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.

Comments

[meri_oddities]

Okay, so I'd create a fandom called: Life on Mars. And then you'd put [[category:Life_on_Mars]] on the bottom of all the main page and the 4 sub- pages. When you clicked on Life on Mars under Fandoms by Source Text category, you'd get the main page and the sub-pages listed.

For more complex fandoms, like say, Harry Potter, you'd have sub-categories under it, like pairings and characters and communities.

Does this make any sense to you?

[mikes_grrl]

Thank you for replying!

So the categories are meta structures, outside the hierarchical framework of the individual entries, used for relational (and search) functions?

Perhaps it's a taxonomy issue for me; there is the "category" level, which serves as a bucket for all things associated with that topic; then the main fandom page (e.g. the Life on Mars main page, in this case) is NOT a category, but a...what? A hub?

(also, as it stands now, the sub-fandoms are NOT sub-pages; would that change now? Or the meta-category of "Life On Mars" serving as a bucket for them would continue to make that unnecessary?)

[aethel]

No, the sub-fandoms would not become subpages.

The main fandom page, like the other fandom pages, would be added to the "Life on Mars" category. The content of the page isn't affected by the fandom category policy--it'll evolve in whatever way makes sense to the editors (you!). The main Life on Mars page seems like a hub already.