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'''Sub-categories:''' [[:Category:fan|Fan]], [[:Category:Pro|Pro]], [[:Category:Mundane|Mundane]], [[:Category:APA|APA]], [[:Category:Fanzine|Fanzine]], [[:Category:Apazine|Apazine]], [[:Category:Clubzine|Clubzine]],  [[:Category:Newszine|Newszine]], [[:Category:Prozine|Prozine]], [[:Category:Semiprozine| Semiprozine]], [[:Category:Fanthology|Fanthology]], [[:Category:Book|Book]], [[:Category:Bibliography|Bibliography]], [[:Category:Conseries|Conseries]], [[:Category:Onetimecon|Onetimecon]], [[:Category:Inseries|Inseries]]
 
'''Sub-categories:''' [[:Category:fan|Fan]], [[:Category:Pro|Pro]], [[:Category:Mundane|Mundane]], [[:Category:APA|APA]], [[:Category:Fanzine|Fanzine]], [[:Category:Apazine|Apazine]], [[:Category:Clubzine|Clubzine]],  [[:Category:Newszine|Newszine]], [[:Category:Prozine|Prozine]], [[:Category:Semiprozine| Semiprozine]], [[:Category:Fanthology|Fanthology]], [[:Category:Book|Book]], [[:Category:Bibliography|Bibliography]], [[:Category:Conseries|Conseries]], [[:Category:Onetimecon|Onetimecon]], [[:Category:Inseries|Inseries]]
  
'''Descriptive:''' [[:Category:Abomination|Abomination]], [[:Category:Artist|Artist]], [[:Category:Canvention|Canvention]], [[:Category:Catchphrase|Catchphrase]], [[:Category:Covid-19|Covid-19]], [[:Category:Eastercon|Eastercon]],[[:Category:Eurocon|Eurocon]], [[:Category:Fancy1|Fancy1]], [[:Category:Fancy2|Fancy2]], [[:Category:Feud|Feud]], [[:Category:Filk|Filk]], [[:Category:First_fandom|First fandom]], [[:Category:Food|Food]], [[:Category:Hoax|Hoax]], [[:Category:Hugos|Hugos]], [[:Category:Initialism|Initialism]], [[:Category:List|List]],  [[:Category:Media|Media]], [[:Category:Nickname|Nickname]], [[:Category:Notable|Notable]], [[:Category:Obsolete|Obsolete]], [[:Category:Obscure_fact|Obscure fact]], [[:Category:Penname|Penname]],[[:Category:Tolkien|Tolkien]], [[:Category:Westercon|Westercon]], [[:Category:Worldcon|Worldcon]] [[:Category:WSFS|WSFS]]
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'''Descriptive:''' [[:Category:Abomination|Abomination]], [[:Category:Artist|Artist]], [[:Category:Canvention|Canvention]], [[:Category:Catchphrase|Catchphrase]], [[:Category:Covid-19|Covid-19]], [[:Category:Eastercon|Eastercon]],[[:Category:Eurocon|Eurocon]], [[:Category:Fancy1|Fancy1]], [[:Category:Fancy2|Fancy2]], [[:Category:Feud|Feud]], [[:Category:Filk|Filk]], [[:Category:First_fandom|First fandom]], [[:Category:Food|Food]], [[:Category:Hoax|Hoax]], [[:Category:Hugos|Hugos]], [[:Category:Initialism|Initialism]], [[:Category:List|List]],  [[:Category:Media|Media]], [[:Category:Nickname|Nickname]], [[:Category:Notable|Notable]], [[:Category:Obsolete|Obsolete]], [[:Category:Obscure_fact|Obscure fact]], [[:Category:Penname|Penname]], [[:Category:TED|TED]], [[:Category:Tolkien|Tolkien]], [[:Category:Westercon|Westercon]], [[:Category:Worldcon|Worldcon]] [[:Category:WSFS|WSFS]]  
  
'''Administrative:''' [[:Category:Admin|Admin]], [[:Category:mlo|mlo]], [[:Category:jrb|jrb]], [[:Category:Nofiles|Nofiles]], [[:Category:Nodates|Nodates]],  [[:Category:Nostart|Nostart]],  [[:Category:Noseries|Noseries]],[[:Category:Noend|Noend]],  
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'''Administrative:''' [[:Category:Admin|Admin]], [[:Category:Nodates|Nodates]],  [[:Category:Nostart|Nostart]],  [[:Category:Noseries|Noseries]],[[:Category:Noend|Noend]],  
 
[[:Category:Nowebsite|Nowebsite]], [[:Category:Hasfiles|Hasfiles]], [[:Category:Haslink|Haslink]], [[:Category:Haswebsite|Haswebsite]], [[:Category:Fixme|Fixme]], [[:Category:Details|Details]], [[:Category:Redirect|Redirect]], [[:Category:Wikidot|Wikidot]], [[:Category:Multiple|Multiple]], [[:Category:Choice|Choice]], [[:Category:Iframe|Iframe]],
 
[[:Category:Nowebsite|Nowebsite]], [[:Category:Hasfiles|Hasfiles]], [[:Category:Haslink|Haslink]], [[:Category:Haswebsite|Haswebsite]], [[:Category:Fixme|Fixme]], [[:Category:Details|Details]], [[:Category:Redirect|Redirect]], [[:Category:Wikidot|Wikidot]], [[:Category:Multiple|Multiple]], [[:Category:Choice|Choice]], [[:Category:Iframe|Iframe]],
[[:Category:Active|Active]], [[:Category:Inactive|Inactive]], [[:Category:IA|IA]], [[:Category:Map|Map]], [[:Category:Mapped|Mapped]], [[:Category:Nocountry|Nocountry]]
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[[:Category:IA|IA]], [[:Category:Nocountry|Nocountry]]
  
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==Master Categories==
 
 
 
Pages must be in '''one''' of these master categories. This is done automatically if the <nowiki>{{person | born=????}}</nowiki> etc template is added.
 
* '''[[:Category:Admin|Admin]]''' - for internal organisation of the site, templates etc
 
* '''[[:Category:Award|Award]]''' - [[Awards]], but only apply to the key pages for award series
 
* '''[[:Category:Bid|Bid]]''' - A [[bid]] for a convention
 
* '''[[:Category:Bidding|Bidding]]''' - Convention [[bidding]] races
 
* '''[[:Category:Club|Club]]''' - [[clubs]] and writing groups and writing workshops
 
* '''[[:Category:Conrunning|Conrunning]]''' - The mechanics of running a convention, famous incidents
 
* '''[[:Category:Convention|Convention]]''' - [[Conventions]], festivals etc. But only Fannish SF conventions -- not comicons, etc.
 
* '''[[:Category:Fancast|Fancast]]''' - Spoken fan publication
 
* '''[[:Category:Fanfund|Fanfund]]''' - [[Fanfund|Fanfunds]]
 
* '''[[:Category:Fanhistory|Fanhistory]]''' - Articles about what fandom is like, including reminiscence.
 
* '''[[:Category:Fanspeak|Fanspeak]]''' - fannish words and concepts. Some overlap with publishing and conrunning.
 
* '''[[:Category:Group|Group]]''' - for closed groups, like filk groups, small teams
 
* '''[[:Category:Locale|Locale]]''' - A geographical place, typically a city
 
* '''[[:Category:Penname|Penname]]''', '''[[:Category:Nickname|Nickname]]''' - Former as authors, latter as people [mlo: Is this a useful distinction? It's clear enough, but is it useful?] Pennames for pros should be invisible redirects. Nicknames for fans have some interest, but again would better be part of the fan's main page. So I think its clutter and would remove it. I now think they should be redirects to a bolded mention in an person's actual page. JRB
 
* '''[[:Category:Person|Person]]'''
 
* '''[[:Category:Publication|Publication]]''' - A hidden category for all publications above.
 
* '''[[:Category:Publisher|Publisher]]''' - Companies, not people. Both large concerns and [[small press|small presses]]
 
* '''[[:Category:Publishing|Publishing]]''' - The mechanics of producing books, fanzines etc, cf conrunning for cons.
 
* '''[[:Category:Show|Show]]''' - Fannish [[fannish musical|musicals]], [[fannish play|plays]], [[fannish film|films]] etc
 
* '''[[:Category:Store|Store]]''' - Place to buy things, bricks and mortar or online
 
* '''[[:Category:Venue|Venue]]''' - Building that holds cons, or a [[slan shack]] house.
 
* '''[[:Category:Website|Website]]''' - websites
 
* '''[[:Category:Misc|Misc]]''' - Anything else, as all pages should have a category
 
* '''[[:Category:None|None]]''' - Pages the admins don't want to have a category, generally because we don't want to index them
 
  
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{{:Category:Master Categories}}
 
==Sub-Categories==
 
==Sub-Categories==
  
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People should be in at least one of these 3 categories
 
People should be in at least one of these 3 categories
* '''[[:Category:Fan|Fan]]''' - Someone with an amateur interest in fandom. They pay to do it
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* '''[[:Category:Fan|Fan]]''' - Someone with an amateur interest in fandom. They pay to do it.  This category is ''not'' used to designate fan organizations; just people.
* '''[[:Category:Pro|Pro]]''' - Someone with a professional interest. Author, publisher, actor, artist, illustrator, journalist, academic etc. They get paid to do it. Someone can be both a fan and a pro.
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* '''[[:Category:Pro|Pro]]''' - Someone with a professional interest. Author, publisher, actor, artist, illustrator, journalist, academic etc. They get paid to do it. Someone can be both a fan and a pro.  This category is ''not'' used to designate professional organizations; just people.
 
* '''[[:Category:Mundane|Mundane]]''' - Someone outside of the SF community, like a scientist or actor (scientists who are fans do not get the Mundane category also.)
 
* '''[[:Category:Mundane|Mundane]]''' - Someone outside of the SF community, like a scientist or actor (scientists who are fans do not get the Mundane category also.)
  
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Publications should be one of
 
Publications should be one of
* '''[[:Category:APA|APA]]''', '''[[:Category:Fanzine|Fanzine]], [[:Category:Apazine|Apazine]], [[:Category:Newszine|Newszine]], [[:Category:Fanthology|Fanthology]]''' - Different sorts of fan publications
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* '''[[:Category:APA|APA]]''', '''[[:Category:Fanzine|Fanzine]], [[:Category:Apazine|Apazine]], [[:Category:Newszine|Newszine]], [[:Category:Fanthology|Fanthology]]''' - Different sorts of fan publications.  Regardless of type (newszine, etc) pubs in any of these categories should also be tagged as a ''fanzine''.
 
*'''[[:Category:Prozine|Prozine]], [[:Category:Semiprozine|Semiprozine]]'''  
 
*'''[[:Category:Prozine|Prozine]], [[:Category:Semiprozine|Semiprozine]]'''  
 
*'''[[:Category:Book|Book]]''' - A notable book, series of books, song book, or a short story, length is not an issue, format is.
 
*'''[[:Category:Book|Book]]''' - A notable book, series of books, song book, or a short story, length is not an issue, format is.
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==Descriptive categories==
 
==Descriptive categories==
  
People can also be '''Artist''' - Anyone who produces art, including video
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People can also be '''Artist''' - Anyone who produces [[art]], including video.
  
 
All pages can be one of these
 
All pages can be one of these
* '''[[:Category:Abomination|Abomination]]''' - It's traditional for a few editorial remarks to creep in
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* '''[[:Category:Abomination|Abomination]]''' - It's [[traditional]] for a few editorial remarks to creep in
 
* '''[[:Category:Catchphrase|Catchphrase]]''' - It ''used'' to be a [[proud and lonely thing to be a fan]].
 
* '''[[:Category:Catchphrase|Catchphrase]]''' - It ''used'' to be a [[proud and lonely thing to be a fan]].
*'''[[:Category:Covid-19|Covid-19]]''' - Anyone or anything seriously affected by the pandemic: deaths, cancellations, closures.  
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*'''[[:Category:Covid-19|Covid-19]]''' - Anyone or anything seriously and directly affected by the pandemic: deaths, cancellations, closures.  
* '''[[:Category:Fancy1|Fancy1]]''', '''[[:Category:Fancy2|Fancy2]]''' - containing content from [[Fancyclopedia 1]] or [[Fancyclopedia 2]]
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* '''[[:Category:Fancy1|Fancy1]]''', '''[[:Category:Fancy2|Fancy2]]''' - pages containing content from [[Fancyclopedia 1]] or [[Fancyclopedia 2]]
 
* '''[[:Category:Feud|Feud]]''' - [[Feuds]]
 
* '''[[:Category:Feud|Feud]]''' - [[Feuds]]
* '''[[:Category:Filk|Filk]]''' - [[Filk]] singing, includes people, conventions, groups, clubs
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* '''[[:Category:Filk|Filk]]''' - [[Filk]] singing, includes people, conventions, groups, clubs -- [[stfnal]] only, please!
* '''[[:Category:First fandom|First fandom]]''' - [[First Fandom]]
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* '''[[:Category:First fandom|First fandom]]''' - [[fans]] active prior to July 2, 1939
 
* '''[[:Category:Food|Food]]''' - food and drink
 
* '''[[:Category:Food|Food]]''' - food and drink
 
* '''[[:Category:Hoax|Hoax]]''' - [[Hoaxes]]
 
* '''[[:Category:Hoax|Hoax]]''' - [[Hoaxes]]
 
* '''[[:Category:Initialism|Initialism]]''' - Things referred to by their initials
 
* '''[[:Category:Initialism|Initialism]]''' - Things referred to by their initials
* '''[[:Category:Media|Media]]''' - non-written fandoms, tv, film, anime etc.
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* '''[[:Category:Media|Media]]''' - TV, film, anime, etc., and related entries
 
* '''[[:Category:Notable|Notable]]''' - Specially important pages (in the opinion of the editors)
 
* '''[[:Category:Notable|Notable]]''' - Specially important pages (in the opinion of the editors)
 
* '''[[:Category:Obscure fact|Obscure fact]]''' - ?  [mlo: This is in the category of "it seemed like a good idea at the time".  The idea was to tag things people just browsing might find amusing.  We should discuss whether it retains enough value.]
 
* '''[[:Category:Obscure fact|Obscure fact]]''' - ?  [mlo: This is in the category of "it seemed like a good idea at the time".  The idea was to tag things people just browsing might find amusing.  We should discuss whether it retains enough value.]
* '''[[:Category:Obsolete|Obsolete]]''' - ? [mlo: I think this may still be useful. It designates usages, mainly, which are obsolete. Let's discuss, as it might be as useful turned into something like '''Obsolete''' at the top of the definition.]
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* '''[[:Category:Obsolete|Obsolete]]''' - Designates [[fanspeak]] terms, mainly, and a few [[WSFS]] rules and other practices, which are now longer in common use, even among the dinosaurs of fandom.
* '''[[:Category:Tolkien|Tolkien]]''' - people, clubs, conventions about that
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*'''[[:Category:TED|TED]]''' - Entries related to ''[[The Enchanted Duplicator]]''.  
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* '''[[:Category:Tolkien|Tolkien]]''' - people, clubs, conventions about [[J. R. R. Tolkien]]'s works.
  
 
==Admin==
 
==Admin==
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* '''[[:Category:Mlo|Mlo]]''' - For Mark to fix
 
* '''[[:Category:Mlo|Mlo]]''' - For Mark to fix
 
* '''[[:Category:Nodates|Nodates]],[[:Category:Nofiles|Nofiles]],[[:Category:Nocountry|Nocountry]],[[:Category:Haswebsite|Haswebsite]],[[:Category:Haslink|Haslink]],[[:Category:Hasfiles|Hasfiles]]''' - mentions/omissions in templates
 
* '''[[:Category:Nodates|Nodates]],[[:Category:Nofiles|Nofiles]],[[:Category:Nocountry|Nocountry]],[[:Category:Haswebsite|Haswebsite]],[[:Category:Haslink|Haslink]],[[:Category:Hasfiles|Hasfiles]]''' - mentions/omissions in templates
* '''[[:Category:Active|Active]],[[:Category:Inactive|Inactive]]''' - Is the item continuing today or not
 
 
* '''[[:Category:Redirect|Redirect]], [[:Category:Wikidot|Wikidot]]''' - redirections, the latter to handle old Wikidot names
 
* '''[[:Category:Redirect|Redirect]], [[:Category:Wikidot|Wikidot]]''' - redirections, the latter to handle old Wikidot names
 
* '''[[:Category:List|List]]'''  - lists, which should not feature in cross-references
 
* '''[[:Category:List|List]]'''  - lists, which should not feature in cross-references
 
* '''[[:Category:Multiple|Multiple]], [[:Category:Choice|Choice]]''' - Pages with multiple entries
 
* '''[[:Category:Multiple|Multiple]], [[:Category:Choice|Choice]]''' - Pages with multiple entries
 
* '''[[:Category:IA|IA]]''' - pages about things active after 2001, so are more likely to have pages on the Internet Archive.
 
* '''[[:Category:IA|IA]]''' - pages about things active after 2001, so are more likely to have pages on the Internet Archive.
* '''[[:Category:Map|Map]]''' - Automatically generated map
 
* '''[[:Category:Mapped|Mapped]]''' - Has a matching map.
 
 
* '''[[:Category:Located|Located]]''' - Has a locate= argument in a template
 
* '''[[:Category:Located|Located]]''' - Has a locate= argument in a template
* '''[[:Category:Validated|Validated]''' - Part of a valid master category
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* '''[[:Category:Validated|Validated]]''' - Part of a valid master category
  
 
==Also==
 
==Also==

Latest revision as of 05:15, 3 October 2022

This is a list of the categories we have on Fancyclopedia

Master: Award, Bid, Bidding, Club, Conrunning, Convention, Fancast, Fanfund, Fanhistory, Fanspeak, Fiction, Group, Locale, Misc, Person, Publication, Publishing, Publisher, Show, Store, Venue, Website, Timeline, None, Validated

Region: Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Ireland, NZ, UK, US, ROW, World

Sub-categories: Fan, Pro, Mundane, APA, Fanzine, Apazine, Clubzine, Newszine, Prozine, Semiprozine, Fanthology, Book, Bibliography, Conseries, Onetimecon, Inseries

Descriptive: Abomination, Artist, Canvention, Catchphrase, Covid-19, Eastercon,Eurocon, Fancy1, Fancy2, Feud, Filk, First fandom, Food, Hoax, Hugos, Initialism, List, Media, Nickname, Notable, Obsolete, Obscure fact, Penname, TED, Tolkien, Westercon, Worldcon WSFS

Administrative: Admin, Nodates, Nostart, Noseries,Noend, Nowebsite, Hasfiles, Haslink, Haswebsite, Fixme, Details, Redirect, Wikidot, Multiple, Choice, Iframe, IA, Nocountry

Master Categories[edit]

Pages must be in one of these master categories. This is done automatically if the {{person | born=????}} etc template is added.

  • Admin - For internal organisation of the site, templates etc
  • Award - Awards, but only apply to the key pages for award series
  • Bid - A bid for a convention
  • Bidding - Other kinds of material about convention bidding, including pages documenting the results of a vote
  • Club - Clubs and other voluntary, non-commercial, more-or-less open associations including the sponsoring organizations for conventions
  • Conrunning - The mechanics of running a convention, famous incidents
  • Convention - Conventions, festivals etc. But only Fannish SF conventions -- not comicons, etc.
  • Fancast - Spoken fan publications
  • Fanfund - Fanfunds
  • Fanhistory - Articles about what fandom is like, including reminiscence.
  • Fanspeak - Fannish words and concepts. Some overlap with publishing and conrunning.
  • Fiction – Terms and ideas stemming from fiction
  • Group - for groups, like filk groups, small teams, fannish groups that aren’t organized clubs, writing groups, and writing workshops. Groups are not generally open to new members.
  • Locale - Geographical areas where there is or has been fannish activity, typically cities.
  • Penname, Nickname - Former as authors, latter as people
  • Person - All articles about people.
  • Publication - A hidden category for all publications above.
  • Publisher - Applies to science fiction book and prozine publishing companies, including small presses
  • Publishing - The mechanics of producing books, fanzines etc.
  • Show - Fannish musicals, plays, films etc
  • Store - Place to buy things (generally books), bricks and mortar or online
  • Venue - A building that holds cons, clubhouses or a slan shack house.
  • Website - Fannish websites
  • Misc - Anything else, as all pages should have a category
  • None - Pages the admins don't want to have a category, generally because we don't want to index them

Sub-Categories[edit]

Anything that has a location should be one of UK, Ireland, Europe, NZ, Australia, Canada, Asia, US, ROW

People should be in at least one of these 3 categories

  • Fan - Someone with an amateur interest in fandom. They pay to do it. This category is not used to designate fan organizations; just people.
  • Pro - Someone with a professional interest. Author, publisher, actor, artist, illustrator, journalist, academic etc. They get paid to do it. Someone can be both a fan and a pro. This category is not used to designate professional organizations; just people.
  • Mundane - Someone outside of the SF community, like a scientist or actor (scientists who are fans do not get the Mundane category also.)

Conventions will be given a subcategory automatically based on their {{convention}} contents. Do not add them manually

  • Conseries - The master page for a convention series
  • Onetimecon - For conventions that only ran once
  • Inseries - Conventions as part of a series

Publications should be one of

  • APA, Fanzine, Apazine, Newszine, Fanthology - Different sorts of fan publications. Regardless of type (newszine, etc) pubs in any of these categories should also be tagged as a fanzine.
  • Prozine, Semiprozine
  • Book - A notable book, series of books, song book, or a short story, length is not an issue, format is.
  • Bibliography - A list of books, fanzines, prozines, etc.

Descriptive categories[edit]

People can also be Artist - Anyone who produces art, including video.

All pages can be one of these

Admin[edit]

Also[edit]

Category:Hidden categories - Category:Master Categories - Category:NASFiC