Category talk:Biography

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This category is for articles about the genre of biography, but is regularly applied by many editors to any "biographical" article about an individual person. Articles about people need to be removed from this category. I've done some myself, but it's far too big a job for one person alone. Bearcat 00:58, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Is the purpose of this category: It is for articles about books which are themselves biographies? —EncMstr 16:23, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

No, that's Category:Biographies (books). This category is supposed to serve as a parent for things like that, Category:Biographical films, etc. It should only rarely be applied directly to articles on its own, and if and when it is, those should be very general topics like biography, autobiography or family history. People belong in the appropriate subcategories of the Category:People tree. Bearcat 16:31, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm guilty myself; how do you propose dealing with this problem? My own confusion had to do with there being a Biography Project, I think. Sparafucil 09:12, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

I've cleaned the category out with AWB, so at the moment there's nothing in here that shouldn't be. From here on out, though, there should probably be at least a few people who commit to monitoring the category once in a while to refile any new additions. Bearcat 09:40, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Can someone explain where I can find the articles in the category of a human? Thanks. Kaeso Dio (talk) 21:25, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean? Bearcat 17:36, 30 November 2007 (UTC)