On 06/07/04 at 02:09 PM, "Matthew Trump" wikipedia@decumanus.com said:
I think the main thrust of categories right now is that perhaps they are becomng very quickly fine-grained (Fine grained categories are just more interesting perhaps).
Exactly, and worse, not well documented.
Ideally, it would have best to have only coarse-grained categories at first (using some kind of community process like Anthere described), creating finer-grained ones only later.
Yes, as has been proposed elsewhere, this should be the first task of the bespoke article validation commitees.
I realize that this is hindsight, but I think in the long run something like you propose would be very good and may eventually result in the fine-grained categories being replaced by more convenient coarse-grained ones. It would definitely make searching much more easy, if you could choose from "Ohio" and "museums" rather than having to search a much longer list for "museums of Ohio" or "Ohio museums" or "museums in Ohio" or "museums (Ohio)" etc.
Indeed, at the risk of sounding simplistic, what is the point of fine-grained categories? If you do a full-text search on "ohio museums OR galeries" or "boston bruins player" doesn't that serve the purpose? The number of hits is manageable; how many museums are there in Ohio or hockey players from Boston worth an article anyway?
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