[Wikipedia-l] Personal categories.

[Ray Saintonge]

bderksen wrote:

>>===== Original Message From Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> =====
>>In conjunction with this, I believe it was Larry who wanted some sort of
>>article subject classification.
>>
>...
>
>>Thus if we were to use the Library of Congress letter classifications
>>(which has the benefit of being usable without reinventing the wheel)
>>
>
>You might also want to throw in a few Wikipedia-specific classifications, such 
>as "disambiguation page" or "article list" (to handle all the year articles, 
>list-of-blanks articles, etc). These could be handy for future use by fancy 
>queries and such (eg, searching for disambiguation articles that don't link to 
>the [[disambiguation]] page or getting a more accurate count of "real" 
>articles).
>
I agree.  Conveniently for us, the LoC system does not use the letter 
"W" for any of its classifications.
Eclecticology