong in this wiki!" etc., which can be very tiresome sometimes, lol.

Now, for the other topics:


 * About renaming the "Crystal Species" category, sure, good idea!


 * It's been some time since I watched Steven Universe, so I could be very wrong, but I'm betting that the only reason these pages have these names is that the SU Wiki named them so. I don't see any problem in this, though, after all, if the fandom agrees on one name, it's better than no name at all, right? But surely, if there are other species with the same names, we should use parenthesis. As for the Unliving page, I don't have any objection to renaming it without the parenthesis. If something else turns up with the same name, we can always revert the move.


 * "Creatures Without Diets". That's one category that, no matter how we define it, it's prone to being misinterpreted by some users. There are species in fiction (mechanical and otherwise) that don't consume any matter or energy from their environment, so the category is valid. But I wonder if there would be a better name for it. Not sure if renaming it "Self-Sustainable Species" would be better or worse. Unless you have a suggestion, I think I'll leave it as it is for now, but if you wish to officially create the category by writing a description of it, that would be cool. Just make sure to write a clear definition, so that we can easily remove pages that don't fit.