Talk:Fansplaining (podcast)
OK to shorten the title to Fansplaining (podcast)?--aethel (talk) 15:47, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
Episode Page Titles
Could the pages title for individual episodes like "Fansplaining: Why Wasn't I Consulted?!, Episode 1" be changed to the format of Why Wasn't I Consulted?! (Fansplaining) or Why Wasn't I Consulted?!. Currently all the pages are crowded under "F" on Category:Fansplaining, and changing it will make them easier to search. And the title of A Conversation with Clay Liford, Episode 18 already doesn't follow with the rest. – caes (talk) 05:16, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
- So, firstly: I think episode 18 was titled as such because it was only available as a transcript, but I think it should follow the same nomenclature as the others, actually, whatever that may be. To that question - personally, I like the convention of "Fansplaining: ______," but I agree that the alphabetical thing is an issue! We could use {{DEFAULTSORT:_____}} to ensure that the pages are alphabetized in categories by the title itself, rather than all clumping together under F. I tested that out with episode 1, so you can see that on the category page. But that doesn't solve the searching problem, though...hmm. I like keeping Fansplaining in the article title, but I'm not sure about doing the parenthetical, since that's the convention for disambiguated pages. What do other editors think about this? I'm happy to work on changing this to whatever general consensus we arrive at. - Fandomgeographies (talk) 04:53, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
- Changing the Liford one to fall in line with the others works for me. It was an outlier, both because it consisted of just transcript, and because it was the only "issue" that was solely an interview with a single person.
- I'd prefer not to have the pages retitled without Fansplaining in front of them. The main reason is it groups them together in a bigger picture. The category for fan interviews is a good example of many pages having a single qualifier to keep them in order in a much bigger list. While there aren't as many podcast pages as interview ones yet, scattering them all without showing how they fit together could become quite ungainly. See: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Category:1999_Fan_Interviews
- I view searching within the letter "F" for podcasts and finding a lot of them beginning with the same word to be a feature, not a hindrance.
- However, to solve general searchability issues, anyone is welcome to make a redirect for each Fansplaining page. --MPH (talk) 13:33, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
- Presumably the Fansplaining episodes won't be cross-listed in the general podcast category since we have Category:Fansplaining, and I think in that category they should be sorted with DEFAULTSORT. I also think it's important to make sure you can tell it's a Fansplaining episode from the title, so I definitely am against removing "Fansplaining" from the title altogether, and I think that MPH's note about wanting to keep the "Fansplaining" at the front is important because all of the episodes should probably be listed in Category:Meta on Audio or other categories, where we'd definitely want them all sorted under F like MPH has said.
- My actual problem with the title is that I think it's less clear than it could be. I would prefer Fansplaining #1: Why Wasn't I Consulted?! or Fansplaining Episode 1: Why Wasn't I Consulted?! or something. I know that they wouldn't sort in numerical order, but it would still be nice to be able to see what number each episode is on the category pages. - Hoopla (talk) 17:40, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
List Subpages
Now that someone made a subpage for Fansplaining (podcast)/Episodes 101-110, the default alphabetical sort provided by {{ListSubpages}} no longer sorts in the correct numerical order. I've replaced it with the clunkier manual code for accuracy. Thought I'd leave a comment here because replacing the neat function with the messy one isn't an intuitive decision, but it's not a mistake. :) -- Error cascade (talk) 09:48, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
- Just a heads up that I made the subpage for Episodes 141-150 and replicated the same manual code for accuracy's sake; should I try to tinker with the ListSubpages code at some point in the (nebulous) future? I want to try to get content up on the episodes pages > fixing the code, but am down to try learning something new! -- Chanterelle (talk) 20:18, 8 June 2021 (UTC)