[WikiEN-l] Main & Sub Categories

[Thomas Dalton]

> I just entered the cause of death and Category: Lung cancer deaths to the
> Article on Illinois Representative Charles Arthur Hayes. His name now
> appears in that Category, but not in the Category: Cancer deaths. Shouldn't
> he appear in this Category also since cancer is what he died from? It seems
> the only way to accomplish this is to include both Categories in his
> Article. However, when I have done this in the past, in other similar
> situations, I have gotten a whole lot of grief. What gives?

The entire category will be in Cancer deaths as a sub category.
Including members of sub categories on the main category page would
make the whole system unworkable. We keep the size of categories to a
manageable size by taking members out and putting them in a sub
category.