On 6/02/10 6:44 AM, Tei wrote:
> On 5 February 2010 20:17, Aryeh Gregor<[email protected]>  wrote:
>    
>> On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:57 AM, Daniel Kinzler<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>      
>>> Or,
>>> to put it differently: let people use "flat tagging", but let's keep the 
>>> notion
>>> of one tag implying another, i.e. math implying science and texas implying 
>>> america.
>>>        
>> And as for [[Category:People executed for heresy]] ->  [[Category:Joan
>> of Arc]] ->  [[English claims to the French throne]]?  That's only two
>> steps, and it already doesn't make sense.  You could argue that
>> [[Category:Joan of Arc]] really means [[Category:Stuff related to Joan
>> of Arc]] and shouldn't be in [[Category:People executed for heresy]],
>> but that sounds like it would take as much recategorization work as
>> just using atomic categories -- and much subtler.
>>      
>
> off-topic
>    

Not at all, it's entirely reasonable to discuss the problems associated 
with the current categorisation system, and what methods we'd like to 
use to improve it.

-- 
Andrew Garrett
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http://werdn.us


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