[WikiEN-l] Subcategories

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Justin Cormack wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 15:46 +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
>> Obwikipedia: Subcategories really, really don't work. Why have we put
>> up with them for so long? I was trying to categorise [[Brownstone]].
>> First I chose [[Category:building materials]]. Then I realised there
>> was a subcat [[Category:Masonry]]. But why not go the whole hog,
>> [[Category:Stone]]? Because there you end up in a category with 3
>> other members, none of which were real building materials. I ended up
>> using both Masonry and Stone, violating the rule against using a cat
>> and its subcat together.
> 
> A bit of rearranging on the categories helps. I might look at this
> one later, but I am trying to fight off a proposal to have
> Category:German beer and breweries etc. Some people dont understand
> how to parent categories.
> 
> To do it well you need to look at the category system in a whole
> subject area. It requires a lot of editing to fix. But its worth
> it when its right.
> 

I don't supposed you've seen the wonders that can be achieved with
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~daniel/WikiSense/CategoryIntersect.php by any
chance?

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