User:Lquilter/WPdrafts/repeating

Why award winner categories are a bad idea
See Wikipedia:Overcategorization and talk page Archive 2  for extensive discussion of issues with award-winners. The problem with these categories is not that they are vague (they are usually quite discrete); it is that they are (1) usually not defining attributes (so not that helpful as a navigation aid from the article); (2) add to category clutter (because notable people often receive multiple awards; and adding every one to the list of categories on an article would render it unusable as a navigation aid); and (3) offer little or no navigational benefits from the category listing itself (the navigational benefits of the automatically-generated listing produced by creating a category for something are better served, in the case of award-recipients, by a manually produced list on the relevant article, which can include references, notes, sorting, etc.). -- ~


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 * See Overcategorization and talk page Archive 2 for extensive discussion of issues with award-winners. The problem with these categories is not that they are vague (they are usually quite discrete); it is that they are (1) usually not defining attributes (so not that helpful as a navigation aid from the article); (2) add to category clutter (because notable people often receive multiple awards; and adding every one to the list of categories on an article would render it unusable as a navigation aid); and (3) offer little or no navigational benefits from the category listing itself (the navigational benefits of the automatically-generated listing produced by creating a category for something are better served, in the case of award-recipients, by a manually produced list on the relevant article, which can include references, notes, sorting, etc.). --lquilter 16:32, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Aren't categories easier than lists to update?
Comment I don't understand the people saying that this should be made into a list. Aren't categories much easier to keep up to date than lists? Just my 2 cents. The Parsnip! 18:31, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * No. Lists can be sorted in ways that make it easier to visually tell if content has been deleted or added; they can be watchlisted so you can tell if content is deleted or added; their layout is visually easier to look at so you can see if content is deleted or added; they can fit all their contents onto one page instead of only 200 at most; deletions are MUCH easier to see on a "list" (article) with the change history; and lastly, in a category if you need to take something out of the category that was added it requires going to a separate article, and if you need to add something that was deleted then it requires going to search and THEN to a separate article -- both much harder to do than simple reverts or adds on an article/list. --lquilter 17:18, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

source: CFD 2007/10/1#Famous motorcyclists