[WikiEN-l] Category destruction

[Ray Saintonge]

Bryan Derksen wrote:

>K P wrote:
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>>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.
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>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.
>
I'm sure we have many category specialists who are not easily deterred 
by the pointlessness of their efforts. :-)

Ec