Thread:Mesektet/@comment-26499804-20170716004743/@comment-3581997-20170927223613

The X-Men Category I can explain, you see a lot, and I mean A LOT, of heroes were being qualified as X-Men, because they once were seen in an X-Men comic, or were known to hang around with X-Men. So instead it is now being set up for X-Men members, specifically members of the team to reduce spurious category abuse. The Marvel category is not going anywhere, and neither is the mutant one, Marvel is a franchise universe and mutant is a base concept. So it is likely those were just taken down by someone who was either mistaken about policy or just doing what people on the internet do, and trying to exert some minutiae level of power over a public site to feel good about themselves.

A basic rule is if you see a category taken off, and no-one bothered to even put a foot-note on it in the editing description (which you can check on the History section) you can just undo it. You can also use that handy History page to find out who removed the category and ask them directly. So go ahead, re-add them, you are not going against any official clean-up jobs. Just leave X-Men off as that one was phased out for the X-Men members category.