Fandom as a Category v2 Posted

[meri_oddities]

We have posted the revised version of the Fandom as Category policy change Here to the Fanlore wiki. We invite discussion on it. Please post your comments here on Dreamwidth. If there are no problems or issues that require a change, the policy will become final in seven days after posting (4/28/2010).

At that time, we'll start adding the fandom categories and we'll put out a call for help with moving and changing the pages the need it.

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[arduinna]

The main page is definitely necessary! It may help if you don't think of it as a database per se; think of it as tags.

The category/tag "Life on Mars" belongs to all things Life on Mars, from main summary page to individual fandom pages.

In addition, the category/tag "Life on Mars (UK)" belongs on the Life on Mars: UK fandom page, as well as its pairing pages, character pages, convention pages (if there are any), etc.

In addition, if the fandom is big enough to need specific character pages (rather than just having the character info on the main page), the category/tag "Life on Mars (UK): Characters" belongs on the "Gene Hunt (Life on Mars UK)" page.

(And the same structure for Life on Mars (US) and Ashes to Ashes, obviously.)

So as a fandom gets larger and more complicated, each level of "precision" (for lack of a better term) gains another category, while still belonging to all the categories above it.

Assuming I'm understanding this correctly. *g*