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This is the current list [[Special:categories]] returns. Most of them are bad names:
This is the current list [[Special:categories]] returns. A few of them are bad names:


   1. Cell Phones
   1. Cell Phones
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:Are these different?  Possibly, but maybe just a category [[wiki]] alone is enough
:Are these different?  Possibly, but maybe just a category [[wiki]] alone is enough
  Humor
:That's subjective.  To [[fund Consumerium]] for instance may have a humorous version from [[NTPOV]] and many "serious" versions, it's a bad idea to categorize whole pages based on some content that will be seen seriously by some and not by others.  Better to say "funny" since something can be both serious and funny, but what is "humor" is too easily dismissed;  "Humor" describes intent, while "funny" describes a page attribute - the latter is far more neutral.
  [[Bad page name]]
:A critical category.
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