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How does that sound? --[[User:Mervi|Mervi]] ([[User talk:Mervi|talk]]) 14:49, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
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Continuing my monologue here because I need to test it out to see what it looks like.
I am sort of trying to change my thinking about the categories because they aren’t actually meant to be (by the makers of MediaWiki) “tree-like”, so thinking in terms of “upper” and “lower” or “subcategories” is actually ~limiting~. If we treat them more like tags, the system becomes much more flexible.
So for example
* [[Legends 2]] would belong in publications + books + anthologies
* [[Homecoming]] would belong in publications + short stories + robin hobb + realm of the elderlings
* [[Assassin's Apprentice]] would belonging publications + books + robin hobb + realm of the elderlings + farseer trilogy
* [[Mother of Fey]] in publications + short stories + standalone stories + megan lindholm
* [[Liavek]] in publications + books + anthologies + liavek
* [[Fitz and the Fool coloring book]] in publications + adaptations
* [[Farseer trilogy]] in publications + books + Farseer trilogy
If it becomes too heavy/cluttered (I’m still wondering if everything needs to have “publications”) there are tricks for hiding categories. But I’d like it to be consistent so it’s sort of either/or and with this kind of new thinking "more tags" would be better than "as few categories as possible".
Also even if “books” is just an additional "tag", I wonder if it should be changed and/or split into novels as well. Originally it was used here to mark “this thing is a physical book, whether it’s a standalone, part of a trilogy and whether it’s 100% a work of RH or an anthology etc” If I add “publications” but keep “books” its meaning would basically change into “novel” (so any story would get either "novel" or "short story" instead of "book" whereas adaptations probably wouldn't get either?
So then the previous would become
* [[Legends 2]] would belong in publications + anthologies
* [[Homecoming]] would belong in publications + short stories + robin hobb + realm of the elderlings
* [[Assassin's Apprentice]] would belonging publications + novels + robin hobb + realm of the elderlings + farseer trilogy
* [[Mother of Fey]] in publications + short stories + standalone stories + megan lindholm
* [[Liavek]] in publications + anthologies + liavek
* [[Fitz and the Fool coloring book]] in publications + adaptations
* [[Farseer trilogy]] in publications + novels?? + Farseer trilogy
So possibly the trilogy articles would need a "trilogy" or "trilogies" category or similar to use in the place that other articles have novel/short story/magazine/anthology/etc.
As to which categories belong in other categories, I'm thinking ROTE + Farseer etc are obviously "in" Robin Hobb but all the other (see above) would simply sit inside publications. I don't know if it makes it more confusing, but this way categories could be part of more than one other category, for example, "Liavek" could be "inside" Megan Lindholm AND anthologies.
--[[User:Mervi|Mervi]] ([[User talk:Mervi|talk]]) 07:23, 10 February 2019 (EST)
