Category talk:Buffy the Vampire Slayer Fanfiction
So we already have a category for Buffy and Angel fanfic combined: Category:Buffyverse Fanfiction. I don't know if editors have a new system, but IIRC, the reason for combining a lot of Buffy and Angel categories originally was that the same characters appear on both shows, so having separate categories could get messy.--aethel (talk) 23:45, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
- Just looking at the two categories there and I had the same thought. The original editor might not have spotted that there was a Buffyverse fanfic category, or there could be a reason they wanted to separate these fics out. Maybe Frogspace, the original editor, can weigh in with their thoughts. --Auntags (talk) 22:37, 20 November 2019 (UTC)
- With every other thing we turn from more general categories to more specific categories, except for these two shows. I think if the fansites and the stories and the authors and vids and artists can differenciate between the two fandoms, so can we. Just because some of the characters have appeared in both shows it doesn't mean you can't tell which show a specific story or vid belongs to. Sure, some might belong to both, but a lot of them don't and the chance to find them under their specific fandom category are much better. Also, AO3 seems to manage just fine:
- https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Angel:%20the%20Series/works
- https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Buffy%20the%20Vampire%20Slayer%20(TV)/works --Doro (talk) 19:23, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
- Looking at the history of that page, it seems the Buffyverse fic category was started back in 2013. Not too sure how the wiki was organised back then, and the reasoning behind the decision isn't documented on that page or the main Buffy category. Interestingly there is a separate category for Angel vids! If we want to go forward with the two categories, it might be worth trawling through the Buffyverse fic category, as some of the works in there would technically be Buffy only fics. Then we would probably need a separate Angel fic category..? I'll leave this discussion here, and I won't make any organisational changes just yet. --Auntags (talk) 23:18, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
Merge with Buffyverse Category
I'd like to propose merging this category with Category:Buffyverse Fanfiction because it doesn't make sense to keep these works separate. The works in this category are generally early fics (2001 or earlier) or set in early seasons or include ships that didn't travel to LA (buffy/faith, giles/xander etc.). It's an arbitrary distinction. And its honestly really difficult to determine if something is buffy only or buffyverse, given the large number of fics that included phone calls or references to Team Angel or the Scoobies, even if they didn't appear. --Auntags (talk) 22:12, 7 June 2024 (UTC)