Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-26937472-20160323215130/@comment-34115-20160324073532

Has anyone tried pestering Wikia staff recently to get it fixed?

Categories and semantic attributes are just two different things. If we used categories we'd end up being forced to create over 2732 categories as practically a hack. And even that wouldn't cover all the types of lists you might want. That's not even taking into account any combinations of attributes you might want. That is only for categories listing basic things like loyalty to what village, who uses a jutsu, ninja gender/rank/etc, etc...

We would never have had the fancy infoboxes we have now if we'd have used categories.