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[edit] Adding people directly to this category

Why can't we add people to this category yet we can add them to category:Living people? NorthernThunder 18:12, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, a person is added here. But I think that it is a mistake as the comment on top of the page clearly states not to add people here. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 07:01, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for not answering my question. NorthernThunder 01:40, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

We add people to a category based on year of death, for example, Category:2006 deaths.--Lkjhgfdsa 13:56, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

We also add them to Category:Living people but not to Category:Dead people. NorthernThunder 06:02, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

If you still have an issue with this, take it up at WP:BIO talk or WP:CFD. You will meet resistance. There is a longstanding broad consensus that these categories serve radically different purposes. C:Dp exists as a "container" category for more specific categories that actually serve a reader purpose; C:Lp does not exist for such a purpose (instead the birth year categories, e.g. Category:1959 births, and its alternatives like Category:Year of birth missing are used). Rather, C:Lp has a different purpose, of identifying in one pile all of the articles subject to WP:BLP policy; Jimbo Wales has made this very, very clear in the deletion CfD of Category:Living people, which he personally overrode and explained why. There are those of us that question the usefulness of that "one giant category" approach, but we are in the minority. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 14:16, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

lord Alexander shakshaft the honrible of shaftbury. Date of birth 5 April 1993 born in bristol . he also plays golf at a golf club in bristol.