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

Andrew Gray andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
Mon Aug 10 10:46:23 UTC 2009


2009/8/10 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk>:

> Almost all of those are *much* more specific categories - you wouldn't
> get a "Historians of the United States" or "American military writers"
> category in German, and you wouldn't get "Authors" or "Women" in
> English.

To follow up - all the interwikis off our example article use the
"English system" of subcategories (ie "American historians"). Does
anyone know of another case which uses the  "German system" of
category intersection (ie "Americans" and "Historians")?

-- 
- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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