Comment on Call for Feedback on Category Change Proposal

  1. perdiccas Thu 19 Sep 2013 03:39AM UTC

    I also have a question about fandoms being in more than one tag. For example, if I go to the movies section and select Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, will I only be shown fic that's tagged specifically for the movie 'verse? And the same for book fic only if I go HHGTG through the Books & Lit gateway? Will there be any way to see everything that's tagged HHGTG, regardless of category? And where will fics go that are tagged HHGTG that don't specify whether they're movie or book 'verse? Will they turn up in both places or in neither?

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    1. hele (Category_Change_Workgroup) Thu 19 Sep 2013 09:30PM UTC

      A cartoon drawing of Ada Lovelace as a child, reading a Calculus book, by 2googles

      Hi!

      This feature will not change fandom tags themselves, at all, except by attaching to them certain extra information (and in some cases, changing them from one pre-existing media category to another).

      If you go to the movies section, you will probably encounter two fandom tags for your fandom, one for the movie-only version, and a 'metatag', usually formated 'HHGTG - All Media Types' (but in this case, just HHGTG: http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Hitchhiker%27s%20Guide%20to%20the%20Galaxy). If you click on the metatag, you get all works tagged with either of the subtags (i.e. tagged with the movie version or the book version) any of its synonymous tags, or tagged directly with the metatag or one of its synonymous tags.

      You can read more about the way tags work in the Archive here: http://archiveofourown.org/archive_faqs/10

      Best,
      hele
      AO3 Category Change Workgroup

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