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
I just moved Jeremy Soule to Creator.Jeremy Soule, but should I have put it in Music/ instead?
EDIT: Never mind, I've decided put it in Music based on other single musicians and composers being there.
edited 6th Apr '13 4:04:25 PM by StarSword
Trust me, I'm an engineer!What is the namespace for stories like The Revolution?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanStories (edit: minus fanfics) go in Literature/, even when published on the web like this one.
edited 7th Apr '13 2:22:27 AM by Telcontar
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.Did the namespacing there. Next off, where does The Leviathan Chronicles go?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanPolybius describes itself as an urban legend about an arcade game. Where would it go?
Macron's notesI need your input on this show: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. It's a series of web videos from youtube in vlog format, but parts of the story were told by the characters' twitter accounts, facebook profiles and similar. I'm thinking about these namespaces: Webvideo, Website or Web Original. Which one should I go with? Thank you.
edited 16th Apr '13 9:22:40 AM by XFllo
SAG. It looks more like an Useful Notes to me.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanTo me it looks like a stub that can be cut. If it's not, though, Useful Notes/ would be better than Creator/.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.I want to make a page for a rom hack of a Pokemon game that is known as Crystal Enhanced. Seeing as it is a rom hack and not an official work I'm hesitant to use the Video Game namespace. Any ideas on where to put it?
Don't argue with idiots; they drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.We do only have FanFic/ as a fanwork namespace for legacy reasons. Fan Games go in VideoGames/ as always.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanI just found The Blind Gamers Association. I've cutlisted it, but after re-reading the article I thought there might be some merit in moving it to the proper namespace and seeing if Wiki Magic can do the trick. I'd like advice on whether or not I should create a page for it as well as the correct namespace if so.
A genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinkerWhere does Pokemon Sepia go to?
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

My first inclination would be Literature/. Despite the twitter format, it doesn't seem like it's all that different from an ordinary web novel.
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.