Category talk:Meta by Year

Flailing about here. Can someone assist? MPH (talk) 13:24, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Like this? --Doro (talk) 13:44, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

thank you, Doro. :) --MPH (talk) 17:13, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Are the subcategories flat on purpose, or can we place the specific year meta cats as subcategories under the decade meta cats?--aethel (talk) 01:41, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Decade Categories

Hi all, it has been proposed that the 1970s Meta category be deleted, so I just wanted to ask here, how are the decade categories currently being used? Are these categories for works where we do not know the exact year the meta was posted/published, or is it a case that all meta in the year cats should also be in the decade cat? --Auntags (talk) 09:10, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

[copied from 1970s Meta talk page] Good question!

This is my own personal use of all of these decades categories (meta, cons, interviews, various fanworks), a practice which may or may not align with the common good. I began putting only a decades category on pages when I don't know the specific year. As soon as I can determine the specific year, I use that category instead and remove the decades one. It's simply a placeholder for me, a marker to help lead the way to later, more exact info. This is especially true of fics, meta, interviews, and "single" fanworks. In fact, I like to go through the decades categories periodically and see if more information has popped up so I can be more specific. But now that there are so many in them, this is getting harder to do.

Pages like archives, and websites, and long-running cons (for instance Shore Leave (US convention)) have many, many individual years as categories, which can be cumbersome and arduous. Are we okay with that? (My vote is yes, but others may disagree.)

I LOVE having individual years on fanworks, cons, and such, both for the granular information, but also for being able to refer to them in fan comments and to wikilink. Very often, being able to triangulate two, sometimes three references, is what saves the day! Example, a fan says "that crazy con in Detroit in 1982" or a fan in 1991 refers to a con "three years ago" makes it possible to find one's way to what they are talking about. MPH (talk) MPH 13:26, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Here's a link to the continued discussion about decade categories --> Category talk:1970s Meta. The category was deleted as it is empty. --Auntags (talk) 22:45, 13 April 2023 (UTC)