Category talk:Fantasy writers

sub-categories[edit]

In an effort to cut down on the large number of articles on writers that appear in a long list of categories, can we break this one down into sub-categories?

I first thought maybe Category:Christian fantasy writers, but Category:Christian writers is currently a lot smaller than this one and the overlap, while very interesting, would be small (largely because a lot of articles that could be in that category aren't - but without access to my whole library, I wouldn't want to go through and sort them out).

So what about breaking this up a bit by nationality? Category:British fantasy writers and Category:American fantasy writers for a start?

That way, instead of, say, Lloyd Alexander being in Category:Fantasy writers and Category:American writers, we could put him in one sub-category of both.

To interject a comment here, this would then make it enormously more difficut to extract a full list of American Writers using the categorisation system, which is after all the intent. --Phil | Talk 10:10, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

Category:Science fiction writers (which is even more enormous than this category) could also use some breaking up.

Doesn't matter, the system can cope (and was indeed built to) --Phil | Talk 10:10, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

Of course, then it would be a little bit more wordy to list writers of both science fiction and fantasy. Are there enough authors in both categories to merit a sub-category?

--[[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 21:58, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

This is how the categorisation system works: you include an article in low-level categories, and if more than one suits, use them all. That way it will be possible in future releases of the software to use the categories in a meaningful way. The idea is to construct (relatively) tightly-defined categories which can then be combined at a higher level in the hierarchy. HTH HAND --Phil | Talk 10:10, Sep 24, 2004 (UTC)

I'm not sure how that implies that more specific categories wouldn't be useful. [[User:Aranel|Aranel ("Sarah")]] 11:23, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I really don't see that this category is too large--not by a long stretch. Go to any large bookstore and the section on Fantasy (or most other popular genres) will have books by at least this many authors in alpha sort. I don't see much point to subcategorizing by nationality. If there were some specific subgenres, like Christian Fanatasy writers, that might be worthwhile. But purely in terms of the present category, I don't see that there is a problem that needs to be fixed. older≠wiser 12:27, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

I think Michael Moorcock should be added in Fantasy Writers - was trying to remember his name, and went to wikipedia to help me, and he was not there! Remebered him anyway (my memory is terrible!) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kinnison38 (talk • contribs) 23:31, 25 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sarah Micklem[edit]

Is there a reason Sarah Micklem is not filed under 'M'? MrHen 18:28, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed. Grey Shadow 21:56, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]