2008/12/3 Daniel Schwen lists@schwen.de:
I'm sure this thread will die out soon. Half of the participants will again be soothed by the promise of some easy solution just barely beyond the horizon, while the half that realizes that said solution _cannot possibly work_ without a radical reform of the category system will again be too annoyed (I'm getting there already) to continue discussing.
If the machinery is in place to replace the present ridiculous sub-sub-sub-categories with something that *does their job just as well*, they'll die in quite reasonable order.
If the machinery can't completely replace them without editor pain, it'll fail. If it can, it won't and Commons will be ENORMOUSLY happy 'cos we can then go wild treating cats like tags!
- d.