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, 16:09, April 8, 2017→STOP! Stop Balkanizing the categories!: This is apparently a hot topic; I just got an edit conflict!
:::::I would also like to add my apologies. Like Abcqwe, I saw the large category template so decided i could help by moving things but now i see that it wasn't the best idea. I shall refrain from recategorising pages.
:::::I would also like to add my apologies. Like Abcqwe, I saw the large category template so decided i could help by moving things but now i see that it wasn't the best idea. I shall refrain from recategorising pages.
:::::On a side note, would it be useful to briefly describe each sub category page on the sub category page or the main physics page? [[User:FredericBernard|FredericBernard]] ([[User talk:FredericBernard|talk]]) 11:55, 8 April 2017 (EDT)
:::::On a side note, would it be useful to briefly describe each sub category page on the sub category page or the main physics page? [[User:FredericBernard|FredericBernard]] ([[User talk:FredericBernard|talk]]) 11:55, 8 April 2017 (EDT)
First, I totally appreciate the hard work that Abcqwe and FredericBernard have done. I'm not denying that in the least, and I apologize if I sounded overly critical. Deciding on a category tree, and creating the categories, is not easy. (I myself don't know how to do it.) My only objection was in taking articles ''out'' of the top category, not in putting them into the lower categories.
A dictionary is an enormous book. But it's alphabetized, so you can find things rapidly. And if you just like to browse (perhaps you're a Scrabble player) you can do that too. If you have a dictionary of physics, it's all there, from acceleration to Z-boson. Scroll through the pages with their alphabetized sections, and look at whatever suits your fancy.
I think the "Large category" flag is appropriate for many topics, but is inappropriate for some things, like physics, chemistry, and mathematics. Some categories just list an unwieldy number of very similar things. So, a category of birds, or Civil War battles, very well might benefit from being split up. But the items in physics are very disparate. You might be able to figure out, from the battle of Antietam, that the battle of Bull Run is in there too. But you'd never guess, from [[angular momentum]], that [[Maxwell's equations]] is in there too, if you have to search blindly through all the other categories.
All these other categories are great. But please leave things in the main physics category if you think they ought to appear in an "Encyclopedeia of Physics".
[[User:SamHB|SamHB]] ([[User talk:SamHB|talk]]) 12:09, 8 April 2017 (EDT)