Category talk:Main topic classifications

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Contents 1 This category 2 Where is Law? 3 machine gun additions 3.1 Main topics category

[edit] This category

Why does this category belong to category:Wikipedia categorization and not category:categories? --Hillgentleman 05:46, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

My mistake, it's back. :) --Quiddity 08:06, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Where is Law?

--Mrg3105 03:41, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Listed under "Culture→Social institutions→Law". —Quiddity 04:59, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] machine gun additions

Someone has just been adding a raft of categories here, edits every 8 seconds, no edit summaries. I've reverted a few, but most look wrong to me. See for just now. I've asked him to stop. Johnbod 04:13, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I understand your legitimate concerns, and I appreciate your input and feedback. i would like to copy and paste our discussion below, which we originally had at my talk page. anyway, I'm more or less finished for now, and I am willing to defer to your understandable concerns, and to give others a chance to weigh in, and provide input if they wish. Appreciate your comments and input. thanks. --Steve, Sm8900 04:20, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Main topics category

Please stop adding things indiscriminately to this category. You should not add anything without considering whether the category structure in that field leads up to that category, which you are plainly not doing. In the cases that came up on my watchlist they certainly did not. In addition you are not using an edit summary, even though each edit is the same so you could easily copy it. Johnbod 04:03, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I understand your concerns. i appreciate your input. I will try to follow your suggestion. In response to your concerns, I think we need to ask what is the function of this category. Is it strictly hierarchical? I think we already have Category:Fundamental for that. So i think the point of this category was to include a variety of major categories which are topics in their own right, and which seem to stand on their own, regardless of where they appear in the hierarchy. For example, due to our hierarchical categories, "medicine" might appear in several places at once. yet no one would deny that it is an entire field in its own right, which some readers might frquently be looking for. similarly for painting, etc. how about sculpture, biology, etc?

one main point of a "main topics" category, it seems to me is to make thing easier for newcomers; since, obviously a topic with a vague title like "main topics" is not itself defined clearly with any specific topic, and is obviously open to some interpretation. the title itself does not imply any intrinsic category whatsoever. So i tried to make some edits which i felt were in keeping with the basic idea here. Obviously, all my edits are subject to change, and the very nature of my effort means it will be seen almost immediately by a wide variety of people. So whatever you may think of my efforts and work, whether you agree or disagree, I hope you can at least try to respect the good-faith nature of my efforts, and my willingness to do it in the open (as I myself frequently try to respect in others, when I find myself in disagreement sometime here and there). thanks again for your useful input and feedback. --Steve, Sm8900 04:12, 2 December 2007 (UTC)