On 11/04/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 4/9/07 7:45 PM, Steve Bennett at stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
Another major problem is that cases like yours ("accidental deaths") aren't really categories at all, they're attributes. Harold Holt was a former Australian prime minister. He *wasn't* an accidental death. He *had* an accidental death. It's an interesting attribute, and perhaps worth searching for, but somehow it would be nice to be able to distinguish the real categories from the attributes.
But is this distinction really necessary? If I am wanting to have a list of all persons who died as a result of an accident, inserting the Category "Accidental deaths" in this case would accomplish that.
Yes, but at the price of meaning you have to wade through potentially hundreds of category entries on a major biographical article to find the one you want.