This is the sticky thread for questions related to the namespacing of works. As in, "which is the right namespace for this work?"
Ideally, questions already answered are covered on the Namespace Map. If you know a namespacing issue has already been resolved, but it is not yet documented on the Map, please update the Map.
If you want to suggest a new namespace, don't post here, but in Suggesting New Namespaces
instead.
For easier reference, I've numbered my questions:
- #1: Where do animated films go? They seem to be distributed rather inconsistenly over Film/ (Puss In Boots, Whats Opera Doc), WesternAnimation/ (Disneys Anne Frank, Snow White), Anime/ (Princess Mononoke) and Disney/ (Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, Der Fuehrers Face).
- #2: There are a few songs which have their own pages ("Pirate Jenny"). Where do they go – to Music/ or to Literature/ ?
- #3: Where do composers go – to Music/ , or are they to be treated like other creators, which hitherto stay on Main/ ?
- #4: Where do Talk Shows, Game Shows and News Broadcasts go? I guess you could call these formats Live-Action TV but they're not really "TV series", as in Series/.
- #5: Am I right in assuming that Puppet Shows go to Series/ ?
- #6: What about “hybrid shows”, i.e. segment shows that incorporate both live action and animation? (e.g. Die Sendung Mit Der Maus)
- #7: Where to put picture books? I am thinking of books like Der Struwwelpeter and Max and Moritz — books that are really not complete without their illustrations. They are not (yet) ComicBook/s, but to sort them under Literature/ feels a little unsatisfactory too.
- #8: The rule is to put works into the namespace of their original medium. However, once in a while there is a work which is little known in its original medium, and almost exclusively known by its adaptation. I’m thinking of Das Boot, for example: there's a novel, but it is almost exclusively known by the Petersen movie.
- #9: Should One Book Authors who are invariably tied to a single work be treated as a creator or a work page rather?— Currently, we have Samuel Pepys and Herodotus, but shouldn't these pages be at Literature/The Diary of Samuel Pepys and Literature/The Histories rather?
- #10: There are cases where I’m unsure whether to use the English or the original title. Is there are hard rule that determines whether Der Ring Des Nibelungen goes to Theatre/Der Ring des Nibelungen or Theatre/The Ring of the Nibelung? Even Wikipedia uses the original title.
I'd be grateful for input.
Edited by SeptimusHeap on Nov 9th 2023 at 8:15:08 PM
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If that were to become a real article rather than a stub, it would go under WebVideo/ like every other Abridged Series.
Any suggestions what would be an appropriate namespace for the comedy skit Doctor Who The Curse Of Fatal Death?
Theatre could work.
Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty
I should have specified: 'The Curse of Fatal Death' appeared on television. (But it was a one-off thing, so Series isn't appropriate.)
Have you tried sending a PM to Eventua to find out exactly what it is and whether or not it's Unpublished Works?
edited 2nd May '13 9:30:24 PM by nemui10pm
A genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker
No, and I won't have any time soon for that.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
In uffish thought
In uffish thought
Hm. Three chapters including them have been published on his dA plus they've been used in forum games here. He said and I agree that they'd probably go under Literature/, but the page needs some cleaning (removal of first person and anything speculative if there is some) along with that.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
What is Petercraft?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
In uffish thought
An organisation page for a Minecraft server, like the Minecraft Troper Server (also in Main/). We don't have a fitting namespace, except perhaps Sandbox/, which can be used for such troper projects.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Are we sure we want such pages at all here, then?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Do the servers tell a story? Then the answer is yes.
Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty
On further research, this looks like some Minecraft mod or whatever. I assume the namespace for that would be Website/ or VideoGame/
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
In uffish thought
Eddie: Perhaps, but the page as written is not a work page about the story and tropes found in this particular version of Minecraft.
This means that I don't think it's appropriate for a standard medium namespace — Sandbox/ or Just for Fun/ (as a fun troper project relating to a videogame) would be better.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
Does anyone know why Roleplay.War Thunder is in that namespace? As far as I know, it should be at VideoGame.War Thunder.
A genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker
Because of a misleading description.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
It doesn't seem very misleading to me. It's very straightforward about being an MMO, which generally refers to a type of video game.
I don't know what a MMO is.
The ISO Td House One Woman Goes From 2012 To 1952 needs a namespace, too.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
MMO is an abbreviation of MMORPG, which is an intialism of "massively multiplayer online role-playing game", which is a form of video game.
I moved War Thunder.
The description says that it's a thread on AH.com, but it doesn't look like it's roleplay. Maybe Literature/?
edited 8th May '13 3:22:21 AM by nemui10pm
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Pro Jared and again The ISO Td House One Woman Goes From 2012 To 1952
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
The first is probably LetsPlay/, and the second should go under Literature/, being a Web Serial Novel.
edited 10th May '13 7:05:40 PM by videogmer314
Pokemon Tropes A To I, Pokemon Tropes J To R and Pokemon Tropes S To Z. Are these really supposed to be in Main/? I don't think so.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Pandora Hearts Abridged
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman