2006/8/24, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com:
On 8/24/06, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
Waves -> Sound -> Music -> Music events -> Music competitions -> Eurovision Song Contest -> Eurovision host cities -> Rome -> History of Rome -> Ancient Rome -> Ancient Roman religion -> Ancient Roman Christianity -> Patristics -> Heresy -> Heretics -> People executed for heresy -> Jesus -> Doctrines and teachings of Jesus -> Nonviolence
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What a total mess. I had no idea it was this bad. Why is the category Jesus under "People executed for heresy"? The only subcategories I could think of for a category like that would be "Americans executed for heresy" or "People executed for heresy in the middle ages".
Well, that's your opinion, and mine, but I already have given up arguing that. It's just not doable.
The last time I argued against it on the Dutch Wikipedia (it was about Category:Upper Silezia being in Category:Provinces of Poland), there were three reactions: * Would anyone expect that they [=the pages in Category:Upper Silezia] would all be Polish provinces, because they are under "province in Poland"? I don't think so. * That's a fully normal category. (...) A principle that dozens of users have no problems with and apply automatically. Here and on other wikis. * Of course [to the person of the second reaction]
If you have an idea about how to improve it, I'd like to hear it. For now, on Wikipedia we are a tiny minority, so it doesn't matter if we're right or wrong, we won't be heard.