Feminist SF Wiki:Categorization

Proposed guidelines

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)

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

Formatting

• Capitalization rules follow wikipedia rules: Proper names are capped; First letter of a phrase is capped.

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• Unpublished (private) works may be listed as forthcoming if they are by a previously published writer or if they have been accepted for publication.
• Unpublished works, such as personal correspondence, should be listed by year of creation; or, year begun and year finished; or, year begun and last year worked on. (This does not mean that unpublished works are necessarily OK to include; if they are okay to include, then this is how to date them.)