On 9/1/06, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/09/06, Akash Mehta draicone@gmail.com wrote:
"Out of the 78,977 categories, 12,252 are not assigned to any article" Is it that bad, or are these categories just assigned to user talk/wikipedia/etc. namespace pages and therefore not counted?
There's quite a few cats which serve only to group subcategories, and don't have any articles that belong in them.
[[Category:American people by occupation]], for example - all the articles belong in subcategories, and as these are pretty disparate categories there's no article really dealing with the subject of the main category.
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- Andrew Gray
Wait, isn't that encouraged? I had thought that most categories were supposed to categorize categories, and only the terminal categories were supposed to have articles in them - ex. [[Category:Free software]] should have only categories in it, not articles on software.
~maru