on 4/12/07 9:58 AM, Peter Jacobi at
peter_jacobi(a)gmx.net wrote:
Can't resist the urge...
If John Doe died from Lung Cancer, I would like
to have
his name appear in the Subcategory List of "Lung cancer deaths".
I would also like to see his name appear in the Main Category List
of "Cancer deaths".
And I would prefer to not have both categories. People (with
few exceptions) are not known for dying from cancer and in
99% of all cases this fact is totally unrelated to the
reasons they are known for.
This is not a categorization in the sense of a usefull
navigation aid, or for forming a systematic hierarchy
of articles. It is an exercise in knowledge representation
and I fear it will only stop, when every sentence in
every article is also represented by a category membership.
Regard,
Peter
As along as we are being driven by urges :-):
If I am a researcher, and would like to know which persons in the
encyclopedia died from cancer, how would I proceed to learn this?
Marc
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The category "Lung Cancer deaths" would be a subscategory of "Cancer
deaths" so you may get it going to Cancer deaths category, seeing all
the cancer types and choosing.
There's a nice page on Commons explaining why overcategorization
(listing an entry on a category and its parent) is not the best idea: