This question is related to another question I posted a few minutes ago but from a different angle:
The Category: Categories categorisation (head spinning) includes these "Top Level Categories of specific interest to me, DNA and Projects. Here's the structure I see:
DNA - This makes sense. This contains 8 Subcategories and 26 Profiles. Most of the Profiles seem to be templates or instructional. That's good. Of the Subcategories, the following interest me
- DNA Project - this contains one subcategory and a list of profiles and pages. Most appear to be living people I presume to be people doing DNA work? Or are they organizers of the category? It also contains one "Name Study" and one rather narrow page about two Stiles families. What is the point of this category?
- DNA Projects - This contains 93 subcategories and many hundreds of "Profiles" in DNA Projects. Most are labeled Name Studies. Why are some name studies "Subcategories" and most are not? What's the difference?
- Y-DNA Haplogroups - This contains 10 Subcategories. Seven of them begin a list of top level Haplogroups (A, C, E, F, G, IJK, O but not all of them. "Famous YDNA haplotypes" seems like it should be a page not a Subcategory. "Major YDNA Haplogroups" seems to start a Haplogroup hierarchy that is very limited and probably a hopeless cause better linked to the ever-changing ISOGG. One other that is so narrow, I don't know why it is there. Unless this category has subcategories for "all" of the major Haplogroups, what's the point?
- Y-DNA Haplotypes - This one has 20 Subcategories of Y-STR groups from 12 different surnames. I will clearly want to have subcategories for all the Y-STR groups for my One-Name/DNA Project. I can see putting them here.
Projects - This makes sense. A lot I don't understand, but two of interest.
- DNA Projects - Oh, this is the same one as above under DNA. Same question of the difference between Subcategories and Profiles. Most listed as Name Study space pages. But there is a variety, including DNA, Surname, etc. Both of my Beasley Space pages are listed here.
- One Name Studies - This appears to be more tightly controlled... ALL name studies including mine. Subcategories, 1287 of them including my One Name page but not my DNA page. No references to DNA. But I didn't go through all of them. A few odds and ends.
My reason for pointing this out is to show how it looks to a new guy trying to find his way around. I understand this is an on-going organic process. I don't expect perfection. Just looking for help navigating the system to get my project set up.
