Magnus Manske wrote:
Other lists ([[List of astronomical topics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronomical_topics]], as an example) can be restructured into the category system, while leaving unwritten topics.
Since those kinds of lists are essentially pre-category attempts to make categories, I think it's worth using them like we do "list of encyclopedia topics" - remove topics as they are categorized, provide a link to the category at the top of the list as a hint about where the rest of the list went. Seems like these lists could become a better per-area substitute for the requested articles page, since the lists of topics will tend to become a list of unwritten articles that somebody thinks are needed.
Stan