Forum:Organizing Family categories

In working on clean-up methods for the bot, there is a need to discuss the "Family categories" and how they should be organized and applied. It's probably easiest to look at an example like Tom Riddle. Beyond "Riddle family", should the Tom Riddle article also have the "Gaunt family" category, the "Slytherin family", or even "Peverelle family" applied? Is, or should, the intent of the Family categories to track genealogy or just Surnames (so only Merope would be in both "Riddle family" and "Gaunt family")?

In terms of organization, should "Gaunt family" be under "Slytherin family" implying that all Gaunts are part of Slytherin? While this appears to be true from the examples we know of, at some point isn't it possible, or even likely, that the Gaunts were a separate family before marrying a Slytherin, hence the separate surname?

Another familiar example would be Albus Potter - should he have "Potter family", "Weasley family", "Prewett family", and "Peverelle family"?

All thoughts are appreciated - the category organization is in need of a lot of work so figuring out the intended uses now will help guide those efforts. Many thanks --Ironyak1 (talk) 16:26, April 26, 2017 (UTC)