[WikiEN-l] - category clutter on biographical articles

[Steve Bennett]

On 2/14/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
> On a serious note, though, I happen to use the Classic skin as my
> default and I don't have any problem with this at all. If this sort of
> thing _was_ sufficiently annoying to me I could put "#catlinks
> {display:none}" in my custom CSS like what I did to get rid of the stub
> templates, or just switch to one of the other skins that puts the
> catlinks at the bottom. Wikipedia's display format is highly
> configurable so I don't consider this to be a paprticularly strong
> example of "harm".

Yeah, there are certainly GUI issues, but the semantic markup is itself useful.

Perhaps we could make use of another way of tagging articles: with
templates. Or use some ingenuity to solve the problem by other means.

Steve