User talk:Viewofthebridge

A belated welcome!
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Again, welcome! &mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 17:18, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

Parent categories
Thanks for your recent contributions. A word about categories This page explains that "each categorized page should be placed in all of the most specific categories to which it logically belongs. This means that if a page belongs to a subcategory of C (or a subcategory of a subcategory of C, and so on) then it is not normally placed directly into C". That is to say, if Sylvia Plath is put in the cat of 'American women poets', she should not also go in 'poets', 'American poets', or 'American writers', which are parent categories. The idea is that if you are looking via category, you go to the parent category first, say, 'Poets', then you see there 'poets by Nationality'. You can then see 'American poets' and finally 'American women poets'. That is why all the American female novelists were in the 'American female novelist' cat but not also listed under 'American novelists', which would be a duplication. It might seem not to matter, but some editors spend a vast amounts of time trying to sort all this out (not me, I might add). Getting it right saves time for all concerned. I hope that makes sense. Best wishes Span (talk) 19:59, 25 April 2013 (UTC)