Category talk:Authors

Use a SMW Concept for this?

Would be possible to replace this category by a concept? i.e. If someone has authored anything on the site, then they get assigned to this concept. It means tat someone who is an author but who hasn't authored anything on the site will be omitted from the category -- but then if they're an author of note, perhaps it's a good practice to have at least one thing they wrote, at leas in extract, on the site? The main advantage of such an idea would be maintenance; once it had been set up, it would populate itself with authors automatically. Robin (talk) 03:19, 17 December 2013 (GMT)

I'm quite happy to try it out but we should leave the category as is until the superiority of any alternative is proven. Thing is 'Authors' - ie a single word plural noun is just about the simplest possible form of category. If something else is better, then what does that say about ANY use of categories? I try not to lose sight of the fact that one of the simplest forms of semantic query is use a category as the primary selection criterion and to include various properties from the category pages in the results. The simple query on the JFK timeline is a good example. It selects every page in Category:JFK Timeline Event and display the properties 'Start', 'End' and 'Description' - see: JFK Timeline Events. The irony of that as an example is that the category is anything but a simple plural noun; semantically it is Category:Event with 2 x sub-categories 'JFK and 'Timeline', ALL of which COULD me replaced by properties and sub-properties - I'm Still waiting for my Eureka moment! --Peter P (talk) 08:30, 17 December 2013 (GMT)