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Talk:BSicon/Categorization

‎Axpde's single-tree idea: ?
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::: You just said ''"and subcategories are readily listed at the top"'' - that's right, but supercats are at the very bottom and those on the "same" level won't appear anywhere. That's why the "See also" section at the very top is superior to multiple catgorisation! And as said before, you can even add comments to guide casual visitors through the categorisation ''tree'' (btw. ever thought about why it reads "categorisation tree" and ''not'' "categorisation net"??) [[User:Axpde|'''a'''×'''p'''_de]][[User Talk:Axpde|^Hello!]] 08:59, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

::: You just said ''"and subcategories are readily listed at the top"'' - that's right, but supercats are at the very bottom and those on the "same" level won't appear anywhere. That's why the "See also" section at the very top is superior to multiple catgorisation! And as said before, you can even add comments to guide casual visitors through the categorisation ''tree'' (btw. ever thought about why it reads "categorisation tree" and ''not'' "categorisation net"??) [[User:Axpde|'''a'''×'''p'''_de]][[User Talk:Axpde|^Hello!]] 08:59, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

::::Well, I would say it's an anachronism to call them "categorisation trees", since all Wikimedia projects actually employ networks... On the other hand, nothing forbids us to use several navigational mechanisms at the same time, just like navboxes are used concurrently with categories and with some other templates at the top of the page (incl. BStemplates). We can have proper categorisation network + see also + subpages notice at the top. [[User:YLSS|YLSS]] ([[User talk:YLSS|talk]]) 17:15, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

::::Well, I would say it's an anachronism to call them "categorisation trees", since all Wikimedia projects actually employ networks... On the other hand, nothing forbids us to use several navigational mechanisms at the same time, just like navboxes are used concurrently with categories and with some other templates at the top of the page (incl. BStemplates). We can have proper categorisation network + see also + subpages notice at the top. [[User:YLSS|YLSS]] ([[User talk:YLSS|talk]]) 17:15, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

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::::No, indeed, the more I think of it... Our current category naming scheme: e.g. "Icons for <...>/set <...>/parallel railways/stations and stops" offers precisely the tree structure Axpde is so fond of, ''and'' it is shown as breadcrumbs at the very top of the page. So nothing forbids us to back this up with another navigational strategy, i.e. categories as they are intended to be: representatives of all the properties of a file irrespective of some tentatively introduced order. Axpde, what do you think? [[User:YLSS|YLSS]] ([[User talk:YLSS|talk]]) 11:26, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

== Mixed sets ==

== Mixed sets ==

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