[WikiEN-l] - category clutter on biographical articles

[Cool Cat]

Wikiprojects often do not know the categorization syntax we use, and some of
them are rather biased. We should let a group of unbiased people to take
care of categories. The point of categories is to be effective navigation
aids, nothing else.
   - Cool Cat

On 2/12/07, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/12/07, Cool Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I believe stub wikiproject is a great success and not a bunch of busy
> > bodies. If a similar categorization wikiproject started off, end results
> > would be only positive. The scope of the wikiproject should only include
> > non-administrative categories intended for items on the article
> namespace.
> > Geni how does that sound?
> >
>
> You said CFD is having a hard time coping. Given that only a small
> percentage of cats turn up at CFD I doubt there is any mechanism for
> coping with what would be a far higher workload.
>
> An alternative approach might be to dig out that old idea of giving
> wikiprojects more power and giving them the power of cat deletion in
> their respective areas.
>
> --
> geni
>
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