On 26 April 2013 05:19, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
The thing is that if someone is in a subcategory they
are then taken out
of the category. So, if the subcategories are applied, nearly everyone
should be removed from the higher category such as American novelist.
Obviously this was not thought through well. If there is to be a female
novelist category there must be a male novelist category. This will
become more and more evident as time passes and situation equalizes.
This is normally the case, but there's an explicit exemption for
gender: at least in theory, single-gender categorisation (where we
have just "female" without a corresponding "male" category) should
not
be "exclusive", and people should be categorised in both.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization/Ethnicity,_gender,_re…
Removal from the main category should (again, an aspirational
"should") only occur when we are completely splitting it into gender
subcategories.
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- Andrew Gray
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