[WikiEN-l] - category clutter on biographical articles

[Cool Cat]

I guess I am taking things for granted too fast... Any recent US president
has way too many categories. They are merely the example symptoms of the
problem.

Getting rid of some of these excess categories is something hard to do. Of
course this isn't a battle, but people are often emotionally motivated on a
number of topics and they sometimes create categories for that end.
Especially if a person does not understands the spirit of NPOV, we end up
having categories with not very objective titles and a subjective inclusion
criteria.

An average cfd discussions get very little attention unless it is on a
controversial issue. In your average cfd on a potentially controversial
issue, people tend to vote based on their belief system and not based on
stuff like usefulness/objectivity/subjectivity of the  inclusion criteria of
the category in question. For example, although a word to avoid,
[[Category:Terrorists by nationality]] has been around for quite sometime.

   - Cool Cat

On 2/13/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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