Category talk:Australian women novelists

Contradiction.

Graham87.

The current instruction for this category ie:
{{non-diffusing subcategory|Australian novelists|novelists}}
directly contradicts the instruction in the parent category Category:Australian novelists ie:
{{catdiffuse}}

Male novelists has no diffusion instruction at all.

Given that male novelists and women novelists for Australia are completely diffused, accepting perhaps the couple we have just re/reverted, I suggest that the instruction for this category is wrong.

Surely you are not suggesting we now redundantly put 650 cats into Australian novelists? If we push up the women we also have to push up the men.

Aoziwe (talk) 06:49, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Perhaps we should not have male / female or men / women at all? Where do the trans and intermediate novelists go? Aoziwe (talk) 07:13, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

@Aoziwe: Aha, I didn't notice the instruction in Category:Australian novelists last night. There is no contradiction ... the keyword is "or" in this sentence: "It includes novelists that can also be found in the parent category, *or* in diffusing subcategories of the parent", the latter being the case here. The correct solution as I've just fully realised is to add general century categories (e.g. Category:21st-century Australian novelists) to the articles under issue. As for whether we should categorise women/men in this way, that's a debate for another venue. Graham87 07:40, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. I think we are all good then. Aoziwe (talk) 07:52, 12 May 2018 (UTC)