Forum:Starship classes under faction categories

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Starship articles cover either specific starships (such as Devastator) or starship classes (such as Victory-class Star Destroyer), and are categorized as such.

There is also a common desire to categorize these articles by affiliation. This is fairly simple to do for specific starships, where Devastator would be sorted into Category:Imperial starships. It is more complicated when applied to starship classes, as they have a tendency to show up in the hands of various factions.

Wikipedia handles this by categorizing naval or fighter classes by the country which produced them. In the more complicated Galaxy Far, Far Away, military contractors often sell their goods to the highest bidder or they arrive in hand by more nefarious means, so this method wouldn't be useful to a reader attempting to find all starfighters ever used by the Rebel Alliance.

I think affiliation/faction based categories for starship classes is only practical and manageable for marquee classes that define the organization. The Rebel Alliance stole TIE Fighters and used them to infiltrate Imperial bases, but I would not sort them under Category:Rebel Alliance starfighter classes. The goal is to provide meaningful bt uncluttered categorization.

On the other hand, I'm all for avoiding this type of categorization entirely, if that's what the community prefers - I'm just offering this up as a method to handle it.

Your thoughts? --SparqMan 19:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)