2008/12/4 Tim Landscheidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Add to that the maintenance costs because you would want to
> ensure that if someone who is not aware of the concept of
> atomic categories adds a [[Category:Manhattan]] to something
> he adds [[Category:New York]], [[Category:East Coast of the
> United States]], [[Category:United States]] and the other
> gigazillion umbrella categories as well so searches for a
> building in a country bordering a water body will still show
> results.


Which is why we have zillions of obsessive nerdy humans writing the
encyclopedia. Tags are fine, there's nothing wrong intrinsically with
hundreds of tags where appropriate and useful. I suppose presentation
in Monobook will be interesting ...


- d.

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