Comment on Category Change Final Announcement

  1. Confused by change (Guest) Wed 21 May 2014 11:49AM UTC

    Hello,

    These seem very complicated now but I'm sure we will get used to them!

    I have a couple of questions:

    1. How will we find authors or musicians' works in this system? If I wanted to find, for example, fanfiction for the works of Fred Smith who has written several novels, two plays and a poem, will there still be a general tag e.g. SMITH Fred - Works (and where would that be?) or would I have to look for the fandoms individually under the different subcategories?

    2. Is it right that animated films are no longer listed alongside other films, but 'shelved' under 'Animation, Comics, Manga & Other Sequential Art'? They can't be both? So there isn't a category just for films that you can browse?

    3. Currently Films and TV Shows are main categories, but they're being downgraded to sub-categories underneath the 'Live Action' banner. Since these are large, popular categories doesn't that just mean more clicking and scrolling before you can find the fandom you're looking for than there is now? (I'm having trouble seeing this as easy and intuitive!) Or will there be a shortcut from the home page so we could jump straight to the subcategory?

    4. What does 'other live action productions' actually mean? Presumably not plays, they would go under theatre & musicals?

    5. Why is Religion, Lore & Folk Traditions first on its list of subcategories when alphabetically it should go last? Everything else seems to be in alphabetical order.

    Okay, I had more questions than I thought, sorry.

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      1. Confused By Change (Guest) Wed 28 May 2014 08:50PM UTC

        Thank you for your response!

        So music videos will be with Live Action rather than in music? Or could they be in both too? What if they're animated videos...?

        I hope my questions didn't come across as criticisms. It's clearly a massive job that you are undertaking here.

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