[WikiEN-l] what's the deal with categories?

[K Forstner]

Good question.  I would NOT delete any of the handmade lists for one simple
reason: They have slowly grown and have had many intelligent contributors,
whereas now people who are not necessarily experts in all the various fields
(how could they) are in a hurry (you tell me why) compiling lists of all
sorts.

A few hours I mildly protested against one of those categorizations. See
[[George Ritzer]], pigeonholed as a "writer".

KF


----- Original Message -----
From: "Viajero" <viajero at quilombo.nl>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 11:40 AM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] what's the deal with categories?


> Maybe I have been out of the loop but just what is the purpose of
Categories?
>
> Just now I noticed that someone went through a bunch of pages I was
watching and added the cateogry "Opera Composer" which seems entirely
logical for the relevant articles, except that we have already have a page
[[List of opera composers]]. Does this mean that this article is redundant?
My personal instinct, which may or may not be relevant here, is not to do
things in two different ways when one suffices. Will people continue to
update the handmade lists now that Categories pages are available in such
cases of redundancy as this? If not, they should be deleted, as outdated
lists are a help to nobody.
>
>
> V.
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