David Goodman wrote:
I think most people would agree that the category system is cumbersome, but it replaced to earlier systems of classification that were even worse. I'm a librarian, and Im going to answer on the page mentioned. In my opinion, summarizing, no commonly used existing universal classification scheme is suitable for WP, and developing a new one is an inordinate amount of work. Rewriting the database to adapt to one will be even harder. Perhaps the best approach is simply a better search engine. ~~~~
I think that I raised both the better search engine, and an organized category scheme back before categories were implemented. Neither happened, and the results have been predictable.
I don't think that such a thing as a perfect classification scheme exists, but we _can_ do better than we have now.
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