[WikiEN-l] Hello

[Marc Riddell]

It is beginning to dawn on me (perhaps the sun rises later here) that there
is/would be a great difference between categorizing biographical articles v.
non-biographical ones. The biographical would require much less complex
layers. Any thoughts on this?

Marc

> From: <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:17:05 +0000
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Hello
> 
> Puppy wrote
> 
>> It seems to me a good point
>> has been made - if you want all suicides, then having to traverse all
>> subcats is tedious, to say the least.
> 
> I have occasionally wanted this feature: flatten out all subcategories of
> something into a list. I hope we see it.
> 
> That does not mean that I want [[Category:Mathematics]] to consist of 15000
> pages. How would that help anyone? I have actually done work, on
> [[Category:Set theory]] (where I was thanked) and [[Category:Fluid dynamics]]
> (perhaps unnoticed) on getting useful subcategories; which then can sit inside
> two or more higher-level categories. This all adds to the convenience of the
> user. It is quite a good idea, in many cases, to consider splitting categories
> which have gone 'over the page'.
> 
> Charles
> 
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