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This is a list of the categories we have on Fancyclopedia
 
This is a list of the categories we have on Fancyclopedia
  
'''Master:''' [[:Category:Award|Award]], [[:Category:Bid|Bid]], [[:Category:Bidding|Bidding]], [[:Category:Club|Club]], [[:Category:Conrunning|Conrunning]], [[:Category:Convention|Convention]], [[:Category:fancast|Fancast]], [[:Category:Fanfund|Fanfund]], [[:Category:Fanhistory|Fanhistory]], [[:Category:fanspeak|Fanspeak]], [[:Category:Group|Group]], [[:Category:Locale|Locale]], [[:Category:Misc|Misc]], [[:Category:Penname|Penname]], [[:Category:Person|Person]], [[:Category:Publication|Publication]], [[:Category:Publishing|Publishing]], [[:Category:Publisher|Publisher]], [[:Category:Show|Show]], [[:Category:Store|Store]], [[:Category:Venue|Venue]], [[:Category:Website|Website]], [[:Category:None|None]]
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'''Master:''' [[:Category:Award|Award]], [[:Category:Bid|Bid]], [[:Category:Bidding|Bidding]], [[:Category:Club|Club]], [[:Category:Conrunning|Conrunning]], [[:Category:Convention|Convention]], [[:Category:fancast|Fancast]], [[:Category:Fanfund|Fanfund]], [[:Category:Fanhistory|Fanhistory]], [[:Category:fanspeak|Fanspeak]], [[:Category:fiction|Fiction]], [[:Category:Group|Group]], [[:Category:Locale|Locale]], [[:Category:Misc|Misc]], [[:Category:Person|Person]], [[:Category:Publication|Publication]], [[:Category:Publishing|Publishing]], [[:Category:Publisher|Publisher]], [[:Category:Show|Show]], [[:Category:Store|Store]], [[:Category:Venue|Venue]], [[:Category:Website|Website]], [[:Category:Timeline|Timeline]], [[:Category:None|None]], [[:Category:Validated|Validated]]
  
'''Region:''' [[:Category:Asia|Asia]], [[:Category:Australia|Australia]], [[:Category:Canada|Canada]], [[:Category:Europe|Europe]], [[:Category:Ireland|Ireland]], [[:Category:NZ|NZ]], [[:Category:UK|UK]], [[:Category:US|US]], [[:Category:World|World]]
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'''Region:''' [[:Category:Asia|Asia]], [[:Category:Australia|Australia]], [[:Category:Canada|Canada]], [[:Category:Europe|Europe]], [[:Category:Ireland|Ireland]], [[:Category:NZ|NZ]], [[:Category:UK|UK]], [[:Category:US|US]], [[:Category:ROW|ROW]], [[:Category:World|World]]
  
'''Sub-categories:''' [[:Category:fan|Fan]], [[:Category:Pro|Pro]], [[:Category:Mundane|Mundane]], [[:Category:Conseries|Conseries]], [[:Category:Onetimecon|Onetimecon]], [[:Category:Apa|Apa]], [[:Category:Fanzine|Fanzine]], [[:Category:Apazine|Apazine]], [[:Category:Newszine|Newszine]], [[:Category:Prozine|Prozine]], [[:Category:Semiprozine| Semiprozine]], [[:Category:Newsletter|Newsletter]], [[:Category:Fanthology|Fanthology]], [[:Category:Book|Book]], [[:Category:Bibliography|Bibliography]]
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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]]
  
'''Descriptive:''' [[:Category:Abomination|Abomination]], [[:Category:Artist|Artist]],[[:Category:Catchphrase|Catchphrase]], [[:Category:Fancy1|Fancy1]], [[:Category:Fancy2|Fancy2]], [[:Category:Feud|Feud]], [[:Category:Filk|Filk]], [[:Category:First fandom|First fandom]], [[:Category:Food|Food]], [[:Category:Hoax|Hoax]], [[:Category:Initialism|Initialism]], [[:Category:Media|Media]], [[:Category:Obsolete|Obsolete]], [[:Category:Obscure fact|Obscure fact]], [[:Category:Tolkien|Tolkien]]
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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:Haswebsite|Haswebsite]], [[:Category:Fixme|Fixme]], [[:Category:Details|Details]], [[:Category:Redirect|Redirect]], [[:Category:Wikidot|Wikidot]], [[:Category:Condex|Condex]], [[:Category:Multiple|Multiple]], [[:Category:Choice|Choice]]
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'''Administrative:''' [[:Category:Admin|Admin]], [[:Category:Nodates|Nodates]], [[:Category:Nostart|Nostart]], [[:Category:Noseries|Noseries]],[[:Category:Noend|Noend]],
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[[: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]],
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[[:Category:IA|IA]], [[:Category:Nocountry|Nocountry]]
  
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<tagcloud>exclude=Fixme,Admin,Nostart,Noend,Nodates,Noseries,Haswebsite,Details,Redirect,Wikidot,Multiple,Choice,Hasfiles,Haslink,Nowebsite,Iframe,None,IA,Hidden categories,Located</tagcloud>
 
 
==Master Categories==
 
 
 
Pages must be in one of these master categories. This is done automatically if the <nowiki>{{person}}</nowiki> 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.
 
* '''Fancast''' - Spoken fan publication
 
* '''Fanfund''' - [[Fanfund|Fanfunds]]
 
* '''Fanhistory''' - Articles about what fandom is like, including reminiscence.
 
* '''Fanspeak''' - fannish words and concepts. Some overlap with publishing and conrunning.
 
* '''Group''' - for closed groups, like filk groups, small teams
 
* '''Locale''' - A geographical place
 
* '''Penname''', '''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
 
* '''Person'''
 
* '''Publication''' - A hidden category for all publications above.
 
* '''Publisher''' - Companies, not people. Both large concerns and [[small press|small presses]]
 
* '''Publishing''' - The mechanics of producing books, fanzines etc, cf conrunning for cons.
 
* '''Show''' - Fannish [[fannish musical|musicals]], [[fannish play|plays]], [[fannish film|films]] etc
 
* '''Store''' - Place to buy things, bricks and mortar or online
 
* '''Venue''' - Building that holds cons, 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
 
  
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{{:Category:Master Categories}}
 
==Sub-Categories==
 
==Sub-Categories==
  
Anything that has a location should be one of '''UK, Ireland, Europe, NZ, Australia, Canada, Asia, US, World'''
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Anything that has a location should be one of '''[[:Category:UK|UK]], [[:Category:Ireland|Ireland]], [[:Category:Europe|Europe]], [[:Category:NZ|NZ]], [[:Category:Australia|Australia]], [[:Category:Canada|Canada]], [[:Category:Asia|Asia]], [[:Category:US|US]], [[:Category:ROW|ROW]]'''
  
 
People should be in at least one of these 3 categories
 
People should be in at least one of these 3 categories
* '''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.
* '''Pro''' - Someone with a professional interest. Author, publisher, actor, artist, illustrator, scientist, journalist, academic etc. They get paid to do it.
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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.
* '''Mundane''' - Someone outside of the SF community, like a scientist or actor
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* '''[[: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.)
  
Conventions should be one of
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Conventions will be given a subcategory automatically based on their <nowiki>{{convention}}</nowiki> contents. '''Do not add them manually'''
* '''Conseries''' - The master page for a convention series
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* '''[[:Category:Conseries|Conseries]]''' - The master page for a convention series
* '''Onetimecon''' - For conventions that only ran once
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* '''[[:Category:Onetimecon|Onetimecon]]''' - For conventions that only ran once
and optionally '''Worldcon, Eastercon, Eurocon, Canvention, Westercon''' - For special major conventions, [[Worldcon]], [[Eastercon]], [[Westercon]], [[Eurocon]], [[Canvention]]. We need something for NZ and Australia. [mlo: I'd be inclined to limit this to Eastercon, Westercon and Worldcon as these are far more influential than the others. There are a *lot* of national conventions and we have to draw a line somewhere.  I'd not include NASFiC, either.). It is a matter of perspective, I think Aussies, New Zelanders and Canadians are proud of their natcons. JRB
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* '''[[:Category:Inseries|Inseries]]''' - Conventions as part of a series
* '''Condex''' A hidden category for conventions worth indexing from other entries. Includes conseries, onetimecon, worldcon, eastercon, eurocon, canvention, westercon, and other cons on a whim. Thinking of removing this. JRB
 
  
 
Publications should be one of
 
Publications should be one of
* '''Apa''' - [[APA]]
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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''.
* '''Fanzine, Apazine, Newszine, Prozine, Semiprozine, Newsletter, Fanthology''' - Different sorts of fan publication,  [[fanzine]], [[apazine]], [[newszine]], [[prozine]], [[semiprozine]], [[newsletter]], [[fanthology]]
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*'''[[:Category:Prozine|Prozine]], [[:Category:Semiprozine|Semiprozine]]'''
* '''Book''' - A notable book, series of books, song book, or a short story, length is not an issue, format is.
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*'''[[:Category:Book|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.
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* '''[[:Category:Bibliography|Bibliography]]''' - A list of books, fanzines, prozines, etc.
  
 
==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
* '''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
* '''Catchphrase''' - It ''used'' to be a [[proud and lonely thing to be a fan]].
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* '''[[:Category:Catchphrase|Catchphrase]]''' - It ''used'' to be a [[proud and lonely thing to be a fan]].
* '''Fancy1''', '''fancy2''' - containing content from [[Fancyclopedia 1]] or [[Fancyclopedia 2]]
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*'''[[:Category:Covid-19|Covid-19]]''' - Anyone or anything seriously and directly affected by the pandemic: deaths, cancellations, closures.
* '''Feud''' - [[Feuds]]
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* '''[[:Category:Fancy1|Fancy1]]''', '''[[:Category:Fancy2|Fancy2]]''' - pages containing content from [[Fancyclopedia 1]] or [[Fancyclopedia 2]]
* '''Filk''' - [[Filk]] singing, includes people, conventions, groups, clubs
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* '''[[:Category:Feud|Feud]]''' - [[Feuds]]
* '''First Fandom''' - [[First Fandom]]
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* '''[[:Category:Filk|Filk]]''' - [[Filk]] singing, includes people, conventions, groups, clubs -- [[stfnal]] only, please!
* '''Food''' - food and drink
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* '''[[:Category:First fandom|First fandom]]''' - [[fans]] active prior to July 2, 1939
* '''Hoax''' - [[Hoaxes]]
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* '''[[:Category:Food|Food]]''' - food and drink
* '''Initialism''' - Things referred to by their initials
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* '''[[:Category:Hoax|Hoax]]''' - [[Hoaxes]]
* '''Media''' - non-written fandoms, tv, film, anime etc.
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* '''[[:Category:Initialism|Initialism]]''' - Things referred to by their initials
* '''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.]
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* '''[[:Category:Media|Media]]''' - TV, film, anime, etc., and related entries
* '''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:Notable|Notable]]''' - Specially important pages (in the opinion of the editors)
* '''Tolkien''' - people, clubs, conventions about that
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* '''[[: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.]
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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.
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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==
  
* '''Details''' Hidden category for high levels of detail, like [[1971 TAFF Results]] or [[1971 Best Novel Hugo|Best Novel Hugo]]
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* '''[[:Category:Details|Details]]''' Hidden category for high levels of detail, like [[1971 TAFF Race]] or [[1971 Best Novel Hugo|Best Novel Hugo]], to hide pages from Category lists
* '''Hugos''' - Pages about the [[Hugos]], categories, year summaries, but not at[[1970 Best Novel Hugo|Best Novel Hugo]] level
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* '''[[:Category:Hugos|Hugos]]''' - Pages about the [[Hugos]], categories, year summaries, but not at[[1970 Best Novel Hugo|Best Novel Hugo]] level
* '''Fixme'''
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* '''[[:Category:Fixme|Fixme]]'''
* '''Admin'''
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* '''[[:Category:Admin|Admin]]'''
* '''Mlo,Jrb''' - For Mark and John to fix
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* '''[[:Category:Mlo|Mlo]]''' - For Mark to fix
* '''Nodates,Nofiles,Haswebsite''' - omissions in templates
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* '''[[:Category:Nodates|Nodates]],[[:Category:Nofiles|Nofiles]],[[:Category:Nocountry|Nocountry]],[[:Category:Haswebsite|Haswebsite]],[[:Category:Haslink|Haslink]],[[:Category:Hasfiles|Hasfiles]]''' - mentions/omissions in templates
* '''Redirect,Wikidot''' - redirections, the latter to handle old Wikidot names
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* '''[[:Category:Redirect|Redirect]], [[:Category:Wikidot|Wikidot]]''' - redirections, the latter to handle old Wikidot names
* '''Condex, List'''  - Delete?
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* '''[[:Category:List|List]]'''  - lists, which should not feature in cross-references
* '''Multiple, Choice''' - Pages with multiple entries
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* '''[[:Category:Multiple|Multiple]], [[:Category:Choice|Choice]]''' - Pages with multiple entries
 
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* '''[[:Category:IA|IA]]''' - pages about things active after 2001, so are more likely to have pages on the Internet Archive.
==Changes made==
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* '''[[:Category:Located|Located]]''' - Has a locate= argument in a template
 
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* '''[[:Category:Validated|Validated]]''' - Part of a valid master category
* Get rid of ted tag. JRB [mlo: agree]
 
* The statuette, author, bibliographer, historian, and fantasy tags have very few members, and should go. JRB  [mlo: agree]
 
* Merge perzine tag into fanzine. JRB  [mlo: agree.  I wonder if clubzine is a distinction worth keeping?]
 
* Remove tag email. JRB [mlo: agree]
 
* '''collector''' - [[Collector]]  [mlo: drop]
 
* Remove editor tag, splitting into fan or pro. Too many people edit as part of other things. JRB [mlo: agreed]
 
* Get rid of tag audio, it has 4 members, and no-one thinks to use it. JRB [mlo: agree]
 
* '''lovecraft''' - [mlo: I'm not sure there's enough Lovecraft to warrant it]. JRB delete it
 
* '''statuette''' - Sculpture [mlo: really? Are there ever going to be enough of them? Are they interesting enough?] Deleted. JRB
 
* '''audio''' - [mlo: what is this?  Is there enough to be worth keeping given that we have fancast?]. Deleted JRB
 
* Publisher tag removed from people, publisher link added if important. JRB
 
* Add conrunning tag for articles about how conventions are organised, and memories on how they went. Reserve the convention tag for the event itself. JRB.
 
 
 
==Discussion==
 
  
JRB for ideas liked by John Bray, MLO by Mark Olsen
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==Also==
  
* New tags need approval from Mark. JRB
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* I wonder if clubzine is a distinction worth keeping MLO. Possibly JRB [mlo: Let's keep it for now then.]
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* Merge semiprozine into prozine, they are both sold, even if one loses money! JRB  [mlo: I'm not sure. There are so damn many of the semiprozines.]
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* Writing courses like Clarion should be conventions, not clubs. JRB [mlo: They're repeated annually with different people. Neither tag is perfect, but they "feel" a bit more like a convention.]
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* For something in a category that's too common to be in the main index, add a leading underscore. So while Boskone is a 'convention', Boskone 14 is a ''''_convention'''', Hugo is an 'award', 2008 Best Novel Hugo is an ''''_award''''. JRB  [mlo: I see a good case for this, but let's discuss it a bit more first.  What do we do when we have something like most Eastercons that ought to have both "convention" and "_convention"?] Eastercons should have tag eastercon and not convention, can we think of other examples where Con X is particularly important? JRB
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* Add _admin tags to all redirection pages using "module redirection", or "(Did you mean ...". JRB  [mlo: let's discuss -- I don't understand the implications of this]
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* Add _admin tags to year pages. JRB  [mlo: let's discuss -- I don't understand the implications of this]
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* Add a '''misc''' tag, just so every page has a tag, and we can check for omissions. JRB [mlo: let's discuss -- I don't understand the implications of this]
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* Get rid of abomination and obscure_fact tags. JRB [mlo: I'd like to keep abomination ]
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* Remove catchphrase tag, merge into fanspeak. JRB [mlo: let's discuss -- I'd like to look at the two categories in detail first]
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* Remove tag obsolete. JRB [mlo: let's discuss -- I'd like to look at the category in detail first]
 
* Remove tag websites, everything has a website. JRB [mlo: The idea was to tag pages ''specifically'' about websites.  Let's review]
 
* Add tag '''project''', for all those fannish projects to archive, catalogue change the world etc. Would cover many websites like SF Encyclopedia etc, so could take over from website tag. JRB  [mlo: ??]
 
* Work on pages with multiple meanings so we have no pages with incompatible tags merely because they share the same name. JRB [mlo: let's discuss -- I don't understand the implications of this]
 
* Now tag collector has gone replace with backlinks from the [[Collector]] article.  [mlo: agree.]
 
This could apply to all sorts of roles, editor, historian etc. JRB [mlo: let's discuss -- I don't understand the implications of this, though it sounds sensible]
 
* Publisher is currently half companies, half people. The latter is an anomalous role given we don't have editor etc. We could change publisher to '''press''' to be the counterpart to small_press, but its not a common term. It might be easiest to just ensure [[publisher]] is in people's descriptions, and have a backlink section as we do for editor, and not tag people. publishing_house/publisher is an alternative. JRB [mlo: I no longer think it makes sense for it to be a person -- there are far too many fanzines publishers! The question then becomes, does the remaining use warrant keeping it at all?]. I think we should rename small_press tag to be publisher, and keep the mainstream ones in that. They'd be overwhelmed, but that's good, and avoids our assessment. Get Thomas's view. JRB [thomas: tagging small presses with 'publisher' rather than 'small_press' makes sense to me. As for people, there is the borderline case of Graham Stone having published books as Graham Stone.][thomas: another alternative is '''imprint'''. It doesn't have quite the same meaning. A publisher may have multiple imprints. But users may tend to know publishers by their imprints rather than their business names (e.g., "Escape Publishing" rather than "Harlequin Australia", and "Tor" rather than "Tom Doherty Associates").]
 
* Change the novelty tags (food, catchphrase, nickname, obscure fact etc) into standalone pages prominent from the landing page. Obviously it would be nicer to have someone write on the history of nicknames, but we could just have the automatic backlist from a mention of the term. Not convinced that people finding one obscure fact would be hopping to others. JRB
 
* Either get rid of '''newszine''' (3 entries) and '''newsletter''' or populate them. Convention newsletters should really be folded into the con entries, the rest are just fanzines, which need to just reference [[newszine]] their text. JRB votes populate newsletter with convention newsletters, and make newszines fanzines.
 
  
 
[[Category:Admin]]
 
[[Category:Admin]]

Latest revision as of 06:15, 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]

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