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