Forum:Categories

Removal of Imagipedia Categories
My rationale for doing this:


 * 1) There was already an Imagipedia category.
 * 2) The other categories were too small (like fewer than 8 entries) to be useful
 * 3) Each page had a whole string of categories.
 * 4) Some larger categories (such as Imagipedia (Subject) and Imagiworld) were simply rehashes of the Imagipedia category.
 * 5) Imagipedia wasn't large enough to warrant so many categories anyway.
 * 6) Some categories were trivial.

--Yunzhong Hou 00:47, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

Categories
Basically, each page should have around 6 categories.

For main pages: list all categories under Category:Main.
 * 1) Only the category: Category:Help, Category:Guide to Writing, Category:Links, Category:Forum, Category:Page deletion

For project pages: list all categories under Category:Projects.
 * 1) The category: Category:The Neverending Wiki Categories, Category:BOEN, Category:Interactive Fiction, Category:Imagipedia, Category:WikiStory, Category:Fan Fiction, misc.
 * 2) The subcategory:
 * 3) If Neverending Wiki, then subcategory: Category:Regions, Category:Arcanery, Category:Bestiary, Category:History, etc.
 * 4) If Interactive Fiction, then subcategory: Category:Atrapado, Category:Quest, Category:WorldWiki, Category:3Wishes, Category:Rose Hollow, etc.

For stories: list all categories under Category:Stories.
 * 1) The categories:
 * 2) Ratings: One of the following: 1,2,3,4,5 out of 5
 * 3) Genre: One of the following: Fantasy, High Fantasy, Horror, Alternate History, Realism, Science Fiction, Gothic (others can be added later)
 * 4) Format: Short Stories, Novelas, Outlines (ie. timelines and drafts), Poetry, Scripts
 * 5) Related topic: ie. the relevant fanfic topic, Neverending Wiki, Miscellaneous, Wikistory
 * 6) The subcategory: the name of the actual work (only if it extends to at least 2 pages, in which case it (generally) qualifies as a novela, rather than as a short story)

I really don't like "collaborative writing" as a category because on a wiki, everything is collaborative. There's just no getting around that. --Yunzhong Hou 22:06, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

On second consideration, if in the future the number of stories/project pages becomes more than a thousand, etc., posting them all on the Projects category etc. will not be of much use. So instead, let's have the Projects and Stories pages contain only subcategories--no pages--and have the subcategories then lead to articles. It'll be neater that way. --Yunzhong Hou 22:59, 14 December 2006 (UTC)