2008/6/9 Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se>se>:
In a current discussion on the village pump of the
Swedish
Wikipedia it was suggested that the contents of list articles
could be placed in the category pages, thus combining the two
mechanisms. This strikes me as an obvious innovation, and I'm
surprised that I haven't observed this anywhere on the Wikipedias
I visit (and I had active accounts on 30 languages before SUL).
It's not a very bad idea, but i tend to agree with the policy of the
English Wikipedia on the matter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories%2C_lists%2C_and_navigatio…
Those pages basically say that both categories and lists have their
place in Wikipedia and explain why.
I can also add a couple of my own points to it:
1. A good list is a list which is well-maintained by an expert on the
subject - but that could be said about any article.
2. In the Hebrew Wikipedia there are no defined policies about lists
and their encyclopedicity* is decided by a notability discussion on a
case-per-case basis. Some category pages in he.wiki have a list of
links to articles that should be in the category, but weren't written
yet, as a form of a "todo list" and i've never seen anyone proposing
to delete such lists.
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* The word "encyclopedicity" doesn't appear in Merriam-Webster
Dictionary, but if you google it, you'll find it - guess on which
site...
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