Branching/Continuing from an earlier thread...
I think we are at, or near, the point where we should solve the "Business-Category" problem.
Here are some thoughts:
Thoughts anyone?
Thanks for your time and advice,
Yeah it [the Wiki] now has a somewhat more 'database' like structure. Problem is we have an elephant in the room - that business category is now HUGE. It's going to take a significant effort to get that under control....
I think we are at, or near, the point where we should solve the "Business-Category" problem.
Here are some thoughts:
- The problem so far is:
The Business-Category tree is too wide and too tall. It covers, or is parent to, too many other Categories.
At one time or another, it has been a "super-category" covering all categories regarding transportation, airports, utilities, as well as "general" businesses, like stores, restaurants, office-buildings, etc.
- A solution might be to prune the category-business tree; in other words, remove/separate some of the child-categories from the Business-category (while still applying Category-Business to specific articles appropriately).
- One idea is:
- that the Category-Business, NOT be the PARENT-CATEGORY of:
- aviation,
- education,
- ground-transportation (also the sub-categories motor freight and railroads),
- media,
- medical,
- sports events and organizations,
- recreation/attractions, and
- utilities
- that the Category-Business (or the appropriate "state-businesses" category), BE applied to ARTICLES containing information about "general-business" entities not excluded above, things like:
- Stores
- Restaurants
- Office-Buildings
- Malls
- that the Category-Business, NOT be the PARENT-CATEGORY of:
- I think that the Category-Business CANNOT be PARENT to the categories mentioned in the first list, because Category-Business CANNOT be applied uniformly to ALL articles that fit in the categories of the first list above. Some of the entities in those above categories are government agencies, not businesses.
- I think there could be good argument for applying the Category-Business directly to ARTICLES in the excluded categories, IF the entities represented are private, not governmental. This approach would allow Category-Business (or the appropriate "state-businesses" category) to be used on all businesses articles, but would not make Category-Business a SUPER-Category, as it is now.
- One idea is:
Thoughts anyone?
Thanks for your time and advice,