User talk:Cannellfan

Hello! Welcome on board. Let me know if you have any questions (although I am still fumbling around technically speaking). --Morgandawn 06:44, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Just dipping my toe in for the moment, and I think I'm already done for the evening after getting a feel for the place. I want to enter in the content info and covers for all the fanzines (mostly letterzines like The Cannell Files) I edited over the years, but I will eventually get around to contributing some info/content about the history of vidding as viewed through the perspective of MediaWest*Con! I'll ask you if I run into any questions that need answering! --Cannellfan 07:15, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

I second Morgan's welcome to you! It looks like you're already adding some neat information. :-)--Mrs. Potato Head 14:17, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

BTW, we've been talking about setting out guidelines for what categories should be added to image files over here. The practice has been to add zine images to just the fandom categories and not to generic zine categories like Newsletters & Letterzines, in part because there are so many of these images that they would overwhelm larger categories.--æþel 19:44, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Makes a certain amount of sense to me. I only started adding the additional generic zine category tags because someone else went into the images I had previously uploaded and ADDED those tags to my images, so I thought maybe I was SUPPOSED to be adding that info when I uploaded. I'll be happy to go back and trim those tags out if that's the expected editorial consensus! --Cannellfan 18:05, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

I think what they're suggesting is that we aim for the most specific category possible. Ex: Star Trek zines are split into smaller categories, so if the image is related to a zine, you'd add it to Star Trek Gen Zines, Star Trek Slash Zines, Star Trek Newsletters etc. If a fandom does not have a corresponding zine category, *then* we fall back to the generic fandom one (ex: Star Trek). Otherwise we'd be trading one problem (overuse of the top level zine categories) for another one (overuse of top level fandom categories).--Morgandawn 21:32, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Okay, so when Mrs. Potato Head added the categories "Star Trek TOS Non-Fiction Zines" and "Newsletters & Letterzines" to several of my STARLink scanned covers -- STARLink being a ST/STNG/STDS9 gen letterzine -- the "Newsletters & Letterzines" category tag really shouldn't have been there. Does that sound correct? And therefore, it would be a reasonable move for me to go back to all the STARLink cover images and remove the "Newsletters & Letterzines" category tag, since it is superceded by the "Star Trek TOS Non-Fiction Zines" category tag? How about the covers I have posted for all The Cannell Files issues -- it is a gen letterzine, but for ALL the shows Stephen J. Cannell produced, so it's not single-show specific. At present, they all have the category tag "Multimedia Gen and Het Zines". The content is almost exclusively non-fiction, so should there be a different tag that reflects that?.--Cannellfan 22:09, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

I think, not understanding how it works and thinking I was improving things, went and messed some stuff up, including the STARLinks. I'm sorry, Canellfan. I'd be happy to move anything out of that category, except, to be honest, I kinda still don't get it. --Mrs. Potato Head 22:38, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

At this stage because the categories are confusing, inconsistently created and applied (and in flux - who knows what they'll look like in a few weeks), the other suggestion is to focus on uploading the images and linking them to the correct articles. It'll also give you (and me, cause I am just as clueless as Mrs PH - waves hello) a chance to see how they're being categorized. I am hoping that it will become clearer to me by observing in real time. --Morgandawn 01:31, 8 January 2011 (UTC)