P: Ability to create folders in Face Detection

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LR represents the names assigned to faces as keywords, and you can organize those keywords hierarchically in the Keyword List panel.

Create a top-level keyword People.  Right-click People and do Edit Keyword Tag. Select the option Put New Person Keywords Inside This Keyword.  Now, whenever you assign a new name to a face rectangle in People view, the new keyword will be created underneath People, and later you can drag that new keyword into the right People subkeyword (see below).

Create subkeywords of People representing the “folders” you want, e.g. Family, Friends, Work colleagues, BTT Group, etc. 

Then drag the existing top level keywords into the appropriate subkeywords. Drag and drop with large lists is klutzy in LR, so a tip to make it easier: In the Filter Keywords box at the top of the Keyword List panel, type in one or more words, and the panel will display only those keywords that contain at least one of those words.  So if you want to drag the keyword John Ellis into Friends, enter “John Friends” in the Filter Keywords box.

I’ve got 445 People keywords, and this method works well for me.