On 2/11/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@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_categorie...
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.