Yes, I'm aware that this is the wiki process :). My point is that
it's a very labor intensive one that cannot be undone very easily,
unlike an edit rollback or a page move. My point is not that things
change, but rather the one similar to yours in that in the long run,
there should optimally be some kind of automated updating of
categories if an entire category is moved or redefined.
Timwi said:
Matthew Trump wrote:
In any case, this is resulting in many editors
going through many
articles repeated to change the categorization. My watchlist is
filled with long repeated edits in multiple waves.
I really don't see anything wrong with that. Some people just act a
bit
too quickly, and add articles to too broad categories. (I did that
too
at first.) But it gives people something to work with, and splitting
them up into smaller categories is less work than creating smaller
categories from scratch.
This is the Wiki process. Someone makes a sub-optimal contribution
and
others improve on it. Yes, sometimes it's a bit of work to clean up
after *really* sub-optimal contributions, but a good end-result will
eventually precipitate out. C'est la vie-kie.
Timwi
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