Category talk:History of science

message: I want to streamline the categorization of history of science articles and subcategories.  Here is what I propose:
*We shoud try to limit to 50 - 100 articles (numbers up for discussion) in :Category:History of science.  Only the most significant articles for the overall history of science should be included; the very most outstanding scientists, the main articles for History of the broadest disciplines (biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, maybe natural philosophy and natural history), the broadest time periods or cultural divisions (Renaissance science, Islamic science, etc.) and the really important ideas (Scientific Revolution, Big Science, etc.).
*The subcategories should be reduced to the following 12 (with example sub-subcategories):
::1.:Category:History of physics
:::*:Category:Foundational quantum physics
:::*:Category:History of classical dynamics
:::*:Category:History of thermodynamics
::2.:Category:History of earth sciences
::3.:Category:History of medicine
::4.:Category:History of chemistry
:::*:Category:History of organic chemistry
:::*:Category:History of molecular biology
::5.:Category:History of biology
:::*:Category:History of neuroscience
:::*:Category:History of molecular biology (some things cross category boundaries and need double listing)
::6.:Category:History of astronomy (maybe, or put under physics)
::7.:Category:History of mathematics
:::*:Category:History of logic
::8.:Category:History of technology
:::*:Category:History of engineering
:::*:Category:Inventions
:::*:Category:Inventors
::9.:Category:History of social sciences
::10.:Category:History of ideas (unless we can find a better place within another subcategory)
:::*:Category:Obsolete scientific theories
::11.:Category:Historiography of science (to include all the theoretical/philosophical things like Paradigm shift, as well as everything to do with history of science and related fields as academic disciplines)
:::*:Category:Historians of science
::12.:Category:Cultures of science or similar (to include subcategories like scientific instruments, scientific societies and institutions, articles like history of philosophy of science, history of scientific method, and anything else that doesn't fit elsewhere)
:::*:Category:History of science and technology in the United States
:::*:Category:Science museums
:::*:Category:Scientific societies
*Subcategories should contain further subcategories if appropriate, but also the most notable articles from within those subcategories, the same way :Category:History of science would contain only the very most notable within all the categories.
--ragesoss 01:33, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: why don't you leave :Category:History of medicine in there too? and a few of the others; leaving things like :Category:Scence museums around dosn't seem all that terrible. While its good to clean up a bit, trying to make things spotless can lead to contortions. Its ok to leave some of the hard-to-subclassify stuff around. linas 02:15, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, medicine and some others.  I looked it back over and expanded it a little more.  Of course, there may be still some things that just don't fit, but I think with the 12 categories I now have up there, nearly everything would.--ragesoss 02:39, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

text: this seems to be a bit early for a cleanup of this magnitude.   why don't we just leave things alone until the content gets shuffled out a bit more. as i was looking at some of your recategorizations, and not everyone would agree with what you put into historiography of science...  right now, i doubt anyone other than experts in the field are going to be looking for that in anycase, and an encyclopedia like wikipedia isn't really built for experts to find things using expert languages.   keep it simple.    --Buridan 03:59, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  streamline 

message: These are the articles that will be categorized History of science as well as their proper subcategories.
Please give input and add suggestions.--ragesoss 04:05, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Tentative list of most important history of science articles

message: I'm wondering wether these two US savings bonds story about H. Tracy Hall is true (for discovering the first way to synthetise diamond, he was awrded two 10$ (I think) US savings bonds by GE!!!). If it is true, I suppose it's kind of worth writing about it in WP (but with good reference because right now I haven't found anything reliable on the web).Napy1kenobi (talk) 14:29, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  US savings bonds