“ But, it's also evident from the editing history that the work is constantly revisited, cleaned up and reorganized.The impatient desire to plunge in and learn how everything is done generates a lot of questions, which after awhile become understandably irritating. Increased knowledge improves confidence, so I try on my own, and wait for the reaction. Unfortunately, you broke your own rules and deleted the categories without warning, when all I wanted is to alert and discuss issues in greater depth and use the category grouping I created, to locate the articles to change. ”
Quotes from Hesperian/Archive 6 ()
“ If you want a category for the industry then it ought to be "Textiles industry". The issue is how many articles you have to put in there. If you only have one or two, then it would be better to put them in a more general category until such time as the more general category is populated enough to warrant splitting.Re Category:Prehistoric art, I guess I have no objection to this, so long as you are going to populate it. Art is sufficiently broad and nebulous that one could argue that it should be thoroughly diffused to subcategories. Created, with some misgivings. ”
“ The category tree is supposed to grow with content; we don't create vast subtrees that will be unpopulated for years to come, and we don't create disconnected atoms in the hope that they might come together later.I still don't understand what it is you say you were trying to achieve with these fine-grained categories, but whatever it is, I think you have a misunderstanding of how the category system works, and have attempted to make it do something it was not designed to do. ”
