You are missing the point and issue. Are you suggesting that we should
continue the way we are doing things right now? What is your standpoint, I
do not understand at all. If you have a better idea to deal with the problem
feel free to propose it, please do not ask us to continue the non-working
system as already demonstrated.
Not a bad argument at all. So if your idea breaks at a point we will end up
with hundreds of improperly tagged math related articles. We have over
1,500,000 articles so we better not screw up in mass categorizing them.
Cleaning up the mess is very tiresome.
Rulebooks and experts are not part of my or anyones proposal so far. In fact
I am not in any way proposing rules or guidelines. What I am proposing is a
discussion of any new categories.
- Cool Cat
On 2/13/07, charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>
wrote:
"Cool Cat" wrote
You should be seeking consensus. Waiting a day or
week to determine the
best
way to categorize will save you and everyone else
significant amount of
time. Are you 100% certain that the mathematics categories are the most
effective to navigate the articles?
Bad argument. I'm not 100% certain. I know enough about it, though, and
enough about Wikipedia in general, and enough about how to deal with issues
that may arise. Timidity in the face of a pile of grunt work to do has never
been the WP way.
Categorization should not be rushed. Approval is
not the case. See how
stub
template proposals are handled at
wikiproject:stubs
The fact that particular areas deserve close attention, to prevent
avoidable annoyance, is not a general argument. Evolving fine-tuned sets of
rules is sometimes a solution, but arguably sometimes part of the problem.
This type of discussion (why don't we micromanage everything with a rulebook
and experts?) constantly recurs in different forms.
Charles
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