Categories

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,Tolkien, Westercon, Worldcon WSFS

Administrative: Admin, mlo, Nofiles, 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 - Convention bidding races
Club - clubs and writing groups and writing workshops
Conrunning - The mechanics of running a convention, famous incidents
Convention - Conventions, festivals etc. But only Fannish SF conventions -- not comicons, etc.
Fancast - Spoken fan publication
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
Locale - A geographical place, typically a city
Penname, Nickname - Former as authors, latter as people
Person
Publication - A hidden category for all publications above.
Publisher - Companies, not people. Both large concerns and small presses
Publishing - The mechanics of producing books, fanzines etc.
Show - Fannish musicals, plays, films etc
Store - Place to buy things, bricks and mortar or online
Venue - Building that holds cons, clubhouses or a slan shack house.
Website - 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

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
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.
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

Publications should be one of

APA, Fanzine, Apazine, Newszine, Fanthology - Different sorts of fan publications
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.

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

All pages can be one of these

Abomination - It's traditional for a few editorial remarks to creep in
Catchphrase - It used to be a proud and lonely thing to be a fan.
Covid-19 - Anyone or anything seriously affected by the pandemic: deaths, cancellations, closures.
Fancy1, Fancy2 - containing content from Fancyclopedia 1 or Fancyclopedia 2
Feud - Feuds
Filk - Filk singing, includes people, conventions, groups, clubs
First fandom - fans active prior to July 2, 1939
Food - food and drink
Hoax - Hoaxes
Initialism - Things referred to by their initials
Media - non-written fandoms, tv, film, anime etc.
Notable - Specially important pages (in the opinion of the editors)
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.]
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.]
Tolkien - people, clubs, conventions about that

Details Hidden category for high levels of detail, like 1971 TAFF Race or Best Novel Hugo, to hide pages from Category lists
Hugos - Pages about the Hugos, categories, year summaries, but not atBest Novel Hugo level
Fixme
Admin
Mlo - For Mark to fix
Nodates,Nofiles,Nocountry,Haswebsite,Haslink,Hasfiles - mentions/omissions in templates
Redirect, Wikidot - redirections, the latter to handle old Wikidot names
List - lists, which should not feature in cross-references
Multiple, Choice - Pages with multiple entries
IA - pages about things active after 2001, so are more likely to have pages on the Internet Archive.
Located - Has a locate= argument in a template
[[:Category:Validated|Validated] - Part of a valid master category