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

Surreptitiousness surreptitious.wikipedian at googlemail.com
Mon Aug 10 14:41:56 UTC 2009


Carcharoth wrote:
> Tags and categories are different. Ideally, you would have both, or a
> clear of idea of what would be "primary" tags (what we call
> categories) and what are descriptive tags.
>   
I asked about flickr tags years ago, but never understood the replies I 
got, see:

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/021346.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/021348.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/021352.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/021374.html
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2006-January/021350.html

Sam Wantman and Rick Block came up with [[Wikipedia:Category 
intersection]], which might be of interest.



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