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

[Pedro Sanchez]

On 4/12/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
> on 4/12/07 9:58 AM, Peter Jacobi at peter_jacobi at gmx.net wrote:
>
> > Can't resist the urge...
> >
> >> If John Doe died from Lung Cancer, I would like to have
> >> his name appear in the Subcategory List of "Lung cancer deaths".
> >> I would also like to see his name appear in the Main Category List
> >> of "Cancer deaths".
> >
> > And I would prefer to not have both categories. People (with
> > few exceptions) are not known for dying from cancer and in
> > 99% of all cases this fact is totally unrelated to the
> > reasons they are known for.
> >
> > This is not a categorization in the sense of a usefull
> > navigation aid, or for forming a systematic hierarchy
> > of articles. It is an exercise in knowledge representation
> > and I fear it will only stop, when every sentence in
> > every article is also represented by a category membership.
> >
> >
> > Regard,
> > Peter
>
> As along as we are being driven by urges :-):
>
> If I am a researcher, and would like to know which persons in the
> encyclopedia died from cancer, how would I proceed to learn this?
>
> Marc
>
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The category  "Lung Cancer deaths" would be a subscategory of "Cancer
deaths" so you may get it going to Cancer deaths category, seeing all
the cancer types and choosing.

There's a nice page on Commons explaining why overcategorization
(listing an entry on a category and its parent) is not the best idea:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Categories