[WikiEN-l] CATEGORIES!!!!!!

[Blu Aardvark]

When I was still editing (before the, ahem, unfortunate circumstances), 
I found this to be a good way to do things. If I tagged a new article 
with a generic {{stub}}, often the user who sorted the article into a 
deeper category also improved it dramatically, in ways that my editing 
style never allowed me to do. It simply called more human editors to the 
attention of the article, which is always beneficial so long as they do 
so in the spirit of collaboration and not in the spirit of combat (which 
is often the case),

Steve Bennett wrote:
> On 4/11/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
>   
>> My own pet peeve along these lines is articles with no categories other
>> than various subject-specific stub categories added by subject-specific
>> stub tags. Why go to the trouble of sorting and specifying the type of
>> stub it is and not add the actual categories at the same time? Seems
>> like such a trivial extra step, we could even have a bot doing the work.
>>     
>
> IMHO it is a mistake to criticise people for not doing work. We can
> criticise them when they do harm. But doing 10 minutes of work, and
> not the other 2 minutes...well, that's perfectly valid in the wiki
> world, imho.
>
> In any case, I frequently create stubs in areas I know nothing about,
> and simply don't know what the best categories are. So I might end up
> using something really generic like "Sports" or "People" or something
> and letting someone else refine it.
>
> Steve
>
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