[WikiEN-l] Category destruction

[Bryan Derksen]

K P wrote:
> If you break down a family into genera, then you can wind up with something
> from one of the big families, where you have 5 genera with 100 members each
> and a couple of thousand genera or categories with only one member each,
> again, you haven't done anything useful.

I expect the way this would be done according to existing common
practice on Wikipedia would be to create subcategories for those five
genera with lots of members, and then the remaining thousand species
that each belong to their own genera would remain under the root family
category. People don't generally create categories that will only ever
hold one or two articles, there's no point.

That's assuming all of those species even get articles, of course.