report and suggestion

[quigonginger]

A bleary-eyed Ginger sits up at her desk.  It is an ungodly hour of a 
Monday morning, and she has been up late all weekend 
finishing "relationship with the Muggle World".  

It started as 554 posts, and now has been hacked to.... only 335.  
Really.  That's all I could hack out of it.  It is such a wide 
category that there was little repetition (oh, a few threads about 
how Muggleborns find Diagon Alley and why Muggles let the kids attend 
Hogwarts), but a lot of posts that really didn't belong there.

My suggestion:  I propose we rename the category "Garbage Scow for 
every blessed post ever written in which the word 'Muggle' appears".  

OK, I'm kidding.  It would be nice in the future if we drew a 
distinction, though.  For example: if a post talks about how a young 
wizard would go about getting a Muggle drivers' license, then it 
belongs there; if it only mentions that the age for Apparation is the 
same as the age at which British Muggles get their licenses, then it 
does not.

Now on to the serious suggestion.

In tackling this massive category, I divided the posts into 4 
categories:  Family (includes Muggle-born students and mixed 
marriages), Culture (indludes technology, dress, language, 
education...), History/Politics (includes government, but not the 
Political Comparisons, which is already a sub-category), and Other.
Other is a really wide category.

I propose that we make these sub-categories, in addition to the PC 
category (which I now have to re-review as there were many posts that 
I put there whilst weeding the main category).

If we did that, Other would just be the main heading.

The posts would stand as follows:
Main: 49
Family: 63
Culture: 121
History/Politics: 107
Political Comparisons: about 50 at this time, but still to be re-
reviewed.  Should only change by a few.

There are a handful (maybe a half dozen) that overlap between these 
sub-heads.

I have, of course, taken notes and could quickly (in a few hours) put 
them in their correct locations should we decide to go this route.

What say ye?

Ginger, off to dreamyland.

Politics: From the Greek "poly" meaning "many" and the English "tick" 
meaning "annoying bloodsucking creatures".