On 4/29/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Folks,
I am watching (rather smugly I admit ;-)) the slow dismantling and ultimate destruction of the Category concept in Wikipedia. What could be a wonderful research tool, has deteriorated into a useless game. May it rest in pieces.
Marc Riddell
on 4/30/07 5:30 PM, MacGyverMagic/Mgm at macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
Anything to back this up?
On 4/30/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
Purely an observation of its history.
Marc
on 4/30/07 5:41 PM, MacGyverMagic/Mgm at macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
To solve a problem you need to find the cause first.
I absolutely agree. To help us with this I have requested some professional help. I left a message on the Wikipedia Librarians Project Talk Page today. If anyone knows about categorizing its a librarian. I'm still waiting for a response.
#1 If anything is wrong with categories is that it's nearly impossible to trace when something is added or removed from a cat. #2 Anyone can make one, even the clueless.
Good points. We have to jump through the "Categories for Deletion" hoops to get rid of one, but no such thing for creating one. Sounds a little nuts to me :-)
Marc