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I added actually all articles to the category. --ThomasK 15:32, August 21, 2005 (UTC)

Some cleanup needed

Albert Einstein Had a German accent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.87.15.165 (talk) 18:45, 22 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Albert Einstein

A subcategory of the Category:Albert Einstein is Category:Einstein family. According to Wikipedia:Categorization it says:

"Each article should be placed in all of the most specific categories to which it logically belongs. This means that if a page belongs to a subcategory of C (or a subcategory of a subcategory of C, and so on) then it is not normally placed directly into C".

So for example Albert Einstein belongs to Category:Albert EInstein and also Category:Einstein family, as Category:Einstein family is a subcategory of Category:Albert Einstein, the page Albert Einstein should not be in Category:Albert Einstein, as Category:Einstein family is sufficient. I think this defies common sense, what to do? Brad7777 (talk) 16:32, 5 November 2011 (UTC) I would suggest that either Category:Einstein family is renamed to Category:Einstein's family, or more ideally, Category:Albert Einstein becomes a subcategory of Category:Einstein family Brad7777 (talk) 16:56, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]