[WikiEN-l] - category clutter on biographical articles

[Cool Cat]

If someone is really gay or is suspected of being gay...
If someone is a Christian...
If someone is a Methylated Wesletarian... (whatever that is ^_^' )

All that can be mentioned in the relevant article...

        - Cool Cat

On 2/8/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 20:39:09 +0200, "Cool Cat"
> <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >There are lots of useless categories out there. Peoples disabilities,
> sexual
> >orientation, their religion, as well as other trivial information is
> being
> >used to categorize. We have a lot of underpopulated and useless
> categories
> >out there
>
> I quite agree.  Pride is a fine thing, but I remain unconvinced that
> many people want a navigational aid to all the notable people who are
> or might have been gay / Jewish / Methylated Wesletarian / whatever;
> much more likely that they will go along thinking "I am gay / Jewish /
> Methylated Wesletarian / whatever, show me that lots of famous people
> were as well, to validate that".  I'm also convinced that a lot of
> this categorisation is used to pursue an agenda.
>
> Guy (JzG)
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>
>
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