Steve Bennett wrote:
Do you have any examples? What would they look like? Perhaps:
{{thematic category|name of subject}}
I don't think we should make things unnecessarily complicated by making the templates take parameters, just use {{PAGENAME}}. If the category's name isn't suitable for use in the template describing it then I suspect it's an indication that the category's name might need changing. :)
How about "Members of this category should be specific examples of {{PAGENAME}}" and "Members of this category or its subcategories should be about the topic of {{PAGENAME}}"? I'm deliberately leaving the "or its subcategories" off of the is-a template, so that we can continue having things like [[Category:Seattle]] be a subcategory of [[Category:Cities in Washington]] (or whatever the real category names are) like we do now.