Talk:Post-Colonization

I created the page as "post colonization" i.e. without the hyphen, because that is the way it is spelled in the Spooky Awards (and the corresponding Spooky and X-Files pages here on this wiki too). If the spelling with hyphen is more common the page should be moved too, rather than the articlename using one spelling and the text itself another.--Ratcreature 16:05, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Text files I captured in 2000 (e.g. "Talk About the Weather") reflect the hyphenated form -- I can't say whether both usages sat side by side in the fandom without comment, or whether there might have been a text/database/aesthetic reason for the Spookys to do without a hyphen. I only ever used the short form (which is post-col or rarely postcol, never post col), so I don't have a strong feeling on the full-length name of this phenomenon; but the hyphen is grammatically correct, especially when it's used as standard English (the full-length phrase) in a sentence. Short version: I don't know whether it should be moved or not!--Vee 16:30, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

I just googled it, and both versions returned the same set of results; skimming through the first ten pages of hits, I'd say a good 90% were "post-colonization", so I'll move it to there. It can always be moved back later if a stronger reason for no hyphen shows up. :) --Arduinna 17:58, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Should this be a subpage of X-Files, if it's only a genre in that fandom? --MegR 17:58, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

There is an unresolved (at least afaik) difference of opinion about whether fandom specific genres ought to be subpages or not. Some (like me) think subpages aren't ideal to organize things for all fandom terms rather than just characters, others like them. There was a post discussing this on the fanlore DW comm and it cropped up on talk pages every now and then. So for now it is mixed, some are subpages other top level.--Ratcreature 18:25, 3 December 2009 (UTC)