[WikiEN-l] Another (rare) category type

Wed Jun 14 16:19:58 UTC 2006

Steve Bennett wrote:
> Came across this one:
> 
> [[Category:Football (soccer) terminology]]
> 
> The items in the category are not, as you might think, articles about
> soccer terms themselves. Rather, they are all concepts related to
> soccer, that have been put into this category for the (IMHO dubious)
> goal of producing an automatic "glossary" of soccer terms.

I've noticed some of these sorts of categories before, and in a vain
attempt to keep them in check I added a guideline to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Terminology that in theory would
prevent them from becoming like this. In practice, of course, sigh... :)

I did manage to get [[Category:Computer terminology]] deleted and its
contents merged into [[Category:Computing]] back then, though, perhaps a
good approach for the more egregious examples that remain.

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