What do you mean by "renamed as a category"? A category of the same name as the main fandom page will be created? Or will the actual page be renamed/restructured?
>Spin-off fandoms will have separate (but obviously, linked) categories and/or pages -- thus, Buffy and Angel will be separate categories (or pages, if a single page is all that’s needed).
does this mean you would create a "Jossverse" category with "Buffy" and "Angel" subcategories? Creating separate categories for spin-off series seems to contradict the idea of labeling franchise fandoms as all one thing. For example, Stargate Atlantis is a spin-off of Stargate SG-1, but is it useful to give it a separate category? The answer may depend on the size of the spin-off fandom and the amount of cross-over between the two. For Buffy and Angel, I'd say give them the same category (though I was never involved in Angel fandom, so I could be missing something).
the portal idea is interesting, and I think we're already doing something like it for Star Trek.
although I am not a fan of subpages, it seems odd to make characters of large fandoms be top-level pages and leave characters of small pages in subpages. Is that your intent? In some cases, making character pages into top-level pages solves a lot of problems--Angel is the same character (more or less, heh) on both BTVS and AtS, so there should only be one page for him--but in other cases, it might create problems--there need to be two Spock pages*. Not to say you shouldn't go ahead and do this, but the rules should be very clearly defined.
>Associating the existing pages to each other
I vote for [[Name (Fandom)]]. It follows the disambiguation/qualifier style we've already got.
*So we'd get [[Spock (TOS character)]] and [[Spock (Reboot character)]]???
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Second, I have a few questions:
What do you mean by "renamed as a category"? A category of the same name as the main fandom page will be created? Or will the actual page be renamed/restructured?
>Spin-off fandoms will have separate (but obviously, linked) categories and/or pages -- thus, Buffy and Angel will be separate categories (or pages, if a single page is all that’s needed).
does this mean you would create a "Jossverse" category with "Buffy" and "Angel" subcategories? Creating separate categories for spin-off series seems to contradict the idea of labeling franchise fandoms as all one thing. For example, Stargate Atlantis is a spin-off of Stargate SG-1, but is it useful to give it a separate category? The answer may depend on the size of the spin-off fandom and the amount of cross-over between the two. For Buffy and Angel, I'd say give them the same category (though I was never involved in Angel fandom, so I could be missing something).
the portal idea is interesting, and I think we're already doing something like it for Star Trek.
although I am not a fan of subpages, it seems odd to make characters of large fandoms be top-level pages and leave characters of small pages in subpages. Is that your intent? In some cases, making character pages into top-level pages solves a lot of problems--Angel is the same character (more or less, heh) on both BTVS and AtS, so there should only be one page for him--but in other cases, it might create problems--there need to be two Spock pages*. Not to say you shouldn't go ahead and do this, but the rules should be very clearly defined.
>Associating the existing pages to each other
I vote for [[Name (Fandom)]]. It follows the disambiguation/qualifier style we've already got.
*So we'd get [[Spock (TOS character)]] and [[Spock (Reboot character)]]???