Wikipedia talk:Categories for discussion/Log/2010 November 27

This category's supposed "benefits"
[originally posted at Category talk:Main page]

Rich Farmbrough wrote the following on the category's page:

"This is a category to hold the Main page. It has three benefits

1. All main space pages are supposed to have a category.

2. It will reduce the chance of the main page being tagged as uncategorised.

3. It lists those pages that transclude the main page."

1. That's a meaningless technicality. The main page isn't an article, and it deviates from our usual mainspace rules in numerous respects.

2. It's your responsibility (and that of anyone else performing such tasks) to monitor your edits and refrain from making such mistakes.

3. That's what this page is for. —David Levy 16:46, 28 November 2010 (UTC)