On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 11:47:56PM -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote:
A third idea is to consider whether Category:stub
makes any sense at all.
It's probably a bad idea to conflate the *subject* of an article with
the *article* itself. World War II was a war; [[World War II]] is 57,382
characters long. World War II was not 57,382 characters long; [[World
War II]] is not a war (usually).
A category describes the subject, not the article. The only stuff that
should be in [[Category:stub]] is [[nubbin]] and [[stump]].
It would be useful to have metadata about the article; categories are a
bad way to implement that.
Is there any reason why should categories be limited to semantics ?
Coding metadata as categories works just as well.