[WikiEN-l] Category:<Subjective-pejorative>, weak consensus, and ! NPOV

Thu Jun 22 09:53:20 UTC 2006

G'day Steve,

> Of course when I start putting Category:Anti-Arab
> people on various pages, people should rightly revert
> me. Such a subjective categorization, as its based on
> mere political rhetoric, or actions, should be
> regarded as drastically POV.
> 
> [[Category:Anti-Semitic people]] on the other hand
> seems to get more leeway:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_June_13#Category:Anti-Semitic_people_to_Category:Anti-Semitism_.28people.29

<muchos snips />

Well, folks and folkettes, we always have a long wait for these things, 
but it looks like we've finally found another violation of WP:POINT. 
Unless there's some fantastic joke there that's gone zooming over my 
poor little head ...

For what it's worth, I do agree with you: [[Category:Anti-Semitic 
people]] a) does not appear to serve a useful purpose, b) is not exactly 
neutral, c) could well be described as a lawsuit waiting to happen, if 
applied improperly.  I don't see a good reason for keeping it on that 
TfD --- but that could be because most of the posters seemed to assume 
the default position that *of course* it should exist, and we're just 
talking about other stuff now because the keep/delete debate has already 
been settled, and that unanimously.

You could do with being a little less strident about it, though.  Your 
comment on that TfD wasn't going to change anyone's mind: it looks quite 
logical to someone who already agrees with you, but that's not as 
beneficial as you might think.

-- 
Mark Gallagher
"What?  I can't hear you, I've got a banana on my head!"
- Danger Mouse