Talk:Humans

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I think this article is excellent and is very useful to the tinWiki website. I have one question though. Do you think that the "science" category is really sufficient for this? Maybe we should think about creating a new category, like "species" or something along those lines. I am not saying that this is what should be, but rather just offering some suggestions and sharing my thoughts that I have had since reading the article. Anyhow, an excellent addition to tinWiki. :) William One Sac 11:10, 6 April 2008 (CDT)

Thanks for the compliment, I really liked seeing that. :-) Yes, like I mentioned a while back, I'm thinking that some articles, like Earth and Humans, belong in tinWiki, not necessarily because they are about conspiracies or "alternative stuff", but because they provide information that is warranted since it explains contexts and so on for tinWiki's true area of focus and so on. I mean, Earth does relate to lots of space and UFO stuff, ETs, hollow Earth, and tons of other topics, same goes of course for ourselves, humans, and so given that tinWiki is of course an encyclopedia, it wouldn't make sense to sort of put on blinders as to what topics are possible to talk about, as long as it fits with tinWiki and the things tinWiki is meant to be an information source for. That sort of thing is, I guess, what I was thinking. Not sure how I came to think of making this page, but I checked first in "search" to see if there was a page about humans, and there wasn't, and so I agree it's good to have this page now. There is of course improvements that can be done to my quick first version, though.

I thought exactly the same type of thing you mention now about the category, so why I categorized it in Science is just that when taking a quick look in the categories list, that's the one that seemed to fit the best. I guess I only spent about three to five seconds on the category, but I did have the feeling it wasn't necessarily a very good category (I just wanted to sort of "finish" the article but putting it in some or other category, if you see.) Looking at the categories updates you made just now, I like very much that there's a Species category now, and also thought that if the Myths, Legends and Beasts category got a kind of continuation or development from that, namely more specific categories (like I tried to do when creating two new categories, UFO, and Extraterrestrial intelligent life forms, as more specific continuations of the more general Aliens and UFOs category), then maybe Beasts (or similarly named category) could be a sub-category under Species. I have also noticed, so to say, that in the (manual) Categories list, I have made some categories sub-categories under multiple main categories. Does that make sense? I don't think I really thought about it too much when I did it, but now when I think about it, I think maybe it is practical. Then Species could be listed maybe as both a main category, and a sub-category under whichever categories it seems to belong. Just a thought, though. How do you think about that way of listing/organizing the categories in the manual category list? Anyway, feel free to edit away, both my first version article text and categorization. Optimist 20:25, 6 April 2008 (CDT)

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I removed the Science categorization and added the categorization Myths, Legends and Beasts. What I am thinking is that, about humans, one of the most interesting topics (?) is the origins and so on, so creation myths is maybe one of the aspects of this topic that are especially (?) interesting inside the context of tinWiki. Something like is how I'm thinking, anyway.

Of course there are also other aspects of our species that aren't understood too well (yet?), but even if these could be said to be to do with the Science category, they probably belong at least as well in the Species category. Optimist 20:25, 28 April 2008 (CDT)