[WikiEN-l] Category destruction

[Marc Riddell]

> Bryan Derksen wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
on 5/3/07 9:16 PM, Ray Saintonge at saintonge at telus.net wrote:

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


:-)

Marc