On May 11, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Sometimes I wonder whether categories were ever a good idea to begin with. They were certainly implemented horribly.
Categorization of things and places work most of the time.
Categorization of people by their trade, their nationality, etc. work most of the time.
Categorization of people that add some kind of value judgement, do not work, are open to abuse, vilification and POV pushing.
I would argue that Categories and Lists in Wikipedia, are incubators of POV. I tried with other editors to make sense of lists at [[WP:LISTS]]. maybe we need something similar for Categorization of people.
-- Jossi