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Contents 1 Terminology categorization 2 Older discussion 3 Subcategory 4 Examples 5 Geocities closing

[edit] Terminology categorization

Just a question of sorts... At one point, probably a year ago, Jae and I were talking about how to categorize terms and the thought wasn't necessarily to put each term in its own category for every fandom it was used in. It looks like we're now headed in that directions. Is that something that contributors to these articles actively think should be done? I'm of the camp of don't put the term in a particular fandom category it is used in unless the fandom is mentioned in the article. That way, articles like say Saffic, slash, lemon aren't in 1,000 different categories. And if some one wants to create a situation where those articles should be in those categories, it should be easy enough to think of a way to get the fandom mentioned. --Laura 07:39, 28 June 2008 (CDT)

[edit] Older discussion

Should terminology that means the same thing, or is short for the longer term, really have separate articles? Or should they redirect to the main article about the term? For instance, I redirected a bunch of terms to the main article Saffic because the rest of them were repeating the definition. I figure if there's one main article for something, people can work on developing that instead of separately developing the scattered ones. Ex. Extended Universe, EU, and E/U are all terms for one concept. --Immora 13:09, 29 January 2007 (EST)

I've been combining them (like fanfic, fan fic, and fan fiction) since, like you said, they all mean the same thing. Makes everything neater, I think. -Jae 08:14, 10 October 2007 (CDT)

[edit] Subcategory

Since there are approximately a gazillion ship/pairing terms, I was thinking of creating a category to stick them all into. Yay or nay? -Jae 08:14, 10 October 2007 (CDT)

Ummmm. Can see good arguments both ways. It just seems like there could be a gazillion ways to categorize them... and by fandom could mean that a term could be in a thousand some odd categories.  :/ What ideas did you have to make it more navigable? :/ --Laura 09:04, 10 October 2007 (CDT)

Hmm. I was just thinking of doing Category:Shipping terms or Category:Pairing names or something to that effect. Hadn't thought about separating by fandom. You're right, that would make things a lot more confusing! -Jae 09:42, 10 October 2007 (CDT)

If you want to try that, maybe edit the page like the category:people page is to list those sub cats so they don't not appear on a page as you through pages and pages of terms... but getting pairing names out... at least that part initially, yeah... so category:pairing names and then say category:Digimon shipping names cross linked with category:Digimon... that might make things a bit easier to find. --Laura 10:06, 10 October 2007 (CDT)

Starting to occasionally clean and sort these terms. At the moment, I'm using pretty much the same categories as Category:Fandoms. Seems like there should be something else like Category:Genre terminology and Category:Pairing terminology. Not that concerned about it at the moment though it might require chasing down later because of that... --Laura 14:53, 13 December 2007 (CST)

[edit] Examples

Most of the definitions have places for examples. It would be nice if say, some one could go through and work on adding example fics to those sections: Fluff stories listed on the page about fluff, snuff fic examples on the page about snuff fic, etc. --Laura 21:10, 27 December 2007 (CST)

[edit] Geocities closing

Geocities is closing. We really need some one to find examples of historical definitions of terms found on GeoCities sites before that happens. This important so the etymology and evolution of fannish terms can be understood. --Betsyb 15:52, 24 April 2009 (UTC)