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How are Wikipedia subcategories meant, semantically?

Open Data Asked by cheesus on January 1, 2021

Let’s have a look at the category

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_politicians

Theresa May is not in it. So let’s see:

So those categories seem to be inclusive: the items of a subcategory are thought to be in the parent category as well.

However, then we have the following problem:

Uh, so this means that the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election is a British politician too?

So there seem to be two kinds of "subcategory relations":

  • this category is a subcategory, all its items belong to the parent category (Theresa May –> British politician)
  • this category is just related to that parent category (2019 election –> Theresa May)

Is that just messy, or am I missing something to distinguish between the two types?

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