Comment on Call for Feedback on Category Change Proposal

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

    Hi, briar_pipe!

    Thanks for offering to go-between, but many of us are wranglers and can approach the different teams easily (and the teams can send in their feedback to our mailing list or approach us, too).

    We're open to having a Cartoons-type subcategory, but plain 'comics' or 'cartoons' were pointed out to be ambiguous in the internal feedback round. If you have suggestions regarding its name and contents, do let us know.

    In the meantime, I've noted down your feedback for our discussion.

    Best,
    hele
    AO3 Category Change

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    1. Gwen with a crown

      Hi hele! Thanks for the reply!

      I'm going between because I'm a member of these teams - FT & Marvel, at least. Ane has already spoken for DC, but I think it'd be good to get an opinion from the Marvel leads. I'm also moderating the Religion & Folklore conclave, which is off-list, so it seemed appropriate to post the topic for that group to decide (which they're doing). I'm not doing this as staff, just as a member of the teams affected.

      Hasn't the internal wrangler feedback period already taken place? Though at the time Marvel and DC didn't know they were being considered for subcats, and the R&F conclave hadn't started yet, so no feedback was possible on those points. Was another wrangler round planned? Or do you prefer that we open a new thread for wrangler feedback on the internal mailing list directly related to this post?

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

        Hi!

        Ah, I haven't kept up with the membership of the special teams. Even though the official round of internal feedback has passed, the proposal will be sent to tag wranglers after this stage, and we're always open to be emailed about it, both by internal and external stakeholders.

        If you want, I can meet with one or various of you in chat and bring back your feedback to the workgroup, or if it's something static you have already decided, you're always welcome to email it to us (our internal wiki page has several ways to contact us).

        The Marvel and DC subcategories were suggested at the time of that feedback round to fix the issue of ambiguous subcategory names.

        Best,
        hele
        AO3 Category Change

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        1. I totally don't remember DC and Marvel being suggested as subcategories. Was this on the wrangling list or in the cat change group?

          I don't see how 'Cartoons' and 'Comics' are somehow more ambiguous and unacceptable than 'TV shows' or 'Movies.

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

            You likely had access to only a portion of the feedback the workgroup received, in all feedback rounds — including the internal one -- but maybe I'm mistaken. I haven't checked all the feedback compilations again.

            Cartoons and Comics wouldn't be ambiguous if we included all cartoons and comics in them (including manga), like we include all TV Shows or Movies in their categories, but then they would be less useful as a subdivision of the larger list.

            Best,
            hele
            AO3 Category Change Workgroup

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