User:Milowent/Sandbox2

Milowent's answer to Wikipedia_talk:Categorization/Ethnicity,_gender,_religion_and_sexuality (Provided 2 May 2013)

Caveat: I spent two minutes looking at WP:EGRS which I've never read before, so my response is primarily based on what I actually do when writing articles. I've written a good number of biographies but simply look to similar articles when adding cats. And I know Ser Amantio di Nicolao or someone else will come by soon enough to add whatever they think I missed of value. I also spent 30 seconds looking the version of Winona LaDuke linked in the quiz.

Current categories:
 * Category:American economists - keep
 * Category:Female economists - don't care much since she is in American Economists, I guess, though I'd rather delete and also add to Category:Economists.
 * Category:American environmentalists - keep
 * Category:American non-fiction environmental writers - keep
 * Category:American non-fiction writers - keep
 * Category:American women novelists - delete, add to Category:American novelists
 * Category:Women writers from Minnesota - don't care since I've added her to Category:American novelists


 * Category:American social democrats - keep, i have no idea what this is.
 * Category:Minnesota Greens - keep
 * Category:Green Party of the United States vice-presidential nominees - keep
 * Category:Female United States vice-presidential candidates - uh, maybe? -- but definitely ADD to Category:United States vice-presidential candidates, which I can't believe doesn't have individual people listed, yet has a subcategory of 49 women, most of which (all but 2, I believe) would have been candidates of parties with no political power.
 * Category:United States vice-presidential candidates, 1996 - keep
 * Category:United States vice-presidential candidates, 2000 - keep
 * Category:Native American politicians - ok, but ADD to Category:American politicians, which I also see has no individuals.
 * Category:Native Americans' rights activists - keep
 * Category:Native American women activists - I guess, if she is an advocate for women's rights.
 * Category:Reproductive rights activists - keep
 * Category:Ecofeminists - delete, I don't care if its a real thing and I'm uninformed, its stupid.
 * Category:Native American novelists - ok since she is also in Category:American novelists
 * Category:Native American writers - keep
 * Category:Jewish American writers - holy fuck who invented this woman? ok since she is in Category:American non-fiction writers
 * Category:Jewish American politicians - ok since I've added her to Category:American politicians
 * Category:Antioch College alumni - keep
 * Category:Harvard University alumni - HARVARD SUCKS
 * Category:Ojibwe people - is this a race? I dunno, keep.
 * Category:American people of Russian-Jewish descent keep
 * Category:People from Ashland, Oregon - keep
 * Category:People from Los Angeles, California delete, add to Category:People from Los Angeles, only because PBP would be happy.
 * Category:1959 births - keep
 * Category:Living people - keep
 * Category:Green Party of the United States politicians - keep
 * Category:20th-century American novelists - keep
 * Lastly, I would in a dream world fix categories so you could simply pick the intersections you wanted. So if I wanted to take Category:Native American writers and only see the women in the category, I could subdivide at a second level like that.  And also for religion, orientation, etc.  So if I wanted to wanted every gay white female plunge for distance athlete from Zimbabwe born before 1890, I could.  I am sure there are 10,000 reasons the software doesn't currently do that.  But I am sure it will one day.--Milowent • hasspoken  03:24, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Lastly, I would in a dream world fix categories so you could simply pick the intersections you wanted. So if I wanted to take Category:Native American writers and only see the women in the category, I could subdivide at a second level like that.  And also for religion, orientation, etc.  So if I wanted to wanted every gay white female plunge for distance athlete from Zimbabwe born before 1890, I could.  I am sure there are 10,000 reasons the software doesn't currently do that.  But I am sure it will one day.--Milowent • hasspoken  03:24, 2 May 2013 (UTC)