Talk:List of people from Newfoundland and Labrador

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Shouldn't this be a category? 23skidoo 05:06, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
I think so too. Neil Wu 01:06, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

There are at least 3 related categories: Category:People from Newfoundland, Category:People from Labrador, and Category:People from Newfoundland and Labrador. The first two are subcategories of the last. Most of the people on this list should eventually be moved to these categories.Vulcan's Forge 19:51, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

I think its useful to have lists that somewhat parallel categories, as long as the lists provide some material that supplement the category, and are well defined. i trimmed out language in this article that refers to categories. i am a stickler for articles being written without reference to their being an article. i call it not breaking the fourth wall. i was at first annoyed with lists like this, but many people get benefit from using articles not categories to navigate WP, so i got over that. but again, i really hope that all list makers try to state the parameters clearly, in language that belongs in an article. (ie no sentences like: if you want to add a new item, please research it, add references, and discuss with the project working on this subject. all such comments belong on the talk page, not article space.) Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:06, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

One thing that can be done with lists that can't be done with categories is that you can have red links to articles that don't exist yet. However, at one point, all red linked entries were systematically removed. That does several things:

1. new related articles won't automatically get linked back
2. new articles won't appear in the list unless someone notices that, at one time, they were in that list

--Big_iron (talk) 10:07, 30 October 2009 (UTC)