Category talk:Albert Einstein/archive
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I added actually all articles to the category. --ThomasK 15:32, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
Some cleanup needed
My concern is that there is too much relativity-related stuff added here. I like Category:Relativity being a subcategory here. After all, Einstein founded what it is about. However, special relativity and general relativity then are not needed in this category because they are both subcategories of Category:Relativity, and because the understanding of these theories has far surpassed what Einstein did initially (especially in the case of general relativity). So as a general rule, I would not put relativity-related stuff here without some added justification, most likely its being a narrowly-defined item that Einstein had a direct hand in. For example, equivalence principle and principle of relativity are deserving of this. Exact solutions in general relativity is not deserving since Einstein had little to do with finding exact solutions. Einstein ring does because Eintein predicted them, but Einstein-Cartan theory is a carrying forward of Einstein's work by Elie Cartan instead of being co-authored by Einstein and therefore is not deserving.
The list goes on. I will do the cleanup ASAP. In the meantime, I hope that I have created a useful means of determining what does or does not belong here. --EMS | Talk 15:53, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
Done. I have gotten rid of such things as the links to the general relativity and special relativity articles, but kept history of general relativity and added history of special relativity. I have also added photoelectric effect and atomic theory since Einstein had major impacts on both. Beyond that I pulled out of this category the improper items mentioned above. Hopefully this does a good job of redirecting this category properly. This is definitely a good category, but on the relativity side of things I strongly advise people not to get too carried away with it. --EMS | Talk 22:53, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
