Marc O'Morain wrote:
Also I would create a category Person. All people in Wikipedia would be part of this category. Also I would create Category:Men and Category:Women. These would be subcategories of Category:Person. All people in Wikipedia would be part of either Category:Men or Category:Women. If a user is looking for articles about people, they can simply search within Category:Person to find the information that they are looking for.
(A page cannot be a member of both Men and Women - For this sake of argument please ignore trans genders, transsexuals etc, this is just a blackboard example.)
Hermaphrodites excepted.
What happens when a wikipedia user edits the Liam Neeson page and adds Category:Women? Should wikipedia search what categories have been marked as disjoint (this is computationally expensive operation), and not add not allow the edit?
Also, with the category system we could save Categories as virtual Categories. For example, consider that a VCategory is a virtual category:
VCategory:Irish_Poets would simply be a re-direct to: Category:Irish (intersection) Category:Poets
What do other people think?
The biggest disadvantage that this proposal carries is that it is so logical.
I remember raising something of the sort before categories became a reality. It would certainly save us from developping a lot of one item categories.
Ec