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Please seek an actual consensus before arbitrarily deciding to revise Wikipedia's existing categorization practices by yourself. If and when the "high resolution" system that you propose is actually implemented, it will actually be quite simple to have a bot go through and automatically revise everything to match the new categorization structure, instead of needing a wikiproject to do it manually — but in the meantime, as long as we still use the system that's in place right now, it's not helpful or useful to impose your proposed system before it's actually implemented (especially given that we don't yet have any guarantee that it ever actually will.)

And also, please be aware that Wikipedia applies Category:Men or Category:Women to very general articles about masculinity or femininity, not to individual men or women; if you think we should apply them to all men and all women, you're certainly welcome to propose that for discussion — but as things stand right now, they haven't been used that way to date, and that change would require applying them consistently to all biographical articles on Wikipedia, not just to a few of them.

You might find that if you really want Wikipedia's categorization system to move toward that model, it would be far more productive — and from what I can tell, you seem to have the skills — to actually work with the Wikipedia developers and programmers to design and implement the system, instead of trying to preemptively recategorize over three million articles by yourself.

Thanks. Bearcat (talk) 20:52, 9 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

Fair enough; I'd certainly be interested in seeing the proposal if and when it's ready for more widespread discussion. The system we have right now obviously isn't the only way a categorization system could be organized, nor is it necessarily the best way (I'm by no means an expert in systems design, so I couldn't really say one way or the other) — but for better or for worse, it is what it is, and any changes to it would need to be coordinated carefully to minimize any disruption or confusion that could result in the meantime. That's all I'm saying, really. Bearcat (talk) 21:18, 9 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

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