I have no opinion on the answer to the actual question of categorization--it's not my place to say as I'm not in any of these fandoms.
But, before even broaching the topic, an explanation of what the various types of categories are, how they function and how they might be used (or completely ignored) by readers of Fanlore is surely in order.
Category structure on Fanlore has changed dramatically since it was first introduced, so to a user familiar with wiki structure circa 2009 who hasn't kept up with the changes, their (mis)understanding of how the wiki works would actively prevent them from even knowing what you're asking.
I've kept up with the changes, and I'm a bit confused as to how this category change would effect pages and facilitate page creation. Someone who is not very, or at all, familiar with the way Fanlore structures itself now is going to imagine a definition and use for category that might be miles away from reality. People are already doing that very thing in comments here, and at a bare minimum making the links to Category pages clickable might get people who have never paid attention to Category debates to go look at the pages as they are now.
The Fandom by Source Community question is likely to be meaningless to anyone but an experienced Fanlore editor who is savvy about how templates work. I wonder if approaching that question by pointing to the various infobox templates, which are the things an editor making a new page actually uses and also the things that affect page content, and then seeing how the categories fall out around needed templates might work better. Or to put it more simply, is a mashup infobox and a couple of single source infoboxes needed with specific content for East Asian sourced fandoms or do the existing ones work? A question I'm not qualified to answer, however.
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But, before even broaching the topic, an explanation of what the various types of categories are, how they function and how they might be used (or completely ignored) by readers of Fanlore is surely in order.
Category structure on Fanlore has changed dramatically since it was first introduced, so to a user familiar with wiki structure circa 2009 who hasn't kept up with the changes, their (mis)understanding of how the wiki works would actively prevent them from even knowing what you're asking.
I've kept up with the changes, and I'm a bit confused as to how this category change would effect pages and facilitate page creation. Someone who is not very, or at all, familiar with the way Fanlore structures itself now is going to imagine a definition and use for category that might be miles away from reality. People are already doing that very thing in comments here, and at a bare minimum making the links to Category pages clickable might get people who have never paid attention to Category debates to go look at the pages as they are now.
The Fandom by Source Community question is likely to be meaningless to anyone but an experienced Fanlore editor who is savvy about how templates work. I wonder if approaching that question by pointing to the various infobox templates, which are the things an editor making a new page actually uses and also the things that affect page content, and then seeing how the categories fall out around needed templates might work better. Or to put it more simply, is a mashup infobox and a couple of single source infoboxes needed with specific content for East Asian sourced fandoms or do the existing ones work? A question I'm not qualified to answer, however.