Not Placed In World Sims, are they townies or npcs or npownies?

I made a ton of families too for that bin and for a long time I did not see them. I use mods in my game to keep the random townie generator toned down (It is called reduced townie generating from modthesims). I see my townies now a lot more. I also go and delete those generated townies unless I know they are a NPC.

I wish Maxis would let us turn this off for non-npc townies. I really do not want some old fat man in a hotdog hat thank you very much!!!