[WikiEN-l] fictional categories

[Surreptitiousness]

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.