Talk:Index of Germany-related articles

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Discussion log from IRC, timestamps are MET

22:15 morwen_: JeLuF: Are you going to add all german districts to that article?  morwen: Shouldn't I? 22:18 secretlondon: why not? 22:18 morwen_: I dunno 22:18 morwen_: but we shouldn't import List of germans there, i would have thought  I thought you intended something like -              List of mathematical topics 22:18 secretlondon: indeed  so everything 22:18 secretlondon: or the albania one  else the Recent changes wouldn't work 22:19 morwen_: yeah 22:19 morwen_: but as an index, it wouldn't be much use if it was 99% german districts and -              villgaes, and 1% othe things  And it's not List of Germans, it's Chancelors and Presidents I just added. -              Important enough, no? 22:19  morwen_: I know 22:19 secretlondon: of course 22:20 morwen_: but if you add all districts, I don't see why you shouldn't add all Germans 22:20 morwen_: i just want to know what the policy is/will be 22:20 secretlondon: it should be as comprehensive as possible 22:20 morwen_: so it should be a superset of all Lists of german things? 22:20 morwen_: just linking to the lists isn't enough? 22:20 secretlondon: yes 22:20 morwen_: i see 22:21 secretlondon: but it doesn't all need doing now 22:21 morwen_: that's not how List of UK-related topics works  linking to the lists wouldn't make "Related changes" work 22:21 morwen_: i know that  secret: But I'm bored and need some stupid work to be done :-) 22:21 morwen_: i just was under the impression these were meant as an index for humans to use 22:22  morwen_: if they really are just for 'recent changes', i'm going to give up doing them 22:22  morwen_: and place the blank ones on vfd 22:22  morwen_: List_of_Philippine-related_topics agrees with me          but then, shouldn't this be part of the Germany article? 22:23  morwen_: as does List_of_South_Africa-related_topics 22:23  morwen_: but they have a categorised structure, which is more sensible if yuo are going to -               shove large amoutns of things in          OK, I'll stop and wait for a policy to evolve. 22:25 secretlondon: I think they should be the same as all the others 22:25  morwen_: right 22:25  morwen_: then the alphabetical thing needs to die 22:25 secretlondon: the blank ones are being filled in 22:25  morwen_: most of them have categories by subject

I think we agreed that an exhaustive list of places and people should be on the page, but perhaps in separate sections. Morwen 22:04, Dec 14, 2003 (UTC)