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Temporary Discussion, will be removed later

RobertJasiek: This is not the page contents yet but a preliminary question: What are "beginner", "intermediate", "advanced"? Dieter, you seem to disagree on my proposal that intermediate means "up to 1k knowledge" and advanced means "up to 6 dan knowledge". So which meanings instead do you associate with the level tags?

Hyperpape: To a certain extent, the terms should reflect the difficulty of the presentation, not the difficulty of mastering the content. E.g. while no kyu player will play in a way that reflects all the issues raised at Finding ko threats, a 10 kyu could easily understand the page, and gain some benefit from it. So it's beginner, or at most intermediate. Contrast Ko Threat Playing Order which might be necessary to implement that advice at Ko Threat Basics, but which is significantly more confusing, and will remain so even after a WME. Note also in this context that Bill is not quite a 6 dan, but he probably understands ko as well as any amateur, and even better than pros when it comes to certain specific topics. That shows that one relevant classification is not go playing strength, but willingness to sweat certain theoretical issues.

Of course I think it's also true that we should steer someone encountering the ko path for the first time to the pages that are both most comprehensible and most appropriate for a beginner.

Lastly, we can't be too precise about this: we don't have a consensus about how students learn, what a 10 kyu should know, etc, etc.

RobertJasiek: Supposing you are right, I enter the links I had sorted as "advanced" nevertheless. Please consider these links here temporary until they are moved to the appropriate KoPagesBeginner or KoPagesIntermediate page.

RobertJasiek: If the levels refer to difficulty of presentation, why does SL need more than two levels such as "player" and "expert"? If so, I would like to see other tags, too: "kyu" and "dan"; alternatively we could create Kyu Paths and Dan Paths!

Tapir: As always spreading the discussion over main organisational issues on all the pages doesn't help. If we could keep it on the overhaul page I would much appreciate it.


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