Category talk:Book fandoms
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[edit] Sort
Changed the default sort to plural. That way, it fell after Category:Books on Category:Fandoms as that seemed logical. --Laura 06:54, 12 December 2007 (CST)
[edit] Sort take two
As the category listings were getting out of control and it felt like they were interfering with the ability to find the articles about fandoms, I moved all the categories to Category:Book fandom categories. Hopefully, this can improve navigation a bit. Sort of started doing that with movies and television shows but did not completed like this one. --Laura 10:45, 3 March 2008 (CST)
[edit] Name sorting
Would it be worth fixing defaultsort on names of authors in these fandoms to Last name, First name? For browsing categories and the like.--Sidewinder 08:45, 1 May 2008 (EDT)
- No real preference here. Whatever is done should be done the same for the sake of consistency. --Laura 08:59, 1 May 2008 (EDT)
[edit] Article focus
One issue that has been bugging me regarding this category: Book fandoms by the name of the author, book fandoms by the name of a book or series. Should one convention be chosen over the other? Or is doing both logical given that many authors have followings based on their authorship with many books not in the same universe to continue to use both groupings? --Laura 08:59, 1 May 2008 (EDT)
- My feeling is basically covering both bases? Because as you point out, some people are fans of an author across various books and series, others may only have a fandom or interest on one particular book or universe.
At this point I've mostly just making sure authors are also cross categories under either "professional authors" or "classics authors", and adding some major universe fandom names as a cross category as well. At some point, the overall category could probably use more sub-categories or someone to go through and more thoroughly make sure things are cross-categorized (ie, scifi book fandoms, fantasy book fandoms, mystery book fandoms, etc?)--Sidewinder 09:24, 1 May 2008 (EDT)
- Yeah, doing a genre breakdown might not be a bad idea... Science fiction has been broken off into its own fandom component top level. The whole infrastructure for that top level fandom is pretty lacking and it would be great to build that up some more. It should probably be tossed on a to do list but feh. I don't know that it really should be a priority at the moment. --Laura 09:36, 1 May 2008 (EDT)
- Agreed. I think finishing this basic run-through of the various categories like I'm doing now will maybe help show where certain things could be inter-related better. In general I think there's no problem with a lot of cross-linking and it can be helpful in fandoms where it's hard to delineate one completely separate from another (ie, an actor fandom like Orlando Bloom which in some ways it tied to Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Carribbean, as well as general RPF actor fandom, and LotR is both a movie & a book and a general fantasy fandom, and a Tolkein fandom.... etc etc etc--Sidewinder 09:47, 1 May 2008 (EDT)
- It would kind of be nice to at some point branch of romance and mystery... but if that's being done, it might be better to consider doing a genre break down instead of fandom? Romance, Mystery, Science Fiction as Category:Genre? Leave science fiction under Category:Fandom because it has such a clear history of its own.
- RPF I really have no clue how to handle at times. Lord of the Rings Real Person Fic kind of feels like it leaves out the icon making, the fanvidding, the fanart... because it has fic attached but not certain there really is a better word for it to encompass the multi-actor fandom directly affiliated with a movie or television show. :/ --Laura 09:53, 1 May 2008 (EDT)
