Forum:Fanwork categories

To whom it might concern, I've been sort of unofficially patrolling Category:Novels, and I'd like to make some suggestions regarding categorization of fanworks. This is part of a larger effort by the Cabal of Epic Lulz to fix the massive clusterkriff known as "Categories on SWF". Here's how it would work:


 * Category:Novels would only apply to all finished works with narrative prose on SWF with a word count in excess of 40,000 words. Plot summaries, etc. do not count towards the word count&mdash;only actual narrative.
 * Category:Novellas would only apply to all finished works with narrative prose on SWF with a word count between 7,500 and 39,999 words. Plot summaries, etc. do not count towards the word count&mdash;only actual narrative.
 * Category:Short stories' would only apply to all finished works with narrative prose on SWF with a word count lower than 7,499 words and more than 1,000 words. Plot summaries, etc. do not count towards the word count&mdash;only actual narrative.
 * All other pieces of fan-fiction would either go in a "Future books/novels/products" category, "Books/novels/product in progress" category, or generic "fan-fiction." This does not include photonovels, fan comics, web series, etc. Just written pieces of work.

Questions that might arise

 * Q: Where did you get those word count numbers, Ataru? Did you make them up?
 * A: No. They are from the Nebula Awards standards. See here. I combined the novella and novelette categories and set a bottom floor for short stories.
 * Q: Does this affect my photonovel/fan comic/web series/video game?
 * A: No.
 * Q: My novel is written, but it is not actually posted on SWF. It is linked to another site. Does this affect that?
 * A: Yes. Your work, if completed, would go in the Fan-fiction category. The actual text has to be on SWF in either a page(s) dedicated to it, or .pdfs, or the equivalent.
 * Q: I has a novle wit a grat storie but its not finshed. I can put it in Category:Novels??????
 * A: Lolololololololol. No. It goes in a "Future books/novels/products" category or "Books/novels/products in progress" category.
 * Q: I makes novel page, but I didnt actually write teh book. Thats 2 much work. Thats a novel, right???? I mean, we makes stuff up on this webstie, right?
 * A: No, it is not. For lack of a better place to stick it, that would go in Fan-fiction if it's complete. You actually have to write the novel to merit placement in Category:Novels. Imagine that.
 * Q: I is teh leader of teh glorius revulution! You cant make me follow yur silly rulez!
 * A: If this CT passes, the appropriate steps would be to either change the category/request that it be changed. Continued reversion or ignoring the request (i.e, more than once) would result in the euphemistically named administrative action.
 * Q: Will reference works, like my Essential Guide, be affected by this?
 * A: No. For the moment, at least, those are categorised in an entirely different fashion. The reasons for that elude me, but one can of worms at a time.

Support

 * 1) As proposer. Atarumaster88  [[Image:Jedi_Order.svg|20px]] ( Talk page ) 22:13, 28 February 2009 (UTC)