Charles Matthews wrote:
I have posted a couple of times here already about the harmful (as I see it) effect of talk assuming that categories are in some way now the de facto standard. That's quite wrong. I won't rehearse all the reasons again.
I've seen your arguments, but I don't see how they apply to this list. It's not organized in any particular way except a flat list of articles. That's exactly equivalent to a category, the only difference being a technical one of which end it's maintained on ("edit this page" on the list, or add/remove articles to the list from the article's side).
Other lists that have some organization I can see an argument for, but if it's just a list whose only distinctions are "it's on the list" or "it's not on the list", then category membership is equivalent.
-Mark