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Looking at series on that page, we start with the top entry, and the sub entries below it.
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The main entry in question is the Erast Fandorin series.
So to make sure I understand correctly, on any index, I should put the main entry under E, and the individual novels under that.
...and so on, with the understanding that only novels from a particular decade would go on the index for that decade.
Yes.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
As the person who created almost all of the Literature of the XXXX pages (and hand-populated them over the course of several weeks), I was torn about that, and finally decided to do it the way most of the literature-of-genre pages did it. But reflecting back, I think I may have made a mistake. It makes sense for literature-of-genre, since all the books in a series will be the same genre, but, as you note, they may not all be the same decade...
To put it another way: the reason we do it that way now is because one person (me) was lazy, and I'm willing to admit it may not have been the best approach.
This might be a topic for the Wiki Talk forum.
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The thing is, if you do that, all the indexes below are going to be the same. This particular series can be indexed in Russian Literature, Mystery Fiction, Detective Fiction, and Historical Fiction Literature, as well as the master index for fiction by decade. Pretty much the only thing that would change as one clicks through the books is when you switch from one decade to the next. So you'll see the same books on every index. Is that desirable?
I'm not sure I understand why all of the works in Russian Literature are also going to be in Mystery Fiction, or vise-versa.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
^All the books in this series will. So you go to any work page for one of these books, and you'll see like five indexes, and they'll all show The Winter Queen...The Turkish Gambit...Murder on the Leviathan...
Yes, that is desirable.
Link to TRS threads in project mode here.
A page exists for a series of books. Also, individual work pages exist for most (but not all) of the books in the series. The series grows fairly long, reaching double digits.
How does one index the works in the series, either on main pages like Literature of the 2000s or genre sub-pages like Historical Fiction Literature? List the overall work page and then all the individual works after it? (Character Series, Character Book 1, Character Book 2, Character Book 3, etc). Or list every work the way it should go alphabetically on the index?