[WikiEN-l] Another KIND of categories: (Was: Types of categories)

Wed Jun 7 18:50:33 UTC 2006

Well, the discussion about the "kind of categories" missed a very important
one:

Categories used to group wikipedians by poitical/religious beliefs
like
[[Category:Muslim Wikipedians]]
[[Category:Born-again Christian Wikipedians]]
[[Category:Flying Spaghetti Monsterist Wikipedians]]
[[Category:Roman Catholic Wikipedians]]

etc which are sometimes used to raise voting blocks.

The emphasis on "this user is/believes foo" is quite different from "this
user is interested in foo".

if I recall correctly, categories as the ones I mentiones above are not
welcome on wikipedia, but I may be wrong.

Can someone else please give me mroe feedback? Maybe previous discussions,
statements by jimbo or arbcom, etc...

Otherwise, I'm depopulating such categories (which over 95% of them are done
via userboxes) and removing them afterwards.