Geni people can make good use of search tools. Categories should be used to
group people who significantly relate to each other such as by
nationality/occupation and not trivial material like hobbies/likes/dislikes.
The problem is we do not have a 'little' overcategorization but instead we
have a lot. CfD process is overwhelmed with the constant mass cfds.
We do not get a lot of excess stub templates/categories. One is not allowed
to create a stub template w/o a discussion in principle. Same principle
should be applied to categories. If something doesn't ever get acceptance,
fewer people would be upset.
Perhaps a wikiproject regulating categories might not be a bad idea.
- Cool Cat
On 2/11/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 2/11/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Cool Cat wrote:
>Based on this discussion I wrote an Essay, feel free to comment/expand
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_write_articles_using_categori…
The general principle of avoiding excessive categories is sound. The
art is in getting cleaning up the excesses without upsetting a lot of
people, and causing a lot of flame wars. Patience can be your friend.
Ec
But what is excessive? Since you have very little idea exactly what
groupings people will be looking for I would tend to argue that it is
worth risking a little over categorisation.
--
geni
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