[WikiEN-l] If anyone ever says Wikipedia is too deletionist

[Charles Matthews]

Bryan Derksen wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>   
>> 2009/7/30 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:
>>
>>     
>>> <sob>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Animal_births_by_year
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Animal_deaths_by_year
>>> That is ridiculous category use.
>>>       
>> Hey, someone thought it was useful ...
>>     
>
> Once upon a time I went through a whole bunch of "famous animal"
> articles and added birth and death year categories. Someone followed
> along behind me and dutifully removed them all as I went. I guess this
> is how that particular dispute wound up being settled.
>   
So those categories need to be animated, rather than populated?

Charles