We do have different opinions on what the category system should be used for and thats the root of the problem. Wikipedia is based on consensus and there is no process for consensus aside from cfd. Unlike articles, the creation of categories should be based on a consensus not someones belief system.
Today, any random newbie can invent his/her categorization scheme. We are categorizing people by their appetite by nationality today ([[Category:Vegetarians by nationality]]). Someone not being tagged by a category as a vegetarian does not make them a carnivore. Or how about [[Category:Terrorists by nationality]]? I could list more problematic examples.
- Cool Cat
On 2/13/07, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
Cool Cat wrote:
We have a junk-load of categories which only increase in number. Not
doing
anything is obviously not working. Existing system is incapable of
handling
it.
Frankly, I don't see what's "not working" about the current approach. There are a heck of a lot of categories, some of them highly specific, but it remains to be proven to me how this is actually a _problem_.
It may be that we have different opinions on what the category system should be used for. But real-world usage has developed to the state it is today through a large-scale broad-based process of mass editing, and I suspect an attempt to forcibly wrench it into a different mold is likely to run into a lot of trouble as a result.
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