gratuitous Star Trek category post

[aethel]

Because it was getting amazingly complex and because I am a giant nerd, I made this diagram to show the current Star Trek category structure on Fanlore. Some of these were just added this afternoon, so they're empty at the moment.

Comments

[meri_oddities]

Okay, that's pretty damned impressive.

[(Anonymous)]

Aethel, I think I love you. :-)

Mrs. Potato Head

[katherine]

That is quite the structure! Clearly a lot of work there.

I'm not sure I see the pattern in the Zine subcategories; is that explained or discussed somewhere? It seems to be a mixture of length and subject in various ways...?

Skimmed through
http://fanlore.org/wiki/Category_talk:Star_Trek_TOS_Zines
but don't see a specific reasoning there. Probably where I should be raising this query!

[aethel]

Basically, there are a huge number of Star Trek zines, so they had to be broken up into subcategories. The categories for TOS zines mostly follow the way the TOS zine list was divided up here: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series/Fanzines

(I don't know much about zines, so I couldn't tell you why they were divided up that way on the list page in the first place.)

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I see the pattern in the Zine subcategories; is that explained or discussed somewhere?

It's discussed on the talk page of the page linked in the comment above. Basically, the TOS subcategories are based on the available information about the zines. One resource lists every K/S zine known to mankind, so we can put everything "slash" in one category. We would have liked to divide the other fiction zines by "gen" and "het" to mirror the slash subcategory, but often enough we don't have that kind of information. Usually fanfic zines were either gen or adult, meaning a zine labeled gen could be either gen or het according to our definitions today, while zines with an adult label were explicit het (or slash of any rating). However, we usually do have the information that something was a novel by X or an anthology with stories by A, B, and C, so that's where the gen/het cats come from.

[msilverstar]

Looks great: some things simply cannot fit into only one category

[elf]

Hmm, where does Star Trek Filk belong?

::Ponders whether there are 15+ Trek filk albums::
I think so. Between albums, filkbooks, and famous Trek songs, there's probably enough to comprise a category. (I know; go add pages and when there's enough, a category will appear.)

Probably not enough Star Trek games. Maybe. Star Fleet Battles will eventually need a page, and probably just get tagged as Category:Star Trek. There've been several Trek RPGs, all of which flopped horribly.

[aethel]

"Star Trek Filk" would go under "Star Trek", though I'm wondering if we need a more generic "Star Trek Fanworks" to capture the miscellaneous pages that don't fall under zines or art. I've found one page for a Star Trek fanfic that wasn't a zine and a few vid pages.

Meanwhile, filk pages also belong to the specific show subcategory (TOS, etc) if they're only about that show or to the main Star Trek category.

[ratcreature]

There are at least a couple of pages for indivdual TOS stories and series already, I know I have created at least five or six for various stories that cropped up on the pages.