Addendum to the fandom category policy:

[meri_oddities]

I'm posting this here before adding this to the policy.

There are some smaller decisions the wiki committee has made:

1. Sorting the Fandom Categories - We will sort by the default letter sort. Except where the category is a non-fandom category: Books & Literature, Movies, Real People, etc…



2. We will create a zine (or fanworks, or communities) sub-category if there are more then 15 pages in the fandom category.



3. RPF categories. We are going to go with Real People as the main category and then Actor RPF, Music RPF, Historical FPR, and then by fandom (person) categories.



4. If there is a list of zines that is a subpage of the main category, it will become a top-level page under the category and if there are more than 15 zines on that page, a subcategory will be created.

Some examples:

• Harry Potter/List of Challenges becomes List of Harry Potter Challenges and is put into the Harry Potter Category.
  
  Since it has more than 15 challenges listed on the page, the separate challenge pages will only appear in the Harry Potter Challenges Category and not in the main category.



• For Star Trek, a main category will be created and then subsequent subcategories with Star Trek TOS, Star Trek TNG, Star Trek AOS, etc.


For each of the Star Trek subcategories, there will be subcategories such as zines, challenges, communities, etc.


• The same rules apply, if there are more than 15 pages for any subcategory then they should not be listed on the main subcategory (Star Trek TOS). They should be listed on the secondary subcategory (Star Trek TOS fanzines).

If there are more questions about how to do things, ask them in comments, and I'll either answer or take them back to the committee.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

1) What *can* we use subpages for?
2) Where do we ask for new categories to be made? (I should like an X-Men cat please; currently x-men pages are going under Marvel Comics).

MegR

[aethel]

1.list pages like Newsletter/Newsletter Communities

2.We haven't reached X yet; the X-Men cat will be added. I believe you can make a category request by adding a bug to the bug tracking list or by bringing it up in the talk pages. But categories can technically be added by any user (?), so if you feel comfortable adding the X-Men category, we'd love the help!

I started a help page on fandom categories here: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Help:Fandom_Categories

[ratcreature]

So the list of newsletter communities remains a subpage of Newsletter, but the list of Harry Potter Communities becomes toplevel.

[aethel]

Exactly.

I've been updating the subpage help page to reflect the more restricted uses of subpages on the wiki.