Marc Riddell wrote: Marc, I can tell you that there is no mechanism in the software to implicitly include articles in categories, such as you seem to want. If you want an article in a category, you must specifically place the category tag on that article. Note, however, that many templates do include the necessary tag to place an article that uses that template into one or more category. On the other hand, if you mean "should" as a desired behavior, that's another discussion altogether. -Rich

On 2/16/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote: This discussion pretty well summarises a perennial problem with categories. There are two choices: Put the article in the broad category and its subcategory, or just in the subcategory. Problems with putting it in both categories: The broad category can get unmanageably large and impossible to navigate. Problems with putting in just the subcategory: There is no software support to retrieve the set of all articles in all subcats and the broad category. There is also no sufficiently tight definitino of "subcategory" to distinguish between true (taxonomic) subcategories and rough (thematic) subcategories. A lung cancer death is truly a cancer death. But someone born in Strasbourg is not truly someone born in France[1] (and there are much better examples than this). Steve [1] IIRC, Strasbourg has previously been part of Germany, so you can't assume that a Strasbourgeois was actually born in France.