Magnus Manske wrote in part:
The Cunctator wrote:
>Magnus Manske wrote:
>>Which in no way hinders us to take one
(existing) list or the other
>>(e.g., [[List of biology topics]]), and run a bot (once) adding
>>"[[Category:Biology]]" on all pages listed there. The [[List of biology
>>topics]] will then be obsolete and can be redirected to
>>[[Category:Biology]].
>How does this deal with, say, [[list of sports]]
which is not just a
>alphabetical list?
I am aware that not all the "list of" things
can be dumped into a bot
like that. I looked at [[list of sports]], and several of the "groups"
already have their own article (e.g., [[gymnastics]]). So, what I'd do
is, mark *all* the articles on [[list of sports]] as [[Category:sport]],
and then some also as [[Category:Extreme sports]] etc., with
[[Category:Extreme sports]] marked as [[Category:sport]].
And you would ''not'' redirect [[List of sports]] at all, right?
That's a fine article for an encyclopedia as it is,
and not quite the same thing as [[List of sport topics]].
[[Category:Sport]] should more closely resemble [[List of sport topics]]
(which has additional entries such as [[Sport medicine]]).
Granted, [[List of sport topics]] doesn't actually exist currently,
but it might have done; and if so, it would be different.
In fact, we might ''start'' running a bot, set to create redirects,
on pages of the form [[List of ... topics]] (with human confirmation).
Then we can set up a bot for other [[List of ...]] articles
that does ''not'' create redirects -- but this one will require
a great deal more help from the human operator.
-- Toby