[WikiEN-l] - category clutter on biographical articles

[Steve Bennett]

On 2/11/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> 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.

Please demonstrate some harm caused by having "excessive" categories
on an article. Assume that all the categories are correctly used: the
article belongs to the category, and none of the categories are
mutually redundant.

Steve