Forum:Fanwork categorization

Hello, everyone. It's me again, with yet another crazy idea that actually might make sense. During a Wikia slowdown earlier (ugh), I got marooned on Category:Novels. Did you know there are 175 entries on Category:Novels? Well, there are. Guess how many of them actually qualify as "novels"-as in, they have more twenty pages of prose (a very loose definition)? Not nearly that many.

Now, when I go to Category:Novels, I would hope to find, well, novels. Preferably, completed novels. If I wanted half-finished novels, I would go to, well, Category:Books in progress. If I wanted future novels, I would go to Category:Future books.

So, after this stimulating trip through Category:Novels, I went to Category:Fan-fiction. To my surprise and abject horror, I found that it is flooded with chapter parts. As in, there are 46 entries under one particular story, all in Category:Fan-fiction. To me, ladies and gentlemen, that is what subcategories are for.

The third and last thing&mdash;and this is humourous and common sense to me&mdash;is that redirects should not be categorized in either of these categories.

So, here's what I (and any other volunteers) will be doing over the next oh, unestablished period of time. I/we will adjust the categories to fit within this completely sensible scheme. Yes, I/we plan on editing your article to change the category. This can be averted if you wish to categorize these things yourself. Questions may be addressed here, but if I/we change your category, it was probably for a good reason. The only way I/we plan on stopping is if there is overwhelming outcry against this idea. This is a community after all.

Any and all volunteers are welcome. Particularly people with nothing else to do. Particularly people who wish to re-categorize their own work instead of having us do it.

Signed from the Desk of Atarumaster88   ( Talk page ) 02:18, 9 August 2008 (UTC)