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discuss the category tree; also mention HierarchyConsideredHarmful.

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 :or perhaps “Categories that should be empty” category? --[[User:EarthFurst|EarthFurst]] 19:15, 28 January 2008 (EST)
-:: Would a template be better than a category -- template <code><nowiki>{{category that should be empty}}</nowiki></code> ? --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 23:31, 4 December 2008 (EST)
+:: Would a template be better than a category -- template <code><nowiki>{{category that should be empty}}</nowiki></code> ? --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 23:32, 4 December 2008 (EST)
 == Main Topics? ==
 I am very confused by the topics part of [[Proposal:CategoryTree]]. The Proposal 6.13.06 Category Tree image has "Main Topic" with subtopics (referred to as "Topic"s). '''I'm wondering which topics qualify as "Main Topic"s''' and which topics are only "Topics" (aka subtopics). Is Sex a Main Topic or subtopic? Is Sexuality a Main Topic or subtopic? For comparison, I looked at '''part''' of a category tree at Wikipedia. Wikipedia's Category:LGBT is a subcat of Sexual orientation, Sexual orientation is a subcat of Sexual attraction, Sexual attraction is a subcat of Sexuality, Sexuality is a subcat of Sex. And wikipedia's Sex category is a subcategory of the Reproduction, Genetics and Reproductive system categories.
 Does LGBT qualify as a Main Topic? (There are various LGBT wikis) Or/and should Category:LGBT be a subcategory of Category:Sexuality? Should Category:Sex be empty with "Sex" wikis reclassified as "Sexuality" wikis? --[[User:EarthFurst|EarthFurst]] 15:54, 8 February 2008 (EST)
+: If I understand [[Proposal:CategoryTree]] correctly, any category directly referenced by a wiki is, by definition, a "Topic" (subtopic). Any category directly referenced only by other subcategories, not by any wiki, would be (by definition) a "Main topic". It has nothing to do with how "big" or "important" the topic is in the real world, only with whether or not some wiki is tagged with that category, or whether some other category is tagged with that category.
+: If occasionally some wiki article is erroneously tagged by a "too general" main topic tag, in those cases that article should be corrected to a "more specific" subtopic instead.
+: In particular, in the [[WikiIndex:How do categories work]] diagram, the proposed category tree would have the Arbor wiki tagged with "AnnArbor" category, but not the "Michigan" category or the "Places" category, since the "AnnArbor" category is already tagged as a subcategory of "Michigan", and "Michigan" is already tagged as a subcategory of "Places".
+: So the "AnnArbor" category is a "Topic" (because it is used to tag at least one wiki), but "Michigan" and "Places" are "Main Topic"s ... at least until some wiki messes up our neat hierarchy, such as [[Wikitravel]], a wiki designed to cover all places.
+: Because [http://www.communitywiki.org/en/HierarchyConsideredHarmful sometimes hierarchy is considered harmful], I worry that forcing everything into a tree like this may not work.
+: --[[User:DavidCary|DavidCary]] 23:32, 4 December 2008 (EST)
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