Category talk:Fiction

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Fictional[edit]

I was told that this Category:Fiction is planned to be used (in the future, when boolean category queries become available) for excluding of "fictional everything" from queries. For this reason it contains sub-categories like Category:Fictional books, Category:Fictional characters, Category:Fictional companies, etc.

I see at least four problems in this:

  1. Shouldn't Category:Fiction and all affected subcategories include {{Subcategories_inherit}}?
  2. Category:Fiction contains a number of articles and subcategories which aren't fictional, like Thriller.
  3. Down the subcategory tree, this idea relies on carefully including only fictional items in each subcategory. This is violated in several places as of now.
  4. It is complicated and time consuming to accurately sort all fictional articles into this elabborate hierarchy.

As an alternative I started a flat Category:Fictional, but was advised to stop, see Category_talk:Fictional. I still see no problem of having this category, even if it will grow to some 2000 to 6000 entries, I estimate (de.wikipedia has de:Kategorie:Mann which in the moment holds about 2000 entries).

Pjacobi 16:29, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Note: There is a proposal at Category_talk:Fictional that may resolve these questions (I think it does, anyway) that seems like a good compromise. Jwrosenzweig 16:33, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)