On 26 April 2013 05:19, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
Obviously we need to quit arguing and change it. Either a man or a woman
mystery writer would be in both a gender category and a genre category,
if we are to have gender categories.
The German Wikipedia does these things
On 26 April 2013 05:19, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
The thing is that if someone is in a subcategory they are then taken out
of the category. So, if the subcategories are applied, nearly everyone
should be removed from the higher category such as American novelist.
Obviously this
Do not create separate categories for male and female occupants of the
same position, such as Male Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom vs.
Female Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom. would seem to cover not
creating such categories as women mystery writers.
Fred
On 26 April 2013 05:19, Fred
On 4/26/13, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
On 26 April 2013 05:19, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
The thing is that if someone is in a subcategory they are then taken out
of the category. So, if the subcategories are applied, nearly everyone
should be removed from the
On 26 April 2013 12:15, Carcharoth carcharot...@googlemail.com wrote:
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Category_intersection
That's an old proposal, but is it becoming more feasible now?
As I vaguely recall, the main barrier to treating categories as tags
in the past was that
If only there were some kind of editable data store project being worked on
that could store this kind of metadata in a centralised location… grin
--
Tom Morris
http://tommorris.org/
On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 13:07, David Gerard wrote:
On 26 April 2013 12:15, Carcharoth
On 26 April 2013 15:24, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org wrote:
If only there were some kind of editable data store project being worked
on that could store this kind of metadata in a centralised location… grin
Quite a good if cryptic comment about Wikidata. I suppose it is encouraging
to think
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
On 26 April 2013 05:19, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
The thing is that if someone is in a subcategory they are then taken out
of the category. So, if the subcategories are applied, nearly everyone
should