Minor changes to archive categories!

[cyanei]

Hey everyone! I just wanted to mention that I've spent the last week sorting out redundancies in the archive, as well as alphabetising pairings for both ease of navigation and to limit those redundancies in the first place. Yes, I know, I'm crazy and pedantic

Comments

[caiusmajor]

Also, in cases where categories for [character], [character] (comics), and [character] (animated) existed, [character] (comics) has been resorted as [character].

Okay, one BIG problem with this that I didn't realize at first. You see, that pattern usually existed because, originally, the catagories were *not* split as animated vs. comics. And while, in some cases, the comics character may be the default and/or most common in the beginning, in other cases....it's REALLY REALLY not. Check under Wally West, now, if you don't believe me--it's about 3/4 animated.

*has headaches at the prospects of fixing this*

[cyanei]

Why does it matter if there are more in the animated category? Could you rephrase? I don't understand the problem.

[vange]

She means that sorting the Wally West (Comics) into just Wally West would be a problem, because the majority there should really be in Wally West (Animated). The same problem exists with John/Wally, it should be marked Animated if we're using comics as default.

[cyanei]

Oh, okay. Well, I'm using Wally West as being an implied (comics). It doesn't matter that there are more (animated), because over-all, comics are the default. It's like in math, where '1's are always implied. You may have a lot of 2x, but 1x is still just called x (and that is a lame and patronising analogy; my apologies).

I'm going to go through the pairings and change them to (animated) where needed, because even before my fiddling around, they often weren't indicated.

[caiusmajor]

Okay, I think we're having a big communication problem. Look. The catagory marked Wally West, into which you assimilated the comics Wally, was and still is PRIMARILY ANIMATED. Which means that people who wanted to find comics Wally fic now no longer have a catagory for them.

The problem is not which, cartoons or comics, becomes the default unlabeled catagory--the problem is that you assumed that comics was the default unlabeled catagory to begin with, which was false, and therefore created in several cases a big mess. Where originally we had a catagory for X (comics) and X (animated) and an original, mixed catagory, we now have a catagory marked (animated) and a catagory that is mixed and from which either a cataloguer or those who use the index will have to sort out the comics fic.

[cyanei]

Okay, thank you for clarifying. I will now (well, tomorrow) go through the Wally West category, read all of the stories to find out where they belong, and sort them into animated if they belong there. This is precisely the reason I'm doing this: everything will be uniform and thus more clear.