Community Wishlist/Wishes/Category tree should be an acyclic graph/en
Description
Currently, many categories contain themselves. See en:User:SDZeroBot/Category cycles for a full list (about 3000 cycles). per en:WP:Categorization#Category tree organization, the category tree should resemble a directed acyclic graph as far as possible.
Solution 1:
The best way to solve this problem would be to enforce that categories do not contain themselves. This could be opt-in for certain categories to reduce conflict. You could have a template or hidden category like "acyclic category" that when applied to a given category enforces that it's children will not contain it.
Solution 2:
At the very least, a method for detecting cycles should be present and ideally if a category is in a cycle it should show that to the user so that people can fix it.
(Note: I tried submitting this request before but it seems to have failed as I cannot find it anywhere)
Assigned focus area
Unassigned.
Type of wish
Feature request
Related projects
Wikipedia
Affected users
Category users
Other details
- Created: 20:18, 30 August 2024 (UTC)
- Last updated: 15:12, 3 September 2024 (UTC)
- Author: J2UDY7r00CRjH (talk)