[WikiEN-l] CATEGORIES!!!!!!

[Andrew Gray]

On 11/04/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
> on 4/9/07 7:45 PM, Steve Bennett at stevagewp at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Another major problem is that cases like yours ("accidental deaths")
> > aren't really categories at all, they're attributes. Harold Holt was a
> > former Australian prime minister. He *wasn't* an accidental death. He
> > *had* an accidental death. It's an interesting attribute, and perhaps
> > worth searching for, but somehow it would be nice to be able to
> > distinguish the real categories from the attributes.
>
> But is this distinction really necessary? If I am wanting to have a list of
> all persons who died as a result of an accident, inserting the Category
> "Accidental deaths" in this case would accomplish that.

Yes, but at the price of meaning you have to wade through potentially
hundreds of category entries on a major biographical article to find
the one you want.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk