[WikiEN-l] - category clutter on biographical articles

Michael Snow wikipedia at earthlink.net
Wed Feb 14 05:23:20 UTC 2007


Steve Bennett wrote:

> On 2/14/07, charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
> <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, categories should be verifiable. If not verifiable, the 
>> category itself is at fault, I think. [[Category:Guitarists 
>> influenced by Jimi Hendrix]] we can do without.
>
> Influences can be verifiable. See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_%28band%29#Influence_on_other_musicians 
>

Perhaps he meant the problem was that you'd arguably have to include 
every rock guitarist since 1969 in the category.

--Michael Snow



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