Daniel Mayer wrote:
I'm very weary of allowing just anybody to create any category since from a database management perspective it would be easy for people to create many different variants for the same intended category ([[category:biology]], [[category:life sciences]], [[category:life science]], [[category:living things]], [[category:the study of living things]] etc). And having too many categories will be very difficult for people to remember and very unwieldy for people to choose from in a category search. Let the lists stay for the obscure stuff.
Wow! Just like article titles. Maybe we should let only sysops name articles, then everyone else can fill in the information.
But, they might repeat information or organize it badly. Better to let sysops define the structure of the article, then everyone else can fill in the bodies of the paragraphs.
Having category aliases (just like redirects) and letting categories include other categories would make this "problem" moot.
I am very strongly against a category scheme that is limited or sysops-only. I *want* my obscure sub-categories.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)