Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20190311013206/@comment-166-20190316050734

Mrkermit,

That's a good question, but perhaps a better question is: "How is an encyclopedia read?"

I've always been a fan of categorizing everything to death. Hell, let's have a category for horses with blue eyes and white hair! I've had PhD students from Europe reach out to me to thank me for the ridiculous data our categorization allows them to scrape. I'm confident we've been cited in several academic papers at this point.

With that said, I've also been very weary about starting a big project and doing a terrible job of it. (i.e. The horses with blue eyes and white hair category would be incomplete and maintained by no one. Ever.)

Putting aside the value of such categorization, is there perhaps a discussion to be had about compromise and priority? Is this an area where effort is best spent? Is this a passion project?

I don't know the answers, I'm just asking (hopefully helpful) questions.