[WikiEN-l] Re: Categories for images?

[Matthew Trump]

Well perhaps I did misunderstand. I work with databases for a living,
but I didn't pick up on that as corruption :) I think both solutions
could work. However, I'm not convinced that we would need to enforce
things like that. I think users are intelligent enough to make the
distinction, providing the convention is made clear enough. I think
both solutions could work. I tend to favor separate categories
because that would be my personal expectation.

Fennec Foxen said:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:07:52 -0400 (EDT), Matthew Trump
> <wikipedia at decumanus.com> wrote:
>> You misunderstood. [[Category:Image:XXXX]] not a separate database
>> namespace but can be done completely within the existing coding. It
>> is purely a convention
> Actually, perhaps you misunderstand (must be the database lingo,
> "denormalization" and all that :).  This is exactly what he's talking
> about in his post. I believe he wishes to say that if there are to be
> categories for images only, they should be *enforced* as categories
> for images only. Otherwise, you're eventually get people who "insert
> articles into image categories and vice-versa..."
>
> His solution is an image *section* in existing categories, rather
> than
> additional categories for images.
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