2006/8/24, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.
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