Category talk:Fiction

Fictional
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  ?
 * Category:Fiction contains a number of articles and subcategories which aren't fictional, like Thriller.
 * 1) 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.
 * 2) 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)