[WikiEN-l] Re: What is a category?

Wed Sep 1 21:56:59 UTC 2004

> So what would you suggest? We could stop categories from being able to
> show up in other categories - that would neatly abolish the hierarchy.
> OTOH, many articles would end up with a ridiculous number of cats at
> the top (currently kept in check by the rough rule that if it's in a
> subcat, you don't put it in the cat as well).

No, what I meant is allow any arbitrary categorization scheme - sets can,
after all, be inside other sets (or more than one set). A "related to"
scheme rather than "is a". See "Continued" below

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Chris Wood