[WikiEN-l] - category clutter on biographical articles

[geni]

On 2/11/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> Cool Cat wrote:
>
> >Based on this discussion I wrote an Essay, feel free to comment/expand
> >
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Do_not_write_articles_using_categories
> >
> >
> >
> The general principle of avoiding excessive categories is sound.  The
> art is in getting cleaning up the excesses without upsetting a lot of
> people, and causing a lot of flame wars.  Patience can be your friend.
>
> Ec

But what is excessive? Since you have very little idea exactly what
groupings people will be looking for I would tend to  argue that it is
worth risking a little over categorisation.


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geni