On 2/13/07, Cool Cat wikipedia.kawaii.neko@gmail.com wrote:
The real people out there want reliable ways of navigating categories. A one week discussion propr to mass categorization is a necesary evil IMHO. I do not believe it is reasonable to suggest otherwise.
A week-long discussion is unnecessary for the obvious cases, and far too short for the complex ones. If people really think that a week is enough to hash out all the issues with a reasonably large and convoluted category tree, that may explain why so many things show up on CFD. In my experience, the only thing that can be done in a week is a reasonably straightforward mass renaming/renesting/etc. of a set of structurally equivalent categories (although even that is pushing it); actually figuring out, from a chaotic state, how to arrange a large category scheme generally takes several months.
Kirill