On 26 April 2013 05:19, Fred Bauder <fredb...@fairpoint.net> wrote: > The thing is that if someone is in a subcategory they are then taken out > of the category. So, if the subcategories are applied, nearly everyone > should be removed from the higher category such as American novelist. > Obviously this was not thought through well. If there is to be a female > novelist category there must be a male novelist category. This will > become more and more evident as time passes and situation equalizes.
This is normally the case, but there's an explicit exemption for gender: at least in theory, single-gender categorisation (where we have just "female" without a corresponding "male" category) should not be "exclusive", and people should be categorised in both. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization/Ethnicity,_gender,_religion_and_sexuality#Gender Removal from the main category should (again, an aspirational "should") only occur when we are completely splitting it into gender subcategories. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
