"TC" == The Cunctator cunctator@kband.com writes:
TC> If we accept this principle, we should replace all of the TC> [[list of ]] entries with [[Category:]] entries.
TC> I'm not quite entirely convinced that the healthiest thing to TC> do is to separate category/list pages from the main namespace, TC> but it's not a bizarre concept.
I'm pretty much not terribly happy with the idea.
I think the category-member relationship is a whole nother kettle of fish from the issue of namespaces.
I think that getting into pseudo-namespaces ("Category:" is not a namespace -- it's just a prefix) is probably not in our best long-term interest.
I think that "Wikipedia:Help" or "Wikipedia:About" could and should be categories.
I think that we should use field-value pairs for categorization and for tagging categories:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorization_with_field-value_pairs
I also think that we can use a bot to move [[list of X]] to [[X]], where X doesn't already exist, mark that article as a category ([[type=category]]), and add ([[category=X]]) to any links in a list on that page.
~ESP
Evan Prodromou wrote in part:
I also think that we can use a bot to move [[list of X]] to [[X]], where X doesn't already exist, mark that article as a category ([[type=category]]), and add ([[category=X]]) to any links in a list on that page.
We don't want to do this!
[[List of presidents of the United States]] and [[President of the United States]] are quite different articles, but both are encyclopedic. (That is, neither was created just to help ''us'' write Wikipedia, in contrast to [[List of biology topics]].) We started the [[List of ...]] naming convention in part to help distinguish these articles naturally.
-- Toby
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