Policy Posted for Comment

[meri_oddities]

We've posted the Fandoms as Category policy change to the policies section of Fanlore. We'd like to open it up for comment. You can find it here.

We, the wiki committee, don't work in a vacuum and would like your input on this. If possible, We'd like to have the discussion here on Dreamwidth. It's easy to answer questions and respond to comments. If discussion becomes unwieldy, we can schedule a chat in the Fanlore chat room.

This is only the first of several policies we're working on and are planning to put out for comment in the next few months. So, let us know what you think.

Comments

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

We, the wiki committee, don't work in a vacuum and would like your input on this.

I read your proposed policy change for fandoms as categories and I must say that it is not at all what I thought it would be.

I thought we were talking about this:

Category:Due South
Category:Due South zines
Category:Due South websites

Category:Harry Potter
Category:Harry Potter communities
Category:Harry Potter doujinshis

Category:Star Trek
Category:Star Trek TOS
Category:Star Trek TOS zines
Category:Star Trek TNG
Category:Star Trek TNG zines

etc.

Nothing of this has anything to do with renaming existing pages.

[ratcreature]

Yes. I think the main category problem is that fanworks and fan activities are not broken up by fandom. The whole category approach so far seemed to have been to minimize the number of categories with no fandom categories, and now with this proposal that only some big franchises are supposed to get a fandom category that is the same problem. As if the goal was to avoid categories. I'm similarly perplexed actually why we only have a single category for fan but not one for "fanartists", "fanwriters", "vidders", instead you end up tagging people with the category "Video" out of desperation because there is no way to mark them as people who make videos.

[meri_oddities]

You know, I see what you're saying here. And I think maybe we do need to rethink how we're doing this. I can see doing it the way Frogspace described above.

It needs to be done in such a way that we don't end up with a bazillion pages that have no order or hope of finding anything.

[meri_oddities]

There is some sense in what you're saying here. It would make finding things a lot easier. Like listing out all the ST zines as requested above.