[WikiEN-l] - category clutter on biographical articles

Cool Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com
Thu Feb 8 20:02:36 UTC 2007


Can you initiate a discussion? People will accuse me random garbage if I do
everything. :)

   - Cool Cat

On 2/8/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG <guy.chapman at spamcop.net> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:16:49 +0200, "Cool Cat"
> <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >So do you have a suggestion to tackle/quick attack the problem? CfD is a
> >slow and inefficient procedure to get rid of nonsense. Too many
> >panic/contradictory "Keep" votes just pile up in almost an instant.
>
> No way forward other than to gain consensus.  Without a solid body of
> the community behind the change you will be accused of robbing people
> of their Jewish / black / gay / unicyclist identity.  Quite how
> removing a cat from a Wikipedia article robs someone of their identity
> I don't know, but that is what is asserted.  First stop the Village
> Pump, I guess.
>
> Guy (JzG)
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