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Hi, Bomzhik. I noticed you've been adding month-year categories to articles (examples: [1], [2], [3], [4]). There are multiple problems with this idea. For one, I'm concerned that this kind of specificity will dilute the utility of categories for our readers, especially since you are setting these up as diffusing categories. For example, if I go to Category:1958 events to find an article about something that happened that year, I don't see an overview of all events that year; instead, I must either know in which month it happened, or click through each month in turn to find it.
Changing category structure this radically is not something you should do on your own. You need to get consensus from the community first. The best place to do that is probably at Wikipedia talk:Categorization. Please don't make any more changes like this until you've talked it over there. Thanks. — Gorthian ( talk) 17:33, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
- Gorthian, thank you for your friendly and easy explanation of the topic. I've just tried to fulfill already existing month-year categories . And I've done it as it is already done in French and Russian versions of Wikipedia. It is not the reason, I confess. And I'm not going to continue such categorization in future. Have a nice day!-- Bomzhik ( talk) 15:28, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
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Hello, Bomzhik, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few links to pages you might find helpful:
- Introduction and Getting started
- Contributing to Wikipedia
- The five pillars of Wikipedia
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You may also want to take the Wikipedia Adventure, an interactive tour that will help you learn the basics of editing Wikipedia. You can visit The Teahouse to ask questions or seek help.
Please remember to sign your messages on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date. If you need help, check out Wikipedia:Questions, ask me on my talk page, or to ask for help on your talk page, and a volunteer should respond shortly. Again, welcome! JarrahTree 04:09, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi, Bomzhik. I noticed you've been adding month-year categories to articles (examples: [1], [2], [3], [4]). There are multiple problems with this idea. For one, I'm concerned that this kind of specificity will dilute the utility of categories for our readers, especially since you are setting these up as diffusing categories. For example, if I go to Category:1958 events to find an article about something that happened that year, I don't see an overview of all events that year; instead, I must either know in which month it happened, or click through each month in turn to find it.
Changing category structure this radically is not something you should do on your own. You need to get consensus from the community first. The best place to do that is probably at Wikipedia talk:Categorization. Please don't make any more changes like this until you've talked it over there. Thanks. — Gorthian ( talk) 17:33, 3 August 2016 (UTC)
- Gorthian, thank you for your friendly and easy explanation of the topic. I've just tried to fulfill already existing month-year categories . And I've done it as it is already done in French and Russian versions of Wikipedia. It is not the reason, I confess. And I'm not going to continue such categorization in future. Have a nice day!-- Bomzhik ( talk) 15:28, 4 August 2016 (UTC)
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