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:You're right, 'Tree' is not strictly accurate. A category can be a sub category of more than one parent category. For example the '[[:Category:Torture|torture category]] is currently a sub category of 'Miscellany', 'War on Terror' and 'Abuse of power', which is itself a sub category of Miscellany !! - Everything works OK but that's what I mean by the category tree being in a mess - It's just grown like Noddy. Not easy to be too disciplined when you're authoring away like mad and faced with selecting an appropriate category :-)). --[[User:Peter|Peter P]] 07:29, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

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Does this have to be a 'tree' - strictly speaking. i.e. Does anything break if a category is a sub-category of more than one other category?

Robin 23:16, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

You're right, 'Tree' is not strictly accurate. A category can be a sub category of more than one parent category. For example the 'torture category is currently a sub category of 'Miscellany', 'War on Terror' and 'Abuse of power', which is itself a sub category of Miscellany !! - Everything works OK but that's what I mean by the category tree being in a mess - It's just grown like Noddy. Not easy to be too disciplined when you're authoring away like mad and faced with selecting an appropriate category :-)). --Peter P 07:29, 21 March 2012 (UTC)