[WikiEN-l] bizarre: Women Novelists Wikipedia

[Andrew Gray]

On 26 April 2013 05:19, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
> The thing is that if someone is in a subcategory they are then taken out
> of the category. So, if the subcategories are applied, nearly everyone
> should be removed from the higher category such as American novelist.
> Obviously this was not thought through well. If there is to be a female
> novelist category there must be a male novelist category. This will
> become more and more evident as time passes and situation equalizes.

This is normally the case, but there's an explicit exemption for
gender: at least in theory, single-gender categorisation (where we
have just "female" without a corresponding "male" category) should not
be "exclusive", and people should be categorised in both.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization/Ethnicity,_gender,_religion_and_sexuality#Gender

Removal from the main category should (again, an aspirational
"should") only occur when we are completely splitting it into gender
subcategories.

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- Andrew Gray
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