[WikiEN-l] Types of categories

Sun Jun 4 22:55:51 UTC 2006

On 6/4/06, Roger Luethi <collector at hellgate.ch> wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 18:07:15 +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
> > That actually seems to fix the problem. I saw this with The Beatles
> > for example. John Lennon was in category "The Beatles" (thematic), and
> > that category was in "British rock bands" (taxonomic), leading to the
> > conclusion that Lennon was a British rock band.
>
> It's mostly scripts that get confused. I suspect most normal users won't be
> confused but find that convenient.
>
> Say I navigated down to "British rock bands" (taxonomic), discover The
> Beatles and would like to see what WP has got on them. With the proposed
> system, I need to open the article, scroll down to the bottom -- nope, if
> there is a category for them, the article can't be in it, so scroll back up
> several pages worth of navigation boxes, external links, and references to
> spot the "See also" section which hopefully contains a link to the category
> "The Beatles" if there is one.
>
> I'm not sure we can convince people that it's a win overall.
>
You could always put "See also: [[:Category:The Beatles]]" (I think
that's the syntax) in the  description for [[Category:British rock
bands]].