I really don't see german or french or belgian or argentinian or whatever comics as more similar to USA comics than to manga.
Except someone looking for them (speaking for German/French/Belgian comics) would look for comics, not for manga, because they are commonly called comics. (The German word for comics is Comics and for manga is Manga. Just saying!)
I would still like it better if there were also way to browse all the pages about the same types of canon
There is no technical reason why there can't be both, you can add as many categories to a page as you want, and in some cases Fanlore does include everything in the parent category and in the more specific category at the same time. However, the only example I can think of is the fanworks category which has 9,301 members - not something that is a great way to browse fanworks (but helpful when adding date cats to all these thousand of pages and images). Generally the rules say that this is not the way categories are supposed to work, but that's simply a matter of policy.
I just want to point out that our definitions of "same type of canon" are not the same. Moving pictures are not the same type of canon to me as something where I have to turn a page to see what happens next. It would make just as much sense to me to group everything printed on paper (Manga/Comics/Books) in one category and all moving pictures (Anime/Live Action TV/Film/Cartoons) in another. I would still say these categories are too big, unwieldy and try to be too many things at the same time.
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I really don't see german or french or belgian or argentinian or whatever comics as more similar to USA comics than to manga.
Except someone looking for them (speaking for German/French/Belgian comics) would look for comics, not for manga, because they are commonly called comics. (The German word for comics is Comics and for manga is Manga. Just saying!)
I would still like it better if there were also way to browse all the pages about the same types of canon
There is no technical reason why there can't be both, you can add as many categories to a page as you want, and in some cases Fanlore does include everything in the parent category and in the more specific category at the same time. However, the only example I can think of is the fanworks category which has 9,301 members - not something that is a great way to browse fanworks (but helpful when adding date cats to all these thousand of pages and images). Generally the rules say that this is not the way categories are supposed to work, but that's simply a matter of policy.
I just want to point out that our definitions of "same type of canon" are not the same. Moving pictures are not the same type of canon to me as something where I have to turn a page to see what happens next. It would make just as much sense to me to group everything printed on paper (Manga/Comics/Books) in one category and all moving pictures (Anime/Live Action TV/Film/Cartoons) in another. I would still say these categories are too big, unwieldy and try to be too many things at the same time.