Chaos?
On 12/13/06, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
I am not suggesting that a "small committee" (your term) fix the problems of Wikipedia - just one small part of it. And, if flexibility leads to chaos then it does more harm than good - and is ultimately destructive.
Marc
From: "The Cunctator" cunctator@gmail.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:41:32 -0500 To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Categories (was: Hello)
On 12/13/06, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Steve,
It is clear to me from all of the dialogue, that the issue of
Categories and
their use in Wikipedia is not only controversial, but also pretty much unresolved and unfocused. And, what could be a powerful tool within Wikipedia has evolved into an unfocused mess. I believe it is going to
take
a small group of focused, objective persons, taking an equally focused, objective look at it, and formulate a set of firm guidelines for its
use
starting with, of course, its very purpose.
It didn't evolve into an unfocused mess -- it started as an unfocused mess. As did Wikipedia. We don't necessarily need a small committee of experts to "fix" the "problems" of Wikipedia.
One of the things that makes Wikipedia great is its flexibility.
I would like to take the discussion back to my original question: May I include both a main category and a subcategory in the same article? I
would
like to accomplish this without creating an edit war with another
editor who
thinks it¹s wrong.
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