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This is a mini-essay on a problem in MediaWikiland: category policy. It was initially discussed at wikiEN-l.
N.B. I'm aware of previous discussions at Wikipedia talk:Categorization. This essay is a more thorough and defensible treatment of the issue, and it highlights the fallacies of many previous arguments.
Update 4 Jun 2005: The rule proposed here, "categories are sets/graphs, not trees", is now enshrined in policy =).