On 19 November 2010 00:54, Thomas Dukleth <kohalist@agogme.com> wrote:
But I still think it would be a good idea to specify that this Cataloguing-category is for Cataloguing RFCs... Any thoughts on that?
In MediaWiki categories need appropriate names to avoid semantic confusion and ensure that they are used in an appropriate way. If you intend for a category to be used only for RFCs related to cataloguing, give the category an appropriate name such as 'cataloguing RFCs'.
Category parent / child relationships will not save you from ambiguity and if merely using 'Cataloguing' as a category name for RFCs relating to cataloguing. In using such a general name you will have taken a perfectly good category name which most people will want to use for cataloguing generally. The actual structure of categories is flat allowing them to have multiple parent/child relationships to other categories which does not provide for some particular use unless identified in the name.
I agree. I think there should be a category called something like "Cataloguing RFCs", which has both "Cataloguing" and "RFCs" as parents. Regards, Magnus libriotech.no