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Your recent edits to Crisis Pregnancy Center

I noticed that you recently replaced "category:abortion debate" with "category:pro-life movement", citing that this was a duplicate categorization (to have both). "Pro-life" definitely falls within "Abortion debate" hierarchically, but I don't think having both categories is redundant. People often surf articles based on category and the more applicable categories assigned to an article, the easier it is to find. While CPCs are clearly a tool of the Pro-life movement, they have become part of the larger debate and I think that the broader "abortion debate" category is appropriate.

Feel free to move this comment to the CPC talk page. I posted it here because I'm not sure if you are watching that page (Talk:Crisis Pregnancy Center is a bit stale and I sometimes receive no response to comments I have left there). Thanks. — DIEGO 00:11, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

I find linear categorization structures to be the most navigable. When a system is more open form, allowing for extensive cross-categorization, I find it can become circuitous, with categories and subcategories looping back on each other rather confusingly.

Cross-listing an article in two subcategories of the same parent category can also give a false impression of the overall number of articles that there are on a particular subject. If the categorization structure is "Category:Abortion -> Category:Abortion debate -> Category:Pro-life movement + Category:Pro-choice movement" then placing the article Crisis pregnancy center in both Category:Abortion debate and Category:Pro-life movement gives the impression that there are more Abortion debate-related articles than there actually exist. This is why I try to only list an article in two subcategories of Category:Abortion if two sufficiently different categories apply to the same topic (such as I'm Not Sorry.net in both Category:Abortion in media and Category:Pro-choice organizations in the United States).

I don't feel that there is sufficient difference between Category:Abortion debate and Category:Pro-life movement to warrant listing Crisis pregnancy center in both. Yes, crisis pregnancy centres are debated on all sides, but, then, so is the Genocide Awareness Project. Both CPCs and the GAP are exclusively aspects of the pro-life movement. It's not like the Societal attitudes towards abortion, Libertarian perspectives on abortion, or Ethical aspects of abortion, which are clearly more generalized in their coverage . -Severa (!!!) 14:36, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

Point taken. You have changed my mind. Although I don't think you'll have much luck with User:Photouploaded (stubborn). Thanks. — DIEGO 14:47, 18 October 2007 (UTC)