2006/8/24, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com:
You may think it's logical that being in a subcategory means that there some kind of connection with the main category, and I may think so, but others don't. And when they don't think that something is illogical, they don't think their own actions that lead to such a situation are undesirable.
All of this is caused by the fact that we don't state anywhere what "subcategory" means. It doesn't mean anything! Maybe even a convention of locally defining it, like "Subcategories of this category must ..." would be a start.
It wouldn't solve anything. The category "British rockbands" would have "Subcategories of this category should be British rockbands" and category "Beatles" would have "subcategories of this category should be closely related to the Beatles" - or in my example, countries would say ''Subcategories of this category should be countries" and Germany would say "Subcategories of this category should be categories with German topics"
It does. At least in the way I want to clean it up. That is, move stuff from too-small subcategories to the main category. You have to apply for deletion of the subcategory, get an objection to that, and nothing happens. That's pretty slow I say - 2 weeks to NOT get what you want.
Why on earth do you want to do this?
Because a category, to me, is a way to find related pages. And that is easiest with a certain size, say between 10 and 40 pages in the category. If there is a nice category with 15 subjects, I don't want to have to stroll through itself and all its 7 subcategories and sub-subcategories to find them all. And that's not an example that took me long to find.
I could go and do some categories, but at best it's a mere small improvement where elsewhere there's double as much worsening. More likely I will simply get reverted. If I'm unlucky I'm getting reverted AND branded a vandal.
If you're proposing going around deleting most categories without discussing it with anyone, then yes, you would probably be branded a vandal. :)
Well, that's one thing. Another would be putting [[Germany]] in [[Category:Countries]] and taking [[Category:Germany]] out of it.