[WikiEN-l] - category clutter on biographical articles

[Ray Saintonge]

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:

>On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:16:49 +0200, "Cool Cat" wrote:
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>>So do you have a suggestion to tackle/quick attack the problem? CfD is a
>>slow and inefficient procedure to get rid of nonsense. Too many
>>panic/contradictory "Keep" votes just pile up in almost an instant.
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>No way forward other than to gain consensus.  Without a solid body of
>the community behind the change you will be accused of robbing people
>of their Jewish / black / gay / unicyclist identity.  Quite how
>removing a cat from a Wikipedia article robs someone of their identity
>I don't know, but that is what is asserted.  First stop the Village
>Pump, I guess.
>
While it's easy to agree that there are a lot of useless and lame 
categories, it's also the case that campaigns to purge these categories 
do more to create friction than to solve problems.  With patience those 
with an identity crisis will eventually go away at which time the 
pointless categories can be removed without much fuss.

BTW, Methylated Wesletarian (who are dead) need to be distinguished from 
Ethylated Wesletarians, who are merely drunk.  This must be divided into 
two categories. :-)

Ec