On 8/10/06, Bill Clark wclarkxoom@gmail.com wrote:
One side argues that these two categories are inherently problematic, and that a list would be more appropriate because it allows for annotation of entires and referencing of sources.
The other side insists that a list is not acceptible and that a category is required, for reasons that don't seem particularly clear to me but which they feel strongly about.
There's a similar end result problem with a totally different cause at Commons. It's easy to tag images with a category. It's easier to link to a list. End result: half of the images for some topic are in a category with that name, half are on a list.
The easiest solution to me would be to use the text space of a category as the list. You would end up with every entry listed twice: once by some arbitrary sort order (eg, year), and once alphabetically. In the list part at the top, you can put your annotations. The category listing at the bottom basically serves to check that the list part is up to date and that there aren't any stray additions.
Steve