Fanlore talk:Sitemap/Complete

Social Networking subcategory?

I think that Social Networks would be a useful subcategory of Fan Communities. I made a Social networking stub page, and then got to thinking how it would work better as a subcat. --Msilverstar 03:54, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry this has taken so long! I just saw the request, and have created the subcategory. --rache 19:24, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Asterisks

Some categories are marked with asterisks, but I don't see any explanation for what that means. Needs helptext. --zvi 15:06, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

I added a line about the '*' indicating that the subcategory rolls up to at least 2 different parents on the tree. Hope that helps! --rache 20:18, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

"Awards" category?

Under Category:Fan Activities, I think it would be useful to have "Awards;" it's a fairly common kind of fandom activity that doesn't seem to fit anywhere else.--Penknife 23:39, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry to be so late getting to this, but it's done. --rache 23:53, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

I would like a subcategory within Fans for deadfans

Obviously we could call it some thing else, but I think it would be useful to be able to find, basically, our obituaries. I put this on Talk:Issues, but then saw rache's note that category requests should come here.--Sherrold 17:14, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I like the idea of calling it the obituaries, actually. It's respectful...--Emma 17:38, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I think this could be a misleading name. I mean, articles aren't necessarily going to work as obituaries. Nor are all going to be respectful. Like, say an article covers mostly some controversy the fan was central to or is mostly negative, then that fan dies, the article isn't necessarily going to change just because the fan is now dead.--Ratcreature 18:11, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I am up for creating a category for this. Is 'deceased' any better a term for this? If I start listing possibilities, I will feel like I'm in Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch, so somebody please save me. --rache 19:25, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I think deceased would work fine.--Ratcreature 19:40, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Okay, that one is set-up under 'Fans'. --rache 20:06, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I would like a category for Fanworks about Creating Fanworks: how-tos?

Not just meta, but specifically how-to participate in fandom -- that's zines about making zines; web pages about how to create fannish web pages -- that's also punctuation guides (like the Big List of Small Dogs and Elements of Phyle), and vidding how-to, etc.--Sherrold 17:16, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Done! It's under the Non-fiction Writing category on the site map. --rache 19:31, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Archive category?

This request is logged... somewhere, but I don't see it on this page so am putting it here, too, since it looks the various subcat requests are being added now. I think an "Archives" sub-category under Websites would be really helpful. --Arduinna 19:39, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

This is done. I have added it to the site map, the category hierarchy and the archives template, so you should be access it now. --rache 20:13, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Yay, thank you! --Arduinna 20:30, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

I want a bunch of new subcats under (I think) "Fandoms by Source Text"

I want cats just for pairing pages -- so buddy cops, enemy pairs, big/little, . That way, someone on the Jim/Blair page could jump to the subcat page for Buddy pairs and see "the Professionals" link, or to the subcat page for Big guy/little guy, and then jump to Krycek/Skinner or Blake/Avon page. All of the RPS pairs would have RPSpair, as well as enemy or buddy or size issues if any, etc. (I really need someone who understands the sitemap better than I do.) Ping me if this doesn't make sense.--Sherrold 16:19, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

But would people even agree what kind of pairing something is in a canon, and as what it gets written? I mean, a lot of enemyslash pairings go from friend to enemy, and sometimes back and forth, like Magneto/Xavier can be enemyslash or set when they were friends. So you could label that as anything. And some pairing that may be enemies in canon are often not written as such. And similar things are true with buddy pairs at least in ensemble shows, where some fans think two guys are clearly "buddies" but other fans think that view is a distortion of canon. Is it a good idea to have categories that are in the eye of the beholder?--Ratcreature 16:32, 1 December 2008 (UTC)

I really, vehemently think this is not a good idea -- categories are not the way to go here, it would just dilute their purpose and make them unnecessarily subjective and confusing. It think including a 'see also' in the article or adding this box would be a much better way to achieve the cross-referencing that you have in mind? --lian 02:13, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Hmm. Cool idea. I'm going to experiment with it a little!--Sherrold 00:43, 3 December 2008 (UTC)