K Forstner wrote:
I agree wholeheartedly with what Jakob says (although it seems many people don't like the idea of someone rejecting their new toy). Maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Writers , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Melbourne_trams or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Viennese_composers can serve as eye-openers: In each case, the "category" itself is rather pointless, and the entries are dubious. What is more, no one seems to be discussing this anywhere.
How old is the category feature? About a few months?
I wonder what Wikipedia looked like when it was merely a few months old. Imagine people back then had shaken their heads and gone, "This is totally rubbish! It's pointless, nothing will ever become of this. Let's stop this project right here."
It's amazing how people expect perfection from the start. Guys! This is a wiki! It's a work-in-progress, and guess what, thousands of people are actually working on it. Good wine takes time.
Also, this is the English mailing list, so we're talking about the English Wikipedia. This is NOT de. We don't consider stubs harmful. We don't consider redirects harmful. We don't arbitrarily reject obscure topics. We don't go on a rampage deleting stuff we don't like at first. We give it a chance to grow and prove itself! Why should we consider categories harmful when they haven't even been around for long enough to say anything about them?
Time will tell. Deletion won't.
Timwi