Category talk:MEpedia user interface explanation

Hierarchical category structure? -- Pyrrhus (talk) 21:37, October 21, 2019 (EDT)
Since this category, Category:Interface explanation, is already a subcategory of Category:MEpedia documentation, pages in this category probably do not need to also be in Category:MEpedia documentation as well. Therefore, I have removed pages in this category from the higher category of Category:MEpedia documentation, so that pages are only in Category:Interface explanation, not in both categories. But I realize that this raises a question about our use of categories:

Question: We have generally had a "free-form" approach to categories, where pages can be placed in any applicable category, without regard for the hierarchical structure of our category tree. Should we implement a practice of not putting a page in a category if it already exists in a subcategory? This practice would recognize the hierarchical structure of our category tree, and would make it easier to browse the category tree.

Example: For a concrete example, consider pages in the category Category:American clinicians, which is a subcategory of Category:Clinicians by country, which is itself a subcategory of Category:Clinicians. The category Category:American clinicians contains pages about American clinicians, but American clinician pages are also in the higher category of Category:Clinicians. Since the higher category is very large and hard to browse, should we remove American clinician pages from the higher category of Category:Clinicians, since people can easily navigate from Category:Clinicians to Category:American clinicians? (This would NOT affect any other categories that these pages may belong to.)

I am mainly thinking of how we might make it easier for users to browse the category hierarchy. This is especially important when someone is creating a new page and trying to figure out which categories the new page should be put in. Thoughts? Pyrrhus (talk) 21:37, October 21, 2019 (EDT)