Evan Prodromou wrote in part:
I also think that we can use a bot to move [[list of X]] to [[X]], where X doesn't already exist, mark that article as a category ([[type=category]]), and add ([[category=X]]) to any links in a list on that page.
We don't want to do this!
[[List of presidents of the United States]] and [[President of the United States]] are quite different articles, but both are encyclopedic. (That is, neither was created just to help ''us'' write Wikipedia, in contrast to [[List of biology topics]].) We started the [[List of ...]] naming convention in part to help distinguish these articles naturally.
-- Toby