On 18 July 2012 10:47, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The English Wikipedia categorises biographies by gender in some
> circumstances (eg athletes), but not systematically in the way that
> German does - there are no supercategories of "Men", "Women", etc,
> designed to list all members of those groups, and plenty of biography
> articles have no "gendered" categories. There are, of course, good
> reasons to avoid this, and conversely good reasons to do it... but I'm
> wondering why we do it this way.

Hmm, you really want to go there? What is ultimately verifiable has to
take account of [[Category:Sex chromosome aneuploidies]]. Not to speak
of other intrusions.

Charles

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