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*Note that this practice of single-inheritance only applies to categorie and subcategories. Individual articles may take categories from any point in the hierarchy, thus Tom Zarek could be People from Sagittaron, Quorum Delegates, etc.
*Note that this practice of single-inheritance only applies to categorie and subcategories. Individual articles may take categories from any point in the hierarchy, thus Tom Zarek could be People from Sagittaron, Quorum Delegates, etc.


Just some thoughts to get started. --[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] 13:41, 28 December 2005 (EST)
Just some thoughts to get started. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 13:41, 28 December 2005 (EST)


:Seems logical enough. Organizational matters such as the categories are not my strong suit, but matching existing content to a new structure like this would be. So, for Cylons (RDM), how would we'd break down matters? Would it be similar to the following?
:Seems logical enough. Organizational matters such as the categories are not my strong suit, but matching existing content to a new structure like this would be. So, for Cylons (RDM), how would we'd break down matters? Would it be similar to the following?
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:--[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 14:25, 28 December 2005 (EST)
:--[[User:Spencerian|Spencerian]] 14:25, 28 December 2005 (EST)


::Looks good to me, except "Cylon War" would probably be an article, not a category, filed under both Cylon History and Colonial History. Do you think that an article should belong to just its specific subcategory, or all the categories leading up from each terminal node? (ie. is Viper 7242 just in Category:Vipers, which is a child of Military Craft, which is a child of Colonial Craft, which is a child of Colonial Technology, or does it belong to all four?) I'd be in favor of the latter, so that the contents of each subcategory are a strict subset of its parent. --[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] 15:25, 28 December 2005 (EST)
::Looks good to me, except "Cylon War" would probably be an article, not a category, filed under both Cylon History and Colonial History. Do you think that an article should belong to just its specific subcategory, or all the categories leading up from each terminal node? (ie. is Viper 7242 just in Category:Vipers, which is a child of Military Craft, which is a child of Colonial Craft, which is a child of Colonial Technology, or does it belong to all four?) I'd be in favor of the latter, so that the contents of each subcategory are a strict subset of its parent. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 15:25, 28 December 2005 (EST)


:::Another issue is that strict single-inheritance might not be very useful. For example, "Colonial Technology" would want to be a subcategory of both Technology and The Colonials, allowing the user the freedom to browse by either heading. --[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] 19:22, 28 December 2005 (EST)
:::Another issue is that strict single-inheritance might not be very useful. For example, "Colonial Technology" would want to be a subcategory of both Technology and The Colonials, allowing the user the freedom to browse by either heading. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 19:22, 28 December 2005 (EST)


:I'd be curious to try to slice and dice the characters, categorizing them in such a way that you could browse by:
:I'd be curious to try to slice and dice the characters, categorizing them in such a way that you could browse by:
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::::*Category:Characters (RDM) (Colonial Military) (Galactica Personel) (NCOs)
::::*Category:Characters (RDM) (Colonial Military) (Galactica Personel) (NCOs)
::::*Category:Characters (RDM) (Colonial Military) (NCOs) (Galactica Personel)
::::*Category:Characters (RDM) (Colonial Military) (NCOs) (Galactica Personel)
::::But I don't need to explain what that's ridiculous. --[[User:April Arcus|April Arcus]] 21:54, 16 January 2006 (EST)
::::But I don't need to explain what that's ridiculous. --[[User:Peter Farago|Peter Farago]] 21:54, 16 January 2006 (EST)


:::: Whew, Peter. Yeah. I was thinking that Main Characters (RDM) and Recurring Characters (RDM) would be subsets of would go under Characters (RDM), but not be divided by anything else... So Kara would belong to Main Characters (RDM), Viper Pilots (RDM), Galactica Personell (RDM), Colonial Military Personell (RDM), Officers (RDM) and Characters (RDM). I don't think I missed any. Is that as rediculous as Peter's assertion? I wish there was a way to get the intersections of categories... *sish* --[[User:Day|Day]] 01:39, 17 January 2006 (EST)
:::: Whew, Peter. Yeah. I was thinking that Main Characters (RDM) and Recurring Characters (RDM) would be subsets of would go under Characters (RDM), but not be divided by anything else... So Kara would belong to Main Characters (RDM), Viper Pilots (RDM), Galactica Personell (RDM), Colonial Military Personell (RDM), Officers (RDM) and Characters (RDM). I don't think I missed any. Is that as rediculous as Peter's assertion? I wish there was a way to get the intersections of categories... *sish* --[[User:Day|Day]] 01:39, 17 January 2006 (EST)

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