Thread:User talk:Reckless Noise Symphony/Categories/reply (5)

You're basically saying that "scientist" is redundant if you have "physicist", as much as "religion" is redundant if you have "Christianity". The higher one in the hierarchy is automatically implied.

The problem, from a catting perspective, is that it's not necessarily always clear if a) an article belongs in the sub-cat or b) if we even have that sub-cat to use. Hence the occasional mess.

But also, there are the cats used for dpl reasons, which tend to be broader. But because of what's expressed above, that's caused people to generate more and more specific templates and I think their use is getting lost. The solution there is to generate a different, hidden, cat that does add "scientist" to a "physicist" and "religion" to a "Christianity" article. This would keep the category hierarchy system clean and the nav-template system clean. But it requires more cats and more work to keep an eye on.