[Wikipedia-l] Lists in categories

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

Angela wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
>> Has this combination of lists and categories been tried anywhere?
>> Has any language of Wikipedia decided on a policy for or against
>> such a combination?  What experience exists about advantages and
>> drawbacks?
> 
> People say lists are good because you can annotate them. What would be
> nice would be the ability to annotate categories. Instead of only
> being able to set the sort order, you could add some text to the
> article that appeared on the category page itself using, for example,
> [[category:people|Wikimedia board member|{{defaultsort}}]].
> 
> Angela

How is this different from fixing something that is not broken?

Wouldn't it be more useful to hammer home the (astonishing!)
concept that lists are not evil?

Yours;

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen