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 As with all infoboxes, trivial details should be avoided. An infobox for a real-life actor would not contain items such as ''favorite food'' and ''hobbies''; these details do not aid the reader in understanding the ''important'' characteristics of the subject. In the same way, infoboxes about fictional entities should avoid delving into minutiae, such as information only mentioned in supplementary backstory. For this reason, infoboxes meant for real-world entities should not be applied to their fictional counterparts, since, for example, information important to a description of a real-world company may be tangential to a fictional one. It is important to identify the revenue of [[Wikipedia:Microsoft|Microsoft]], whereas the fact that fictional MegaAcmeCorp makes 300 billion GalactiBucks in 2463 is probably unimportant.
-==Categories==
-A number of [[:Category:Fiction by topic|categories]] exist to sort works of fiction by their major themes and narrative elements which can help readers find related works. For example, works on ''Harry Potter'' should be categorized in [[:Category:Fictional characters who use magic|Fictional characters who use magic]]. However, editors should be careful to use an excessive number of categories, and should only use the categories that primarily cover the work, where it would be nearly impossible to concisely describe the work or topic of fiction without broadly mentioning the category. While [[:Category:Blood in fiction]] may readily apply to stories where blood is a major element such as works about vampires, the work should not be categorized into this category just based on the appearance of blood in the work. Overzealous sorting can diffuse the usefulness of these categories, as well as over-categorize certain works.
 == See also ==