Feminist SF Wiki:Categorization

• See Manual of style#Categorization for information about capitalization, names, etc.

Proposed guidelines

Redundant categorization versus diffusing into subcategories

• Items should be placed in the generic category as well as more specific categories. Mediawiki software will allow intersectioning at some point, so combination categories won't be necessary. For example: The Left Hand of Darkness should get the general categories Category:Novels and Category:1969 publications and Category:Hugo Award-winning works. Intersectioning subcategories (Category:1969 Hugo Award-winning novels) are not necessary.

Works of fiction

• Medium
• Year of publication (this is akin to year of birth for people; it should be a stand-alone)
• Specific format
• Subject terms
• Awards won
• Keyword for continuity/universe ("Earthsea", "LOTR", "Star Wars")
• Languages ("Works in language) (but category scheme in english? that's not right)

Characters

• Identity categories (rarely permitted in wikipedia)
• Occupational categories
• Keyword for continuity/universe

People

• Birth, Death, Living people
• Identity categories
• Occupational categories
• Awards won (rarely permitted in wikipedia)

Organizations

• Year of establishment ("1995 establishment") - akin to a year of birth for people
• Year of disestablishment ("1995 disestablishment") - akin to a year of death for people

Languages

• Tag for language that article is in ... default English no tag, until some reasonable proportion of non-English-language works are in the wiki; then everything should be tagged
• Language tags should be simply give a distinctive three-letter code for the primary language of that article, in that language, with no variations for regional or dialectic variations. For example:
  • Category:Deu not Category:Deutsche
  • Category:Eng not Category:American English or Category:Am Eng
  • Category:Esp not Category:Spa

We do not follow Wikipedia's Languages and interwiki protocols. This is (at least in theory and intent) a multilingual project.

Formatting

• Capitalization rules follow wikipedia rules: Proper names are capped; First letter of a phrase is capped.
• People's names should be sorted typically by surname; titles should be sorted ignoring articles (A, An, The, Le, La, etc.) Use the DEFAULTSORT tag to help out. Example:
  • {{DEFAULTSORT:Nielsen Hayden, Teresa}}
  • {{DEFAULTSORT:Title, The}}

Year of publication

• "Publications" is used in its broadest sense: made available to the public. Consequently, books, films, music recordings, theatrical productions, and other works of art are all considered to be published in the year they were made available to the public.
• All published works should include a publication year.
• Unpublished (private) works may be listed as forthcoming if they are by a previously published writer or if they have been accepted for publication.
• Unpublished works, such as personal correspondence, should be listed by year of creation; or, year begun and year finished; or, year begun and last year worked on. (This does not mean that unpublished works are necessarily OK to include; if they are okay to include, then this is how to date them.)