Amazon.co.uk: A rather odd placing of Masters of the Wild

[Jarval]

If you look here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786926538/gamewyrd-21/026-7746674-7080465 you'll find Amazon's entry for the Masters of the Wild splatbook. All is fine, apart from their categorisation of the book. They say it's Category(ies): Religion & Spirituality. And then down the bottom of the page they say:
Look for similar books by subject:
Browse for Books in:
Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Earth-Based Religions > Druidism

Do they not check what their books are about before they put them in a category?

 

[graydoom]

LOL.

Yes, D&D is sure a New Age Earth-based Druidic religion, uh-huh!

Probably just an administrative oversight on the part of Amazon.

 

[Jarval]

I'll drop them an e-mail, tell them about the problem.

 

[Darkness]

If you look here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0786926538/gamewyrd-21/026-7746674-7080465 you'll find Amazon's entry for the Masters of the Wild splatbook. All is fine, apart from their categorisation of the book. They say it's Category(ies): Religion & Spirituality. And then down the bottom of the page they say:
Look for similar books by subject:
Browse for Books in:
Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Earth-Based Religions > Druidism

Do they not check what their books are about before they put them in a category?

OUCH!!!

 

[hong]

Actually, this is probably just an example of what happens when you leave a data mining algorithm unsupervised for too long. It would have picked up that the subject matter contained the word "druid", and followed its word association rules back to the categories mentioned.

In a way it makes sense; if you wanted to research background information on druids, you might actually want to look into RL druidism at some stage. (Not that it has anything to do with historical druids, but it's all fodder for a fantasy game.)