source text sub-categories

[ratcreature]

There are media missing in the source text categories. I mentioned this a while ago on a category talk page, but no discussion or category expansion with more media types followed, and I just noticed again when I added a fandom. Currently the options are "Anime", "Books & Literature", "Cartoons", "Comics", "Film", "Games", "Manga", "Music", "Real People" and "Television".

There is no category for stage productions like musicals, plays and such, something I noticed when creating a stub for Phantom of the Opera, which admittedly also was a novel, and there are films, but the musical version is rather prominent in its fandom. And I guess there could be the view that musicals could fit under "music" and plays under "literature" with no need for extra categories, but the former is not quite the same as fandom for bands and such, and not only music and the latter isn't quite like book fandoms, so having some sort of stage option would be nice, IMO. Especially if we make distinctions like "comics" and "manga" and "cartoons" and "anime" to acknowledge differences between western and Japanese incarnations of the same medium, so the categories are not minimized in number by design. Also there is no radio category either, and there are fandoms with audio play incarnations, as I noticed for The Tomorrow People. I added "audio" as category, but that is not actually a subcategory of fandom by source text.

Comments

[brownbetty]

Hmm, so the specific media you see as missing:

Theatre: (musical, other sort)
Radio-play: (or maybe just 'radio'?)

[ratcreature]

I'd just go with "Radio" like with "Television" or "Film". And theater would work for me for musicals and plays and such.

[meri_oddities]

I've added both categories (Radio and Theater) to the sub-pages of Fandom from source text. You can link as you'd like.

[ratcreature]

Cool!