[WikiEN-l] - category clutter on biographical articles

[Cool Cat]

I'd like to add that this is a developing problem.
   - Cool Cat

On 2/13/07, Cool Cat <wikipedia.kawaii.neko at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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 criteriaof 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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