[WikiEN-l] Category destruction

[Delirium]

Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Bryan Derksen wrote:
>
>   
>> I expect the way this would be done according to existing common
>> practice on Wikipedia would be to create subcategories for those five
>> genera with lots of members, and then the remaining thousand species
>> that each belong to their own genera would remain under the root family
>> category. People don't generally create categories that will only ever
>> hold one or two articles, there's no point.
>>
>>     
> I'm sure we have many category specialists who are not easily deterred 
> by the pointlessness of their efforts. :-)
>   

True, but this does fortunately describe the most common practice.  
Usually a category will have sub-categories for anything "common enough 
to be worth it", and less common stuff will go in the parent category, 
as sort of a catch-all "other stuff that goes here".  For example, there 
are lots of people from Dresden, so we have a [[Category:People from 
Dresden]] subcategory of [[Category:People from Saxony]].  But people 
from small towns in Saxony just go in the main People from Saxony 
category; there's no [[Category:People from Zörbig]] subcategory with 
[[Johann Jakob Reiske]] as the sole member.

-Mark