Timwi,
YES!!!!!! My cry wasn't in the wilderness after all. THANK YOU!!
Marc Riddell
From: Timwi timwi@gmx.net Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 17:43:34 +0000 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Hello
Ray Saintonge wrote:
"No use for it" and "no help to anyone" are still different questions. We need to distinguish between the content itself and how we organise it. Huge categories are subject to the law of diminishing returns. If a Google search gives you 1,000,000 hits it doesn't help anyone to go through them all, so you develop strategies to seriously trim the results.
You appear to be comparing Google search results with a Category page, which do not compare at all because Google search results are not organised and don't have subcategories.
The current situation is something like this: Category X has no articles and 20 sub-categories, all the articles that "are an X" are in one of those sub-categories.
The proposed change is: Category X contains all the articles that "are an X", while also containing the 20 sub-categories, listed prominently at the top of the page.
I don't think anyone can reasonably deny that this is strictly an improvement, no matter how little. Someone who *really wants* the entire list of X'es can now have it, and someone who doesn't can still browse the sub-categories as before. Nothing has been taken away.
Timwi
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