Marc Riddell wrote:
Getting back to the basic argument & to stay grounded in this, what is the argument some still have against, say, adding the Category: Cancer deaths & the Sub-category: Lung cancer into the same Article? OR, somehow having the software be able to gather all of the articles with the various cancer subcats. into one master Cancer deaths list?
This is a prime example of something I keep observing on Wikipedia. There are loads of arguments to change something, and very few (if any!) arguments to keep the current behaviour, and yet people still leave the current behaviour simply because they are afraid of changing it. Even if someone goes in and changes it, someone will change it back, simply because "this is how we've always done it". This is the irrationality of humans at work, and it's the main thing that discourages me from doing anything big on Wikipedia as I used to in the past.
Timwi