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ext_3626 ([identity profile] frogspace.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fanlore 2011-06-18 11:01 pm (UTC)

This... doesn't make that much sense to me.

Sequential Art&Animation would need subcategories For Anime & Manga and Comics because both are big enough to need their own cats. But then there wouldn't be any pages/files left for the SA&A cat! That would go against Fanlore's best practice when it comes to categories. To me it makes more sense to have an Anime & Manga *and* a Comics cat *instead* of a SA&A.

Fandom by Source Community has currently three subcats: Furry, German-Speaking Fandom, and Science Fiction. All of them with several pages and files. None of them part of your structure?

As I've already said, I think Anime & Manga and Comics belong under Fandoms by Canon Type. RPF is Real People Fiction so I don't see what the difference between RPF and Real People is supposed to be. That's not a useful distinction. For what it's worth, I see it as a canon type thing.

Media Fandom is completely useless as a category for anything because everything can be Media Fandom and if it's not now, it could be in the future. Harry & Johnny was media fandom, Eroica was/is media fandom, and even Popslash is media fandom because it follows in that tradition. It's a glossary term and explains so much about our history (multimedia zines anyone?), but it doesn't work as a category that people add to pages and files, which is what categories are for.

J-pop is Real People and K-Drama is Television? Film? So these would be subcategories of the Fandom by canon type cats. The "pages" explaining what J-pop/K-Drama/Mediafandom, etc. is could stay under fandom by community, but that is not the same as creating fandom by community cats and then adding all the respective fandom cats to these categories.

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