The big run-up/clothes/Equality&Fairness/Prank/OtherWCharacters

[Debbie]

> Carolyn:

> So, what this boils down to is splitting 1.1.5 between either 
1.1.7.1 
> (Child abuse/mistreatment) - that's for the bullying stuff, or 
3.2.6 
> (Racism & bigotry) - for the discrimination stuff?

Yes, except that I'd put the bullying stuff in a separate subcategory 
(primarily because I've already reviewed those posts, but have been 
avoiding Child abuse like the plague).  When the forest has been 
properly thinned we can decide whether to merge them.  

I'm now finished with Equality and Fairness.  Not having heard any 
objections, I've done the following:

1.1.5 Equality and Fairness (was 115, will be 0)
I've moved the 10-15 posts that needed recoding, and the category 
(1.1.5.) can be eliminated.

1.1.5.1 Inequality, Bullying and Discrimination (was 216, now 77)
I've removed all of the discrimination posts, plus assorted 
repetition and irrelevancies.  A few were recoded to 3.2.6. (Class 
System, Racism and Bigotry) but most of the posts were already coded 
there.  This leaves 77 bullying posts.  As I mentioned above, I 
recommend that they be moved into their own subset under Parenting 
and Child Development, rather than being merged into Child 
abuse/Mistreatment for now.

> I have actually said several times that 3.2.6 poses some problems 
in 
> overlap, so I am glad to see this happen. However... should we now 
> move 3.2.6 up into metathemes, because it is such a major theme?
> 
> DOUG - Oy! I know you are working on sections 3.1. - 3.2.6, have 
you 
> got this far yet, what do you think?

I agree with moving 3.2.6 Class System, Racism and Bigotry to 
Metathemes.  It could be plonked right into the gap left by the 
elimination of Equality and Fairness.  However, I'd tweak the title 
slightly to say Class System, Bigotry and Prejudice.  

As it's the last subcategory under 3.2, and it contains 406 posts 
(including 9 posts I moved here from 1.1.5. and 1.1.5.1.), I'd be 
willing to bet that he hasn't gotten to it yet.

And now, I'll be tacking up my "out of office" message on the 
Catalogue Office door and checking out to prepare for the extended 
HBP holiday, which I shall kick off by eating dinner at my favorite 
Chinese restaurant, then picking up my copy at a nearby B&N and 
paying for it with a gift card I received back at Christmas.  More 
worrisome is whether I'll have time to read it over the weekend, as 
it's packed with obligatory activities, mostly kids' sporting events 
that had to be rescheduled due to rainouts.

When I return, I'll do either 1.1.7 (Parenting & child development) 
or the renumbered Class System etc. (assuming Doug has not done it). 
Your choice, captain!

Happy shopping, happy reading to all!

Debbie
who now must figure out how to respond to a request from Hans to post 
the Quidditch essay on his site -- anyone know the link to it?